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Request for article
by Yashwant G Kanade 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Dear Moderator, Could you please arrange to send this information through LIS-FORUM? With Best Regards Dear Sir, Can you Please check if the following article can be made available. Its urgently required. I can arrange for funds to pay for it as well. Friend, A. D. and A. White (2000). "Evaluation and analysis of a dynamic terrestrial ecosystem model under preindustrial conditions at the global scale." Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14(4): 1173-1190. Thanking you rajiv -- YASHWANT G KANADE Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560012, Karnataka, INDIA Tele Phone:91-080-23600985/ 22932506 Extn.-106,107 Fax: 91-080-23601428 E-Mail: kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in; kanade_yg12(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner @ces.iisc.ernet.in, and is believed to be clean.

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PubFocus - a tool for statistical analysis of Medline indexed articles.
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Just came to know about a tool called PubFocus. This would be useful for those having interest in statistical analysis of published articles in Medline. http://www.pubfocus.org/ "Pubfocus performs statistical analysis of the MEDLINE/PubMed search queries enriched with the additional information gathered from journal impact factor database and forward referencing database. PubFocus outputs basic statistical information on publication trends, publishing journals and most prolific authors including separate analysis of the first authors (commonly most contributing scientists) and last authors (commonly principal investigators)." Just tried out, it takes lot of time. But since it is free without any alternative - it is worth it. --Sukhdev Singh, http://indmed.nic.in NIC. New Delhi.

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Declining Reading Habits
by Parinita Samant 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Dear All, It is nice to see such a varied response for Declining Reading habits. What I, as a librarian want to do, is take a survey to find out the varied reading habits of various age groups and what attracts them to reading. Surely there is a motivation to read. What is it that triggers it in various people? I am sure of the fact that reading habits are NOT declining, they are only changing. Just because people do not come to the library to issue out books, does not mean reading habits are declining. Are we as librarians geared up for this change? We as librarians need to change accordingly to meet our reader's requirements. If e-books is what is preferred by say an age group 20-30 then we provide them with e-books and journals. If Just-in-Time information is needed, then so be it. Could we discuss this further? What are your experiences? Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library Hexaware Technologies Ltd 152, Millennium Business Park, Sect -IIIA Block, TTC Industrial Area Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710 67919595 - Xt- 9707 *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** Declining Reading Habits Dear All, It is nice to see such a varied response for Declining Reading habits. What I, as a librarian want to do, is take a survey to find out the varied reading habits of various age groups and what attracts them to reading. Surely there is a motivation to read . What is it that triggers it in various people? I am sure of the fact that reading habits are NOT declining, they are only changing. Just because people do not come to the library to issue out books, does not mean reading habits are declining . Are we as librarians geared up for this change? We as librarians need to change accordingly to meet our reader ’ s requirements. If e-books is what is preferred by say an age group 20-30 then we provide them with e-books and journals. If Just- in-Time information is needed, then so be it. Could we discuss this further? What are your experiences? [A] Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library Hexaware Technologies Ltd 152, Millennium Business Park, Sect -IIIA Block, TTC Industrial Area Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710 67919595 - Xt- 9707 *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************

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OA and librarians!
by Mailing List Manager 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:58:38 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> >From Peter Suber's blog Providing OA to library literature Dorothea Salo, Open access to the library literature, Caveat Lector, October 17, 2006. Excerpt: Im shocked that nobody is calling me names. Instead, a productive discussion is starting about open access to the library literature.... [T]he costs and benefits of open access apply to us librarians too. We certainly have overpriced journals and trade publications. We certainly have journals that sold out and saw their prices soar. We certainly have journals and trade publications that ask us to sign ridiculous copyright-transfer agreements.... [T]heres more value for us, in the long run [in providing OA to library literature] --its called eating our own dog food. We cant reasonably go out and evangelize self-archiving to faculty when we arent doing it ourselves. We cant evangelize open-access journals when we dont publish in them.... I mean, our very own guidebooks militate against open access! I was reading the publication chapter in The Successful Academic Librarian last week (ambitious, thats me) when I ran smack into (paraphrased) There are open-access journals, but they arent well-known, so most librarians consider them dubious publication outlets at best. Oh, great; thanks ever so, O Molder of the Mind of the Young. That isnt even true, for $DEITYs sake! Find me a techie librarian who doesnt know about D-Lib and Ariadne. One. So what is a librarian who publishes in the library literature to do? At a minimum, I suggest the following: * Read all copyright transfer agreements. Its flat-out irresponsible not to. If you dont like what youre reading, ask if thats the only agreement available, and be prepared to detail your concerns. * For those agreements that do not appear to allow self-archiving or do not address self-archiving, ask the editor May I self-archive this paper? Editors and publishers need to hear that their authors want to do this; we mustnt let publishers hide behind but our authors dont care! Just asking the question is not going to kill your acceptance chances (especially if you ask this after your paper is accepted!). * Whenever possible, submit your work to an existing open-access journal. Gold-OA has a chicken-and-egg problem; authors wont submit to OA journals unless other authors do, and Molders of the Minds of the Young wont give credence to OA journals until they know people (good people!) who publish in them. We dont necessarily need to start more OA library journals. We need to utilize the ones we do have fully. (That said watch this space.) * Know OA resources in our field. Use them, and point other librarians to them. Im at DLIST all the time these days. Want to go a little further? There are ways.... [PS: Here cutting six good suggestions; see the whole post.]

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OA progressing well in Europe
by Mailing List Manager 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:43:41 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> More on DRIVER Tracey Caldwell, Europe starts to build an Open Access information network, Information World Review, October 17, 2006. Excerpt: The EU is to network research papers across Europe to create a free public information resource. The Driver project will use simple internet-based infrastructures to make accessible scientific and technical reports, research articles, experimental and observational data, rich media and other digital objects. The European Commission's research infrastructure unit will fund the 18-month project. During this time Driver (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) will prepare for the future expansion and upgrade of the infrastructure across Europe and aim to ensure the widest possible user involvement. Ten international partners are supporting the project. Driver will help countries to create networks of open access (OA) repositories. It will build on existing institutional repositories and networks from countries including the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium and the UK.... Open access commentator Peter Suber welcomed the launch: "This is big. It should greatly increase the number of OA institutional repositories. Its testbed will demonstrate powerful new services, enticing universities to make their research output available to these services through local incentives to deposit. And it should make it much easier for public funding agencies in European countries to mandate OA archiving for all the research they fund." (From Peter Suber's blog)

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More libraries in North America join OCA
by Mailing List Manager 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:21:35 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> New contributors to the Open Content Alliance The Boston Library Consortium, Indiana University, University of Alberta, University of Georgia, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have joined the Open Content Alliance. - From Peter Suber's blog. ----- Many large university (and public) libraries in the west are joining hands with either the Open Content Alliance or Google to digitize their huge collections, especially books. Indian libraries with unique collections (in Indian languages) will do well to join this movement. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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universal open access to neuroscience literature
by Mailing List Manager 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:04:00 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> OA to neuroscience literature Alexei Koudinov and Svetlana Nekrasov, Developing Universal Open Access to Neuroscience Literature, a presentation at the Neuroscience 2006 conference (Atlanta, October 14-18, 2006). Also see Alexei's blog notes on the presentation. - From Peter Suber's blog. ---- When will Indian neuroscientists (and other biomedical researchers) satrt self-archiving their papers? Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7 for free download
by Farooque Shaheen 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and made it available for free download at the Internet Explorer 7 site(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx). IE7 is a significant upgrade to IE6, and offers tabbed browsing, an anti-phishing toolbar, a redesigned interface, and a variety of security features, including increased protection against rogue ActiveX controls. It's Microsoft's first launch of an all new browser since the release of IE6 in 2001. The launch comes days after the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) release of Firefox, which has a similar feature set to Internet Explorer. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and made it available for free download at the Internet Explorer 7 site(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx). IE7 is a significant upgrade to IE6, and offers tabbed browsing, an anti-phishing toolbar, a redesigned interface, and a variety of security features, including increased protection against rogue ActiveX controls. It's Microsoft's first launch of an all new browser since the release of IE6 in 2001. The launch comes days after the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) release of Firefox, which has a similar feature set to Internet Explorer. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Job Vacancies - Geneva and Nairobi - ind
by Tomas Allen 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Sorry for cross postings and for those interested, please contact the agencies directly Tomas Job posting - Library and Information ManagementOfficer/Systems Librarian International Labour Organization Vacancy Notice No: 2006/38 Deadline for applications: 17 November 2006 Currently accepting applications Grade: P-3 Contract type: Fixed-term appointment Duty Station: Geneva Headquarters Switzerland https://erecruit.ilo.org/e-jobs/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.cfm?o_c=2000&intra=1… The Bureau of Library and Information Services is mandated to provide relevant and up-to-date information and information services to ILO constituents and staff, researchers, practitioners, and the general public. The incumbent of this post reports to the Senior Systems Librarian Job posting Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) Technical Officer Level L 2 Duration of contract 1 year, Renewable (Subject to availability of funds) Duty Station Nairobi Date of Issue 15 October 2006 Date of closure 15 November 2006 Organizational Unit United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Remuneration; Depending on professional background, experience and family situation, a competitive compensation and a benefits package offered. http://www.unep.org/vacancies/PDF/OARE.pdf Overall responsibility Within the cluster of the Sergio Vieira de Mello UN library, the Technical Officer will be responsible for technical support to the OARE Project (Online Access to Research in the Environment) including liaison with external partners, UNEP regional and country offices, participating country institutions, Yale University, WHO-HINARI, and FAO-AGORA administration team. _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=…

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Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences, 09-18 Jan 2006, MPISS, Ujjain
by Puttaraj Choukimath 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Please excuse cross posting - this may be of interest to you or a colleague Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences As a part of its ongoing programmes, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research (MPISSR) is organising a ten-day Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences between January 9 and January 18,2007. The objective of the training workshop is to impart training in the areas such as computer system, quantitative and qualitative research processes, data processing using computer and making sense of the results. After introducing the participants to computer and its usages, the Workshop shall introduce participants with the research processes and familiarise them with data, its measurement and its transfer to computer. The major quantitative research techniquesdescriptive and inferential statistics using Frequency, Mean, cross-tabulation, Log-linear methods, ANOVA, correlation and regression analysis shall be taken up next with the help of a given data set. All the lectures will be followed by an interactive review session and group discussions. At the end, the participants shall be divided in groups and each group shall aim at analysing the given data based on a framework developed by the group. The findings of the analysis shall be presented to the rest of the groups. Knowledge of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques is a prerequisite for participation in the Workshop. Sleeper class rail fare both ways will be provided to the selected participants. The participants will also be provided with free accomodation. The Participants will be charged a fee of Rs 800 in case of teachers; Rs 400 for PhD students with fellowship; Rs 200 for PhD students without fellowship. Selected participants may have to deposit Rs 800V- as earnest money, which is refundable only after full attendance in the Course. Interested candidates may submit their applications by November 15, 2006 to the Director, Madhya Pradesh Social Science Research, 6 Bharatpuri, Ujjain 456 010. SOURCE: University News, Vol. 44 (41), Oct 09-15 2006, pp.27 Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Why keep checking for Mail? The all-new Yahoo! Mail shows you when there are new messages. Please excuse cross posting - this may be of interest to you or a colleague Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences As a part of its ongoing programmes, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research (MPISSR) is organising a ten-day Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences between January 9 and January 18,2007 . The objective of the training workshop is to impart training in the areas such as computer system, quantitative and qualitative research processes, data processing using computer and making sense of the results. After introducing the participants to computer and its usages, the Workshop shall introduce participants with the research processes and familiarise them with data, its measurement and its transfer to computer. The major quantitative research techniquesdescriptive and inferential statistics using Frequency, Mean, cross- tabulation, Log-linear methods, ANOVA, correlation and regression analysis shall be taken up next with the help of a given data set. All the lectures will be followed by an interactive review session and group discussions. At the end, the participants shall be divided in groups and each group shall aim at analysing the given data based on a framework developed by the group. The findings of the analysis shall be presented to the rest of the groups. Knowledge of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques is a prerequisite for participation in the Workshop. Sleeper class rail fare both ways will be provided to the selected participants. The participants will also be provided with free accomodation. The Participants will be charged a fee of Rs 800 in case of teachers; Rs 400 for PhD students with fellowship; Rs 200 for PhD students without fellowship. Selected participants may have to deposit Rs 800V- as earnest money, which is refundable only after full attendance in the Course. Interested candidates may submit their applications by November 15, 2006 to the Director, Madhya Pradesh Social Science Research, 6 Bharatpuri, Ujjain 456 010. SOURCE: University News, Vol. 44 (41), Oct 09-15 2006, pp.27 Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu/ www.tiss.edu Why keep checking for Mail? The http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42242/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… all-new Yahoo! Mail shows you when there are new messages.

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