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Very good article on Actionable URLs (Dlib October 2006)
by noufal palliparamban 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Please see the link http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Please see the link http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Research assistance
by Mailing List Manager 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:10:45 +0100 (BST) From: santosh kumar verma <ksverma99(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals I have registered for my Ph.D. Programme. My tentative topic is 'Collection Development in the Indian Universities and their importance in electronic age.' Kindly guide me through references and Journal's article relevant for doctorate. All the best wishes from me. Thanking you, Santosh Kr. Verma NEHU Tura Campus Tura

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Request to post the details of e-Books Seminar
by Amit Verma 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Sub: Seminars on e-Books: The changing dimensions in e-Learning Gone are the days of searching books for information. The digital era is making books exist as interconnected nodes in a vast web of stored literature, all accessible at the click of a mouse. In view of the changing dynamics of the access, licensing and technology related to e-Books and continuing its mission of promoting Library-Publisher partnership, Informatics once again brings together four major publishers of electronic books, dictionaries and reference works to give you an insight into the future of e-Books. Bangalore October 30, 2006 Le Meridien Hotel Mumbai November 1, 2006 Le Meridien Hotel Kolkata November 3, 2006 Hotel Hyatt Regency New Delhi November 6, 2006 Hotel Mariott Welcome The Seminar focus this year is e-Books and titled as : e-Books: The changing dimensions in e-learning. The publishers joining this event are: * Ovid Technologies * Springer Science + Business Media * Thieme Publishers * Taylor & Francis The Program Structure: * Keynote on Seminar Topic * Panel Debates on issues related to the topic .The Panel Debate topic this year is e-Book: Technology, Business Models & User Perspective Please register yourself for the location of your choice at www.informindia.co.in <http://www.informindia.co.in/> More information about the Seminars is available at www.informindia.co.in <http://www.informindia.co.in/> REGISTRATION is FREE. For more details you can also write to us at events(a)informindia.co.in Thanks and Regards Amit Verma Product Marketing Manager Informatics (India) Limited 337, Karuna Complex, 3rd Floor, Sampige Road, Malleswaram Bangalore 560003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940 Mobile: 91 98459 41610 www.informindia.co.in FREE! World's largest portal for 3000+ Open Access Journals www.openj-gate.com <http://www.openj-gate.com/>  Sub: Seminars on e-Books: The changing dimensions in e-Learning � � Gone are the days of searching books for information… The digital era is making books exist as interconnected nodes in a vast web of stored literature, all accessible at the click of a mouse.� In view of the changing dynamics of the access, licensing and technology related to e-Books and continuing its mission of promoting Library-Publisher partnership, Informatics once again brings together four major publishers of electronic books, dictionaries and reference works to give you an insight into the future of e-Books. � � Bangalore �� October 30, 2006 �� Le Meridien Hotel Mumbai�� November 1, 2006 �� Le Meridien Hotel Kolkata �� November 3, 2006 �� Hotel Hyatt Regency New Delhi �� November 6, 2006�� Hotel Mariott Welcome � � The Seminar focus this year is e-Books and titled as : e-Books: The changing dimensions in e-learning. � The publishers joining this event are: � � �� Ovid Technologies � �� Springer Science + Business Media � �� Thieme Publishers � �� Taylor & Francis � The Program Structure: � Keynote on Seminar Topic Panel Debates on issues related to the topic .The Panel Debate topic this year is e-Book: Technology, Business Models & User Perspective � � Please register yourself for the location of your choice at http://www.informindia.co.in/ www.informindia.co.in � More information about the Seminars is available at http://www.informindia.co.in/ www.informindia.co.in � REGISTRATION is FREE. � For more details you can also write to us at mailto:events@informindia.co.in events(a)informindia.co.in � � � � � � � Thanks and Regards Amit Verma Product Marketing Manager Informatics ( India ) Limited 337, Karuna Complex, 3rd Floor, Sampige Road , Malleswaram Bangalore 560003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940 Mobile : 91 98459 41610 www.informindia.co.in FREE! World's largest portal for 3000+ Open Access Journals� http://www.openj-gate.com/ www.openj-gate.com �

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Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
by rupesh kumar 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians by Eric H. Schnell The most time consuming aspects of managing a library Web service are the creation and maintenance of site documents and assets. Although the organizational structure and contents of a Web site varies from library to library, participants in all library Web projects need to be familiar with the concepts and terminology associated with creating documents and resources for the Web. This document is not an in-depth HTML guide, but is instead a general introduction to Web content creation. Newer technologies are briefly described and references to other resources are provided. This is also an interactive document and provides the reader access to associated resources. check out the fulltext of the book at http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/toc.html Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. The most time consuming aspects of managing a library Web service are the creation and maintenance of site documents and assets. Although the organizational structure and contents of a Web site varies from library to library, participants in all library Web projects need to be familiar with the concepts and terminology associated with creating documents and resources for the Web. This document is not an in-depth HTML guide , but is instead a general introduction to Web content creation. Newer technologies are briefly described and references to other resources are provided. This is also an interactive document and provides the reader access to associated resources. check out the fulltext of the book at http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/toc.html http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/toc.html Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Request to send URL of Institutioanl repositories
by sarika sawant 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Dear LIS members, Its kind request to LIS members who have developd institutional/digital repositories for their institutions to send URL to me. Also if anybody aware of any other institutional/digital repositories pl do write URL to me s1b1s(a)rediffmail.com Thanking you in anticipation. Ms. Sarika Sawant Lecturer, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, 1 # N.T. Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 INDIA http://www.shpt-econtent.in/ Dear LIS members, Its kind request to LIS members who have developd institutional/digital repositories for their institutions to send URL to me. Also if anybody aware of any other institutional/digital repositories pl do write URL to me s1b1s(a)rediffmail.com Thanking you in anticipation. Ms. Sarika Sawant Lecturer, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, 1 # N.T. Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 INDIA http://www.shpt-econtent.in/ http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Second National Workshop on Scientific Journal Publishing in India
by Thomas Abraham 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

SECOND NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL PUBLISHING IN INDIA ON 14th and 15th DECEMBER, 2006 Conducted by National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in collaboration with Public Knowledge Project, Univerity of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University, Canada supported by Asian Media and Information Centre, Singapore Dates: 14th and 15th December, 2006. ------ Content: ------- Aimed at academic publishers in india, including institutions and associations with Institutional Archives as well as journal publishers, the workshop will - Impart knowledge about OAI-PMH and the tools and techniques required to publish with OAI compliance. - Conduct hands-on sessions using open source, OAI complaint journal management and publishing software, Open Journal Systems(OJS). Registration Information: ------------------------ - The workshop is open to Indian nationals employed in organizations,associations or private companies involved in academic and research publications OR have plans in the near future to start their own publishing initiatives. - Two members from each organization are encouraged to participate. Additional members from the same organization will be accommodated subject to availability of seats. - The number of seats is limited to 20 only. Registration Fees: ----------------- - A registration fee of Rs.1000/- is charged per participant. - Travel expenses to and from Bangalore should be borne by the participant or the sponsoring organization. Important dates: --------------- Last date for registration: 21st October, 2006 Confirmation of registration to the participants: 15th November, 2006 Workshop Dates: 14th and 15th December, 2006 Registration : -------------- http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/register.html Brochure: -------- Available for download at: http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/brochure.pdf Workshop Website: ------- ------- For more information check the URL: http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ Contact: ------- Postal Address: National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 Phone: 080-22933273, 22932654 and 22932511 E-mail: sjpi at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in With Regards Thomas Abraham Thomas Abraham Project Assistant National Centre For Science Information Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore Mobile : +919886040165 ON 14th and 15th DECEMBER, 2006 Conducted by National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in collaboration with Public Knowledge Project, Univerity of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University, Canada supported by Asian Media and Information Centre, Singapore Dates: 14th and 15th December, 2006. ------ Content: ------- Aimed at academic publishers in india, including institutions and associations with Institutional Archives as well as journal publishers, the workshop will - Impart knowledge about OAI-PMH and the tools and techniques required to publish with OAI compliance. - Conduct hands-on sessions using open source, OAI complaint journal management and publishing software, Open Journal Systems(OJS). Registration Information: ------------------------ - The workshop is open to Indian nationals employed in organizations,associations or private companies involved in academic and research publications OR have plans in the near future to start their own publishing initiatives. - Two members from each organization are encouraged to participate. Additional members from the same organization will be accommodated subject to availability of seats. - The number of seats is limited to 20 only. Registration Fees: ----------------- - A registration fee of Rs.1000/- is charged per participant. - Travel expenses to and from Bangalore should be borne by the participant or the sponsoring organization. Important dates: --------------- Last date for registration: 21st October, 2006 Confirmation of registration to the participants: 15th November, 2006 Workshop Dates: 14th and 15th December, 2006 Registration : -------------- http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/register.html http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/register.html Brochure: -------- Available for download at: http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/brochure.pdf http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/brochure.pdf Workshop Website: ------- ------- For more information check the URL: http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ http://sjpi.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ Contact: ------- Postal Address: National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 Phone: 080-22933273, 22932654 and 22932511 E-mail: sjpi at http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ncsi.iisc.ernet.in With Regards Thomas Abraham Thomas Abraham Project Assistant National Centre For Science Information Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore Mobile : +919886040165

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OA and public libraries in India
by Mailing List Manager 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:13:44 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: The 'Open Access' movement is picking up worldwide. As one aspect of the OA movement, many large libraries in the western world, especially in the United States of America, are digitizing their collections and making them available free on the Internet. The latest to join this movement is the University of Wisconsin at Madison. When will we in India start offering books and periodicals in Indian languages - Samskrit, Pali, Tamil, Teleugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarathi, Hindi, Urdu, etc. - for free viewing (and downloading) on the Internet? Do our public libraries have a policy on open access? Should not organizations such as CDAC and HP India, Google India play an active role in digitizing Indian language content available with major libraries? Many universities around the world (including some in China) led by MIT, Cambridge, are making their course material freely available on the Internet under the 'Open Course Ware' project. Some are offering even video files of lectures by eminent teachers. In order to become a knowledge society, India needs to provide such access to high quality university course material. Incidentally, Indians are among the most avid users of the MIT open course ware. Arun Wisconsin joins the Google Library project UW-Madison joins massive Google Book project, a press release from the University of Wisconsin, October 12, 2006. Excerpt: The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google announced an agreement today to expand access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical books and documents from more than 7.2 million holdings at the UW-Madison Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. The university is the eighth library to join Google's ambitious effort to digitize the world's books and make them searchable on Google Book Search. The combined library collections of UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society comprise one of the largest collections of documents and historical materials to be found in the United States. The collections are ranked 11th in North America by the Association of Research Libraries in Washington, D.C. "Wisconsin is in a position to take a leading role in making the primary documents of U.S. government history freely accessible on the Internet for anyone to find and use," says UW-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell. Adds Edward Van Gemert, interim director of the UW-Madison General Library System: "Whenever possible, the university intends to make the complete content of public documents available on the Internet, including text, images and maps." ... The Wisconsin project will initially focus on library collections that are free of copyright restrictions. Most books published before 1923 and publications of the U.S. government are in the public domain by law....

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Journal on Machine Tool Maintenance
by kishore kumar chinni 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi, Good Morning. We would like to subscribe a Indian / Foreign - Journal / Periodical on Machine Tool Maintenance. Kindly let me know the availability of the same. With regards C.V.S.KISHORE KUMAR LIBRARIAN ADVANCED TRAINING INSTITUTE SHIVAM ROAD, VIDYANAGAR HYDERABAD - 500 007 CELL : 9866004977 OFFICE : 040-27428058 ------------------------------------------------- "A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first." Hi, Good Morning. We would like to subscribe a Indian / Foreign - Journal / Periodical on Machine Tool Maintenance. Kindly let me know the availability of the same. With regards C.V.S.KISHORE KUMAR LIBRARIAN ADVANCED TRAINING INSTITUTE SHIVAM ROAD, VIDYANAGAR HYDERABAD - 500 007 CELL : 9866004977 OFFICE : 040-27428058 ------------------------------------------------- "A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first." http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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China forges ahead in patenting
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Here is an Associated Press news story you might wish to read. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------- U.N. Report: Sharp Rise In China Patents POSTED: 7:43 pm EDT October 15, 2006 UPDATED: 7:43 pm EDT October 15, 2006 GENEVA -- Patent filings in China increased by more than six times in a decade, helping the Asian country make a dramatic leap in catching up to the world leaders in patent activity, the U.N. agency that oversees intellectual property said Monday. More than 130,000 applications from Chinese and foreigners were filed with Beijing in 2004, the last year for which figures were available, the World Intellectual Property Organization said. That catapulted China into fifth place in the total number filed, behind Japan, the United States, the European Patent Office and South Korea. Over 65,000 of the applications were from Chinese, a six-fold jump from 1995, WIPO said. About the same number of foreign individuals and companies also applied in China, over seven times more than nine years earlier. Patent filings as a whole only grew at an average rate of 4.75 percent annually during this period, the U.N. agency said. "Patent statistics are increasingly recognized as useful indicators of inventive activity and of technology flows," WIPO said in a 43-page report. The Japanese continue to be the world's greatest patent filers, responsible for four in five of the nearly 450,000 applications in the country during 2004, according to WIPO. They also filed 137,800 with foreign offices, the most of any nationality. The U.S. came in second in applications received, with 403,050, and filings made by American-based inventors in foreign countries, which stood at 124,600. However, U.S. patent authorities received the highest number of applications from abroad, over 167,000, followed by the European office, China and Japan. WIPO said, however, that the distribution of patent filings worldwide "is changing over time, in particular as (South Korea) and China are becoming major industrial economies." "The use of the patent system is growing quickly in the northeast Asian region," the report said. The number of applications received in South Korea almost doubled between 1995 and 2004. Per capita, Koreans were the second most frequent to file for patent protection, behind the Japanese. Americans, Germans and Australians rounded out the top five. - Associated Press Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[Now Available] KnowGenesis IJTC Vol 1 Issue 3
by Saurabh Kudesia 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Dear Colleagues, KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) has just published its latest issue at http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. For your convenience, the issue is also available at KnowGenesis Online Library (www.knowgenesis.org/tc) as single PDF file. To access the journal online, you'll need your login ID and password. Please note that your credentials for accessing the journal is different from that required for KnowGenesis library. You can register yourself with KnowGenesis Library by visiting http://knowgenesis.org/tc/index.php?option=com_registration&task=register Thanks for the continuing interest in our work. We are looking forward for your visit to our website. -- Saurabh Kudesia Editor-in-chief KnowGenesis IJTC editorinchief@... www.knowgenesis.net/journal *************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS - Vol 1 Issue 3, Sept 2006 Editorial --------- Winning the Cross-Cultural Marathon By Saurabh Kudesia pp 4-5 Rendezvous with KnowGenesis --------------------------- Dr. Carol Barnum Professor, Information Design Director, Usability Center, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA pp 6-9 Book Review ----------- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation pp 10 Managing Your Documentation Project pp 10 Guest Column ------------ Quality Criteria for Indexes, Website Navigation and Search By Fred Brown pp 11- 19 Research -------- Contribution of the Indian Medical Service to the Documentation of Materia Medica, Medicinal Plants and Medical Topography of India, 1750-1925 By Prof. A. Neelameghan pp 20-30 Fluctuations in Document Accessibility: A Study of Five Search Engines By Prof. S.M.Shafi and Rafiq A. Rather pp 31-35 Regular ------- Perception at work By Prema Lawrence pp 36-39 *************************** ABOUT KNOWGENESIS JOURNAL ------------------------- KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines under Technical Communication. KnowGenesis IJTC is a volunteer effort that brought some of the finest International minds at one place. Thanks to their dedication and support,KnowGenesis IJTC became the first Indian Journal listed by American Education Research Association (AERA) SIG Communication of Research. AERA SIG list is a prestigious list of electronic journals consisting of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, which are accessible without cost. 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