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Fred Noronha on OA in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Please look up http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=5039925 for Fred Noronha's article on open access in India. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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RFID survey
by Hamidul Islam 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Sir/Madam, I am a student of MLISc in University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India. I am going to compile a dissertation project on RFID APPLICATION IN LIBRARIES of our MLISc course curriculum. I shall be highly obliged if you kindly sent the following questionnaire to your members and request to all members of lis-forum to sent this as early as possible. Thanks. Your faithfully, Hamidul Islam University of Kalyani West Bengal E-mail : hamid_lis(a)hotmail.com Note: Here there are two web addresses which shows the questionnaire. Please click on these two web addresses to see the complete questionnaire. The two addresses are : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=818492515084 & http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=183832547001 _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://www.windowsonecare.com/trial.aspx?sc_cid=msn_hotmail

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Request for Article
by Mailing List Manager 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:02:11 +0530 From: "Danappa Pattar (Associate)" <danappa_pattar(a)mindtree.com> Dear All, Could you please send the below mentioned article either in soft copy or hard copy, it is very urgent for one of our user. Article: How Management Innovation Happens Author : Julian Birkinshaw and Michael Mol Source: MIT Sloan Management Review Summer 2006, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 81-88 Thanks in Advance, Danappa Pattar MindTree Consulting Bangalore.

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[LIS-Forum] Sad demise Dr. R. Srinivasan, Officer-in-charge, CECRI, Karaikudi
by Arunachalam Hariharan 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Dear Professional colleagues and friends, I am very sad to inform you about the sudden and sad demise of our beloved friend Dr. R. Srinivasan, Officer-in-charge, Library, Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Kariakudi yesterday evening at Madurai. The funeral ceremony will take place at Karaikudi, to-day at 12 noon. Dr. Srinivasan did his PG degree in Econometrics, Library Science at Madurai Kamaraj University. He also did DRTC course at Bangalore. He was awarded Ph.D from Annamalai UNivesity in 2004. An expert in the field of Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, Technical Writing, etc, he contributed many articles in National and International journals . He did a few projects for DST. He is a simple and a good person. He used to help others always. He helped many people both professionally and personally. He is a founded member of SALIS and delivered many lecturers I pray the Almighty to give strength and courage to his family members to bear the great loss. His daughter is in Eleventh Standard and his son just joined M.B.B.S. We convey our condolence to his wife and his children. A.Hariharan SALIS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Message for New Members of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium
by Jagdish Arora 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that access to selected e-resources through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for around 300 institutions who had applied in response to the advertisement released by the AICTE in Feb., 2006 has commenced from Sept. 2006 onwards. The publishers of e-resources have sent messages directly to the subscribing institutions as well as to the Consortium regarding access to e-resources. The subscribed e-resource are IP enabled on the IP addresses communicated to us. In cases, where institutions do not have static IP addresses, login ID and password have been communicated to institutions directly by the publishers / their agents. We have however, found that several institutions have either not given their email addresses or the emails addresses are incorrect. The INDEST website has a searchable interface for all its members including 300 new members who have joined the Consortium under the new INDEST-AICTE Scheme. All members are requested to search the membership database and ascertain their contact addresses including emails. This will enable us to communicate with our members effectively. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Jagdish Arora Librarian & National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 E-Mail: jarora(a)library.iitd.ac.in, jarora42(a)hotmail.com Ph.: 011-26591451, 011-26596759 Web: http://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indeshttp://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that access to selected e-resources through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for around 300 institutions who had applied in response to the advertisement released by the AICTE in Feb., 2006 has commenced from Sept. 2006 onwards. The publishers of e-resources have sent messages directly to the subscribing institutions as well as to the Consortium regarding access to e-resources. The subscribed e-resource are IP enabled on the IP addresses communicated to us. In cases, where institutions do not have static IP addresses, login ID and password have been communicated to institutions directly by the publishers / their agents. We have however, found that several institutions have either not given their email addresses or the emails addresses are incorrect. The INDEST website has a searchable interface for all its members including 300 new members who have joined the Consortium under the new INDEST-AICTE Scheme. All members are requested to search the membership database and ascertain their contact addresses including emails. This will enable us to communicate with our members effectively. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Jagdish Arora Librarian & National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 E-Mail: jarora(a)library.iitd.ac.in, jarora42(a)hotmail.com Ph.: 011-26591451, 011-26596759 Web: http://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indeshttp://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform that access to selected e-resources through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for around 300 institutions who had applied in response to the advertisement released by the AICTE in Feb., 2006 has commenced from Sept. 2006 onwards. The publishers of e-resources have sent messages directly to the subscribing institutions as well as to the Consortium regarding access to e-resources. The subscribed e-resource are IP enabled on the IP addresses communicated to us. In cases, where institutions do not have static IP addresses, login ID and password have been communicated to institutions directly by the publishers / their agents. We have however, found that several institutions have either not given their email addresses or the emails addresses are incorrect. The INDEST website has a searchable interface for all its members including 300 new members who have joined the Consortium under the new INDEST-AICTE Scheme. All members are requested to search the membership database and ascertain their contact addresses including emails. This will enable us to communicate with our members effectively. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Jagdish Arora Librarian & National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 E-Mail: jarora(a)library.iitd.ac.in, jarora42(a)hotmail.com Ph.: 011-26591451, 011-26596759 Web: http://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indeshttp://indest.iitd.ac.in/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/

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34th Five Laws Lecture
by DRTC General 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Kindly announce this in Lis Forum. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, DRTC =========================================================== DRTC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THE 34th FIVE LAWS LECTURE (2006) on "Relevance of Knowledge Management in IT and Engineering Sectors" by Shri A. Kottai Head, Knowledge Management Honeywell Technology Solution Lab Pvt. Bangalore 560076 on Wednesday, 27th September 2006 at 6.30 pm. at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, (Upstairs), 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010 Presided by Dr. Devika P Madalli Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059

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SOSIG changes URL
by arun kishore 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Dear all, The famous Social Science Gateway 'SOSIG' has merged with 'INTUTE', a consortium led service in UK. Their database contains 113528 records including Science and Technology, Arts and Health Sciences. The new URL is : http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Regards, Arun Kishore DCSMAT Kerala

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The PLoS editorial on OA journals
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Friends: I am appending below a recent editorial from the open access journal PLoS. This editorial suggests that authors of research papers should retain copyright to their papers and not givi it awy to journal publishers. While this editorial talks about the great advantages of 'open access journals', there is another way by which authors can make their papers freely accessible via open access. And it is called 'open access archiving'. Each research institution and higher educational institution can set up its own interoperable institutional open access archive and mandate that all faculty and student reserach papers be placed in the archive (as full texts), irrespective of the journals in which these papers are published. There are more than 700 such archives today, but only less than a dozen have mandated OA to all faculty and student research papers. More than 92% of about 9,000 journals surveyed allow institutional archiving of papers published in them. To know the latest happenings in the open access movement I recommend Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------- The Impact of Open Access upon Public Health The PLoS Medicine Editors E-mail: medicine_editors(a)plos.org Published: May 30, 2006 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030252 Copyright: © 2006 The PLoS Medicine Editors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation: The PLoS Medicine Editors (2006) The Impact of Open Access upon Public Health. PLoS Med 3(5): e252 This Editorial is co-published in The Bulletin of the World Health Organization as part of a theme issue on intellectual property and public health. DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.032409 Arthur Amman, President of Global Strategies for HIV Prevention (http://www.globalstrategies.org) tells this story: I recently met a physician from southern Africa, engaged in perinatal HIV prevention, whose primary access to information was abstracts posted on the Internet. Based on a single abstract, they had altered their perinatal HIV prevention program from an effective therapy to one with lesser efficacy. Had they read the full text article they would have undoubtedly realized that the study results were based on short-term follow-up, a small pivotal group, incomplete data, and unlikely to be applicable to their country situation. Their decision to alter treatment based solely on the abstract's conclusions may have resulted in increased perinatal HIV transmission. Amman's story shows the potentially deadly gap between the information-rich and the information-poor. This gap is not the result of lack of technology or of money, but of a failure of imagination. We live in the most information-rich era of history, when the Internet allows immediate global dissemination of crucial health information, and the interlinking of online information creates an integrated, living body of informationthe ultimate vision of which is the semantic Web (http://www.w3.org) What is preventing such a living Web? For scientific and medical information, two obstacles are vested interests and traditions. The role of copyright, which was developed when the dissemination of work was on paper, is crucial. Initially, applying copyright to medical articles protected both the intellectual investment of authors and the commercial investment of publishers. Authors of scientific articles handed over their copyright to publishers to prevent unauthorized print copying. Thus, the prevention of unauthorized copying helped to disseminate information by providing a valid business model for publishers. But the proliferation of subscription-based medical and scientific journals led to readers having to pay more and more to publishers in order to keep up with current knowledge, and also led to an increasing fragmentation of knowledge between different publishers. The Internet provides the means to revolutionize publishing in two crucial ways. First, it makes it possible to disseminate health information at no charge to anyone in the world with online access. Although it costs money to peer review, edit, produce, and host an online article, this is a onetime, fixed cost. If research funders are willing to pay this cost, then the published work can be made freely available to all readers worldwide, and there would be no need for journal subscriptions. This is one way of financing an open-access model of publishing (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm) Second, because the internet allows not just ease of access but ease of reuse, an article's usefulness is limited only by a user's imagination. To allow this, the traditional role of copyright has to change. Instead of publishers using copyright to restrict use, authors can retain copyright and grant the public the right to creatively reuse their work. Licenses such as those developed by Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) which facilitate rather than prohibit reuse, are used by the open-access publishers PLoS (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020228) and BioMed Central (BMC). The result as Jan Velterop, Director of Open Access at Springer, says is that copyright can be used for what it is meant to in science, not to make the articles artificially scarce and in the process restrict their distribution, but instead, to ensure that their potential for maximum possible dissemination can be realised (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/scholarly_guide.shtml) The potential benefits of such a change are vast. No longer will physicians have to base their practice on half truths. Instead, everyone from patients to policymakers can read for themselves the evidence on which crucial science and health policy decisions are made. One example of a paper with potentially profound public health implications is the first randomized trial of male circumcision to prevent HIV infection (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020298)having this paper and all related discussions freely available has allowed a lively, informed debate to flourish. Will poorly funded researchers be excluded from publishing in open-access journals? This concern is addressed by publishers such as PLoS and BMC, who waive fees for authors who cannot pay, and who strictly separate decisions on publication from ability to pay. This is not a radical departure into subsidies, but an accepted part of distributing publishing costs across the scientific community. Increasingly, funders of research also realize the benefit of an open-access model of publishing. The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html) mandates its funded authors to make their work publicly available; the United States National Institutes of Health are encouraging it (http://publicaccess.nih.gov) and governments and funding bodies are signing up to declarations on open access (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html) By regaining control of copyright, the medical and scientific communities could ensure that publishing is no longer driven by the interests of publishers, but rather by the needs of society. ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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UNESCO-DSIR-IIMK 6-Day International Workshop on Greenstone at IIMK
by mgsree＠iimk.ac.in 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Dear Colleagues: I am happy to inform you that IIMK, with support from the UNESCO and TIFP (DSIR), is organizing a six-day International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software at IIM Kozhikode during November 27 - December 02, 2006. A total of 35 participants (27 from India and 8 from South Asian countries) are expected to take part in the Workshop. Prof. Ian Witten of the Greenstone team will be leading the workshop. The details of the programme is available at http://www.iimk.ac.in/FDPBrochures/UIIWGSnov27.htm. Soft copy of the brochure is available at http://www.iimk.ac.in/FDPBrochures/PDF/UIIWGSnov27.pdf for downloading. For any further information please feel free to contact me or our FDP Office (E-Mail : fdp(a)iimk.ac.in) With regards, M.G. Sreekumar Co-ordinator UNESCO-DSIR-IIMK International Workshop on Greenstone -- Dr. M. G. Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode IIMK Campus P.O. Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 570 ------------------------------------------------ Phone : +91 495 2809140 Mobile : 09447654066 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : http://www.iimk.ac.in; : http://iimk.ac.in/mgsree.htm ================================================ -- Dr. M. G. Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode IIMK Campus P.O. Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 570 ------------------------------------------------ Phone : +91 495 2809140 Mobile : 09447654066 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : http://www.iimk.ac.in; : http://iimk.ac.in/mgsree.htm ================================================

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Ulrich 2006, Bangalore
by girish kumar 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Dear All, I am very thank full for your responses to my query regarding Ulrich 2006. I am restricting my query now, so please let me know, which library has latest version of Ulrich (2006) with in Bangalore. I need your valuable responses as same as my old query.I am awaiting your helpful reply. With Regards N. Girish Kumar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Girish Kumar IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-560 012. Mobile No:9980876586 E-mail:girish@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ngirik(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. I am very thank full for your responses to my query regarding Ulrich 2006. I am restricting my query now, so please let me know, which library has latest version of Ulrich (2006) with in Bangalore . I need your valuable responses as same as my old query.I am awaiting your helpful reply. With Regards N. Girish Kumar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N.Girish Kumar IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-560 012. Mobile No:9980876586 E-mail:girish@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ngirik(a)yahoo.co.in Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42974/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview Check it out.

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