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Free E-books from July 4 for one month
by madhuresh.singhal 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Dear Friends, You would like to take advantage of this news. I have taken this from http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=104909 For more detail, you can visit http://www.gutenberg.org/events/fair-pressmay4.txt E-book project to give free access Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two non-profit organisations are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online. Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make "a third of a million" e-books available free for a month at the first World eBook Fair. Downloads will be available at the fair's web site from July 4, the 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg's founding, through Aug. 4. The majority of the books will be contributed by the World eBook Library. It otherwise charges $US8.95 ($A12.02) a year for access to its database of more than 250,000 e-books, documents and articles. But the book fair will not be the last chance for e-bookworms to devour works ranging from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Old Indian Legends," not to mention dictionaries and thesauruses, without paying for them. Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart, who first announced the ambitious plan a month ago, said Friday the partners are on track to make 1 million books available for the annual fair's one-month run in 2009, with more appearing in subsequent years. About 100,000, he said, will be permanently available at the handful of Project Gutenberg sites on the internet. "We want to give the most books to the most people," the 59-year-old Hart said by phone from Urbana, where he established the project in 1971 after graduating from the University of Illinois. "It has been our goal since the dawn of the internet to break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy." The Gutenberg books, typed and scanned into computers by thousands of volunteers, mostly are those that are no longer protected by copyright. They include fiction, nonfiction and reference books and will be available for worldwide readers in about 100 languages. While the commercial e-book market remains tiny, Hart said electronic books have "caught on without getting a lot of publicity" and are being widely read on handheld computers, mobile phones and even special programs for use on iPods. "These people that grew up on GameBoys - to them a GameBoy screen is the standard size," he said. "To us old folks, it's too small. But they don't care." Based on fast-increasing demand, he predicted there will be 10 million e-books available by 2020. "I've gotten notes from people who said they would have never, ever read Shakespeare if I hadn't put it on the internet," Hart said. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 51172085, Ext. 25; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************

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Results of UGC/NET
by yekanath kamble 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Dear Professional, May i know the result of UGC/NET Dec, 2005 Published in whic issue/date of Employment News?.Already results are announced in Internet . Please let us know. with regards, YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Professional, May i know the result of UGC/NET Dec, 2005 Published in whic issue/date of Employment News?.Already results are announced in Internet . Please let us know. with regards, YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion.(NET/SET)
by ishwar bandi 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

LISDWD(a)yahoogroups.co.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear professionals, I read many responses and comments regarding the scraping up of NET/SET decided by UGC, before to this decision I red one article in CURRENT SCIENCE Journal illuminated about the affect of the NET/SET compulsion on University out put i.e. Research. See UGC decision has taken by considering many more subjects and aspects. A proper guideline regarding the selection for the Lectureship is not yet formally decided by UGC. It is too early to draw a conclusion whether this decision is a correct or not. Now we see about the QUALITY, many people have raised a question about the NET/SET candidates have better QUALITY than non NET/SET candidates. I feel UGC Exam gives QUALIFICATION not QUALITY. As we are thinking only about the LIS whether there was no QUALITY before 1992 when there was no NET/SET compulsion for teaching. Most of we have studied under non NET/SET teachers then have you questioned about their QUALITY? In total I want to say that NET/SET is not only for the QUALITY but also to promote the research work, which is not happening. One more thing I wanted to tell you that not even one Indian University is ranked in first 500 universities at International level, why it is so? In subjects like Egg. can survive and do better without GATE then is it not possible in other subjects. Have you all observed the NET/SET clearing candidates are fresher students who have little practical knowledge? Hence I suggest UGC can conduct these qualifying exams categorically. Category may be on the basis of experience; Without experience 1 to 3 years experience 3 to 5 years experience 5 to 7 years experience 7 to 10 years experience 10 to 15 years experience 15 to 20 years experience In this type you can consider many other aspects to test the candidates subject knowledge. Because fresher may get more time to prepare and may not be having work pressers and so many other things which are in fever to them. Now the answers expecting in the exam are of text book oriented and you cannot expect a 5 to 10 and more years experience persons answers will compete the fresh candidates answers as far as the text book knowledge is concerned. Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion. Thanking you Ishwar Bandi ********************************** Mr.Ishappa Bandi Librarian Don Bosco Institute of Technology Premier Automobile Road Kurla(w),Mumbai-400 070 Phone:022-25040508 Ext:117 www.donboscoit.ac.in icbandi(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now LISDWD(a)yahoogroups.co.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear professionals, I read many responses and comments regarding the scraping up of NET/SET decided by UGC, before to this decision I red one article in CURRENT SCIENCE Journal illuminated about the affect of the NET/SET compulsion on University out put i.e. Research. See UGC decision has taken by considering many more subjects and aspects. A proper guideline regarding the selection for the Lectureship is not yet formally decided by UGC. It is too early to draw a conclusion whether this decision is a correct or not. Now we see about the QUALITY, many people have raised a question about the NET/SET candidates have better QUALITY than non NET/SET candidates. I feel UGC Exam gives QUALIFICATION not QUALITY. As we are thinking only about the LIS whether there was no QUALITY before 1992 when there was no NET/SET compulsion for teaching. Most of we have studied under non NET/SET teachers then have you questioned about their QUALITY? In total I want to say that NET/SET is not only for the QUALITY but also to promote the research work, which is not happening. One more thing I wanted to tell you that not even one Indian University is ranked in first 500 universities at International level, why it is so? In subjects like Egg. can survive and do better without GATE then is it not possible in other subjects. Have you all observed the NET/SET clearing candidates are fresher students who have little practical knowledge? Hence I suggest UGC can conduct these qualifying exams categorically. Category may be on the basis of experience; Without experience 1 to 3 years experience 3 to 5 years experience 5 to 7 years experience 7 to 10 years experience 10 to 15 years experience 15 to 20 years experience In this type you can consider many other aspects to test the candidates subject knowledge. Because fresher may get more time to prepare and may not be having work pressers and so many other things which are in fever to them. Now the answers expecting in the exam are of text book oriented and you cannot expect a 5 to 10 and more years experience persons answers will compete the fresh candidates answers as far as the text book knowledge is concerned. Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion. Thanking you Ishwar Bandi ********************************** Mr.Ishappa Bandi Librarian Don Bosco Institute of Technology Premier Automobile Road Kurla(w),Mumbai-400 070 Phone:022-25040508 Ext:117 http://www.donboscoit.ac.in/ www.donboscoit.ac.in mailto:icbandi@yahoo.co.in icbandi(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:i@rediffmail.com Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! 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History of Nobel unravelled at Vishveshwariah Museum
by vasanth raj 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear Sir/Madam, Rare opportunity to see the works of great scientists and Nobel Laureates at Vishveshwariah Museum in Bangalore. Further Information http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may302006/city1858142006529.asp http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may292006/update945282006529.asp Your Sincerely Vasantha Raju N Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Information for stock verification
by Ajay Kumar Sharma 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear Professionals I have approx. 50,000 Books and i want to stock verification of books. Please send me most appropriate methods which will not create hinderence in my library services. Ur Ajay Kumar Sharma Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (Library) <http://www.idsa.in/> Block No. 3, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi-110067 Dear Professionals I have approx. 50,000 Books and i want to stock verification of books. Please send me most appropriate methods which will not create hinderence in my library services. Ur Ajay Kumar Sharma http://www.idsa.in/ Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (Library) Block No. 3, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi-110067

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Rquest for Articles
by veena bhat 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear All, Could you please send the following article in E-Format? It is very urgent for one of our user. 1. Abernathy, William J., and Kenneth Wayne.1974. Limits to the Learning Curve. 2. Andrews, Kenneth R. 1971. The concept of Corporate Strategy. Homewood, IL: Irwin. Thanking You, Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear All, Could you please send the following article in E-Format? It is very urgent for one of our user. 1. Abernathy, William J., and Kenneth Wayne.1974. Limits to the Learning Curve. 2. Andrews, Kenneth R. 1971. The concept of Corporate Strategy. Homewood, IL: Irwin. Thanking You, Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Please review our article titled "Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India"
by Puna Das 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear Member Please review our article titled "Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India" and give your valuable comments. If this article does not include your OA/ IR initiatives accessible worldwide, please provide details to the undersigned. Yours sincerely Anup Kumar Das World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council "Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society" 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India S.B. GHOSH (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India) and ANUP KUMAR DAS (Jadavpur University, New Delhi, India) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/157-Ghosh_Das-en.pdf ____________________________________________________ 1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006; Bangalore, India http://www.icdim.org ____________________________________________________ National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMDiL) August 02-04, 2006; IIT, Kharagpur, India http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm ____________________________________________________ International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications March 5 - 7, 2007 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Website: http://www.isical.ac.in/~ccsd_platinum/ ____________________________________________________ Indo German e-Gurukul on Digital Libraries (An joint e-learning initiative of DRTC, Bangalore & MMB, New Delhi using Moodle software) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mmb/ ___________________________________________________ EU Scholarship Scholarship Program for India worth 33 Million Euro How to Apply http://www.science-circle.org/EU_IN_Scholarships.asp ____________________________________________________ Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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stock verification
by gayathri sen 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear friend, We have around 42,000 plus books and we follow the following steps which seems to be quite efficient. Most of the collection is bar coded. We make 3 groups of 3 persons each. To speed up the process each group starts scanning the barcodes at the same time. We have 3 laser scanners. The acc. No. of books without the bar codes are entered manually into the system. You can use the extension wires to take the systems and scanners near the shelf itself to save time. All the entries from all three systems are compiled in a single system for the physical presence of the books in the library and submitted to your library management software (if you have that) stock verification module for updating in your system. Report submitted to the management or authorities concerned. You can hire or borrow more scanners if you want to speed up and have more groups. The top gun with memory which is available for stock checking costs around Rs.30,000, but only one person can work at a given time ( that is if you have only one gadget). This takes more time. Probably you can hire more no.s if available and if you want to use this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear friend, We have around 42,000 plus books and we follow the following steps which seems to be quite efficient. Most of the collection is bar coded. We make 3 groups of 3 persons each. To speed up the process each group starts scanning the barcodes at the same time. We have 3 laser scanners. The acc. No. of books without the bar codes are entered manually into the system. You can use the extension wires to take the systems and scanners near the shelf itself to save time. All the entries from all three systems are compiled in a single system for the physical presence of the books in the library and submitted to your library management software (if you have that) stock verification module for updating in your system. Report submitted to the management or authorities concerned. You can hire or borrow more scanners if you want to speed up and have more groups. The top gun with memory which is available for stock checking costs around Rs.30,000, but only one person can work at a given time ( that is if you have only one gadget). This takes more time. Probably you can hire more no.s if available and if you want to use this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Congratulation - NIT - Rourkela for mandating OA Archiving
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I learn from Prof. Arunachalam's email that National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela adopted an OA mandate. The policy adopted by NIT as summarised in ROARMAP is - "All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph. D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed." All credit should go to the Librarian ( I don't know who -- sorry!! ). Others should fellow the example. CONGRATULATIONS!! NIT and the LIBRARIAN!! --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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New small molecules database on open access
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

>From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" New OA database on small molecules ChemBank is a new OA database from the Broad Institute's Chemical Biology Program (at Harvard University) and funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Initiative for Chemical Genetics (ICG). (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the site: This knowledge environment includes freely available data derived from small molecules and small-molecule screens, and resources for studying the data so that biological and medical insights can be gained.... Currently, ChemBank stores information on hundreds of thousands of small molecules and hundreds of biomedically relevant assays that have been performed at the ICG in collaborations involving biomedical researchers worldwide. These scientists have agreed to perform their experiments in an open data-sharing environment (data-sharing agreement). The goals of ChemBank are to provide life scientists unfettered access to biomedically relevant data and tools heretofore available almost exclusively in the private sector. We intend for ChemBank to be a planning and discovery tool for chemists, biologists, and drug hunters anywhere, with the only necessities being a computer, access to the Internet, and a desire to extract knowledge from public experiments whose greatest value is likely to reside in their collective sum.

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