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Re: European Union study on scientific publishing
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Friends: Here is a letter from Dr Alma Swan, who came to deliver the keynote address at the special session on open access at this year's Science Congress, held at Hyderabad. Please request your scientist friends to write to the European Union's Directorate General of Research at rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int Let them tell how important it is to have open access to all scientific research papers. Inaction may be taken to mean that OA is not really an important issue for scientists! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] > Dear friends, > > I apologise for the round-robin message but time is of the essence and I > need to get this out to a number of people quickly. > > Responses are currently being collected to the European Union's study on > scientific publishing > (http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-stu > dy_en.pdf). The report is long, but the recommendations are right at the > beginning and include some excellent ones for Open Access. A good summary > of > the report and its findings is found in Robin Peek's article for > InformationToday at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060410-1.shtml > > I have been told that there is disappointment at the EU that the research > community has not responded more enthusiastically. The EU people see their > role as serving the research community and feel - rightly - that the > future > of publishing should be an important issue for that community. The lack of > response belies that, unfortunately. > > The deadline for responses has been extended until June 15th in order to > give the research community more time to respond. If we don't respond, > then > the EU cannot be blamed for assuming OA is not an important issue to > academia. This is the chance to show that it is, and the chance won't come > again. So, if you can spare a few moments, please would you write a line > or > two in support of Open Access for research results, declaring your > position > and interest and saying why it would be beneficial for the EU to take a > policy decision on Open Access to scientific research results. It doesn't > matter if you live and work outside the EU: the arguments for OA apply the > world over and you can encourage the EU to set an example in this respect. > > Your message should be e-mailed to DG Research at: > rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int > > Responses are probably measured as much by numbers as by the quality of > the > content - like parliamentary representatives counting letters for and > against an issue to give them an idea of strength of public feeling! Just > a > couple of lines from you would therefore make a difference: there is no > need > to spend a lot of time on it if you are busy. If you can represent your > group, department, school or even institution then that would add even > more > weight. > > Thanks in advance if you can contribute. > > With warm best wishes, > > Alma > __________________________ > Alma P Swan, BSc, PhD, MBA > Director > Key Perspectives Ltd > 2 Denver Place > Elm Grove Road > Topsham > Devon, UK > EX3 0EP > Tel: +44 (0)1392 879702 > www.keyperspectives.co.uk > Consultants to the scholarly information industry > >

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NIT-R mandates OA for all its papers and theses!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

>From SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #98[http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-06.htm] * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. On May 15, India's National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Rourkela adopted an OA mandate. According to the policy summary in ROARMAP, "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." NIT's is the sixth worldwide university-level OA mandate and the first from India. For the other five, see the institutions with asterisks by their names in ROARMAP. India's National Institute of Technology http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114752693… ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ ----- Congratulations to the Director of NIT-R and Mr Muthu Madhan, Librarian, NIT-R, for their bold vision. But when will the rest of India's higher educational institutions and research laboratories set up institutional archives and mandate OA for all their research publications? After all, most of India's researchers - be they faculty or students in universities or scientists in laboratories - are supported by public funds. It is only fair that publicly-funded research is made freely available to other researchers and students of science. Here are some more excerpts from Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter No.98: Here are the top stories from May: * German Parliament considers an OA bill. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. * OA repositories pop up at institutions in three countries. * Gunther Eysenbach confirms the OA impact advantage. * German Parliament considers an OA bill. The Upper House of Germany's Parliament (Bundesrat) is considering a bill to permit author self-archiving of journal articles six months after publication regardless of the terms in a copyright transfer agreement the author might have signed. Here's an English-language summary of the bill by Gerd Hansen, an OA advocate, doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, and the author or at least the inspiration for the new bill. From his email: The provision that is currently being discussed is based on the wording I have proposed in an article on "Access to scientific information" published in GRUR Int. 2005, 378, p. 17 (until this very moment only in German). The Bundesrat now asked for a provision (p. 7) that would support OA in particular by giving authors the right to make their articles available online, even if they have granted exclusive rights to the publisher, if the following requirements are met: --only after expiration of 6-months since first publication --research predominantly based on public (tax payer) money --only publications in periodicals --non-commercial purpose of post-print-publication --author is obliged to use his final version of the article The bill permits author-initiated OA to publicly-funded research in Germany, though without mandating it. A mandate would be stronger, of course. But even many mandates (proposed or adopted) make vague or counterproductive exceptions for cases in which authors transfer copyright to publishers and publishers dislike the funder's OA policy. The German bill elegantly resolves doubts about permission and makes publisher dissent irrelevant. Moreover, Germany already has something of a mandate. The OA policy of Germany's DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the country's primary public funding agency, tells grantees that they should deposit their DFG-funded research in OA repositories. The German OA bill is unusual for seeking to facilitate OA by amending copyright law, a strategy tried in the US with the Sabo Bill (June 2003) and since abandoned. In a country more likely to amend copyright law in the wrong direction than the right direction, like the US, this is a very difficult and uncertain strategy. But where it can succeed, it can be direct, effective, and durable. Is Germany such a country? We'll soon see. ............. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. Four other countries either adopted or began considering national OA policies --all in May. Together with the German OA bill these are signs of growing momentum not only toward OA, but toward national commitments to OA. The Australian Research Council is considering a national OA policy. In his May 26 submission, Arthur Sale recommended that the ARC mandate OA for ARC-funded research. His proposal would mandate deposit of a postprint immediately upon acceptance for publication and immediate OA for the metadata. For the full-text article he recommends "delayed access, restricted access or closed access...depending on [the author's] agreement with the relevant journal." http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000277/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114873581… On May 23, the Finnish Council of University Rectors launched a national OA initiative "(1) to give aid to universities and research institutes in setting up institutional repositories; (2) to inform researchers about how open access is a part of the research process; and (3) to provide an easy-to-use platform for the open access journals of Finnish learned societies." At the same time, the Council decided to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/tiede/2005/tr16/tr16.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114838872… On May 11, Sweden has launched a national OA initiative "to promote maximum accessibility and visibility of works produced by researchers, teachers and students at Swedish universities and university colleges." The new initiative will promote both OA repositories and OA journals in Sweden. http://www.kb.se/openaccess/english/english_intro.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html#114805874… The Academy of Science of South Africa wrote a report in March (apparently not released until May) recommending both green and gold OA. See especially Recommendation 6, which would use public funds to pay processing fees at OA journals, launch a network of OA repositories, and harvest the repositories --everything essential except mandated deposits in the repositories. http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publ… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #98 [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-06.htm] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… [A] * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. On May 15, India's National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Rourkela adopted an OA mandate. According to the policy summary in ROARMAP, "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." NIT's is the sixth worldwide university-level OA mandate and the first from India. For the other five, see the institutions with asterisks by their names in ROARMAP. India's National Institute of Technology http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114752693… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114752693… ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ ----- Congratulations to the Director of NIT-R and Mr Muthu Madhan, Librarian, NIT-R, for their bold vision. But when will the rest of India's higher educational institutions and research laboratories set up institutional archives and mandate OA for all their research publications? After all, most of India's researchers - be they faculty or students in universities or scientists in laboratories - are supported by public funds. It is only fair that publicly-funded research is made freely available to other researchers and students of science. Here are some more excerpts from Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter No.98: Here are the top stories from May: * German Parliament considers an OA bill. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. * OA repositories pop up at institutions in three countries. * Gunther Eysenbach confirms the OA impact advantage. [A] * German Parliament considers an OA bill. The Upper House of Germany's Parliament (Bundesrat) is considering a bill to permit author self-archiving of journal articles six months after publication regardless of the terms in a copyright transfer agreement the author might have signed. Here's an English-language summary of the bill by Gerd Hansen, an OA advocate, doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, and the author or at least the inspiration for the new bill. From his email: The provision that is currently being discussed is based on the wording I have proposed in an article on Access to scientific information published in GRUR Int. 2005, 378, p. 17 (until this very moment only in German). The Bundesrat now asked for a provision (p. 7) that would support OA in particular by giving authors the right to make their articles available online, even if they have granted exclusive rights to the publisher, if the following requirements are met: --only after expiration of 6-months since first publication --research predominantly based on public (tax payer) money --only publications in periodicals --non-commercial purpose of post-print-publication --author is obliged to use his final version of the article The bill permits author-initiated OA to publicly-funded research in Germany, though without mandating it. A mandate would be stronger, of course. But even many mandates (proposed or adopted) make vague or counterproductive exceptions for cases in which authors transfer copyright to publishers and publishers dislike the funder's OA policy. The German bill elegantly resolves doubts about permission and makes publisher dissent irrelevant. Moreover, Germany already has something of a mandate. The OA policy of Germany's DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the country's primary public funding agency, tells grantees that they should deposit their DFG-funded research in OA repositories. The German OA bill is unusual for seeking to facilitate OA by amending copyright law, a strategy tried in the US with the Sabo Bill (June 2003) and since abandoned. In a country more likely to amend copyright law in the wrong direction than the right direction, like the US, this is a very difficult and uncertain strategy. But where it can succeed, it can be direct, effective, and durable. Is Germany such a country? We'll soon see. ............. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. Four other countries either adopted or began considering national OA policies --all in May. Together with the German OA bill these are signs of growing momentum not only toward OA, but toward national commitments to OA. The Australian Research Council is considering a national OA policy. In his May 26 submission, Arthur Sale recommended that the ARC mandate OA for ARC-funded research. His proposal would mandate deposit of a postprint immediately upon acceptance for publication and immediate OA for the metadata. For the full-text article he recommends "delayed access, restricted access or closed access...depending on [the author's] agreement with the relevant journal." http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000277/ http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000277/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114873581… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114873581… On May 23, the Finnish Council of University Rectors launched a national OA initiative "(1) to give aid to universities and research institutes in setting up institutional repositories; (2) to inform researchers about how open access is a part of the research process; and (3) to provide an easy-to-use platform for the open access journals of Finnish learned societies." At the same time, the Council decided to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/tiede/2005/tr16/tr16.pdf http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/tiede/2005/tr16/tr16.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114838872… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114838872… On May 11, Sweden has launched a national OA initiative "to promote maximum accessibility and visibility of works produced by researchers, teachers and students at Swedish universities and university colleges." The new initiative will promote both OA repositories and OA journals in Sweden. http://www.kb.se/openaccess/english/english_intro.htm http://www.kb.se/openaccess/english/english_intro.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html#114805874… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html#114805874… The Academy of Science of South Africa wrote a report in March (apparently not released until May) recommending both green and gold OA. See especially Recommendation 6, which would use public funds to pay processing fees at OA journals, launch a network of OA repositories, and harvest the repositories --everything essential except mandated deposits in the repositories. http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publ… http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publ… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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DSIR-NCSI Training Workshop on "Setting up & Maintaining Institutional Repositories using EPrints"
by S. Filbert Minj 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear Professionals: As part of ongoing project, Development of OAI-based Institutional Repository Services in India, sponsored by Department of Scientific and Industrial research, Ministry of Science and technology, Govt. of India, the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be conducting a training workshop on "Setting up and Maintaining Institutional Repositories using EPrints", during 26-28 July 2006. The main focus of the workshop will be to provide an intensive practical training to the participants to setup and maintain their Institutional Repositories (IR) using the "EPrints.org" software. The workshop is being conducted to encourage research institutes, Universities and R&D organizations to setup their interoperable IRs. The institutions/organizations are encouraged to depute appropriate systems/library staff who will be in a position to take advantage of the training to set up and operate institutional repositories in their respective institutions A nominal registration fee of Rs. 1000/- will be charged per participant. Please note that only online registrations are entertained. Last date for registration is 15 June 2006. Selected applicants will be intimated by email on or before 19 June 2006. All the selected applicants are to send a DD for Rs. 1000/- favouring Registrar, IISc, payable at Bangalore on or before 29 June 2006 to confirm their registration. For detailed information about the workshop and also for online registration, please visit: http://casin.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ws/eprints/index.html Important Dates: Last Date for Registration: 15 June 2006 Selection Intimation: 19 June 2006 Last Date for Sending the DD: 29 June 2006 -- Filbert Minj & Francis Jayakanth, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012

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Library Traineeship in the Resource Centre at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
by ts kumbar 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, We would highly appreciate, if you could kindly bring the following information to the notice of interested fresh ( with First Class M.L.I.Sc) Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend the potential candidates. Regards Dr. T S Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Tel. 079-30510550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam: We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by Reliance Group. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act and is recognized by University Grants Commission. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of Masters' and Doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum First Class Masters in Library and Information Science and well versed in Computer application to Library and Information Services. Duration of Training is for a period for one year. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees get a (all inclusive) fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees will have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resouce Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. We would be grateful if you could kindly identify a few such students from your Institution and send us your recommendation, along with their bio-data and information showing the year of passing and the percentage of marks obtained in M. L. I. Sc by 9th June, 2006. The students identified by you can directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 12th June, 2006 at 9.00am and we will consider them provided their bio-data and confirmation about their attending the test and interview are received by us on or before 9th June, 2006 on hr(a)da-iict.org All communications in this matter should be addressed to H R Officer at hr(a)da-iict.org Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat http://www.da-iict.org Dear Colleagues, We would highly appreciate, if you could kindly bring the following information to the notice of interested fresh ( with First Class M.L.I.Sc) Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend the potential candidates. Regards Dr. T S Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Tel. 079-30510550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam: We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by Reliance Group. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act and is recognized by University Grants Commission. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of Masters’ and Doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum First Class Masters in Library and Information Science and well versed in Computer application to Library and Information Services. Duration of Training is for a period for one year. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees get a (all inclusive) fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees will have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resouce Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. We would be grateful if you could kindly identify a few such students from your Institution and send us your recommendation, along with their bio-data and information showing the year of passing and the percentage of marks obtained in M. L. I. Sc by 9th June, 2006. The students identified by you can directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 12th June, 2006 at 9.00am and we will consider them provided their bio-data and confirmation about their attending the test and interview are received by us on or before 9th June, 2006 on mailto:hr@da-iict.org hr(a)da-iict.org All communications in this matter should be addressed to H R Officer at mailto:hr@da-iict.org hr(a)da-iict.org Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat http://www.da-iict.org http://www.da-iict.org

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Reminder - Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture
by anitha mk 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear All, This is a gentle reminder about the Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture which will be held tomorrow 3rd June, 2006, by NCSI-NET. The details of the Lecture are given below: Title: E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research Speaker: Prof: N.J Rao, CEDT Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Time: 6 PM Date: 3rd June, 2006 Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore After this, a collection of the works of Dr. TBR will be released in a CD. Prof. Joshi, Chairman of NCSI, will preside over the proceedings. The event will end with a high tea. We request you all to attend this Lecture and make it a successful event. Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators  � Dear All, � This is a gentle reminder about the Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture which will be held tomorrow 3 rd June, 2006 , by NCSI-NET. The details of the Lecture are given below: � Title: E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research � Speaker: Prof: N.J Rao, CEDT Dept., Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore � Time: 6 PM � Date: 3rd June, 2006 � Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore � After this, a collection of the works of Dr. TBR will be released in a CD. Prof. Joshi, Chairman of NCSI, will preside over the proceedings. The event will end with a high tea. � We request you all to attend this Lecture and make it a successful event. � Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators �

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ICADL2006 Deadline Extension
by Taro Tezuka 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

***** ICADL2006 DEADLINE EXTENSION ***** (Apologies for cross postings) The deadlines for the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) have been extended. The new deadlines are: Submission of abstract Jun 20, 2006 Submission of paper Jun 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance Aug 20, 2006 Submission of camera-ready Sep 10, 2006 Conference date Nov 27-30, 2006 Below is the final CFP. -------------------------------------------- Call For Papers The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) November 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan http://www.icadl2006.org/ The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual Asian event of international participation focusing on digital libraries and related technologies. Inaugurated in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has since been hosted in Taipei, Taiwan (1999), Seoul, South Korea (2000), Bangalore, India (2001), Singapore (2002), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2003), Shanghai, China (2004) and Bangkok, Thailand (2005). The 9th ICADL (ICADL2006) will be held in Kyoto, Japan in the late November. ICADL2006 provides an international forum for sharing experiences and up-to-date technologies among researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and policy makers from a variety of disciplines. ICADL2006, as well as the previous ICADL conferences, focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Kyoto, which is globally known as the historical city and the heart of Japan, will welcome you to ICADL2006 in a very beautiful autumn. Submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, and workshops are invited in all areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to: * Strategies with regards to o economic issues o legal issues o organizational issues o pedagogical issues o policy issues o social issues * Implementation experiences regading o collection development o international collaboration o quality of service o system evaluation o user communities o user studies * Systems o architecture o concepts and models o integration o interoperability * Techniques o Asian information processing o cross-language information access o human-computer interaction o information integration o information mining o information retrieval o localization o metadata o multimedia o ontologies o personalization o semantic web o semi-structured data management o Web cataloging o Web-page analysis * Management o access control o content management o intellectual property o security and privacy o service models * Application areas and concerns o digital archives and museums o digital preservation o knowledge management o education o e-science o Grid o scholarly publishing Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a journal or by another conference. Papers must be written in English, conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer. Each paper must not exceed 10 pages. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is accepted via the Web page in University of Tsukuba (in preparation) for papers. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on their recommendations, a decision will be made regarding rejection or acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long paper (up to 10 pages). The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer as well as the previous ICADL's. Best paper awards also will be conferred on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference. Honorary Conference Chair: Makoto Nagao (NICT, Japan) General Chair: Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) Program Co-Chairs: Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia) Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Tutorial/Workshop Chair: Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Finance Chair: Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Publication Chair: Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Publicity Co-Chairs: Taro Tezuka (Kyoto University, Japan) Kenji Hatano (Doshisha University, Japan) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Satoshi Oyama (Kyoto University, Japan) Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) ICADL Steering Committee Chair: EePeng Lim (NTU, Singapore) Program Committee: Robert Allen (Drexel, USA) Toshiyuki Amagasa (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Chutiporn Anutariya (Shinawatra Univ., Thailand) Thomas Baker (DCMI/Univ. of Goettingen, Germany) Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal, Portugal) Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA) Pavel I. Braslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Donatella Castelli (Italian National Research Council, Italy) Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (NTU, Singapore) Ching-chie Chen (Simmons College, USA) Hsinchun Chen (Univ. of Arizona, USA) Hsueh-hua Chen (NTU, Taiwan) Chao-chen Chen (National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) Gobinda Chowdhury (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK) Weiguo Fan (Virginia Tech, USA) Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA) James French (Univ. of Virginia, USA) Norbert Fuhr (Univ. of Dortmund, Germany) Richard K. Furuta (Texas A&M, USA) Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dion Goh Hoe Lian (NTU, Singapore) Jane Greenberg (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) Maruf Hasan (Shinawatra Univ., Thailand) Rachel Heery (UKOLN, UK) Sachio Hirokawa (Kyushu Univ., Japan) Jieh Hsiang (National Chi-nan Univ., Taiwan) Jane Hunter (Univ. of Queensland, Australia) Soon J. Hyun (Information Communication Univ., Korea) Hiroshi Itsumura (Nagoya Univ., Japan) Paul Janecek (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) Peter Jasco (Univ. of Hawaii, USA) Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) Ji-Hoon Kang (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Sunghyuk Kim (Sookmyung Women's Univ., Korea) Hiroyuki Kitagawa (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Carl Lagoze (Cornell Univ., USA) Eepeng Lim (NTU, Singapore) Yan Quan Liu (Sourthern Connecticut State Univ., USA) Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan) Gary Marchionini (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) Cliff McKnight (Loughborough Univ., UK) Makiko Miwa (NIME, Japan) Atsuyuki Morishima (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Sung Hyun Myaeng (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Mitsuharu Nagamori (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Takashi Nagatsuka (Tsurumi Univ., Japan) Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Thailand) Erich Neuhold (Univ. of Vienna, Austria) Liddy Nevile (La Trobe Univ., Australia) Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand) Somporn Puttapithakporn (STOU, Thailand) Edie Rasmussen (UBC, Canada) Andreas Rauber (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) S. Sadagopan (IIIT-B, India) Tetsuo Sakaguchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan) Michael Seadle (Michigan State Univ., USA) Praditta Siripan (NSTDA, Thailand) Ingeborg Solvberg (NTNU, Norway) Ohm Sornil (NIDA, Thailand) Shigeo Sugimoto (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Atsuhiro Takasu (NII, Japan) Yin-Leng Theng (NTU, Singapore) Shalini Urs (Univ. of Mysore, India) Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA) Ian Witten (Waikato Univ., New Zealand) Vilas Wuwongse (AIT, Thailand) Christopher C. Yang (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State Univ., USA) Important Dates: Submission of abstract Jun 20, 2006 Submission of paper Jun 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance Aug 20, 2006 Submission of camera-ready Sep 10, 2006 Conference date Nov 27-30, 2006

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hubmed
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

from researchbuz websire ====================== Are you familiar with HubMed? (http://www.hubmed.org.) It's an interface to the medical literature search engine PubMed that's simplified and very easy to use. Nice if you're not a professional medical researcher and find the PubMed interface overwhelming. HubMed also offers keyword-based RSS feeds for tracking additions to its database. HubMed also offers charts as well. Run a search. On the results page look to the right and you'll see a results count: "Results 1-20 of" however many results you got. Next to that will be a small chart icon. Click on that and you'll get -- hey! -- a chart. The chart will show you how many papers containing that keyword have appeared over time, starting in 1975 and moving to current day. Obesity is an interesting one to check; it starts out with a gentle curve and shoots up around 2000. For an interesting chart that meanders up and down, check out a query for hypnosis. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631 ====================== Are you familiar with HubMed? ( http://www.hubmed.org./ http://www.hubmed.org. ) It's an interface to the medical literature search engine PubMed that's simplified and very easy to use. Nice if you're not a professional medical researcher and find the PubMed interface overwhelming. HubMed also offers keyword-based RSS feeds for tracking additions to its database. HubMed also offers charts as well. Run a search. On the results page look to the right and you'll see a results count: "Results 1-20 of" however many results you got. Next to that will be a small chart icon. Click on that and you'll get -- hey! -- a chart. The chart will show you how many papers containing that keyword have appeared over time, starting in 1975 and moving to current day. Obesity is an interesting one to check; it starts out with a gentle curve and shoots up around 2000. For an interesting chart that meanders up and down, check out a query for hypnosis. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Post of Librarian at DPS, Nagpur
by Easy Resources 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

All, Delhi Public School at Nagpur is looking for a Librarian. For the first one year the post will be on probation and the scale will be as per basic fifth pay commission. The candidates from Nagpur with BLISC, fresh or experienced in school libraries can apply for the post. The interested candidates can send their resume at easyresources(a)rediffmail.com Thanks & Regards, For Easy Resources All, Delhi Public School at Nagpur is looking for a Librarian. For the first one year the post will be on probation and the scale will be as per basic fifth pay commission. The candidates from Nagpur with BLISC, fresh or experienced in school libraries can apply for the post. The interested candidates can send their resume at easyresources(a)rediffmail.com Thanks & Regards, For Easy Resources 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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Visit two recent web-based e-Learning initiatives
by Puna Das 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Visit two recent web-based e-Learning initiatives 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/ Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK is an e-learning initiative in agricultural information management developed by FAO and partner organizations) Modules Management of Electronic Documents Building Electronic Communities and Networks Investing in Information for Development Digitization and Digital Libraries http://www.imarkgroup.org/index_en.asp ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi, India ___________________________________________________ Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] NET Exemption
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Dear Raj I dont agree with you that only Ph.D and M.Phil students have the communication skills. How does Ph.D and M.Phil enhances the skills of communication. Staying in India every body what is tough to get it cleared even then people are commenting and favouring the exemption from NET. I dont understand any examination which has so far been quite tough to clear, has got no value very recently. People started voicing over its uselessnes, It hurts me. regards vrt On Tue, 30 May 2006 Raj K Bhardwaj wrote : >Dear Members , > > >From last twenty days we have received so many massages on UGC NET exemption for M.Phil,Phd students why you Library Professionals are taking >it unstandardization of Education . >You know level of research work in our country from last ten years are going down at very rapid pace because students intend to go to prepare for exam and they bye pass the reseach ,intellctual process of education . > >Exemption for M.Phil and Phd student is the only way to incease the research level. Think about research in scinece and other stream where a single idea if you generate and patent it can earn good reputation and money for country. > > >So don't think exemption of NET for M.Phil and Phd student is decreasing our education standard. >In my opinion We should impliment the NET Exam to get Admission in M.Phil and only after M.Phil students can enrollin Phd this should be the model . > > >secondly if any one who cleared UGC _NEt in library science with old traditional syallabus how can teach new concept and technology application in Libraries to students . > >if UGC Net exam cleared person don't have good Communication skills how he/she can teach student ? > >I have seen so many students who cleared NET exam and could ' manage to get any Job in Private College . > > > > >Raj Kumar Bhardwaj >Asstt Librarian >Punjab and Haryana High Court >Chandigarh > >Ring'em or ping'em. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman11/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/e… PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min >with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Dear Raj I dont agree with you that only Ph.D and M.Phil students have the communication skills. How does Ph.D and M.Phil enhances the skills of communication. Staying in India every body what is tough to get it cleared even then people are commenting and favouring the exemption from NET. I dont understand any examination which has so far been quite tough to clear, has got no value very recently. People started voicing over its uselessnes, It hurts me. regards vrt On Tue, 30 May 2006 Raj K Bhardwaj wrote : >Dear Members , > > >From last twenty days we have received so many massages on UGC NET exemption for M.Phil,Phd students why you Library Professionals are taking >it unstandardization of Education . >You know level of research work in our country from last ten years are going down at very rapid pace because students intend to go to prepare for exam and they bye pass the reseach ,intellctual process of education . > >Exemption for M.Phil and Phd student is the only way to incease the research level. Think about research in scinece and other stream where a single idea if you generate and patent it can earn good reputation and money for country. > > >So don't think exemption of NET for M.Phil and Phd student is decreasing our education standard. >In my opinion We should impliment the NET Exam to get Admission in M.Phil and only after M.Phil students can enrollin Phd this should be the model . > > >secondly if any one who cleared UGC _NEt in library science with old traditional syallabus how can teach new concept and technology application in Libraries to students . > >if UGC Net exam cleared person don't have good Communication skills how he/she can teach student ? > >I have seen so many students who cleared NET exam and could ' manage to get any Job in Private College . > > > > >Raj Kumar Bhardwaj >Asstt Librarian >Punjab and Haryana High Court >Chandigarh > >Ring'em or ping'em. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman11/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/e… PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min >with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.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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