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Digital archiving
by Eldho Joy 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Date: 07 Jun 2006 From: "Eldho Joy" eldhoj(a)gmail.com Subject: Digital Archiving Dear ffriends I would like to know how we go about archiving the e-resources we subscribe to. Is there any specific software available for this purpose?. Please let me know. Librarian LBS Institute of Technology Trivandrum-12 Kerala. Date: 07 Jun 2006 From: "Eldho Joy" mailto:eldhoj@gmail.com eldhoj(a)gmail.com Subject: Digital Archiving Dear ffriends I would like to know how we go about archiving the e-resources we subscribe to. Is there any specific software available for this purpose?. Please let me know. Librarian LBS Institute of Technology Trivandrum-12 Kerala.

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Call for Papers for Law Journal
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 06:10:47 +0100 (BST) From: monawwer eqbal <monawwereqbal(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to inform you that a biannual journal � Vidhigya: The Journal of Legal Awareness� is being published by Integrated School of Law, Ghaziabad. The journal welcomes and encourages original research based papers, articles, legal expressions, legal perceptions, global views, views and comments on various legal issues, book reviews and case laws. The journal covers almost all the subjects relating to the study of law. The journal invites original and unpublished contributions. The editor reserves the right to edit and publish all contributions. Submission of paper indicates that it has been neither copyrighted, published nor submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Written material sent by post/ e-mail should include writer�s full name, complete postal address, phone no. and fax no. The editor also invites suggestions for achieving excellence for law journal. If you have any suggestions, views and comments, which would help us to improve the various areas of law, please write at once to the editor. Looking forward for your contributions. MONAWWER EQBAL Integrated School of Law (ISL) Delhi � papur Bypass, NH-24, Ghaziabad 201009 (UP) INDIA Tel: 2768951-52, 2800118 Fax: 91-1202800418 Mob. 09968060560 Ghaziabad. E-mail: eqballib(a)inmantec.edu E-mail: eqballib(a)gmail.com Guidelines for Authors: Guidelines for Contributors A general guideline for contributor is listed below, which should be strictly adhered to. Manuscripts should be sent along with the authorization letter in favor of the Editor-in-Chief that it may be published after necessary editing and the copyright shall remain with the Editor-in-Chief, Management should also accompany a brief Resume of the author on separate sheet. Manuscripts should normally be of around 10,000 words (to an extent of 20 to 40 A-4 size pages, typed double space) Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate with the cover page bearing only the title of the paper and author�s names, designation, official address, phone/fax number and e-mail address. Abstracts, All the Manuscripts should include an abstracts of about 100 to 200 words. NO abstracts are required for review essays or case study Footnotes. All footnotes should be indicated by serial numbers in the text and literature cited should be detailed under Notes at the end of the chapter bearing corresponding number. Tables and Figures. Table should approximate the appearnce of printed tables and preferably submitted in a floopy disk. Table/figures should be placed at the end of the text, after footnotes, appendices and references. Tables should contain a source and units of measurements. Their location in the text should be indicated as follows: Table 1.1 about here Reference, Place the reference at the end of the manuscript following the footnotes. The list should mention only those sources actually cited in the text or notes. Author name should be same as in the original source. For more than one publication by the same author, list them in chronological order, with the older item first. For more than one publication in one year by the same author, use small lower case) letters to distinguish them (e.g. 1980a, 1980b) Following are some examples: Books- Chakarborty, S.K. (1987) Managerial Effectiveness and Quality of Worklife: Indian Insights New Delhi Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. Ph.D Thesis Singh, Ajay Kumar (1995) �Acoounting for Human Resources: Acquisition, Development and Retention� Ph.D thesis, University of Delhi, Delhi. Journal Chakarborty, S.K.(Oct 1983 )� The Giving Model and Corporate Excellence: A field Report� Decision, pp 219-224, Monikutty, S (1997) �Telecom Services in Urban and Corporate Segments: A Consumer Presective� Vakalpa, Vol 22, No. 3, pp 15-28 No stops after abbreviations (UK, USA, MBBS, MBA etc.) Use stops after initials (B.S.Bedi) Use double quotes throughtout . The use of signal quotes to be restricted for use within double quotes e.g. �In the words of Churchill, �Any one can suggest you whren you are right; friends are there to support you when you are wrong�� Quotation in excess of 50 words should be separated from the text with a line space above and below and indented on the left. Quotes should be cited accurately from the original source, should not be edited, and should give the page numbers of the original publication. Capitalization should be kept the minimum and should be consistent An author will receive 10 off prints and a complementary copy of the issue in which his/her paper appears. Book reviews must provide the following details, and in this order: Name of author/title of book reviewed/place of publication/ publisher/year of publication/number of pages, in Roman and Arabic figures to include preliminary pages and price, with binding specifications such as paperback or hardbound For example: Aftab Alam Sales and Distribution Management, Wisdom publications, Delhi, 2005

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why cant we change Mlisc degree to MSc degree
by srini vasulu 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Dear lis-forum members, Really i felt very sad when people(some) asked me what is Mlisc. So every time i had to explain what is Mlisc and what we study in this degree. what i feel is better we change this Mlisc degree to MSc degree, and there wont be any confusion for non-library background people. Mlisc has been included under science stream in allmost all universities and some universities are giving degrees under MSc for example kuvempu university in karnataka. And one important thing i noticed is there is discrimination between Library science and some arts subjects . For example people study Geography under Arts stream in degree, but in PG it is included under science stream and degrees are awarded with MSc., even this holds good for Psychology also, they also study Psychology under Arts in degree and under science stream in PG. why this discrimination only for library science. So i request all Library science faculty to pressure higher authorities,VCs to change MLisc to Msc., I hope all lis-forum members will support my move and unite together for a good cause. Lets hope other University heads take a leaf out of Kuvempu university and change Mlisc degree to MSc., degree. with regards, srinvasulu.b Information and Knowledge Management(IKM) Trainee 2005-07, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12 -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Impact factor
by Smita Chandra 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, We are in urgent need of the impact factors of the following journals for the years 2004 and 2005 (if available). If anybody could please help us with the same or direct us to appropriate person / institution for the same we would be extremely grateful. 1. Journal of Quarternary Science (Pub.:Wiley Interscience) 2. Deep Sea Research Part I and Part II 3. Marine Geology 4. Quarternary Geochornology. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Ph. 91-22-2748 4000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Colleagues, We are in urgent need of the impact factors of the following journals for the years 2004 and 2005 (if available). If anybody could please help us with the same or direct us to appropriate person / institution for the same we would be extremely grateful. 1. Journal of Quarternary Science (Pub.:Wiley Interscience) 2. Deep Sea Research Part I and Part II 3. Marine Geology 4. Quarternary Geochornology. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Ph. 91-22-2748 4000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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dLIST Information Sciences Digital Archive Announces New Editors
by Anita S. Coleman 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

dLIST Information Sciences Digital Archive Announces New Editors We are pleased to announce the dynamic new team of editors for dLIST, the Digital Library of Information Science & Technology. These Information/Library & Information Science faculty and librarians will be responsible for specific subjects. * Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Asst. Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries, Houston * Anita Coleman, Asst. Prof., University of Arizona, Tucson * Marija Dalbello, Assoc. Prof., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick * Fernando Elichirigoity, Asst. Prof., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign * Kristin R. Eschenfelder, Assoc. Prof., University of Wisconsin at Madison * Cheryl Knott Malone, Assoc. Prof., University of Arizona, Tucson * Paul Marty, Asst. Prof., Florida State University, Tallahassee * Michael May, Adult Services Librarian, Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Dubuque * Soo Young Rieh, Asst. Professor, University of Michigan dLIST is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures. The dLIST vision is to serve as a trusted archive and source for scholarly communication in the Information Sciences, broadly understood. dLIST seeks to positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields. Editors represent diverse sub-disciplinary communities and work closely with scholars in different fields such as Digital Humanities and Digital Libraries (Marija Dalbello), Government Information and Social Informatics (Kristin Eschenfelder), Information Behaviors (Soo Young Rieh), Museum Informatics (Paul Marty), Scholarly Communication (Charles Bailey), Science Technology Studies (Fernando Elichirigoity), and Classics (Michael May). More information about each of the dLIST editors is available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/editors.html. The new team invites you to self-register, self-archive and explore the many unique features of dLIST. Some dLIST features are: * DL-Harvest, http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu., an open access aggregator, which brings together materials from 14 global and open access archives in the Information Sciences for meta-searching and access to the full-text * Detailed Usage Statistics, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/es/index.php?action=show_detail _date;range=4w provide usage statistics of each item in dLIST * RSS feeds and subscription alerts for items deposited in dLIST are available both by individual subjects (example: Academic Libraries) as well as the entire archive and anybody can be alerted automatically and quickly about new dLIST works, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/feeds.html * A streamlined new web-based submission interface that lets you upload and deposit your works easily * dLIST Classics is a new project that will be making fundamental and leading Library and Information Science texts openly accessible in dLIST. For more information about dLIST and to self-register please visit http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/ or email dlist at u dot arizona dot edu. dLIST, Digital Library of Information Science & Technology Email: dlist at u dot arizona dot edu Contact: Garry Forger, Learning Technologies at the University of Arizona Anita Coleman

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Open Source Digital Library Software Packages: A Survey
by Sanjo Jose 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Sanjo Jose, a Master of Library and Information Science student in Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, India. I am doing a project on open source digital library software packages. As part of it a survey is done on open source digital library/repository software packages. Please cooperate with me by filling up the questionnarie available at the following link. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=876152219455 Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Sanjo Jose Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram - 695 034 India asanjojose(a)yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/ Dear Sir/Madam, I am Sanjo Jose, a Master of Library and Information Science student in Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, India. I am doing a project on open source digital library software packages. As part of it a survey is done on open source digital library/repository software packages. Please cooperate with me by filling up the questionnarie available at the following link. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=876152219455 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s .asp?u=876152219455 Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Sanjo Jose Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram - 695 034 India mailto:asanjojose@yahoo.com asanjojose(a)yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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DSpace workshop at NCRA, Pune from 24th July-26th July 2006
by Sunita Barve 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Dear All, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Pune is pleased to annouce a workshop on " Creating digital libraries using DSpace Open Source Software" Dates: 24th-26th July 2006 Venue: NCRA, Pune Organised by : National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Many organizations are now trying to set up open access digital repositories using open source software. There are couple of open source software available for developing digital libraries and DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/ ) is one of the most popular software developed jointly by MIT Libraries and HP labs. DSpace helps to create, index and retrieve various forms of digital content. The purpose of this workshop is to provide training to library professionals by providing adequate practical knowledge which will enable them to initiate digital library projects on their own by using open source software. The focus will be given on DSpace open source digital library software which is freely available on internet and can be customized according to the requirements. It will be a unique opportunity for library professionals to get exposure to the concept of open source software in which changes can be easily made since source code is available with the user, which is not the case with proprietary software. DSPACE: DSpace can be used to build institutional or discipline-based repositories Submission facility allows scientists and researchers to upload digital documents from anywhere in the world Workflow feature allows moderation/review of the submitted documents Assigns persistent identifiers to each digital object in the repository Conforms to the standards like Dublin Core and OAI-PMH v.2.0 Security can be built at various levels to effect restricted access Asian and other world language based digital libraries can be built as it conforms to the UNICODE standard DSpace is an open source software and is freely downloadable from http://www.dspace.org/ This workshop is exclusively designed to provide hands-on-experience to the Librarians and Information Officers in developing a digital library using DSpace software. The topics to be covered in the Workshop Digital Libraries: Overview Overview of DSpace Installation of DSpace DSpace Users: Anonymous, Members & Authors DSpace Administration Dublin Core OAI-PMH Persistent Identifiers DSpace Customization Lucene Search Engine Unicode and Indian Languages The workshop comprises of lectures, demonstration and practice on the topics mentioned above. Computer lab facilities are made available for practice to the participants during extended hours. NCRA has excellent computer facilities. Resource Persons Dr. ARD Prasad, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, INDIA Dr. Devika Malladi, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, INDIA Ms. Sunita Barve, NCRA, Pune, INDIA Target Participants Library and information Science professionals with knowledge of Information Technology. The selection will be made on the basis of first-cum-first served. Registration fees Rs.5,500/- (The Demand Draft/Cash payable in favour of NCRA, Pune and payable at Pune) The Registration Fee includes Workshop Kit on CD-ROM Working Lunch/Tea Last Date for Registration 5th July, 2006 Accommodation Guest house accommodation can be made available at NCRA, Pune on payment. Coordinator Ms. Sunita A. Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics PO Box 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Email: library(a)ncra.tifr.res.in ; sunitab(a)ncra.tifr.res.in sunitabarve(a)gmail.com Phone: 91-020-25697107/25691384/25691385-Ext. 211(Office) 9823975237 (Mobile) REGISTRATION FORM Participants Name:_________________________________________ Designation:__________________________________________ Name and Address of the Institution:___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Telephone: Office:_______________________ Residence:___________________ Mobile:___________________ E-mail:___________________ Do you require accommodation during the Workshop? Yes / No (If yes, please let us know immediately.) Demand Draft No: ____________________________________________________ Name of the Bank: ____________________________________________________ Amount: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________________________________ Signature

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Trail and Debate over Peer-Review -- Nature's Style
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

"Nature" < http://www.nature.com > is undertaking open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process < http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/index.html >. In Nature's peer review trial, lasting for three months, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process. < http://blogs.nature.com/nature/peerreview/trial/ > It has also initiated a web debate for perspectives about peer review from those who believe it is working well and also those who prefer other options. < http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/index.html > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Business models in open access publishing
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

I hope members of the group would be interested in reading the following: Business models in open access publishing by Cockerill, Matthew. In "Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects" Neil Jacobs (ed.) (forthcoming) - http://hdl.handle.net/2384/2367 Matthew Cockerill, in this chapter, draws a parallel between open access and open government, noting that only by making information freely available can we hope to build the kinds of systems and services that are already useful, and that will be essential in the future. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC http://openmed.nic.in

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Works on Library Standards
by Ravichandra monappa 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Dear All, I am conducting a research study on the 'use of standards in the academic health sciences libraries' and collecting literature relevant to my topic. There might be some research studies already done in our country on this topic covering public, academic and special libraries. There might be as well some dissertations. Please let me know if you have conducted or aware of any of such studies. Thanking you Yours sincerely Ravichandra Librarian Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Medical Science and Hospital Sattur, Dharwad - 580 009 Karnataka, INDIA Ph:0091-836-2477565/66/67/68 Fax:0091-836-2461651 --------------------------------- 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 Dear All, I am conducting a research study on the 'use of standards in the academic health sciences libraries' and collecting literature relevant to my topic. There might be some research studies already done in our country on this topic covering public, academic and special libraries. There might be as well some dissertations. Please let me know if you have conducted or aware of any of such studies. Thanking you Yours sincerely Ravichandra Librarian Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Medical Science and Hospital Sattur, Dharwad - 580 009 Karnataka, INDIA Ph:0091-836-2477565/66/67/68 Fax:0091-836-2461651 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! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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