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BOOK RELEASE FUNCTION AT BRITISH LIBRARY, HYDERABAD ON SATURDAY, 20 MAY 2006, 6.45 PM
by Mailing List Manager 15 May '06

15 May '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 02:20:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dr. E Rama Reddy Festschrift Committee, Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd and British Library, Hyderabad=0D Invite you to the release of Technology Management in Libraries A Festschrift Volume Chief Guest Sri K.R. Suresh Reddy Honble Speaker AP Legislative Assembly Will release the Volume Dr. T Hanuman Chowdary Former IT Advisor, Govt of AP Will Preside Venue: British Library, Hyderabad Date and time: Saturday, 20 May 2006 at 6:45 p.m. Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile)

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The status of OA
by Mailing List Manager 15 May '06

15 May '06

Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 11:53:26 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in The state of OA today Dorothea Salo, How are we doing? Caveat Lector, May 12, 2006. Excerpt: Im probably the wrong person to ask whether open access will fly. Still --I think the world will change in our direction. Utopia, certainly not. An entirely open-access landscape, certainly not. A world where many more people have unfettered access to much more research and scholarship --yes. I think well get there. Heres why I think that. For more details, visit, http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:WTT_v9MCi-QJ:cavlec.yarinareth.net/feed… Arun

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Vaccany at IIHMR
by Lata Suresh 15 May '06

15 May '06

Assistant Librarian Qualification :Master's degree plus Degree in Library Science Work Experience : 2-3 years experience in similar field. Desired Skills : Excellent communication skills in written and oral, knowledge of Library Software and experience in computerization / Digitization of Library should be a proactive service provider & a good team player. Responsibilities : Managing Regular Library Services and facilities, willing to work in night hours, weekend and/or on holidays as directed. Please send your resume with a recent photograph with in 10 days of this advertisement to: (Last Date-25/05/06) The Director, IIHMR, 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Near Sanganer Airport, Jaipur-302011, Tel.91+141+2791431-4, Fax:91+141+2792138, Email : nsadmin(a)iihmr.org URL: www.iihmr.org Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033, RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org Assistant Librarian Qualification : Master's degree plus Degree in Library Science Work Experience : 2-3 years experience in similar field. Desired Skills : Excellent communication skills in written and oral, knowledge of Library Software and experience in computerization / Digitization of Library should be a proactive service provider & a good team player. Responsibilities : Managing Regular Library Services and facilities, willing to work in night hours, weekend and/or on holidays as directed. Please send your resume with a recent photograph with in 10 days of this advertisement to: (Last Date-25/05/06) The Director, IIHMR, 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Near Sanganer Airport, Jaipur-302011, Tel.91+141+2791431-4, Fax:91+141+2792138, Email : mailto:nsadmin@iihmr.org nsadmin(a)iihmr.org URL: http://www.iihmr.org/ www.iihmr.org Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033, RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : mailto:lata@iihmr.org lata(a)iihmr.org

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WinISIS 1.5
by Indira K. 13 May '06

13 May '06

Dear Professionals, One can use WinISIS 1.5 to create a multilingual library as an open space of knowledge. want to know how? follow the paths given. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21935&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… 060406-kas amman mission books-e-gs.pdf Indira -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com Dear Professionals, One can use WinISIS 1.5 to create a multilingual library as an open space of knowledge. want to know how? follow the paths given. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21935&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21935&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/21935/11461237089060406-kas_amman_miss… 060406-kas amman mission books-e-gs.pdf Indira Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. E-mail: mailto:indk68@hotmail.com indk68(a)hotmail.com

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The RRI Digital Repository
by Library 12 May '06

12 May '06

Dear all, We are happy to inform you that we have set up the RRI Digital Repository using DSpace open software. (http://dspace.rri.res.in/) Content of our Digital Repository: * Preprints * Published papers in journals/conference proceedings * Annual Reports of RRI * Newspaper clippings from the Raman archives With best wishes, Y.M. Patil Librarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Free online access to nearly 200 years of medical research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 May '06

12 May '06

Free online access to nearly 200 years of medical research 11 May 2006 Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a landmark project launched today at the Wellcome Trust. On completion, the back files project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google. The initiative was developed through a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, JISC, the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and a number of medical journal publishers. The archive, will contain a number of discoveries which have changed the face of medicine, including: a.. Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of the use of penicillin to fight bacterial infections. British Journal of Experimental Pathology, 1929 (continued as the International Journal of Experimental Pathology) b.. Sir Richard Doll's groundbreaking study that confirmed that smoking was a "major cause" of lung cancer. BMJ, 1954 c.. Walter Reed's paper that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Journal of Hygiene, 1902 (continued as Epidemiology and Infection) d.. Kenneth Burton's classic and highly cited "methods" paper that provided a standard way of assaying DNA concentration in a solution using diphenylamine. Biochemical Journal, 1956 (online now) e.. Hodgkin's and Huxley's Nobel-prize winning paper on ionic theory of the nerve impulse. This work was the foundation for thousands of subsequent studies of electrical signalling in the brain and has been useful for understanding the origins of many disorders - such as multiple sclerosis, muscle myotonias, and heart arrhythmias - that result from defects in electrical signalling. Journal of Physiology, 1952 (online now) f.. Frederick Treves 1888 paper in which he described the first operation on an inflamed appendix. On publication, the paper was not initially well received as surgical intervention was discouraged in such cases. Seven years later this became the accepted practice. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1888, (continued as the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine) g.. Arunlakshana and Schild's 1959 paper on the characteristics of drug binding to receptor sites. Using the approach articulated in this paper the authors showed, for example, that the histamine receptors in various guinea pig and human tissues were the same. British Journal of Pharmacology, 1959 h.. Participating publishers have also agreed to continue to deposit current content of their journals into this archive. They will be freely available after an embargo period - a maximum of one year for all research papers. In addition to the faithful replication of every published page, the archive provides a number of innovative, value-added functions, including links from references to full text, high resolution images, full text searching across the entire archive, and links from the original article to corrections and retractions and vice-versa. Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Mark Walport, said: "This growing collection will be of lasting benefit to researchers, practitioners and medical historians worldwide. It will provide access to important scientific literature from the past, free of charge, to anyone in the world with internet access." JISC's Executive Secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, said: "This archive and its commitment to free and open access to the outputs of scientific research demonstrates the value of collaboration between funding bodies, publishers and the academic and research communities. JISC is delighted to have worked closely with the Wellcome Trust and the National Library of Medicine on what is an impressive and important resource." Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine said: "The importance of this archive is realized every day - our studies show that researchers and authors whose articles appear in PubMed Central are read and cited hundreds of times more than they were in their original print format. PubMed Central has greatly benefited from the journal content and funding contributions made possible by the Wellcome Library and JISC." The backfiles archive can be accessed free of charge through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), full-text, life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC). Journals will be added to the archive assoon as they are digitised. PubMed citations are added to that database when the archive is complete. Further information about this project can be found at: Medical Journals Backile Project This project is one of six digitisation projects being managed by JISC with funding from HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). The JISC programme represents a total investment of some £10m in the digitisation of high-quality online content, including sound, moving pictures, newspapers, census data, journals and parliamentary papers for use by the UK further and higher education communities. Further information about the JISC digitisation programme can be found at: Digitisation Media enquiries: Philip Pothen (JISC) - 020 7848 2935 or 07887 564 006 Vivien Goldsmith (Wellcome Trust) - 020 7611 8364 or 8866 Notes for editors 1. The full list of participating journals*: Anesthesia Progress - 1954 Annals of Surgery - 1885 Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - 1947 Biochemical Journal - 1906 BMJ - British Medical Journal - 1853 British Journal of Cancer - 1947 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - 1974 British Journal of General Practice - 1952 British Journal of Pharmacology - 1946 Clinical & Experimental Immunology - 1966 Epidemiology and Infection - 1901 Immunology - 1958 International Journal of Experimental Pathology - 1920 Journal of Anatomy - 1866 Journal of Physiology - 1878 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - 1809 Medical History - 1957 * Current journal name - some journals have had several name changes In addition to the journals being digitized under this project, the NLM is also digitising additional journals, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the EMBO Journal 2. JISC - the Joint Information Systems Committee - is a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and research. It is best known for providing the JANET network, a range of support, content and advisory services, and a portfolio of high-quality resources. 3. The Wellcome Trust is the most diverse biomedical research charity in the world, spending about £450 million every year both in the UK and internationally to support and promote research that will improve the health of humans and animals. The Trust was established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, and is funded from a private endowment, which is managed with long-term stability and growth in mind. The Wellcome Library is one of the world's greatest collections for the study of the history of medicine. The print, manuscript audio, film, pictorial and digital collections are a national treasure and an unrivalled intellectual resource. See: Wellcome Library The Wellcome Trust was awarded the first SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications by SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), for its work on open access. SPARC Europe represents over 100 European research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. 4. National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 8 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works. The Library's collection may be consulted in the reading room or requested on interlibrary loan. For 125 years, the Library published the Index Medicus®, a monthly subject/author guide to articles in 4000 journals. This information, and much more, is today available in PubMed®, freely accessible via the World Wide Web. PubMed has more than 16 million MEDLINE journal article references and abstracts going back to the mid-1960s with another 1.5 million references back to the early 1950s. Additional citations are being added from the back files of journals scanned for PubMed Central. Free online access to nearly 200 years of medical research http://www.jisc.ac.uk/images/spacer.gif 11 May 2006 Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a landmark project launched today at the Wellcome Trust. On completion, the back files project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google. The initiative was developed through a partnership between the http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust , JISC, the US http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine (NLM) and a number of medical journal publishers. The http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/ archive , will contain a number of discoveries which have changed the face of medicine, including: Sir Alexander Flemings discovery of the use of penicillin to fight bacterial infections. British Journal of Experimental Pathology , 1929 (continued as the International Journal of Experimental Pathology ) Sir Richard Dolls groundbreaking study that confirmed that smoking was a major cause of lung cancer. BMJ , 1954 Walter Reeds paper that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Journal of Hygiene , 1902 (continued as Epidemiology and Infection) Kenneth Burtons classic and highly cited methods paper that provided a standard way of assaying DNA concentration in a solution using diphenylamine. Biochemical Journal , 1956 (online now) Hodgkin's and Huxley's Nobel-prize winning paper on ionic theory of the nerve impulse. This work was the foundation for thousands of subsequent studies of electrical signalling in the brain and has been useful for understanding the origins of many disorders - such as multiple sclerosis, muscle myotonias, and heart arrhythmias - that result from defects in electrical signalling. Journal of Physiology , 1952 (online now) Frederick Treves 1888 paper in which he described the first operation on an inflamed appendix. On publication, the paper was not initially well received as surgical intervention was discouraged in such cases. Seven years later this became the accepted practice. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions , 1888, (continued as the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine ) Arunlakshana and Schilds 1959 paper on the characteristics of drug binding to receptor sites. Using the approach articulated in this paper the authors showed, for example, that the histamine receptors in various guinea pig and human tissues were the same. British Journal of Pharmacology , 1959 Participating publishers have also agreed to continue to deposit current content of their journals into this archive. They will be freely available after an embargo period a maximum of one year for all research papers. In addition to the faithful replication of every published page, the archive provides a number of innovative, value-added functions, including links from references to full text, high resolution images, full text searching across the entire archive, and links from the original article to corrections and retractions and vice-versa. Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Mark Walport, said: This growing collection will be of lasting benefit to researchers, practitioners and medical historians worldwide. It will provide access to important scientific literature from the past, free of charge, to anyone in the world with internet access. JISC's Executive Secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, said: This archive and its commitment to free and open access to the outputs of scientific research demonstrates the value of collaboration between funding bodies, publishers and the academic and research communities. JISC is delighted to have worked closely with the Wellcome Trust and the National Library of Medicine on what is an impressive and important resource. Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine said: "The importance of this archive is realized every day - our studies show that researchers and authors whose articles appear in PubMed Central are read and cited hundreds of times more than they were in their original print format. PubMed Central has greatly benefited from the journal content and funding contributions made possible by the Wellcome Library and JISC." The backfiles archive can be accessed free of charge through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), full-text, life sciences repository http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/ PubMed Central (PMC). Journals will be added to the archive as soon as they are digitised. PubMed citations are added to that database when the archive is complete. Further information about this project can be found at: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/backfiles Medical Journals Backile Project This project is one of six digitisation projects being managed by JISC with funding from HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England ). The JISC programme represents a total investment of some £10m in the digitisation of high-quality online content, including sound, moving pictures, newspapers, census data, journals and parliamentary papers for use by the UK further and higher education communities. Further information about the JISC digitisation programme can be found at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation_home.html Digitisation Media enquiries: Philip Pothen (JISC) - 020 7848 2935 or 07887 564 006 Vivien Goldsmith ( Wellcome Trust) - 020 7611 8364 or 8866 Notes for editors 1. The full list of participating journals*: Anesthesia Progress - 1954 Annals of Surgery - 1885 Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - 1947 Biochemical Journal - 1906 BMJ - British Medical Journal - 1853 British Journal of Cancer - 1947 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - 1974 British Journal of General Practice - 1952 British Journal of Pharmacology - 1946 Clinical & Experimental Immunology - 1966 Epidemiology and Infection - 1901 Immunology - 1958 International Journal of Experimental Pathology - 1920 Journal of Anatomy - 1866 Journal of Physiology - 1878 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - 1809 Medical History - 1957 * Current journal name some journals have had several name changes In addition to the journals being digitized under this project, the NLM is also digitising additional journals, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the EMBO Journal 2. JISC the Joint Information Systems Committee is a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and research. It is best known for providing the JANET network, a range of support, content and advisory services, and a portfolio of high-quality resources. 3. The Wellcome Trust is the most diverse biomedical research charity in the world, spending about £450 million every year both in the UK and internationally to support and promote research that will improve the health of humans and animals. The Trust was established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, and is funded from a private endowment, which is managed with long-term stability and growth in mind. The Wellcome Library is one of the world's greatest collections for the study of the history of medicine. The print, manuscript audio, film, pictorial and digital collections are a national treasure and an unrivalled intellectual resource. See: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Library The Wellcome Trust was awarded the first SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications by SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), for its work on open access. SPARC Europe represents over 100 European research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. 4. National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland , is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 8 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works. The Library's collection may be consulted in the reading room or requested on interlibrary loan. For 125 years, the Library published the Index Medicus®, a monthly subject/author guide to articles in 4000 journals. This information, and much more, is today available in PubMed®, freely accessible via the World Wide Web. PubMed has more than 16 million MEDLINE journal article references and abstracts going back to the mid-1960s with another 1.5 million references back to the early 1950s. Additional citations are being added from the back files of journals scanned for PubMed Central.

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Reminder NCSI-NET Meeting
by Nandhan Ravi 12 May '06

12 May '06

Dear All , The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, May 13th 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk. All are cordially invited for the talk. About the talk - Speaker: Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, Senior Vice President, Satyam Computer Services Topic: Putting head and heart together: Technology in the service of Society: A case study of emergency services in Andhra Pradesh Time: 10-30 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Abstract: In India, about two lakh people face medical emergencies every day. Accidents at homes, workplaces and on roads happen quite frequently along with other medical, police and fire-related emergencies. The support systems required to deal with these emergencies in the society virtually do not exist in India. When an emergency occurs, we need a rapid action support system to come into force to bail the victims out of the imminent threat of loss of life or property. A systematic approach to providing total support to the victims of emergencies requires the integration of three phases (Sense, Reach and Care). A comprehensive emergency response system on the lines of 9.1.1 in the US and 112 in the EU was developed in the state of Andhra Pradesh by EMRI, a non-profit society that works on the PPP (public private partnership) model. Technology used in this project includes Computer Telephony Integration, Voice Loggers, GIS / Maps, GPS / AVLT, Mobile communications, e-learning etc. The EMRI project went live on Aug 15, 2005 and is now operational in 18 cities/towns in AP, covering about 13 million people, with an excellent support from the Government. The number of lives saved in exceeded 2000 during the past 9 months. The lessons learnt, the confidence gained and the future plans in this project will be shared during this presentation. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com V. Ravi Nandhan. & Anitha M.K NCSI-NET Coordinators. With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: www.capco.com ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at www.capco.com ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************ Reminder NCSI-NET Meeting Dear All , The next NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, May 13th 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk.� All are cordially invited for the talk. About the talk - Speaker:� Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, �� Senior Vice President, �� Satyam Computer Services Topic: Putting head and heart together: Technology in the service of Society: �� A case study of emergency services in Andhra Pradesh Time: 10-30 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore Abstract: In India, about two lakh people face medical emergencies every day. Accidents at homes, workplaces and on roads happen quite frequently along with other medical, police and fire-related emergencies.� The support systems required to deal with these emergencies in the society virtually do not exist in India. When an emergency occurs, we need a rapid action support system to come into force to bail the victims out of the imminent threat of loss of life or property. A systematic approach to providing total support to the victims of emergencies requires the integration of three phases (Sense, Reach and Care). A comprehensive emergency response system on the lines of 9.1.1 in the US and 112 in the EU was developed in the state of Andhra Pradesh by EMRI, a non-profit society that works on the PPP (public private partnership) model.� Technology used in this project includes Computer Telephony Integration, Voice Loggers, GIS / Maps, GPS / AVLT, Mobile communications, e-learning etc. The EMRI project went live on Aug 15, 2005 and is now operational in 18 cities/towns in AP, covering about 13 million people, with an excellent support from the Government.� The number of lives saved in exceeded 2000 during the past 9 months.� The lessons learnt, the confidence gained and the future plans in this project will be shared during this presentation. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com V. Ravi Nandhan. & Anitha M.K NCSI-NET Coordinators. With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: file://www.capco.com www.capco.com ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at www.capco.com ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************

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So Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library?
by Sukhdev Singh 12 May '06

12 May '06

[ A hyperlinked version of is post is available from the following link: http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/05/is-internet-evolving-into-digital.html ] Terry Kuny and Gary Cleveland in their article "The Digital Library: Myths and Challenges" IFLA journal 1998 24 (2)7347 had rejected Internet as Digital Library. They regarded it a myth to consider it digital library. As a bookstore cannot be called a Library in the same manner Internet providing access to huge information resources cannot considered as a Library. "Finding information is difficult, the quality of the information is quite variable, and reliable, professional assistance for the confused and lost is lacking". I have been keenly observing in past few years the emergence of a trend to organize the Internet (WEB) resources so that these are useful to the potential users. Yahoo was probably the first popular tool to hand pick and organize information resources into categories. Then came the voluntary efforts to create an Open Directory (Open Directory Project). Yet another landmark I consider is the emergence of social tagging platforms like Del.icio.us for bookmaking and Flickr to share Photos. Interestingly Nature Publishing Group produced Open Source Software – Connotea and a free site to "help researchers and clinicians manage and share information". It handles academic references far better than Del.icio.us. Now only days back Goggle launched Google Co-op. Here you can categorize the URLs in way you know better and people can subscribe to your categorization. This means that now you as a librarian can categorize and organization the web resources in a manner that could be useful for your patrons!! Well it is expected that they subscribe to your categories while searching. And this has started happening - Just noted that [US] National Library of Medicine is a major contributor. So Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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on plagiarism
by nrusingh dash 11 May '06

11 May '06

Here is a wonderful mathematician's song about plagiarism by Tom Lehrer ---------------------------- Tom Lehrer on Plagiarism Who made me the genius I am today, The mathematician that others all quote? Who's the professor that made me that way, The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat? One man deserves the credit, One man deserves the blame, and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please, "research". And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same, And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It was on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold. Bozhe moi! This I know from nothing.2 But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha! I have a friend in Minsk, Who has a friend in Pinsk, Whose friend in Omsk Has friend in Tomsk With friend in Akmolinsk. His friend in Alexandrovsk Has friend in Petropavlovsk, Whose friend somehow Is solving now The problem in Dnepropetrovsk. And when his work is done - Haha! - begins the fun. >From Dnepropetrovsk To Petropavlovsk, By way of Iliysk, And Novorossiysk, To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk To Tomsk to Omsk To Pinsk to Minsk To me the news will run, Yes, to me the news will run! And then I write By morning, night, And afternoon, And pretty soon My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, When he finds out I published first! And who made me a big success And brought me wealth and fame? Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache... I am never forget the day my first book is published. Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory. This book, this book was sensational!3 Pravda - ah, Pravda - Pravda said: "Zhil byl korol' kogda-to, Pri njom blokha zhila" ("It stinks"). 4 But Izvestia! Izvestia said: "Ya idu kuda sam tzar' peshkom hodil" ("It stinks"). 5 Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubles, Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle', With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse.6 And who deserves the credit? And who deserves the blame? Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy! ------------------------------- Did you enjoy reading this ? lots more can be read just visit the site http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/revisited.html N K Dash Librarian Silicon Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Orissa __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Usefulness and usability of web based systems
by Imma Subirats 10 May '06

10 May '06

Dears, You are kindly invited to participate to an online questionnaire that aims to investigate the usefulness and usability of web based systems. The online questionnaire serves research aims of the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece. More specific it aims to gather data (opinions) for the evaluation of web based information systems (in this case of e-print archive E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science<http://eprints.rclis.org/>) through the aspects of usefulness and usability. You can access the questionnaire at:<http://www.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr/survey_en/> Please fill in the questionnaire by responding to several statements and provide your rate of agreement. The scale employed runs from one (1) to five (5), directed from negative to positive. The conductors of this research guarantee the safekeeping and anonymity of the gathered data. For any enquiries, please contact us through mail either at john(a)lis.upatras.gr or at gtsak(a)ionio.gr. Thank you very much for your interest and your participation. Giannis Tsakonas - - - - - - - - - - - Giannis Tsakonas E-LIS editor for Greece mail: john(a)lis.upatras.gr National E-LIS website: http://elisdocs.rclis.org/greek/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Imma Subirats Coordinator E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/ URL: http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ E-mail: imma.subirats(a)gmail.com

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