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by PRASHANTA KUMAR 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Dear Sir/Madam I will be thank full to you if anybody help me to get the blow mentioned article , & kindly consider it as an urgent message. Author : Singh D & Ahuja PS Title: 5S rDNA gene diversity in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) and its use for variety identification. Journal Details- "Genome", Vol.- 49, No- 1, year . 2006 Page- 91-96 Publisher- NRC Research Press, Canada Thanking You Thanks & Regards, PRASHANTA **************** IHBT, (CSIR), Govt. of India Library, Palampur, HP, Pin- 176061 Mobile- +91 94 18 18 44 21 --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear Sir/Madam I will be thank full to you if anybody help me to get the blow mentioned article , & kindly consider it as an urgent message. Author : Singh D & Ahuja PS Title: 5S rDNA gene diversity in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) and its use for variety identification. Journal Details- "Genome", Vol.- 49, No- 1, year . 2006 Page- 91-96 Publisher- NRC Research Press , Canada Thanking You Thanks & Regards, PRASHANTA **************** IHBT, (CSIR), Govt. of India Library, Palampur, HP, Pin- 176061 Mobile- +91 94 18 18 44 21 Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Rajasthan enacts Library Legislation Act
by D Jotwani 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Dear All You will be pleased to know that the Rajasthan Assembly passed Public Libraries Act 2006 last week. The news was covered bery briefly by local press which I could see during my visit to Udaipur. All the members of Rajasthan Library Association and other professionals who worked hard for this purpose deserve our appreciation and congratulations for the job well done. Regards. -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227

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First Author: a resource for scientists for publishing scientific research
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Friends, Just came to know about a site called First Author < http://www.firstauthor.org/index.html > . It is a resource for scientists dedicated to innovations in, and debates surrounding, publishing scientific research. It reports news from top journals, publishers, and funding and research bodies. New technologies for referencing, producing, and archiving scientific papers are reviewed here. Long-term debates in scientific writing such as peer review, impact factors, open access publishing, and intellectual property are also discussed. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Caseplace.org
by vimal kumar 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Dear Professional, CasePlace.org is a free service of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program. CasePlace offers a wide range of business education materials in social impact management, sustainability and business ethics. The site contains cases and teaching notes, teaching modules, journal articles, course syllabi, books, conference announcements, current events and more. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Dear Professional, CasePlace.org is a free service of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program. CasePlace offers a wide range of business education materials in social impact management, sustainability and business ethics. The site contains cases and teaching notes, teaching modules, journal articles, course syllabi, books, conference announcements, current events and more. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman2/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal
by sandeep bhavsar 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Trials http://www.trialsjournal.com/ Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that will encompass all aspects of the performance and findings of randomized controlled trials. Trials will experiment with, and then refine, innovative approaches to improving communication about trials. They are keen to move beyond publishing traditional trial results articles (although these will be included). They believe this represents an exciting opportunity to advance the science and reporting of trials. Prior to 2006, Trials was published as Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine (CCTCVM). All published CCTCVM articles are available via the Trials website and citations to CCTCVM article URLs will continue to be supported. The impact factor shown relates to articles published in CCTCVM during 2003-4. Making all its content open access and not retaining copyright, Trials offers a way to make data both freely available and highly visible to trialists worldwide; this will benefit the impact of your publication among peers and society. The journal has unrestricted space and takes advantage of all the technical possibilities available for electronic publishing. To date, journals have focused on reporting the results of trials, with very little coverage of why and how they are conducted. Reports of trials have been restricted both by authors and editors - both parties often select only a subset of the outcomes measured, while the latter often impose word limits on the articles published making it difficult to communicate the lessons learnt from conducting the trial, let alone include adequate details of how the trial was conducted. The Internet offers both unlimited space and interactivity, and they are keen to harness these attributes. For instance, trialists will be able to provide the detail required to be a true scientific record and do more to make the article's message comprehensible to a variety of reader groups. They will also be able to communicate not only all outcome measures, as well as varying analyses and interpretations, but also in-depth descriptions of what they did and what they learnt. This sharing of direct experience is fundamental to improving the quality and conduct of trials worldwide. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research & Management Studies Thane (w) 400601 ------------------------------------------------------ Phone (Off) 25364492 25446554 Mobile 9870484626 email sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Website www.vpmthane.org ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail Trials http://www.trialsjournal.com/ http://www.trialsjournal.com/ Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that will encompass all aspects of the performance and findings of randomized controlled trials. Trials will experiment with, and then refine, innovative approaches to improving communication about trials. They are keen to move beyond publishing traditional trial results articles (although these will be included). They believe this represents an exciting opportunity to advance the science and reporting of trials. Prior to 2006, Trials was published as Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine (CCTCVM). All published CCTCVM articles are available via the Trials website and citations to CCTCVM article URLs will continue to be supported. The impact factor shown relates to articles published in CCTCVM during 2003-4. Making all its content open access and not retaining copyright, Trials offers a way to make data both freely available and highly visible to trialists worldwide; this will benefit the impact of your publication among peers and society. The journal has unrestricted space and takes advantage of all the technical possibilities available for electronic publishing. To date, journals have focused on reporting the results of trials, with very little coverage of why and how they are conducted. Reports of trials have been restricted both by authors and editors - both parties often select only a subset of the outcomes measured, while the latter often impose word limits on the articles published making it difficult to communicate the lessons learnt from conducting the trial, let alone include adequate details of how the trial was conducted. The Internet offers both unlimited space and interactivity, and they are keen to harness these attributes. For instance, trialists will be able to provide the detail required to be a true scientific record and do more to make the article's message comprehensible to a variety of reader groups. They will also be able to communicate not only all outcome measures, as well as varying analyses and interpretations, but also in-depth descriptions of what they did and what they learnt. This sharing of direct experience is fundamental to improving the quality and conduct of trials worldwide. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research & Management Studies Thane (w) 400601 ------------------------------------------------------ Phone (Off) 25364492 25446554 Mobile 9870484626 email mailto:sandeep@vpmthane.org sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Website http://www.vpmthane.org/ www.vpmthane.org ----------------------------------------------------- http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! 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Microsoft Academic Search
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Friends: "The scholarly organizations that have signed up to work with Microsoft on the new search tool [Microsoft Academic Search] include societies like the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics. Also cooperating are major publishers -- such as the Taylor & Francis Group, Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier, the Nature Publishing Group, and John Wiley & Sons -- and library organizations, including the British Library and OCLC Online Computer Library Center...." Major Indian publishers of research journals should sign up with Microsoft witout any delay. Especially those who publish open access journals (IASc, INSA, MedKnow, IISc, ICMR, Calcut Medical College, etc.). Being Indexed by Microsoft's new service and Google Scholar will give much greater visibility (and citability) to our journals. This is true especially for those journals which are not indexed by the Web of Science. Currently Microsoft Academic Search concentrates on computer science, electrical engineering and physics and it has indexed several million articles already. But soon the service will expand and cover other subjects. As it is competing with Google Scholar, and as both services are free of cost, it will be good for researchers. I am sure subscription-based abstracting and indexing services will start providing several free services very soon, just to be able to remain in business! Subbiah Arunachalam

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Librarians are insensitive to readers' owes.
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Dear Friends Please read the following article. Why are some us - librarians - so very irresponsible and insenstive? Can something be do to sensitize librarians to be more service oriented? Vyasamoorthy, P ================== What are your bonafides? The Hindu Sunday 9th April 2006 Magazine section RANJIT LAL SOME weeks back, while trying to do some research for a book I was working on, I went to the library of the National Museum in New Delhi. The first thing I am shown is a notice that said something to the effect that only scholars and suchlike heavies were allowed to use the library. I decided to wait for the librarian and when she arrived, told her what my area of interest was, and if she could help. She looked me up and down and said, `But what are your bonefides?' Excuse me? The very fact that I was in that library asking for assistance on a particular subject would in any civilised country (and especially one with 5,000 years of erudite civilisation backing it up) and library, be considered more than enough for assistance to be forthcoming. "What do you mean?" I asked, struggling to come to terms with this monumental insult and inadequately indicating my notebook. "You can see I have a notebook and pen... " (just in case she had mistook it for a petrol can and lighter). She was after bigger things, Ph.Ds, M.Phils, letters of recommendation from Vice-chancellors, stuff like that. I see absolutely no reason why a citizen of this country (democracy, democracy, democracy, remember?) pursuing a subject of his or her interest needs a degree in order to use a library to do so. I told her that I was a member of the Teen Murti library and British Council... "Ah, but you pay there... Sorry." Never bothering to pause and think that if I'm ready to pay to be a member of a library I must genuinely be interested in the books and not in how comfortable the chairs are for a catnap. Anyway big deal — if they had any sense they would also charge people for daily use to ensure that they didn't use the place to catnap in or any such anti-national thing. But make the place available to those who want to use it — otherwise you are failing in your mandate and might as well shut down. I normally lose my temper once in about 10 years, and didn't want to use up my decade's quota there, so I walked out quickly. But it is precisely this attitude that has strangled us as a nation and people. What the hell was that librarian so afraid of? That I might acquire some deadly knowledge in that library by which I would become dictator of the world, and she would lose her job? God knows she was probably only doing what was in her brief but this stinks and how. If you are so afraid that people will misuse something that you prevent them from using it at all what is the justification for your existence in the first place? And why do I need any academic degree to prop me up? If they doubt my veracity (and why must I prove that anyway?) all they needed to do is to ask a few questions about exactly what I was interested in and looking for. (And would I have been in that museum and library in the first place if I had not been interested?) This whole attitude is based on the assumption that your motives are suspect and malafide — that you are up to no good — and must have "verification" or "authentication" and soon possibly beatification to certify that you are not (in this case) a book ripper or library napper or something as reprehensible. Which, no government really has any right to assume of its citizens. And to blankly deny access to knowledge in a library — in my book that is cardinal sin — and any society that goes in for that sort of thing is plunging hotfoot down the drain. Or was it just a manifestation of petty power? You know, that colonial hangover thing? Where the answer to every question or request is and must always be an unequivocal "no". You cannot do this, you cannot go there, you cannot see this, you cannot, cannot, cannot! Not because anything earth-shattering will happen if you do, but because it gives the pipsqueak given the authority to say no, the kicks which are the perks of his or her job. They tend to forget that we pay their salaries and overtimes and D.As and for their endless cups of tea. So what's my next course of action then if I still decide that I need the research and to look at that library? Well, the obvious one. Pull wires. Which, in a sense defeats the whole purpose because then I might as well have a Ph.D. Perhaps I should just tag one on after my name anyway... Make that a double! -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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GreenstoneWiki
by Sharad Jadhav 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Dear All, GreenstoneWiki (Greenstone Digital Library Software) is now available at http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GreenstoneWiki which comprises following information Greenstone FAQ Tutorial exercises Example collections Manuals Other documentation User contributed documentation Greenstone workshops Regards, Sharad Jadhav ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Insurance Academy 25,Balewadi, Baner Road, NIA PO, Pune 411 045 India http://www.niapune.com Email: sharad(a)niapune.com sharad7703(a)yahoo.co.in Phones: +91 20 27204066(D), 27204000/4444(Board) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear All, GreenstoneWiki (Greenstone Digital Library Software) is now available at http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GreenstoneWiki http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GreenstoneWiki which comprises following information Greenstone FAQ Tutorial exercises Example collections Manuals Other documentation User contributed documentation Greenstone workshops Regards, Sharad Jadhav ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Insurance Academy 25,Balewadi, Baner Road, NIA PO, Pune 411 045 India http://www.niapune.com/ http://www.niapune.com Email: mailto:sharad@niapune.com sharad(a)niapune.com mailto:sharad7703@yahoo.co.in sharad7703(a)yahoo.co.in Phones: +91 20 27204066(D), 27204000/4444(Board) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Openomy
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Date: 10 Apr 2006 10:07:22 -0000 From: moumita dey <deymoumita_78(a)rediffmail.com> Openomy is useful for storing information online.But pls tell us about its privacy/ security? regards Moumita Dey

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Indian universities should make their course ware open
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Friends: The Open University in the UK is going to make available its course materials free on the Net. The vice chancellors of open universities in India may consider following this model. If we really want to usher in the knowledge revolution in India, we should think of such out-of-the-box solutions. The Open Course ware project of MIT and several other American, Chinese and Japanese universities are already very popular. The Internet and the Web have made it possible to do many things which we could not have done in the past. We should take advantage of the new technologies to the maximum extent possible. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------------------ Open University to bring course content online 06 April 2006 The Open University will become the first institution in the UK to offer free course materials online to students and the wider public later this year. The university will select educational resources from all levels from access to postgraduate study and from a full range of subject themes, including arts and history, business and management, languages and science and nature. The material will be free to teachers and students studying in the UK and abroad, with the project following a long partnership with the BBC, which broadcasts the university's television programs. The material will not only be course or subject specific and students will also be able to access a range of study skills material to improve their research. In 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made nearly all of its course materials- including lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments- available online for free. The US institution now has material for 1250 of its courses online and expects to have all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses on the web by next year. The university plans to provide both educational material and a range of learning support, with one site aimed for learners, where material with suggested learning pathways will be offered. The second site will be mainly for course creators to encourage the sharing and re-use of materials. The Open University has more than 210,000 students studying courses this year, with around 40,000 studying outside the UK. The online project will start in October. Source: The Guardian Friends: The Open University in the UK is going to make available its course materials free on the Net. The vice chancellors of open universities in India may consider following this model. If we really want to usher in the knowledge revolution in India, we should think of such out-of-the-box solutions. The Open Course ware project of MIT and several other American, Chinese and Japanese universities are already very popular. The Internet and the Web have made it possible to do many things which we could not have done in the past. We should take advantage of the new technologies to the maximum extent possible. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------------------ Open University to bring course content online 06 April 2006 The Open University will become the first institution in the UK to offer free course materials online to students and the wider public later this year. The university will select educational resources from all levels from access to postgraduate study and from a full range of subject themes, including arts and history, business and management, languages and science and nature. The material will be free to teachers and students studying in the UK and abroad, with the project following a long partnership with the BBC, which broadcasts the university's television programs. The material will not only be course or subject specific and students will also be able to access a range of study skills material to improve their research. In 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made nearly all of its course materials- including lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments- available online for free. The US institution now has material for 1250 of its courses online and expects to have all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses on the web by next year. The university plans to provide both educational material and a range of learning support, with one site aimed for learners, where material with suggested learning pathways will be offered. The second site will be mainly for course creators to encourage the sharing and re-use of materials. The Open University has more than 210,000 students studying courses this year, with around 40,000 studying outside the UK. The online project will start in October. Source: http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1728283,00.htm The Guardian

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