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RE: [LIS-Forum] A Web Library of Research Output
by Aman Jha 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Dear all I wrote my views (given below) in the latest issue (18 February 2006) of Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) vide a commentary titled 'A Web Library of Research Output' dated 28 January 2006. You may find it useful. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org EPW Letters --------------------- February 18, 2006 Web Library I am writing with reference to the article on a web library (January 28, 2006). One thing is certain that even in the age of Google, information is scattered and it is very difficult for researchers to track all work done on a particular topic through the various interfaces available in the country. This situation continues not only in India but in developed countries as well. Information professionals are working on digital libraries and open archive concepts worldwide. Hopefully this initiative will sort out many such problems. I agree that there is an urgent need for making all publicly funded research reports available for free online access. It is equally important for other private funded research reports to be made available, at least for reference work. This is very much essential for healthy research to continue in the country. V Srinivasan's initiative for hosting a web library may be a good platform for information seekers. However, there are already many web/internet libraries available on the net in the public domain. They have failed to integrate all the digital information available internationally. Recently, the government of India came out with a plan to create a national digital library. Let us hope that this proposal will fructify. Aman Kumar Jha Gurgaon Source: http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2006&leaf=02&filename=9699&file… -----Original Message----- From: Library [mailto:library@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2006 9:56 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] A Web Library of Research Output EPW Commentary January 28, 2006 A Web Library of Research Output Data gathered and analysis carried out using public funds should be in the public domain, their dissemination is in the public interest. Here are some initial ideas about setting up a web library that ensures open access to publicly-funded social research output. V Srinivasan A large amount of social science research is carried out in the country, much of it with government, bilateral or multilateral funding, that is, public funding. Such research usually results in the production of reports, many of which contain useful data, analyses, ideas, and recommendations. But only a small portion of this output feeds into policy-making or public debate; the bulk of it is hardly circulated. Indeed, most of it is treated as virtually secret, inaccessible to the public in whose name it is carried out. Unfortunately, it is not an accepted view that data gathered and analysis carried out using public funds are a part of the public domain, and that their dis- semination is in the public interest. A scan of the websites of various government bodies illustrates this well. The ministry of social justice and empowerment and the ministry of rural development list some research reports on their sites but do not provide access to the listed reports or supporting studies. The reports of the National Sample Survey Organisation or the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, to name just two important bodies, are not available via the internet. The government has commissioned 20 studies or reports on child labour but only two or three are available on the internet. The result is that a great deal of research work is duplicated, since there is no access to previous research in the same area. Today, even if the authors of these reports wished to disseminate them widely, they lack an effective mechanism for doing so. To address this problem, the innovation centre of a Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation, Society for Service to Voluntary Agencies (SOSVA), has proposed a strikingly simple solution: the creation of an internet library housing all economic, social and political studies and reports prepared with government, bilateral or multilateral aid. Such access to previous research would prevent duplication of research work in the same area and check plagiarism. The quality of research would be improved by public scrutiny. Discussion on the themes covered could also be advanced considerably. Finally, the disseminated work could feed into policy-making or public debate. SOSVA proposes that electronic copies of any study, report or document prepared using government or international funds be submitted to the web library. This proposal is along the lines of the practice followed in the US whereby a copy of any book published in the country must be deposited with the Library of Congress to receive a Library of Congress Control Number. Unless this is done, no public grant, foreign or Indian, would be deemed utilised; indeed, the comptroller and auditor general or other appropriate agency would report that the funds are deemed unutilised. Steps need to be taken to make this legally binding and administratively effective. These studies would then be posted on the web library, which would have a standard classification system and easy search tools. The advantages of such a library are the advantages of the internet: At no cost, a huge wealth of information would be available to the public. Moreover, users would not need to know of the existence of particular reports or other materials in advance; they could discover them while browsing through the library, as it were. Not only would duplication of labour be avoided, and the quality of research improved by subjecting it to public scrutiny, but the quality of debate on questions of public interest could be enhanced. That, in turn, ought to spur genuine development. The same library could also host many documents that are available today but only as hard copies, that is, in printed form, and therefore in effect accessible only to a few. The idea could be developed further and the web library need not be restricted to work undertaken by government and donor agencies. For example, the web library could include doctoral theses, documents of international non-governmental organisations, and so on. Linkages can be provided to other electronic libraries as well, to constitute a core bibliography to be available on the websites. This idea could be extended further. The web library need not be restricted to work undertaken by government and donor agencies. For example, the documents of international non-governmental organisations or agencies could be put up on this site. Links could be provided to other electronic libraries to constitute a core bibliography available on the internet. Certain technical and legal issues involved in setting up such a site may need examination. Some reports (or portions of them) may need to be withheld on grounds of "national security"; others because they reveal confidential or copyright materials. However, these questions appear fairly easy to resolve. The costs involved for setting up the web library, either as a fully owned portal facility co-hosted in a data centre or as portal hosted in a private hosting service provider, are negligible (a few lakhs of rupees) compared to the public funds spent on such research. The potential social benefits of such a web library are huge. In a sense, it could be argued that providing such access is a legitimate extension of the current efforts under the Freedom of Information Act. Although the thrust of the act is towards transparency in decision-making by government, the fundamental principle of the act, that government must throw its books open, applies as much as to information dissemination and development benefits as to decision-making. Email: sosva(a)hotmail.com http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2006&leaf=01&filename=9634&file… Sincerely B. Murugan Library Services M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation 3rd Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 Phone: 22541229 / 22542698; Extn: 208/209 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Request for article - Reg
by sushmita das 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Respected Sir, This is in response to your requirement.THe Union atalogue of Biomedical Serials of India (WWW.uncat.nic.in)gives a listing of all the biomedical journals available in Indian Medical Libraries. The required journal is available in a number of cities which you can check up with the catalogue like NIPER,POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES , chennai, CDRI, lucknow, etc.You can mail the concerned librarian also to send the copy to you. Regards Sushmita NIC, New Delhi On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Avinashilingam University wrote : >Dear All, > I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. >Thanking you >A.Dhanalakshmi, >Research scholar, >Avinashilingam Deemed University, >Coimbatore. >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… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Respected Sir, This is in response to your requirement.THe Union atalogue of Biomedical Serials of India (WWW.uncat.nic.in)gives a listing of all the biomedical journals available in Indian Medical Libraries. The required journal is available in a number of cities which you can check up with the catalogue like NIPER,POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES , chennai, CDRI, lucknow, etc.You can mail the concerned librarian also to send the copy to you. Regards Sushmita NIC, New Delhi On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Avinashilingam University wrote : >Dear All, > I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. >Thanking you >A.Dhanalakshmi, >Research scholar, >Avinashilingam Deemed University, >Coimbatore. >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… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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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query regarding publication
by Mailing List Manager 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:19:15 +0000 (GMT) From: mangesh talmale <elibmangesh(a)yahoo.co.in> DEAR PROFESSIONAL , could u please send the information regarding query: 1. what is the difference between scholarly publication journal and peer review journal. best regards mangesh talmale pune

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When will the term "Key Words" be replaced by "tags"?
by Sukhdev Singh 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Friends, We know how Meta-data has replaced the term "Indexing" and"Cataloguing" in the last decade. Now it is turn of "Key Words" to bereplaced by a term called "tagging". The only difference in these twoterms is that "Key Words" are picked up from some standard vocabularylike MeSH by professionals; "tagging" is done by end users to bookmarkand categorize an internet resource without any rules or vocabulary.The intention is to retrieve the "tagged" resource in future. Butthere is a Method in this Madness of tagging. The user indirectlyregisters a "vote" in favor of the resource being tagged. Such voteswhen collected on a service provider end can be used to indicaterelative popularity of various resources. Del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us > is one of such service. This collective behavioris known "collaborative tagging". Macgregor, George and McCulloch, Emma in their pre-print <http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005703/ > [accepted forpublication] has suggested that Librarians and informationprofessional researchers should take a leading role in research aimedat assessing the efficacy of collaborative tagging in relation toinformation storage, organization, and retrieval, and to influence thefuture development of collaborative tagging systems. I myself am a regular user of Del.icio.us < http://del.icio.us >. Ican keep links to my favorite articles; blogs; sites etc and canaccess them and access them from any computer on the web. I can sharethem easily by just by giving its URL < http://del.icio.us/sukhi >.Moreover I can check up who else have tagged a particular resource ofmy interest. Exploring further I can find out from other's tags whatall other resources could be of my interest. Does not this soundsimilar to "Pearl Growing" in Science Citation Index? Suchcollaborative tagging site also presents what is known as "Tag Cloud"showing relative importance of tags in terms size and colour of fonts. So when will the term "Key Words" be replaced by "tags"? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Digital Library of India
by Aman Jha 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear all Recently, I visited a website of the Digital Library of India [http://www.dli.ernet.in/] It is a million book project - a collaborative effort between Indian Institute of Science and Carnegie Melon University with partners from Government, Academia and Religious Institutions. 54000 books have already been scanned and 29000 books are available for online access. It is one of the biggest digital library initiatives in India. The objective of this project is clearly mentioned in its mission statement given below: "The mission is to create a portal for the Digital Library of India which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. This portal will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to socioeconomic background or nationality." Hope this initiative proves to be a wonderful digital resource centre for all of us. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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Request for article - Reg
by Avinashilingam University 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. Thanking you A.Dhanalakshmi, Research scholar, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore. Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. Thanking you A.Dhanalakshmi, Research scholar, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore. 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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E - Literacy campaign in Kerala
by Saji S. Nair 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear all, 'Akshaya',the ambitious project of Government of Kerala has so far made around 5.8 lakh people e-literate. The project, that was launched in Malappuram District, one of the northern districts in Keala is currently moving ahead in Kasargod, Kannur, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Kollam and Pathanmthitta. It will also extend to the remaining six districts so as make Kerala, the first e-literate state in India by the year 2007. see the interesting news stuff at 1.Cyber-savvy at 106: an evergreen saga in Kerala http://www.thehindu.com/2006/02/23/stories/2006022303811300.htm 2.Star looks the part for Akshaya http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/26/stories/2006022607910400.htm Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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JISC guidance on open source software to all colleges and universities
by vimal kumar 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear Readers, JISC issued a briefing paper to all colleges and universities in the UK to raise awareness of the issue of open source software. Further reading http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=oss_bp Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. JISC issued a briefing paper to all colleges and universities in the UK to raise awareness of the issue of open source software. Further reading http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=oss_bp Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Will "Google Scholar" beat the "Web of Science" in future ?
by Sukhdev Singh 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Friends, Just revised Google Scholar < http://scholar.google.com > last week. Noticed that it has improved a lot. Just searched for "OpenMED@NIC" <http://snipurl.com/mz7n > It gave 925 hits. Not bad considering thatOpenMED@NIC < http://openmed.nic.in > has around 1015 documents. Whatfacinated me was that it presented link "Cited by" along with thehits. Clicking those showed all the articles citing an article inquestion in OpenMED@NIC. No wonder Dean Giustini of Biomedical Branch Library, VancouverHospital & Health Sciences Centre, writes in his blog an item - GoogleScholar Rivals Web of Science <http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/archives/023377.html >comparing Web of Science with Google Scholar. He refers to an articleby Daniel Pauly and Konstantinos I. Stergiou entitled "Equivalence ofresults from two citation analyses: Thomson ISI's Citation Index andGoogle's Scholar service. ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTALPOLITICS, 2005:33–35 Published December 22 <http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2005/E65.pdf >. "Citation counts were performed across a wide range of disciplinesusing both the Thomson ISI files and Google Scholar, and shown to leadto essentially the same results, in spite of their different methodsfor identifying citing sources. This has strong implications forfuture citation analyses, and the many promotion, tenure and fundingdecisions based thereon, notably because ISI products are rathercostly, while Google Scholar is free." However one thing irritates me - it shows the following text in hitsof OpenMED@NIC."@import url(http://openmed.nic.in/eprints.css"Google could have done better to render the CSS better from the Eprintbased repository. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Need information regardin CD Servers.
by Shraddha Lapasiya 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello All, We at Information Resource Centre at Accenture Services are exploring the availability of differed models of CD Servers in market and seeking your support in sharing us the latest advances in CD Server technology and also the benefits of the same in the current IT scenario. Most of the corporate world today uses the shared folder access against going for a dedicated CD Server and we need to justify why CD Servers are better option than the Shared folder access? Also share us the details of the models available with vendor information so that we can start reaching out the vendors and initiate the evaluation process. Many thanks for your time and effort. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Hello All, We at Information Resource Centre at Accenture Services are exploring the availability of differed models of CD Servers in market and seeking your support in sharing us the latest advances in CD Server technology and also the benefits of the same in the current IT scenario. Most of the corporate world today uses the shared folder access against going for a dedicated CD Server and we need to justify why CD Servers are better option than the Shared folder access? Also share us the details of the models available with vendor information so that we can start reaching out the vendors and initiate the evaluation process. Many thanks for your time and effort. Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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