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A new OA archive for ICT-enabled development
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Friends: OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi, has set up an Open Access archive for ICT-enabled development: http://open.ekduniya.net We will be grateful if you could visit the site and comment on it. Your suggestions will be of great value. Please send them to Dr B Shadrach, Director, OWSA, at <shaddy.shadrach(a)oneworld.net> with cc to <narendra.deo(a)oneworld.net>. Thanks and regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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OA and DCs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Friends: Please look up http://www.sist-sciencesdev.net/fichiers/Bulletins/Bulletin_200512_en.pdf for an article on OA and the developing countries by Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam. This is a shorter version of an article that appeared a few weeks ago in SciDev.Net. Season's Greetings. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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KALA-Veterans Day
by I.R.N.Goudar 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Dear Professionals ( Please convey this message to all Professionals you know) Karnataka State Library Association plans to hold "LIS Veterans Day" some time during early February, 2006. The purpose is to recognize the contribution of senior and elderly LIS Professionals and to honour them. The occasion will give an opportunity for younger professionals to meet and share the experiences of Veterans. KALA had organised such an event meaningfully on April 5, 1999 when it celebrated its 10th anniversary. This time we will honour all those who retired after April 5, 1999 and also those who retired earlier but KALA missed out in honouring them earlier. Criteria: 1. All Life Members of KALA OR 2. All LIS Professionals from Karnataka, served any where in the world. If you are the one under these categories, please send your biodata along with present address and telephone number. REQUEST TO OTHERS: If any of your friends or colleagues come under the categories mentioned above please send me the details or at least the address and telephone number enabling us to contact the honourable veterans. Please use the address/e-mail given below. I.R.N. Goudar President Karnataka State Library Association -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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[Fwd: OA and OS - Need for convergence]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Friends: Please read this article: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/willinsky/ ---- Please note that there will be a special session on Open Access at the Science Congress [Venue: MANAGE Auditorium, Hyderabad, Date: 6 January 2006, Time: 10.00 - 12.45]. Speakers include: Prof. N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc, B'lore (Chairman) Dr Alma Swan, United Kingdom (Keynote) Dr Abhijit Lahiri, DSIR, New Delhi Dr V Balaji, ICRISAT, H'bad Dr D K Sahu, MedKnow Publications, Bombay Ms Naina Pandita, NIC, New Delhi Dr A R D Prasad, DRTC, ISI, B'lore Coordinator: Subbiah Arunachalam All are welcome. ---- Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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OA and CODATA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Friends: Here are two items from Peter Suber's blog. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] More on GICS Shuichi Iwata, Opening Remarks at the CODATA Session 1 within the Eighth Plenary Session of the World Summit on the Information Society, November 18, 2005. Iwata is the President of CODATA. Excerpt: At the first WSIS meeting in Geneva in December 2003, 175 countries adopted a landmark Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action....Article 10 of the Agenda for Action recognizes the importance of Access to Information and Knowledge, and Article 23 recognizes the important role of e-Science. Many actors and organizations within the scientific community already are engaged in activities that address these issues, in particular the importance of widespread access to scientific data and information. However, there is a growing perception of the need to coordinate and integrate these efforts. With this in mind, CODATA consulted extensively during the past year with the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Council of Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), the Science Commons, UNESCO, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), CERN, and scientists and scholars from around the world. Earlier this week, we held a special event at a WSIS Satellite Event here in Tunis to launch a new initiative to create the Global Information Commons for Science. The Global Information Commons for Science Initiative is a multi-stakeholder undertaking with the following goals: (1) Improved understanding and increased awareness of the societal benefits of easier access to and use of scientific data and information, particularly those resulting from publicly funded research activities; (2) Wider adoption of successful methods and models for providing open availability on a sustainable basis and facilitating reuse of publicly-funded scientific data and information, as well as cooperative sharing of research materials and tools among researchers; and (3) Encouragement and coordination of the efforts of the many stakeholders in the worlds diverse scientific community who are engaged in efforts to devise and implement effective means to achieve these objectives, with particular attention to data and knowledge transfer from haves to not-haves, e.g., next generations, non-experts, developing countries. The Initiative will not duplicate existing efforts . Rather, it will provide a shared global platform to supplement and support members work on existing initiatives. To become a partner, organizations will need to make a commitment to undertake one or more activities that contribute to the stated goals. ------ Will open-source commitment lead to open-access commitment? Seven universities, four corporations, and one foundation announced a breakthrough plan yesterday "to accelerate collaborative research for open source software". From the press release (December 19): Specifically, the companies and universities agreed: [1] That intellectual property arising from selected research collaborations will be made available free of charge for commercial and academic use. [2] To an established set of guidelines that address the rights of the participants and the public. These twelve enterprises believe the principles will accelerate innovation and contribute to open source software research across a breadth of initiatives, thus enabling the development of related industry standards and greater interoperability, while managing intellectual property in a more balanced manner....Pervasive acceptance of the open collaboration principles by other universities and the IT industry, as well as the development of guiding principles for other research agreements remains at the core of the Summit team's continuing agenda. The goal is to shorten the time from the first spark, or idea, to the commencement of research on that idea. Summit participants developing and adopting these principles include the Kauffman Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University (Penn.), Georgia Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (N.Y.), Stanford University (Calif.), University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, The University of Texas at Austin, Cisco, HP, IBM and Intel. Additional collaborators include the National Science Foundation, the Office of U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman and the National Academies' Government University Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR). Comment. This is about open-source software, not open-access to research literature or data. But there are so many principles common to the two that the universities in the OS pact should be ready to adopt similar policies on OA, such as requiring or encouraging their faculty to deposit postprints of their published journal articles in an OA institutional repository. Update. Here's a nice nugget from Steve Lohr's story about the agreement in yesterday's New York Times. "This a great start to addressing the problem," said Peter A. Freeman, assistant director for computer and information science and engineering at the National Science Foundation. "It's a recognition by both sides that for precompetitive research, 'It's the science, stupid.' It's not the intellectual property."

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Very Urgent requirement of an article
by Mailing List Manager 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:27:30 -0800 (PST) From: poornima ma <poornima_ma(a)yahoo.com> Hi All, We are in an urgent requirement of an article - Inserts - megafillers in composite restorations: a literature review. Publisher : Springer Link. Year Of Publication : March 2000. Page 1 - 8 Journal: Clinical Oral Investigation. One of my cousin is doing his research who, requires this article very urgently. I had searched in http://openmed.nic.in where we could access only the abstract of the article. We are interested in having the full text article. Please help us to get this full text article. We are preferebly looking for an online access of the article. We also appriciate the information regarding how to get the information, ways & means.. etc. Please help. Thanks & Regards, Poornima Rao. Librarian TCS-BTS Electronic City - Phase 2. Bangalore.

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Very Urgent requirement of an article
by Mailing List Manager 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:27:30 -0800 (PST) From: poornima ma <poornima_ma(a)yahoo.com> Hi All, We are in an urgent requirement of an article - Inserts - megafillers in composite restorations: a literature review. Publisher : Springer Link. Year Of Publication : March 2000. Page 1 - 8 Journal: Clinical Oral Investigation. One of my cousin is doing his research who, requires this article very urgently. I had searched in http://openmed.nic.in where we could access only the abstract of the article. We are interested in having the full text article. Please help us to get this full text article. We are preferebly looking for an online access of the article. We also appriciate the information regarding how to get the information, ways & means.. etc. Please help. For the detail information pls see the attachment Thanks & Regards, Poornima Rao. Librarian TCS-BTS Electronic City - Phase 2. Bangalore.

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Very Urgent requirement of an article.
by poornima ma 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi All, > We are in an urgent requirement of an article - > Inserts - megafillers in composite restorations: a > literature review. > Publisher : Springer Link. > Year Of Publication : March 2000. Page 1 - 8 > Journal: Clinical Oral Investigation. > > One of my cousin is doing his research who, requires this article very urgently. > > I had searched in http://openmed.nic.in where we could > access only the abstract of the article. > We are interested in having the full text article. > Please help us to get this full text article. > > We are preferebly looking for an online access of the > article. > We also appriciate the information regarding how to > get the information, ways & means.. etc. > > Please help. > For the detail information pls see the attachment > > > Thanks & Regards, > Poornima Rao. > Librarian TCS-BTS Electronic City - Phase 2. Bangalore. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Google's Newsletter for Librarians - 1st Edition
by Mailing List Manager 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:06:10 +0530 From: Satish Munnolli <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> Here is the first edition of Google's Newsletter designed for Librarians. www.google.com/librariannewsletter/1205 Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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EU's commitment to support science in the developing world
by Mailing List Manager 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:35:38 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is another story from SciDevNet dated 19 December on EU's commitment to support science in the developing world. As part of this programme, EU would do well to promote open access archiving both Europe wide and in the developing countries. Arun --- Details of the October meeting are here: http://www.cirad.fr/en/dossier/conf_europe/

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