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Fw: [BOAI] Functioning IRs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

[Forwarding from the AmSci OA Forum. --Peter Suber] Posted on behalf of Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop Regarding comments to the list on the costs of setting up and maintaining an Institutional Repository (IR), we agree that figures are being publicised about the costs without distinguishing whether these are solely for the institute's published research output or for a high-cost Institute-wide or Campus-wide resource for all purposes. So when issuing cost statements it is critical to explain precisely what is being set up, otherwise figures are meaningless. Because of these confusions, we are concerned that the very high figures quoted can deter smaller institutions and developing countries from setting up open access archives. To off-set such concerns, we know that over 70 repositories for research publications have already been set up in the developing world and we have evidence of the low costs associated with these. Only yesterday a colleague from India responded to a question we asked, saying '....organisations can do with a server just costing about 40 K (rupees) and use a broad band connectivity. This connectivity has become very cheap recently due the launch of Broadband Services by BSNL/MTNL/Private Cos. Running the server is also not a problem for us. We are already paid for other work. It just takes fraction of our time to maintain the server and handle the approval of uploaded articles. In the same manner, Indian Universities / Research Institutes already have infrastructure in form of libraries and librarians....' And we have had other similar reports from developing country organisations. Cost should not be used as an argument to dissuade organisations from setting up an eprints server. As Arthur says, costs are trivial compared with the overall institutional budgets and can generally be absorbed. If further examples of costs are to be reported, the purpose of the repository and the overall research budget of the institution should be stated at the same time. Leslie Chan, Subbiah Arunachalam, Barbara Kirsop Electronic Publishing Trust for Development [Forwarding from the AmSci OA Forum. --Peter Suber] Posted on behalf of Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop Regarding comments to the list on the costs of setting up and maintaining an Institutional Repository (IR), we agree that figures are being publicised about the costs without distinguishing whether these are solely for the institute's published research output or for a high-cost Institute-wide or Campus-wide resource for all purposes. So when issuing cost statements it is critical to explain precisely what is being set up, otherwise figures are meaningless. Because of these confusions, we are concerned that the very high figures quoted can deter smaller institutions and developing countries from setting up open access archives. To off-set such concerns, we know that over 70 repositories for research publications have already been set up in the developing world and we have evidence of the low costs associated with these. Only yesterday a colleague from India responded to a question we asked, saying '....organisations can do with a server just costing about 40 K (rupees) and use a broad band connectivity. This connectivity has become very cheap recently due the launch of Broadband Services by BSNL/MTNL/Private Cos. Running the server is also not a problem for us. We are already paid for other work. It just takes fraction of our time to maintain the server and handle the approval of uploaded articles. In the same manner, Indian Universities / Research Institutes already have infrastructure in form of libraries and librarians....' And we have had other similar reports from developing country organisations. Cost should not be used as an argument to dissuade organisations from setting up an eprints server. As Arthur says, costs are trivial compared with the overall institutional budgets and can generally be absorbed. If further examples of costs are to be reported, the purpose of the repository and the overall research budget of the institution should be stated at the same time. Leslie Chan, Subbiah Arunachalam, Barbara Kirsop Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

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Free Live Presentation of LiBSUITE RFID system.
by Pranaykumar Dhiwar 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Dear All, We Cordially Invite you for a Free Live Demonstration of LiBSUITE RFID at Hotel Ashraya International, SHANGHALA HALL, 149, Bhagvan Mahaveer Road (Infantry Road) Diagonally Opp to Police Commissioners Office, Bangalore 560 001. On Friday 16th December 2005 Between 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Any One Hour which you find comfortable ) Requested to Give us a Call on Soft-AID Computers (P) Ltd. 080- 23464717 / 23444860 or 9844278564 (Vanishree) and confirm what time is suitable for you to attend. Thanks & Regards, Pranaykumar Dear All, We Cordially Invite you for a Free Live Demonstration of LiBSUITE RFID at Hotel Ashraya International, SHANGHALA HALL, 149, Bhagvan Mahaveer Road (Infantry Road) Diagonally Opp to Police Commissioners Office, Bangalore 560 001. On Friday 16th December 2005 Between 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Any One Hour which you find comfortable ) Requested to Give us a Call on Soft-AID Computers (P) Ltd. 080- 23464717 / 23444860 or 9844278564 (Vanishree) and confirm what time is suitable for you to attend. Thanks & Regards, Pranaykumar

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Interesting book available- free full text Online
by pradip umdale 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Dear Members An interesting book available- free full text Online - "Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: on Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering." http://books.nap.edu/openbook/0309063639/html/index.html Regards Pradipkumar Pradeepkumar M Umdale Proj Ass. National Chemical Laboratory Information Division/ Library Pashan Rd., Pune- 411 008 Ph.No.91-20-25902031/25902038 (Direct) --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear Members An interesting book available- free full text Online - "Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: on Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering." http://books.nap.edu/openbook/0309063639/html/index.html http://books.nap.edu/openbook/0309063639/html/index.html Regards Pradipkumar Pradeepkumar M Umdale Proj Ass. National Chemical Laboratory Information Division/ Library Pashan Rd., Pune- 411 008 Ph.No.91-20-25902031/25902038 (Direct) http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your partner now.

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Why is open access important for higher education?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Here is an interview, reproduced from Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Arun --- Interview with Ray English on OA Michael Roy, Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English, Academic Commons, December 11, 2005. Ray is the Library Director at Oberlin College. Excerpt: Why is open access important for higher education? Open access is one strategy - and actually the most successful strategy so far - for addressing dysfunctions in the system of scholarly communication. That system is in serious trouble. High rates of price increase for scholarly journals (particularly in scientific fields), stagnant library budgets, journal cancellations, declining library monograph acquisitions, university presses in serious economic trouble, and increasing corporate control of journal publishing by a small number of international conglomerates that have grown in size through repeated mergers and acquisitions - those are all symptoms of the problem. Scholars have lost control of a system that was meant to serve their needs; more importantly, they are also losing access to research. Open access has extraordinary potential for overcoming the fundamental problem of access to scholarship. It is a means of reasserting control by the academy over the scholarship that it produces and of making that scholarship openly available to everyone - at anytime and from virtually any place on the globe. Why does open access matter to liberal arts colleges in particular? It is especially important for liberal arts colleges because of the access issue. Liberal arts college libraries have smaller budgets, compared to the research universities. While even the major research libraries cannot afford all of the journals that they need, the lack of access is an even bigger problem in the liberal arts college realm. Faculty at many liberal arts colleges are expected to be active researchers and independent study is also a hallmark of a liberal arts college undergraduate education. So the lack of access to journal literature can be even more problematic in the liberal arts college framework than it is for the research universities.... What's the hottest current issue related to open access? I think it's the issue of taxpayer-funded research. Both in this country and abroad there is increasing interest in making publicly-funded scientific research openly accessible. We saw the beginnings of that with the National Institute of Health policy that was instituted last year and I think we will soon see a broad national debate about the advisability of this for all U.S. government agencies. The United Kingdom is moving toward a comprehensive policy of mandating open access to all government-funded research. What is your role in the open access movement? I have been a member of the steering committee of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) since its inception. SPARC, which is a coalition of academic and research libraries, has been a prominent advocate for open access. I have also played a leading role in the scholarly communications program of the Association of College & Research Libraries. I chaired a task force that recommended the ACRL scholarly communications initiative and I have been chair of the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee since it was established. Being involved with both SPARC and ACRL has put me in the middle of a number of these issues for the past several years. Here is an interview, reproduced from Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Arun --- Interview with Ray English on OA Michael Roy, http://www.academiccommons.org/the-commons/interviews/Ray_English_Open_Acce… Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English , Academic Commons , December 11, 2005. Ray is the Library Director at Oberlin College. Excerpt: Why is open access important for higher education? Open access is one strategy and actually the most successful strategy so far for addressing dysfunctions in the system of scholarly communication. That system is in serious trouble. High rates of price increase for scholarly journals (particularly in scientific fields), stagnant library budgets, journal cancellations, declining library monograph acquisitions, university presses in serious economic trouble, and increasing corporate control of journal publishing by a small number of international conglomerates that have grown in size through repeated mergers and acquisitions those are all symptoms of the problem. Scholars have lost control of a system that was meant to serve their needs; more importantly, they are also losing access to research. Open access has extraordinary potential for overcoming the fundamental problem of access to scholarship. It is a means of reasserting control by the academy over the scholarship that it produces and of making that scholarship openly available to everyone at anytime and from virtually any place on the globe. Why does open access matter to liberal arts colleges in particular? It is especially important for liberal arts colleges because of the access issue. Liberal arts college libraries have smaller budgets, compared to the research universities. While even the major research libraries cannot afford all of the journals that they need, the lack of access is an even bigger problem in the liberal arts college realm. Faculty at many liberal arts colleges are expected to be active researchers and independent study is also a hallmark of a liberal arts college undergraduate education. So the lack of access to journal literature can be even more problematic in the liberal arts college framework than it is for the research universities.... Whats the hottest current issue related to open access? I think its the issue of taxpayer-funded research. Both in this country and abroad there is increasing interest in making publicly-funded scientific research openly accessible. We saw the beginnings of that with the National Institute of Health policy that was instituted last year and I think we will soon see a broad national debate about the advisability of this for all U.S. government agencies. The United Kingdom is moving toward a comprehensive policy of mandating open access to all government-funded research. What is your role in the open access movement? I have been a member of the steering committee of http://www.arl.org/sparc SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) since its inception. SPARC, which is a coalition of academic and research libraries, has been a prominent advocate for open access. I have also played a leading role in the scholarly communications program of the Association of College & Research Libraries. I chaired a task force that recommended the ACRL scholarly communications initiative and I have been chair of the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee since it was established. Being involved with both SPARC and ACRL has put me in the middle of a number of these issues for the past several years.

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Researchers Crack Biometric Security with Play-Doh
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all A Professor at Clarkson University in New York has proved that biometric security systems can be easily "spoofed" with fake fingerprints. Read must at http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Biometrics-Cracked-with-Play-Doh/story.x… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all A Professor at Clarkson University in New York has proved that biometric security systems can be easily "spoofed" with fake fingerprints. Read must at http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Biometrics-Cracked-with-Play-Doh/story.x… http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Biometrics-Cracked-with-Play-Doh/story.x… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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AOL Tests Remote Access Service
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all America Online has begun testing a new service that lets users access their PC remotely from any computer that has a browser and is connected to the Internet. The new service, called LinktoPC, became available on Friday to AOL subscribers interested in trying it out, an AOL spokesperson said Monday. "We haven't offered this type of service before," he said. The technology behind LinktoPC comes from WebEx Communications, a company that specializes in online meetings and Web conferencing. get more at: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123911,00.asp Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all America Online has begun testing a new service that lets users access their PC remotely from any computer that has a browser and is connected to the Internet. The new service, called LinktoPC, became available on Friday to AOL subscribers interested in trying it out, an AOL spokesperson said Monday. "We haven't offered this type of service before," he said. The technology behind LinktoPC comes from WebEx Communications, a company that specializes in online meetings and Web conferencing. get more at: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123911,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123911,00.asp Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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Microsoft, MCI announce PC-to-phone calling partnership
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all SEATTLE Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, and MCI, the telecommunications provider being acquired by Verizon Communications, said they will begin a test run of the service in the United States this week. Broader availability is set for the first half of next year. Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all SEATTLE Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, and MCI, the telecommunications provider being acquired by Verizon Communications, said they will begin a test run of the service in the United States this week. Broader availability is set for the first half of next year. Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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Microsoft is expanding the reach of its mobile e-mail and IM services in India.
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear information Sc. and Library Patrons. The software giant's MSN division and messaging company Mobile 365 announced Tuesday that they've reached deals with five Indian mobile service providers. Under the deals, subscribers will be able to use text messaging on their cell phones to receive and reply to e-mail sent to their Hotmail accounts. They will also be able to use the MSN Messenger service from their phones. read in detail at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear information Sc. and Library Patrons. The software giant's MSN division and messaging company Mobile 365 announced Tuesday that they've reached deals with five Indian mobile service providers. Under the deals, subscribers will be able to use text messaging on their cell phones to receive and reply to e-mail sent to their Hotmail accounts. They will also be able to http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5992141.html?tag=nl use the MSN Messenger service from their phones. read in detail at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5993520.html Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology(Deemed University) A-10 , Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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HarperCollins to create digital warehouse of books
by rahul kumar 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all , NEW YORK U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry is bringing lawsuits against Web search leader Google over its effort to scan copyrighted books in libraries a move the industry fears would set a dangerous copyright precedent. get the detail information from the link below http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sec-62, Noida(UP) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping Dear all , NEW YORK U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry is bringing lawsuits against Web search leader Google over its effort to scan copyrighted books in libraries a move the industry fears would set a dangerous copyright precedent. get the detail information from the link below http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-12-harpercollins-digital-books_x.… Regards Rahul Kumar Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sec-62, Noida(UP) Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;… Yahoo! Shopping

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LIS policy at National level
by Saji S. Nair 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear All, We have a plethora of policies in various disciplines and sub-disciplines at the national level. In our field, the National Policy on Library & Information System (NAPLIS) submitted in 1986 to the Government of India wasn't adopted. Eventhough an LIS policy is not a panacea, it could safeguard our professional interests to a large extent. In this era of Information & Communication Technologies, can we moot another one or restructure the NAPLIS? Bye 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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