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OA and the Royal Society
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Friends: Here is a thoughtful letter from Dr Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust. Very well written and what she says makes sense. All of us should write to both the Royal Society and SciDevNet about the great need to adopt open access self-archiving. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- http://www.scidev.net/editorletters/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorletter&i… Royal Society must embrace open archiving Author: Barbara Kirsop Affiliation: Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org Date: 25 November 2005 I am appalled at the recent statement made by the Royal Society regarding access to research publications (see Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society). Apart from misunderstanding the proposals made by the UK research councils, the Royal Society's statement indicates a total lack of understanding of the world's research needs. "A young post-doctoral researcher in mathematics at an Ethiopian university has different needs and different means compared with an established senior research fellow in pharmacology [at] a UK company's laboratory." Just what are these "different needs"? Researchers everywhere need access to the world's research information - those that are less privileged need it most. The advent of open access archiving policies, now widely accepted by visionary academics, solves the problem and greatly strengthens the international scientific community and its ability to solve global problems (think only of bird flu, HIV/AIDS, environmental disasters, climate change). Institutional repositories require the continuance of journals so that author's versions of published, refereed articles can be archived electronically. Indeed, 93 per cent of the 9,000 journals surveyed by the Joint Information Systems Committee (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/) have accepted this, including enlightened science and technology publishers such as Elsevier (see http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html) The aim of such repositories is not the demise of journals, but quite the contrary. It is shameful that one of the most senior scientific bodies misinterprets the present open access situation and dismisses the needs of poorer nations. Thankfully, this is not the case with organisations such as UNESCO, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and its Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the International Federation of Library Associations, France's National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and the French national institutes for health and medical research (INSERM), agricultural research (INRA) and computer science (INRIA), as well as all universities in the Netherlands and Scotland, and many in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and United States. All of these support the concept of institutional repositories for publicly-funded published research. The Royal Society should join with the international scientific community in embracing new technology, which has such huge potential for science and the economies of poorer countries. This is an edited version of comments made to the American Scientist Open Access Forum. Link to SciDev.Net's special feature 'Opening doors with open access' Related SciDev.Net articles: Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society Friends: Here is a thoughtful letter from Dr Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust. Very well written and what she says makes sense. All of us should write to both the Royal Society and SciDevNet about the great need to adopt open access self-archiving. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- http://www.scidev.net/editorletters/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorletter&i… http://www.scidev.net/editorletters/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorletter&i… Royal Society must embrace open archiving http://www.scidev.net/siteimages/spacer.gif Author: Barbara Kirsop Affiliation: Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org http://www.epublishingtrust.org Date: 25 November 2005 I am appalled at the recent statement made by the Royal Society regarding access to research publications (see http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=2498&langua… Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society ). Apart from misunderstanding the proposals made by the UK research councils, the Royal Society's statement indicates a total lack of understanding of the world's research needs. "A young post-doctoral researcher in mathematics at an Ethiopian university has different needs and different means compared with an established senior research fellow in pharmacology [at] a UK company's laboratory." Just what are these "different needs"? Researchers everywhere need access to the world's research information those that are less privileged need it most. The advent of open access archiving policies, now widely accepted by visionary academics, solves the problem and greatly strengthens the international scientific community and its ability to solve global problems (think only of bird flu, HIV/AIDS, environmental disasters, climate change). Institutional repositories require the continuance of journals so that author's versions of published, refereed articles can be archived electronically. Indeed, 93 per cent of the 9,000 journals surveyed by the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) have accepted this, including enlightened science and technology publishers such as Elsevier (see http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html ). The aim of such repositories is not the demise of journals, but quite the contrary. It is shameful that one of the most senior scientific bodies misinterprets the present open access situation and dismisses the needs of poorer nations. Thankfully, this is not the case with organisations such as UNESCO, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and its Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the International Federation of Library Associations, France's National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and the French national institutes for health and medical research (INSERM), agricultural research (INRA) and computer science (INRIA), as well as all universities in the Netherlands and Scotland, and many in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and United States. All of these support the concept of institutional repositories for publicly-funded published research. The Royal Society should join with the international scientific community in embracing new technology, which has such huge potential for science and the economies of poorer countries. This is an edited version of comments made to the http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.… American Scientist Open Access Forum. Link to SciDev.Net's special feature http://www.scidev.net/ms/openaccess/ 'Opening doors with open access' Related SciDev.Net articles: http://www.scidev.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2498&language=1 Open access deemed 'dangerous' by Royal Society

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Websites for sending mail with up to 1 GB attachment file.
by indubhushan 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Dear Member These are sites that enable u to send data up 1 GB that other mail providers do not allow. http://www.yousendit.com/ http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ http://www.dropload.com/ http://www.sendthisfile.com/ http://www.megaupload.com/ Sincerely Yours, ******************************************************* Indu Bhushan Tamrakar Library Centre for Advanced Technology (DAE) Indore MP www.cat.ernet.in ********************************************************

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina
by Jayadev P Hiremath 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Bibliotheca Alexandrina http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx The ancient library at Alexandria was rightfully one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its spirit and commitment to the pursuit of learning is embodied in the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. As their mission statement notes, the library is to be "a center for dialogue between peoples and civilizations". This is no easy feat, and the web-browsing public can learn about their laudable efforts on this website. Visitors may first want to learn about the remarkable structure that houses the library, along with a variety of facts about this building's construction. While visitors who may be planning a visit to Egypt may wish to learn about tours of the building and the ways in which they may utilize their research collections, others may want to peruse the "Initiatives" area. Here they will find links to some of their digital projects, which include "Eternal Egypt", which offers an extremely media-rich site that allows visitors to explore over 5000 years of Egyptian civilization through timelines, objects, and interactive maps. Bibliotheca Alexandrina [A] http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx The ancient library at Alexandria was rightfully one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its spirit and commitment to the pursuit of learning is embodied in the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. As their mission statement notes, the library is to be "a center for dialogue between peoples and civilizations". This is no easy feat, and the web-browsing public can learn about their laudable efforts on this website. Visitors may first want to learn about the remarkable structure that houses the library, along with a variety of facts about this building's construction. While visitors who may be planning a visit to Egypt may wish to learn about tours of the building and the ways in which they may utilize their research collections, others may want to peruse the "Initiatives" area. Here they will find links to some of their digital projects, which include "Eternal Egypt", which offers an extremely media-rich site that allows visitors to explore over 5000 years of Egyptian civilization through timelines, objects, and interactive maps.

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DU library all set to go digital
by noufal palliparamban 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Dear friends, The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon. details: http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear friends, The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon. details: http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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Missing out books (K A. Sardesai)
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:08:07 +0530 From: K A. Sardesai <kshipras(a)rbi.org.in> Dear Library professionals, Here i have found some information from General Financial Rules,2005 para 194(i) & (ii)related to physical verification of Library books. I am still concerned for Librarian's guidelines from UGC or parallel organization. kshipra

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Oogling for Chemists - Chmoogle
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:29:53 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Spread the word among chemists. It is a boon to chemists. Arun ---- More on Chmoogle David Bradley, Oogling for Chemists, Reactive Reports, Issue #50. Excerpt: San Diego based eMolecules Inc has launched what one might consider to be the chemical equivalent of the Google search engine - "Chmoogle". The company describes Chmoogle as the world's leading free open-access chemistry search engine and its mission is to discover, curate, and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to the public. "The world's knowledge in chemistry is an invaluable resource", said Klaus Gubernator, eMolecule's Chief Executive Officer. "It lies dormant until it becomes searchable by every chemist. The language of chemistry is chemical structures. Chmoogle makes the world's chemistry searchable by structure. Just draw a molecule using your favorite structure drawing tool and hit Go!" "Currently, there are any number of excellent text search engines," Craig James, Chmoogle's Chief Technology Officer told us. "If you want to know everything about 'Alexander Fleming' (inventor of penicillin), they can help you," he adds. However, if you draw the penicillin molecule with your favorite chemical editor, can you search for it, James asks, "With Chmoogle you can." Before Chmoogle, there was no free Internet resource of this nature. It provides a genuine cheminformatics system that anyone could use to find information using a substructure search. A number of academic institutions have searchable databases, but they're usually focused on their particular field of science, and their search systems are often primarily for organizing only their data. Chmoogle's goal is to be the search system to index all of the world's publicly available chemical information....Chmoogle goes deeper than a superficial search of the latent chemical Web, as one would hope. It allows users to send queries, results and individual structures as links to their colleagues using email. This, the company says, will create an unparalleled collaborative environment for chemists worldwide. Chmoogle also provides "Chmoogle Free" code that users can embed into their own Web sites for direct access to Chmoogle, as well as hosted cheminformatics systems and full Web sites for chemical suppliers, pharmaceutical and other chemical industries. James does not see a conflict between Chmoogle and efforts to use the InChI. "Since Chmoogle will be crawling the Web looking for information, it may provide a valuable adjunct to their service: High-performance searches, combined with cross references to other places that Chmoogle has found the same molecule (for example, commercial vendors who have the molecule for sale, or other academic sites such as Zinc or PubChem)."

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Microfilm reader_lakshmi murthy
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Dear Member: There is request for using a microfilm reader and printer (request appended). The intended user is from Bangalore and would prefer if the gadgets are available in any of the libraries in and around Bg. If any of your library/organization have these gadgets, and permit non-members to make use of them on whatever terms and conditions, may I request you to write to Pramila Lochan <lochanp(a)yahoo.com> directly. Many thanks in advance. - Moderator [Original message follows] Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:53:59 -0800 (PST) From: Pramila Lochan <lochanp(a)yahoo.com> To: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Microfilm reader_lakshmi murthy I am looking for a microfilm reader and printer. Since I am from Bangalore she thought it might be appropriate to conatct you. I am a researcher working at the IGNCA SRC and the microfilm reader and printer I am looking for is to help me decipher a manuscript that is recorded on a microfilm. I do hope there could be some solution for this in Bangalore itself regards Dr.Pramila Lochan

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New Koha Documentation available
by vimal kumar 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

User guide of Koha (ver. 2.2) now available in Koha documentation web site (www.kohadocs.org/userguide/) . This user guide will clear many doubts meet while administration and use of Koha ILS. It included the Setting Bibliographic Data Parameters, users can customize MARC tag according their purpose. This is not a full one, certain areas (circulation, reports, OPAC, routine maintenance, Acquiring MARC Bibliographic Records) to be completed. Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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FW: [DIGLIB] article: "A Risky Gamble With Google"
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

-- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. >From: Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research ><glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> >Reply-To: glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr >Subject: [DIGLIB] article: "A Risky Gamble With Google" >Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:48 -0500 > >"A Risky Gamble With Google" >Chronicle of Higher Education (12/02/05) Vol. 52, No. 15, P. B7 >Vaidhyanathan, Siva > > > "Though Google's effort to digitize and offer free online access to > > millions of books from major English-language libraries is an > > exciting prospect, New York University professor Siva Vaidhyanathan > > contends that the initiative could compromise much of the freedom > > and integrity that libraries and other reference resources embody > > for scholars, researchers, and the general public. Google's > > reputation as an egalitarian information resource can only be > > sustained through expansion, and its mission statement to index the > > world's data raises issues of propriety while also implying that > > libraries, universities, and other traditional disseminators of > > information can no longer perform such duties adequately, according > > to Vaidhyanathan. The author warns that the Google Library Project > > increases the risk of privacy infringement, as Google's privacy > > policy makes no promise that the company will keep patrons' > > individual reading records from the FBI or local law > > enforcement. Privatization of information resource maintenance is > > another area of concern because of the inherent instability of > > businesses, and Google is essentially a business. Vaidhyanathan > > argues that stable public institutions should oversee a project such > > as Google Library. The project's most dire implication is the burden > > it adds to an already unbalanced copyright system, which creates > > even more uncertainty for librarians, students, researchers, and > > other innocent copyright users. "The presumption that Google's > > powers of indexing and access come close to working as a library > > ignores all that libraries mean to the lives of their users," > > Vaidhyanathan concludes. "All the proprietary algorithms in the > > world are not going to replace them." " >From: http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2005-7/1202f.html#item18 > >-- >Glen Newton | glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >Group Leader (Acting), CISTI Research >Chef de groupe (par intérim), Recherche de l'ICIST >tel/tél: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 >Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) >National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road >http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ >Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) >Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal >Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 >Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada >-- > > >

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DRTC Seminar
by pradyot bharatkar 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear Professionals, On behalf of DRTC-ISI, I cordially invite you for the Seminar on 'Text Mining: an emerging scenario' ************************************************************* Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre. 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 Seminar on Text Mining: an emerging scenario ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as intelligent text analysis, text data mining or knowledge discovery in text (KDT), refers generally to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text mining is a young interdisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics and computational linguistics. As most of the information in the world (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. It has many applications, especially in information service sector, bio-informatics, humanities, intelligence communities and in other fields also. Recently, text mining is receiving much attention, several research groups around the world, as well as R&D departments of big companies, are doing research on text mining. This seminar will focus on several issues of text mining including: Themes: 1.Basic function of text mining 2.Text mining process 3.Architecture of text mining system 4.Techniques used in text mining 5.Application areas 6. Challenges in text mining All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 9thDec,2005 Time: 2.00 p.m. Dr. A. R.D. Prasad (Seminar Co-ordinator) Pradyot S. Bharatkar Associateship in Documentation & Information Science (ADIS IInd year) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College PO, Bangalore- 560059. Email & web site: pradyot(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot (/wwwisis) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the competition now Dear Professionals, On behalf of DRTC-ISI, I cordially invite you for the Seminar on ' Text Mining: an emerging scenario ' ************************************************************* Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre. 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 Seminar on Text Mining: an emerging scenario ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as intelligent text analysis, text data mining or knowledge discovery in text (KDT), refers generally to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text mining is a young interdisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics and computational linguistics. As most of the information in the world (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. It has many applications, especially in information service sector, bio-informatics, humanities, intelligence communities and in other fields also. Recently, text mining is receiving much attention, several research groups around the world, as well as R&D departments of big companies, are doing research on text mining. This seminar will focus on several issues of text mining including: Themes: 1.Basic function of text mining 2.Text mining process 3.Architecture of text mining system 4.Techniques used in text mining 5.Application areas 6. Challenges in text mining All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 9 th Dec,2005 Time: 2.00 p.m. Dr. A. R.D. Prasad (Seminar Co-ordinator) Pradyot S. Bharatkar http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif Associateship in Documentation & Information Science (ADIS IInd year) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College PO, Bangalore- 560059. Email & web site: pradyot(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot (/wwwisis) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… competition now

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