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RFID implementation
by Rafiq 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Dear Modi, The percolation of RFID technology in libraries in India is spreading, and thus far not less than 8-10 libraries are using it. Prominent among them include NCL, Pune; IISc, Bangalore, Bank of Baroda, Mumbai; University of Jammu, Jammu; Poona University, Pune; etc. You will certainly gain immense benefits, though at a whooping cost, by implementing RFID in your library. Your circulation would be faster, materials would be safe and secure, and your services will enhance and so on and so forth. For vendors, you may please contact EDUTECH and LIBSYS Corporation, who are at the forefront in providing such solutions. Rafiq L. Ansari Sr. Manager - Library & Operations The Times Group, Television Division The Times of India Building, 4th Floor Dr. D.N. Road, Fort Mumbai - 400 001 Email: rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com Tel: 56354516 Mobile: 9820667271 |Message: 3 |Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:39:20 -0800 (PST) |From: Yogesh Modi <ymodi2k(a)yahoo.com> |Subject: [LIS-Forum] Implementation of RFID in Library............ |To: List Forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> |Message-ID: <20051108093920.52429.qmail(a)web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 | |Dear Professionals, | |I would like to know if any one of you are |implemented/practicing RFID for circulation in your |libraries. |I would like to implement RFID in our Library. | |with regards, | |Yogesh Modi | | |============================ |YOGESH MODI, STA 'B' |TIRC, SSPL |Ministry of Defence, DRDO |Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi - 54 |Phone 91-11-23960640 (Off.) |======================

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cd servers or equivalent technology
by K A. Sardesai 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Dear kshema prakash, I the undersigned is using CD Server for our intranet display of Cds and it is a best service .I think you may also call these people as per your requirements and conditions and if found suitable just go for it . Tulsient Information Systems Pvt Ltd,Timmy Arcade, Makwana Road, Marol,Andheri (East) Mumbai 400 059 Tel No 2851 5955 Fax 2851 8363; sanjays(a)tulsient.com; www.tuisient.com Regards and best wishes kshipras

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Seminars on Usage Promotion of e-Information Resources - 2nd announcement
by Mailing List Manager 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:33:11 +0530 From: mouna <mouna(a)informindia.co.in> Seminars on Usage Promotion of e-Information Resources E-Information Resources have become an integral part of the libraries and their user community. The major concern faced today by the LIS professionals and decision makers is the optimal usage of these e-Information resources. To discuss the issues related to User Awareness and Training for usage promotion, Informatics alongwith Springer, Taylor & Francis, Annual Reviews and IEE Inspec is organizing seminars in different parts of the country. Cochin November 11,2005 Pune November 14,2005 Bhubaneswar November 16,2005 Chandigarh November 18,2005 The Program Structure: Keynote on Seminar Topic Panel Debates on issues related to the topic focusing on the following areas: 1.Level & Type of User education & training for different e-resources *Resource specific training? *Institution specific training programs *Group & Consortia targeted training programs 2.Training Manpower *Who should be providing the training? *Library/Institution Staff *Vendor *Joint initiative of both? 3.Training Infrastructure, Course Material Development, Costs & Budgets 4.Internal Marketing for Usage Promotion *Training Vs Awareness (Promotion) 5.Usage Models & Analysis *COUNTER - Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources 6.Information Needs & Usage Levels *Do our users feel the need for information and its quick access/availability on a scale comparable to developed world? *Impact of education and research culture/quality on usage promotion. You are invited to register online (www.informindia.co.in) and submit your questions for the Panel Debate. REGISTRATION is FREE. For more details you can also write to us at events(a)informindia.co.in or contact: Amit Verma Product Marketing Manager Informatics (India) Limited 337, Karuna Complex, 3rd Floor, Sampige Road, Malleswaram Bangalore 560003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940 Mobile: 91 98459 41610 www.informindia.co.in

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First Workshop on EPrints and LIS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Friends: Please visit this page for full text of papers presented at a recent conference on open access to LIS papers, held at CERN, Geneva. http://www.aepic.it/conf/papers.php?cf=4 Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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ACRL supports OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Friends: Here is an item from Peter Suber's blog. Arun ---- ACRL journal now OA with six-month embargo The ACRL has announced that new issues of College & Research Libraries will be available free online after a six month embargo. From yesterday's press release: The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce that its scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries is available free of charge in PDF format on the ACRL website six months after publication. Retrospective issues now are available through volume 58 (1997). "The editorial board is delighted that the journal is freely available in its electronic form, said William Gray Potter, editor of College & Research Libraries. This new arrangement will benefit both the authors and the readers by making the articles more widely available. Exposing the content to Internet search engines will also make it easier to find and read the articles. At the same time, we are committed to preserving the rigorous review process that has served ACRL and the profession well over the past sixty-six years." ACRL supports open access to scholarship as a principle for reform in the system of scholarly communication. In addition to this new access to College & Research Libraries, ACRL encourages author self-archiving of its published articles in both institutional and disciplinary repositories. College & Research Libraries is a premier journal for research related to academic libraries, said ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee Chair Ray English. Making the contents of the journal openly accessible, following a six-month delay, will be of great benefit to practicing academic librarians and researchers, and it will also help authors increase the impact of their work. This move underscores ACRL's strong commitment to access to scholarly research. Permanent link to this post Posted by Peter Suber at 11/09/2005 04:51:00 PM.

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[Fwd: Current Science Special Section on Citation Indexing]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Friends: Subject: Special Section in Current Science on 50 years of Citation Indexing Current Science dated 10th November 2005 has come out (saw it on the web about an hour back) and contains a Special Section on "50 Years of Citation Indexing". You can see it on the web at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/contents.htm It contains ten articles on various aspects of citation indexing, its origins, present status, WOS and its competitiors and a colour advertisement on WOS. The articles are interesting not only to know the developments of WOS, Garfield's views on various issues pertaining to indexing and his seminal papers published in 1955 in "Science". Arun, who put together this special section, has contributed a short introduction ("In this issue"). Please spread the word. Happy reading. With best wishes A Ratnakar New Delhi

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Re: [bytesforall_readers] Fwd: Re: [GKD] $100 Laptop World-wide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

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Website security
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

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On OA in Canada - 1
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

BCLA comment for the SSHRC consultation on OA The British Columbia Library Association has publicly released its October 27 comment for the SSHRC consultation on OA. Excerpt (Thanks to Peter Suber): Overall, our belief is that the results of SSHRC funded research should be immediately openly accessible, with perhaps some exceptions, such as monographs. Results of research should be placed in an institutional repository. SSHRC funding for journals should cover all peer review, administration and manuscript preparation costs, but not costs associated with distribution. SSHRC funding for journals should be limited to fully open access journals....Whether funded by SSHRC or not, librarians are very actively engaged in open access. Many are depositing their articles in institutional repositories, or one of the two disciplinary repositories for Library and Information Sciences: E-LIS and D-LIST. Many are also publishing in open access journals. The British Columbia Library Association, in partnership with other library associations across the province, is in the process of developing a new, open access journal. Libraries and librarians are also leading the development of institutional repositories, as exemplified by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Institutional Repository program.

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OA in Canada
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Friends: Here is an interesting article from the Toronto Star and it is of great relevance to scientists and scholars in India. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1000 The Canadian Move Toward Open Access [Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 8, 2005 as What Good Are Ideas If You Lock Them Up?] Prime Minister Paul Martin' s decision to appoint Dr. Arthur Carty, the former head of the National Research Council, as Canada' s first national science advisor, clearly signaled the importance of research and development to the nation' s future economic prosperity. This month Dr. Carty sent a clear message of his own - scientific success increasingly depends upon fostering a "culture of sharing" based on open access models of communication that leveragwww.ue the Internet to disseminate research quickly and freely to all. The move toward an open access model represents a dramatic shift for the scientific and research communities. For decades, politicians and policy makers have emphasized greater intellectual property protections as the key to research success. As a result, Ottawa has regularly increased the level of copyright protection and is, in fact, facing renewed pressure to consider extending protection with new database rights and an extension in the term of copyright protection. It is no surprise that the primary winners under this approach have been the major scientific journal publishers. While researchers rarely receive compensation for their contributions, the publishers have enjoyed a financial windfall by charging thousands of dollars for journals filled with the free content generated with the financial support of the public purse through millions of dollars in research grants. To add to the frustration, the researchers are themselves the publishers' best customers - universities, supported by taxpayer dollars, spend millions on research only to buy back the results of that research with millions more for scientific journals. As Dr. Carty notes, the future success of scientific research depends upon changing this debilitating cycle. He argues that "an open-access philosophy is critical to the system' s success: if research findings and knowledge are to be built upon and used by other scientists, then this knowledge must be widely available on the web, not just stored in published journals that are often expensive and not universally available." The movement towards open access is taking hold in many countries around the globe. The National Institute of Health in the United States and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom have both announced that all of their funded research must be housed in archives that are available to other scientists and the general public. Moreover, last year a UK Parliamentary Committee recommended open access in a report titled "Scientific Publications: Free For All?." Open access has also attracted increasing attention from individual scientists. Several years ago more than 34,000 scientists in 180 countries called on publishers to make primary research articles available through online libraries, while the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities encouraged scientists to publish in open access journals. Private sector initiatives have similarly embraced open access. The Public Library of Science, founded in 2000, has emerged as one of the leading scientific publishers, attracting contributions from leaders in many scientific fields seeking to publish under an open access model. Similarly, the Creative Commons initiative, which facilitates more limited copyright controls over content, has experienced an explosive increase in the number of works under its licenses. Now searchable through both Yahoo and Google, more than 60 million works including books, music, and films, have adopted Creative Commons licenses. In Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, a leading federal granting agency, has become the first such agency to commit to open access for federally funded research. The SSHRC, which just concluded a public consultation on the issue, plans to ensure that all funded research will be freely available online in full text. As Dr. Carty acknowledges, a culture of sharing will require "a new mindset among researchers, administrators, governments and in some cases companies - everyone involved in the creation and dissemination of knowledge." This is certainly true of politicians. Dr. Carty notes that regulatory frameworks, presumably including copyright, may require change. Yet rather than facilitating reforms that would benefit research and education, last week Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla assured the House of Commons that Canada' s current copyright reform proposal "does not touch education." Across town, Industry Minister David Emerson used an address to the Canadian Club to rightly emphasize the need for national broadband connectivity and greater scholarship funding, yet he neglected to reference adoption of open access models to disseminate Canadian research. The failure to include policy reforms to facilitate the unlocking knowledge is an embarrassment. Canada has a world class Internet infrastructure and has experienced impressive growth in university based research and development. In fact, last week Statistics Canada reported that Canadian universities have also succeeded in greater commercialization of research initiatives with hundreds of spin-off companies that create new jobs and opportunities for all. If Canada is to maintain that growth, we should follow the advice of our new national science advisor. Science and research success depends on tearing down barriers, not erecting them. A national commitment to open access is the right place to start. Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist(a)uottawa.ca or online at www.michaelgeist.ca.

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