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InfoWatch October 2005
by M.R Lalitha 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The October 2005 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you the details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) October 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue 1. AllAboutCircuits.com - A complete guide to electric circuits 2. Daily rotation [Headlines from 300+ technology news feed sites] 3. Discoveries by National Science Foundation (NSF) 4. EE-triever Toolbar [A information resource for electrical engineers] 5. FreeRTOS - A Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for small embedded real time systems 6. gEDA [GPL software suite of EDA tools for Unix/Linux] 7. Genetics home reference [National Library of Medicine's web site for information about genetic conditions] 8. GEODISE - Grid Enabled Optimisation and Design Search Engine [A design optimisation tool demonstrator for Computational Fluid Dynamics problems] 9. Isotropy software suite [Software for the analysis of phase transitions in crystalline solids] 10. NASA Astrophysics Data System abstract service [A search engine for each of NASA's bibliographic databases] 11. National Semiconductor - The power of analog 12. Nobel prizes for the year 2005 13. NONLIN - Nonlinear dynamic time history analysis [A Microsoft Windows based application for dynamic analysis of single degree of freedom structural systems developed at FEMA] 14. Phenyx - Mass spectometry portein characterisation software 15. Reactome - A knowledgebase of biological processes 16. Sysinternals freeware [Advanced utilities, technical information and source code related to Windows] 17. Technical compendium by Wildpackets [Essays and papers on technical issues of interest to networking professionals] 18. Virtual Machine Shop (VMS) [A non-profit website for machine tool knowledge and training] 19. Web developers' handbook [A reference tool for cascading style sheets, web development, search engine optimization] 20. World Biodiversity Database (WBD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: OA
by Sukhdev Singh 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

I am enclosing the contents of the link by Peter Suber on . Which would be useful for anyone new to OA. Hope others won't mind. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can therefore consent to OA without losing revenue. In this respect scholars and scientists are very differently situated from most musicians and movie-makers, and controversies about OA to music and movies do not carry over to research literature. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review. OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered. There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories. * OA archives or repositories do not perform peer review, but simply make their contents freely available to the world. They may contain unrefereed preprints, refereed postprints, or both. Archives may belong to institutions, such as universities and laboratories, or disciplines, such as physics and economics. Authors may archive their preprints without anyone else's permission, and a majority of journals already permit authors to archive their postprints. When archives comply with the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative, then they are interoperable and users can find their contents without knowing which archives exist, where they are located, or what they contain. There is now open-source software for building and maintaining OAI-compliant archives and worldwide momentum for using it. The costs of an archive are negligible: some server space and a fraction of the time of a technician. * OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved contents freely available to the world. Their expenses consist of peer review, manuscript preparation, and server space. OA journals pay their bills very much the way broadcast television and radio stations do: those with an interest in disseminating the content pay the production costs upfront so that access can be free of charge for everyone with the right equipment. Sometimes this means that journals have a subsidy from the hosting university or professional society. Sometimes it means that journals charge a processing fee on accepted articles, to be paid by the author or the author's sponsor (employer, funding agency). OA journals that charge processing fees usually waive them in cases of economic hardship. OA journals with institutional subsidies tend to charge no processing fees. OA journals can get by on lower subsidies or fees if they have income from other publications, advertising, priced add-ons, or auxiliary services. Some institutions and consortia arrange fee discounts. Some OA publishers waive the fee for all researchers affiliated with institutions that have purchased an annual membership. There's a lot of room for creativity in finding ways to pay the costs of a peer-reviewed OA journal, and we're far from having exhausted our cleverness and imagination. For a longer introduction, with live links for further reading, see my Open Access Overview, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm. First put online December 29, 2004. This introduction is also available in Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Ukrainian. I welcome other translations. Peter Suber Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Senior Researcher, SPARC peters(a)earlham.edu Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Peter Suber. This is an open-access document. > From: "Rajendra Thaty" <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] OA > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org, > c3net(a)dgroups.org > Message-ID: <20051025071052.12333.qmail(a)webmail52.rediffmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Dear All, > > Can anybody tell me what is Open Access Initiative and in what way it is better that the traditional journal literature? What are the various OAI models in India and abroad? Which one is the best? I may sound foolish but someone could please help me out . > > > Regards, > > Rajendra > > > Rajendra Kumar Thaty > Librarian > Samabalpur University Central Library > Jyoti Vihar, Burla, > Sambalpur, Orissa > PIN 768019 > Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) > 98610-47084 (Mob)

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OpenOffice Version 2.0 Now available
by Sukhdev Singh 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. Version 2.0 has been recently released With new features, advanced XML capabilities and native support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format. Some of the new features are: Open Standards XML File Format (OASIS OpenDocument) New Multi-pane View New CustomShapes More Slide Transitions and Animation Effect Enhanced PDF Export New enhanced Database Frontend Mail Merge Wizard Enhanced Word Count Feature Support for Nested Tables Digital Signatures Support XForms Support WordPerfect Filters It can be downloaded from: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Information required
by kshema prakash 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Apologies for cross postings Dear Professional Colleagues, I require information about cd servers or equivalent technology. If we wish to make the CD and DVD collection of our library centrally accessible to the users, is there any facility available like CD/DVD stakka or CD Towers etc., that are presently used by some university libraries? If so, kindly guide me with appropriate information. Thanks Kshema Prakash Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian -Gr I DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 9897190604, 3098227 --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Apologies for cross postings Dear Professional Colleagues, I require information about cd servers or equivalent technology. If we wish to make the CD and DVD collection of our library centrally accessible to the users, is there any facility available like CD/DVD stakka or CD Towers etc., that are presently used by some university libraries? If so, kindly guide me with appropriate information. Thanks Kshema Prakash Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian -Gr I DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 9897190604, 3098227 http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25/the-google-print-contr… This bibliography presents selected electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project. Page numbers for print/electronic publications are not included unless they are mentioned in the electronic version. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: Social Information Retrieval Systems
by Puna Das 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively Editors: Dion H. Goh and Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Publisher: Idea Group Inc. Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 December 2005 INTRODUCTION With the increasing popularity of the Internet, people have now come to depend more on the Web, digital libraries and other information retrieval systems to search for information. However the performance of existing search engines has often been unsatisfactory in meeting users' information needs due to the enormous amount of information returned, exacerbated by the fact that not all of these results are relevant nor of acceptable quality. This has thus led to a situation where users are swamped with too much information, resulting in difficulty sifting through documents in search of relevant content. A variety of techniques have been adopted on the Web to address these problems inherent in information search. These range from engaging human experts to judge the relevance of Web sites to innovative algorithms that determine relevance by the characteristics of links found between sites. Research in information seeking behavior suggests an alternative promising approach in helping users meet their information needs. Many studies have found that interaction and collaboration with other people is an important part in the process of information seeking and use. It is not uncommon that in searching for information, we tap on our social networks - friends, colleagues, librarians, etc., to help locate what we need. Social information retrieval refers to a family of techniques that assist users in obtaining information to meet their information needs by harnessing other users' expert knowledge or search experience. Examples include sharing of queries, social bookmarking and tagging, social network analysis, subjective relevance judgments, and collaborative filtering. The area provides a promising avenue for the design and implementation of a new generation of information retrieval systems. Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively presents current state-of-the-art developments in this area and also includes case studies, challenges and trends. Contributors will have the opportunity to inform and educate academics, researchers, information retrieval product managers and software developers, librarians and students in the area of social information retrieval. TOPICS Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Algorithms, software components and tools * Applications and case studies * Architectural, design and implementation issues * Classification and indexing * Collaborative browsing * Collaborative digital reference services * Collaborative filtering and recommender systems * Collaborative querying * Content delivery * Cooperative software agents for information retrieval * Enabling technologies and applications * Evaluation of systems, algorithms and interfaces * Information extraction and mining * Information retrieval in computer-supported collaborative work/groupware systems * Information visualization * Ontology-based services * Personalization * Privacy and security * Social informatics * Social information seeking models * Social networks and information retrieval * Social tagging and bookmarking * Trends and challenges * Usability * User and community needs and behavior * User interfaces SUBMISSION INFORMATION Potential contributors are invited to submit a 2-5 page chapter proposal by 31 December 2005 detailing the background, motivations and structure of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 31 January 2006 on the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are due on 31 May 2006 and should be at least 8,000-9,000 words in length. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Final revised manuscripts are due on 31 August 2006. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints in 2008. Chapter proposal due: 31 December 2005 Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2006 Full chapter due:31 May 2006 Notification:31 July 2006 Revised chapter due: 31 August 2006 INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS Inquiries and submissions (Microsoft Word files) should be sent by e-mail to: Dr. Dion Goh (Email: ashlgoh(a)ntu.edu.sg) Other contact information: School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718 SINGAPORE Tel: (65) 6790 6290Fax: (65) 6791-5214 Web site: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ashlgoh/social-ir/ ________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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info req
by Rajendra Thaty 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Dear All, We are planning to start an training cum internship programme in our library. In this context, I need some ideas from similar programmes conducted by various other libraries. Do you conduct such a programme in your Library. May be you take interns or trainees. You must have some plan and guidelines that you must be following during the programme. Then please help me by providing these data: 1. Name of the Organization 2. Name of the Library 3. Size of the Library: Books, Jornals, Staff (professioanl/ Non-Professional) 4. Library Computerised? 5. Name of the training programme (if any) 6. Yera When started? 7. Is it a regular programme? 8. Duration 9. Period from - to - (Ex JAn to Dec) 10. When announced? 11. How announced? through website or newspaper etc. 12. Number of interns admitted 13. Minimum Educational qualification 14. stipend, intership amount 15. Accommodation given how? 16. Selection procedure 17. Objective of the programme 18. Scope ( Within state or National or International) 19. Training Modules included 20. Special Features 21. Placement Help after training 22. Total No of interns or trainees completing programmes so far 23. Major organizations where interns have been absorbed 24. future plans We will appreciate if you please spend some time and help us by providing these informaton. Regards, Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) Dear All, We are planning to start an training cum internship programme in our library. In this context, I need some ideas from similar programmes conducted by various other libraries. Do you conduct such a programme in your Library. May be you take interns or trainees. You must have some plan and guidelines that you must be following during the programme. Then please help me by providing these data: 1. Name of the Organization 2. Name of the Library 3. Size of the Library: Books, Jornals, Staff (professioanl/ Non-Professional) 4. Library Computerised? 5. Name of the training programme (if any) 6. Yera When started? 7. Is it a regular programme? 8. Duration 9. Period from - to - (Ex JAn to Dec) 10. When announced? 11. How announced? through website or newspaper etc. 12. Number of interns admitted 13. Minimum Educational qualification 14. stipend, intership amount 15. Accommodation given how? 16. Selection procedure 17. Objective of the programme 18. Scope ( Within state or National or International) 19. Training Modules included 20. Special Features 21. Placement Help after training 22. Total No of interns or trainees completing programmes so far 23. Major organizations where interns have been absorbed 24. future plans We will appreciate if you please spend some time and help us by providing these informaton. Regards, Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) 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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Open Source Systems for Libraries
by sandeep bhavsar 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

R/S Professionals please visit this url : http://www.oss4lib.org/projects/ about oss4lib Our mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, we maintain a listing <projects/> of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest. oss4lib started at the Yale Medical Library <http://www.med.yale.edu/library> in early February 1999 thinking there were probably other folks like us out there who might be working on free library software or looking for same. Our reasons for wanting to see Open Source take off in the library software arena are straightforward, fairly typical, and mostly outlined in the Open Source Systems for Libraries: Getting Started <articles/oss4libarticle.html> piece. You would think librarians would have figured this shared software thing out years ago. :) who we are Dan Chudnov <http://curtis.med.yale.edu//dchud/> (dchud) started oss4lib and maintains it, along with the many readers who often post news (use the submit link above!). Gillian Mayman designed the site. We like <pinstripeheaven.html>. support us! oss4lib is a volunteer effort. If you like oss4lib, consider buying snazzy oss4lib tshirts and mugs <http://www.cafepress.com/oss4lib>; we'll get $3/shirt or $2/mug, which doesn't sound like much but actually really helps. Or if you like to buy books online consider using this link to Powell's <http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=23406> first... 10% of your purchase comes this way too. Thanks! how it runs The dynamic pieces of the site are written in php, with stories held in mysql tables. Plain, simple stuff. As of March 2000 it's all hosted at sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net>. If you are looking for a place to host your library (or any other kind of) open source project, check it out. Rough statistics for this site are available here http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=277. regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 Mo : 9867437438 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail R/S Professionals please visit this url : http://www.oss4lib.org/projects/ http://www.oss4lib.org/projects/ about oss4lib Our mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, we maintain a listing <projects/> of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest. oss4lib started at the Yale Medical Library <http://www.med.yale.edu/library> in early February 1999 thinking there were probably other folks like us out there who might be working on free library software or looking for same. Our reasons for wanting to see Open Source take off in the library software arena are straightforward, fairly typical, and mostly outlined in the Open Source Systems for Libraries: Getting Started <articles/oss4libarticle.html> piece. You would think librarians would have figured this shared software thing out years ago. :) who we are Dan Chudnov <http://curtis.med.yale.edu//dchud/> (dchud) started oss4lib and maintains it, along with the many readers who often post news (use the submit link above!). Gillian Mayman designed the site. We like <pinstripeheaven.html> . support us! oss4lib is a volunteer effort. If you like oss4lib, consider buying snazzy oss4lib tshirts and mugs <http://www.cafepress.com/oss4lib> ; we'll get $3/shirt or $2/mug, which doesn't sound like much but actually really helps. Or if you like to buy books online consider using this link to Powell's <http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=23406> first... 10% of your purchase comes this way too. Thanks! how it runs The dynamic pieces of the site are written in php, with stories held in mysql tables. Plain, simple stuff. As of March 2000 it's all hosted at sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net> . If you are looking for a place to host your library (or any other kind of) open source project, check it out. Rough statistics for this site are available here http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=277 http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=277 . regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 Mo : 9867437438 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… calling worldwide with voicemail

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OA
by Rajendra Thaty 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Dear All, Can anybody tell me what is Open Access Initiative and in what way it is better that the traditional journal literature? What are the various OAI models in India and abroad? Which one is the best? I may sound foolish but someone could please help me out . Regards, Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) Dear All, Can anybody tell me what is Open Access Initiative and in what way it is better that the traditional journal literature? What are the various OAI models in India and abroad? Which one is the best? I may sound foolish but someone could please help me out . Regards, Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) 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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OpenMED - RSS Feed Available
by Sukhdev Singh 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Dear Members, Let me inform you that RSS Feed is available for OpenMED@NIC , http://openmed.nic.in , from the following link: http://openmed.nic.in/perl/latest_tool?output=rss You can add the above link to your favorite RSS Reader [ http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?RssReaders ] or some web-based services like : Google Reader [ http://reader.google.com ], Google Personalized [ http://www.google.com/ig ] or My Yahoo [ http://my.yahoo.com ]. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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