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OA and journal copyrights policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Permissions for OA archiving from LIS journals Anita Coleman and three co-authors, Copyright Transfer Agreements in an Interdisciplinary Repository, a conference presentation, n.d. but archived on August 10, 2005. Abstract: Copyright Transfer Agreements (CTA) are a rich source of rights information related to self-archiving. According to the Eprints Self-Archiving FAQ, "To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive." This poster describes a study undertaken by DLIST whereby the CTAs of selected LIS journals were analyzed for publisher statements on the rights of authors related to self-archiving. The study differs from efforts such as the SHERPA/RoMEO database that resulted from the large open access studies of Project RoMEO. The main differences are: 1) our focus on LIS journals and 2) focus on journals rather than publishers, since publishers appear to have different policies and CTAs for each of their journals. RoMEO/SHERPA focus on publishers in all disciplines and as such LIS is not fully/adequately represented. DLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology is an Open Access Archive (OAA) for Library and Information Science and Technology based on E-prints; a cross-institutional disciplinary repository for the Information Sciences that focus on cultural heritage institutions such as Archives, Libraries, and Museums using interdisciplinary perspectives. To some researchers cultural heritage institutions and formal educational organizations are the critical information infrastructures for building the knowledge society.

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OA advantageous
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Good advice for authors Rachel Singer Gordon, Publish, Don't Perish! Library Literature and the Gift Economy, Library Link, July 2005. Reasons for librarians to publish, especially in some OA form. Gordon's arguments apply to scholarly authors of all kinds, not just librarians. Excerpt: You will note also that most of these opportunities [for name recognition, building your resume and reputation, and advancing the literature] are maximized when access to your work is also maximized. Ive talked before about the advantages of publishing online, especially in free, open-access venues. (See February and March 2005.) The library literature of course contains a healthy mix of publication outlets, both free and fee - but take accessibility into account, along with other considerations, when choosing an outlet for your work.

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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

OA metadata and OA full-text Brian Surratt, Take my metadata, please! Texadata, July 22, 2005. Excerpt: 1) Metadata that is "Open Access" gets proliferated throughout the web in a very efficient manner. The collections I'm speaking of are our ETD repository and the Journal of Digital Information. Over the past few months, our metadata for these collections has been proliferating over the web through various means. First of all, they are both harvested automatically by the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Second of all, they are harvested by specialty search engines focused on scholarly resources. They are being harvested by Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus, and Thompson-ISI's Current Web Contents and this is just what I know for sure. So the information that WE host is now included in these search engines, from the broadest web search to sites that are focused on serving the needs of scholars. This wouldn't have come about except for the fact that our content is available Open Access. Not just the full-text of the documents themselves, but our metadata as well! I think this is great. Since we are Open Access anyway, we don't measure success by profits, we measure it by use. We want to be used, hit, and downloaded as much as possible. We want our content to be cited and have scholarly impact.... 2) A lot of metadata in library systems is not "Open Access." This makes it much harder, less efficient, and expensive to manage.... 3) What is significant about these observations? In the future, I think metadata is going to become free-er, while the full-text content will be more controlled. I suspect that it will become beneficial for all parties involved to have "free" metadata, but enhance access controls to the content itself. It is the content that is so valuable, not the metadata. I also think that the control of access to content will be determined less by publishers and more by content creators. Some publishers (specifically Open Access publishers) will start providing more levels of access to content, and in this competitive environment, content creators will have a lot of options....Furthermore, if it turns out to be true that "Open Access" correlates to higher impact [PS: it is true], decisions on access levels will be influenced more by "impact" than commercial considerations. The power will be in the hands of the content creators. (PS: Even non-OA publishers should provide OA to their metadata. It functions as free advertising that intermediaries, like search engines, are scrambling to pick up and publicize. It doesn't follow that full-text "will be" more controlled. But it may be. They are independent decisions. The usual reasons for providing OA to full-text continue to apply and we can hope that they will continue to have an effect.) Posted by Peter Suber at 8/12/2005 02:45:00 PM.

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Unesco supports OAA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Access recommendations for UNESCO and WSIS The international participants at the conference, UNESCO Between Two Phases of the World Summit on the Information Society (St. Petersburg, May 17-19, 2005), drafted a Final Document to guide the upcoming WSIS meeting in Tunis. (Thanks to Julia Bolton Holloway.) Excerpt: The Conference recommendations...are intended specifically for UNESCO and through it for other international organisations, national governments, private sector, civil society, and research and education community. It was advised that the Conference recommendations presented in the Final Document be forwarded both to UNESCO and to the heads of the national delegations of the countries participating in the Summits preparatory process for submitting to the Tunis discussion. [Recommendations:]...to concentrate [UNESCO and UN-agency] financial resources on supporting or implementing self-sustainable Educational, Scientific and Cultural Information systems without costly recurrent licensing fees, with the help of Open Access repositories...; to support creation of second disclosure Open Access information resources whereby authors are describing the results of their research that have already been published elsewhere; to provide financial support to first and second disclosure Open Access resources to eliminate the need to charge publication fees; to support the creation of an association of Open Access Publishers to reinforce their effectiveness in collaboratively raising financial resources and in gaining collective renown; to create or support seed funding programs to create new Open Access information resources everywhere in the world and to promote the conversion of existing resources to the Open Access model; to require as a grant or endorsement condition publication in the Open Access model of any full report of research being even partially funded, or morally endorsed by them; to support and endorse the initiatives of Funding Institutions to implement their own mandatory Open Access Archives;...to build Open Access repositories in a way that would allow easy site mirroring as well as complete copying on portable media, such as CDs or DVDs, to allow access to knowledge in regions with little or non-existent Internet connections; to provide funding and in-kind assistance to a Free Software project that implements the peer-to-peer functionality as recommended by the WSIS Plan of Action to allow efficient exchange of scientific information;...to consider the problem of reasonable restriction of copyright principle for the sake of education, science, and culture in the Information Society and to develop the guiding policy principles for improving access to official public information;...to encourage creation of programs of acquiring non-exclusive intellectual property rights to support the Information Society development; to facilitate creation of community centres providing free access to legal information.

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Qyery for M.Phil
by pravesh chaudhary 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Dear Member Please help me Actually I want to do M.Phil in Lib & Inf. Sc. From where can I do the same, and what is the proceess for that ? Recently I am working in Central Library, I.S.M., Dhanbad under MHRD. please suggest me with regards yours Pravesh Choudhary --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear Member Please help me Actually I want to do M.Phil in Lib & Inf. Sc. From where can I do the same, and what is the proceess for that ? Recently I am working in Central Library, I.S.M., Dhanbad under MHRD. please suggest me with regards yours Pravesh Choudhary Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Dr.S.R.Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations - Invitation
by Arunachalam Hariharan 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Dr.S.R.Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations Date: 13th August 2005 Time: 4.00 PM to 7.30 PM Venue: Besant Hall, Thanjavur Programme Welcome Address: S.A.Sampthkumar Librarian S.K.S.S. Arts College, Thirupananthal Special Lectures Impact of IT on Library Dr. S.Balasubramanian and Information Services Librarian Periyar Maniammai College of Technology Vallam Contributions of Dr. A.Ganesan S.R. Ranganthan to Librarian & HOD, DLIS Library Science Sri Pushpam College Poondi Status of Libraries - in Today P. Ramasamy Librarian M.S. Govt. Arts College, Thanjavur SALIS Contributions A.Hariharan to Library Professionals Felicitation Dr. A.Kaliammal Librarian Bharadhisan University, Trichy Vote of Thanks P.Perumal Librarian Saraswati Mahal Library Thanjavur High Tea : 4.00 PM All are welcome ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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The medIND now covers 35 Free Access Full Text Medical Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear Members, We have added the following TWO Journals to our medIND Site, http://medind.nic.in . --The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India --Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine The FREE ACCESS medIND [ http://medind.nic.in ] site covers Full Text of Indian indexed journals. Total number of journals under medIND are now 35 as listed below: * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pediatrics * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://indmed.nic.in http://medind.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in

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UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo
by noufal palliparamban 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear friends, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo 11-08-2005 (UNESCO) The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organizes from 14 to 18 August in Norways capital Oslo. The UNESCO Open Forum on Memory of the World on 14 August will include presentations on regional activities of the Memory of the World Programme focusing on: Timbuktu Manuscripts, Slave Trade Archives project, Memory of the World in Asia and the Pacific, and UNESCO/Jikji Prize. The session will be chaired by Bendik Rugaas, former Minister, former Norwegian national librarian, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee There will be in Oslo a 7-speaker panel presentation followed by a discussion. Speakers at the session will include: Jasmine Cameron, Deputy Director of the National Library of Australia, Celia Zaher, Director of the National Library of Brazil, Alida Boye, University of Oslo, Ekaterina Genieva, Director M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director of the Czech National Library, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, and Aziz Abid, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Officer. IFLA, which maintains official relations with UNESCO for many years, is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It describes itself as the global voice of the library and information profession. Source:http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19745&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear friends, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo 11-08-2005 (UNESCO) The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organizes from 14 to 18 August in Norways capital Oslo. The UNESCO Open Forum on Memory of the World on 14 August will include presentations on regional activities of the Memory of the World Programme focusing on: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14224&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Timbuktu Manuscripts , http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI… Slave Trade Archives project , Memory of the World in Asia and the Pacific, and http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16050&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… UNESCO/Jikji Prize . The session will be chaired by Bendik Rugaas, former Minister, former Norwegian national librarian, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee There will be in Oslo a 7-speaker panel presentation followed by a discussion. Speakers at the session will include: Jasmine Cameron, Deputy Director of the National Library of Australia, Celia Zaher, Director of the National Library of Brazil, Alida Boye, University of Oslo, Ekaterina Genieva, Director M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director of the Czech National Library, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, and Aziz Abid, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Officer. IFLA, which maintains official relations with UNESCO for many years, is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It describes itself as the global voice of the library and information profession. Source:http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19745&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/TEMPLATE/images/spacer_tr.gif Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Kerala Libraries going digital
by noufal palliparamban 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear friends, Kerala Libraries going digital THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With information technology capturing the imagination of youngsters, libraries in Kerala are going the digital way in a bid to attract more readers from the younger generation.Digital and online libraries, which now enrich a select few institutions, are going public with the Kerala State Library Council resolving to set up such ''libraries of the future'' in the state. The council has decided to bring all district and rural libraries in the state under the ''digital umbrella'' in a bid to usher in new reading culture in the state. ''With the world going hi-tech, it is time that we also change. In Kerala, digital and online libraries are with a select few institutions and unless this goes public, it will not benefit the whole society,'' said Dr G Balamohan Thamby, President of the Library Council. The libraries in the state would not only be connected with each other but also with those outside the country, he told and added a final decision on digital libraries would be taken at the Council's executive meeting to be held next week. Source: http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear friends, Kerala Libraries going digital THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With information technology capturing the imagination of youngsters, libraries in Kerala are going the digital way in a bid to attract more readers from the younger generation.Digital and online libraries, which now enrich a select few institutions, are going public with the Kerala State Library Council resolving to set up such ''libraries of the future'' in the state. The council has decided to bring all district and rural libraries in the state under the ''digital umbrella'' in a bid to usher in new reading culture in the state. ''With the world going hi-tech, it is time that we also change. In Kerala, digital and online libraries are with a select few institutions and unless this goes public, it will not benefit the whole society,'' said Dr G Balamohan Thamby, President of the Library Council. The libraries in the state would not only be connected with each other but also with those outside the country, he told and added a final decision on digital libraries would be taken at the Council's executive meeting to be held next week. Source: http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Device to turn the pages
by Satish Munnolli 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

*** Apologies for cross posting *** An interesting paper for those who are in the job of digitising their print collection in mass scale. In case of digitisation process, for scanning every page of a document a person need to handle the job manually in Indian context. ('am not sure if any institute has bought this device/technology). A device has been developed, which can turn the sides of a bounded book automatically. While the book is scanned, the operator is free for other tasks, as for example the control and revision of already scanned material and the input of corresponding data records (meta data) into a catalogue system. A paper is available on the device / technology at the below mentioned URL with illustrations. The title of the paper is A Device for automated Scanning of Books http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… JUST IMAGINE ... IF, THE SAME DEVICE / TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED FOR READING BOOKS IN LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING THE USAGE ! 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 *** Apologies for cross posting *** An interesting paper for those who are in the job of digitising their print collection in mass scale. In case of digitisation process, for scanning every page of a document a person need to handle the job manually in Indian context. ('am not sure if any institute has bought this device/technology). A device has been developed, which can turn the sides of a bounded book automatically. While the book is scanned, the operator is free for other tasks, as for example the control and revision of already scanned material and the input of corresponding data records (meta data) into a catalogue system. A paper is available on the device / technology at the below mentioned URL with illustrations. The title of the paper is A Device for automated Scanning of Books http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… JUST IMAGINE ... IF, THE SAME DEVICE / TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED FOR READING BOOKS IN LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING THE USAGE ! 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 : mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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