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Open Access Webliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A preprint of the article "Open Access Webliography" by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. This annotated webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that were freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm This article appears in the volume 33, no. 3 (2005) issue of Reference Services Review, which is a special issue about "the role of the reference librarian in the development, management, dissemination, and sustainability of institutional repositories." http://thesius.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2409844/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/009… A preprint of my "The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories" article in this issue is also available. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/reflibir.pdf Both preprints are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Below is a list of the topics covered in the webliography: * Starting Points * Bibliographies * Debates * Directories--E-Prints, Institutional Repositories, and Technical Reports * Directories--Open Access and Free Journals * Directories and Guides--Copyright and Licensing * Directories and Guides--Open Access Publishing * Directories and Guides--Software * Disciplinary Archives * E-Serials about Open Access * Free E-Serials That Frequently Publish Open Access Articles * General Information * Mailing Lists * Organizations * Projects * Publishers and Distributors * Search Engines * Special Programs for Developing Countries * Statements * Weblogs 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 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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BASE: Academic Search Engine
by Shyam Prasad pujar 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:35:06 +0200 From: Urte Kramer <urte.kramer(a)uni-bielefeld.de> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] BASE: new release - Apologies for cross posting - BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de Release 2, August 2005 The new release BASE in its updated version discloses now more than 2,3 Mio. documents of 130 online - resources, incl. many scholarly full text archives, accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Documents are mainly freely available and can be searched by bibliographic data or full text. BASE offers new features within the search refinement ('restrict results to data source'), various result sorting options and a search history. About BASE BASE is the multi-disciplinary search engine at Bielefeld University to scholarly internet resources, developed by Bielefeld University Library based on the technology of the Norwegian company FAST Search & Transfer (www.fastsearch.com) BASE complements the current metasearch system for catalogues and databases of the Bielefeld Digital Library by disclosing many scholarly full text archives, digital repositories and preprint servers of the internet. BASE is a strategic project of Bielefeld University Library and will be further developed with the perspective of replacing the current metasearch. In the meantime BASE has registered as OAI service provider. BASE characteristics include: + Intellectual selection of resources + Indexes only qualified academic online resources from all academic disciplines + Transparency on the data resources included in BASE through an inventory + Searches metadata and full text (depending on the data source) + Discloses internet resources of the "deep web", that are not indexed by commercial search engines (such as 500,000 digitised pages historical journals and review organs of the German Enlightment) + Displays search results as bibliographic data and full text hits + Various options to sort result sets + Search refinement for authors, keywords, document type, language etc.) Contact: ub(a)uni-bielefeld.de -- Urte Kramer Universitaetsbibliothek Bielefeld Universitaetsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld / Germany Voice: +49 521 1064058, Fax: +49 521 1064052 http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

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HBTI Library Digitisation Project
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Please read the brief news item below. How does one go about getting such good funding, especially for Library activities? Kudos to HBTI, Kanpur ===================== Posted on 09 Aug 2005 # UNI http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=12359 HBTI Kanpur to have digital library Kanpur : The Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) Kanpur, one of the oldest State government engineering institute, will have a digital library by the year end, courtsey a World Bank Programme. Director HBTI R P Singh told UNI a total amount of Rs 24.77 crores would be spent under the World Bank's Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme to spruce up the old library and then construct new state of art digital library. Both the libraries would be merged later, he added. ==========sent by =========== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fwd: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month
by Saiful Amin 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant <Roy.Tennant(a)ucop.edu> Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib <web4lib(a)webjunction.org>, xml4lib <xml4lib(a)webjunction.org>, currentcites(a)webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at <http:// lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/<http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/>> or email subscription at <http:// lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites<http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites> >. -- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list XML4Lib(a)webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com <http://www.edutechindia.com> "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant < mailto:Roy.Tennant@ucop.edu Roy.Tennant(a)ucop.edu > Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib < mailto:web4lib@webjunction.org web4lib(a)webjunction.org >, xml4lib < mailto:xml4lib@webjunction.org xml4lib(a)webjunction.org >, mailto:currentcites@webjunction.org currentcites(a)webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at <http:// http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ > or email subscription at <http:// http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites >. -- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list mailto:XML4Lib@webjunction.org XML4Lib(a)webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management"
by Mailing List Manager 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:55:07 +0530 From: kishor.awachar(a)wipro.com Dear All, For Journal Training and management Plz contact at 011- 26898711 or 26912933 Contact person- Sarika or Abha Vasant Kunj. * Plz note -earlier ph no has been changed Rgds/Kishor ISD ,WT, Gurgaon

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Report of SALIS Delhi Chapter inauguration - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Report of SALIS Delhi Chapter inauguration - reg SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter was inaugurated on 18th June 2004 at Jeepee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Delhi. Mr. Sanjai Kataria welcomed the gathering. Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras explained the need for opening a SALIS chapter at Delhi and also pointed out various services SALIS providing to the professional community. A.Hariharan, President, SALIS spoke about the objectives and various programmes being conducted by SALIS through its various chapters. Dr. Shalindra Kumar, Reader, DLIS, Delhi University briefed the gathering about his experience with SALIS and appreciated SALIS E-Group for providing wonderful service to the professionals. Prof Nigam, HOD, DLIS, MCRP University stressed the need for organising professional programmes at Delhi region by SALIS. Mr. Kumar, Chairman, SALIS Delhi, Chapter sought the cooperation of the members to organize various programmes. Mr. Sanjai Kataria, Secretary proposed the vote of thanks. The following professionals were nominated as Office-bearers for the year 2005-2007 for the SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter DELHI - NCR Chapter (Office-bearers) Chairman Mr. I.R. Kumar, Librarian, United Services Institution of India Vice-Chairman Prof.B.S.Nigam, HOD,DLIS, MCRP University, Noida Ms. Lata Suresh, Librarian, IIHMR, Jaipur Secretary Sanjay Kataria, Librarian, JIIT, Noida, New Delhi Joint-Secretaries Mr.K.P. Singh, DESIDOC, New Delhi Mr. Projesh Roy, Librarian, RGCAS, Delhi Treasurer Mr. Shri Ram, Librarian, JUIT, Simla Joint-Treasurer Dr.Harish Goyal, Delhi University System, Delhi P.R.O. Mr.Salek Chand, Senior Doc. Officer, NIHAFW, Delhi E.C.Members Dr. Shailendra Kumar, Reader, DLIS, Delhi University Mr. Shankar Singh, Sr.Manager, Power Finance Coprn Mr. Sudeep Sharma, Librarian, JSS, Noida Dr.J.S.Lohia, Documentation Officer, JNU, New Delhi Mr. Srivastava, Asst. Librarian, IIT, Delhi Dr.Jai Deep Sharma, Reader, IGNOU, New Delhi Ms. Alpana Srivastava, Asst Manager, TCS, New Delhi Mr.R.K. Sukla, Librarian, Delhi College of Engg Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Librarian, International Centre for Audit & Training, Noida Mr. Khalid K.Karuqi, University Librarian, Hamdard University, Delhi ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Friends: Mr Sam Pitroda wants knowledge to be freely available. The Knowledge Commission headed by him may kindly recommend to the Government of India that the Government mandate open access archiving of all results of publicly funded research. That would make a big difference. The IISc EPrints archive, for example, has led to increased visibility of the papers deposited in it. More than a lakh downloads (or viewings) have been recorded so far, and most of them from the USA. Subbiah Arunachalam More on the Indian Knowledge Commission and OA Access to knowledge imperative for prosperity: Pitroda, The Hindu, August 5, 2005. Excerpt: Knowledge Commission Chairperson Sam Pitroda, today said it was imperative to provide the masses access to knowledge if the country was to become prosperous. Delivering the 'Fourth Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture' here, he said providing access to knowledge to people in remote corners of the country should be accompanied by right to information, enhanced literacy and widened broadband connectivity for all. Also see Pitroda pushes e-portals, education revamp, The Indian Express, August 6, 2005. Excerpt: Father of the massive PCO network Sam Pitroda said today that it was time India revolutionised its university education and e-governance set-up. Delivering the fourth annual Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture of The Energy Research Institute (TERI), Pitroda said, access to knowledge through broadband, internet portals and a revamp of education are necessary before India can face globalisation....Pitroda said portals must be one-stop shops for all information, and not extensions of "The Raj philosophy" of creating barriers between rulers and people....Sam, who is credited with the plans that brought about a PCO revolution in the country in the 1990s, said Indians need to lose their fear of failure to build an "open, accessible" system. "Because we are afraid to fail here, we basically dont move...If you dont fail, you dont end up creating new knowledge," he said.

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Repositioning the LIS profession & InfoVision 2005.
by Shalini R. Urs 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, There have been frequent debates and musings on repositioning the LIS Profession in tune with the digital paradigms & emerging knowledge economy.InfoVision 2005, an Industry-Academia Summit is going to be the converging point for all stakeholders of the Information World. This summit is an excellent opportunity for LIS Professionals to listen to, mingle with, and discover the different terrains of the information landscape from the LIS and the non-LIS stream -- CIOs and KM specialists in corporate world, Speakers form Google & Yahoo, Publishers and Content Management Companies, etc. To encourage the teachers in LIS and librarians in academic institutions (Universities & colleges), the organizing committee of infovision2005 is pleasedto announce a special discounted registration fee for all LIS professionals from the academic institutions registering between 10th august and 10thSeptember, the confessional fee is Rs. 5000 only. Discover more about the themes, sessions and speakers, visit the infoVision2005Web site - www.infovision2005.org -- Organising Committee InfoVision 2005 Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Ranganathan Birthday Celebration - SALIS - Invitation
by Arunachalam Hariharan 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Ranganathan Birthday Celebration- organised by SALIS Tiruchi Chapter Date :13.08.2005 at Besant Hall, Anna Salai, Tanjore-1 Time : 4.PM 7.30 P.M. The following programmes have been arranged. 1. Lecture on 'Ranganathans contributions to Library Science' by Dr. A.Ganesan, HOD, DLIS, Sri Poondi Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur 2. Lecture on 'Impact of IT in Library & Information Services' by Dr.S. Balasubramanian, Librarian, Periyar Maniyammai Engineering College, Vallam 3. Felicitations to library professionals. High Tea: 4.00 P.M. All are invited For further details, please contact the Programme Co-ordinators Mr. P.Perumal, Librarian, Saraswati Mahal Library (Res: 04362-251036 Off: 234107/233568) or Mr. M.Kauthaman, Library, Tamil University, Thanjavur (Res: 04362-226121) ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Dr. Susheela Kumar Memorial Lecture
by Gowri Ravindranth 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Colleagues The Madras Library Association (MALA) and Computer Society of India (CSI), Chennai Chapter Cordially invite you to Dr. Suseela Kumar Memorial Lecture 2005 On the occasion of Dr. S. R. Ranganathans birthday by Mr. N. Vittal (Former Central Vigilance Commissioner, Government of India) on The Right to Information at 6.00 p.m. on Friday, August 12, 2005 Venue: Gokhale Shastri Institute, K.N. Shanmugasundaram Hall , Old No.16, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004 The Programme 5.30 p.m. Tea 5.55 p.m. Welcome address and introduction of the speaker by Dr. A. Amudavalli, President, MALA 6.00 p.m. Introduction of the event by Mr. K. Sankaraiah, Former President, MALA 6.10 p.m. Memorial Lecture on RIGHT TO INFORAMITON by Mr. N. Vittal 6.50 p.m. Presentation of Dr. Suseela Kumar Memorial Award to the outstanding student of the Masters Programme of the Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Madras 6.55 p.m. Vote of Thanks by Ms. L. R. Gowri, Secretary, MALA Looking forward to see you on August 12th. Secretary, MALA Formula One fan? http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2740??PS=47575 Get news, wallpapers and photos of Narain Karthikeyan. Vrrrrrroooooom!

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