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A wiki to promote self-archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Friends: Please try this. A wiki to promote self-archiving Ari Friedman has launched SelfArchive.org, a wiki designed to help faculty understand self-archiving and start doing it. Because it's a wiki, you can revise and enlarge it. http://selfarchive.org/ Arun Friends: Please try this. A wiki to promote self-archiving Ari Friedman has launched SelfArchive.org, a wiki designed to help faculty understand self-archiving and start doing it. Because it's a wiki, you can revise and enlarge it. http://selfarchive.org/ http://selfarchive.org/ Arun

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Job Vacancy at SJCBA
by Pallavi gunashekarreddy 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

St. Josephs College of Business Administration, Bangalore is looking for Asst. Librarian Qualifications: MLISc or BLISc, Female Candidate Scale of pay: 7000 per Month Expectations/Requirements: Good communication, Good attitude and commitment towards the occupation, Essential computer/IT skills, willing to work in 2nd shift (12.00- to 8 pm) Last Date: July 02, 2005 Candidates are advised to send their resume to sjcba(a)vsnl.net or sprabhuk(a)yahoo.com S. Prabhu Library & Information Manager St. Josephs College of business Administration 18, Residency Road Bangalore 560 025 __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] software tools:document management +knowledge management
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:50:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jack Eapen <jackachachan(a)yahoo.com> Knowledge Tree is an Open Source DMS worth a try. Documentation is commercial. http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/ Demo is available at http://knowledgetree.jamwarehouse.com/ Jack Visit me at http://www.jackeapen.org -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:09 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] software tools:document management +knowledge management Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Omana <manas_ind55(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends, Could you please give me a list of document management and (or) knowledge management tools for an industrial library. Regards Omana.K Librarian GMR Energy Limited Bangalore _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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need a book on loan
by Dr. Murari P Tapaswi 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Dear Colleagues, One of the scientists of this institute require following book for consultation for few days which is not available at this institute library. Will you please let us know whether you have this and can send it on loan? Thanks in advance for your help. Fabricius, F. H. 1977. Origin of marine ooids and grapestones. Contributions Sedimentology 7: 1-113. With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi, NICMAS, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India. Fax: 91-(0)832-2450 602; Phone: 91-(0)832-2450 275 (direct); -2450 450 (epbx). URL: www.nio.org also visit: www.mangroveindia.org; www.coastalhazards.info; www.indian-ocean.org

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Careers in New Media Festival, 1-3 July 2005
by Shekhar Krishnan 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Dear All: Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested individuals and organisations. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org Best, S.K. _____ Comet Media Foundation presents CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA seminar and exhibition interactive presentations with the finest minds on the hottest topics in New Media DATES: FRIDAY 1st, SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd July 2005 TIME: 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Daily VENUE: Bosco Hall St Andrews Church Compound, Hill Road Bandra West, Mumbai 400050 a COSMOS foundational event CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA is a festival composed of a seminar, an exhibition and scope for many interactions. It aims to create awareness among students about the new and viable professional options unleashed by emerging information and communication technologies. Friday 1 July 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Saturday 2 July 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Friday 1 July, Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July NEW MEDIA Exhibition 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA will have an inter-disciplinary approach, with experts and established professionals from a wide variety of work areas sharing their experiences and visions of the future. This is an unique opportunity for students to interact with experts in order to make a strategic career choices. COSMOS is a recently-launched initiative of the Comet Media Foundation in Mumbai, exploring the complex and densely woven field in which science, technology and society overlap. The educational programme of COSMOS is scheduled to be operational by 2006. For more information on the Comet Media Foundation visit http://www.cometmedia.org The CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA festival is open to all. Entry to the exhibition is free. The seminar presentations require pre- registration, as seats are limited. The registration charges are Rs 200. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org FRIDAY 1 JULY 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar (25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and answer sessions) 10:00 to 10:15 Introduction CHANDITA MUKHERJEE Comet Media Foundation, Documentary Film-Maker 10:15 to 10.45 Keynote Address "the unfolding new media scenario " NINA SABNANI Head, Department of New Media Studies National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad 10.50 to 11:30 "Making it in the games industry" REENA GEORGE Human Resources Manager, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai HRISHI OBEROI Head of 3D and Console Games, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai 11:30 to 11.45 BREAK 11:50 to 12:30 "Animation as a career for the future" SHILPA RANADE Faculty Member, Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai 12:35 to 1:15 "Can writing be a viable career? Exploring web-journalism" KIRAN JONNALAGADDA Blogger and Information Architect, Seacrow Labs, Bangalore 1.20 to 1.30 "The power of the portal: a case study" Z. ANSARI rediff.com 1:30 to 2:15 LUNCH 2:20 to 3:00 "Entrepreneurship in the age of new media: entertainment and commerce" TOBY MORNING Chairman, Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 3:05 to 3:20 BREAK 3:25 to 4:05 "Opportunities in audio-visual post-production" NEIL SADWELKAR Editor and Editing System Consultant, Technical Consultant to Pixion Studio 4:10 to 4:30 Concluding Remarks NIRMALENDU JAJODIA Software Developer, Board Member, Comet Media Foundation SATURDAY 2 JULY 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar (25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and answer sessions) 10:00 to 10:20 Introductory Note NIRMALENDU JAJODIA 10:25 to 11:05 "Emerging careers in the new information age" GURUNANDAN BHAT Chief Technologist, Synapse, Goa 11:10 to 11:50 "Future prospects for sound specialists" P. BALARAM Audio Engineer, Audeus Studios, Mukta Arts, Mumbai 11:55 to 12:10 BREAK 12:15 to 12:55 "Careers in e-learning" RUPESH GOEL Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems 1:00 to 1:40 "GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications" VINEET SHROFF Founder-Director, Biond Software, Mumbai 1:40 to 2:25 LUNCH 2:30 to 3:10 "New media as an area of research and training" NISHANT SHAH Research Scholar, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore 3:15 to 3:30 BREAK 3:35 to 4:15 "ICTs, social development and business models" JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR Editor, I4D Magazine, Centre for Science Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi 4:20 to 4:30 Vote of Thanks INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY Film-Maker and Project Director, COSMOS New Media Initiative, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai ABOUT THE SPEAKERS NINA SABNANI teaches Communication Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. After a degree in Fine Arts from Baroda, she studied animation at NID and in the UK. Later, she did a post graduate programme in Television & Film from the USA on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has evolved with the times to embrace a wide range of subjects in her profile. At present she teaches courses in Visual Scripting for Animation, Interaction Design, Linear and non-linear story telling, Games design, Illustration and Multi-sensory Design. http://www.nid.edu REENA GEORGE currently Manager Human Resources at Indiagames, had extensive experience in the IT industry. A part of the dynamic industry of wireless gaming, Reena has taken Indiagames from an 80 member team to over 250 employees in the past one year. She is an active member of the HR Infotech Association, Mumbai. http://www.indiagames.com HRISHI OBEROI is currently Head of the 3D & Console games at Indiagames. He has specialised in computer graphics and animation and has designed and programmed 2D and 3D games for mobile phones. Hrishi is currently producing a console named "Ashoka". He is active in the International Game Developer's Association, Mumbai chapter, organises gaming events like WCG India and speaks in technical forums concerned with games development in India. http://www.indiagames.com SHILPA RANADE is a faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A gold medallist from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, she did her Masters in Visual Communication from IDC, IIT, Mumbai and subsequently completed an M.Phil in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Her animation film Mani’s Dying won the critics award at the Bombay International Short Film Festival, 1996 and was nominated for the best British short film award at the British Short Film Festival, 1995. http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in KIRAN JONNALAGADDA is a writer and programmer who works at the crossing of media, technology and the web. Currently a consultant technologist at various organisations, he is also an Independent Research Fellow at Sarai, studying how the user interface affects online communities. He is also a collaborator on the Mumbai Free Map Project of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai, a member of the Plone Foundation, and a trustee of the Tapovan School in rural Bangalore. An observer and participant in blogging, Kiran is also an occasional journalist and a keen photographer. http://www.seacrow.com http://www.freemap.in TOBY MORNING is an entrepreneur who heads Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. This group of internet-based companies aims to leverage technology and “serve as a catalyst for creating a more peaceful, healthy, prosperous planet for future generations”. Toby’s passion for music has taken him from event promotion to music distribution and concert promotion to the Internet radio portal djunion.com. Toby’s focus is on developing the company’s internet services, and he is in India investigating various fresh business opportunities with Indian partners. http://urbantechnologyventures.com NEIL SADWELKAR spends most of his waking hours as an editor and edit system consultant, currently at a large post production house called Pixion. Neil started out making sky shows in the Planetarium, moved to 16mm film and then followed video through its evolution as a professional medium. Neil has been associated with documentary and feature film-making in all the possible capacities—sound recordist, editor, camera person, director. He has been a contributing editor at Misenscene, and forum host at the DMN Forums’ Final Cut Pro forum. http://www.sadwelkar.com GURUNANDAN BHATT enjoys working on applications that allow people to organise, share and disseminate data and collaborate in useful, productive and innovative ways. Currently Chief Technologist at Synapse, Goa, a company that “partners with clients to solve their business problems through information-based initiatives” Gurunandan has worked extensively on designing and developing complex yet inexpensive information systems. An ardent proponent of Open Source software, he regularly speaks at events, has authored several books and writes for technology magazines. http://www.plusthought.org BALARAM PONDENKANDATH graduated from FTII Pune in sound recording and sound engineering. He has designed, installed and worked as a recordist at a number of leading sound studios such as Sargam Studio, Audio Bytes of Mumbai, VGP Digital Studios, ABM Digital Studio, Maryan Digital Studio of Chennai and Navodaya of Trivandrum, Jeevan TV satellite channel of Cochin and the dubbing and DTS mixing studios for Easwary Films, Banglore. Currently Balaram is the chief recording engineer at Audeus Studio for Mukta Arts. He consultants with the Music Archive at St. Paul's, Bangalore and does sound engineering for musical shows in India and abroad. http://www.muktaarts.com RUPESH GOEL is Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems, a large developer of custom e-learning solutions. It has a multi-disciplinary team of over 700, including content developers, 3-D animators & modellers, software engineers and instructional designers. TIS e- learning programmes cater to the needs of diverse sectors in the corporate, educational and government arena. Its offerings include business and educational simulations, enterprise applications training, adaptive assessments, story-based learning objects, game- based learning, teacher tools and teaching aids and a host of other applications. http://www.tatainteractive.com VINEET SHROFF trained in aeronautical engineering at IIT Powai. He founded Biond Software in 1994 with Milind Dalvi. Biond is in the space of creating GIS datasets or digital maps for India. His expertise includes procurement and analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery, vectorisation and CAD work, physical field survey and application software development. Vineet is also the founder director of Newreka Chemicals and CEO of Standard Engineers. His special interests include growing exotic fruits. NISHANT SHAH is a researcher in contemporary culture and new digital media based at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore. His interests are in looking at the formation of online communities in the third world through blogging. The construction of identities online and the patterns of social structure that arise due to these activities are of immediate interest to him. Nishant has been designing and teaching courses in contemporary digital cultures for undergraduates at Christ College and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. His work has been published in various poetry anthologies and he dreams of writing a novel some day. http://www.cscsban.org JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR has written extensively on gender, consumer issues, ICT4D, mountain issues and natural resources management and has experimented with new electronic media for community building and networking. Heading the i4d programme of the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies, she brings out the monthly magazine “i4d” and coordinates two research studies. She also works as regional Asia advisor to Bellanet International, promoting ICT tools to provide opportunities to disadvantaged communities and for providing democratic space in the world of the Internet. http://www.i4d.csdms.in http://www.i4donline.net

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Press release: New international study demonstrates worldwide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

News from the University of Southampton Ref: 05/117 23 June 2005 New international study demonstrates worldwide readiness for Open Access mandate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A wide-ranging new international study across all disciplines has found that over 80 per cent of academic researchers the world over would willingly comply with a mandate to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional repository. The findings of the study, carried out by Key Perspectives Ltd, for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK, have been greeted by Southampton's Professor Stevan Harnad as 'a historic turning point in the worldwide research community's progress towards 100 per cent Open Access'. The new results are being reported this week at the International Conference on Policies and Strategies for Open Access to Scientific Information in Beijing, China (22-24 June 2005) by Dr Alma Swan of Key Perspectives, along with new findings from Dr Les Carr, of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the only UK university that already has a self-archiving mandate. Southampton is a leader in the worldwide Open Access movement. The international, cross-disciplinary study on Open Access had 1296 respondents. The main findings are: * The vast majority of authors (81 per cent) would comply willingly with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository; a further 14 per cent would comply reluctantly, and only 5 per cent would not comply (highest willingness, US: 88 per cent; UK: 83 per cent; lowest, China: 58 per cent). * 49 per cent of respondents had already self-archived at least one article in the previous three years * 31 per cent of respondents were not yet aware of the possibilities of self-archiving * Use of institutional repositories for self-archiving had doubled since the first survey (2004) ; the University of Southampton has the highest rate of self-archiving in the UK * Only 20 per cent of authors who self-archived reported any degree of difficulty in self-archiving, and this dropped to 9 per cent with subsequent experience. Les Carr's analyses of Southampton web-logs show that it takes 10 minutes for the first paper, and even less for subsequent papers. * Self-archiving is done the most by those researchers who publish the most papers * Researchers' primary purpose in publishing is to have an impact on their fields (i.e., to be read, used, built upon, and cited) In a separate exercise the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd (IOPP) were asked about their experiences over the last 14 years of existence of arXiv (the open e-print archive which has over 300,000 physics papers deposited). Both publishers said that they could not identify any loss of subscriptions due to arXiv, did not view it as a threat to their own publishing activities and indeed encouraged it. 'These results are hugely important,' said Stevan Harnad, 'and will be highly influential. Currently only 15 per cent of articles are being self-archived worldwide, but we can see from the survey that the overwhelming majority of academic authors everywhere would willingly self-archive if they were asked to do so. The results are already confirmed by the 90% self-archiving rate at Southampton, the first institution to adopt a self-archiving mandate, and by CERN, the world's biggest institution to adopt a self-archiving mandate, with likewise over 90% self-archiving: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W11C2205B http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y24C2105B http://makeashorterlink.com/?O65C4205B 'Universities and research-funders who have hesitated about requiring this now have the clear evidence that a self-archiving mandate would not lead to resistance or resentment. And those who hesitated to mandate out of concern for publishers should note that the publishers with the most and longest experience with author self-archiving welcome it.' On the critical question of whether the optimal route for self-archiving is the central one (as favoured by the US National Institutes of Health) or the distributed institutional model (favoured by the UK), Professor Harnad says that the JISC/Key Perspectives reports provide strong support for the UK Parliamentary Select Committee, which specifically proposed distributed institutional self-archiving. This is now likely to form the basis of a recommendation from Research Councils UK (RCUK), which has been considering the future of Open Access to UK-funded research output. ENDS Notes for Editors 1. Web links for further information Swan, A. and Brown, S. (2005) Open access self-archiving: An author study. Technical Report, External Collaborators, JISC, HEFCE http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10999/ Powerpoints http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/alma-amst.pdf http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/ppts/02-AlmaSwan.ppt Key-stroke study of archiving time: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ Publisher responses including APS and IOPP: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11006/ Beijing meeting http://libraries.csdl.ac.cn/Meeting/MeetingID.asp?MeetingID=7&MeetingMenuID= 39 Swan, A. (2005) JISC Open Access Briefing Paper. Technical Report, JISC, HEFCE. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11005/ Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O'Brien, A., Hardy, R., Rowland, F. and Brown, S. (2005) Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education. Learned Publishing 18(1):pp. 25-40. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11000/ GNU eprints software: http://www.eprints.org/ Citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/ Self-archiving FAQ: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ OSI Eprints Handbook: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/ Institutional Archives Registry: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Journal Self-Archiving Policy Directory http://romeo.eprints.org/ Bibliography of OA Advantage http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html American Scientist Open Access Forum http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h tml UK Science and Technology Committee Policy Recommendation: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/3990 3.htm Berlin-3/Southampton Policy Recommendation: http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html 2. The University of Southampton is the home of GNU EPrints software, the most widely used software for building Institutional Repositories, and the JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) TARDis (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure) project, which has been investigating the technical, cultural and academic issues which surround institutional repositories. 3. The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship. The University has over 20,000 students and over 5000 staff. Its annual turnover is in the region of £270 million. For further information Professor Stevan Harnad (email Harnad(a)soton.ac.uk) Dr Alma Swan (email a.swan(a)talk21.com) Joyce Lewis, Communications Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton (tel.023 8059 5453; j.k.lewis(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk)

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Fwd: Question about Posting
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Aileen McHugh <amm(a)press.jhu.edu> wrote: Subject: Question about Posting Would you consider posting the following survey invitation on your listserv? We have received responses from 25 countries, but none from India, and our second largest subscriber base is in India, after the United States. Thank you for your consideration. Best wishes, Aileen McHugh Director, Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu **************************************************************************** Apologies for Cross Posting Dear Colleagues and Customers, Many thanks to the more than 400 librarians and library support staff worldwide who have responded to the Project MUSE survey about functionality, interface, and navigation. Your input has been invaluable. Recognizing that June is a busy time of year for librarians and library support staff, we have extended the deadline for the functionality study to June 30. The invitation with the revised deadline follows: **************************************** Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu) a collection of 270 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 60 not-for-profit publishers, invites your participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation for our users worldwide. The survey web site is http://muse.jhu.edu/survey. If you have a library-world related blog, please feel free to cross link to this survey. Please complete the survey by Thursday, June 30, 2005. We are sending invitations to our nearly 1200 Project MUSE subscribing libraries throughout the world, but we also invite experts, colleagues, and prospective customers to respond. Multiple responses from individuals in differing roles and at the same library are welcome, since one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question. The survey will take 15 to 30 minutes. You may work on the survey in several sessions. It will save your place if you wish to exit and return, provided no one else accesses the survey from the same browser. Those who complete the survey and include an email address will be entered into a drawing for five gift certificates of $50 each to Amazon.com. For academic libraries in the United States, the survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification. If you would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/ (International, public, and special libraries will not be asked for a Carnegie Classification.) If your library does not subscribe to Project MUSE, sample journal issues and more information about Project MUSE may be accessed online at http://muse.jhu.edu. The search function may be used, and tables of contents and abstracts viewed without a subscription. Trial access to the entire Project MUSE database may be requested for media review and for prospective subscribers by completing the trial request form at http://tools.muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/trial_access.cgi Thank you in advance for your participation. Aileen M. McHugh Director, Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410-516-6981 Fax: 410-516-6968 amm(a)press.jhu.edu --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos Aileen McHugh <amm(a)press.jhu.edu> wrote: Subject: Question about Posting Would you consider posting the following survey invitation on your listserv? We have received responses from 25 countries, but none from India, and our second largest subscriber base is in India, after the United States. Thank you for your consideration. Best wishes, Aileen McHugh Director, Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu **************************************************************************** Apologies for Cross Posting Dear Colleagues and Customers, Many thanks to the more than 400 librarians and library support staff worldwide who have responded to the Project MUSE survey about functionality, interface, and navigation. Your input has been invaluable. Recognizing that June is a busy time of year for librarians and library support staff, we have extended the deadline for the functionality study to June 30. The invitation with the revised deadline follows: **************************************** Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu) a collection of 270 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 60 not-for-profit publishers, invites your participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation for our users worldwide. The survey web site is http://muse.jhu.edu/survey. If you have a library-world related blog, please feel free to cross link to this survey. Please complete the survey by Thursday, June 30, 2005. We are sending invitations to our nearly 1200 Project MUSE subscribing libraries throughout the world, but we also invite experts, colleagues, and prospective customers to respond. Multiple responses from individuals in differing roles and at the same library are welcome, since one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question. The survey will take 15 to 30 minutes. You may work on the survey in several sessions. It will save your place if you wish to exit and return, provided no one else accesses the survey from the same browser. Those who complete the survey and include an email address will be entered into a drawing for five gift certificates of $50 each to Amazon.com. For academic libraries in the United States, the survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification. If you would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/ (International, public, and special libraries will not be asked for a Carnegie Classification.) If your library does not subscribe to Project MUSE, sample journal issues and more information about Project MUSE may be accessed online at http://muse.jhu.edu. The search function may be used, and tables of contents and abstracts viewed without a subscription. Trial access to the entire Project MUSE database may be requested for media review and for prospective subscribers by completing the trial request form at http://tools.muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/trial_access.cgi Thank you in advance for your participation. Aileen M. McHugh Director, Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410-516-6981 Fax: 410-516-6968 amm(a)press.jhu.edu How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/photos/*http://uk.photos.ya… Get Yahoo! Photos

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I am attracted by the honesty of Gandhi than by the glitter and glamour of Google-Prof K.S. Deshpande
by vasanth raj 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

Dear SirMadam The Ruby Red day of Dept. of LIS University of Mysore witnessed for "I am attracted by the honesty of Gandhi than by the glitter and glamour of Google."- K. S. Deshpnade. The fullstory covered by The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062511900300.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear SirMadam The Ruby Red day of Dept. of LIS University of Mysore witnessed for "I am attracted by the honesty of Gandhi than by the glitter and glamour of Google."- K. S. Deshpnade. The fullstory covered by The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062511900300.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062511900300.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Publisher's Annoucement - Single Journal Articles
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

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Hindi software tools and fonts
by Madhuresh 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

In a drive to take computers to the masses through local language interfaces, the IT Department today released free Hindi software tools and fonts, and said such software would made available in 22 Indian languages within the next six months. Releasing the software in the Capital, the National Advisory Council (NAC) Chairperson, Ms Sonia Gandhi, said, "With this launch, we have taken one more progressive step. Mr Rajiv Gandhi would have been happy to see the rapid strides that our country is taking in the IT sector, as this was his dream." The software can either be downloaded from the Web site www.ildc.gov.in or ordered in a CD format. The CD contains tools developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), IIIT, Hyderabad, and private companies such as Modular Infotech, Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd, Priya Informatics, Cadgraf Digital System Ltd, C K Technologies, Prologix and Softview. The tools in Hindi include Hindi True Type Fonts (TTF) with Font Driver, UNICODE-compliant Open Type Fonts (OTF) for Hindi, Hindi Language Multifont Keyboard Engine for TTF, Hindi UNICODE-compliant keyboard driver, BharateeyaOO.o in Hindi, Firefox browser in Hindi, GAIM-Multiprotocol Messenger in Hindi, Columba-Hindi e-mail client, Hindi OCR, Hindi dictionary, spellchecker, generic fonts code and storage code converter for Hindi, Assan typing tutor for Hindi and English, Integrated Word Processor, and Hindi language translation tool and text-to-speech system. Full news at http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/06/21/stories/2005062103180500. htm Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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