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Introducing Bibliocasting List
by Gerry Mckiernan 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Posted on Behalf of Dave Lankes Apologies for Cross-Posting PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE WIDELY Introducing the Bibliocasting listserv. The bibliocasting listserv (bibliocasting(a)listserv.syr.edu) is dedicated to a discussion of streaming media in the library environment. This list grows out of the increasing popularity of "Podcasting," or the use of RSS and the Internet to download audio programs (like audio blogs) to computers and MP3 players. A recent Reuters story states: "Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod say they have downloaded podcast programs from the Internet, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found...That means more than 6 million people are listening to a form of communication that emerged only last year, according to the nonprofit group." So what to post on the list? Examples of how libraries can build on the growing excitement of Podcasting; Questions on how libraries can use podcasting and other multimedia information they create to promote themselves and provide better service; Questions on how to podcast and other technical questions on streaming media including QuickTime Streaming, RealProducer, and others. In addition, the list will include postings of key articles, reports, and news about podcating and other streaming media in general and in the the library context. Bottom Line: We are looking to build a community of individuals interested in the application of multimedia in the library environment. SUBSCRIBING TO THE LIST You can get the listserv in two ways. The first is through e-mail. To subscribe to the list send an e-mail to listserv(a)listserv.syr.edu with the entire message (no subject line): subscribe bibliocasting FirstName LastName We have also set up a podcast for the list...that's right, you can listen to the list. Each post is transformed from text-to-speech, and syndicated using RSS. The RSS feed (podcast feed) for the list is at: http://drew.syr.edu/iis4/pod/pod.xml _____________________________ "Virtual Dave" Lankes, Ph.D. Executive Director Information Institute of Syracuse School of Information Studies, Syracuse University http://www.DavidLankes.org

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DSpace @ NCL
by Shyam Prasad pujar 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

** Sorry for Cross Postings, if any ** Dear Members, National Chemical Laboratory [NCL], Pune, a CSIR lab of India, has launched its digital repository on the Internet. Presently it has a collection of 176 PhD theses (Chemical and Biological Sciences) along with some samples of Patents, research reports. Shortly, it will be added with more resources. The repository can be accessed at: http://dspace.ncl.res.in For information regarding this initiative, you may please contact: Dr. M. Karthikeyan Scientist Digital Information Resource Center (DIRC) National Chemical Laboratory NCL Post, Pune - 411 008. India Ph: +91-20-25893400 extn. 2483 -25893457 Extn. 23 FAX: + 91-202-5893973 http://www.ncl-india.org/ e-mail: karthi_ncl(a)yahoo.com; karthi(a)ems.ncl.res.in Regards, Shamprasad Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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etd@IISc: DSpace-based ETD repository of Indian Institute of Science
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Dear All I am glad to inform you that, as a collaborative effort between NCSI and IISc Library, we have recently set up etd@IISc, the theses repository of IISc, using DSpace. It is accessible at: http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ etd@IISc repository has been developed to capture, preserve and disseminate research theses of our institute. We expect the repository to grow in the coming days. etd@IISc is compliant to ETD-MS metadata specifications recommended by NDLTD and is also OAI v 2.0 compliant. etd@IISc grew out of two trainee projects in the NCSI IKM training programme. This service complements ePrints@IISc - the research publications repository of IISc (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/) operational for about 2 years now. It is growing steadily and is receiving significant accesses from around the world, with about 15,000 abstract/ full text views per month. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Regards Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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Do digital libraries violate the Third Law?
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Dear Friends, There is an interesting article on the following URL. http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA512… Some Extracts are given below: .."Every book, its reader" almost means that "resources look for people." Thus, the job of librarians is to help these resources find the people who want and need them the most. Library patrons, Ranganathan points out, often do not know enough about available resources to know what to request. Any organization of the electronic or physical library that focuses only on getting the readers what they ask for neglects two key components of good library practice: browsing and linking.. ..Because of today's confusing array of resources, new violations of the third law have emerged. Consider search engines. No one focused on creating a "well-arranged collection" of e-resources can ignore that users are going to Google for quick or even substantive information requests. Google gives marvelously fast access to massive amounts of information (and misinformation). It is almost everyone's favorite place for a quick search. In fact, one could say that Google usually passes the fourth law (save the time of the reader) with flying colors—except when the plethora of hits slows the reader down. With the advent of Google Print and particularly Google Scholar, more and more students and researchers will begin their work on Google... Any comments? Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/indmedtraining/

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request for pointers related to Mesuring Information Economy.
by Mailing List Manager 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:39:36 +0100 (BST) From: chaitra m <chaitra_7_m(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir/Madam, I am going to present assignment on "Measuring Information Economy:Input -Output Analysis" I would request you to provide some materials . Thanking you, Chaitra. Dept. of library & informaiton Science ,Manasagangothri. UOM, Mysore-06

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Donation of Computer Journals
by Anita Kumari 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

Dear Members We are interested in donating Computer Magazines and Journals of previous years. Interested Libraries please may contact at below address. Looking forward. Thanks with Regards Anita Kumari Library Operations IBM India Research Lab. Block - 1, Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016, India Phone : +91-11-2686 1100 Ext:2161 Fax : +91-11-2686 1555 E-Mail : anitkuma(a)in.ibm.com Dear Members We are interested in donating �Computer Magazines and Journals of previous years. Interested Libraries please may contact at below address. Looking forward. Thanks with Regards Anita Kumari Library Operations IBM India Research Lab. Block - 1, Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016, India Phone : +91-11-2686 1100 �Ext:2161 Fax : +91-11-2686 1555 E-Mail : anitkuma(a)in.ibm.com

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Civilians not allowed entry to library in Cantt
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

My Comment: Please read the news item below. A library in such a sorry state of affairs -- is not worth fighting - not even for entry rights by civilians. We need to bother only when the library is worth something. Vyasamoorthy, P Express News Service http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=123613 Lucknow, April 3: THE board reads: Civilians not allowed! No, we are not taking you back to the British raaj but to our very own Cantt area. If you are a bibliophile and also a civilian in the cantonment area, you should be ready for the rude fact that the area does not offer library facility to those not a part of the defence forces. Those from the force have a well-equipped library on the main Mahatma Gandhi road but no civilian is allowed to have access to the books there, as it is open only for defence personnel and ex servicemen. Moved by the inconvenience of over one lakh civilians who live in the cantonment area, erstwhile chief executive officer of the Cantonment Board, Indrajit Kaur had taken the initiative to get an existing library in Sadar area, near the government hospital, renovated in the year 2000. Books worth lakhs of rupees were purchased and brought here for the first-of its-kind library for people of non-defence background in the area. The library had separate sections for children and adults depending on their tastes, but with the passage of time, the library has become an epitome of neglect. The situation has come to such a pass that it is rarely opened these days and no new books have been purchased for the last three years and the existing books are rotting. "We have raised the issue a number of times but no one is ready to pay heed to the genuine demands of the civilians. All efforts have gone in vain. The issue of library will not be solved forever unless the cantonment board holds its elections (which have been put on hold for the last two years following an SC intervention) ," maintains Shyam Narain Pandey, the former corporator of the cantonment board. ==================== 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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Job Openings at Monitor
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Dear Friends Monitor Information Services are the Hyderabad headquartered Importers, Distributors and Library suppliers of Technical Books, CD-ROM'S and E-books. Monitor currently caters to R&D Libraries spread across length and breath of India. To fulfill our expansion plans for the year 2005-06, there are job openings at various levels in our Sales n Marketing Division. We are interest in young dynamic educated experienced persons looking forward to work with a growing national-level organization. We extend remuneration n fringe benefits best comparable with the industry standard. Please send your detailed resume by e-mail at jobs(a)monitorinfo.com or by post to our mailing address, given below. Job Interviews will be conducted in various regions during May'2005. Please forward this message to person/s, you know, who may be interested in such job opening. Thanks n Regards The HR Manager MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Opp. Deepak Theatre, Narayanguda Hyderabad - 500 029 T: 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 F: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Dear Friends Monitor Information Services are the Hyderabad headquartered Importers, Distributors and Library suppliers of Technical Books, CD-ROM'S and E-books. Monitor currently caters to R&D Libraries spread across length and breath of India. To fulfill our expansion plans for the year 2005-06, there are job openings at various levels in our Sales n Marketing Division. We are interest in young dynamic educated experienced persons looking forward to work with a growing national-level organization. We extend remuneration n fringe benefits best comparable with the industry standard. Please send your detailed resume by e-mail at mailto:jobs@monitorinfo.com jobs(a)monitorinfo.com or by post to our mailing address, given below. Job Interviews will be conducted in various regions during May'2005. Please forward this message to person/s, you know, who may be interested in such job opening. Thanks n Regards The HR Manager MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Opp. Deepak Theatre, Narayanguda Hyderabad - 500 029 T: 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 F: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com

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Amazing : 2 GB from Gmail
by Jayadev P Hiremath 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

SAN JOSE: A year after unveiling a free e-mail service with a full gigabyte of storage, Google is doubling the capacity of each account and plans to keep bumping up the limit in the future. Once the upgrade takes effect on Friday, Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and attachments for each account. Even more capacity will be made available after that as it becomes feasible, the company said. "Our goal is to make sure storage is no longer an issue for Web mail users," said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. The announcement was made on the first anniversary of the Internet search engine's launch of Gmail, which surprised many users with its generous storage allotment and prompted rivals Yahoo and Microsoft to boost the capacity of their own free Web mail services.

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Oa increases research impact
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Here is the abstract of a talk Stevan Harnad will deliver at Indiana University on 5 April 2005. Please spread the word about the advantages of institutional archiving. Arun Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving Stevan Harnad Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southhampton Abstract: There are two roads to Open Access (OA) (toll-free online full-text access to peer-reviewed journal articles)/ The "golden" road is for the world's 24,000 peer-reviewed journals to convert from the user-institution cost-recovery model to the author-institution cost-recovery model (OA Journal Publishing), as about 5% of them have done. There is still some risk and uncertainty associated with this untested gold-journal cost-recovery model, however, so most journals (91%) have instead taken the "green" road, giving their authors the green light to provide OA for their own individual articles if they wish, by self-archiving them in their own institutional OA Eprint Archives. There is still much confusion about these two very different roads to OA, with some thinking that OA = OA Publishing (gold). Some also think OA is only or mainly to solve the libraries' serials crisis (the journal pricing/affordability problem), whereas the real problem OA is intended to solve is the researchers' access/impact problem. The proposed US, UK, Australian and Canadian mandates to self-archive all funded research are also widely misunderstood as mandating gold, pressuring publishers toward adopting the OA Journal cost-recovery model, whereas they are in fact mandating green, pressuring fundees to provide OA for their findings by self-archiving them. I will present quantitative evidence on the degree to which supplementing the licensed journal access version of an article with an author self-archived Open Access version of the same article increases both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact of the article; the evidence also shows that download impact today can predict citation impact in 2 years. More information. Biographical Sketch: Stevan Harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University, and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Quebec/Montreal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences. He is Past President of the Society for Philosopy and Psychology, and author and contributor to over 150 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Academy of Sciences 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Academic Press 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (Cambridge University Press 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (Cambridge University Press 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (Cambridge University Press 1988) and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep). Here is the abstract of a talk Stevan Harnad will deliver at Indiana University on 5 April 2005. Please spread the word about the advantages of institutional archiving. Arun Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving Stevan Harnad Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southhampton Abstract: There are two roads to Open Access (OA) (toll-free online full-text access to peer-reviewed journal articles)/ The "golden" road is for the world's 24,000 peer-reviewed journals to convert from the user-institution cost-recovery model to the author-institution cost-recovery model ( http://www.doaj.org/ OA Journal Publishing ), as about 5% of them have done. There is still some risk and uncertainty associated with this untested gold-journal cost-recovery model, however, so http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php most journals (91%) have instead taken the "green" road, giving their authors the green light to provide OA for their own individual articles if they wish, by self-archiving them in their own institutional http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse OA Eprint Archives . There is still much confusion about these two very different roads to OA, with some thinking that OA = OA Publishing (gold). Some also think OA is only or mainly to solve the libraries' serials crisis (the journal pricing/affordability problem), whereas the real problem OA is intended to solve is the researchers' access/impact problem. The proposed US, UK, Australian and Canadian mandates to self-archive all funded research are also widely misunderstood as mandating gold, pressuring publishers toward adopting the OA Journal cost-recovery model, whereas they are in fact mandating green, pressuring fundees to provide OA for their findings by self-archiving them. I will present quantitative evidence on the degree to which supplementing the licensed journal access version of an article with an author self-archived Open Access version of the same article increases both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact of the article; the evidence also shows that download impact today can predict citation impact in 2 years. http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ More information . Biographical Sketch: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Stevan Harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University, and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Quebec/Montreal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of http://www.bbsonline.org/ Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), and the http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences. He is Past President of the Society for Philosopy and Psychology, and author and contributor to over 150 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Academy of Sciences 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Academic Press 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (Cambridge University Press 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (Cambridge University Press 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (Cambridge University Press 1988) and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep).

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