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Study released on electronic publishing
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Friends: I received this from the AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Hello: I wanted to share with you a summary of the results from a study The Science Advisory Board (http://www.scienceboard.net) just released on electronic publishing. I've included a blurb about it below and would be interested in any feedback or comments you might have regarding the findings. Thanks, Tamara ### The desire to publish one's research cuts across all scientific fields. Whatever the recipe for one's motivations: 1 teaspoon promotion, 3/4 cup tenure, 2 tablespoons salary, 1/4 cup communication, and a dash of enlightenment, researchers primarily rely on specialty journals to accomplish their publication goals. And in a relatively recent trend, they are increasingly turning toward online versions of specialty print journals to accelerate the publication process. This concentration by discipline coincides with the observation that while Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science enjoy widespread readership, researchers primarily read journals that focus on their narrow area of research. In an electronic journals study of more than 1,900 scientific and medical researchers, The Science Advisory Board found that researcher's assign greater value to online journals that directly aid in their career advancement.The primary attraction of the online versions of print journals is their immediacy: an overwhelming 88% of researchers want peer-reviewed articles posted online before the print version appears. Although a newer format, the future of the online versions of print journals appears to be secure. In fact, roughly 25% of the researchers indicated that it was "not at all" important to receive the print edition of a journal if they have access to the online version. Additionally, increasing use of online resources in recent years has lessened the importance of promoting new online journals in paper journals; instead, respondents typically learn about new journals through references in other articles or by searching the Internet for articles on a certain topic. While there appears to be increasing acceptance of the online versions of print journals by the scientific and medical communities, researchers indicated that the specific features unique to online journals can potentially be improved. Overall, 50% of researchers are highly satisfied with the additional information and search features of online journals. In contrast, 75% of researchers are highly satisfied with the content of online journals. Notwithstanding their affinity for electronic publishing, scientists and clinicians do not want cost to constrain their ability to publish papers or review others' work. Researchers indicated that fees related to these services should be nominal (less than $5/page). This value-consciousness influences scientists' opinions regarding the open access publishing system where there was a negative bias towards authors' fees. However despite these objections, fees are not a key determinant for authors when deciding where to submit their papers. This perception also holds true for how they access information. For instance, the acceptance of pay-per-view is growing-from 4% of researchers in a 2001 electronic journals study to 18% in this study. -- Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., M.P.H. Executive Director ****************************************************** The Science Advisory Board 2111 Wilson Boulevard Suite 250 Arlington, VA 22201 TEL: (703) 778-3080 x 25 FAX: (703) 778-3081 t.zemlo(a)scienceboard.net http://www.scienceboard.net ****************************************************** Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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OAA at CERN
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Friends: Here is some good news for OAA supporters around the world. The world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, has just adopted and registered its Open Access Policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Over 40,000 of CERN's research articles is now OA, and this will soon approach 100% http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdsweb.cern.ch%2F The policy is temporarily available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf When will Indian universities, IITs, NITs and national labs set up their OA archives. Let us make 2005 the year of open access archives in India. Best wishes. Arun Friends: Here is some good news for OAA supporters around the world. The world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, has just adopted and registered its Open Access Policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Over 40,000 of CERN's research articles is now OA, and this will soon approach 100% http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdsweb.cern.ch%2F The policy is temporarily available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf When will Indian universities, IITs, NITs and national labs set up their OA archives. Let us make 2005 the year of open access archives in India. Best wishes. Arun

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request for article
by Yashwant G Kanade 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Repsected Members, Kindly help me to get the following article: Einstein, Albert and Freud, Sigmund. Why War? International Journal of Group Tensions 1:3-25 January-March 1971. Thanks. With regards Yashwant Kanade

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workshop on “Advanced Website Designing and Database Management”
by chauhan 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear All, Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is organizing a workshop on “Advanced Website Designing and Database Management” during 27th June to 1st July 2005. This workshop is intended for young library and information professionals or computer professionals who need to develop high-quality websites for their universities/institutions/colleges and who are having basic knowledge of HTML. Registration form is available for downloading at INFLIBNET’s website. For more information please visit http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/res/brochure.htm or visit http://www.inflibnet.ac.in . With kind regards ___________________________________________________________________________________ Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 43; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.) # Email:sureshbabal@yahoo.com; sureshbabal(a)sify.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Dear All, Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is organizing a workshop on “Advanced Website Designing and Database Management” during 27 th June to 1 st July 2005 . This workshop is intended for young library and information professionals or computer professionals who need to develop high-quality websites for their universities/institutions/colleges and who are having basic knowledge of HTML. Registration form is available for downloading at INFLIBNET’s website. For more information please visit http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/res/brochure.htm http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/res/brochure.htm or visit http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in . With kind regards ___________________________________________________________________________________ Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 43; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.) # Email: mailto:sureshbabal@yahoo.com sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com ; mailto:sureshbabal@sify.com sureshbabal(a)sify.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

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Library position opening
by Casius C Issac 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear professional colleagues India Today Group is looking for three library professionals at entry level for a project at Delhi Essentially looking for people whom can index documents and photographes . People who are living in Delhi or NCR need only contact him . Interested candidates may call and fix an appointment with Mr Rajesh Sharma (telephone no 23315801 extn 263 )at latest by 25Mar05 telephone no 23315801 extn 263 (before 6 pm) You can also forward a copy of Your biodata to me Regards Casius C Issac Dear professional colleagues India Today Group is looking for three library professionals at entry level for a project at Delhi Essentially looking for people whom can index documents and photographes . People who are living in Delhi or NCR need only contact him . Interested candidates may call and fix an appointment with Mr Rajesh Sharma (telephone no 23315801 extn 263 ) at latest by 25Mar05 telephone no 23315801 extn 263 (before 6 pm) You can also forward a copy of Your biodata to me Regards Casius C Issac

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request for fulltext
by Mailing List Manager 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Date: 22 Mar 2005 10:29:07 -0000 From: Sangeetha Govindasami <sangeetha.govindasami(a)rediffmail.com> To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in � Dear Members, One of the student needs the full text of the following articles. If you can help me in getting the articles I will be highly thankful to you. 1. Evaluation of physiological index on treadmill exercise testing of 294 healthy children in Shanghai area , Guo y, Zhou AQ, Gao W, LIF, LIY, Yang JP, Zhu M, Zhang HY , Zhonghua Er Ke Za Zhi. 2003 May 41 (5) 338-43 2. A comparison of continuous and intermittent progressive multistage exercise testing Fardy PS, Hellerstein HK , Med sci sports. 1978 spring; 10 (1): 7-12 PMID: 672550 [PUBMED-Indexed for MEDLINE] G.Sangeetha Ph.D in the Dept of LIS Annamalai University Tamil Nadu India

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORM(request for articles)
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Sangeetha You may also search in Guide to periodical literature under the probable & desired topics Feminist theories. Best wishes Theresa Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Manish Mankad Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:30 PM To: 'Sangeetha Govindasami'; LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORM(request for articles) You shd search magazines like Economic and Political weekly, Manushi for this issue in context to India. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Sangeetha Govindasami Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:55 AM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORM(request for articles) Dear Members, I am undergoing a research on gender issues. Hence I need some full text articles on Feminist theories. If any one can help me in sending the articles I would be highly thankful. Sangeetha G.Sangeetha Project Fellow Dept of LIS Annamalai University. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Yahoo to upgrade email storage from 250MB to 1GB
by Farooque Shaheen 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Yahoo today announced it would increase the email storage from 250MB to 1GB. Global storage upgrade will begin in late April and take about two weeks to complete. The Internet media company also said it is beefing up anti-virus protection for free e-mail users, giving them the ability to remove viruses from attachments -- a feature that had only been available to paying users Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo today announced it would increase the email storage from 250MB to 1GB. Global storage upgrade will begin in late April and take about two weeks to complete. The Internet media company also said it is beefing up anti-virus protection for free e-mail users, giving them the ability to remove viruses from attachments -- a feature that had only been available to paying users Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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temporary position at CFTRI Library
by padmavathi t 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Dear Colleagues (Specially from Mysore), There is a small temporary position fetching about Rs.2000/- p.m at our library. The person must have science background with biological subjects and also knowledge and experience of data entry using CDS/ISIS package. Abstracting/ Indexing knowledge with good typing speed is advantageous. Locals from Mysore with accomodation to stay may contact the head of FOSTIS/Library Services. Thanks T.Padmavathi FOSTIS/Library Services CFTRI, Mysore 570 020 e-mail: fostis(a)cscftri.ren.nic.in Tel No: 0821-2515850 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Fw: [BOAI] Finnish Prime Minister on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Friends: The Prime Minister of Finland has spoken unequivocally in favour of open access. In fact, developing countries should be interested in making all knowledge open access much more than developed countries. Will political leaders, science policy makers and administrators of science and higher education in the developing countries follow the example of the Finnish Prime Minister? Or, even better, if heads of research institutions and vice chancellors of universities take the laed and set up their own institutions' interoperable open access archives - as Indian Institute of Science has done. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Suber" <peters(a)earlham.edu> To: <SPARC-OAForum(a)arl.org>; <boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: [BOAI] Finnish Prime Minister on OA > [I thank Kimmo Kuusela, both for pointing out this speech and for the > translating this excerpt. --Peter.] > > > The Prime Minister of Finland, Mr. Matti Vanhanen, has said something > positive about open access. From his speech on 12 January (my quick > translation): > > "One important recommendation concerns the advancement of open access > scientific publishing. The goal is that scientific publications will be > freely available on the net for citizens and scholars. At the moment the > usage and availability of the scientific publications is curtailed by the > high subscription fees of printed journals and electronic scientific > publications, and also by publishing agreements in which the scholars > surrender some of their rights to the publishers. In the name of the > progress of science and for the benefit of research it is necessary that > the results of the scientific inquiry reach both the academic community > and the general public as soon and as easily as possible. I regard this > issue especially important also from the point of view of the Information > Society Programme of the government." > > The speech in Finnish: > http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/vn/liston/base.lsp?r=91325&k=fi&old=1300&rapo=… >

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