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Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Friends: Are you all aware of the "Science Commons"? I got to know about it through a message I received from Dave Pentecost in today's mail and I thought I must alert you all immediately. Arun http://science.creativecommons.org/ Welcome to Science Commons Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. Background The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data. Powered by developments in electronic storage and computational capability, scientific inquiry is becoming more data-intensive in almost every discipline. Whether the field is meteorology, genomics, medicine, or high-energy physics, research depends on the availability of multiple databases, from multiple public and private sources, and their openness to easy recombination, search and processing. The American Traditions In the United States, this process has traditionally been supported by a series of policies, laws, and practices that were largely invisible even to those who worked in the sciences themselves. First, American intellectual property law (and, until recently, the law of most developed countries) did not allow for intellectual property protection of "raw facts." One could patent the mousetrap, not the data on the behavior of mice, or the tensile strength of steel. A scientific article could be copyrighted. The data on which it rested could not be. Commercial proprietary ownership was to be limited to a stage close to the point where a finished product entered the marketplace. The data upstream remained for all the world to use. Second, US law mandated that even those federal government works that could be copyrighted, fell immediately into the public domain - a provision of great importance given massive governmental involvement in scientific research. More broadly, the practice in federally funded scientific research was to encourage the widespread dissemination of data at or below cost in the belief that, like the interstate system, this provision of a public good would yield incalculable economic benefits. Third, in the sciences themselves, and particularly in the universities, a strong sociological tradition - sometimes called the Mertonian tradition of open science - discouraged the proprietary exploitation of data (as opposed to inventions derived from data) and required as a condition of publication the availability of the datasets on which the work was based. Innovation in Technology and Legal Friction Each of these three central tenets evolved from concepts that existed even before the Industrial Revolution--at the innately slow rate of change of the legal system. Similarly, scientific publication has a long-standing tradition. Modern technologies, especially the evolving use of the World Wide Web as a library, have forever changed the mechanisms for delivery and replication of documents. In many fields, results are published nearly as quickly as they are found. But copyright law has evolved at a different rate. Progress in modern technology combined with a legal system designed for a different technology-based environment is now leading to some unintended consequences. One of these is a kind of legal "friction" that hinders reuse of scientific discoveries and could lead to discouraging innovation. To counterbalance, a large and vibrant community has joined together in support of the concept of Open Access for scientific literature - "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions". The U.S. National Institutes of Health have proposed mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research starting six months after the print date, and there is support for the initiative in the U.S. Congress. Most major journals have granted authors the right to self-publish versions of their peer-reviewed papers. But the legal questions - how can an author make her work available to the public, while taking comfort that she retains some rights to it - have yet to be answered. The different rates of change between modern technology and the law create friction in other places as well. For example, in the genetic realm, patent law has moved perilously close to being an intellectual property right over raw facts - the C's, G's A's and T's of a particular gene sequence. In other areas, complex contracts of adhesion create de facto intellectual property rights over databases, complete with "reach through agreements" and multiple limitations on use. Legislatively, the US is considering and the EU has adopted a "database right" which actually does accord intellectual property protection to facts - changing one of the most fundamental premises of intellectual property: that one could never own facts, or ideas, only the inventions or expressions yielded by their intersection. The Federal government's role is also changing. Under the important and admirable Bayh-Dole statute, federally funded researchers are encouraged to look for potential commercial use of their research. Universities have become partners in developing and reaping the fruits of research. This process has yielded amazing results in many cases by converting raw, basic science into useful products in many industries. But as a consequence, the quest to commercialize has moved upstream in some cases, to the fundamental levels of research and data, and that has created complex legal requirements. While the details can get complex when the intellectual property at hand is a novel "method" for assaying biological activity, there are even more questions about patents covering the genes, proteins and their inferred functions. The sheer cost in terms of time and money of such complex, multi-party legal work can take intellectual property "out of play" - it is simply more expensive to do the lawyer work than the product might reap on the open markets after the legal work is done. This hinders scientific innovation, as the value of scientific information increases exponentially in connection with other scientific information, and is of the least possible value when segregated by law. The Search for a Solution These facts have not gone unnoticed. Numerous scientists have pointed out the irony that, at the historical moment when we have the technologies to permit worldwide availability and distributed processing of scientific data, legal restrictions on transfer make it harder to connect the dots. Learned societies including the National Academies of Sciences, federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and other groups have all expressed concern about the trends that are developing. Any solution will be need to be as complex as the problem it seeks to solve, which is to say it will be interdisciplinary, multinational, and involve both public and private initiatives. Enter Science Commons Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science. 1) Science Publishing /Open Access Journals & Archives Here Science Commons continues the traditional Creative Commons role as public interest lawyer. Existing Creative Commons licenses have immediate relevance in the field of scientific publishing. We cite as an example the Public Library of Science (PLoS) which has agreed to adopt CC attribution license as its standard license - enabling anyone to make and distribute translations, as long as they give credit to the original authors. But there are many more issues; the legal side has been slow to evolve, creating unnecessary pain, expense and barriers to innovation. We believe that, in addition to the CC licenses already created, scientific publication creates other areas for licenses, such as: a.. Licenses in other journals b.. Licenses on pre/postprints c.. Licenses for author self-archiving d.. Mechanisms for author self-archiving e.. Legal implications of Open Access business models f.. Application of machine-readable licenses to documents 2) Licensing and Technology Transfer Some barriers to the flow of scientific data or scientific discoveries are necessary; used the right way, patents, for example, can give the incentives necessary to fund future research. The question is whether there are unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific data and discovery that Science Commons can help solve. This effort is exploratory. It contemplates the traditional role of public interest legal group, but extends beyond copyright into the realms of patents, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. We are interested in exploring questions such as: a.. How to use collective action to keep upsream data flowing? b.. Would standard, open licenses reduce transaction costs in intellectual property licensing? c.. What value would standard, open licensing bring for orphan diseases and diseases of the global poor? d.. What would a realistic "technology trust" require in terms of standard licenses? e.. How can funding organizations and universities utilize standard, open licenses? f.. How to preserve the traditional public domain nature of databases? 3) Inefficient Data Economy Another trend in the sciences is towards the parallelization of data generation - more simply, machines are taking over the role of creating the data points, while humans remain the primary interpreters of data. Under Bayh-Dole, it is precisely these interpretations that are typically of the highest value: the mechanisms of action by which cancer operates, or the inferred function of a gene. Only a small percentage of the raw data is actually used to support such interpretations. The innovators also utilize only a small portion of the raw data, with the first step in analysis being a statistical reduction of data. After all, what scientist can store and interrogate a mental model of over 25,000 genes? This represents a massively wasteful data economy, in which valuable information about the state changes and contextual behavior of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences simply spills onto the floor. Signigicant efforts to archive such sets online exist, but there are many legal and technical issues to consider. Science Commons is exploring both the legal mechanisms that govern raw datasets online and technological approaches to publishing those datasets that make them more useful. The World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web for Life Sciences effort is a key part of this exploration, as is the MIT DSpace project in digital archiving. We intend to ask such questions as: a.. How many combinations have been tested just because they were implicit on the design of the experiment as a massively parallel array? b.. How many of those hypotheses were actually contemplated by the creators of the experiment? c.. How have these 50 genes been observed to behave in a given tissue, across all public experiments? d.. What are the contractual terms that could govern such datasets? Links Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture BIOS Alliance for Taxpayer Access Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain Public Library of Science BioMedCentral NIH Open Access Resource Peter Suber's NIH Open Access FAQ Open Archives Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative SPARC Institute for One World Health Friends: Are you all aware of the "Science Commons"? I got to know about it through a message I received from Dave Pentecost in today's mail and I thought I must alert you all immediately. Arun http://science.creativecommons.org/ http://science.creativecommons.org/ Welcome to Science Commons Science Commons is a new project of http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons and will launch early 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. Background The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data. Powered by developments in electronic storage and computational capability, scientific inquiry is becoming more data-intensive in almost every discipline. Whether the field is meteorology, genomics, medicine, or high-energy physics, research depends on the availability of multiple databases, from multiple public and private sources, and their openness to easy recombination, search and processing. The American Traditions In the United States, this process has traditionally been supported by a series of policies, laws, and practices that were largely invisible even to those who worked in the sciences themselves. First, American intellectual property law (and, until recently, the law of most developed countries) did not allow for intellectual property protection of "raw facts." One could patent the mousetrap, not the data on the behavior of mice, or the tensile strength of steel. A scientific article could be copyrighted. The data on which it rested could not be. Commercial proprietary ownership was to be limited to a stage close to the point where a finished product entered the marketplace. The data upstream remained for all the world to use. Second, US law mandated that even those federal government works that could be copyrighted, fell immediately into the public domain - a provision of great importance given massive governmental involvement in scientific research. More broadly, the practice in federally funded scientific research was to encourage the widespread dissemination of data at or below cost in the belief that, like the interstate system, this provision of a public good would yield incalculable economic benefits. Third, in the sciences themselves, and particularly in the universities, a strong sociological tradition - sometimes called the Mertonian tradition of open science - discouraged the proprietary exploitation of data (as opposed to inventions derived from data) and required as a condition of publication the availability of the datasets on which the work was based. Innovation in Technology and Legal Friction Each of these three central tenets evolved from concepts that existed even before the Industrial Revolution--at the innately slow rate of change of the legal system. Similarly, scientific publication has a long-standing tradition. Modern technologies, especially the evolving use of the World Wide Web as a library, have forever changed the mechanisms for delivery and replication of documents. In many fields, results are published nearly as quickly as they are found. But copyright law has evolved at a different rate. Progress in modern technology combined with a legal system designed for a different technology-based environment is now leading to some unintended consequences. One of these is a kind of legal "friction" that hinders reuse of scientific discoveries and could lead to discouraging innovation. To counterbalance, a large and vibrant community has joined together in support of the concept of Open Access for scientific literature - " http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions ". The U.S. National Institutes of Health have http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html proposed mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research starting six months after the print date, and there is support for the initiative in the U.S. Congress. Most major journals have granted authors the right to self-publish versions of their peer-reviewed papers. But the legal questions - how can an author make her work available to the public, while taking comfort that she retains some rights to it - have yet to be answered. The different rates of change between modern technology and the law create friction in other places as well. For example, in the genetic realm, patent law has moved perilously close to being an intellectual property right over raw facts - the C's, G's A's and T's of a particular gene sequence. In other areas, complex contracts of adhesion create de facto intellectual property rights over databases, complete with "reach through agreements" and multiple limitations on use. Legislatively, the US is considering and the EU has adopted a "database right" which actually does accord intellectual property protection to facts - changing one of the most fundamental premises of intellectual property: that one could never own facts, or ideas, only the inventions or expressions yielded by their intersection. The Federal government's role is also changing. Under the important and admirable http://www.cogr.edu/docs/Bayh_Dole.pdf Bayh-Dole statute , federally funded researchers are encouraged to look for potential commercial use of their research. Universities have become partners in developing and reaping the fruits of research. This process has yielded amazing results in many cases by converting raw, basic science into useful products in many industries. But as a consequence, the quest to commercialize has moved upstream in some cases, to the fundamental levels of research and data, and that has created complex legal requirements. While the details can get complex when the intellectual property at hand is http://www.signalsmag.com/signalsmag.nsf/0/8F89A41E7971F90888256EA9006A99DE a novel "method" for assaying biological activity, there are even more questions about http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/17/cx_mh_0217pfe_print.html patents covering the genes, proteins and their inferred functions . The sheer cost in terms of time and money of such complex, multi-party legal work can take intellectual property "out of play" - it is simply more expensive to do the lawyer work than the product might reap on the open markets after the legal work is done. This hinders scientific innovation, as the value of scientific information increases exponentially in connection with other scientific information, and is of the least possible value when segregated by law. The Search for a Solution These facts have not gone unnoticed. Numerous scientists have pointed out the irony that, at the historical moment when we have the technologies to permit worldwide availability and distributed processing of scientific data, legal restrictions on transfer make it harder to connect the dots. Learned societies including the National Academies of Sciences, federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and other groups have all expressed concern about the trends that are developing. Any solution will be need to be as complex as the problem it seeks to solve, which is to say it will be interdisciplinary, multinational, and involve both public and private initiatives. Enter Science Commons Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons in the realm of science. 1) Science Publishing /Open Access Journals & Archives Here Science Commons continues the traditional Creative Commons role as public interest lawyer. Existing Creative Commons licenses have immediate relevance in the field of scientific publishing. We cite as an example the http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Public Library of Science (PLoS) which has agreed to adopt CC attribution license as its standard license - enabling anyone to make and distribute translations, as long as they give credit to the original authors. But there are many more issues; the legal side has been slow to evolve, creating unnecessary pain, expense and barriers to innovation. We believe that, in addition to the CC licenses already created, scientific publication creates other areas for licenses, such as: Licenses in other journals Licenses on pre/postprints Licenses for author self-archiving Mechanisms for author self-archiving Legal implications of Open Access business models Application of machine-readable licenses to documents 2) Licensing and Technology Transfer Some barriers to the flow of scientific data or scientific discoveries are necessary; used the right way, patents, for example, can give the incentives necessary to fund future research. The question is whether there are unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific data and discovery that Science Commons can help solve. This effort is exploratory. It contemplates the traditional role of public interest legal group, but extends beyond copyright into the realms of patents, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. We are interested in exploring questions such as: How to use collective action to keep upsream data flowing? Would standard, open licenses reduce transaction costs in intellectual property licensing? What value would standard, open licensing bring for orphan diseases and diseases of the global poor? What would a realistic "technology trust" require in terms of standard licenses? How can funding organizations and universities utilize standard, open licenses? How to preserve the traditional public domain nature of databases? 3) Inefficient Data Economy Another trend in the sciences is towards the parallelization of data generation - more simply, machines are taking over the role of creating the data points, while humans remain the primary interpreters of data. Under Bayh-Dole, it is precisely these interpretations that are typically of the highest value: the mechanisms of action by which cancer operates, or the inferred function of a gene. Only a small percentage of the raw data is actually used to support such interpretations. The innovators also utilize only a small portion of the raw data, with the first step in analysis being a statistical reduction of data. After all, what scientist can store and interrogate a mental model of over 25,000 genes? This represents a massively wasteful data economy, in which valuable information about the state changes and contextual behavior of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences simply spills onto the floor. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ Signigicant efforts to archive such sets online exist , but there are many legal and technical issues to consider. Science Commons is exploring both the legal mechanisms that govern raw datasets online and technological approaches to publishing those datasets that make them more useful. The http://www.w3.org/ World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web for Life Sciences effort is a key part of this exploration, as is the MIT http://www.dspace.org/ DSpace project in digital archiving. We intend to ask such questions as: How many combinations have been tested just because they were implicit on the design of the experiment as a massively parallel array? How many of those hypotheses were actually contemplated by the creators of the experiment? How have these 50 genes been observed to behave in a given tissue, across all public experiments? What are the contractual terms that could govern such datasets? Links http://www.pipra.org/ Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture http://www.bios.net/ BIOS http://www.arl.org/ata/ Alliance for Taxpayer Access http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Public Library of Science http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMedCentral http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm NIH Open Access Resource http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Peter Suber's NIH Open Access FAQ http://www.openarchives.org/ Open Archives Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC http://www.oneworldhealth.org/ Institute for One World Health

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Document Imaging and Document Management-course
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

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Document management organizes scanned documents, paper documents, and born-digital documents in their native-format, for compliance with records retention requirements, including permanent preservation. The course content is intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever. The course may be too broad for those students seeking to learn a specific software application. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, searching, retrieving, viewing, printing, preserving, and authenticating documents for document imaging systems, and archives. 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Document management organizes scanned documents, paper documents, and born-digital documents in their native-format, for compliance with records retention requirements, including permanent preservation. The course content is intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever. The course may be too broad for those students seeking to learn a specific software application. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, searching, retrieving, viewing, printing, preserving, and authenticating documents for document imaging systems, and archives. 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12 Mar '05

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On OAA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories. Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005 http://www.uksg.org/ http://www.uksg.org/ A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories Stephen Pinfield Information Services Hallward Library, University Park, University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109 http://uk.f304.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Stephen.Pinfield@Nottingham.ac.… Stephen.Pinfield(a)Nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/ Abstract: Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London, Tuesday 23 November 2004 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional repositories.

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fulbright announced ....
by Puttaraj Choukimath 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States. These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration. New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org. Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! Dear All: Hope all of you are enjoying the spring season! I am happy to inform you that USEFI has announced the competition for the 2006-2007 Fulbright fellowships for Indian academics, school teachers and professionals for graduate study, research, teaching and professional development in the United States.� These fellowships cover a wide range of disciplines including art/culture management, conflict resolution, education, the humanities and social sciences, law, management, museum studies and public administration.� New additions this year include the Fulbright Master�s Fellowships for Leadership Development, designed for outstanding Indians, preferably in the age group of 25-30 years, to pursue a master�s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Public Administration, Economics, Communication Studies and Environment. These fellowships will be specially targeted at highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor�s degree, have at least three years professional or work experience, and are committed to return and contribute to their communities. For application details and forms, visit http://www.fulbright-india.org/ http://www.fulbright-india.org . Application material can also be collected in person from any of the USEFI offices, after March 20, 2005. Request you to bring this to the notice of interested applicants. Best wishes, Yours sincerely Puttaraj. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Try our new resources site!

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medIND now Includes 32 Full Text Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

The Following Journals have been added to medIND Project [http://medind.nic.in] 1. Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2. Journal of Family Welfare With addition of these two journals, medIND site now provides FREE ACCESS to FULL TEXT of Following 32 Indian Biomedical Journals indexed in IndMED [http://indmed.nic.in] * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs In next few weeks one more Journal i.e. Indian Journal of Nephrology would become the 33rd Journal under medIND. --Thanks Sukhdev Singh, Principal Systems Analyst, Webmaster : http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

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Request for the vendor
by Yashwant G Kanade 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Respected Members, I would request you to provide me the list of vendors or persons who provides the articles/papers from some journals either soft or hard copy even on payment basis. Thank you very much with Regards Yashwant G Kanade Library and Information Centre CES, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12

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WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: <http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html>, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. WIPO Manifesto for Transparency, Participation, Balance and Access Dear Professionals: The following open letter will be sent to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, calling for TRANSPARENCY, PARTICIPATION, BALANCE and ACCESS in its work. Prior to a large and ambitious publicity campaign, your sign-on to this letter is essential. WIPO is locking NGOs out of its negotiations, using tactics to isolate those governments who stand up for you, and hiding the evidence by deleting it from their website. The mentioned letter goes into great detail on this. If you are a computer programmer or polititian; if you are ill, if you have an audio/visual or motor impairment, if you are a student, academic, information or knowledge worker, librarian, or citizen concerned about access to information and knowledge and the absence of balance between rightsholders and the public interest within developed countries and mainly in developing/least developed countries, please take a moment to read this and consider signing into it. Things you can do: 1. sign onto the open letter (now available in English and Portuguese) by visiting this link: < http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/wipo/petition.html >, and 2. spread it all over the world by sending e-mails and putting in your webpage a link to the online petition. Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you WIN." This is the fighting part, and your help is essential. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz Brazilian citizen Post-graduate student at Queen Mary, University of London mailto:lc04013@qmul.ac.uk lc04013(a)qmul.ac.uk MALLIKARJUNA, C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars ........libraries...publishers
by MALLIKARJUNA, C 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Good artcle in the new issue of FirstMonday: Economics of scientific and biomedical journals: Where do scholars stand in the debate of online journal pricing and site license ownership between libraries and publishers? for more detials go through this link http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/ MALLIKARJUNA,C http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Opn Access Archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: "In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two interesting items. -------- UN opens its Official Document System to the general public The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a full-text web resource for official UN documentation. INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading... This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org. ------- A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were delivered in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously low cost. Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day. It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers. There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increase manifold. And that is precisely what every scientist would want. Setting up interoperable institutional open access archives is pretty easy. The software is free and can be downloaded from the Net. There are experts who are willing to provide training (if needed). There are many international organizations actively promoting the culture if OA archiving. Those of us who are trying to promote the use of free and open source software could in addition promote OAA as well. A recent study has shown that we need to create an awareness among scientists and policymakers of the tremendous advantages of such archives. We need to mount many advocacy programmes. The recent meeting (Berlin-3) held at the Southampton University came up with the following recommendation: " In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should 1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository. and 2) Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen." I would urge all of you friends to persuade institutions (your own and others) to adopt and implement these recommendations. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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