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RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me do a bit of loud thinking. The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary research findings available free to anyone who cares to read them. Especially final versions of refereed papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors (who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] which do not charge any fee from the authors or readers. They charge a subscription fee to print subscribers and probably get grants from funding agencies. In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As the institutional archives are interoperable, to the searcher it would appear as if all these papers are located in one distant server; one does not have to search several servers. What is important to note is that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary services such as the use of metadata tags to make a search for relevant documents. If all researchers deposit their papers in institutional archives [as recommended recently by the UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a decent Internet connection can access any of those papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata [keywords, etc]. This is what the secondary services try to achieve partially. Imagine that I access the print version of Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version [SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my interest but often can navigate my way to the actual documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with many primary journals. In a perfect world, the secondary services will become superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many scientists will find it less and less necessary to go to secondary services. A clear example of what advances in technology can do to the ways in which we acquire knowledge. The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. With those improvements, if accepted by the US Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. Of course OA will not cover secondary services. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > Hi Arun > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > Saboo's bill and its > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > database Aggregations"? > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > of American Chemical > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > of entirely different > value. > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > by US Government to > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > seeks to take-out federally > funded (substantially) research publications out of > copyright. > > Sathya > -------------------------------------------------- > N V Sathyanarayana > Informatics > www.informindia.co.in > -------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://www.allnewmessenger.com

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All India List of UGC Refresher and Orientation Programmes
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:52:35 +0530 From: Satish Kanamadi <satish(a)tiss.edu> Dear Members, This has further reference to the queries that have appeared on Lis Forum anout Refresher Courses.Full details about UGC supported Orientation and Refresher Courses for Teachers/Librarians are published in Employment News dated 24-30 July 2004,page27-40. This consoilidated information will definitely useful to librarians who are planning to attend them in the year 2004-05. Satish Kanamadi ******************************************************************************************************************* Satish Kanamadi Asst Librarian (Journals) Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences Deonar, MUMBAI-400088 Tel: 022-25563290 Extn.285 Fax:022- 25562912 Email:satish@tiss.edu, kanamadi(a)hotmail.com

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Request for training on D-space
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: 27 Jul 2004 05:01:52 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Information Scientist, I would like to get training on D-space software, Kinldy advise me that where can i get complete training on this software. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP)201307 Ph. 0120-2400971 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) www.jiitindia.org

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Help - reg.
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:55:06 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Ramamoorthi P" <ram_sameer2003(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear LIS- Professionals, I am working as Library Assisistant in Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) An Autonomous R&D organization, Ministry of Communication &Information Technology. GOVT. OF INDIA Our organization is not accepting Library professionals as Technical Support or Scientific Staff. They will be treated, as �Isolated Post� there is no guidelines, procedure for assessment and Scale fixation for library Staff. An autonomous organization (govt of India) under what category library Professionals are coming? Are there any rules and guidelines for them?. Anybody working in the similar organizations may please share your views. Thanking you With regards P.Ramamoorthi Librarian SAMEER - Centre for Electromagnetics CIT Campus, IInd Cross RoadTaramani, Chennai - 600 113Phone : 044-22541817,22541583 Fax 044-22541938Residence Phone No. 22591974

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:44:48 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com This has reference to Thirunavukkarasu's request for info. For Access Control Cards based on Proximity principle you may contact address given below. With the help of this system only valid persons holding encoded access control encoded cards will be permitted in. Similar Entry Control Systems are in use in Anna University Library, Madras and IIT Bombay. CCMB/IICT in Hyderabad have recently installed CCTV security system in Library. Their experience is NOT a happy one. Learning more from them, you also get know whom/what to avoid. Tyco Engineering & Construction (Earlier Alert Fire Services) C-15, Vikram Puri Colony Beside Bata Show Room Secunderabad - 500 009 Phone No. 27897113 Contact: A.S Rao Phone: Hyderabad: 2789 7113/7123 Best wishes 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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InfoWatch- May-June 2004
by M.R Lalitha 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The combined May-June 2004 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) May-June 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Access Grid [An interface to Grid middleware and visualization environments] 2. Corrosionsource.com - The one stop corrosion and materials information resource 3. Discovery of global warming 4. Engineering Conference International [Free, full text access to engineering conference proceedings] 5. ExInt: An Exon-Intron database 6. Flight dynamics and control toolbox 7. FreeOS.com - A resource center for Free Operating Systems 8. International education indicators [Compiled from recent NCES international reports and surveys] 9. MESSENGER - MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging 10. Molecular Origami [Folding and arrangement of atoms in molecules and network solids] 11. Optics.Org technical library - Optics and Photonics library 12. Parallax Project [ A digitized version of the "Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh"] 13. PC technology guide 14. PoLyInfo - A polymer database 15. Robots and us 16. Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 [By National Science Board, National Science Foundation, U.S] 17. Technical Information [Part of International Rectifier website] 18. The Associates for Biosystem Science and Engineering (WABSE) 19. The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) 20. Tips and tricks for windows 21. Tom's free chemistry software 22. ZapMeta - A meta-search engine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to InfoWatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Dear Mr A Thirunavikkarasu, Contact details of some of the Library Security System are given below. For EAS electronic article surveillance systems: 1. Monitor electronics pvt ltd Pune e-mail magic(a)giaspn01.vsnl.net.in 2. India Satcom Ltd. B'lore e-mail rajesh(a)indiasatcom.com For RF ID Security Systems: 1. Essae Technologys Pvt. ltd, 100,18th main, 6th block, Koramangala, B'lore-560095 E-mail essaebir(a)vsnl.net With best regards, Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Thiruvananthapuram www.iiitmk.ac.in This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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New Publicztion - TUTOR+ Ed.2
by Mailing List Manager 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:30:17 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear All: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science has recently published - TUTOR+: A Learning and Teaching Package on Hypertext Link Commands in WINISIS. Edition 2. The details are as follows : TUTOR + A Learning and Teaching package on Hypertext Link Commands in WINISIS Edition 2 Prepared by A. Neelameghan Assisted by S.K. Lalitha Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore 560 010 2004 July About TUTOR+ Edition 2 The TUTOR+ package is intended to assist users in learning about the hypertext link commands of the WINISIS software. The package can also be used in training courses on WINISIS hypertext links. Users should be familiar with the basics of working with WINISIS and Microsoft WINDOWS. Some of the newer commands work only with version 1.4 and higher. In edition 2, some corrections and revisions have been incorporated. Tutor has been developed using WINISIS. This TUTOR+ package consists of a printed manual and the databases on a CD/diskettes (1.44 MB). Price : Rs.200/- (US $ 25); Mechanical Details : A4 size' 62p; Paper back; 1 CD For further information and assistance, please contact : Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: (080) 23305109; (080) 23341657 E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by Mailing List Manager 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Date: 25 Jul 2004 12:01:16 -0000 From: aravind llm shety <aravind_1(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Mr A Thirunavikkarasu, You can contact Bartronics pvt ltd based in Hyderabad.They provide solutions based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification tags). This is a system for automatic surveillance of documents. With regards Arvindkumar M Bhadrashetty Hyderabad On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:30:03 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Alaguppillai Thirunavukkarasu" <atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Dear Lis-forum members, > >I am A.Thirunavukkarasu, from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, >Madurai-625 015. We are in the process of modernizing our library. > >I need supplier/s name and address for the following items. > > 1. Electronic / Magnetic security system > > 2. CCTV - surveillance sytem > > >I will be thankful if any one provides the supplier address for the above. > >Sincerely yours, > >A.Thirunavukkarasu, >Librarian >Thiagarajar College of Engineering >Madurai - 625 015 > >Phone: 0452-2482240 >email: atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in >

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Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by Mailing List Manager 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:30:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Alaguppillai Thirunavukkarasu" <atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Lis-forum members, I am A.Thirunavukkarasu, from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-625 015. We are in the process of modernizing our library. I need supplier/s name and address for the following items. 1. Electronic / Magnetic security system 2. CCTV - surveillance sytem I will be thankful if any one provides the supplier address for the above. Sincerely yours, A.Thirunavukkarasu, Librarian Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai - 625 015 Phone: 0452-2482240 email: atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in

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