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by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: 7 Mar 2004 08:31:44 -0000 From: ravi inder <elibrarian(a)rediffmail.com> Respected professionals , Here is an important link from where you can access to thousands of free ebooks of all subjects. http://www.digitalbookindex.com P.Ravinder ADIS(First year student) Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 560059 Ph:+91(80)8483975 e-mail:elibrarian@rediffmail.com

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Guide to Institutional Repository Software
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:32:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> OSI is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of the Guide to Institutional Repository Software. The guide has been updated to include two additional systems: ARNO and Fedora. In addition, the new guide reflects comments and suggestions received following the release of the first edition. OSI intends to update the guide on a regular basis. Once again, OSI is grateful to the author of the guide, Raym Crow of the Chain Bridge Group, as well as the developers of the software systems for working with us to produce the guide. To view the guide, please see: <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/> Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager Open Access Project Open Society Institute

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Open Access - Institutional Repositories
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:43:13 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a brief summary of the Breakout session 7: "If you build it will they come - filling an institutional repository", part of the CERN Workshop OAI3 (in the series Innovations in Scholarly Communication), held last month (12-14 February 2004) at Geneva. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------- If you build it will they come - filling an institutional repository Concerns raised by academic staff: * Not willing to take on additional work. * Copyright * Fear of plagiarism. * Benefits not immediately obvious - why deposit in an institutional archive when their papers can be found on Google? * Worries re prior publication - Ingelfinger rule (a paper won't be commercially published if deemed to have been already published elsewhere). * Concerns re potential for harm to learned societies. * Quality control (or perceived lack of). Possible solutions: * Need for dedicated support for the institutional repository - establish a post to support advocacy, help authors with depositing papers, handle metadata, convert file formats etc. Implications - ongoing role for the Library. * Work with your liaison librarians. They often have good links into academic departments. If they are on board they can help spread the message. * Raise awareness of copyright issues - what authors can and can't do with their works. Use the RoMeo database to identify where pre and post prints can be deposited. Encourage authors to hang on to their copyright. * Explode the myth about prior publication. Ingelfinger is very much in decline apart from in certain subject areas (mainly Medicine). Make academics more aware of their rights. * Use of plagiarism software to make it easier to detect plagiarism. * Sell the benefits of proper indexing, and the benefit of papers appearing in a quality listing rather than in Google. * Sell the benefits of archive as a preservation tool. * Encourage academics to discuss the issues with their learned societies. * Consider that you may need departmental-level agreements on content (what is deposited) rather than broad institutional agreements. Different needs and requirements from discipline to discipline. * Consider format issues - need to meet accessibility legislation requirements as well as being suitable for long term preservation. * Use of national initiatives - such as the UK Research Assessment Exercise - to force change.

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free online journals
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:08:02 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Please visit http://www.gdnet.org/online_services/journals/public_access/index.html to learn about journals available for free viewing by developing country researchers in the areas of social sciences and development. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Institutional Archives
by Mailing List Manager 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:06:30 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Institutional Archives Call for self-archiving Katie Mantell, 'Self-archiving' urged for developing world scientists <http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1261&langua ge=1>, SciDev.Net, March 5, 2004. On a widely distributed letter <http://www.scidev.net/ms/OA_letter/> by Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan, and Barbara Kirsop, calling on authors from developing countries to self-archive. Excerpt from the SciDev article: "Many current initiatives to free up access to scientific research focus on the development of open-access journals, which provide free online access to users, normally covering their costs by charging scientists to publish their research. The authors of the letter welcome this as a long-term strategy. But they add that for those in the developing world who cannot wait, it is better to encourage researchers to archive their published research in institutional archives." (PS: This call is exactly right, but shouldn't be misunderstood as applying only to scientists and scholars from the developing world. Self-archiving benefits all researchers. If the concept is new to you, see the Self-Archiving FAQ <http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/>.)

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Fwd: Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Mar '04

07 Mar '04

--- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:52:07 +0000 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: Central versus institutional > self-archiving > To: > AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > > "Central versus institutional self-archiving" > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3208.html > > Depositing articles -- by authors who are > immediately ready to deposit > them today -- into existing Central Archives such as > Arxiv, Cogprints > or Bioline is a good idea, but it is extremely > important not to let that > replace systematic and general efforts to ensure > that every institution > also establishes its own eprint archives, and > self-archiving policy > (and policy fulfillment), and hence that Open Access > (OA) grows and > generalizes to all articles from all institutions in > all disciplines > worldwide. > > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > It is universal institutional action that is needed: > They (the > universities and research institutions worldwide) > are the sources of > all the articles; they are the ones who need to > establish their own > systematic and monitored policy of self-archiving > their own research; > they produce research in all disciplines, not just > physics, or cognitive > science, or biology. Institutional self-archiving > (OAI-interoperable) > is the general solution for arriving at universal OA > at last, the natural > means, the one that fully engages institutions in > open-access provision > for all of their own output, in all of their > disciplines; it is the means > they can identify with, "own," and control. > > http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php > > Offloading self-archiving on central archives like > Bioline is a good > immediate solution for those articles that their > authors are ready > and willing to self-archive today, when their > institutions do not yet > have eprint archives today. But in fulfilling this > immediate need, it > also risks joining the many, many factors (like an > exclusive focus on > OA journals) that slow and even impede the overall > solution, producing > limited OA for a special subset of articles, but > failing to generalize > to most or all of them. > > So please continue to stress the universal > institutional self-archiving > solution, and treat central archiving as a > provisional supplement to it, > rather than a way of handling the easy cases now, > and forgetting about > the hard ones (the vast majority)! > > Institutions all need their own eprint archives and > their own > eprint-archive-filling policies, for all of their > research output, not > just central archives in physics or biology for the > output that some > of their authors already happen to be ready to > self-archive. Moreover, > setting up, maintaining, and monitoring > institutional eprint archives is > so easy and inexpensive to do: it is important to > cultivate the motivation > and expertise to do it, rather than just to redirect > existing motivation > to central archives. > > http://software.eprints.org/handbook/ > > In the end, of course, once all articles are being > self-archived, the > distinction between local and central archiving will > not matter at all, > because of OAI-interoperability. > > "Central vs. Distributed Archives" > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html > > But now, when most of it is not, the difference > matters very much, > for the growth of OA. Please don't let your efforts > become diverted to > a side-street! > > > Stevan Harnad > > NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion > of providing open > access to the peer-reviewed research literature > online (1998-2004) > is available at the American Scientist Open Access > Forum: > To join the Forum: > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.… > Post discussion to: > american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org > Hypermail Archive: > > http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html > > Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: > BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a > suitable open-access > journal whenever one exists. > > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals > BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your > article in a suitable > toll-access journal and also > self-archive it. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml > http://www.eprints.org/signup/ Chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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[ERIL-L] PNAS backfile @ PubMed Central growing (fwd)
by Library 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Dear friends, I am forwarding information about this important journal archives for those who are not aware of it. PubmedCentral has many medical and biological journals archived for free full-text access. Please check their website for further details. With best wishes, Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:48:51 -0800 From: george(a)LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU Reply-To: Electronic Resources in Libraries <ERIL-L(a)LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU> To: ERIL-L(a)LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU Subject: [ERIL-L] PNAS backfile @ PubMed Central growing PubMed Central's retrodigitization program <http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html> continues to provide benefits for the scholarly community. The open PNAS backfile has grown by almost two decades. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) Fulltext v45+ (1959+) 1 year moving wall http://pubmedcentral.com/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=2 0027-8424 George S. Porter Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science California Institute of Technology Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125 Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681

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Out with Print, in with the PC?
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Dear Members, Do you think it can happen to any of the Indian libraries and librarian's too?. Please have a look at this article. Virtual library: Out with print, in with the PC http://www.researchinformation.info/riwin03rees.html Regards, S.M. 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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institutional repositories
by Mailing List Manager 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:58:16 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is an interesting report on institutional repositories (which archive not only preprints and reprints of resaerch papers but also other schoalrly material like conference papers, book chapters, etc.) http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/ Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Definitions of information management and knowledge management
by Mailing List Manager 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:51:12 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: This is what Paul Whiffen, a KM consultant, says on the distinction between knowledge and information: "This (the distinction between knowledge and information) used to trouble me until I came up with this: a) Knowledge is what is inside peoples' heads; b) Information is what you get when you write it down (or make a report, tape, file or whatever - ie, Information is the physical media representation of knowledge). At first I thought that surely it can't be that simple - but this distinction has served me very well now for years. Outcomes of using this distinction lead to the following deductions: KM is about putting in place the environment to enable and facilitate knowledge moving from human head to human head whether they are separated by time or geography or both (all aspects of the environment including cultural, technology and process aspects); IM is about managing your documents (or whatever your media is) in support of KM; I.T. (which, after all, stands for Information Technology) is therefore about the technology being in place to enable / support IM (which in turn enables KM). As I say, this is simple. To me it was worryingly simple at first but so far it has always served me well. Hope this helps, Paul. Paul R.Whiffen Knoco Ltd www.knoco.co.uk Phone: Mobile + 44 (0) 7808 162 302 Office + 44 (0) 1420 560 147 (Alton, Hants, UK) Email: paul.whiffen(a)knoco.co.uk or paul.whiffen(a)global123.freeserve.co.uk ------_=_NextPart_001_01C401B9.46013BC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE> Definitions of information management and knowledge management</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Friends: This is what Paul Whiffen, a KM consultant, says on the distinction between knowledge and information: "This (the distinction between knowledge and information) used to trouble me until I came up with this: a) Knowledge is what is inside peoples' heads; b) Information is what you get when you write it down (or make a report, tape, file or whatever - ie, Information is the physical media representation of knowledge). At first I thought that surely it can't be that simple - but this distinction has served me very well now for years. Outcomes of using this distinction lead to the following deductions: KM is about putting in place the environment to enable and facilitate knowledge moving from human head to human head whether they are separated by time or geography or both (all aspects of the environment including cultural, technology and process aspects); IM is about managing your documents (or whatever your media is) in support of KM; I.T. (which, after all, stands for Information Technology) is therefore about the technology being in place to enable / support IM (which in turn enables KM). As I say, this is simple. To me it was worryingly simple at first but so far it has always served me well.   Hope this helps, Paul.   Paul R.Whiffen Knoco  Ltd www.knoco.co.uk   Phone: Mobile   + 44 (0) 7808 162 302 Office     + 44 (0) 1420 560 147 (Alton, Hants, UK)   Email: paul.whiffen(a)knoco.co.uk  or paul.whiffen(a)global123.freeserve.co.uk     </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C401B9.46013BC0--

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