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OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities (ReDox)
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:58:00 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities In my haste two weeks ago to (self-)promote [:-) my two recent articles about OAI Service Providers: SciTech and SocSci/Humanities, I failed to list the services eProfiled in each. In addition, I inadvertently mounted a read-only PDF version for each, which were replaced with read/printing versions earlier today. Please find below the names and URLs of the OAI Service Providers beneath the citation for each article: Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 9: (November 2003): 30-38. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf] **Arc: A Cross A rchive Search Service** [http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ] **Citebase** [http://citebase.eprints.org/ ] **my.OAI** [http://www.myoai.com] **Open Archives Initiative Information in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics (Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)** [http://g118.grainger.uiuc.edu/engroai/] **SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link)** [ http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/ ] AND Gerry McKiernan. "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 10: (December 2003): 24-31. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-II.pdf] **AmericanSouth** [ http://americansouth.org ] **Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) [http://www.language-archives.org/] **Sheet Music Consortium** [ http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/] **UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials** [http://nergal.grainger.uiuc.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx ] Enjoy (again)! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Latte-drinking, Sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Left-Wing Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Nature Biotechnology - duplicate copy if available
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:02:06 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> Does any one have a duplicate copy of the following journal? We have this as missing in our collection. Please reply directly Nature Biotechnology, 20(5), 2002 Thanks Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in http://www.ncl-india.org

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The grip of death...
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:19:49 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends I need availability details of the following book in India: "The Grip of Death: a study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics" by Michael Rowbotham (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1998) Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2, The Spendlove Centre, Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3PQ For credit card orders tel/fax. +44 (0)1608 811969 or +44 (0)1689 870437. UK price: �15 Distributed in the USA & Canada by: Paul & Company, PO Box 442, Concord, MA 01742 tel. 978 369 3049/fax. 978 369 2385. US price: $29.95 Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian CII

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Nature Biotechnology - duplicate copy if available
by Krishnan 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Does any one have a duplicate copy of the following journal? We have this as missing in our collection. Please reply directly Nature Biotechnology, 20(5), 2002 Thanks Krishnan Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:krish@ems.ncl.res.in"krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004

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News Industry Text Format
by Madhuresh 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Dear Friends, I would like to share the following item. NITF (News Industry Text Format) is a solution for sharing news. It is developed by News Publishers and it is for News Publishers. NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles. Because metadata is applied throughout the news content, NITF documents are far more searchable and useful than HTML pages. By using NITF, publishers can adapt the look, feel, and interactivity of their documents to the bandwidth, devices, and personalized needs of their subscribers. These documents can be translated into HTML, WML (for wireless devices), RTF (for printing), or any other format the publisher wishes. NITF was developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council, an independent international association of the world's leading news agencies and publishers. It is a standard that is open, public, proven, well-used, well-documented, and well-supported. For more details, see http://www.nitf.org/ Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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ICADL 2004 (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ------- International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization Call for papers After its six-year��s efficient exploration in offering a forum to promote and share the latest development of technology of digital library, the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) has turned out to be a grand annual event in the library and IT communities in Asia and the world as well. The 7th ICADL Conference in 2004 will be hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China from December 13 to 17. The theme of this conference is: ��Digital Libraries �C International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization��. Papers are solicited in a wide variety of digital library related areas, including (but not limited to): Main Topics: Service and Management ��New forms and models of DL services; ��Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation; ��User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; ��Social, legal and economic issues related DL, such as privacy, intelligence property, information security, sustainability; ��Knowledge management and its application in DL; ��New institution roles and responsibilities of DL in 21st century. ��Live reference service ��Personalization service Collaboration and Localization �� Case studies on successful national, cross-regional and international DL collaboration projects and impact in Asia-Pacific Region; ��Preserving, organizing and disseminating Asian unique and indigenous knowledge and culture; ��Novel methods and tools for Asian languages information processing. ��Exploring a Cross-Culture Context for DL studies in Asia, social impacts of DL in Asia. Technology ��Digital library system: architectures, interoperability, mobile applications, agents related to DL; ��Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta-information integration, Mass storage; ��Information retrieval and data mining: novel IR technologies of text and multimedia, data mining; multi- and cross-lingual data access and searching, machine translation and machine learning; �� Information organization and content management: metadata and OAI, ontologies and semantic web, topic maps; ��Human-computer interaction: interfaces, visualization, portals, personalization; ��Technical standards��protocol in DL area and implication strategies; ��Grid technologies and digital libraries ��E-publication Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be composed of long (full) papers (10 pages), short papers (4 pages) and poster papers (2 pages) and be published by Springer��s Lecture Note Series in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Date: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers July 1, 2004 Papers should be written in English and submitted in electronic format. More details will be released dynamically at the 7th ICADL Conference��s website: http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn. And much more will be given around March. Please contact us if you have any questions: Mr. Yuan Guojing, Ms. Guojing Email: icadl2004(a)mail.lib.sjtu.edu.cn Tel.: +86-21-62933229 Fax: +86-21-62820892 The Organization Committee of the 7th ICADL Conference Shanghai, P.R. China

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARY SERVICES ON MOBILE PHONES WE ARE READY?
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Dear professionals, Have a good day and in respose to the mail of Mr. Mallikarjuan, In fact, Learning Resource Centre Beams Education Centre, Dubai has effectively utilizing the SMS of cellular phones/ mobile for providing readyreference services. The Learning Resource centres users are also uses the SMS of cellular phone for their general enquiry, reservation, renewals, and other purposes. The same system is introduce by self, in 2002 November itself. Regards Vijayakumar M

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Links related ETDs
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:42:54 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Apologies for cross posting. Please feel free in forwarding this to others. Hi! Some of you who might be thinking to start / or working on ETDs in India, following links may be of some help: http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/ http://etdguide.org/ http://www.ndltd.org/talks/index.htm http://www.ndltd.org/pubs/index.htm http://www.vtls.com/ndltd/ http://www.ndltd.org/etd_conf/ETD2003tutorial05.ppt http://www.ndltd.org/union.html http://www.ndltd.org/research.html http://www.ndltd.org/community.html http://www.unesco.org.uy/eventos/evento2000-10-20-0.html http://www.theses.org/ http://www.dissertation.com/library_frame.php http://www.diplomica.com/ http://tennessee.cc.vt.edu/~lming/cgi-bin/ODL/nm-ui/members/index.htm http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/home/index.html http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/g/r/graduate/public/html/etd/ http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/OLC/fall2001.html#ETD http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ http://www.dlib.vt.edu http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/extended/indest-etd.pdf http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/directory/browse.html http://www.rgs.uky.edu/gs/ETDintro.html http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/support/help/glossary/glossary.htm http://etdguide.org/content/1.2.htm http://www.etd.psu.edu/gen_info.html Best, Ramesh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Program)( Till February 2004) Virginia Tech Dept. of Computer Science 660 McBryde Hall, M/C 0106 Blacksburg, VA 24061 +1-540-231-3615

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RSS feeds
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:00 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: This has nothing to do with RSS connected with BJP. I desire to bring to your attention about RSS feeds available from websites. Recently a Technology called RSS (=Really Simple Syndication) is available. Many websites offering news items also provide what is called an RSS feed. New Indian Express is the first such Indian Newspaper to offer RSS feeds. RSS feed is usually an xml file. This file has an URL (address of the page on the website). For instance the RSS feed for Indian Express is available at: http://www.xpressindia.com/syndications/ei.xml At the end-user's PC, one has to install a small program generally called RSS Aggregator. Many RSS readers (aggregators) are available for free download and Amphetadesk is one of them. After installing Amphetadesk and invoking it, one has to enter the URL of the XML page in this program. Thereafter, Amphetadesk automatically downloads frequently the XML page (RSS feed). We will then get on our desktop the latest news brought to us regularly every three hours. If we have entered five news channels then we would have latest news from five different channels. All of them have the URL of the actual news item plus a short abstract. In this way one can get himself updated easily with latest news from different newspapers (or web resources or portals) of his choice. Several sites give directories of available RSS feeds. www.feedster.com is such a directory. www.disobey.com the site that provides Amphetadesk also gives its own long list of several thousand RSS feeds. RSS feeds are also called Channels. There is a provision to display constantly updated news pages on your website using this technology. There are easy methods of providing such 'automatically updated' news services on your website too using this pull technology: html code to be inserted in your html page are shown in concerned websites offering RSS feeds. I suggest librarians to make use of this technology to offer better value added services to their clients. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com HAVE YOU TRIED OUR TRANSLATION SERVICES?

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Thomas Parry Library - E- Journals in L I Science
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:53:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] MALLIKARJUNA, C" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professional Information on and links to more than 500 ejournals on LIS Annotated list of electronic journals in librarianship and information science. The list will be of use to anyone exploring electronic journals in the LIS field. Titles are listed alphabetically and for each entry a page of relevant information is provided, the accuracy and currency of links and information are checked on a monthly basis. URL:http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/tpl/ejlib/ C.MALLIKARJUNA, ISEC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI BANGALORE-560 079. hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in

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