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ETD 2004- Call for proposals
by Shalini Urs 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Apologies for cross postings **************************************************************************** * ETD 2004 * * Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: * * Distributing knowledge worldwide through better scholarly communication * * June 3-5, 2004 * * University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky * * http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004 * The online submission system for proposals is now available for ETD 2004 (June 3-5, 2004). See the conference website (http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004) to submit proposals for presentations, posters and tutorial sessions. The complete call for papers is available http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/cfp.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Proposals for Papers, Tutorials, and Posters Deadline for proposals: Jan 15, 2004 (If disposition of proposal is needed before January 2004, proposal should be submitted by December 1, 2003) The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) invites you to participate in the Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations hosted by the University of Kentucky. ETD 2004 provides a forum to share the latest developments in authoring, archiving, sharing, preserving, indexing, and accessing electronic theses and dissertations and the digital libraries that support them. Special emphases of ETD 2004 are: · Supporting creators of scholarly electronic documents in many disciplines, · Building ETD initiatives that create value for the university, the student and the faculty member, and · Encouraging collaborative efforts among institutions. At ETD 2004 stakeholders in the graduate education process can attend a track of sessions that addresses the issues that are relevant to their interests. Stakeholders include graduate program administrators, academic librarians, faculty, computer systems specialists, students, and publishers. We encourage everyone in the ETD community to use this opportunity to network and to share their experiences. Attendees may participate by presenting a paper or poster or by conducting a tutorial. 1. PAPER PROPOSAL: We invite you to submit proposals for any of the topics listed below. Each proposal must include a title, the names of authors/presenters along with their affiliations and contact details, and a 200-500 word abstract. Team proposals are especially welcome. Some suggested topics are listed below however suggestions and ideas for presentations on other topics are welcome! · Administrators and ETDs: the challenges and the rewards for the university and the university community · Shaping the future of scholarship: The universitys role in scholarly electronic communication · Partners in the process: Building collaborations between universities · Training and supporting scholarly electronic document authors · Digital library issues and challenges for university libraries · The Global ETD Digital Library · Unique issues about ETDs for different disciplines · Long-term preservation of ETDs · Intellectual property rights, digital rights management, and fair use entitlements · Standards and best practices for ETD initiatives · The publishers perspective · Student experiences · ETD and open access · ETD as a test bed and catalyst for scholarly electronic publishing · Multimedia issues for the presentation of scholarly material 2. POSTER PROPOSAL: A special feature at the conference is a POSTER SESSION featuring reports from ETD programs around the world. Share a report about your universitys ETD program with the rest of the ETD community. This session will be held in conjunction with a reception, and will be highly interactive. Traditional posters are welcome, and electronic posters are encouraged. An electronic poster could be a website or onsite computer- based presentation that shares statistics, and features other project highlights. Proposals for both electronic and traditional posters must include a title, complete list of authors along with their affiliations and contact details, and a 200-500 word abstract. 3. TUTORIAL PROPOSAL: ETD 2004 has a special emphasis on providing attendees with the tools and skills that will facilitate a successful ETD program, and advance those programs that are already flourishing. To accomplish this we are looking for tutorials that will help the ETD community. Tutorials will be scheduled during the main conference and should be designed to be conducted in two hour blocks. Proposals for tutorials must include a title, names of presenters along with their affiliations and contact details, a brief 200-500 word motivation and an outline of the tutorial. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ARE ENCOURAGED The NDLTD is a non-profit organization that supports ETD initiatives at universities around the world. These initiatives address ETD authoring, indexing, archiving, dissemination, and retrieval. Further information about the NDLTD can be found at http://www.ndltd.org/. Please submit your proposals for papers, tutorials, and/or posters at http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004 by January 15, 2004. We understand that some presenters need to know the disposition of their proposal prior to the end of 2003. Therefore, a first-round of reviews will be held for all proposals received by December 1, 2003 and authors will be notified about the status of their proposals by December 20, 2003. The University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky is in the center of the internationally famous Bluegrass Region. Lexington, founded in 1775, was once called the Athens of the West and it continues to retain its unique mix of frontier spirit and innovative vision. The area boasts numerous historical, cultural, and natural attractions that will appeal to many interests. In June, the average temperature is a very comfortable 72 degrees (F). Lexington has approximately 100 direct and non-stop flights from airports around the world, and is within a days drive to 75% of the US population. For more information, please visit the ETD 2004 website at: http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004 or contact: Suzie Allard, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee sallard(a)utk.edu Beth Kraemer, MLS Electronic Resources, William T Young Library University of Kentucky kraemer(a)email.uky.edu ----------------------------------------------------------- Shalini ------------- Prof.Shalini R.Urs Project Director Vidyanidhi-Indian Digital Library of Electronic Theses Department of library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore.570006. India Ph:91-821-2514699 Fax:91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in

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Engenius
by Madhuresh 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Dear all, Elsevier has recently launched a portal called ElsevierEngineering (http://www.elsevierengineering.com/). This portal is further divided in sub portals subject wise, like, Chemical; Civil; Electrical and Electronic; Energy; Industrial and Manufacturing; Materials; and Mechanical. Each sub portal provides targeted news, new books, conference details and such other services. Another interesting feature of this portal is Engenius. Engenius (http://www.elsevierengineering.com/engenius)is a free bibliographic database covering a broad range of engineering disciplines. Engenius enables to search abstracts of articles published in the last 2 years in key engineering journals selected for their influence and importance to the engineering community. One can get the free abstract by simply registering with the website, which is free. 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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Subject: PGDHL
by Mailing List Manager 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 05:37:19 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Mr. S K Sonker" <sksonker(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission to One Year Postgraduate Diploma Course In Health Science Librarianship (PGDHL) for the academic year 2004 (January to December) in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. Further detail can be obtained from the University website : http:\\www.rguhs.ac.in With regards Sharad Kumar Sonker Digital Library & Information Center Rajiv Gandhi University of health Sciences,Karnataka Bangalore-560041 Telephone:(+91-80)6546930,6546935 URL: http://www.geocities.com/sksonker

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PURL for IndLibra; Re: [LIS-Forum] Wanted Voluntary Group for IndLibra
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

IndLibra Website, which is to be developed shortly now has Persistant URL i.e. http://purl.org/net/indlibra Which means that Service Providers may change in future but the above URL would remain same. ["A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect. The OCLC PURL Service has been strongly influenced by the active participation of OCLC's Office of Research in the Internet Engineering Task Force Uniform Resource Identifier working groups. There is nothing incompatible between PURLs and the ongoing URN (Uniform Resource Name) work. PURLs satisfy many of the requirements of URNs using currently deployed technologies and can be transitioned smoothly into a URN architecture once it is deployed." (http://purl.org/) . ] ---- Regards Sukhdev _________________________________________________________________ Discover digital jadoo! Enter this contest. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mediacenter/index.asp Win cool prizes!

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Free access: Interlending and Document Supply (till Nov 9th)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Dear Members, Emerald is providing Free full text access to its journal 'Interlending and Document Supply' under its 'Journal of the Week' programme. Full text articles are available from 1994 to till date. The Free access is available till November 9, 2003. You may make use of this facility. The journal can be accessed at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/jotw/ 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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Wanted Voluntary Group for IndLibra
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Dear Friends, The Bulletin Board for Indian Library and Information Community i.e. IndLibra, has received a good response. I was not expecting this kind of response. Now this is the point where the community spirit is required. I fully understand that single person can not take the community to the desired position. I therefore want to transfer the ownership and responsibility to a voluntary group. Let us call this group as Voluntary Group for IndLibra or VGI for short. This Voluntary Group for IndLibra would be the sole owner of IndLibra and would be looking after IndLibra Discussions (http://indlibra.myforum.net/) and would also be putting and managing content of the related website of the IndLibra (http://in.geocities.com/indlibra/). The User Id and Password would be disclosed to this group and it would symbolise the end of my indivitual responsibility and ownership. Please come forward and give your Names at the email indlibra(a)yahoo.co.in . I am expecting people like Prof. Shalini, Dr. Rajashekar, Dr Vyasamoorthy, Dr T.V. Prafulla Chandra and others to come forward. If it is successful, then IndLibra can purchase its own space on some web host instead of depending upon free-service providers like myforum and geocities. There please come forward in large numbers and give your Names at the email indlibra(a)yahoo.co.in . Regards Sukhdev Singh _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail now on your Mobile phone. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mobilesms/ Click here.

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Subject: Full-Text on Amazon
by Mailing List Manager 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Date: 4 Nov 2003 16:40:20 -0000 From: aprajita suman <aprajita_drtc(a)rediffmail.com> Respected Professionals, There is some interesting news to share with you all, now even the commercialventures like Amazon are going for full-text availability.However, the facility is limited to selected portions of the particular book ;this is to help one decide on the appropriateness of the book before ordering for it.So, it is something like browsing through the book before buying it,back to our old bookshop style purchasing, isn't it. See the detailed information at following URL: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031103-1.shtml with regards, Aparajita Suman, Student,DRTC

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Database of Indian LIS Professionals
by Mailing List Manager 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:19:30 +0000 From: Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla <rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com> Dear Sir, The Departmennt of LIS, Andhra University is ready to take up the responsibility to consolidate the info and to update whwnever necessary. Pl chalk out the modalities first. regards, Vara lakshmi. -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Prof. and HOD, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Request for list of Audio visual resource suppliers
by Mailing List Manager 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:56:16 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Sir, CONGRATULATIONS !! on your new job. The following links may be of helpful to you. http://www.nadhani.com/knowtally/books/bpb_dealers.html http://www.indiacatalog.com/web_directory/entertainment/1003.html with regards Bhojaraju www.bhojarajug.cjb.net

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POPLINE
by Mailing List Manager 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:59:40 +0530 From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> I would like to share the following website with you all. http://www.popline.org/ POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is available free of charge on the Internet. All 300,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development. For those in developing countries who may have limited access to the Internet, POPLINE distributes POPLINE on CD-ROM to over 950 sites twice a year. POPLINE Digital Services also provides full text documents of many of its abstracts in the database at no charge for readers in developing countries. Full-text documents are only available if the information is not available locally, is not a commercially published book, and is less than 100 pages in length. POPLINE sends full-text documents as an e-mail attachment in Adobe Acrobat format or by mail. For more details, see http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/aboutpl.html 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://www.aurigene.com/

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