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Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Date: 3 Oct 2003 05:16:15 -0000 From: afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Friends, It is the article that really matters not the journal Just read an interesting debate in Biomedcentral Open Access Forum regarding open access by Dr. Etienne Joly, an immunologist from Toulouse, France, who included a proposal for a new system of evaluating the impact of a scientific article and the use of such evaluation to determine the amount the author pays in publishing charges. Full correspondence is at the following site http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/forum/?letter=20030722ej Happy reading Bukhari

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Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Date: 3 Oct 2003 04:35:19 -0000 From: afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> Apologies for cross posting, if any, Wellcome support for open access! UK based charity Wellcome Trust has announced its support to fund authors for publishing in Open Access Journals. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031001/03/ Has also released a report ^ÓAn Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing^Ô http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepeas.html The US-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute has already agreed to provide its investigators with up to $3,000 each in 2004 to cover open-access dissemination fees. In its report, Wellcome calls on other funding bodies to adopt similar policies. ^ÓWith two pre-eminent funding bodies now offering significant support, and promising to cover publication charges, it is clear that open access publishing is set to become the way of the future." In a separate statement, the trust also pledged its support for online journals, such as those of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Seems we are heading in the right direction! Happy reading Warm regards Bukhari

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Wellcome Trust statement on open access
by Mailing List Manager 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:01:04 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Forwarding from the Wellcome Trust. This position statement is now online at the WT site, http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] A position statement by the Wellcome Trust in support of open access publishing The mission of the Wellcome Trust is to "foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health." The main output of this research is new ideas and knowledge, which the Trust expects its researchers to publish in quality, peer-reviewed journals. The Trust has a fundamental interest in ensuring that neither the terms struck with researchers, nor the marketing and distribution strategies used by publishers (whether commercial, not-for-profit or academic) adversely affect the availability and accessibility of this material. With recent advances in Internet publishing, the Trust is aware that there are a number of new models for the publication of research results and will encourage initiatives that broaden the range of opportunities for quality research to be widely disseminated and freely accessed. The Wellcome Trust therefore supports open and unrestricted access to the published output of research, including the open access model (defined below), as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible. Specifically, the Trust: · welcomes the establishment of free-access, high-quality scientific journals available via the Internet; · will encourage and support the formation of such journals and/or free-access repositories for research papers; · will meet the cost of publication charges including those for online-only journals for Trust-funded research by permitting Trust researchers to use contingency funds for this purpose; · encourages researchers to maximize the opportunities to make their results available for free and, where possible, retain their copyright, as recommended by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Public Library of Science, and similar frameworks; · affirms the principle that it is the intrinsic merit of the work, and not the title of the journal in which a researcher's work is published, that should be considered in funding decisions and awarding grants. As part of its corporate planning process, the Trust will continue to keep this policy under review. Definition of open access publication1 An open access publication is one that meets the following two conditions: 1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual (for the lifetime of the applicable copyright) right of access to, and a licence to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship2, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository). Notes: 1. An open access publication is a property of individual works, not necessarily of journals or of publishers. 2. Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now. The definition of open access publication used in this position statement is based on the definition arrived at by delegates who attended a meeting on open access publishing convened by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in July 2003.

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The History of Media Librarianship: A Chronology
by Mailing List Manager 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:23:28 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> From: madhav rao <madhavdkj_vsnp(a)yahoo.co.in> > Before media centers could be established, non-print > technological instructional aids had to be developed. > > Before libraries could be established, "books" had to > be written. > > But before books could be written man had to learn how > to write. > > Thus the beginnings of today's library media centers > must be traced back to the earliest beginnings of > writing more than 5,000 years ago.' > > -------Amy R. Loucks-DiMatteo The following is a chronology of the history of media > librarianship. Although the term "media" includes both > print and non-print materials, this history primarily > explores the development of non-print materials. > > See the URL for more!! > > http://www.sis.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/Syllabi/519Complete/readings/his… edialib.html > > Regards > A. Madhava Rao > Nexus Information Services Corporation > Secunderabad

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Library Automation/Technology Glossary
by Mailing List Manager 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:19:53 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Hello friends, i am sure u may be aware that one of the important website useful to the llibrarians is www.libraryhq.com u find very useful information in this website. for exmple the following thesaurus had been given in the same website. open the website and try to use it and get benefit. laxman rao Library Automation/Technology Glossary (http://www.libraryhq.com/glossary.html)

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Online Health Sites a Worldwide Worry
by Mailing List Manager 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:56:21 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: A number of people are using the net to find information on topics in which they are not experts. In fact I know of people who use this kind of searches on behalf of others and even charge fees for such 'data mining' sevices. One should be wary of such searches, indicates the following report from Australia. Sinclair, Jenny. "Online Health Sites a Worldwide Worry" The Sydney Morning Herald (16 September 2003) (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/15/1063478109311.html). - A study by a Melbourne researcher -- who is also a nurse and a communications consultant -- concluded that most health-oriented websites "failed to meet basic standards." Many are "commercially driven," the study found, and others are downright misleading. The study reviewed the top 100 sites returned by a Yahoo! search for breast cancer, diabetes and depression, and compared them to the Health On the Net Foundation's code of conduct. The biggest failing was the amount of unverified information found on 58 of the sites. Other issues: "user confidentiality, openness about sponsorship and, importantly, making sure that users treat the information as complementary to proper medical treatment, rather than replacing it." The study did find that there was plenty of good information out there, and that it is generally a good idea for people to have unfettered access to online health information. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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PubMed Central backfile project (fwd)
by Library 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Forwarded by Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:14:22 -0700 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] PubMed Central backfile project PubMed Central (PMC) has initiated a major archival scanning project in conjunction with several participating publishers <http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html>. NLM is committed to providing cover-to-cover images of the journal issues, back through volume 1 of all participating titles. American Society for Microbiology (10 journals) and BMJ Publishing Group (BMJ and specialist journals; 21 titles) are the two largest publisher blocs. PNAS backfiles will apparently be created independently from the versions in JSTOR. PNAS is already the most heavily used title by Caltech from PMC, by more than an order of magnitude. With an additional 75 years of backfile becoming available, unfettered by IP-ranges or usernames & passwords, many grad students and faculty, working at home or on the road, will find PNAS via PMC to be an indispensable adjunct to their research. George S. Porter Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science Caltech, 1-43 Pasadena, CA 91125-4300 Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681

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Fwd: Re: On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Oct '03

04 Oct '03

>From Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>: > There will be an Open Access conference October > 20-22 in Berlin. Below > is a URL for the conference, followed by the > abstract of my own paper > (to be given in session 4.3): > > OPEN ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IN THE SCIENCES AND > HUMANITIES > (organized by the Max Planck Society in > association with ECHO) > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin1.htm > > http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/index.htm > October 20 - 22, 2003, Berlin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > My own paper will be entitled: > > On the Need to Support Both Open-Access > Strategies: > Open-Access Publishing (P) and Open-Access > Self-Archiving (S) > > Stevan Harnad > > ABSTRACT: It has taken a very long time for the > research community > to at last awaken to the importance of, the need > for, and the > attainability of toll-free online access to the > full text of all > peer-reviewed research articles for all > researchers ("open > access"). There are two roads to open access: > (P) Open-Access > Publishing and (S) Open-Access Self-Archiving. > It would be a great > pity, and a great loss for open-access and > research impact, if > today's long-overdue open-access initiatives > were now to be focused > exclusively, or even primarily, on Open-Access > Publishing (P), which > may be the easier concept to understand, but is > the slower, more > indirect and more uncertain of the two means of > attaining open access > today. Open-access publishing requires 3 steps: > > (P1) creating or converting 23,500 > open-access journals (there > are only 500 open-access journals today, and > 23,500 toll-access > journals), > > (P2) finding a means of covering open-access > publication costs > (varying from <$500 to >$1500 per article), > and > > (P3) persuading the authors of each of the > 2,500,000 refereed > research articles published annually to > publish them in these > 23,500 new open-access journals instead of > in the 23,500 > established toll-access journals. > > Open-access self-archiving requires only one > step: > > (S1) persuading the authors of each of the > annual 2,500,000 > refereed research articles to self-archive > them in addition to > publishing them in the established 23,500 > toll-access journals. > > As 55% of the established journals already > support self-archiving > (and many more will agree if asked), > > http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%2… > > and as at least three times as many articles are > open-access today > because their authors have self-archived them > than because they > have been published in an open-access journal, > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/dual-strategy.ppt > > it is undeniable that self-archiving is the > faster, more direct, > and more certain of the two means of attaining > open-access > today. Moreover, self-archiving is probably also > the single most > powerful means of hastening us all toward the > era of universal > open-access publishing! The optimal joint > open-access strategy that > the Berlin Declaration should accordingly > support and promote is > that all researchers should: > > (P) publish in an open-access journal today > wherever a suitable > open-access journal is available today; > > and > > (S) wherever a suitable open-access journal > is not available > today, publish in a toll-access journal but > also self-archive > the article in your institutional > open-access archive today. > > Fully support both open-access publishing (P) > and open-access > self-archiving (S). > > Harnad, S. (2003) Electronic Preprints and > Postprints. Encyclopedia of > Library and Information Science Marcel Dekker, Inc. > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/eprints.htm > > Harnad, S. (2003) Online Archives for Peer-Reviewed > Journal > Publications. International Encyclopedia of Library > and Information > Science. John Feather & Paul Sturges (eds). > Routledge. > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archives.htm > > Harnad, S. (2003) Self-Archive Unto Others as Ye > Would Have Them > Self-Archive Unto You. > The Australian Higher Education Supplement. > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/unto-others.html > > Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. > (2003) Mandated online > RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: > Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst > making it cheaper > and easier. Ariadne. > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm > > Harnad, S. (2003) Maximising Research Impact Through > Self-Archiving. > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Stevan Harnad > Chaire de Recherche du Canada > Centre de Neuroscience de la Cognition (CNC) > Universite du Quebec a Montreal > Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 > tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461# > fax: 1-514-987-8952 > harnad(a)uqam.ca > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk

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Wellcome to fund publication in open-access journals
by Krishnan 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

>From NATURE (Oct 2nd issue) Wellcome to fund publication in open-access journals DECLAN BUTLER [PARIS] One of the world's largest research charities, the UK-based Wellcome Trust, has lent its support to calls for 'open access' to the scientific literature. A report to be released by Wellcome this week — An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing — says that the current system of thousands of subscription journals "does not operate in the interests of scientists and the public, but is instead dominated by a commercial market intent on improving its market position". In the report, the trust announces that it will allow scientists that it funds to use their grants to pay author charges required by open-access journals. In a separate statement, the trust also pledged its support for online journals, such as those of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which will test alternatives to the 'reader pays' model of most research journals, which charge readers or libraries for subscriptions. Such open-access journals aim to transfer all publishing costs up front as a 'dissemination' fee paid by authors or their institutions, with papers then being made available free online. "As a funder of research, we are committed to ensuring that the results of the science we fund are disseminated widely and are freely available to all," says Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust. "Unfortunately, the distribution strategies currently used by publishers prevent this." One of the obstacles to adoption of the alternative models may be scientists' reluctance or inability to pay dissemination fees — often around $1,500 — when they can publish for free in subscription journals. By endorsing the use of its research grants to pay such fees, the trust is supporting the idea that publication costs should generally be included as part of overheads on research spending. The US-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute has already agreed to provide its investigators with up to $3,000 each in 2004 to cover open-access dissemination fees. In its report, Wellcome calls on other funding bodies to adopt similar policies. "The fundamental point is that as a research funder we have to question whether it is right that we, and others, are in the position of having to pay to read the results of the research that we fund," says Walport. 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: 020-5893457; Fax: 020-5893973 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.521 / Virus Database: 319 - Release Date: 9/23/2003

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FW: Industry TechLink - a New Service for Australian Small Busine ss
by Mailing List Manager 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

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