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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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Web site for NewGenLib
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:20:59 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear List members I am happy to let members of the list know that the first generation web site for NewGenLib (a library automation and networking solution developed as an initiatve of the Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, http://www.kiikm.org/ in partnership with Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd.) is now ready and can be seen at http://www.newgenlib.com/. I am also happy to let you know that Goa Univ has invited us to install it on their Server. They propose to build a network of Goa university library and some of the better equipped college libraries in Goa. Preliminary work on this has just been done and soon hopefully, their catalogue database should be accessible on a public domain server of the Univ. I welcome feedback from members. Best regards. L J Haravu 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Secunderabad 500026 Tel: (91)-40-27803947

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Seminar on Digital Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:56:45 +0530 (IST) From: DRTC General <drtc(a)isibang.ac.in> Documentation Research and Training Centere, Bangalore Indian Statistical Institute & Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe Institut), Bangalore invite you to a seminar on DIGITAL LIBRARIES on 8th March, 2004, Monday at 10.00 am Speakers: 1. Dr. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries 2. Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore Venue: DRTC, ISI, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059 PROGRAMME 10.00 - 10.05 : Welcome address by Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao, Head, DRTC,ISI, Bangalore Centre 10.05 - 10.10 : Opening Remark by Ms. Juliane Stegner, Director, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore 10.10 - 11.00 : LDL: Librarians' Digital Libraries by Dr. A.R.D. Prasad 11.00 - 11.30 : Coffee Break 11.30 - 1.30 : Personalization in Digital Libraries-An extended View by Dr. Erich J. Neuhold 1.30 - 2.30 : Lunch Break 2.30 - 4.30 : Tutorial on Web Technologies and persistent information and knowledge representation by Dr. Erich J. Neuhold 4.30 pm : Vote of Thanks by Dr. Devika P Madalli Please confirm your participation to drtc(a)isibang.ac.in before 5.3.2004 Professor and Head, DRTC,ISI

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On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 04:12:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Working with ICT and development, and specifically with refereed research literature, we strongly support Stevan Harnad's message regarding the imbalance between OAPub ["gold"] and OAArch ["green"],both in the debates in discussion lists and in the general media coverage of OA. [BOAI-2 ("OAPub" "gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1 ("OAArch" "green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it.] http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0026.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0027.gif Of course, ALL OA support is greatly welcomed, but OAPub will take some time to achieve. For those in the developing world who cannot wait, we are doing all we can to raise awareness about the opportunities offered by OAArch, by writing, talking, organising workshops for establishing archives .... Bioline International is doing sterling work showing the way by archiving all the 24 developing country journals it currently distributes -- http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca --. But more help is needed from the international scientific community. We would like to call on all those commited to the OA movement to redress the balance in your promotional activities by explaining to all that with OAArch nothing else need change. All organisations, including developing country institutes, can archive their refereed published research as soon as they have set up their own archives or, even easier, can use one of the other interoperable archives already established. At a stroke, the S to N, N to S and S to S knowledge gaps can begin to close. No need to worry about the fate of established journals, no need to worry about economic models, no need to worry about costs/workload/quality/ - no need to change anything else atall. Scholarly publishing continues in its well known and reliable path. Perhaps the other argument that will most pursuade researchers in the developed world is that the 'missing' research is essential for their own research too. They think they know it all, but search for 'gene', say, through the yet embryonic Bioline archive and the results will show that they do not. Search for 'malaria' in the main Bioline site -- http://www.bioline.org.br -- and a wealth of important data emerges. Developing country knowledge is essential for us all. The other most pursuasive argument to encourage archiving by scientists and their institutes in the developed world is the greatly increased impact of everyone's archived research -- http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php --. This is what all scientists, and every institute funding their work, most want. Why hide their achievements when institutional archiving is available to all? The OAPub route will progress and the economic debate will be resolved over time, but the OAArch can happen now and we owe it to our scientific colleagues in the less priviledged countries - and to ourselves - to 'just do it'. Ideas as to how to speed up this reform would be very welcome from subscribers to this list. Subbiah Arunachalam, Trustee EPT, MS Swaminathan Institute, Chennai Leslie Chan, Trustee EPT, University of Toronto Barbara Kirsop, Secretary EPT, UK Electronic Publishing Trust for Development <http://www.epublishingtrust.org> On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2995.html The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3378.html The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3147.html

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tracing the evolution of knowledge and ideas
by Mailing List Manager 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:45:17 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is some good news for scientometricists and others interested in tracing the evolution of knowledge and ideas. Thomson-ISI will use the CiteSeer software developed by Steve Lawrence and colleagues at NEC Research, Princeton, to create citation-based services that would cover not only print journals but also the papers in the 'open access' web domain. Read on: Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer By Barbara Quint With the Open Access movement bringing Web-based scholarship to increased prominence, leading A&I services that have long provided the access tools to identify scholarship face new challenges. Thomson ISI, a longtime leader in netting scholarship, primarily through citation patterns, has launched a new initiative to handle this problem. It will collaborate with NEC Laboratories America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. Due out in early 2005, the new Web Citation Index will tap a number of technologies developed by NEC, primarily the "autonomous citation indexing" tools of NEC's CiteSeer software. CiteSeer has been highly praised for its strength at monitoring and connecting research for computer literature. <http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040301-1.shtml> . Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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