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Re: [LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:00:08 +0530 From: "Koteswara Rao, M" <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Dear Moderator, Thank you for informing the members about 'requesting articles over LisForum'. I think all our library professionals should agree upon certain issues related to IPR and avoid any legal tangles with the publishers. Afterall, librarians and publishers have a longstanding relationship in disseminating information. Thanks to Ms. Girija who has pointed it out in the first place. Koteswara Rao

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum and Resource sharing
by Mailing List Manager 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 7:38:43 -0500 From: Atanu Garai <atanu(a)takingitglobal.org> I would add that apart from the subject wise union catalogue,which are developed by various agencies and available both in online and offline formats in various scientific and non scientific disciplies,it is really imperative that we should develop a kind of formal mechansim in the field of LIS too,may be promoted by any LIS society or association,governmental and non governmental agencies.Such union catalogue in LIS is the need of hour and may be the starting point for knowledge sharing formally in India. Requests of journal papers through lists or personal channels must have a limited effect on scholarly research and I presume the reason for very limited citations in most of the LIS papers and conference proceedings must be attributed to this lack of access to LIS journals. best Atanu -- Atanu Garai | atanu(a)takingitglobal.org http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu http://updates.takingitglobal.org/read/atanu http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education

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Open Access Initiative
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:02:31 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, Firstly, I am thankful to LIS-Forum team and all participant professionals for discussions on great profession. I have a query in regard of OAI (Open Access Initiative). Any one tell me or explain about OAI or any model/portal of OAI which is providing the Open Access effectively. I look forward to your valuable advise. With kind regards. Sanjay Kataria Librarian (Acting) Learning Resource Centre (Library) Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida-201307 Uttar Pradesh Ph. 09810503341 (Mobile) 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251(Office)

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Re:[LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Dear Member: You may recall that sometime back some of the LIS-Forum members had expressed their concerns about fellow members requesting for articles on LIS-Forum. Based on these concerns we had decided not to encourage members requesting for fulltext articles on LIS-Forum. In fact as a moderator, I had sent a message requesting members not to make use of LIS-Forum for document delivery service. Quite a few members reacted to this message saying that LIS-Forum should *Not Discourage* members occasionally requesting for some fulltext articles from the fellow members. Owing to this popular demand and also the fact that the number of posting on LIS-Forum were very minimal, we had decided to entertain requests for articles from the members only under 'fair use' clause. Now the issue has been raised again. Till we take a policy decision on this matter, members should use LIS-Forum only as a last resort for their article needs and it should strictly adhere to the 'fair use' clause, i.e., for personal study/research only. There have been occasional requests for fulltext articles by the LIS-Forum members working for commercial organizations. Such requests are not entertained at all. I hope we have been able to adhere to this stance of not to entertain article requests from commercial organizations is being consistently followed. At least in future we will ensure that requests for fulltext articles from commercial organizations will *not be entertained* on LIS-Forum Thanks for your cooperation and support. - moderator >Dear Moderator, >I wonder if it is a good thing to circulate messages asking for pdfs of >articles by email? Isn't this against copyright policies of most >publishers? By the way, Lis-forum messages are available to the public >via google searches also so perhaps we should worry about this. (For this >reason, you need not circulate this message but you could take a policy >decision based on this) With best wishes, Girija

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RF-ID
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

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access to 8 Leading Kluwer Journals
by Mailing List Manager 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

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Journals Pricing Issue
by I.R.N.Goudar 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hello Professionals, There is an interesting news item dated Feb 6, 2004 on Journals pricing issue. "Editorial Board of Elsevier's Journal of Algorithms Resigns over Dispute Concerning Commercial Aspects of Scientific Publishing". For more details please visit the URL: http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=62 Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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Re: [LIS-Forum] article required (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 23:55:24 +0530 From: "Koteswara Rao , M" <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> Dear Colleagues, I too feel that Lis-Forum should not advocate/promote the free distribution of articles in PDF format among libraries. We should remember that copying and distribution of printed/electronic matter is based on 'fair use' policy and is meant for educational & research purposes only. If every library starts distributing such material to other than their own 'library members', it is definetely going to raise objections from the publishers. Also, it is not fair on our part to indulge in indiscriminate distribution of copyrighted material in the process of serving our user community. I hope the moderator should sense the 'inherent danger' and take necessary steps to curtail this. Koteswara Rao

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RE: [LIS-Forum] article required
by Mailing List Manager 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:09:05 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: This refers to article request by Mr Arunachalam and fears expressed by Girija. I suggest a way out. Just request for the article availability. The lending and the lendee libraries can contact each other for terms & conditions (free or paid), mode of delivery (courier/fax/email, format (digital/paper) of supply etc. Just One copy made available to the end-user (researcher) for his own personal study/research would be covered by 'fair use' may not attract adverse copyright/licensing problems. Vyasamoorthy, P

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National Seminar on LIBRARY CONSORTIA 22 23 March, 2004 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:05:15 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> National Seminar on LIBRARY CONSORTIA (22 23 March, 2004) Dear PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS We take pleasure to bring to your notice that the Department of Library & Information Science, Osmania University in collaboration with Indian Library Association is organizing a National Seminar on Library Consortia during 22 - 23 March, 2004. It is expected that about 100 Library Science Teachers/Library Professionals will be participating in the said Seminar. You are one of the senior most Professors / Professionals in LIS with wide exposure and experience in the subject field. Therefore, the Department would like to make use of your rich experiences for the benefit of the professionals participating in the said Seminar. Therefore, we appeal you earnestly to actively associate with the said National Seminar especially by participating and contributing articles to the Seminar. We will be glad, if you could make it convenient to attend the National Seminar and share your rich experiences and knowledge with the participants. We will appreciate if you could kindly give wide publicity among your colleagues and professionals about the National Seminar. The Conference brochure is enclosed herewith for your information. Since, a limited accommodation is available at our disposal, we request you to inform us your itinerary in advance to the undersigned for arranging your accommodation at OU Campus Guest Houses. Due to limited financial resources the Department will not be able to pay you the TA & DA for attending the Conference. Looking forward to meet you at the Conference. THE BROCHURE IS ATTACHED FOR UR READY REFERENCE With warm regards, Yours sincerely, ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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