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_Proceedings of Major Open Access Conference Published_
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:46:56 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> The proceedings of the ICSTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information:State of the Art and Future held January 23-24, 2003 at the French Ministry of Research, Carr des Sciences, Paris, was recently published in a special issue of _Information Services & Use_ (v 23 (n. 2-3) (ISSN 0167-5265) (IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl ). The issue includes the following major themes and notable papers: **Open Access: What Does It Mean for STI Distribution** o Open Access: marginal or core phenomenon? a commercial publisher's view (Pieter Bolman) o Open publishing: how publishers are reacting (Sally Morris) A brief overview of the OAI protocol and its potential impact (Andy Powell) **Open Access: Economic Models and Legal Implications** o Ingenta's economic and technical models for providing institutional OAarchives (Geoffrey Bilder) Open Access publishing (Jan Velterop) o Libraries and institutional infrastructure for Open Access services (Elmar Mittler) o The legal framework for access to STI (Thomas Dreier) **Open Access: Challenges for the Scientific Community** o Mathematics and databases: Open Access (Laurent Guillop) o The Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (Daniel Charnay) o The research-impact cycle (Stevan Harnad) **Open Access: Issues for Developing Countries** o Round Table: Open Access issues for developing countries (Kay Raseroka, Barbara Kirsop, Jean-Jacques Pierrat, Georges Malamoud, Barbara Aronson, Manfred Spiesberger) **Open Access: Projects and Initiatives** o Institutional repositories and Open Access: the future of scholarly communication (David Prosser) o The Budapest Initiative for Open Access (Jean-Claude Gudon) o FIGARO and Open Access to electronic information objects (Stefan Gradmann) o E-BioSci: Semantic networks of biological information (Les Grivell). The issue also contains a lengthy review titled "Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: The State of the Art" prepared by Jack Franklin, ASFRAbv, Edam, The Netherlands (http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/en/etat_art.php) transcripts of Questions & Answers sessions, welcome and closing addresses, and a summary of discussions with commentary. An OCLC record for the issue is available [OCLC # 53966590] thanks to my Cataloging Colleagues at the ISU Library! I encourage all who own the journal to analyze it for their local OPAC. **Ironically, while the proceedings is a major contribution to the Open Access literature and movement, it is *not* Open Access [:-( ]. However, some authors have self-archived a version of their presentations [:-)]** [Google Author/Title to see who has self-archived] *** Perhaps, in the spirit of the Season, the publisher would make this issue available as their Free (Electronic) Sample Issue - How About It IOS Press? *** IMHO This is an important collection that should be required reading in the New Year for every librarian and those who wish they were {:-> Joy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New Year Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011

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A useful site for information professionals
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Date: 1 Jan 2004 04:19:38 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> DEAR MEMBERS: I would like to bring to your kind attention A site for librarians, about librarians and by librarians. It is the LIS website "Information Professional" available at http://www.information-professional.com/. Thanks Gunasekaran CECRI, Karaikudi

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Useful Links
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:28:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Colleagues, Wish you all a very Happy & Prosperous New Year : 2004 I hope u'll find the following links useful : International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) Newsletter : http://www.inasp.info/newslet/index.html Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) http://www.inasp.info/peri/intro.html with regards G.Bhojaraju www.bhojarajug.cjb.net

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InfoWatch - Dec 03
by M.R Lalitha 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, Wish you a Happy New Year. The December 2003 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Dec 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. ACM technology guide 2. ArrayExpress [A public repository for microarray data] 3. Component failure museum [Specific failure types & problems in different engineering materials] 4. Cygwin [Open source Red Hat GNU tool] 5. Deep content - Guide to effective searching of the Internet 6. Digital book index 7. dspGuru - Digital signal processing central 8. Free2Code [A site for computer related tutorials & codes] 9. e-Optimization.com [A website for optimization software] 10. EPA REACH IT - Remediation And CHaracterization Innovation Technologies 11. Methodology .org [Methods, tools and techniques for IT Professionals] 12. Microcontroller.com - Accurate embedded systems sourcing information 13. OJOSE - Online JOurnal Search Engine for scientific literature research 14. palowireless.com - Wireless technologies resource center 15. PostdocJobs.com [A career information service for postdoctoral positions, fellowships, other research and science jobs] 16. Protein Kinase Resource - PKR 17. Scientific life - World News Network 18. Spacewatch [Spectacular images & the latest top stories in space science] 19. Total hardware - Jumper settings for 18655 devices 20. Worldwide Ocean Optics Database - WOOD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Web-based Library Automation and Networking solution
by Mailing List Manager 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Date: 30 Dec 2003 10:05:57 -0000 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> I am happy to let members of this List know that they can now see a trial installation of the web-based library automation system developed as an initiative of Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management (http://www.kiikm.org/) in collaboration with a software company, Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., in Hyderabad. The software is called NewGenLib. Details of the software (a brochure) and a PowerPoint presentation may be seen at http://www.kiikm.org. The trial installation can be seen at the Osmania University's web site, http://www.osmania.ac.in/ Please go to this site and click the link for NewGenLib. However NewGenLib requires that client machines must have a Java plugin and a java policy file. How to obtian and install the free Java Plugin is explained in the Readme.Txt ** [sent with this mail as attachment. The .java.policy file also sent as an attachment (_java.polcy should be renamed as .java.policy) should be copied to the Operating System default directory. For e.g., for Windows98 it is C:/Windows/. Comments and feedback are welcome to:] haravu(a)newgenlib.com. L J Haravu ** PS: The attachments have not been included. Please write to Mr. Haravu to get the required files. - moderator

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New Year Wishes
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:31:41 +0530 From: SRELS <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Member : The Trustees and the Staff of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore. Wishes you a Happy & Prosperous New Year.

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Talk on "Universal Access to Cyberspace" by Dr. John Rose
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in collaboration with the The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore cordially invite you to a public lecture by Dr. John Rose Information Society Division UNESCO, Paris, France on UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO CYBERSPACE at The Seminar Hall National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 on Monday, 29th December 2003, at 5.30 p.m. Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana Chairman and Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore will preside ------------------------------------------------------- RSVP: Ph:3305109(Prasad, SRELS) E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com 3600271(Rajashekar, NCSI) raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Coffee: 5.00 P.M.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Websites required
by Mailing List Manager 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:42:48 +0530 From: kss <kss(a)informindia.co.in> Hi Geetha, We are a company specialised in web research. We not only identify websites as per given seleection criteria but also index or keyword them. We have been offereing this service to several US companies. In the past we have identified 60,000 websites in the area of Life/Health Sciences, 15,000 Arts amd Humanity sites, 15,000 Linguistics, Social Science and Poltical Science, 15,000 Engineering sites. We charge US$1.5 per site identification including indexing. We generally do not undertake mere identification of sites. However, as a special case, we could offer this service at US$0.30/site provided the minimum number of sites to be identified is more than 1000. Tks. & Regds K S Subba Rao Director Informatics International Projects Division Informatics India Ltd 112/7, Vikas 11th Cross, 5th Main Malleshwaram Bangalore 560 003 Tel: 3464878 Fax: 3344598 www.informindia.co.in www.j-gate.informindia.co.in

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Academic ranking of world universities
by Mailing List Manager 28 Dec '03

28 Dec '03

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:10:31 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Shanghai University has conducted a study in which they have ranked world's universities according to their research merits. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India has been ranked at position in between 27-36 in Asia/Pacific and in between 251-300 position in the world. In case if you are interested, Rankings can be found here: http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm Regards Ramesh

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save US$ 225 on ' Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science'
by Mailing List Manager 28 Dec '03

28 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:40:25 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2nd edition published in May'2003 in 4 vol. set is being offered at its low pre-publication price of US$ 1275.00 instead of its current price of US$ 1500.00. Librarian who could not take advantage of its pre-publication price earlier can avail this limited period offer. Library Discounts permissible. Contact for full details Best Wishes Mukesh Anand emonitor(a)sancharnet.in

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