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FREE ACCESS TO TWO DATABASES
by Mailing List Manager 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:23:52 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear All: NISC is pleased to offer FREE access to the following two global databases for the entire month of December 2003. ________________________________________________________ 1. Child Development & Adolescent Studies (101,640+ records) CDAS is today^s source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. NISC has transformed the entire 75 years of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1927-2001) into today^s electronic format by including all of the issues previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan. All this plus new coverage of Child Rights and welfare issues makes CDAS a contemporary and essential resource for leading research. 2. Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) (700,850+ records) A "must have" for any degree granting institution in these fields. A core resource for these professionals: Social Workers Marriage & Family Counselors Family Practitioners Social Scientists Sociologists Psychologists Organizations and Services dedicated to the Family Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) is a core resource in NISC's series of databases on family and gender related topics. NISC has recently expanded the coverage of FSSW, which formerly was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). FSSW contains all the citations of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, plus abstracts which were never available in print. The highly respected Australian Family & Society Abstracts, commonly known as FAMILY, is produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Sociologists Psychologists Organizations and Services dedicated to the Family Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) is a core resource in NISC's series of databases on family and gender related topics. NISC has recently expanded the coverage of FSSW, which formerly was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). FSSW contains all the citations of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, plus abstracts which were never available in print. The highly respected Australian Family & Society Abstracts, commonly known as FAMILY, is produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Enhanced sub-sets of records from highly relevant U.S. Government databases are included. Find everything you would expect and discover the unexpected about today's complex family and the challenges faced from within and society at-large. ________________________________________________________ Please contact us through email if you wish to have free access to these databases. Happy searching! Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor

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Computer and IT Oriented Courses
by Mailing List Manager 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:30:44 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends: You may wish to pass on the following info to your friends. Taken from: www.iqra-careers.com Vyasamoorthy, P ================== Annexure to: Computer and IT Oriented Courses Birla Institute of Technology (Ranchi) - (i) a two-year M.Sc (Information Science) Open to graduates in any discipline or for candidates possessing MBBS/BT/BE/B. Pharm degrees. (ii) PhD (Information Science) Guru Ghasidas University (Bilaspur, M.P., 495009) - Master of Library Automation and Networking, of one-year duration Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (Vidya Vihar, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow-226025) - M.Sc (Information Science) of two-year duration. Graduates of all faculties including Engineering and Medicine are eligible for admission. Hyderabad University (Central University Post Office, Hyderabad-500046) - offers a distance learning programme, Postgraduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking (PGDLAN) of one-year duration, open to candidates possessing Science and Computer Science. Bundelkhand University (Jhansi-284128, UP) - Master's Degree in Library Automation (MLA) of one year duration. Candidates possessing a degree in any discipline are eligible. Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University (formerly Agra University) - (i) PG Diploma in Library Automation. The eligibility requirement is B.LISc degree with 50 per cent marks, (ii) Master of Information Technology Management (MITM) of two year duration. Admission in engineering or medicine or BLISc. The course contents are (a) Information Technology, (b) Communication, (c) Library and Information Science. In addition, there is an optional subject to be chosen from (i) Management Information System, (ii) Public Relations and Advertising, (iii) Technical Writing, and (iv) Planning and Management of Library & Information Centres. University of Kerala (Department of Library and Information Science) - Postgraduate Diploma course in Information Technology (PGDIT) Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (Allahabad) - Diploma in Website Designing and Management of one year duration. Above is an Annexures for Chapter 39: Library And Information Science ========================

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DRTC Seminar on MARTIF & OLIF
by Mailing List Manager 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560 059 Seminar On Machine Readable Terminology Interchange Format (MARTIF) & Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF) By M. Ramshirish ABSTRACT Proliferation of information on the web in every subject area has created chaos. Web requires to be classified and organized. Terminologies are important to understand a domain of knowledge. But, preparation of terminological databases is both time and money consuming activity. To overcome this problem, Terminological Interchange Formats came into picture. In the present era of Information Technology people are using different software and various formats to maintain the terminological databases. This is an obstacle for interchange of data from one database to another. For this we need standard interchange format, which should be both platform and format independent. MARTIF & OLIF are efforts in this direction. MARTIF deals with concept oriented terminology systems and OLIF focuses on the lexical side i.e., parts of speech, subject area, homonyms etc. This seminar aims to give an ove! rview of the MARTIF and OLIF formats. Date : 24 November 2003 (Monday) Time : 2 pm Venue : DRTC Class Room All are cordially invited Dr. ARD Prasad Coordinator

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Computer Books
by Mailing List Manager 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 13:48:09 +0530 From: Monitor Information Services <emonitor(a)sancharnet.in> Hi We have number of computer books (old editions) which will be sent Free of Cost to any Institutional Library. List of such titles will be provided on e-mail request. Best Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services emonitor(a)sancharnet.in http://www.monitorinfo.com

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FREE ACCESS TO TWO DATABASES
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 22 Nov '03

22 Nov '03

Dear All: NISC is pleased to offer FREE access to the following two global databases for the entire month of December 2003. ________________________________________________________ 1. Child Development & Adolescent Studies (101,640+ records) CDAS is todays source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. NISC has transformed the entire 75 years of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1927-2001) into todays electronic format by including all of the issues previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan. All this plus new coverage of Child Rights and welfare issues makes CDAS a contemporary and essential resource for leading research. 2. Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) (700,850+ records) A "must have" for any degree granting institution in these fields. A core resource for these professionals: Social Workers Marriage & Family Counselors Family Practitioners Social Scientists Sociologists Psychologists Organizations and Services dedicated to the Family Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) is a core resource in NISC's series of databases on family and gender related topics. NISC has recently expanded the coverage of FSSW, which formerly was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). FSSW contains all the citations of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, plus abstracts which were never available in print. The highly respected Australian Family & Society Abstracts, commonly known as FAMILY, is produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Improved & Expanded Family & Society Studies Worldwide covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice. The quality and quantity of literature cited have been increased, and the scope is international including new areas of research and types of publications. Publications indexed in the database are drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work. Source documents include related websites, internet documents, professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, selected popular literature, government reports, discussion and working papers, unpublished material such as poster sessions, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSSW. Enhanced sub-sets of records from highly relevant U.S. Government databases are included. Find everything you would expect and discover the unexpected about today's complex family and the challenges faced from within and society at-large. ________________________________________________________ Please contact us through email if you wish to have free access to these databases. Happy searching! Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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New(s)shake. Google's new(s) competitor Microsoft.
by Mailing List Manager 21 Nov '03

21 Nov '03

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:19:38 +0530 From: sheshagiri kulkarni <kulkarnisheshagiri(a)hotmail.com> DearAll, Microsoft has created a news search service for its MSN portal called Newsbot (http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/) as its own alternative for Google news. Microsoft service is a test or beta version that culls over 4000 online news resources.Cover news in four languages English, Spanish, Italian and French languages and national news from different countries (United Kingdom, France, Spain,Ital). To fuel the news site, Microsoft has taken help from the San Francisco basedMoreoverTechnologies. Tit for tat: ----------- Google has offered a freely downloadable piece of software that allows users to do a Google search without having to open a browser (like Internet Explorer ).It enables to search with Google from any application without lifting fingers from the keyboard. With this, now user can keep a mini search engine "googling" in a corner, while typing or editing a document. It can be downloadedfrom http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/. Regards Sheshagiri Sheshagiri R Kulkarni Information & Knowlege Management Trainee National Center for Science Information Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Ph 3942511 sheshagiri(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Search IndMED and PubMed with Single click now
by Sukhdev Singh 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

NIC's Indian Medlars Centre (http://indmed.nic.in) has released a Test Version application for searching both IndMED and PubMed with a single click. It is a Meta-Search Interface and can be accessed from http://indmed.nic.in by clicking on METAMED hyperlinked word. IndMED is bibliographic database indexing 77 Indian Biomedical Journals by Indian Medlars Centre. PubMed (MEDLINE), as you are aware is created by US' National Library of Medicine, indexes about 4700 international biomedical journals. The MetaMED is being released for testing. Please report any problems to sukhi at hub.nic.in (replace '@' for 'at' here). Regards Sukhdev Singh _________________________________________________________________ Has one of the new viruses infected your computer? Find out with a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Take the FreeScan now! http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 8, Issue 14
by Mr. Sridhar Brahma 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Dear All, I am searching for "Encyclopedia of industrial chemical analysis" by Snell and Ettre. Please help me in providing information from where I can procure it. Thanks & regards, Sridhar Brahma Information Scientist, SABIC Research & Technology Pvt Ltd., Plot No. 5 & 6, Savli GIDC Estate, Savli - Baroda Highway, Manjusar: - 391 775, Dist Baroda Gujarat, INDIA Ph: +91-2667-264521 Fax: +91-2667-264245 Email - sridhar(a)sabicind.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Astro: New journal?
by Mailing List Manager 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:41:09 +0530 (IST) From: Nagesh Hadimani <nagesh(a)jncasr.ac.in> Dear sir, I found one article from the Journal "Recent Research Developments in Astronomy & Astrophysics" published by Research Signpost India 2002, You can access from the following web address. http://www.ima.umn.edu/preprints/aug2002/1877.pdf The above article is submitted by the following Author. Michael Efroimsky, Astronomer U.S. Naval Observatory 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington DC 20392 email: efroimsk(a)imaNOSPAM.umn.edu Thanks. Nagesh Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore India

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Astro: New journal?
by Mailing List Manager 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:57:31 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> dear Dr Girija Please contact www.researchsignpost.com Research Signpost, T. C. 37/661(2), Fort Post Office, Trivandrum - 695023, Kerala, India Tel: 91.471.2460384, Fax: 91.471.2573051, E-mail: ggcom(a)vsnl.com They seem to be quality STM publishers from the titles already out. UNLIKE our 'friend': Biju K Abraham of :"Indian Institute of knowledge management", "Indian Journal of Library & Information science", Kottayam, Kerala India 686634Phone (482)22240720 Cell 9846 240720 Emaileditor(a)ijlis.com His Email does not work. There are complaints that BK Abraham asks (Foreign)authors to contribute papers,- don't know what he does with them -- never informs the outcome -- not even send a copy of the journal to the author. I thought Research Signpost may be similar such bogus organisation. NO, Research Signpost appears to be solid & real! But, How come he has not approached RRIL, IIAP etc if he is publishing "Recent Research Developments in Astronomy & Astrophysics" ? This is a mystery. Vyasamoorthy, p

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