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InfoWatch - Oct 2003
by M.R Lalitha 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Dear LIS-Forum member, The October 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) Oct 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Beyond Logic [Information resource for hardware & programming for USB, legacy ports, device drivers etc] 2. BioABACUS - Biotechnology ABbreviation and ACronym Uncovering Service 3. CentralOps.net - Advanced online Internet utilities 4. ChemBank - Initiative for chemical genetics 5. Ecological risk analysis - Guidance, tools and applications 6. Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment 7. Engineering case studies 8. Engineering and technology software [Free softwares/sharewares listed by Techstreet.com] 9. How People Learn: Brain, mind, experience and school 10. ITtoolbox dataware house 11. NEODYS - Near Earth object 12. OpenScience project [Dedicated for creating free and open source scientific software] 13. Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - Intutive resource for synthetic organic chemists 14. Protocols.com - Protocols for WAN, LAN, ATM communications and telecommunications 15. reallybig.com - A complete resource for all web builders 16. RF Cafe[[An information source in electronics] 17. Spice-Club.com[A resource for analog modeling and design applications] 18. Surface Properties of INterfaces - Protein Protein Interfaces (SPIN-PP) 19. Template Numerical Toolkit (TNT) - An interface for scientific computing in C++ 20. TreeBASE - A relational database of phylogenetic information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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DRTC Seminar on Web Ontology Language (OWL)
by Mailing List Manager 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:46:40 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Banda Shankar" <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research & Training Center 8th Mile, Mysore road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Seminar On Web Ontology Language (OWL) By Banda Shankar Abstract The Semantic Web is a vision for the future of the Internet where every information is given explicit meaning. This makes it easier for machines to automatically process and integrate information. XML's ability to define customized tags and RDF's flexible approach to represent data could be exploited to build Semantic Web. In extension to this several standard Ontologies are used. Web Ontology Language(OWL) is one such kind of Ontology. This seminar gives detailed overview of OWL and it's suitability for building future "Semantic Web". enue : DRTC classroom Date : 17th November, 2003(Monday) Time : 2.00 P.M. All are cordially invited Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Co-ordinator

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Business and Management Libraries: opportunities and challenges in 21st century- New Book
by Mailing List Manager 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:01:31 -0500 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> "Business and Management Libraries: opportunities and challenges in 21st century", Edited by Ramesh C. Gaur, Ashok Jambekar, P.R. Goswami , and Tariq Asraf . Excel Books, New Delhi, October 2003. Hard Bound; Price Rs. 450/- ABOUT THE BOOK In view of the sudden growth of management education institutions in public as well as private sector, the present volume has been developed to share information and ideas for the development of libraries and business librarianship. A library is considered to be at the heart of an academic institution and plays a crucial role in the overall improvement of quality of study, teaching and learning. The book aims to address issues pertaining to challenges in business librarianship, knowledge management, resource sharing and networking, information infrastructure and information technology deployment in libraries, digital libraries, marketing of library services, total quality management and user information needs and user issues. Holistic in approach and lucid in language, the objective of the book is to debate and discuss a plethora of issues that concern the library professionals especially in the light of the information technology boom. Through a culmination of 24 papers, it has been our endeavour to voice the experience and knowledge of academicians and professionals from management institutions with the hope that the readers would get new insights and benefit from them. ABOUT THE EDITORS Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai has over a decade of experience in Library Information field. His career specialization has been in Automation and Reengineering of Libraries. Dr. Gaur successfully carried out total library automation project of Planning Commission Library (Government of India). He has published over 30 articles in various national and international books, journals and conference proceedings. His authored book"Reengineering Library and Information Services: People, Process and Technology" has received wide acclamation. He is the Founder Convener of Ranganathan Research Circle (RRC), New Delhi and Life trustee and Joint Secretary of Ranganathan Research Trust. He is presently at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA under Fulbright Fellowship in Information Science and Technology. Late Ashok Jambhekar was Librarian at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Head NICMAN, established by NISSAT. He was also Founder President of Management Libraries Network, New Delhi. Dr. P. R. Goswami is presently Director National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), New Delhi. In his wide ranging experience in the field of Library and Information Science, his past assignments have been in Planning Commission (Government of India) and University of Delhi. He has served as General Secretary of Indian Library Association (ILA). He has authored many articles and essays for national and international journals. Dr.Tariq Ashraf has over 15 years of rich and varied experience in prestigious organizations. Before joining IILM in January 1997, he has worked at Centre for Policy Research and Indian Institute of Mass Communication for more than 8 years. He has contributed 15 research papers in journals of repute. One of his papers titled "Information Technology and Public Policy: A Socio-Human Profile of Indian Digital Revolution" has been awarded by American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASSIST) for the year 2003. He is also Editor of MANLIBNET Review, a quarterly newsletter of Management Libraries Network, New Delhi.

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Open access leads to higher citations and visibility!
by Mailing List Manager 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:08:36 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is some evidence to show that open access papers are cited far more often than papers which are not in the open access domain. Based on some well-planned research! Here is an excerpt from a posting by Stevan Harnad to another list.. Arun ------- You may be interested in: <http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311&L=pamnet&D=1&O=D&P=1632> which is a report by the librarian liason of the AAS Pub board meeting. The relevant paragraph (at the end) is: "Finally, there was a very interesting brief report from Greg Schwarz (from the ApJ editorial office) on some work he's doing tracking citation rates of papers published in the ApJ based on whether they were posted on astro-ph or not. He studied samples from July-Dec. 1999 and July-Dec. 2002. The first interesting point is that 72% of the papers published in the latter period had appeared on astro-ph, although the submission rate to the server seems to be leveling off. He also noted that the number of authors per paper has been increasing along with the total length and that most astro-ph submissions are after acceptance by the journal. The really fascinating conclusion he's drawn, at least from my perspective, is that ApJ papers that were also on astro-ph have a citation rate that is _twice_ that of papers not on the preprint server. Moreover, this higher citation rate appears to continue once the time gap disappears (that is, papers on astro-ph are viewed about nine months ahead of the journal paper, but after several years of availability, the astro-ph papers are still being cited at a significantly higher rate)." You [Michael Kurtz, Astrophysics, Harvard] have shown some similar work already, but this seems nicely done. With the majority of ApJ papers going to astro-ph those which are not preprinted (and which are less referenced) seem the oddballs. I have been assuming that the higher citation rates for papers which are preprinted was due to the preprinting; perhaps the effect is that lower quality/interest papers are not preprinted. Can I ask for a clarification (because the word "preprinted," unlike "self-archived," is somewhat ambiguous): Are you specifically referring here to the prepublication part of an article's timeline, your point being that in astrophysics, where the publishers' versions are all effectively "open access" by the time they appear (in that they are all available to the entire worldwide astrophysical research community via site-licenses to the relatively small and closed group of journals involved), there are *still* twice as many citations of those papers that were self-archived before publication (as either pre-refereeing preprints or post-refereeing postprints or both) than to those that only became openly accessible when they became available as from the publisher? That would be very useful news both for the value of open access to eprints (preprints and postprints) in general and the value of prepublication self-archiving in particular, suggesting that (if we take Steve Lawrence's figures for the overall citation advantage of free online access to eprints over the its alternatives -- online or on-paper -- which is a citation advantage of 4.5) we see that a two-fold advantage already comes from free access to the prepublication phase alone. The causality, of course, is uncertain here, as you note: Is it that earlier open-access enhances the citation counts, or that the better articles are the ones that are being self-archived earlier? In any case, it is certainly a vote both for open access and for early self-archiving! Cheers, Stevan

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common names of chemical compounds
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

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Dialog Seeks Asian Pacific Applicants for 2004 Roger K. Summit sch.
by Mailing List Manager 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:33:17 +0530 From: K Prakash <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in> [For more details please visit http://www.dialog.com/pressroom/2003/aus_111003.shtml] P R E S S R E L E A S E Dialog Seeks Asian Pacific Applicants for 2004 Roger K. Summit Scholarship MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA (10 November 2003) ^ Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today said that it is seeking applicants from Asian Pacific countries for its second Roger K. Summit Scholarship to be awarded in the region. The company will award a scholarship of AU$5,000 (or equivalent in local currency) to a student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences course in Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan, The Philippines, Vietnam or another Asian Pacific country. The deadline for applicants is Friday, 27 February 2004. Applications are available online at www.dialog.com/home/australia/scholarship.shtml. The winner will be announced in March 2004. Dialog awards three Roger K. Summit Scholarships annually, one each in North America, Europe and Middle East, and in the Asia Pacific region. A panel of local information professionals and educators selects the regional winners after reviewing academic achievement, interest in electronic information services, proficiency using the online services offered by Dialog, and faculty recommendations. In 2003, Dialog awarded its first Asian Pacific Roger K. Summit Scholarship to Wei Ping Yu of the University of New South Wales. That announcement was made at the 11th Information Online Conference and Exhibition in Sydney, organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). With best wishes/regards. Bye. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-6305971 / 6304695; Fax: 630 0990(Off.); 6763724(Res.) Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com

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a doubt
by Mailing List Manager 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:42:46 +0000 (GMT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Hanamanthraya Biradar" <biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends, I am working as a librarian in one of the educational institute. Now I have faced one problem about the magazine. How it is possible to know whether it is aInternational/National magazine. Please give me the suggetions about this problem. E-mail : biradar_76(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking You

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Workshop on using "Greenstone Digital Library Software" for Pune librarians
by Sunita Barve 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Forthcoming Event at Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune Workshop on Building Digital Libraries using Greenstone Digital Library Software At Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, on 30th November - 1st December 2003. Timings: 9.00 am to 6.00 pm Objectives and goals of workshop The goal of this workshop is to give basic training on GSDL to initiate building digital libraries/files. Focus is on installing, configuring, application and administration of this package. At the end of the Workshop, participant should have acquired the knowledge and skill sets required to build digital libraries using GSDL. Who can participate? Library and Information professionals those are currently working in library and information centres�from Pune area/region. Pre-requisites Participants should have basic computer knowledge to use various commands in WINDOWS and DOS environment. Good understanding of electronic documents, web sites, HTML page creation, word processing, Internet searching, and databases is essential. Course material Each participant will get GSDL installation CD-ROM. It will also have course material and exercises. Workshop fees Fees: Rs. 1000/- per participant No. of participants: 30 Fee covers course material, software CD, lunch and tea Workshop Content Training programme will include presentations, demonstrations and lab sessions. Following is the tentative program list: * GSDL: Features and examples * GSDL: Installation, configuration, accessing sample collections * Collection building * Collection configuration * Customizing GSDL interface Resource Persons Shubhada Nagarkar,Bioinformatics Centre, Pune Anant Sabane, Kanbay, Pune Nirupama Bawdekar, IUCAA, Pune Sunita Barve, NCRA, Pune Technical Support Sanjay Londhe, Bioinformatics Centre Rahul Khandare, Bioinformatics Centre Course Co-ordinator Shubhada Nagarkar Librarian, Bioinformatics Centre University of Pune, Pune 411007 Ph.: 5690195 Mobile No.: 9822997760 Fax: 5690087 Email: shubha(a)bioinfo.ernet.in Workshop Site: http://bioinfo.ernet.in/library/workshop/main.htm Registration Form Participant's Name: Ms./ Mr./ Dr./ Prof.:_______________________________ Position:____________________________ Organization:_________________________________________________________ Address:_________________________________________________________________ City:_________ Pin:_____________Telephone:__________________ Fax:__________________________Email:_______________________ Registration details Payment details DD No:________________________Date:__________________________ Amount in Rs.:________________ (Note: DD to be drawn in favor of "The Registrar, University of Pune Pune -7", payable at Pune) Date:__________________ Signature:_______________ Please fill this form and send it to The Coordinator, along with the registration fee, on or before 28th November 2003. ---------00000-----------

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Edit of PDF document
by Mailing List Manager 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:09:36 +0530 From: Satya Ranjan Sahu <srsahu(a)darya.nio.org> Dear members, Editing in a PDF document, which is captured by "Page Capture", increases the file size tremendously of the original. Is there any solution to keep the size in control? We have scanned few articles from the print documents. After converting the image as editable PDF using "Abode Page Capture" the size found to be reasonable. But when the PDF document edited using the "touch text tool" or "capture suspect" of Adobe Acrobat, the size increases. Please let me know the solution to keep the file size reasonable. Thanking you With regards Satya "Make everyday memorable" -------------------------------------------------------- Satya Ranjan Sahu NIO Library (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone: 91- (0)832 - 2450 370 (Direct) 2450 450(Extn. 370) ---------------------------------------------------------

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IFLA Award, Closing date 30 Nov.
by Dinesh K. Gupta 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Dear Colleagues, Any professional worldover who has initiated/ done marketing project/ compaign in his/her library and wants to attend 2004 IFLA Conference in Buenos Aires ( Argentina) with a cash award of US$1000 , may apply for the IFLA-3M International Marketing Award. The Closing date (30th Nov.) is approaching very fast. Pl. Find application details at: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s34/award/3m-appform-e.doc Regards, Dinesh K. Gupta (Member, Standing Committee, Management & Marketing Section, IFLA)

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