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Vacancy of Technical Assistant in VSSC Library, Thiruvananthapuram
by NASAR 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

For details pls visit http://www.vssc.gov.in:8080/RMT284/advtno_284.html Regards AN -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Availability of a book - seeking for
by Mohanlal E.K 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Sir I would like to refer the book " Introducing Sociolingustics by Rajend Mesthrie" for my PhD studies.. If the book is available pl. let me know.. Very urgent please -- *Mohanalal E.K. MLIS, MPhil.*Deputy Librarian i/c College of Veterinary and Animal Science Kerala Veterinary & Animal Science Uty. Mannuthy Post, Thrissur Dist. -680 651 Kerala , INDIA *e-mail: lallu2007(a)gmail.com <lallu2007(a)gmail.com>, libvetmty(a)kvasu.ac.in <libvetmty(a)kvasu.ac.in>* *Ph: +919495464972, 0487 2372148* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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fwd: A free online course in open research
by Shamprasad Pujar 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Dear All, This could be of interest to some of you. best Regards, S M Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai ======================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravi Murugesan <ravi(a)uwalumni.com> Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:07 PM Subject: A free online course in open research https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2377/open-research/ An excerpt from the introduction: What does it mean to research in the open? Why should I make my research open? How do I research openly? This course is aimed at any researcher who wants to conduct an element of their research openly. Interested in how to ethically and openly share your findings so that others can reuse or develop your work? Curious about which open research methods you could use? Or just wanting to find out more about what open research entails? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Temporary / Permanent Date in an Incomplete Multipart Monograph (RDA Cataloging)
by Salman Haider 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Temporary / Permanent Date in an Incomplete Multipart Monograph : Questions and Answers in the Google+ Community "RDA Cataloging" <http://resourcedescriptionandaccess.blogspot.com/2014/08/temporary-date-in-…> RDA Blog <http://resourcedescriptionandaccess.blogspot.com> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management @ Calicut University 30-31 January 2015
by Dr. K M Haneefa 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Dear Sir / Madam, We have immense pleasure to inform you that the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calicut in collaboration with the C.H.M.K. Library, University of Calicut and Kerala Library Association (KLA) Kozhikode Region is organizing a Two-Day National Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management during 30-31 January 2015. Effective Knowledge Management is becoming a core competence and a key to the success of contemporary organizations. However, it is being observed that, while knowledge has been acknowledged as source of competitive advantage, it has not been managed well in organizations. The explosive growth of the Internet and the widespread use of large databases have drastically increased the volume and complexity of data to be mined, leading researchers to explore new ways to glean non-trivial data automatically. The conference will essentially focus on all contemporary issues related to Knowledge Discovery and Management. We request you to publicise this event among the professional colleagues of your University / Department/ Library with a request to contribute papers and be a part of the conference. The details of the conference with Registration Form can be accessed from the Calicut University website <http://www.universityofcalicut.info>. We look forward to your participation in the Conference. Thanking you. Yours faithfully, Dr. Mohamed Haneefa K. Assistant Professor Dept. of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala, India Phone (Office) :+91-494-2407286 Mobile No. 09895622811 E-mail ID: dr.haneefa(a)gmail.com Dept. Blog:http://cudlisc.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Discovery, the way Michael Nielsen sees it
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Friends: The book I was showing you at today's meeting: *Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science* Michael Nielsen Princeton University Price (paperback priced $19.95). I have read most of it and more than once. It is really insightful. Hope you will enjoy reading it too. Dr Nielson's talks are available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf2qO0plUKs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWocYKqvhw Of course there are many many more of his writings available on the Net. Regards. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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evaluation of science
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Here is an interesting blog post on the new journal of AAAs and the way we evaluate science now. http://blog.openaccessbutton.org/2014/08/19/every-time-you-hit-a-paywall-th… A must read for scientists and academic librarians. Please share this widely. Arun

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Stop the deluge of science research
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

>From the Guardian Higher Education Blog The increasing pace of human discovery is a curse â we need to rethink what it means to publish the results of research Timo Hannay, 5 Aug 2014 The rapid growth of scientific literature is often seen as evidence, if evidence were needed, that the pace of human discovery is accelerating. On the contrary, however, it is becoming a curse â one that requires us to radically rethink what it means to publish the results of research <http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/research>. Relentlessly â day after day, year after year â scientists are uncovering new facts about the world. If anything, the startling rate at which this happens appears to be increasing, but how would we know if such an impression was true? One way is to look at the rate at which scientific papers are published and these have indeed been appearing at an ever-increasing rates for decades or even centuries. As reported in a recent paper <http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4578>, the rate of growth of cited (ie somewhat influential) scientific publications has risen from less than 1% before the middle of the 18th century to 2-3% in the first half of the 20th century, and 8-9% today. That last figure is equivalent to a greater than doubling of scientific output every decade. What better testament to human intellectual progress and the power of the scientific method? Not so fast. For a start, not every publication is equal. When the author Theodore Sturgeon first invoked his famous law ("90% of everything is crap") he was talking about science <http://www.theguardian.com/education/science> fiction, but he could equally well have been talking about science. Estimates vary wildly, but probably between a quarter and a third of all research papers in the natural sciences go uncited <http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/23/academic-papers-ci…>. A much larger proportion is cited only by their own authors or by one or two others. This is not necessarily a sign of inadequate or wasteful research, but it should give us pause. It is at least partly a result of the imperative for researchers to publish in order to continue to secure funding and employment, and the accompanying incentive to salami-slice research results so as to secure the maximum number of publications from any given piece of work. This in turn leads to the bane of every scientist's existence: far too many papers to read in far too little time. This situation is only going to get worse, even in the absence of any genuine increase in scientific activity. One reason is the rise of author-pays open-access publishing. This has the benefit of allowing anyone to read the research in question without paying the publisher, but also has the disadvantage of giving publishers a strong commercial incentive to issue as much content as possible. In general I am a supporter of open access <http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/open-access>, but subscription business models at least help to concentrate the minds of publishers on the poor souls trying to keep up with their journals. As if this were not enough, proponents of open science (including me) are proposing that researchers should start publishing all of their work â complete with full data sets, comprehensive methods, negative results and "failed" experiments. In an age of bottomless digital information this is technically achievable and has the potential to greatly increase the transparency, impartiality and reproducibility of research â particularly welcome at a time when science is going through something of a crisis of confidence on these fronts <http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-chan…>. But it hardly promises a more manageable literature for those who are desperately trying to absorb all this information. The only practical solution is to take a more differentiated approach to publishing the results of research. On one hand funders and employers should encourage scientists to issue smaller numbers of more significant research papers. This could be achieved by placing even greater emphasis on the impact of a researcher's very best work and less on their aggregate activity. On the other they should require scientists to share all of their results as far as practically possible. But most of these should not appear in the form of traditional scholarly papers, which are too laborious for both the author and the reader to fulfil such a role. Rather, less significant work should be a issued in a form that is simple, standardised and easy for computers to index, retrieve, merge and analyse. Humans would interact with them only when looking for aggregated information on very specific topics. What would such a publication look like? I don't know exactly, but we can see signs in born-digital data publishing platforms such as Figshare <http://figshare.com/> (a portfolio company of Digital Science, which I run), Zenodo <http://zenodo.org/> (an initiative from CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory) and Dryad <http://datadryad.org/> (a not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the dissemination of research data). It is easy to forget that 350 years ago the scientific journal was itself an innovation, enabled in large part by the emergence of the printing press some 200 years earlier. Today our challenge is to create a new kind of scientific publication, internet-enabled and fit for a data-rich digital age. *Timo Hannay is managing director at Digital Science â follow them on Twitter **@timohannay* <https://twitter.com/timohannay>* and **@digitalsci* <https://twitter.com/digitalsci> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Proposed patch to add in-browser support of Indian/non-Latin language typing in Koha
by Indranil Das Gupta 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi all, [apologies for X-Posting] Browser based on-the-fly transliterated input on the OPAC was a long-standing requirement particularly in the Indian Koha user community. Indian government recognises 22 official languages for the purpose of official correspondance. The earlier attempts to add GoogleIndicTransliteration was a step in this direction. But that attempt did not finally clear QA. Google Transliteration API was deprecated in June 2011 and it's general Terms of Service (ToS) are not FOSS friendly. In contrast, jQuery.IME is dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and MIT. It is a key component of Wikimedia's (the organisation behind Wikipedia.org) global language engineering stack. At present, this represents robust, well tested support for over 135 input methods spanning over 67 languages. I've uploaded a patch (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=31152) against the bug number http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12815. The patch is against the current Koha master. I would like to request interested users to have a look and preferably test it. The patch work both in the OPAC as well as in Koha's staff client interface. Screenshots of the patch in action: http://imgur.com/a/2gB7H#0 and http://imgur.com/a/2gB7H#2 cheers, -indra -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for Training and Awareness Seminar on J-Gate in Coimbatore (for AICTE Affiliated Institutes)
by Soji Mathew 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Dear all, Informatics Publishing Limited is organizing a workshop on J-Gate for AICTE affiliated institutes in and around Coimbatore region. The event will be held on 26th September 2014 at the following venue: Auditorium Nehru Group of Institutions Jawahar Garden Kaliapuram, T.M. Pallayam Coimbatore - 641105 The event will comprise of the following activities: 1) Intensive hands-on training on the new J-Gate platform. 2) Explaining benefits of J-Gate for the librarians as well as end users. 3) Q&A and feedback session. Objectives of the Workshop: 1) To create awareness about the new J-Gate platform and it's features amongst the librarians and the end users. 2) To train the librarians on the Admin aspects of customization in J-Gate. 3) To train the Library Professionals and equip them with the knowledge to impart trainings for their end-users by themselves. 4) To take feedback from the participants on the new J-Gate platform and prepare a wish-list for future releases. Who should Participate? 1) Library Professionals from the institutes subscribing or planning to subscribe to J-Gate. 2) Information seekers who use or planning to use J-Gate as a journal discovery service. There is no registration fee and the participants will be awarded 'Certificate of Participation' after completion of the workshop. Kindly find more details about the event and register at: www.informindia.co.in/jgatetraining We look forward to your participation. Kindly feel free to contact the undersigned for any further query. Regards, Swapnil Srivastava Informatics Publishing Limited +91 99720 17067 swapnil.s(a)informaticsglobal.com -- *Confidentiality Notice: *T*his electronic message transmission, including any attachment(s), may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information from Informatics Publishing Limited. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution, printing or use of the contents of the information contained in this electronic message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic message by error, please destroy all copies of the message and contact the sender immediately by either replying to this message or calling 91-80-40387777.* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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