Yes I agree that forum lis-forum would have been equally useful to
promoting Open Access and Digital Libraries. In-fact it would used in
future as well for this cause.
So far OA-INDIA is concerned, it is bit difficult to get new members
enrolled. Yahoo Groups platform has been chosen because it offers some
facilities like polls, databases and photos.
--Sukhdev Singh
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/
On 12/12/06, Francis Jayakanth
I personally feel that creating a new discussion group is not going to change the situation for better. Instead, we could use one of the existing groups like oa-india, being moderated by Prof. Arun, and impress upon the potential people to join the group.
- Francis
NCSI, IISc
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Sukhdev Singh wrote:
Friends,
I am back from an International Conference on Digital Libraries, 5-8 Dec. 2006
organised by TERI at New Delhi (ICDL 2006).
In one of the session there was comment that nothing is being done for "Open Access" movement in India. I feel this is incorrect. Lot of things are being done but by very few people. Yes, now we need to involve more and more people in this movement - both LIS professional as well educators, researchers and policy makers.
The first step I can think of is forming a discussion group. I know there are other groups as well - but these are mostly oriented towards LIS professionals. We never know what our target users feel about issues that may dear to us.
So a Group called "Open Access and Digital Libraries" is been created with the following URL. If you are interested in Open Access, you are welcome to join it. I would suggest to join it through its Web Interface:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl
If for some reason you prefer to join it by sending email, send a blank email to the following:
oadl-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Thanks,
Sukhdev Singh. NIC. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum