dear All, To facilitate identification of journals available in various Indian SS and Management libraries we have developed a free online union catalogue of journals. About 30 libraries SS and Management libraries have so far contributed their holding data. We will be very happy to share the entire data with other libraries. I welcome many more SS and Management libraries to join this initiative by contributing their journal holding data. Those interested may to get data from us or contribute the data may pl contact me. I am sure union catalogues will augment inter-library cooperation. This can be accessed at : http://oii.igidr.ac.in/prog/oii/integral/ucat/mucatjan.php Those who have alread contributed data may pl update their records online. regards, Dr.G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research Film City Road Santosh Nagar Goregaon(East ) MUMBAI - 400 065 India Phone: 022-28416528 email: gkm@igidr.ac.in On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Manjunath K wrote:

Dear Professional Colleagues, I removed all the breaks in the trailing mail and made it as a running text. At the outset, the discussion was started to suggest some guidelines while seeking help from library professionals. Now the discussion topic appears to be diverted to copyright related issues. I request and suggest, let publishers and database aggregators post a weekly Tip on copyright issues (about few paras) so that readers can read it. (like Management Tips from Harvard Business School).

Coming the original topic, I request all our professionals 1. Do make some homework before posting request for papers on forums. 2. Send details of the paper in the body of mail instead of sending a link alone. 3. Make the list short, so that the response may be more positive. A big list of request papers may get deleted without response. 4. Reveal your identity through your signature. One need not hesitate or shy of revealing the identity. The signature may motivate many people to respond. 5. your close friends may know your Orgn and workplace.. But most of the professionals may not know you. 5. If your library is not a member of DELNET, become its member. It is not expensive NAAC accreditation look for association with such networks. 6. The trailing mails has mentioned many other forums which can be searched while looking for information. 7. Try to contact Author for help. The author may have author's copy of the paper. They may help. 8. If you know the availability of resources in a special kind of library, try to contact them for help. The response may be encouraging.

Let us not throw mud on each other. Not replying/rejecting mails, which don't have signature and details of the papers is not a solution. We are in cooperative and resource sharing age. Let us help each other to improve the image of the profession and show that we are service professionals.

Manjunath -------------- Dr. Manjunatha, K |Chief Librarian| T.A. Pai Management; Institute| Manipal - 576104| Udupi Dist.| Karnataka| India| |Ph: 0820-2701105(Off), 2575161 (Res) | e- manjunath@tapmi.edu.in ; manjunathak@gmail.com | ------------

-----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sathya Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 6:42 PM To: Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed) Cc: Ravi Hullur; mk-rao@hotmail.com; Ishwar Goudar; harsha maga; lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Anil K Tyagi Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Article request - Good suggestion

Dear Vasumathi

Yes, it is the "requesting library" which is responsible for compliance with copyright law and, where applicable, the CONTU Guidelines. Lending Library will have to ensure that the requestor has complied by taking some declaration. Also, CONTU guideline is applicable for only newer articles that are less than five year old.

Regarding your question: "how do we get our libraries understand and follow these steps?", I can only say that there should be tutorials 2-3 hours on Copyright Law and compliance requirement for libraries. There is a well written handbook on this subject, which should help in preparing the material for such a tutorial.

- Copyright for Librarians: The Essential Handbook. By Berkman Center for Internet and Society. 2012.

*N.V. Sathyanarayana* *Informatics (India) Ltd, * *Bangalore. India. *

On 16 November 2015 at 16:52, Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed)

Thank you Mr Sathyanarayana! I too did post a separate mail about the CONTU guidelines, after searching and locating the same. I have a question - I was not too clear about No 5 . 5. No more than six copies of articles/chapters/small portions may be made from a non-periodical (including a book) during the entire term of copyright of the work. Is this for the requesting library or for the supplying library? (I assume it is for the requesting library. Because a supplying library may get a request for one or more articles from several sources) And next... how do we get all our libraries to understand these, and follow steps? I am sure some would know them, but it is important for all!

Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh QMed Knowledge Foundation (Trust - Reg No: E-24663) A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099; Tel: 91-22-40054474 Mob: +919867292230 Web: www.qmed.org.in <http://www.qmedkf.org.in/ www.indianmedicalsites.in

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Sathya

Dear Vasumathi

The "rule of 5" you refer to is about CONTU guidelines for ILL. CONTU guidelines. CONTU is a peculiar acronym for the "National *Commission on New Technological Uses *of Copyrighted Works". ( http://old.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html). Most publishers agree for ILL exchange of articles from e-journals under CONTU guidelines. This is expressed in their license agreement either by default or by asking by the library while signing license agreement. Broadly, the following are the guidelines of CONTU provision. (Reproduced from: https://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/content/ill_contu.html)

1. CONTU Guidelines for copying from periodicals apply only to materials less than five years old (referred to as part of the "rule of five"). [For materials older than five years, standard copyright rule applies]

2. Up to five articles may be copied from a single periodical in one calendar year under the ILL provision (referred to as part of the "rule of five").

3. A library with a subscription for a periodical, which is not immediately available, may consider a copy obtained from another library as if made from its own collection.

4. All ILL requests must be accompanied by a copyright compliance statement from the requesting library. The requesting library must maintain records of all requests and of their fulfilment. These records must be kept for three calendar years after the request has been made.

5. No more than six copies of articles/chapters/small portions may be made from a non-periodical (including a book) during the entire term of copyright of the work.

6. For copying beyond the CONTU Guidelines, the library may need to obtain copyright permission directly from the copyright holder or from a representative such as Copyright Clearance Center <http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=ac1-n.

*N.V. Sathyanarayana* *Informatics (India) Ltd, * *Bangalore. India. *

On 14 November 2015 at 10:44, Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed) < vasu@qmedkf.org.in wrote:

Asking for articles, by itself is not a violation of copyright practices. (As long as it is for fair use, of course!) I am a member of the Medical Librarians' (USA) mailing list, where people do ask. But, the rule is that they should have tried all other options (their DOCLINE - and more) and only then ask.

Also there is something called Rule of 5.

While I do not know the exact rule, it is something to the effect that if a library asks for more than five articles from one journal title, for any of their readers, then, from the 6th article onwards, they need to pay the copyright fee, or subscribe to the journal. It is the responsibility of the requesting library to ensure this

Also - they follow other rules that make it easy for those receiving the requests. For eg - in the Subject line of the email - they write ILL: [Citation] - where - they put in the citation in a std format - journal abbrn, year;vol:page And then in the body of the email, they put in the full citation and not ONLY the link to the article (which is very difficult for the eye, in the absence of the citation)

I believe we are in a position to create such rules after finding out the specifics from other countries. I can find out from the Medlib-L list, and if others can also find out and we arrive at certain rules, that would be nice

Also - can we all do something to ensure that the NUCSSI holdings are regularly updated, AND the libraries who have their data, make arrangements to answer email requests and supply articles? We could even arrive at a reasonable fee per article, just to ensure that there is no unnecessary overload.

It would be nice to have a constructive discussion on planning a right future trend for this. And implement things step by step as soon as possible

Vasumathi Sriganesh QMed Knowledge Foundation (Trust - Reg No: E-24663) A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Anil K Tyagi

Dear Professionals

I also raised this issue earlier. Seeking articles this way is unethical and not as per library practice. However. My suggestions was not accepted by mail admin. We should not support this practice which is clear violation of copyright. I am happy that issue was taken up now by seniors. With regards

Dr Anil K Tyagi Scientist 'G' DESIDOC, DRDO Delhi-110054

On 12-Nov-2015 18:38,

Very good suggestion. Nowadays users are not bothered to give their name and organisation when seeking help. I think it is in bad taste and we should not reply to such queries. Sometimes users ask very fundamental questions that every library professional is expected to know. I think there is something wrong with our current LIS education.

Koteswara Rao

Former librarian, UoH

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:19 AM -0800, "Manjunath K" < manjunath@tapmi.edu.in wrote: Dear colleagues, Good to note that the topic is again coming for discussion. I had posted this several times on this forum requesting the professional's signature when they seek help from others. While sending request, many professional don't mention their organization. Many libraries may not be the members of Delnet... hence searching union catalog may be difficult. But professional who have membership With DELNET can do the search before posting and request the specific library for the help. Many professionals simply forward the link without bothering to see the content of the request. It becomes the responsibility of the helping Person to open the link and then look for related resources in their databases. Our professionals should exert the minimum effort of opening the link and copy the contents to the body of the mail. This will help professionals To decide on type of resources to search in their databases without opening the link.

Along with Goudar and Manjunath, I too request our professionals to open the content of the link, check in union catalog/nearby libraries/ send request to specific library with details of the papers in the body itself rather than just sending a link.

Finally, please add your signature in your mails so that others know your details while responding to your request. Your signature many Times may yield good results. Libraries who have not taken delnet membership can attempt to take it as it helps searching Union catalog when requests come from users.

Wish you happy Deepavali.

Manjunath -------------- Dr. Manjunatha, K |Chief Librarian| T.A. Pai Management; Institute| Manipal - |576104| Udupi Dist.| Karnataka| India| |Ph: 0820-2701105(Off), 2575161 (Res)

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-----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of G.K.MANJUNATH Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 11:24 AM To: Ishwar Goudar Cc: Harsha Maga; Khsla; LIS-Forum; Ravi Hullur Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Article request - Good suggestion

One more suggestion. Professionals who need articles need to first check the online union catalogue of journals and identify where such Journals are available.

The request then may be sent to the specific library rather than simply posting the request on e-discussion forum.

Dr.G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research Film City Road; Santosh Nagar, Goregaon(East ) MUMBAI - 400 065 email: gkm@igidr.ac.in

On Sun, 8 Nov 2015, Ishwar Goudar wrote:

A good suggestion by Vasumati. Many a times we don't do basic homework and simply post the requirements through Lis-Forum. Waste of Time and effort for many.

"Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence"

*- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University E-mail: goudarishwar@gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line)

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed) < vasu@qmedkf.org.in wrote:

The article is available free online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/21505594.2014.984567.pdf is also free)

A general tip - before asking on this forum, please try pasting the title in Google, Google Scholar and Researchgate. Google and Google scholar can get you the links to the full text, if free. If not, very often the author is on RG and can be requested for the article

Please teach these tips to your users too

Best wishes

Vasumathi Sriganesh QMed Knowledge Foundation (Trust - Reg No: E-24663) A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099 Tel: 91-22-40054474 Mob: +919867292230

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:14 AM, shashi bhat

Dear Friends,One of our faculty is in need of the following article for his research. If any one of you have access to the article, kindly arrange to send. Virulence. 2015;6(3):216-22. doi: 10.4161/21505594.2014.984567. On the dynamics of root canal infections-what we understand and what we don't. Zehnder M1, Belibasakis GN With Regards,

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