Friday, February 19, 2010

The research Librarian Partnership

Would you like to learn how to gather the evidence to make your services and resources even more effective in meeting your clients’ needs? Have you always wanted to learn the steps involved in conducting a research project? The Researcher-Libraria n Partnership provides the opportunity for new library and information science professionals to develop and refine their skill, knowledge and confidence in conducting research. The Partnership is sponsored by the Library Theory and Research Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Research skill and knowledge are the essential tool kit for ensuring that libraries and librarians continue to effectively and efficiently meet the evolving needs of the clients and communities they serve. The Partnership is open to practising librarians who have no more than seven years professional experience in the library and information sector at the time of application. The Partnership is not open to individuals occupying research or teaching positions. The purpose of the Partnership is to provide the opportunity for recipients to receive expert coaching and guidance as they undertake a research project on a selected library or information issue. Up to six recipients will be selected to take part in the Partnership in 2010. The successful recipients will be matched with a mentor who has experience in conducting research. Nominations will be considered by a Selection Committee and a recommendation made to the Library Theory and Research Standing Committee. Nominations close on 3 May 2010. For further information (including the application form), visit http://www.ifla. org/en/library- theory-and- research/ projects or contact Helen Partridge, Chair of the Selection Committee, at h.partridge@ qut.edu.au Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06

The research Librarian Partnership

Would you like to learn how to gather the evidence to make your services and resources even more effective in meeting your clients’ needs? Have you always wanted to learn the steps involved in conducting a research project? The Researcher-Libraria n Partnership provides the opportunity for new library and information science professionals to develop and refine their skill, knowledge and confidence in conducting research. The Partnership is sponsored by the Library Theory and Research Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Research skill and knowledge are the essential tool kit for ensuring that libraries and librarians continue to effectively and efficiently meet the evolving needs of the clients and communities they serve. The Partnership is open to practising librarians who have no more than seven years professional experience in the library and information sector at the time of application. The Partnership is not open to individuals occupying research or teaching positions. The purpose of the Partnership is to provide the opportunity for recipients to receive expert coaching and guidance as they undertake a research project on a selected library or information issue. Up to six recipients will be selected to take part in the Partnership in 2010. The successful recipients will be matched with a mentor who has experience in conducting research. Nominations will be considered by a Selection Committee and a recommendation made to the Library Theory and Research Standing Committee. Nominations close on 3 May 2010. For further information (including the application form), visit http://www.ifla. org/en/library- theory-and- research/ projects or contact Helen Partridge, Chair of the Selection Committee, at h.partridge@ qut.edu.au Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Google Books deal hads court

Google books deal heads to New York court By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Google has scanned around 12 million books to date Google is preparing to face opponents in a New York court over long-delayed plans to create the world's biggest digital library. A judge will hold a fairness hearing to listen to arguments for and against a controversial deal between Google and US authors and publishers. Critics say the pact would hand the search giant a monopoly over online books sales. Some 26 interested parties will be given time to outline any objections. "This case is the key showdown. It's high-noon time in front of a judge," said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, which will make an objection. "I do think all the books in the world should be digitised but I think it is completely wrong to give one huge company control of that huge data base and this is a very very important matter," Mr Simpson said. The 26 interested parties who have filed briefs in the case will be given just five minutes to state their arguments. This de facto exclusive licence will provide Google with an enormous advantage over its search competitors Open Book Alliance Consumer Watchdog will be joined by the Open Book Alliance, a consortium that represents several organisations opposed to the deal, including Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo!. In its brief, the Alliance said: "Google is focused on becoming the sole owners of an immense digital library that will improve the company's advertising-based search business. "This de facto exclusive licence will provide Google with an enormous advantage over its search competitors". Other critics who will be given an opportunity to speak include representatives for the state of Connecticut, and the nations of Germany and France. 'Anti-competitive' Google's original plan to digitise millions of books worldwide first ran into trouble in 2004 when the Authors Guild of America and the Association of American Publishers sued over "massive copyright infringement". A deal was thrashed out in 2005 whereby Google agreed it would pay $125m (£77m) to create a Book Rights Registry where authors and publishers could register their works and receive compensation. At stake are the rights to over 25m books. Google says it wants to 'bring the world's lost literature back to life' This scheme needed court approval and after a year of delays a date was set for October 2009. Judge Denny Chin postponed that following a plethora of criticism and opposition. Since then Google has amended the agreement but not enough to assuage the likes of the Department of Justice, which said it "still confers significant and possibly anti-competitive advantages on Google as a single entity". In its own 67-page filing, the search giant said "approval of the settlement will open the virtual doors to the greatest library in history. To deny the settlement will keep those library doors locked". Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker told BBC News the company remained hopeful of winning final approval Google wanted to "realise the goal of significantly expanding online access to works through Google book search, an ambitious effort to make millions of books searchable via the web", he said. Judge Chin is not expected to make an immediate decision on the case right away.

Monday, February 15, 2010

University in A Google World

The Role of Universities in the current generation of Digital Libraries and Google Look at the Video to know more

Digital Libraries in Developing Nations

The role and mission of libraries is to collect, organise, preserve and make available the world’s cultural and scientific heritage for current and future generations. Publicly funded libraries operating for the public benefit support access to knowledge, as well as education and training, critical to developing nations whose human resource is central to their advancement. Digital technologies are transforming the way that libraries work. What new opportunities are being created? What challenges do we face and how is eIFL.net addressing them? Teresa Hackett runs eIFL-IP, Advocacy for Access to Knowledge copyright & libraries, a programme to raise awareness in copyright issues for libraries in 50 developing and transition countries. The goal is to build capacity and expertise amongst the eIFL.net library community and to represent the interests of members in key international policy fora such as WIPO, UNESCO and the WTO. Previously, Teresa was the Director of the European library association, EBLIDA, provided technical support to the European Commission library research programme and was part of the team to establish electronic information centres at the British Council Germany.Teresa is currently an Expert Resource Person on the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-CLM). She is a chartered librarian and in 2004 completed a post-graduate diploma in legal studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Global Meet to Discuss Digitising Libraries

New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Experts from the field of information communication technology and education will gather here for a four-day conference starting Feb 23 to discuss how to digitise the world’s print based libraries. The International Conference on Digital Libraries will be held at the India Habitat Centre and is being organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in collaboration with TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute). The event will be inaugurated Feb 23 by union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal. Experts from 30 countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, New Zealand and Spain, will deliberate on how digitization modules can be used for converting the corpus of existing print and manuscript resources into digitized format and how libraries can be interlinked through the world wide web. Explaining the agenda of the event, IGNOU Pro Vice-Chancellor K.R. Srivathsan said: “Today’s students do not want to go to libraries, but would love to pursue knowledge through the web. So it is necessary to customise the libraries online, network all libraries of the world for all domains of knowledge for sharing, research and development.” He added that with the boom in technology, information can easily be accessed via multimedia, e-content, e-Books, i-pads. The conference will also address how to address copyright issues tagged with the corpus in the print and manuscript resources, and evolve regulatory policies required to handle the intellectual property rights issues. Minister for State D. Purandeswari from the HRD ministry, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, TERI director general R.K. Pachauri and N. Balakrishnan from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be participating in the conference. [LM1]

Digital Preservation of Newspapers

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), in collaboration with the IFLA Newspaper Section, is organising the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 here from February 25 to 28. The theme will be 'Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views.' Newspaper librarians and archivists from India, Finland, Australia, the U.S., the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, South Africa, Singapore, Bangladesh and elsewhere will participate. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian and Head of the Kala Nidhi Division at the IGNCA, has said the conference provides an excellent opportunity for Indians to interact and exchange ideas with foreign participants and experts. The participants will present and discuss the latest research, technical innovations, and business developments in the preservation and dissemination of historical and contemporary news and newspapers. Of particular interest will be the latest developments in digitisation of historical newspapers and in the preservation of today's born digital news and newspapers. Each year the Newspapers Section conference is held in a different country. As an exception, last year it held two conferences - one in Moscow and one in Stockholm. Keywords: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, IGNCA, IFLA Newspaper Section, International Newspaper Conference 2010

50 Years of Indian First Digital Computer

2010: 50 years of India's first digital computer Kolkata, Feb 14, (PTI): With 2010 marking 50 years of India's first digital computer, it would be hard to imagine a computer 30 feet in length but with a memory of just one kilobyte. The TIFRAC, a first-generation main-frame computer developed for scientific computations, was commissioned on February 22, 1960, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, making India the first country in Asia and Japan to have built such a machine. The machine was christened 'TIFRAC' (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator) by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru when he visited TIFR on 15 January, 1962, according to documents obtained from the TIFR Archive. Before developing a digital computer, Indian scientists had also built an analogue computer. This was developed at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. The main assembly of TIFRAC, which had vacuum tubes was housed in a massive steel rack measuring 18 ft X 2.5 ft X 8 ft. It was fabricated from modules of 4 ft X 2.5 ft X 8 ft, according to an article written by project head, the late Prof R Narasimhan. Each module had steel doors on either side for accessing the circuits, said the article, written in 1960 and reprinted in a journal of the Indian Institute of Science in 2008. It was obtained by PTI through the TIFR Library. A manual console served as the input/output control unit of the computer that had a ferrite core memory of just 1024 words. This amounted to one KB of RAM of a Computer Word of 40 bit width. Today a typical PC has one GB of RAM of Computer Word of 32 bit. Input to the TIFRAC was by means of a punched paper tape and the output was either printed out directly or punched on paper tape, Narasimhan's article said. A cathode ray tube display system was developed to serve as an auxiliary output to the computer for analogue and digital display of both graphs and alpha-numeric symbols, the article said. In contrast, today's PC has a high quality monitor, keyboard and mouse for input and output, plus a printer. The software of TIFRAC was developed by Narasimhan and K S Kane. These were written in a series of commands of 1's and 0's in comparison to an Operating System of today which has a host of applications with graphic interfaces, enabling almost anybody to use a PC with ease. Though fundamental units of a computer remained the same, the backup device has long changed from drum to tape to high speed cartridge and also CDs and DVDs for permanent storage. High volume hard disks also work as regular back up storage devices, said Sugata Sanyal, professor of computer science, TIFR. The hardware designer team included B K Basu, K L Bhakhru, M M Farooqui, D S Kamat, P V S Rao, T R N Rao, C V Sriniwasan, and S P Srivastava assisted by D F Cooper, M M Dosabhai, B B Kalia, R Y N Iyengar, R N Neogi, and V K Joglekar. The software team included R Narasimhan, K S Kane, C N Kumar, V S N Reddy, and B G Mythili. "Before the main machine, we first developed a workable pilot model which became ready in September, 1956. The pilot machine was shown to the faculty that approved the main project and Rs seven lakh was sanctioned for it," M M Dosabhai told reporters. "Computer science and technology were in their infancy at the time when we started our effort. Our task involved putting together several tens of thousands of individual components - resistors, capacitors, wires and vacuum tubes," said P V S Rao. "I can still recall when all the electronics – the arithmetic, memory, control, and display units of our system operated in synchrony for the first time. Our handiwork was actually working as a computer," Rao said. The designing of the full scale machine began in early 1957 and its final assembly was completed in February 1959. However, due to lack of air-conditioning facilities, the work had to be suspended till the end of 1959. The actual testing began in mid-November that year with an auxiliary air-conditioning system and the computer was commissioned in the third week of February 1960, Narasimhan's article said. K S Kane said, "TIFRAC was a good starting point to use computers for academic purposes. It remained in operation till mid 1964 and its users included scientists of Cosmic Ray section of the TIFR, University of Madras, Central Water and Power Research and others." According to V K Joglekar, the development of TIFRAC helped understanding the infrastructural needs and personnel requirement necessary for establishing a computer industry in India. She said, it also created a pool of computer technology experts who ultimately helped establish organisations like CMC and ECIL.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Grey Literature Sources

Grey Literature Index GreySource provides examples of grey literature to the average net-user and in so doing profiles organizations responsible for its production and/or processing. Only web-based resources that explicitly refer to the term grey literature (or its equivalent in any language) are listed. GreySource identifies the hyperlink directly embedded in a resource, thus allowing immediate and virtual exposure to grey literature. The web-based resources appear within categories derived from the COSATI (American) and SIGLE (European) Classification Systems. The few changes that have been introduced into the classification scheme are intended to facilitate the search and retrieval of net-users. New examples are welcome and will be indexed in GreySource. info@greynet.org Classification Scheme: 00 - GENERAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 01 - AERONAUTICS 02 - AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHERIES, VETERINARY SCIENCES 03 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, PROTECTION AND CONTROL 04 - HUMANITIES (HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, ETC.) 05 - SOCIAL SCIENCES (ECONOMICS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, ETC.) 06 - BIOLOGICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES 07 - CHEMISTRY 08 - EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 09 - ELECTRONICS, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE 10 - ENERGY & POWER 11 - MATERIALS 12 - MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 13 - MECHANICAL, INDUSTRIAL, CIVIL & MARINE ENGINEERING 14 - METHODS & EQUIPMENT 15 - MILITARY SCIENCES 16 - MISSILE TECHNOLOGY 17 - NAVIGATION, COMMUNICATION, DETECTION, COUNTERMEASURES 18 - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - S&T (MULTIDISCIPLINARY) 19 - ORDNANCE 20 - PHYSICS 21 - PROPULSION & FUELS 22 - SPACE TECHNOLOGY ICT4D, Information and Communication Technologies for Development https://www.com.washington.edu/ict4d2/ Information for Practice http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip/ PADI, Preserving Access to Digital Information http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/372.html

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

OpenThesis.org

A new web property called OpenThesis (www.openthesis. org) has been launched. It exposes theses and dissertations, making them highly accessible, useful, and shareable-at absolutely no cost. OpenThesis.org will allow authors to upload their theses/dissertation s, and the documents will then be vaulted for posterity and made searchable anywhere in the world. If an author (or an author's family) has only a paper copy of a thesis/dissertation , the site will give guidance on how to get it scanned into computer-readable form for subsequent uploading. OpenThesis.org also will work directly with universities to ensure as comprehensive a database as possible. The existence of a comprehensive electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) database will benefit universities in licensing efforts and will benefit authors regarding networking for collaboration and jobs. Optionally, visitors to OpenThesis will be able to register in about 1 minute, also for free. They will gain access to special features such as the ability to organize documents into portfolios, and they will be able to set up alerts for automatic notification of new documents of interest. Here are a few other important aspects of OpenThesis.org: Authors will create accounts that will be email-verified as part of uploading their document(s), and they can choose on their own author pages (www.OpenThesis. org/their- name) to show their contact information and/or LinkedIn profile page as desired. There's even an embargo feature-authors can upload and indicate a future "go live" date on a given document. All colleges and universities will have free microsites, e.g., www.openthesis. org/school/ The-University- of-Texas- at-Austin/ results.html, such that they can link to a repository of documents from their own authors, co-branded with their logos. The site will allow users to search the entire document collection or to limit the search to a particular institution. The documents from a given institution also can be browsed within that institution' s microsite.

Friday, February 05, 2010

Global Directory of Dissertations

Your doctoral dissertation is likely the most important publication that you have written. It’s important for the global research community to know about your ground-breaking research. List your doctoral dissertation on MyNetResearch’s Global Directory of Doctoral Dissertations. The benefits of doing this include having your work cited, having other research build upon your work, as well as general recognition. Please email us your Name, Doctoral Dissertation Title, University, Country, and Year, and we will include your research in social bookmarking with MyNetResearch Global Directory of Doctoral Dissertations. Global directory

Thesis Management

MyNetResearch enables you to manage your thesis on a secure platform and provide access only to the members of your committee. Your project in MyNetResearch is a repository of research papers - those that are shared with your committee and those that are private to you. MyNetResearch is a "must-have" tool for the PhD Student

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Govt drafts Bill to replace UGC, AICTE with higher body

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) today announced draft legislation to create an overarching supervisory body for higher education. The body — the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) — will replace the existing statutory bodies, the University Grants commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). Also, the UGC Act, 1956; AICTE Act 1987; and the NCTE Act, 1993, states the draft Bill, will be repealed within a year of implementing the NCHER Act. The UGC, AICTE and NCTE will not take any decision without NCHER permission during the period between repeal and the commencement of the NCHER Act. The proposed body will specify norms and standards for grant of authorisation to a university or a higher educational institution to commence its academic operations. “No university or institution empowered by, or under law to award any degree or diploma established after the coming into force of this Act, shall commence academic operations unless it is so recognised. The new institution will furnish documents on accreditation when applying for authorisation,” states the draft Bill, which has been put up on the MHRD’s website. Existing universities, including deemed ones, shall be deemed to have been authorised under the NCHER Act, unless the status is revoked. The NCHER will maintain a national registry with names of eligible persons for the post of vice chancellors. In case of a vacancy, the NCHER will suggest five names from the registry for the post, for both central and state universities. On an institute applying for authorisation to begin operations, after clearance from a registered accreditation agency, says the draft Bill, the NCHER gets 30 days to either reject it or declare an intent to grant it. Then, it will invite public comments and objections through its website. The application will have to be decided within the next four months, with objections to be recorded in writing. Authorisation may be later revoked, in accordance with a procedure. The NCHER will also have the power of a civil court in deciding to summon and examine a person. The draft says the Right To Information (RTI) Act shall apply to each university. The NCHER is to also develop a ‘national curriculum framework’, besides guiding universities in revising syllabi. It will specify academic criteria for both teaching and research. And, decide the norms for financing higher education and allocation of central grants. Its annual report on the state of higher education will be tabled in Parliament. The Act’s provisions will not restrict the power of the Bar Council of India in specifying standards concerning practice in courts. “Parliament may review the NCHER Act, 10 years from its commencement date,” adds the draft. The government had referred to the creation of this body during last year’s Budget. The draft follows recommendations from the National Knowledge Commission (NKC), the Yash Pal committee and another government-appointe d task force. Proposed composition The NCHER will comprise seven members, including the chairperson. They will all be appointed by the President on the recommendation of a five-member committee headed by the Prime Minister and including the opposition head in the Lok Sabha. The chairperson and three others will be full-time members, all scholars with standing in academics and research. The salaries and allowances of the whole-time members other than the chairperson shall be the same as an election commissioner. A collegium will aid, advise and make recommendations to the Commission for coordination, maintenance of standards in and promotion of higher education and research. It shall recommend names of eligible persons for inclusion in the national registry of prospective vice chancellors to be maintained by the NCHER. Business Standard | 2 February 2010

Two Indian e-readers set to hit market

Infibeam.com will start shipping the Pi from 22 February and EC Media will launch its e-reader in March-April Mumbai: Following the buzz around electronic books, two Indian firms are set to launch e-readers—devices to read e-books—in the next two months. E-commerce firm Infibeam.com said on 28 January that its e-reader, dubbed Pi, will start shipping from 22 February. EC Media, a firm started by Kerala-based publisher DC Books, has announced it will launch its e-reader by late March or early April. Like popular e-readers, such as Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle or Sony Corp.’s Reader, e-readers developed in India will also use the so-called e-ink technology, which creates an experience similar to reading a regular book. As foreign and indigenously developed e-readers become more accessible in India , two critical factors that determine their popularity will be pricing and availability of relevant digital content, an analyst said. “Whether it (e-readers) will take off in a big way depends on the price, both of the reader and of content (e-books),” said Vivek Shenoy, who tracks the publishing industry at market research firm Valuenotes. E-content: Overseas products include (from left) Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Apple’s iPad and Sony’s Reader. Pi is priced at Rs10,000, and its makers expect to ship at least 10,000 units in the first three months. “The EC Media e-readers will be priced between Rs8,000 and Rs18,000,” said D.C. Ravi, chief executive of DC Books, which has a 60% stake in EC Media. A Kindle costs around $400 (Rs18,520) in India . Shenoy said that current prices for both e-books and e-readers had to come down before their use could be expected. “We expect it will be at least another two years before the creation and use of digital content will be of significant scale,” he said. The international brands are not doing particularly well in India as they lack distribution partners in the country, according to Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at the Indian arm of technology researcher firm Gartner Inc. The Indian firms stand a better chance at market acceptance if they manage to put in place a wide sales network and ensure after-sales support, Raina said. Infibeam’s Pi would be a no-frills product that focuses on reading e-books on a 6-inch screen. There’s no Internet access, so users will have to download e-books from Infibeam’s website or other content providers and transfer them to the e-reader using a data cable. They will, however, be able to play music on Pi. Infibeam has an online database of 100,000 e-book titles. It plans to tie up with publishers to digitize more books and work with other content service providers who have their own databases of e-books. “We will have our own rights-managed content repository to provide digitization services for Indian publishers,” said an Infibeam spokesperson. “We are also working with other e-distributors on revenue share economics.” EC Media’s e-reader is more comparable with Kindle or Reader, according to Ravi . It will be available in 6- and 9-inch screen formats, with a basic and high-end version in both sizes. “The initial plan was to launch the e-reader on 1 January, but it had to be delayed as we wanted to make it more feature-rich,” Ravi said. “Besides, we wanted to have our own database of e-books, with at least 500,000 titles, before the launch.” The e-reader will have wireless Internet capability, allowing users to download e-books from EC Media’s online repository and also subscribe to digital versions of newspapers and magazines as well. DC Books is one of India ’s largest publishing houses and bookshop chains, with an estimated annual turnover of Rs60 crore. It has floated EC Media, along with a group of investors, as a dedicated firm to launch and manage the e-reader, and create and distribute e-content. Chennai-based technology outsourcer California Software Co. Ltd will provide the technology support for its e-reader. Independent content providers are also keeping pace with technology advancement. New Delhi-based publishing group Prakash Books India Pvt. Ltd is preparing an online e-book collection. “Our site will be launched in a couple of weeks, and we will have a few million e-book titles available,” said Gaurav Sabharwal, a director at Prakash Books. Besides buying paid content from Infibeam, EC Media or other e-publishers, users also have the option of downloading free e-books from Gutenberg.com, an community driven project to create the largest online repository of e-books. Currently, Gutenberg’s database has a collection of 30,000 titles. Source | Mint – The Wall Street Journal | 2 February 2010

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