opportunities and challenges of establishing open access repositories: a case study of openmed@nic
DESCRIPTION
National Informatics Centre had established a subject repository in May 2005. It is meant for Medical and Allied Sciences and named as OpenMED@NIC . It has MeSH® based subject categorization and this makes it one of its own kind. Taking OpenMED@NIC as a case – this paper discusses key issues in establishing and maintaining an open access repository. Librarians and information science professionals can play active role in providing access and exposure to quality research and academic content generated in their institutions. Mature and standard open sources softwares are now available for setting up repositories. Libraries can install one of these on existing institutional or library servers to setup repositories. However to ensure better access and faster response time dedicated hardware and reliable connectivity would be required. Librarians and information science professional can play important role in exposing intellectual content produced by their organizations. They can take of various roles like – generating awareness among staff, researchers and students about benefits of self arching in institutional or subject repositories; training them in uploading their articles and other documents in such repositories; acting as meta-data editors and repositories managers. Establishing a repository, administrating and inviting authors to deposit their articles and other works in it is golden opportunity available to librarians and information science professionals. This opportunity should be grabbed with open hands.TRANSCRIPT
Sukhdev Singh, Naina Pandita and Shefali S. Dash.
Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Open Access
Repositories: A case study of OpenMED@NIC
This presentation was made at a Seminar “Trends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in the Global Information Society”, organized by Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India), March
18-19, 2008.
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http://openmed.nic.in
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Are we still relevant?
• “In an age of clickable gratification, when books, articles and data are moving online, some people wonder whether librarians are relevant”, said Leslie Burger, past president of the American Library Association.
• “They are more necessary than ever”, Burger
Are we still relevant?
BOOKS ARE FOR USE
REMOVE
ALL BARRIERS
TOKNOWLEDGE
George Bernard Shaw
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and
we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
will have two ideas."
Newton,
“If I have seen further
it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
12 – 18 Months
Research Impact
12 – 18 Months
Research Impact
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/home/regain_control.html
Open Access (OA) means free and online access to scholarly literature that can be freely disseminated further
with proper author attribution.
It brings down barriers to scientific communication by using Internet
12 – 18 Months
Research Impact
Current Journal Tally: 92% of journalshave already given their official green light to self archiving
FULL-GREEN = Postprint 79% PALE-GREEN = Preprint 13%
GRAY = neither yet 8%
Publishers to date: 110Journals processed so far: 8950http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
Key Considerations for setting up a Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a
Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a
Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a Repository
Key Considerations for setting up a Repository
Software for Repositories
Open Society Institute (2004) http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/
Registry of Open Access Repositories
http://roar.eprints.org
on 7th February 2008
http://www.eprints.org/software/
http://www.dspace.org/
Development and Deployment of OpenMED@NIC
Experience in Medical Information
• IndMED (Bibliographic Database indexing about 77 Indian Biomedical Journals
• medIND (Full-text of 38 Indian Biomedical Journals)
• UNcat (Union Catalogue of Journal Holding of Indian Medical Libraries)
•http://medind.nic.in/
2004 Prototyping Old Retired P-II
2.3.4
23,000 Terms
23,000 Terms
A01:Body Regions:subjects:0
A01.047:Abdomen:A01:1
A01.176:Back:A01:1
A01.236:Breast:A01:1
A01.378:Extremities:A01:1
A01.456:Head:A01:1
A01.598:Neck:A01:1
A01.673:Pelvis:A01:1
OAI-PMH
Dual Processors
RS2 (1 U) with 4 GB RAM
Production Server
RedHat Advanced Server (AS 3)
Released
May
2005
Present Status
Awareness is Required
Deploying and maintaining a repository is much easier as compared to attracting
articles in it.
Repositories and Libraries
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