Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories: A case study of OpenMED@NIC

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. To convey the ideas expressed in the article, a compilation of images has been done from various Internet sources. We thank and acknowledge respective image owners for this academic communication .

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 TO KNOWLEDGE

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

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 journals have already given their official green light to self archiving FULL-GREEN = Postprint 79% PALE-GREEN = Preprint 13% GRAY = neither yet 8% Publishers to date: 110 Journals processed so far: 8950 http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php

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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