The document proposes an open access publishing model to improve the visibility of Indian research. It discusses how institutional repositories using open source software and interoperability standards can provide open access to research outputs. This would allow Indian research to be more accessible globally while researchers in India can access more global research through library consortia. The document outlines a proposed system and deployment strategy involving setting up repositories at institutions and a central search service.
Preprint Repositories in India-24-6-22-SLA-Delivered-Nabi Hasan.pdfNabi Hasan
This presentation onPreprint Repositories in India: A Case Study was delivered in the SLA Annual Conference 2022. It covers:
Background
Open Access in India
Preprint Repositories (Servers)
Scenario of Preprint Movement in India
Scopus Covers the Preprints
Modern Open Review and Commentary Platforms of Preprints
Academic Visibility – How Indian Faculties Can Increase?
Conclusion
RDAP 15: Research Data Integration in the Purdue LibrariesASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Lisa Zilinski, Data Specialist, Carnegie Mellon University
Amy Barton, Metadata Specialist, Purdue
Tao Zhang, Digital User Experience Specialist, Purdue
Line Pouchard, Computational Science Information Specialist, Purdue
Pete E. Pascuzzi, Molecular Biosciences Information Specialist, Purdue
Research Software Engineering Inside and Outside the LibraryPatrick McCann
The importance of software to research is growing, which is reflected in the emergence of the Research Software Engineer (RSE) role and moves to recognise software as a research output. The Research Computing team at the University of St Andrews sits within the Digital Research division of the Library and seeks to support research in two principal ways. Firstly, the team are available as a development resource to researchers across the University; secondly, they are leading initiatives to understand and support better the breadth and depth of research software engineering activities across the University.
Preprint Repositories in India-24-6-22-SLA-Delivered-Nabi Hasan.pdfNabi Hasan
This presentation onPreprint Repositories in India: A Case Study was delivered in the SLA Annual Conference 2022. It covers:
Background
Open Access in India
Preprint Repositories (Servers)
Scenario of Preprint Movement in India
Scopus Covers the Preprints
Modern Open Review and Commentary Platforms of Preprints
Academic Visibility – How Indian Faculties Can Increase?
Conclusion
RDAP 15: Research Data Integration in the Purdue LibrariesASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Lisa Zilinski, Data Specialist, Carnegie Mellon University
Amy Barton, Metadata Specialist, Purdue
Tao Zhang, Digital User Experience Specialist, Purdue
Line Pouchard, Computational Science Information Specialist, Purdue
Pete E. Pascuzzi, Molecular Biosciences Information Specialist, Purdue
Research Software Engineering Inside and Outside the LibraryPatrick McCann
The importance of software to research is growing, which is reflected in the emergence of the Research Software Engineer (RSE) role and moves to recognise software as a research output. The Research Computing team at the University of St Andrews sits within the Digital Research division of the Library and seeks to support research in two principal ways. Firstly, the team are available as a development resource to researchers across the University; secondly, they are leading initiatives to understand and support better the breadth and depth of research software engineering activities across the University.
Moving from an IR to a CRIS, the why & howDavid T Palmer
IRs collect, manage and display publications, and their metadata. However, an institution’s research, expertise and capacity is described by more than publications. The HKU Scholars Hub, hosted in DSpace, began as the IR of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2005. Asking for voluntary deposit of publications from HKU academics, it received little notice, and more importantly, little support from University senior management. In 2009 a new HKU initiative, Knowledge Exchange, adopted the Hub as a key vehicle to share knowledge and skill with the community outside HKU. With funding support from the Office of KE, we extended the data model of DSpace to include relational tables on non-publication objects, including people, grants, and patents, holding attributes of these objects, such as co-investigators, co-inventors, co-prize winners, research interests, languages spoken, supervision of postgraduate theses, etc. The DSpace user interface now delivers an integrated search and display on these objects and attributes, as well as on ones newly derived, such as authority work on name disambiguation and synonymy in Roman and Hanzi (漢字), visualizations on networks of co-authors, co-investigators, etc, metrics extracted from external sources such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed, Google Scholar Citations, internal alt-metrics of view and download counts, and more. Beyond the functions of an IR, the Hub now performs as a system for reputation management, impact management, and research networking and profiling -- all of which are concepts included in the broad term, “Current Research Information System” (CRIS). These new objects and attributes curated from several trusted sources, and integrated into the present mashup, contextualize and highlight HKU research, and attract more hits, than an IR with only publications.
The HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange has now funded the modularization of these new HKU features of DSpace. Together with our partner, CINECA of Italy, we are making this work available in open source for the DSpace community.
Staffing Research Data Services at University of EdinburghRobin Rice
Invited remote talk for Georg-August University of Göttingen workshop: RDM costs and efforts on 28 May in Göttingen. Organised by the project Göttingen Research Data Exploratory (GRAcE).
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryColleen DeLory
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Sarah Wright, Christian Lauersen and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryLibrary_Connect
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Christian Lauersen, Sarah J. Wright and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
Research 3.0: Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Research Services
Presented at Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
April 4, 2016, San Antonio, Texas
Rebecca Bryant
Visiting Project Manager, Researcher Information Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The landscape of academic research has changed rapidly in the past decade, with access to high-performance networks, and the focus on data-intensive and interdisciplinary scholarship. Research libraries in North America are developing new services and programs aimed at meeting scholars’ needs for data-intensive, and interdisciplinary research support. Examples of some emerging programs include:
• Supporting digital research (graphical information systems, digital humanities, survey research methodologies, working with large datasets)
• Educating users about copyright and author rights
• Supporting content-creation and publishing activities in numerous ways: institutional repository to store and host works, establishing maker spaces, and developing infrastructure and workflows for more formal library-located publishing efforts
• Collaboration with research offices to educate researchers about federal mandates for open access publications and datasets
• Establishment of data management and archival resources
• Partnering with third-party vendors and with consortia to achieve scale-efficiencies and facilitate impact
• Development of researcher information management systems to support collaboration, discovery, and reporting
We present a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign within its newly established Office of Research to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research. We will also discuss the significant challenges and opportunities of library/campus partnerships for cyberinfrastructure and research support.
International Symposium NLHPC 2013: Innovation at the frontier of HPC
Title: XSEDE: an ecosystem of advanced digital services accelerating scientific discovery
Abstract:
The XSEDE program (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) has recently entered its third year of operation. In this talk we will discuss the vision, mission and goals of this project and some of the distinguishing characteristics of the program. This will be accompanied by a review of current status and look ahead at where the program is headed over the next several years.
XSEDE National Cyberinfrastructure, NIST, and Supporting NCSI Objectives John Towns
This presentation will provide an overview of the NSF-funded XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) project. XSEDE provides advanced research computing and data resources and services to the national community supporting open research funded by universities as well as federal agencies and other sources. We will discuss the resources, services and support available to the research community. These resources are also available to NIST researchers and a few recent examples will be highlighted. Finally, we will also look at how XSEDE, as an exemplar research infrastructure, can support the objectives of the NSCI with a focus on the roles the NSF is tasked with.
Slides from the Getting to the Repository of the Future Workshop held on Wednesday 31st July 2013 at Repository Fringe 2013. The workshop was led by Chris Awre, University of Hull, and Balviar Notay, JISC.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Moving from an IR to a CRIS, the why & howDavid T Palmer
IRs collect, manage and display publications, and their metadata. However, an institution’s research, expertise and capacity is described by more than publications. The HKU Scholars Hub, hosted in DSpace, began as the IR of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2005. Asking for voluntary deposit of publications from HKU academics, it received little notice, and more importantly, little support from University senior management. In 2009 a new HKU initiative, Knowledge Exchange, adopted the Hub as a key vehicle to share knowledge and skill with the community outside HKU. With funding support from the Office of KE, we extended the data model of DSpace to include relational tables on non-publication objects, including people, grants, and patents, holding attributes of these objects, such as co-investigators, co-inventors, co-prize winners, research interests, languages spoken, supervision of postgraduate theses, etc. The DSpace user interface now delivers an integrated search and display on these objects and attributes, as well as on ones newly derived, such as authority work on name disambiguation and synonymy in Roman and Hanzi (漢字), visualizations on networks of co-authors, co-investigators, etc, metrics extracted from external sources such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed, Google Scholar Citations, internal alt-metrics of view and download counts, and more. Beyond the functions of an IR, the Hub now performs as a system for reputation management, impact management, and research networking and profiling -- all of which are concepts included in the broad term, “Current Research Information System” (CRIS). These new objects and attributes curated from several trusted sources, and integrated into the present mashup, contextualize and highlight HKU research, and attract more hits, than an IR with only publications.
The HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange has now funded the modularization of these new HKU features of DSpace. Together with our partner, CINECA of Italy, we are making this work available in open source for the DSpace community.
Staffing Research Data Services at University of EdinburghRobin Rice
Invited remote talk for Georg-August University of Göttingen workshop: RDM costs and efforts on 28 May in Göttingen. Organised by the project Göttingen Research Data Exploratory (GRAcE).
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryColleen DeLory
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Sarah Wright, Christian Lauersen and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryLibrary_Connect
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Christian Lauersen, Sarah J. Wright and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
Research 3.0: Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Research Services
Presented at Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
April 4, 2016, San Antonio, Texas
Rebecca Bryant
Visiting Project Manager, Researcher Information Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The landscape of academic research has changed rapidly in the past decade, with access to high-performance networks, and the focus on data-intensive and interdisciplinary scholarship. Research libraries in North America are developing new services and programs aimed at meeting scholars’ needs for data-intensive, and interdisciplinary research support. Examples of some emerging programs include:
• Supporting digital research (graphical information systems, digital humanities, survey research methodologies, working with large datasets)
• Educating users about copyright and author rights
• Supporting content-creation and publishing activities in numerous ways: institutional repository to store and host works, establishing maker spaces, and developing infrastructure and workflows for more formal library-located publishing efforts
• Collaboration with research offices to educate researchers about federal mandates for open access publications and datasets
• Establishment of data management and archival resources
• Partnering with third-party vendors and with consortia to achieve scale-efficiencies and facilitate impact
• Development of researcher information management systems to support collaboration, discovery, and reporting
We present a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign within its newly established Office of Research to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research. We will also discuss the significant challenges and opportunities of library/campus partnerships for cyberinfrastructure and research support.
International Symposium NLHPC 2013: Innovation at the frontier of HPC
Title: XSEDE: an ecosystem of advanced digital services accelerating scientific discovery
Abstract:
The XSEDE program (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) has recently entered its third year of operation. In this talk we will discuss the vision, mission and goals of this project and some of the distinguishing characteristics of the program. This will be accompanied by a review of current status and look ahead at where the program is headed over the next several years.
XSEDE National Cyberinfrastructure, NIST, and Supporting NCSI Objectives John Towns
This presentation will provide an overview of the NSF-funded XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) project. XSEDE provides advanced research computing and data resources and services to the national community supporting open research funded by universities as well as federal agencies and other sources. We will discuss the resources, services and support available to the research community. These resources are also available to NIST researchers and a few recent examples will be highlighted. Finally, we will also look at how XSEDE, as an exemplar research infrastructure, can support the objectives of the NSCI with a focus on the roles the NSF is tasked with.
Slides from the Getting to the Repository of the Future Workshop held on Wednesday 31st July 2013 at Repository Fringe 2013. The workshop was led by Chris Awre, University of Hull, and Balviar Notay, JISC.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
The first step of respiration is called glycolysis. In a series of steps, glycolysis breaks glucose into two smaller molecules - a chemical called pyruvate. A small amount of ATP is formed during this process.
Most healthy cells continue the breakdown in a second process, called the Kreb's cycle. The Kreb's cycle allows cells to “burn” the pyruvates made in glycolysis to get more ATP.
The last step in the breakdown of glucose is called oxidative phosphorylation (Ox-Phos).
It takes place in specialized cell structures called mitochondria. This process produces a large amount of ATP. Importantly, cells need oxygen to complete oxidative phosphorylation.
If a cell completes only glycolysis, only 2 molecules of ATP are made per glucose. However, if the cell completes the entire respiration process (glycolysis - Kreb's - oxidative phosphorylation), about 36 molecules of ATP are created, giving it much more energy to use.
IN CANCER CELL:
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
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This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
1. Improving the visibility of Indian
Research:
An Institutional, Open Access
Publishing Model
T.B. Rajashekar (Raja)
National Centre for Science Information
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore – 560 012 (India)
(raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in)
Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries
and Interoperability, June 23-25, 2003
2. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
NCSI, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
• A central e-information facility and department
• Provide desktop access to global e-information sources
• e-journals, databases, web resources, news
• SciGate – The IISc Science Information portal
• E-JIS – the e-journal gateway
• Promote visibility of IISc research
• eprints@iisc - The IISc ePrints archive – online repository of IISc research
papers
• Conduct publications-based impact studies
• Education and training
• 18-month post-graduate training course on ‘Information and Knowledge
Management’
• Short term training courses – content management, DLs
• Undertake sponsored development projects
• ‘K-Library’ – VIC, ICICI Knowledge Park
• Beta testing of Greenstone DL (UNESCO)
3. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Agenda
• The Problem
• OAP and global access to Indian research
• Enabling technologies for OAP
• OAP in India: Current status and potential
• Proposed OAP system
• Deployment strategy
• Challenges and issues
• Areas for collaboration
4. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
The Problem
• Declining visibility and impact of Indian
research
• Several causes
• Information related issues
• Poor local access to global research
• Poor global access to Indian research
• How do we improve the situation?
5. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Local access to global research
• Consortia approach - license campus-wide
access to international e-resources
• MHRD (INDEST), CSIR, INFLIBNET
• J-Gate & JCCC – Indian initiative – access
to global journal literature
• Expectations: Improved R&D productivity,
quality of teaching and learning
• Issues: Archiving, personalization, usage
monitoring and impact analysis
6. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Global access to Indian research
• Key challenge:
How do we reciprocate the information flow
and improve visibility and impact of Indian
research?
• Possible solution: Institutional level, open
access publishing
• Institutions set up digital repositories of their
research output and provide open access
• Adopt inter-operability standards
“Acting locally, Thinking globally” – Christine Borgman
7. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Open Access Publishing (OAP)
• Free online access to scholarly material
• “Public Domain” and “Open Access” material
• Global movement in support of open access
• Agencies and initiatives
• International and national level workshops
• “International Symposium on Open Access and the
Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for
Science”, Paris, 10-11 March 2003 (ICSU, UNESCO,
ICSTI)
8. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Enabling Technologies for OAP
• Open source DL/repository software
• GSDL, eprint.org, DSpace, CDSWare (OAI compliant)
• Open source software for online journals and
conference publishing
• OJS of PKP project (OAI compliant)
• Metadata schemes, name spaces, vocabularies
• OpenArchives – Interoperability framework (OAI-
PMH Protocol for metadata harvesting)
• XML – information structuring / exchange
9. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
• Data Provider
•Maintain repository
•Expose metadata
according to a metadata
standard (e.g. DC)
•Register with OAI
•Service provider
•Register with OAI
•Extract metadata from
registered repositories
(‘harvest’)
•Provide services (e.g.
central index)
Example: Institutional eprint archives that use eprints.org software (DP).
ARC service from ODU (SP).
10. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
OAP and India: Current Status and
Potential
• Significant R&D base (2001)
• 2,900 organizations with R&D support
• Large number of R&D labs under govt. agencies in
several S&T domains
• 300 universities
• Research publishing (2002)
• 34,000 journal articles indexed in international
databases
• 17,000 indexed in WOS – 5,600 from 50 institutions
(IISc, CSIR, IITs, TIFR)
Significant potential for improving
“Research Capacity”
11. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
OAP and India: Current Status and
Potential
• Open access examples:
• 11 journals of the Indian Academy of Sciences
• UDL project - IISc
• Vidyanidhi – theses – University of Mysore
• Data sets – NCL, Pune
• 4 journals from INSA
• Metadata: INDMED, INFLIBNET
• OAI-compliant repository
• eprints@iisc – IISc
25. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Proposed OAP System
• Data providers
• Academic & govt. R&D
institutions
• Science journals
• Science academies and
societies, academic &
govt. R&D institutions
• New online-only e-
journals (e.g. graduate
students)
• Metadata, if full material
cannot be made online
• Service providers
• One or more – domain
specific, multi-domain
• DP can act as SP
• Commercial
possibilities (value-
added services)?
Develop a national network of distributed, inter-operable, open
access digital repositories of S&T scholarly material
26. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Proposed OAP System
• Institutional repository features
• Uses a OAI compliant repository software
• Configures the repository for agreed content
specifications
• Supports distributed, intranet, online submission
by researchers
• Support for moderation/ peer review
• Support for browse and search
• Exposes metadata for harvesting
27. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
OAI compliant
repository (Data
Provider)
OAI compliant
repository (Data
Provider)
OAI compliant
repository (Data
Provider)
Service
Provider
Service
Provider
Metadata
Harvesting
Search User
28. Deployment Strategy
• Phased approach
• Feasibility: 2-3 institutions in 2 administrative domains –
IISc/IIT (MHRD), CSIR labs
• Institutional repositories, central search service
• Firm-up implementation mechanism
• Administrative/ financial mechanism – extend scope of
existing consortia + other funding sources
• Expand the model to bring in other national level
resources (legacy, new)
• Ensure interoperability with global service providers
Essential - Structured & planned approach. National level
coordination for concept promotion, feasibility, training,
development, support and implementation.
29. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Key Benefits
• Improved visibility and impact – institutional,
national
• Improved management of institutional IP (e.g.
establish priority)
• Contribute to institutional KM (e.g. knowledge
‘reuse’)
• Improved research collaboration –
inter-departmental, inter-institutional, international
• Enhanced status and reputation – attract talent
and funding
• Enhanced ‘research capacity’
30. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Challenges and Issues
• Essential and desirable features of repository
software, infrastructural requirements
• Content related standards and specifications
(document types, metadata, formats, vocabulary,
citations)
• Promotion of repository usage by researchers
• Peer review and quality audit norms
• OAI-PMH support for non-OAI compliant systems
• Automatic metadata identification, indexing,
categorization, summarization
31. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Challenges and Issues…
• Development of national level harvesting services
• Content management – workflows, processes
• IP issues – ownership and use of repository
content
• Preservation for long term access
• Usage monitoring and impact (ROI) studies
• Integration/ co-existence with traditional publishing
systems
32. T.B. Rajashekar
NCSI, IISc
Conclusion
• Indian perspective
• Research, development, implementation
and deployment of OAP systems will be of
significant interest and benefit to both the
countries
• Contribute to development of global open
digital library
• Further the cause of DLs as a field of study