The document discusses the benefits and applications of open source databases and tools for libraries and information centers, emphasizing the importance of accessibility and community collaboration. It highlights various open source resources such as Project Gutenberg, DOAJ, and Calibre for e-book management. The author advocates for librarians to embrace open source solutions to enhance library services.

1. USE OF OPEN SOURCE DATABASE AND OPEN
SOURCE TOOLS FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
CENTRES
Vrushali Dandawate
Libarian
AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune
Ambassador, DOAJ India
vrushali@doaj.org, vsdandandawate@aissmscoe.com
For Presentation at National Conference on Library Innovations for Excellence
(LIFE-2017) ​ February 16-17, 2017 at IISER Pune

2. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE

3. What is Open Source
• Users have the freedom to run, distribute,
study and modify the source code or program
for any purpose.
• User can come together and do collaborative
work for software development with
transparency of process to develop code, so
that is freely accessible.
• No need to pay for open source software‘s

4. Why OPEN Source for Libraries

5. Open Source & Libraries
• Libraries and Open Source Both...
• Believe that information should be freely accessible to
everyone
• Give away stuff
• Benefit from the generosity of others
• Are about communities
• Make the world a better place –
• Horton, G. http://tinyurl.com/3jvumn

6. Open Source Database for Library and
Information Centre
• Project Gutenberg- https://www.gutenberg.org/ – Free E Books
MERLOT – https://www.merlot.org free and open online teaching,
learning
https://doaj.org/– DOAJ is a free online directory open access journals
http://www.opendoar.org/– Open Access Repositories of research
projects
Open Access Books – http://www.doabooks.org/–
http://worldwidescience.org/- global science gateway comprised of
national and international scientific databases and portals.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl– archive of free full-text
science on Earth
Google Scholar – Google Scholar is an online, freely accessible search
engine for research work
http://www.researchgate.net/ – For sharing and discovering research
http://www.slideshare.net – upload and share publicly or privately
PowerPoint presentations
http://www.weebly.com/ – Make your work accessible to world by free
website making tool weebly.com

7. DOAJ (Directory of Open Access
Journals)

8. What is the DOAJ?
• The Directory of Open Access Journals launched in May
2003, Lund University, Sweden with 300 titles
• Community-curated not-for-profit database of high quality
open access journal titles across all scholarly disciplines
• Now includes over 9000 journals and more than 2 million
links to OA articles

10. DOAJ Ambassadors
Kamel
Belhamel,
Region:
North
Africa,
Xin Bi,
Region:
China
Vrushali
Dandawate
, Region:
India
Sridhar
Gutam,
Region: India
Mahmoud
Khalifa, Region:
Middle East &
Persian Gulf
Ivonne
Lujano,
Region:
Latin
America
Solomon
Mekonnen,
Region: East
Africa
Leena
Shah,
Region:
India
Cenyu
Shen,
Region:
China
Ina Smith,
Region:
Southern
Africa
Pascal
Soubeiga,
Region: West
Africa
Yanhong
Zhai, Region:
China

11. DOAB (Directory of Open Access
Books)

13. DOAR
• DOAR Mission
• Make global database of world Repositories
• Make open repositories list open so academic
researchers can use that
• Provide subject wise list
• International role in making such list
• Support Open Access globally.

15. • Libki is a Free Open Source (FOSS) kiosk
management system, with a web-based
administration system and a cross-platform
client

17. CALIBRE (FREE E-BOOK
MANAGEMNET SYSTEM)
• Kovid Goyal, the developer of the calibre
software defines it as a free and open source
e-book library management application
developed by users of e-books for users of
ebooks. http://calibre-ebook.com (2016).

18. CALIBRE
• E – books management System
• Free
• Easy to Download
• Easy to USE
• No technical Information Required
• Implemented in AISSMS COE Library added 750 E
• books

20. WEB – OPAC

21. Conclusion
• Many Open Source Database and Software
are available for Library and Information
centres
• Librarians need to Open their Minds for Open
Source