India, the sleeping giant, wakes up! The Indian
Institute of Science has an institutional archive for
well over a year now. It is run well although it had
not attracted many faculty and students to deposit
their papers. But steps are now promised to improve
thesituation. Other leading higher education
institutions, particularly the Indian Institutes of
Technology, are advised to set up their own
(interoperable) archives. last week, the Indian
Academy of Sciences held a one-day conference on open
access at the national Chemical Laboratory in Pune.
Soon the Academy plans to host a workshop for
providing training in setting up open archives and
open access journals.
India is likely to forge ahead in this area and other
developing countries (such as China and Brazil) may
not like to lag behind.
It is likely that the developing world may adopt open
access in a large way - faster than the developed
world.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
--- Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: >
Dear Prof. Rajashekar,
>
> Congratulations on the IISc Eprints Archive!
> http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/
>
> Here are some replies to your queries:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Dr. T.B. Rajashekar wrote:
>
> > We have also interfaced our archive with
> Greenstone
> > digital library software to support full text
> searching (not supported by
> > current version of eprint.org software).
>
> It is supported in the next eprints.org release.
> Please contact Chris
> Gutteridge for the date. (But note that full-text
> searching is far more
> useful as a cross-archive service than a
> within-archive one.)
>
> > However, self-archiving so far has been extremely
> sporadic - till today we
> > have only about 70 papers submitted to the
> archive. I should admit that on
> > our part, we have not promoted the archive
> vigorously (except for the
> > initial announcement and a poster we brought out
> sometime back).
> > We intend to go on a promotional drive and we are
> quite confident of
> > convincing significant number of our researchers
> (if not all!) the benefits
> > of self-archiving, through promotional seminars
> and individual contacts.
>
> So far that is on a par with most other archives at
> institutions
> that have not yet formulated an open-access
> provision policy. But
> the further measures you describe sound promising.
> As a
> potential model for your institutional policy, I
> recommend:
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html
>
> See also:
>
> http://eprints.st-andrews.ac.uk/proxy_archive.html
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0022.gif
>
> > 3. Track 'clicks' and downloads of papers from the
> archive and generate
> > statistics in support of improved access and
> visibility.
> >
> > I believe eprints.org software does not support
> this feature. We have to
> > find a way to do this - we consider this
> important.
>
> Please contact Chris Gutteridge at eprints.org about
> this, but
> also Tim Brody designer of citebase, an
> opcit/eprints sister
> project, which does all of that as a cross-archive
> service:
> http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search
>
> > I welcome comments and suggestions about these
> plans and also other means of
> > improving deposition and visibility of the archive
> content.
>
> I suggest you also ask the eprints-underground and
> OAI-general lists for suggestions.
>
> > There is another interesting issue. Some
> researchers in our institute (e.g.
> > physics and chemistry) ask the question - why the
> need for archiving in
> > institutional archive if they are already
> depositing in domain archives like
> > arxiv? How do we address this?
>
> Please see the Amsci threads:
>
> "Central vs. Distributed Archives"
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html
>
> "Central versus institutional self-archiving"
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3205.html
>
> In a nutshell, all OAI archives are equivalent, but
> institutional self-archiving
> policy is more easily and systematically monitored
> if all research output is
> self-archived in the institutional archive.
>
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0028.gif
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0044.gif
>
> > I wish you and your colleagues a Very Happy New
> Year.
>
> Happy New Year to you too! It struck here just as I
> was replying to your message!
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion
> of providing open
> access to the peer-reviewed research literature
> online is available at
> the American Scientist Open Access Forum (98 & 99 &
> 00 & 01 & 02 & 03):
>
>
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
>
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
> Post discussion to:
> american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
>
> Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy:
> BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a
> suitable open-access
> journal whenever one exists.
>
>
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
> BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your
> article in a suitable
> toll-access journal and also
> self-archive it.
> http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
> http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm
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