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Naina Pandita Naina Pandita ICMR-NIC Centre, ICMR-NIC Centre,

NIC, New DelhiNIC, New Delhinaina@nic.innaina@nic.in

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The presentation..The presentation..

• Briefly on ICMR-NIC Centre’s Biomedical Information Services

• ICMR-NIC Centre’s Free Access Initiatives - IndMED, medIND

• NIC’s Open Access Initiative – OpenMED@NIC Archive

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ICMR-NIC Centre’s Biomedical Information Services • ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information

catering to biomedical information needs of medical professionals since 1986

• Recognized as the 17th International MEDLARS Centre or Indian MEDLARS Centre (IMC)

• Providing information from various biomedical information Net resources including MEDLINE

• Support services include documentation support services (Union Catalogue and NLM’s DOCLINE); training & user awareness programmes

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IMC’S FREE IMC’S FREE ACCESS ACCESS SERVICES SERVICES

medIND launched in Aug. 2003

IndMED launched in 1998

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Indian Medlars Centre (IMC) Indian Medlars Centre (IMC) – Free Access Initiatives– Free Access Initiatives

• Designed & developed IndMED IndMED database in 1998 - Bibliographic database of peer reviewed Indian “non-Medline” Indian biomedical journals; coverage from 1985 onwards

• Full-text version of IndMED launched in 2003 – medINDmedIND currently has 37 full-text journals. Also covers full-text of Medline journals (Indian)

• Prospective coverage from 2003 onwards and retrospective from 2000; archiving to commence shortly

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IndMED IndMED ((http://indmed.nic.inhttp://indmed.nic.in))

• Designed on similar lines as NLM’s MEDLINE

• Bibliographic information including abstracts

• Articles indexed using MeSH; free text search; use of AND, OR, NOT operators

• Facility to “look up” related information in Google

• Provides “help” if no references not retrieved.

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medIND medIND ((http://medind.nic.inhttp://medind.nic.in))

• Full text of articles from 37 IndMED journals

• MOU signed with editors; copyright remains with them while IMC owns content; MOU available from site

• Journals’ contents obtained in hard / soft copy formats

• Hard copy scanned, OCRed and converted to PDF

• Free hosting and free access

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medIND…medIND…

• Non commercial site; free hosting & access

• Browse contents / search thru IndMED database/ IMC site

• medIND articles “cited” in various Internet resources

• Links to medIND journals in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ

• Each journal has individual webpage

• “About Journal” information provided by editors

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OPEN OPEN ACCESS ACCESS

OpenMED@NIC launched in May 2005

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OpenMED@NICOpenMED@NIC An international Archive for Medical & Allied Sciences

• Provide a platform for self – archiving for Indian professionals (free of charge)

• Developed using E-Prints software (installed on RedHat Linux)

• Archive exclusive for Medical / Biomedical and Allied Sciences

• Self Help Tutorials Available for beginners

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OpenMED@NIC...OpenMED@NIC...

• Medical Subject Headings for indexing so more relevant search for medical/biomedical terms

• Has simple and advanced search

• Browse by Subject or Year

• Over 890 publications from 1952 onwards; over 200 related to TB; 1st issue of Indian Journal of Tuberculosis (1953)

• Backed by reliable NIC (GOI) infrastructure

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Open Access Workshops, Chennai, Open Access Workshops, Chennai,

May 2004 –May 2004 –

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Thank youThank you