Improving the visibility of Indian Research: An Institutional, Open Access Publishing Model

Improving the visibility of Indian Research:

An Institutional, Open Access Publishing Model

T.B. Rajashekar (Raja)National Centre for Science Information

Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore – 560 012 (India)

([email protected])

Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Interoperability, June 23-25, 2003

T.B. RajashekarNCSI, 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)


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


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?


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


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


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)


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


• 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).


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”


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


eprints@IISc – Home Page


eprints@IISc – Deposit Process


eprints@IISc – Browse


eprints@IISc – Metadata Display


eprints@IISc – Full Text Display


eprints@IISc – Advanced Search


ARC – A Cross Archive Search Service


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


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


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Metadata Harvesting

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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.


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’


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


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


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

Improving the visibility of Indian Research: An Institutional, Open Access Publishing Model

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