20 research outputs found
Library of Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad: Some Observations on Sir Jadunath Sarkar's Report
No full text<p>Sreekanta Bose, Bidhan Chandra Biswas, Subal Chandra Biswas, “Library of Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad: Some Observations on Sir Jadunath Sarkar's Report,” <em>Library Herald</em> 36, no.1 (1998): 51-55.</p>
Interdependence of PRECIS role operators: A quantitiative analysis of their associations
No full textWeb presence of Selected Asian Countries: A Webometric Study
Get PDFThe paper focuses on the Web presence and visibility of Asian countries websites. The paper tries to highlight the Web presence using some webometric indicators like Internet access, webpages, number of Internet users, and link studies. The study analyzes the web presence using popular search engines like Altavista, Google, Yahoo and MSN. An attempt has also been taken to find out the Web Impact Factor (WIF) for selected Asian countries. The result shows that China (43.7%), Japan (16.7%) and India (10.4%) occupy highest web presence amongst Asian countries based on the total number of effective Internet users. China being the second highest number of Internet users having 11.8% after USA (19.7%) followed by India with 4.9% of world Internet Users and Japan is having the highest number of webpages followed by China and South Korea
Access Policies in Institutional Digital Repositories: Analysis of Global Trends
Get PDFThis paper compared and contrasted the open access (OA) self-archiving policies of different organizations registered in OpenDOAR, ROAR and ROARMAP databases. It highlights and discusses key policies along with several issues to suggest an institute-specific model policy framework in the line of recommendations and best practises of IDRs (Institutional Digital Repositories) listed in global tertiary sources in green open access ROARMAP, OpenDOAR and ROAR. This paper focuses on IDR policy issues concerning rights, access, and user interfaces. A total of 66 repositories have been selected after overlap checking and based on the selection parameters mentioned in the methodology section. It has been discovered that most IDRs lack policies in the four areas mentioned. Several policy issues are missing, and some of the policy issues used by these repositories are still being developed and improved. Based on the study, some suggestions for the development of IDR policies have been made. It has implications for administrators, funding agencies, policymakers, and professional librarians in developing repository policies of their own
DDC in DSpace: Integration of Multi-lingual Subject Access System in Institutional Digital Repositories
Get PDFThe paper discusses the nature of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) and shows how these can support digital library users. It demonstrates processes related to integration of KOS like the Dewey Decimal Classification, 22nd edition (DDC22) in DSpace software (http://www.dspace.org/) for organizing and retrieving (browsing and searching) scholarly objects. An attempt has been made to use the DDC22 available in Bengali language and highlights the required mechanisms for system-level integration. It may help repository administrator to build IDR (Institutional Digital Repository) integrated with SKOS-enabled multilingual subject access systems for supporting subject descriptors based indexing (DC.Subject metadata element), structured navigation (browsing) and efficient searching.URL: http://ijkcdt.net/xml/12713/12713.pd
Webometric Analysis of Central Universities in India: A Study
Get PDFWeb presence of Indian Universities has been
reflected in general and Central Universities in particular.
Webometric data have been collected through Yahoo! and
Google search engines using special query syntax. An
attempt has been made to rank Central Universities in
India using appropriate webometric indicators. Results
reveled that University of Delhi becomes top rank (with
score 4.28 and Sikkim University occupied the last (with
score 1.64) among Central Universities in India
Web impact factor and link analysis of selected Indian universities
Get PDFInvestigates the effectiveness and relevance of web impact factors (WIFs) for the websites of Indian universities. Reviews web impact factors as to how this link-based metrics were developed and applied. Reports a case study on universities in West Bengal. SocSciBot 3.0 is used to generate and link data in order to develop/form micro-link topology under study. Result shows that all the NITs are closely related in the topology framework /their activities whereas nodes are not linked significantly for the case of state universities and central universities
An Analytical Study of Institutional Digital Repositories in India
Get PDFThe Open Access movement is a social movement. The movement traces its history at least back to the 1960s, but became much more prominent in the 1990s with the advent of digital communications, in particular the Internet. Before the advent of internet, File Transfer Protocol, gopher, and the World Wide Web were used to increase availability of scholarly material by lowering the barriers to distribution. It has since become the subject of much discussion among researchers, academics, librarians, university administrators, funding agencies, government officials, commercial publishers, and learned-society publishers. Prior to the advent of the Internet publishers and academic societies dominated scholarly communication, and researchers channeled their research output solely through authoritative publishers and academic societies. Now different models are being developed to provide access, manage costs, and manage an organization\u27s scholarly output, especially at colleges and universities. The currently evolving model is referred to as Open Access. The two schools of thought within Open Access are the journal reform school, and the self-archiving school. IR: Some thoughts
Institutional repositories are becoming prevalent in academic sector. In the face of rising costs, flat budgets, and restricted access to information, as well as rapid changes in technology, scholarly practice, and patron expectations, libraries of any type or size have been challenged to maintain their depth of collections and high level of services. IRs are being established for a variety of reasons:
i) to support open access movement;
ii) to provide access to the public funded research;
iii) to provide open access to the institution\u27s output; and
iv) to support preservation and so on.
A repository can hold wide range of materials in different forms and formats for scholarly communications. It can support research, learning, and scholarly communication processes of an organization. If it is properly developed, it advances a number of goals and addresses an impressive range of needs.
Few years ago, Institutional repository initiatives were initiated only in some developed countries. In India, Institutional repository movement was started in 2004 and is gaining momentum and new initiatives are emerging around the country. Institutional repositories are already well established in many IITs, IIMs and other institutes having national importance. Institutional Repository has become an essential part or component of digital library that provides an alternative platform for sharing knowledge globally. Institutional Repository has four characteristics as defined by Johnson (2002). They are mentioned below: institutionally defined (as opposed to discipline- or subject-focused); scholarly (containing the products of faculty, research staff, and students); cumulative and perpetual (the content will be preserved on a long-term basis); and open and interoperable (attentive to the Open Archives Initiative—Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). Definition
In simplest terms, a digital repository is where digital content, assets, are stored and can be searched and retrieved for later use. A repository supports mechanisms to import, export, identify, store and retrieve digital assets.
According to the SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) position paper on institutional repositories an institutional repository is a digital archive of the intellectual product created by faculty, research staff, and students of an institution, with few if any barriers to access (Crow, 2002)
According to Lynch (2003), a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.
Government Initiatives
University Grants Commission (2005) has already developed a policy document on building University level Institutional Digital Repository (http://www.ugc.ac.in/new_initiatives/etd_hb.pdf) in India. UGC has recommended that all the universities should set up theses repository to facilitate e-submission, archiving, maintenance and access to these repository at the university level. University Grants Commission (2005) enacted UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005 to strengthen national capability of producing electronic theses and dissertations, and, to maintain university-level and national level databases of theses and dissertations. This Regulation proposed two sets of planned actions, such as: Creation of Indian National Theses Database (INTED): Submission of PhD Theses in Electronic Form
Another government organization, National Knowledge Commission (2007) strongly advocates open access to public-funded research literature and recently has taken initiative for building nation wide institutional Repository. Bangalore declaration (2006) drafted a model National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries also support this view and advocated for open access institutional repository. Some professional associations and societies like Developing Library Network (DELNET), INFLIBNET (Information Library Network) are also involved in modernization of libraries, training and setting up the IRs
Status of Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories in Agricultural Sciences: A Case Study of Asia
Get PDFPaper highlights the current state of open access repositories (OARs) movement in Agricultural field of Asian countries. It describes their characteristics in terms of types, contents, disciplines, languages covered, technical and operational issues, and policy matters. Compares and evaluates repositories against selected parameters and makes some recommendations for the growth of agricultural repositories Worldwide. Also presents a unified interface that can harvest metadata from different OAI-PMH compliant agricultural repositories Worldwide
Open Access Repositories in India: growth, overview of system and policy implementation
No full textThe paper provides an overview of open access repository (OAR) movement as a Green path to open access (OA) throughout the World with reference to India. The main objective of the paper is to give a broad look at the current state of deployment of OARs in India and to discuss problems and prospects of Indian OARs in respect of their policy documents. Recommendations and best practice guidelines at national and international level have been consulted in order to select the criteria for evaluation of repositories. Finally, key findings along with suggestions have been proposed for the development of Indian OARs in global context
