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

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

• T.B. Rajashekar (Raja)National Centre for
  Science InformationIndian Institute of
  ScienceBangalore 560 012 (India)
  (raja_at_ncsi.iisc.ernet.in)
• Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and
  Interoperability, June 23-25, 2003

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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_at_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)

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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

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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?

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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 RD productivity, quality
  of teaching and learning
• Issues Archiving, personalization, usage
  monitoring and impact analysis

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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
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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)

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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

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• 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).
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OAP and India Current Status and Potential

• Significant RD base (2001)
• 2,900 organizations with RD support
• Large number of RD labs under govt. agencies in
  several ST 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
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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_at_iisc IISc

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eprints_at_IISc Home Page
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eprints_at_IISc Deposit Process
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eprints_at_IISc Deposit Process
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eprints_at_IISc Deposit Process
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eprints_at_IISc Deposit Process
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eprints_at_IISc Deposit Process
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eprints_at_IISc Browse
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eprints_at_IISc Metadata Display
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eprints_at_IISc Full Text Display
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eprints_at_IISc Advanced Search
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ARC A Cross Archive Search Service
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ARC A Cross Archive Search Service
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ARC A Cross Archive Search Service
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Proposed OAP System
Develop a national network of distributed,
inter-operable, open access digital repositories
of ST scholarly material

• Data providers
• Academic govt. RD institutions
• Science journals
• Science academies and societies, academic govt.
  RD 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)?

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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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OAI compliant repository (Data Provider)
OAI compliant repository (Data Provider)
Metadata Harvesting
Service Provider
OAI compliant repository (Data Provider)
Service Provider
Search
User
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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.
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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

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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

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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

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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