Open Access Initiatives in India - an Evaluation

Fernandez, Leila

doi:10.21083/partnership.v1i1.110

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“…One of the important research papers was by Fernandez (2006), who evaluated the growth and development of online research repositories in India within the broader framework of open access. She conducted interviews with information professionals responsible for the creation and maintenance of online research repositories in India.…”

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Indian institutional repositories: a study of user's perspective

Sawant

2012

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Purpose -The present study aims to investigate the experience, contribution and opinions of users of respective institutional repositories (IRs) developed in India. Design/methodology/approach -The survey method was used. The data collection tool was a web questionnaire, which was created with the help of software provided by surveymonkey.com Findings -It was observed that 85.94 percent of respondents (154) were aware of the IR facility/service and 14.05 percent (26) were not aware of IR. More than half of the respondents, i.e. 52.43 percent (97), learned about the IR service through links provided on institutions' websites. About 36.21 percent of the respondents had not contributed to any type of repository, while 25.94 percent of respondents had contributed to their IR. A higher percentage (16.76 percent) of respondents felt it was an "easy and fast way to communicate research results". The majority of the respondents, i.e. 113 (61.08 percent), were willing to deposit symposium/conference/seminar papers. The most important reason for contribution was found to be preservation of documents for the future. Peer review was very much acceptable as a quality control mechanism. More than half of the respondents (57.84 percent) wanted to provide open access without any barrier for their ideal repository. Research limitations/implications -Only users of the respective Indian institutional repositories are studied, and the findings are compared with other studies. Originality/value -This is the first detailed study focusing on the users and their experience of institutional repositories.

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Indian institutional repositories: a study of user's perspective

Sawant

2012

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“…Vidyanidhi of University of Mysore is an example of document type specific collection that stores and provides access to theses and dissertations (Cross institutional ETD repository). Vidyanidhi accepts any thesis or dissertation that has been accepted in any of the Indian universities or institutions (Fernandez, 2006).…”

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IR system and features: study of Indian scenario

Sawant

2011

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Purpose:The main goal was to study issues concerning IR software/system involved in developing and managing an institutional repository.Methodology: For the present study survey research method was found to be most suitable. The data collection tool applied for the study was web questionnaire, which was created with the help of software provided by surveymonkey.com. Limitations: Only Indian institutional repositories were studied and the findings were compared with other studies. Originality:In detail IR system/software used in developing repositories were studied which is one of the first study of its kind. The present study discovered existence of 16 functional IRs some of which were not registered in any of the directories such as ROAR, Open DOAR.

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“…Das et al (2005) found that problems of existing repositories in India are mainly due to limited availability of web servers running IRs. Fernandez (2006) found that universities in India are at present lacking in infrastructure for establishing IRs.…”

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Interoperability of open access repositories in computer science and IT – an evaluation

Bhat¹

2010

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emerald-srm:448207 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the interoperability of ten open access repositories in the field of computer science and IT. Design/methodology/approach -The repositories are identified from the OpenDOAR directory of OA repositories. Five documents from each repository are searched in ten search engines/data discovery tools (OAIster, Scirus, Google, MSN, Yahoo, All the Web, Ask, Altavista, AOL and Gigablast) for determining the visibility of repositories. The documents from each repository are selected randomly using the function sample ( ) of R software. Findings -None of the repositories in the study are fully interoperable (the visibility of repositories in search engines/data discovery tools range from 4 per cent to 92 per cent). OAI-PMH compliance enhances the visibility of the repositories considerably. Google and MSN retrieved the highest number of documents from the repositories and Gigablast the least. Originality/value -The paper will encourage the repository administrators to improve the visibility of their repositories keeping in view the indexing policies of various search engines to ensure maximum research impact.

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Open Access Initiatives in India - an Evaluation

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

Indian institutional repositories: a study of user's perspective

Indian institutional repositories: a study of user's perspective

IR system and features: study of Indian scenario

Interoperability of open access repositories in computer science and IT – an evaluation

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