Presentation at RM Workshop organised by SHPT School of library Science, SNDT Women's Women's University, May 21 - June 1, 2012. On 22nd May 2012

1. Institutional Repositories & Open
Access resources for PhD students
Sarika Sawant, PhD
SHPT School of Library Science
SNDT Women’s University
Presentation at Research Methodology Workshop
May 21 – June 1, 2012
On 22/05/2012

2. Outline
• Scholarly communication
• Open access
• Self archiving and its various ways
• Directories
• IR’s, Subject repositories, Cross archives
• Open sources useful for PhD

3. Scholarly Communication Defined
creating,
disseminating
and preserving scientific knowledge
network of complex relationships between a number of players
- authors, editors, publishers, distributors, librarians and most
importantly consumers of scholarly information

4. Scholarly Communication in Crisis
• Increasing control of scholarly journals industry by
the commercials firms
• High cost of scholarly journals verses low library
budget
• Shift from print to electronic form: the legal
framework
• Battle of ownership verses access
• Advent of open access publishing is a direct threat
to commercial publishers.
• Growing awareness of utilization of money
generated from taxpayers

5. Traditional & Open access models

6. What is "Open Access"
• According to"Budapest Open Access Initiative" (BOAI)
– It’s free availability on the public internet, permitting any
users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or
link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for
any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from
gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on
reproduction and distribution, and the only role for
copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control
over the integrity of their work and the right to be
properly acknowledged and cited
(http: //www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml).

7. • BOAI recommend two complementary
strategies for authors to participate in open
access these are:
– Open Access Journals (Golden Road)
– Self-Archiving of E-Prints (Green Road)

8. Open access journals
• Open access journals
– e-journals (supplementary fee-based print
versions)
– freely available
– Born-OA journals
– Delayed OA journals
– Author paid OA journals

9. Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
• The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility
and ease of use of open access scientific and
scholarly journals
• DOAJ AS OF TODAY
– 7267 journals
– 3389 journals searchable at article level
– 669521 articles
– India 5th Rank among 117 countries
– 360 journals

11. Economics (174 journals)

12. Sociology (125 journals)

14. Author
paid
journal
Free
journal

16. BioMed Central
• Largest publisher of OA journals
• Launched in 2000
• More than 200+ titles, 60,000+ articles
• Cost coverd by article processing charges

17. Medknow Publications
It is a publisher for peer-
reviewed, online/print+online journals in the area
of STM.
• 199 Total journals
• 172 Total associations / societies
• 76,079 Total articles
• 68,167 Full text articles
• 18,976 Manuscripts submitted in '12
• 111 Manuscripts submitted on May 20, 2012
• 2,252,646 Articles downloaded in Apr '12
• 76,587 Articles downloaded on May 20, 2012

18. Open Access Journals Search Engine
(OAJSE) http://oajse.com/index.html
• There are 4,775 journals in the directory.
• All are searchable at article level.
• 100+ social science journals
• 90+ Language and literature
• 15+ gender studies
• 80+ economics

19. Self-Archiving of E-Prints
• "Self-archiving" refers to making "e-prints"
available on the Web. An e-print is either a
digital preprint or a postprint.

20. E-prints are typically made available in one
of four primary ways:
• author's personal website;
• a disciplinary archive that includes works by
authors worldwide about one or more subjects;
• an institutional e-print archive that includes e-
prints by authors in a single academic unit, such
as a department, or the entire institution; or
• an institutional repository that includes diverse
types of digital works (e.g., data sets, electronic
theses and dissertations, presentations, and
technical reports), including e-prints, by authors
at a single institution.

21. Definition of IR
• An institutional repository is a digital archive
of the intellectual product created by the
faculty, research staff, and students of an
institution and accessible to end users both
within and outside of the institution, with few
if any barriers to access.

22. To the institution, an IR offers
• Increasing visibility and prestige
• Centralisation and storage of all types of
institutional output
• Support for learning and teaching
• Standardisation of institutional records
• Leverage of existing systems
• Possible long term cost savings

23. Benefits to authors
• Increased dissemination and impact
• Storage and access to a wide range of
materials
• Feedback and commentary
• Provision of added value services

24. For Society
• Provide access to the world’s research
• Ensures long-term preservation of institutes’
academic output

25. Contents of an IR
• Pre-prints / post prints
• Research reports, Conference papers / posters
• Book reviews
• Teaching materials
• Student’s assignments / projects
• Doctoral theses and dissertations
• Audio / video materials such as speech
• Photographs / images
• Convocation address,
• Annual reports / manuscripts / maps
• Newspaper clippings / articles
• Profiles of faculty members / administrative staff / scientists etc.

26. Authorised contributors
• Students,
• Research scholars,
• Teachers,
• Scientists,
• Administrative staff
• Academic support staff

27. Personal website
E-print
of the
article

28. Disciplinary/Subject archive

29. OpenMED@NIC

31. Departmental archive

32. Contributors

33. Institutional repository
Thesis and
Dissertations [58]

34. IISc Bangalore
Centre for
Continuing
Education (1)

36. Theses and Dissertation Repositories
Pondicherry
University
[448]

37. • Tata Institute of Social Sciences[20]
– School of Health Systems Studies [1]
– School of Management & Labour Studies [2]
– School of Social Sciences [16]
– School of Social Work [1]

38. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

40. Vidyanidhi
5482

41. – DE.Economics
» DE.Economics
» DE1.Transportation
• DE11.Transportation
» DE2.Business Economics
• DE21.Business Economics
– DF.Education
» DF.Education
» DF1.Extension Education
• DF11.Extension Education

42. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

43. Directories of Open Archives: ROAR

44. OpenDOAR

45. Directory of Open access Books
http://www.doabooks.org/

47. Open/Free Software's useful for doing
PhD

48. Zotero

49. Back-up and synchronization
2.25 GB
Free

50. Dropbox

51. Version control

52. Graphics: Gimp

53. Dia

54. Calendar/Diary : Gcalender
(its free not Open Source)

55. Creative Commons
• Creative Commons develops, supports, and
stewards legal and technical infrastructure
that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and
innovation.
• set of copyright licenses and tools
• http://creativecommons.org/about

59. The presentation will be available on the following link
https://sites.google.com/site/drsarikasawant/about-me/talks-
presentations