Nagaland University in association with the Information and Library Networking Centre of Ahmedabad, held two-day convention on November 6 and the 7th in Dimapur. The convention, inaugurated by Nagaland University Vice Chancellor Prof. K Kannan, was attended by more than 160 participants from different parts of India. The convention, named ‘PLANNER-2008’ (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North East Region) was held at the School of Engineering Technology and School of Management, Dimapur campus, under the theme "open access, open source and open libraries”. ...
In the first technical session, a paper was presented by Dr Jagdish Arora, director of INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad. The paper emphasized on the different models of scholarly publishing. The graphical representation showing the trend of books and journal expenses and journals added an extra impact on his presentation and threw light on the economics of E-Publishing, expenditure, advantage and disadvantages of OAP. ...
Another paper "Building an institutional repository with Dspace" by Juli Thakuria dealt with the salient features of Dspace Pen Source Software which is one of the best softwares in institutional repositories. The author also highlighted the planning and implementation of IR.
A paper on “Open Courseware: A unique opportunity for India” by Dr.Swapan Deoghuria, Satyabrata Roy mainly threw light on open courseware initiatives which benefit students, teachers and other users more.
“Open Access Journals: A Study”, authored by four different professionals R Pandian, M Arul Dhanakar, Dr K Nithyanadam and V Rajasekar was also presented. The papers highlighted open access journals and their benefits, advantages, identification of links, steps in publishing an OAJ and its coverage areas. It also listed the important OAJ published all over the world.
Another paper “Open Access Journals and open initiatives in India” by Dr KI Sangeeta Devi, and Subam Sophia was presented. This paper discoursed on open-access journals and major initiatives taken in India. It also highlighted OA declarations. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/10/2008 06:30:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
