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23: Digital library initiatives in india part-1P- 01. Digital Libraries*By :Jagdish Arora, Paper Coordinator |
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1.0 Introduction
Information is considered as the fulcrum for power and prosperity and very essential for economic and social development of the society. The revolution in Information and Communication Technology has bridged knowledge gap by providing free flow of information. With this technology driven revolution, information was started delivering in digital format with greater speed and economy which triggered in development of digital library. It has provided wider opportunities in archiving accessing digitizing and preserving the traditional knowledge. The open source software movements added weightage in proliferation of digital libraries worldwide. Traditional knowledge available in one and another form was being explored, documented preserved and made accessible through networks of digital archives. The formal project of digital library under the Digital Library Initiative (DLI) was started in 1994 as a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in 1994. Six universities were given the funds for investigation and development of underlying technologies for digital libraries. The second phase of the project was initiated in February 1998. (Devika, 2003). The landmark initiatives that led the path towards the Digital Library movement are the CMU, MERCURY project; CORE project at Cornell Universitythe TULIP project and ENVISION, Cornell Institute of digital collection, Yale University Open Book Project, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD), National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) Education Digital Library (NSDL).
Digital Library development in emerging country like India is taken up with preserving art culture and heritage of India in mid 1990s. India became de-facto signatory of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted unanimously by the UNESCO General Conference at its 31st session held on 2 November 2001 to strengthen the access to diverse cultural resources available across the country. Indian state and non-state agencies in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon University, Universal Digital Library project of the US-NSF (under and Indo-US Science and Technology Collaboration initiatives) have taken significant initiatives in digitization and preservation of vast pool of knowledge available in the physical forms of manuscripts, rare books, out-of-print books and archival materials and also with neighboring South Asian countries and shared to a networked community using an online platform. Indian universities are participating as members in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Library and information centre of higher education and research institutes have taken up task for creating website with in- house digital content like research reports, publications of researchers, theses and dissertation etc. Later on eminently practical approach was evolved for building operational digital library, their maintenance, operations and services. The problem encountered for digitization initiatives in India, National Policy and existing digital library initiatives of India are discussed below.
2.0 Problems & Challenges
In India, the digitization initiatives are encountered with the problems such as lack of national policy, lack of preservation policy, no intellectual property rights policy for content development of digital information, rigidity in the publishers’ policies and data formats, lack of multiple Indian language OCR facilities etc.
Jeevan (2004) mentioned following problems for digital library developments in India i)Lack of Interest from Parent Institutions, ii) Copyright, iii) Implementation of Access Right iv) Selection and Security of Content v) Efficient Internet bandwidth vi) Financial Support vii) Proper documentation, retrieval and access of indigenous knowledge have gained more prominence viii) lack of ability, lack of incentives, and lack of role model initiatives ix) acute shortage of competent personnel to take up the task of digitizing local content and evolving digital information repositories.
According to Bhattacharya (2004) the challenges that libraries in India face are:
Intellectual property rights, security, technological change, lack of expertise, inadequate finance and infrastructure, suitability, information explosion on the internet, cost of regular refreshing, preservation existing infrastructure, bandwidth problem, political and social constraints, lack of training.
Dr. Gurram Sujatha has encountered following problems of the digitization initiatives in India:
a) Lack of clear cut policy at National level with main focus on sustainability
b) Outdated software and hardware and difficulty in upgrading the same.
c) Non-availability of cost effective new technological advancement.
d) Lack of multiple Indian language OCR facilities.
e) Non-standard technical activities, data description and transmission characteristics.
f) Non-availability of well-trained skilled personnel.
g) Lack of management support
h) Lack of proper preservation policy
i) No Intellectual Property Rights policy for content development of digital information.
j) Rigidity in the publishers’ policies and data formats
The above factors affect the success of digitization initiatives and the creation of digital libraries. These problems have to be addressed positively for development of digital libraries in the country. According to Dr. Gurram Sujatha three factors i. e. national policy for digitization, sustainability issues and digital divide should be taken into consideration to ensure planned digital resource development programmes and digital libraries in the country.
3.0 National Policy on Digital Library
The National Task Force on IT and Software Development (2003) has given some valuable recommendations for development of DLs in the country related to development of pilot project on Digital Library, preservation of vast wealth of Indian traditional knowledge, digitization of Indian Theses and Dissertations and copyright protection. However, there is no any clear cut national policy on Digital Libraries. In India digitization initiatives are in need of national policy on Digital Library to indentify framework and best practice in all spheres for development of Digital Libraries. There is also need of preservation policy, Intellectual Property Rights policy for content development, collection development policy, digital information rigidity in the publishers’ policies and data formats etc.
4. Current Digital Library Initiatives in India
Government institutions of national importance, national level institutions, research organization, universities, state government institutions, financial institutions, private institutions are key player for initiating digital libraries in India. Some of the important digital library initiatives and programmes initiated across the country are as follow:
4.1.1 Digital Library of India (http://www.dli.ernet.in/)
Year of Establishment: 2003
Implemented By: Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Mega Scanning Centres: Indian Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad); Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida (CDAC Noida); Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Kolkata (CDAC Kolkata)
Participating Institutions: Indian Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad; ERNET (Education and Research Network) India; Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)
Supported By: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, National Science Foundation, USA
Alternative URL: http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/ULIB/
Description
Digital Library of India was formally launched by the then president of India Dr. A. P J. Abdul Kalam in 8th September 2003 to preserve knowledge and cultural heritage of India. It is part of Universal Digital Library Project of the US-NSF and Million Books Project envisaged by Carnegie Mellon University, USA. The project is supported by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India and coordinated by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. It digitizes and preserves all significant library, artistic and scientific works in its three regional mega scanning centre and 21 scanning centers and makes it freely available to world for education and research. The structured metadata of scanned document is created and uploaded to Digital Library Portal which provides searchable interface to access full-text contents.
Current Status: At present, Digital Library of India hosts 4,80,335 books containing about 168 million pages. The books came from about 48 different languages in various subjects.
4.1.2 Vigyan Prasar Digital Library (http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/digilib/
Year of Establishment: 1989
Implemented By: Vigyan Prasar, Noida
Participating Institutions: National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), New Delhi; NCSTC Network, Delhi; National Children's Science Congress
Supported By: Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
Alternative URL: http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/dream/index.asp
Description
Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, was established in 1989 for communication of science and technology. Vigyan Prasar maintains an open access digital library to spread scientific knowledge, where the digital collection contains digitized full-text versions of all significant scientific works that are being published by Vigyan Prasar.
Current Status: 80 books in English, 49 books in Hindi and 17 books in other languages and audio video scientific content in CD ROM are available in this digital library. Dream 2047, a popular science magazine and an open access periodical, is also archived in Vigyan Prasar Science Portal from volume one issue one.
4.1.3 NCERT Online Text Books (http://www.ncert.nic.in/textbooks/testing/Index.htm )
Year of Establishment: 1961
Implemented By: National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi
Supported By: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Alternative URL: http://www.ncert.nic.in/textbooks/backup/index.htm
Description
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was established by the Government of India in 1961 as an autonomous organization to assist and advise the state and central governments in the implementation of their policies for education, especially to bring about qualitative changes in school education. The NCERT has initiated a national portal where school textbooks, based on the National Curriculum Framework 2005, are freely available on the Internet for students and teachers. This portal provides easy navigation to textbook chapters by title/subject of the book for a particular class. The entire book or individual chapters can be downloaded as per the terms of use as mentioned in the Copyright Notice.
Current Status: The service provides easy access to textbooks of all subjects published by NCERT for classes I to XII in Hindi, English and Urdu.
4.2.1 Kalasampada: Digital Library Resources for Indian Cultural Heritage (http://www.ignca.nic.in/dlrich.html)
Implemented By: Cultural Informatics Laboratory, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India
Supported By: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India
Brief Description:
The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology initiated a digital library on indigenous cultural heritage named Kalasampada (Digital Library: Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage (DL-RICH)) for the development of a databank of cultural heritage. DL-RICH provides online access to digital images of cultural heritage resources such as manuscripts, rare photographs, rare books, rare painting, sculptures, handicrafts, monuments, artifacts, festivals, as well as varieties of textual, graphical, audio-visual and multimedia resources. This portal provides access to different segments of its collection with English interface and English transliterated metadata information.
Current Status:
Kalasampada facilitates scholars' access to the materials including 272,000 manuscripts, 100,000 slides, thousands of rare books, 4,000 rare photographs, 400 hours of audio and video along with research publications, fifty tutorials produced by the IGNCA. It also hosts a Sanskrit text repository, called Gaudiya Grantha Mandira that covers more than 400 chapters from different oriental texts. Kalasampada received the 'Golden Icon: Award for Exemplary Implementation for e-Governance Initiatives' under the category, Best Documented Knowledge and case study, given by India's Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in 2005.
4.2.2 National Databank on Indian Art and Culture (NDBIAC) (http://ignca.nic.in/ndb_0001.htm)
Implemented By: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India
Supported By: MCIT and Archeological Survey of India
Description:
In its second phase of digitization project, INGCA started National Databank on Indian Art and Culture (NDBIAC), a pilot project of Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), and Archaeological Survey of INDIA, Government of India with an aim to enhance the accessibility of Indian cultural resources using digital technology. NDBIAC provides access to digitized images and audio-visuals provided by ASI and state archaeology departments. It also gives access to virtual walkthroughs of archaeological monuments, back issues of ASI journal “Indian Archaeology - A Review”, ASI reports and rare books in Indic languages (Hindi and Sanskrit) and English.
Current Status: The project is pilot project and aim to cover over 1 lakh visual, 1000 hours of audio and video, 25000 rare books on art and culture and walk-through of some of the archaeological monuments.
4.2.3 National Mission for Manuscripts (http://www.namami.org/index.htm)
Year of Establishment: 2003
Implemented By: National Mission for Manuscript
Supported By: Ministry of Tourism and Culture,Government of India
Description
The Department of Culture, and Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, launched the National Mission for Manuscripts in February 2003 with an aim to locate, document, preserve and render vast collection of manuscripts which are available in variety of themes, textures and aesthetics, scripts, languages, calligraphies, illuminations and illustrations. NMM established a network of 47 MRCs (Manuscript Resource Centres), 32 MCCs (Manuscript Conservation Centres), 32 MPCs (Manuscript Partner Centres )and more than 200 MCPCs (Manuscript Conservation Partner Centres) across the country for identifying, inventorying, preservation and conservation of endangered documentary heritage collections available in the form of manuscripts. NMM maintains a National Database of Manuscripts named ‘Kritisampada’.
Current Status: At present total 20 lakh data are available on NMM Website.
4.2.4 Muktabodha: Digital Library and Archiving Project (http://www.muktabodhalib.org/digital_library.htm)
Year of Establishment: 2003
Implemented By: Muktabodha Indological Research Institute, New Delhi
Participating Institution: French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
Supporting Agency: SYDA Foundation, USA
Description:
The Muktabodha Digital Library and Archiving Project is initiated by Muktabodha Indological Research Institute in July 2003 to preserve scriptural texts related to the Tantric and Agamic traditions, as well as India's oral tradition of Vedic chanting and the ritual and philosophical knowledge associated with it. The goal of the Digital Library is to preserve rare Sanskrit manuscripts and texts in multipledigital formats, and make them accessible through website for study worldwide.
Current Status: Paper Transcripts of Shaiva Siddhanta, from the French Institute of Pondicherry including 210,000 digitized pages in over 2,000 texts, Vedic Manuscripts of Gokarna, 24 volumes of the Shaiva Siddhanta Paripalana Sangha Devakottai in the South Indian scripts, 75 volumes texts of the Kashmir Shaivism.
4.3.1 Shodh Ganga: Indian ETD Repository (http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/)
Year of Establishment: 2010
Implemented By: INFLIBNET Centre
Participating Institutions: More than 150 Universities
Supported By: University Grants Commission
Description:
Shodhganga is a national repository of electronic theses and dissertation. It was launched on 20th May 2010 by INFLIBNET Centre under support of University Grants Commission with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. UGC in its notification dated 1st June 2009 mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities.. Shodhganga stands for the reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre. 151 Universties have signed MoU with INFLIBNET Centre to join in Shodh Ganga project and deposit their theses.
INFLIBNET Centre also maintain repository of approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D programme called ShodhGangotri (http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/) with an aim to measure trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities and to avoid duplication of research.
Current Status: ShodhGanga provides access to more than 11000 electronic theses and dissertations. Shodhganga Received the eINDIA JURY CHOICE Award for Best ICT Enabled Higher Education Institute of the Year 2011. ShodhGangotri provides access to more than 1712 synopsis submitted research scholars.
4.3.2 Vidyanidhi Digital Library (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/)
Year of Establishment:
Implemented By: Department of Library Science, University of Mysore
Participating Institutions: More than 150 Universities
Supported By: NISSAT, DSIR, Government of India, Ford Foundation and Microsoft India
Description:
Vidyanidhi is a portal of doctoral research in India. It began as a pilot project in 2000 with support from government , the Ford Foundation and Microsoft India archive of dissertations, as well as a set of resources for doctoral research in India. Vidyanidhi also has strategic support from the UGC (University Grants Commission). The Vidyanidhi Digital Library has two layers: a metadata database and the full text of theses.
Current Status: More than 5000 full text and 50,000 bibliographic records of theses submitted to the universities in India have been hosted in Vidyanidhi.
List of other ETD repositories initiated in India are given in annexure I
4.4 Digital Library of Institutional Repositories
An Institutional Repository (IR) is a digital collection or archives of a university’s intellectual output. Universities and other institutions are producing digital information base of their Ph.D. theses & dissertations, articles, reports, conference proceedings, lecture notes, presentational, audio-video records using open source software and making them available to their end users. There are 92 institutional and subject wise repositories have been registered in Registry of Open Access Repository (ROAR). Institutional repositories initiated in India can be viewed at http://roar. eprints.org/.
4.5.1 Indian Academy of Sciences (www.ias.ac.in/pubs/journals/)
Implemented By: Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bangalore
Partner Institutions: Current Science Association, Bangalore; Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore; SpringerLink, Germany
Supported By: Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India
Description
The Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) is a scientific academy funded by the Government of India. Digital platform is developed to provide online access to 11 peer reviewed journals with all backfiles and other publications including reports, newsletter, patrika, year book and annual report etc. published by Indian Academy of Science.
Current Status: Access to 11 journals with backfiles
4.5.2 Indian National Science Academy (www.insa.ac.in)
Implemented By: Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi
Supported By: National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT),
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India
Description
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) was established in 1935. It is funded by Government of India. INSA, under the support of NISSAT, has initiated e-journal@insa project in 2002 to facilitate conversion of INSA journals from print to digital format and host these materials online. This portal provides access to current and back volume full-text literature of INSA journals, organizes scientific discussions, proceedings and monographs annual report, year book etc.
Current Status: Access to 7 journals with backfiles
4.5.3 NISCAIR Research Journals (http://nopr.niscair.res.in/)
Implemented By: NISCAIR
NISCAIR has developed Online Periodicals Repository (NOPR) to preserve its 7 research journals, working papers, preprints, technical reports, conference papers and data sets in various digital formats. All publications can be access full-text in PDF format through NOPT platform. National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was then established to provide comprehensive S&T information to students of science, engineering and technology. NSDL provides curriculum based access to e-books and lecture notes, presentation for the undergraduate students of science.
4.5.4 Indian Medlars Centre (IndMED@NIC: http://indmed.nic.in) (OpenMED@NIC: http://openmed.nic.in)
Implemented By: MEDLARS Centre (IMC), Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi
Supporting Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had collaborated to setup Indian Medlars Centre to provide information support and services to medical research community. The Centre produced two important resources; the first is INDMED@NIC, which indexes more than 100 prominent biomedical journals of India from 1985 onwards. This bibliographic database is accessible online. The second resource is MEDIND@NIC that provides open access to the full text articles of 62 Indian biomedical journals. Different publishers, mainly learned societies in the respective specialized areas, publish these journals in print-on-paper format. The new project entitles “National Databases of Indian Medical Journals” is in process for maintaining, updating and improvising these two important national resources.
4.5.5 Open Journal System @ INFLIBNET
Implemented By: INFLIBNET Centre
Description
Open Journal System @ INFLIBET Centre provides digital platform for hosting of electronic version of journals into open access mode with all processes of submission, peer-reviewing, editing, layout designing and publishing built into it. It encourages universities and institutions that are publishing journals in print format to use the OJS @INFLIBNET for hosting electronic version of their journals free-of-cost on server at the INFLIBNET Centre. The OJS@INFLIBNET provides full-text access to 14 journals published by universities and higher education institutions.
Current Status: It provides access to 14 open access journals
4.5.6 Indianjournals.com (www.indianjournals.com)
Implemented By: Divan Enterprises, New Delhi
Partner Institutions: Academic and Professional Institutions/ Societies in India and other Asian Countries
Description
IndianJournals.com provides single window access to multidisciplinary Indian journals published by different scholarly societies and institutions.
Current Status: It provides access to eleven open access journals and periodicals. This journal gateway also provides access to subscription-based content.
4.5.7 Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd (www.medknow.com/journals.asp)
Implemented By: Medknow Publications Private Limited, Mumbai
Partner Institutions: Bio-medical Institutions and Scientific Societies in India and other Asian Countries
Description
Medknow Publications Private Limited is a publisher of high-quality peer-reviewed scholarly open access journals in India. It publishes, maintains and hosts 48+ open access peer reviewed scholarly journals, mainly in the biomedical subject areas on behalf of learned societies and associations.
Current Status: Access to 48 journals
4.5.8 Kamla-Raj Enterprises (www.krepublishers.com/KRE-New-J/index.html)
Implemented By: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi
Partner Institutions: Academic Institutions and Scholarly Societies in India
The Kamla-Raj Enterprises is a Delhi-based publisher established in 1933. Kamla-Raj publishes seven print-based peer-review scholarly journals mainly in the areas of social sciences which are also available in electronic format on open access. These journals are OAI-compliant. The publisher maintains an archive of each of these open access journals starting from volume one.
4.6.1 NPTEL (www.nptel.iitm.ac.in, http://youtube.com/nptelhrd/)
Implemented By: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Web Coordinator); Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Video Coordinator) Participating Institutions: Indian Institutes of Technology (seven IITs such as IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Supported By: Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India
Description
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) (www.nptel.iitm.ac.in) is an open courseware initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). This initiative is funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). The main objective of this programme is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing more than 200 curricula-based video and web courses.
4.6.2 e-Gyankosh (www.egyankosh.ac.in)
Implemented By: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi
Partner Institutions: Distance Education Council; India EDUSAT
Supported By: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Description
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is a mega open university that offers distance and open education to millions of learners in India and other countries. It produces self-instructional study materials for various programmes and also hosts a number of educational broadcasting channels. IGNOU has initiated the establishment of a National Digital Repository of learning resources eGyankosh. This repository envisages to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources of open and distance learning (ODL) institutions in the country: The repository supports seamless aggregation and integration of learning resources in different formats such as self-instructional study materials, audio-video programmes, and archives of radio and television-based live interactive sessions.
4.6.3 Learning Object Repository CEC (www.cec-lor.edu.in)
Implemented By: Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), New Delhi
Partner Institutions: University Grants Commission (UGC), Educational Multimedia 2 Research Centres (EM RC), Audio Visual Research Centre (AVRC), Vyas Channel on Gyan Darshan (24 hours Higher Educational Channel)
Supported By: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Alternative URL: www.cec-lor.edu.in
Description
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) is an inter-university centre on electronic media, established by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The CEC in coordination with its 17 Educational Multimedia Research Centres, has been producing television programmes in various subject categories in English, Hindi and regional languages. Some of the audio-visual programmes are based on syllabus-based topics at the school, polytechnic, college and university levels. CEC established the Learning Object Repository (LOR) and the Digital Video Repository (DVR) to provide worldwide access to these qualitative learning resources. The LOR is a bank of short duration reusable learning objects for special benefits to students and teachers for face to face learning as well as to other users globally. The streaming video technique is used for online viewing of these learning objects. The LOR portal can be searched by subject, topic, title of the learning object, and keywords. This portal can also be navigated through subject categories.
4.6.4 ePG Pathshala (http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/about.php)
Implemented By: UGC and INFLIBNET Centre
Supported By: NME-ICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Description
The MHRD, under NME-ICT has allocated funds to the UGC for development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level. The INFLIBNET Centre is assigned the responsibility for technical and administrative coordination of the programme as per the guidelines of Standing Committee, e-PG Pathshala. High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts & humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being developed under this initiative named e-PG Pathshala.
4.6.5 Indo-German eGurukul on Digital Libraries (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mmb/)
Implemented By: Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
Supported By: Goethe-Institut in New Delhi
Description
The Indo-German eGurukul on Digital Libraries is a collaborative project of DRTC and Goethe-Institut in New Delhi to facilitate self-paced learning on digital libraries.
4.7 Library Consortium in India
Beside, access to e-resources to Indian institutions are also available through Library Consortia. Some of the major example of library consortia in India which provides access to peer reviewed journals to their member institutions are as follows.
4.7.1 UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium (http://www.inflibnt.ac.in/econ)
Year of Establishment: 2003
Implemented By: INFLIBNET Centre
Supported by: University Grants Commission
Member Institutions: 206 core members and 204 associate members
Description:
The UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium was launched by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the then President of India, in December 2003. The consortium provides differential access to e-resources to 206 universities and 150 institutions covered under associate membership prgramme. These e-resources covers almost all subject disciplines including arts, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, chemical sciences, life sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, statistics, etc.
Current Status: It provides current as well as archival access to more than 8,500 core and peer reviewed electronic journals and ten bibliographic databases from 28 publishers, scholarly societies and aggregators, including university presses in different disciplines.
4.7.2 INDEST-AICTE Consortium (http://www. Paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest)
Year of Establishment: 2003
Implemented By: IIT Delhi
Supported by: Ministry of Human Resource Development
Member Institutions: 325 member institutions including 65 core members
Description
The Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium was set-up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in year 2003 to provide access to selected electronic journals and databases to technical institutions including IISc, IITs, NITs, IIMs and a few other centrally-funded Government institutions. The total number of members in the Consortium has now gone up to 325 including 65 core member institutions, 60 AICTE supported engineering college and 200 members under self-supported categories.
Current Status: It provides access to 20748 peer reviewed journals and 10 bbilographical database to its member institutions.
4.7.3 National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC) (http://nkrc.niscair.res.in)
Year of Establishment: 2009
Implemented By: NISCAIR
Supported by: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Member Institutions: 65 member institution
Description:
The National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC), established in year 2009, is a network of libraries and information centres of 39 CSIR and 24 DST institutes. NKRC's origin goes back to the year 2001, when the CSIR set up the Electronic Journals Consortium to provide access to 1200 odd journals of Elsevier Science to all its users. Over a period of time, the Consortium not only grew in terms of the number of resources but also in terms of the number of users as more like-minded institutes evinced interest to join the Consortium. Currently, NKRC facilitates access to 8000+ e-journals of all major publishers, patents, standards, citation and bibliographic databases. Apart from licensed resources, NKRC is also a single point entity that provides its users with access to a multitude of open access resources.
Current Status: Provides access to 8061 peer reviewed e-journals and 7bibliogapgical database
4.7.4 MCIT Consortium (http://www.mcitconsortium.nic.in)
Year of Establishment: 2005
Implemented By: DEIT, New Delhi
Supported by: Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT)
Member Institutions: 12 member institution
Description:
The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) Consortium caters to the information requirement of 9 institutions including NIC, CDAT and CDOT (with its offices in multiple locations). Set up in 2005 with funding from the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), the Consortium subscribes to 5 electronic resources including IEL Online, ACM Digital Library, Indian Standards, Science Direct and JCCC. Other activities of the Consortium include establishing institutional repositories, national making union catalogues, creation and maintenance of library automation software called e-Granthalaya.
Current Status: Provides access to 1818 e-journals and 14,000 e-books to its member institutions.
4.7.5 DAE Consortium
Year of Establishment: 2003
Supported by: Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
Member Institutions: 36 member institution
Description:
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Consortium, set up in 2003, caters to the information requirement of 36 institutions including BARC, TIFR and SAMEER. Funded by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India, the Consortium subscribes to 2,000 e-journals from 4 publishers including Science Direct, Springer and MathSciNet. The Consortium is administered by one of the DAE intuitions by rotation.
Current Status: Provides access to 2,000 peer reviewed e-journals from four publishers to its member institutions.
4.7.6 ERMED Consortium (http://ermed.jccc.in/)
Year of Establishment: 2008
Implemented By: National Medical Library
Supported by: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Member Institutions: 98 member institutions
Description:
Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED) Consortium, set up at 2008, is an initiative taken by Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to develop nation-wide electronic information resources in the field of medicine for delivering effective health care for all. The Consortium is being coordinated through its headquarter set up at the National Medical Library (NML). DGHS provides fund for the purchase of electronic resources under the ERMED consortium for Government medical colleges and institutions. Private medical colleges and institutions can join the consortium under its self-supported category. ERMED e-journal consortium has 98 members including ICMR, DGHS, AIIMS, NTR Health University and government medical colleges / institutes across the country.
4.7.7 DRDO E-journal Consortium (www.dsl.drdo.gov.in/ejournals)
Year of Establishment: 2009
Implemented By: DESIDOC, Delhi
Supported by: Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense
Member Institutions: 50 member institutions
Description:
Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense is the largest government funded research and development organization in India with a chain of over 50 laboratories and establishments spread across the country. DRDO e-journal consortium was established on January 2009 to provide access to e-resources to S&T community of DRDO. The Consortium is governed by a Monitoring Committee having the representatives from different subject clusters and headquarters. It provides access to 568 full text e-journals to 50 DRDO Labs. JCCC service was added to facilitate access to contents of all the journal titles subscribed by 20 major DRDO labs.
Current Status: Provides access to 568 and 1 bibliographic database to its member institutions.
4.7.8 DeLCON (http://delcon.gov.in)
Year of Establishment: 2009
Implemented By: NBRC, Manesar
Supported by: Department of Biotechnology
Member Institutions: 33 member institutions
Description:
DBT e-Library Consortium (DeLCON) is funded by Department of Biotechnology. Established in 2009, the Consortium provides access to more than 600 journals and bibliographic database to 33 member institutions which includes 14 DBT institutions and 18 institutions located in North Eastern Region (NER) and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Programme (BIRAP).
Current Status: Provides access to 682 e-journals to its member institutions
4.7.9 CeRA (Consortium for e- resources in Agriculture) (http://cera.iari.res.in & http://cera.jccc.in)
Year of Establishment: 2008
Implemented By: IARI, New Delhi
Supported by: ICAR (World Bank)
Member Institutions: 142 member institutions
Description:
CeRA (Consortium for e- resources in Agriculture), an ambitious initiative from IARI, aims to provide scholarly information in the broad spectrum of agricultural sciences to foster academic quality research amongst its institutes and other agricultural universities. It was established in 2008 by ICAR as a sub-project of NAIP, funded by the World Bank. The Consortium is managed by IARI and promoted by ICAR. It covers about 3,000 scholarly journals (comprising consortium- subscribed, Library-subscribed and open access journals) from seven major publishers. The Consortium has 134 member institutions comprising of deemed universities, national research centres, agricultural institutions, national bureaux, ICAR institutions, etc.
Current Status: Provides access to 1766 peer reviewed e-journals and 3 bibliographic databases.
4.7.10 NLIST (http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/)
Year of Establishment: 2010
Implemented By: INFLIBNET Centre & IIT Delhi
Supported by: Ministry of Human Resource Development under NME ICT
Member Institutions: 3000+ member institutions
Description:
The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi, provides for access to scholarly content to colleges, universities as well as centrally-funded technical institutions through its four distinct components, i.e. i) UGC-INFONET e-resources to technical institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs, NITs, etc.); ii) INDEST e-resources to universities; iii) E-resources to 12,000 Govt.-aided and non-aided colleges; and iv) National Monitoring Agency at the INFLIBNET Centre to manage access, monitor, promote and impart training to promote optimal usage of e-resources and for monitoring all activities involved in the process of providing effective and efficient access to e- resources to colleges.
Current Status: The N-LIST programmes provides access to Web of Science for universities, Annual Reviews (33 journal titles), Nature (27 journal titles), Project Muse (400+ journal titles), Taylor & Francis and JSTOR (2000) journals for 35 technical institutions including selected IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs. Besides, provides access to more than 6,000 e-journals and 97,333 e-books to colleges.
DAE Consortium, IIM Consortium, RGUHS-HELINET, FORSA Consortium are also in operation in India.
4.8 Digital Library of Newspapers
Table given below provides link to repositories of Indian Newspapers
| Newspapers | URL |
| Times of India | http://epaper.timesofindia.com |
| Indian express | http://epaper.indianexpress.com/ |
| The Hindu | http://epaper.thehindu.com |
| The Economic Times | http://epaper.timesofindia.com |
| DNA | http://epaper.dnaindia.com/ |
| Dainik Bhasker | http://epaper.bhaskar.com/ |
4.9 Digital Library of Data Harvesting
Metadata harvesting service harvests or indexes metadata from OAI-compliant archives or repositories through harvesting software that supports a protocol known as OAI-PMH (Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). Table given below lists metadata harvesting services experimented by Indian institutions.
Name of Harvester
|
Implemented By
|
Supported By
|
URL
|
Description
| |
Cross Archive Search Service for Indian Repositories (CASSIR)
|
NCSI, IISc Bangalore
|
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of
Science and Technology, Government of India |
The CASSIR has record from 18 major Indian repositories
| ||
Open Index Initiative
|
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development research, Mumbai
|
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Reserve Bank
of India, Government of India |
Open Archive Initiative is a cooperative initiative to index social science literature published in India
| ||
Open J-Gate
|
Informatics (India) Ltd
|
It covers 4047open access academic, research and industry journals including 2000+ peer reviewed journals
| |||
MetaMED
|
Indian Medlars Centre, NIC New Delhi
| ||||
SEED
|
IIT Delhi
|
The SEED currently has papers from 4 Indian Open Access Archives
| |||
Scientific Journal Publishing in India: Indexing and Online Management
(SJPI) |
National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore |
Pan Asia Networking, IDRC, Canada; Asian Media and Information
Centre (AMIC), Singapore; Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP.net), UNDP; Internet Society, USA; Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Australia |
It harvests metadata from the sample full-text contents of
participating Indian scholarly journals. | ||
Search Digital Libraries (SDL)
|
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian
Statistical Institute, Bangalore |
Indian Statistical Institute, Government of India
|
The SDL currently has 40954records from 18 national and internation repositories in area of information management, knowledge management, documentation, communication and ICT
| ||
4.10.1 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) (www.tkdl.res.in)
Implemented By: National Institute of Science Communication and Information
Resources (NISCAIR), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi
Participating Institutions: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India; Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India; SAARC Documentation Centre, India
Supported By: Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
Brief Description:
TKDL is a collaborative project of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Ministry of Science & Technology and Department of AYUSH, and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which this is being implemented at NISCAIR. The project documents the public domain traditional knowledge related to Ayurveda, Unani, and Siddha, in five international languages: English, German, French, Japanese, and Spanish. TKDL is India's effort to protect its traditional medicine from foreign pharmaceutical companies who might try to copyright such medicine. TDKL will serve not merely as a source of protection for intellectual property but also as a means by which its researchers can further study and document the scientific underpinnings of the medicines and remedies in the collection.
Current Status:
Archives of Indian Labour
(http://www.indialabourarchives.org/)
Implemented By: V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida
Participating Institutions: Association of Indian Labour Historians, Delhi; N. M. Joshi Centre for Labour Research and Education; Workers' Education Trust, Chennai; Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai; SARAI- A New Media Initiative, Center for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
Supported By: Ministry of Labour, Government of India
Description:
The Archives of Indian Labour were created by the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH). The archive preserves documents, builds collections, and initiates research in labour history. The collections include documents from different organizations. Documents from labour movements are included, as well as personal accounts and memories of labour leaders and workers. The archive uses Greenstone, an open-source digital library system, to integrate text, audio, and video.
Besides, National Health Information Collaboration (NHIC), URDIP: CSIR Unit for Research & Development for Information Products , Central Secretariat Library, Nalanda Digital Library at NIT Calicut, Digitization of Debates of Parliaments, Digital Library of art Masterpieces , Mobile Digital Library (Dware Dware Gyan Sampada) , National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, National Resource Centre for Women, Raman Research Institute, Digitization of art and culture, National Library Kolkatta are some examples of National Digital Libraries in India.
Summary
With the availability of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) and information infrastructure, India becomes an active contributor in digital library movement by digitizing and providing free access traditional knowledge, century-old publications and rare documents, theses and dissertation and journals available in Indian libraries. The Digital Library of India is one major initiative that is striving to create a truly digital library. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories called ShodhGanga does not only provide easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses, it also helps in raising the standard and quality of the research. Open courseware and cross-archive search services are also being developed by different organizations, including the apex higher education agencies. India has spearheaded the digital library movement in developing countries.
References
Ambati, V., N.Balakrishnan, Reddy, R., Pratha, L., Jawahar, C.V. (2006) The Digital Library of India Project: Process, Policies and Architecture. In: Second International Conference on Digital Libraries(ICDL).
Arora, J., & Bhattacharya, P. (2002). Digital library development in India: A case study of the development at the Central Library of IIT Delhi. In: Proceedings of the National Conference on Information Management in e-Libraries (IMeL 2002), IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur.
Bhattacharya, P. (2004). Advances in digital library initiatives: a developing country perspective. The International Information & Library Review, 36 (3):165–175.
Das, Anup Kumar. (2008). Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives,- the South Asian Scenario. (Eds: Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah), UNESCO, New Delhi, 137.
Ghosh, Maitrayee (2009). E-theses and Indian academia: A case study of nine ETD digital libraries and formulation of policies for a national service. The International Information & Library Review, 41: 21-33.
Jeevan, V.K.J. (2004). Digital library development: identifying sources of content for developing countries with special reference to India. The International Information & Library Review, 36: 185–197.
Madalli, Devika P. (2003). Digital Libraries and Digital Library Initiatives, Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice, DRTC, Bangalore.
National Task Force on Information Technology and National Development, Government of India. (1999). IT action plan (Part III): Long term national IT policy. Chapter 5: Content creation industry. Retrieved July 25, 2006.
Nazim, Mohammad and Devi, Maya (2008). Open access journals and institutional repositories: practical need and present trends in India. Annals of Library and Information Studies, 55.
P.K. Jain, P. K. and Babbar, Parveen. (2006). Digital libraries initiatives in India, the International Information & Library Review, 38:161–169.
Registry of Open Access Repositories, available at: http://roar. eprints.org/
Sujatha, Gurram (2008). Digital library initiatives in India: a proposal for open distance learning. Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences.
Availalbe at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2008/papers/25
Glossary
NDLTD
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). It supports institutions of higher education to develop their own ETD programs by adopting the submission, collection, and archiving of electronic theses and dissertations to their own repositories and to international digital libraries and repositories.
NSDL
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.
OCR
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that they can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data extraction and text mining.
Copyright
A form of legal protection given to the creators of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. It gives the author of an original creative work an exclusive right to reproduce (copy) or distribute the original work to the public, create new works based upon the original work, and perform or display the work publicly.
IPR
The term "Intellectual Property Rights" refers to the legal rights granted with the aim to protect the creations of the intellect. These rights include Industrial Property Rights (e.g. patents, industrial designs and trademarks) and Copyright (right of the author or creator) and Related Rights (rights of the performers, producers and broadcasting organisations).
Metadata
Metadata is data that describes other data. Metadata summarizes basic information about data, which can make finding and working with particular instances of data easier. For example, author, date created and date modified and file size are examples of very basic document metadata.
Manuscript
A typewritten or handwritten version of a book, an article, a document, or other work, especially the author's own copy, prepared and submitted for publication in print.
Sculptures
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions, and one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, shifts in sculptural process led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process.
IR
An institutional repository is an online archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
ROAR
ROAR is Registry of Open Access Repositories which promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. It was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003.
OSS
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose
NOPR
NISCAIR’s Online Periodicals Repository
OAI-PHM
The OAI-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) defines a mechanism for harvesting records containing metadata from repositories. The OAI-PMH gives a simple technical option for data providers to make their metadata available to services, based on the open standards HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol) and XML (Extensible Markup Language).
Repository
A website that aims to collect, preserve and proffer electronically the intellectual output of a subject or organization without charge to the World
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