[LIS-Forum] Tempere archive - universal; what about OpenMED?

[Sukhdev Singh]

Yes, OpenMED at NIC, http://openmed.nic.in ,  is open to any author
 from the globe to self-archive. As on today it has 364 Registered
 Users from all around the world. There are  782 documents that are
 archived. It has a eloraborate subject categorisation scheme based
on MeSH, perhaps the only archive to use such a scheme.

Its RSS feed is also available from http://openmed.nic.in/perl/rss and
 can be added to RSS Readers or hosted services like Personalised
 Google Home Page http://www.google.com/ig or MyYahoo  http://my.yahoo.com etc.

If we can receive co-operation from Library and Information Community
from India [ on which I am very bullish ] OpenMED at NIC has the
potential of a very reliable [because being hosted on NIC's
infra-structure] and largest OA repository from a fast developing
country [ India ].

Please let me know if any professional would like to come forward to
build OpenMED at NIC further? It is an opportunity to show the world that
we can also build international quality archives. Let us show that we
LIS professionals from India are not just "Downloaders", we "Upload"
too!!.

Thanks,
Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
http://openmed.nic.in




> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:58:52 +0530 (IST)
> From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun at mssrf.res.in>
> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Tempere archive - universal; what about OpenMED?
> To: peters at earlham.edu, oa-india at dgroups.org,
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> Peter Suber has recently said that the Tempere University archive is the
> first to provide archiving facility to others (outside the university).
> OpenMED in India does that too, but only for biomedical research.
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> Arun
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> Universal repository at U of Tampere
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> The OA repository at the University of Tampere in Finland is open to
> deposits by scholars anywhere. The repository instruction page puts it
> this way: "You can also offer your scientific material for publication on
> the internet to the University of Tampere, whether you belong to the
> personnel of the University or not." (Thanks to Kimmo Kuusela.)
> (PS: This is an excellent idea. It makes the Tampere repository the first
> universal repository --or the first that I know of. The current draft of
> the RCUK OA policy mandates the deposit of all RCUK-funded research in an
> OA repository, but makes an exception for grantees who don't have deposit
> rights at any OA repository. The Tampere repository should plug this
> loophole even if the universal repository I'm building with the Internet
> Archive is not ready in time.)
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