[LIS-Forum] Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre

[Sukhdev Singh]

In November 2005, one of our article [ http://openmed.nic.in/1108/ ]on OpenMED at NIC has been highlighted in Prof Peter Suber's Blog dated :*Saturday, November 12, 2005 under the heading of "Story of the OArepository at India's National Informatics Centre".

*http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_11_06_fosblogarchive.html
Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre
* Sukhdev Singh, and Naina Pandita, Building the open accessself-archiving repository for the bio-medical sciences at NationalInformatics Centre http://openmed.nic.in/1108/, in: NationalConvention of Medical Library Association of India, November 7-9m2005, Bangalore, India.
   Abstract: Self-Archiving is an important model of the Open Access   movement. National Informatics Centre has been providing various   services and products to the biomedical community. Building up a   Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied sciences was a   natural extension of these activities. To make this repository   interoperable with other such repositories Open Access Initiative   Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was adopted. The   selection of suitable software for the archive was done from OAI-PMH   compatible softwares. GNU EPrints was finally selected. A prototype   was build for planning of activities, demonstration and checking   security aspects. To provide subject-wise browse view to the archive   a MeSH based categorization was adopted. A dedicated server was   procured and installed in the NIC Network Domain under RedHat   Advanced Server Version 3.0. EPrints software was then installed and   customized. Making scientists and authors aware of Open Access and   its benefits remains a major challenge for any such attempt. However   efforts are bearing fruits in the form of Open Self-archiving   repository for Bio-medical and Allied Sciences i.e. OpenMED at NIC   http://openmed.nic.in.
ThanksSukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in