INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8TH Mile, Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 DRTC Colloquium (4) 2008-2010 The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries Abstract Open access facilitates the availability and distribution of scholarly communication freely, as a means and effort to solve the problem of inaccessibility, primarily due to financial constraints, particularly in the developing countries. Studies suggest that the articles which are published in open access journals are more cited. In spite of all these, there are still many issues not completely resolved such as pricing models, peer reviewing, indexing, impact factor, archiving, and the stability of this new publishing model for scientific literature. The use of open standards can assure interoperability of diverse systems and long lasting preservation. This colloquium will discuss some important ways to achieve open access by exploiting open source software and open standards in creating institutional repositories. The colloquium will further discusses some light on major issues in achieving this. Facets Speaker Overview Ali Raza (Leader) Open access initiative Babar Raees Institutional Repository Binit Kiran Standards and Tools Shion Ghuha Open source software Nilesh Shewale Implications Priyanki Sinha Conclusions Tarun Kumar Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 6th May 2009 Time: 2.00pm All are cordially invited (M.Krishnamurthy) Colloquium Coordinator -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.