Dear Balesh, Its a very happy news that your are going to start your Colleage Journal. Congrats. You may see the site http://www.ojs.oksociety.in/index.php and http://www.oksociety.in/node/1 The Open Knowledge Society is a society registered under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Act of 1955. Open Knowledge Society aims to facilitate all forms of Open Access to Knowledge. It includes: Supporting creation of Institutional Repositories Supporting publication of Open Access Journals Supporting conversion of print journals into online versions Supporting making online journals OAI-PMH complaint Supporting automation of libraries Supporting Digital Libraries Supporting Open Courseware and Open Data Other activities that promotes open access to knowledge. You may contact Mr. Thomas Abraham at <tomuhs@gmail.com> or any of the offices mentioned below. Regional Offices New Delhi: A5/128, Sector -17, Rohini, New Delhi - 110 089 Bangalore: No. 103, Kallathur Lay Out, Gangamma Circle, Jalahalli East, Bangalore - 560 013 Thiruvananthapuram: No.33, First Floor, Puliyoor Gardens, Nalanchira P.O., Thiruvananthapuram - 695 015 Thanks & Regards Sridhar Gutam Sridhar, PhD, ARS Scientist (Plant Physiology) & Joint Secretary, ARSSF Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research (DMAPR) Boriavi, Anand 387310, Gujarat, India Phone: +91-2692-271605/606 Ext. 214; Mobile: +91-9909719353 http://www.dmap.org.in; http://openaccessjournal.blogspot.com; http://openscholars.wordpress.com http://en.scientificcommons.org/sridhar_gutam; http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ OpenAccess Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (OAJMAP) ISSN 0974-7877 Calls for papers. Please send your articles to editor.oajmap@gmail.com Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:49:33 -0700 From: baleshknl@yahoo.co.in To: LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] How to start a college journal Dear Sir, Kindly post this message at the form We are planning to start a journal of the college. may i request to my senior professional collegues, who have this experience/knowledge, kindly let us know the process and formalities required in starting/registring the same particularly getting the ISSN No. process. etc. We have downloaded the forms available from Registrar, Newspapers of India's site and working on those guidelines. Balesh Kumar Librarian S. D. College (Lahore) Ambala Cantt.-133 001 (Haryana) (M) 09416073008 From cricket scores to your friends. Try the Yahoo! India Homepage! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _________________________________________________________________ Feel the heat of news, the thrill of sports, the dazzle of Bollywood and much more on MSN India http://in.msn.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.