Can I hope more people come forward -- especially people working in Medical/Biological Sciences/Pharmacological/Nursing and other allied sciences to come forward to further build - http://openmed.nic.in - OpenMED? We can then form a voluntary group to: 1. Educate our Institutional scientists / staff / administrators regarding Open Access - OA. 2. Instruct them how to self-archive their articles 3. Play editorial role in meta-data generation over http://openmed.nic.in 4. Answer their Frequently Asked Questions and clarify their doubts regarding Open Access and Self-Archiving. 5. Suggest authors various Open Access Journals as alternative to conventional journals - for publication of their articles. Should we all remain just spectators to the changing world of librarianship or ACT NOW? The time has come - just FIVE years to go. And Best of Luck for QMed. Hope it would play its role in next generation librarianship. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

Message: 4 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:22:07 +0530 From: "Vasumathi Sriganesh" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Tempere archive - universal; what about OpenMED? To: Message-ID: <00fa01c5ef28$e13cb6b0$0300a8c0@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Sukhdev

As I told you earlier - I have done the beginnings........by talking about and demo-ing OpenMED in all my training programs.I am ready to help - count me in. QMed is going to be "formally" a non-profit organization in whatever time it takes me to formalize it - trying hard to make that VERY SOON. On principle it already is. So NIC could definitely consider us. I really like your line - we are not just Downloaders - we Upload too. I will adopt that in my programs

Vasumathi

Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Mobile: 91-98672-92230 Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Sukhdev Singh" To: Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Tempere archive - universal; what about OpenMED?

...........................Please let me know if any professional would like to come forward to build OpenMED@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