On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:00 PM, vinod mishra wrote:

Dear Sir,

Nice to read your encouraging emails always, There are several questions in my mind in this regard as follows:

1. In India How many big/renowned Libraries are using ORCID compatible version of Dspace?

One can examine how MIT has added ORCID iDs to individual papers in their (huge) DSpace repository. There are many Indian librarians who have tremendous computing skills, e.g. Prof. A R D Prasad of ISI, B'lore, is not only known for computing skills but also an acknowledged expert in DSpace (right from its early days). LIS-Forum members could request him to organize a webinar on integration of ORCID with DSpace.

2. Librarians are taking efforts to upgrade their old and obsolete DSpace?

One does not need any external help to upgrading to the latest version of DSpace. Even if one needs, we have people like Dr Francis Jayakanth and Mr Muthu Madhan.

3. How many Librarians have their own ORCID ID's and they attempted to organize user education programme in their Institutes?

I do not have the statistics. But it takes only a few minutes to register with ORCID and it is absolutely free for individuals. Librarians could proactively encourage faculty and research students to register. 4. How many libraries are following the open access policy to global

visibility of their research output through DSpace/Eprint etc?

DST, DBT and CSIR have mandated that all publications resulting from their support must be deposited in OA repositories and CSIR-URDIP in Pune maintains national level repositories. But the compliance rate seems to be rather low. Unfortunately, the funding agencies are not taking any action. Here is an article Madhan and I wrote on ORCID many months ago: *http://eprints.library.iisc.ernet.in/56181/ http://eprints.library.iisc.ernet.in/56181/* Subbiah Arunachalam

I can say first Libraries in India needs to upgrade their technology and understand it, few peoples are keen to share their capability but more LIS professionals needs to be keen for getting the shared knowledge. We need more dedication to enhance our services which is lacking at present.

Above are my views only and i may be also lacking in above but always eager to share whatever i have !

With Regards,

Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/

*"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi*

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:

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Friends:

At MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, ORCIDs are used now in DSpace for faculty, graduate students, postdocs & research staff so all their publications can be attributed to the right authors, retrieved easily and unambiguously.

Please see < http://libraries.mit.edu/news/orcids-dspace-faculty/25151/#. WRf_77gK-so.facebook

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Please note that the work was done by the librarians.

This is a good model for us in India to adopt. What do you think/

Subbiah Arunachalam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Dear Sir, Thanks for your motivations, actually i have bitter experience when i took initiative to upgrade one of the oldest DSpace (1.2) at NIT Rourkela implemented by Mr. Madhan it was very difficult and lot of pressure from admin because of obsolete server of DSpace and other issues. I floated message on forums to help in this regard on TA/DA and honorarium basis but did not get a single reply. However I do not know why but Mr. Madhan keep trust on me and encouraged to try because i can do it hence i tried and within 03 month of pain i could able to do it with learning so many new things in DSpace and now when i am eager to assist people hardly anybody eager to take interest because they might have never thought of new features of DSpace like ORCID, discovery tool, embargo, integration of Romeo/Sherpa etc. It indicates we library professionals are either not aware about these concepts or do now wish to enhance their services beneficial for their own sustainability in all respect. I am very happy to see many Senior professionals still took lot of initiatives and always encourage peoples, but still lot of lacking in providing good technical and managerial leadership at the same time young people also did not have much dedication to uplift LIS profession but they are much busy in uplift themselves anyhow and compromise with basic responsibility assigned to them for which they are already getting handsome salary and i may not be the exception. Thanking You. With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi* On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Prof. N. Laxman Rao. wrote:

Dr Mishra ur right in posing such questions. there are many more questions.

Is it not the duty of the librarians to learn the new things / developments and then communicate to the users. it is a sad situation that many librarians are not aware of such things even though it is old concept now.

In the context of ever changing dynamic world, our librarians should move forward for their survival and keep image intact. If i say that many may cry on me, I know few people dont understand but talk too much

I admire u and we all should join hands and make the younger generation to raise to the occasion as most of old generation is not more interested to learn and move forward god bless u

Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, NAGUBANDI President, Telangana Library Association; Member, Advisory Board, National Library, Kolkata; UGC-Emeritus Fellow (2009-11); Member, Library Advisory Committee, Dr BR Ambedkar University, Hyderabad; *Program Advisory Committee for Kalanidhi ReferenceLibrary and Cultural Archives, IGNCA, New Delhi; M*ember, Technical Advisory Panel, Indian Public library Movement, under the NASSCOM FOUNDATION; Funded by Bill Gates & Milinda Foundation; Professor in Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad ( super annuated); formerly Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (2006-8); formerly President, Association of British Scholars ( AP Chapter) and Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science

On Monday, 15 May 2017, 22:55, Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:00 PM, vinod mishra wrote:

...

Dear Sir,

Nice to read your encouraging emails always, There are several questions in my mind in this regard as follows:

1. In India How many big/renowned Libraries are using ORCID compatible version of Dspace?

One can examine how MIT has added ORCID iDs to individual papers in their (huge) DSpace repository. There are many Indian librarians who have tremendous computing skills, e.g. Prof. A R D Prasad of ISI, B'lore, is not only known for computing skills but also an acknowledged expert in DSpace (right from its early days). LIS-Forum members could request him to organize a webinar on integration of ORCID with DSpace.

...

2. Librarians are taking efforts to upgrade their old and obsolete DSpace?

One does not need any external help to upgrading to the latest version of DSpace. Even if one needs, we have people like Dr Francis Jayakanth and Mr Muthu Madhan.

...

3. How many Librarians have their own ORCID ID's and they attempted to organize user education programme in their Institutes?

I do not have the statistics. But it takes only a few minutes to register with ORCID and it is absolutely free for individuals. Librarians could proactively encourage faculty and research students to register.

4. How many libraries are following the open access policy to global

...

visibility of their research output through DSpace/Eprint etc?

DST, DBT and CSIR have mandated that all publications resulting from their support must be deposited in OA repositories and CSIR-URDIP in Pune maintains national level repositories. But the compliance rate seems to be rather low. Unfortunately, the funding agencies are not taking any action.

Here is an article Madhan and I wrote on ORCID many months ago: *http://eprints.library.iisc.ernet.in/56181/ http://eprints.library.iisc.ernet.in/56181/*

Subbiah Arunachalam

...

I can say first Libraries in India needs to upgrade their technology and understand it, few peoples are keen to share their capability but more LIS professionals needs to be keen for getting the shared knowledge. We need more dedication to enhance our services which is lacking at present.

...

Above are my views only and i may be also lacking in above but always eager to share whatever i have !

With Regards,

Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/

*"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi*

...

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Friends:

At MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, ORCIDs are used now in DSpace for faculty, graduate students, postdocs & research staff so all their publications

can

...

...

be attributed to the right authors, retrieved easily and unambiguously.

Please see < http://libraries.mit.edu/news/orcids-dspace-faculty/25151/#. WRf_77gK-so.facebook

...

.

Please note that the work was done by the librarians.

This is a good model for us in India to adopt. What do you think/

Subbiah Arunachalam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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