1. The Open Ecosystem
Issues and challenges for Institutional Repositories
H Anil Kumar
Librarian, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
INFLIBNET, January 31, 2014

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IR@VSL
The Ecosystem of OA
Why we need IRs?
Importance of IRs
Issues and Challenges
Suggestions on Shodhganga and way forward

3. IR in 2010

4. After 3 years…

5. Technical Details
Earlier
Currently
Dspace 1.5.1 (later to 1.8.1)
DSpace : 3.2
Operating System: Fedora
Java: 1.5.
Maven: 2.0.8
Ant: 1.6.2
Apache Tomcat: 6.0
PostgreSQL: 8.1
Operating System: CentOS
Java : 1.7.0_45
Maven : 3.1.1
Ant : 1.9.2
Apache Tomcat : 7.0.47
PostgreSQL : 9.3
• Migration issues
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Existing backup of database
Customized files (layout, email etc)
Metadata
Cron job

6. Repository Contents
Full Text Resources
Bibliography Only
Thesis and Dissertation (291)
Books (480)
Working Papers (2028)
Book Chapters (875)
Annual Reports (48)
Journal /Magazine articles (2629)
News Paper Clippings (195)
Monographs (388)
Conference Proceedings (130)
Research Projects (855)
Video Archives (1)
Cases and notes (2262)
Student Projects (0)
Newspaper Articles [749]
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Thesis and
Dissertation
Working Papers
Conference
Proceedings
IIMA Publications

7. Discovery Search

8. Metadata customization

15. Video Archives

18. Future Plan
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Up gradation to New Version (4.0)
Video Archives
Individual Author Page
Harvesting data from other IIMs
Student Projects

19. The Ecosystem of OA
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Open Society
Open Government
Open Institutions
Open Access
Open Data
Open Source
Open Scholarship
Open Publishing
Open Peer Review
Open Education
Open Talent

20. www.opensocietyfoundations.org/

21. www.opengovpartnership.org

22. http://www.openscholarship.org

23. okfn.org/opendata/

25. https://index.okfn.org/

29. http://www.openscholar.org.uk/open-peer-review/

31. http://www.peerageofscience.org/

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The proportion of the UK’s total annual research
output that was available through open access in
2012 was about 40%, compared to a worldwide
average of 20%.
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The latest data from the UK Open Access
Implementation Group shows that 35% of the UK’s
total research outputs are freely provided through
Green, through an existing network of more than
200 active institutional and disciplinary repositories
• Inevitable
• All agree that it is needed but….funding!
• Unsustainable subs

35. Serials expenditures have been rising at approximately
triple the rate of the consumer price index over this time

36. Current business model in the
scholarly publishing
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Currently, public funds are used three times in the research process
– to pay the academics who conduct the research
– to pay the salaries of the academics who conduct the peer review process
– to pay for access to this research through institutional journal subscriptions
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UK HE libraries
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Are we being charged more or less than another – No idea
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More than £150m subscriptions annually
Yet cannot afford to access all the research that is needed
The power to negotiate is driven down
There is mounting concern that the financial benefits from the Government’s
substantial investment in research are being diverted to an excessive degree into
the pockets of publishers’ shareholders.

42. Why do we need IRs?
• Archiving Need
• Current emphasis on research
(doctoral, publishing, etc)
• Cost of accessing other research
• Improve quality of our research
• Access a credible network of Indian
researchers and their research

43. Why is it important?
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Showcasing academics
Overall improvement of academic culture
Facilitates Collaboration
Transparency of outcomes
Better Ranking of institution
Facilitates evaluation of collections
Demand for ‘India Context’ research
Changing metrics of impact or use of research

44. Issues and challenges
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Technology
Preservation
Impact on scholarship
Content: Data vs Analysis
Institutional and National Policies
Discoverability and search
Integration with other resources
Copyright
Metrics of usage

45. Suggestions on Shodhganga

54. Language

57. The Next Steps
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Populating the repository with more Content
Search, discovery and Usability
– Integrating different formats, Conversion to formats, Data in excel
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Sharing
– Referencing, Book marking, Lists
– Social media linkages
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Value adds
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Networking and collaboration
Researcher ID - unique
Research topics, trends, etc
Metrics – usage
Videos of Defense
Publishing
Tutorials on how to upload / search, etc
Current Ongoing Research Expertise (CORE) – current doctoral scholars
Bank of Indian Research Data (BIRD)
Next level – taking Shodhganga to the World
– Jstor???Proquest???

58. THANKS
anilkumar@iimahd.ernet.in