Scholarly Communication in a Digital
World: the Role of the Digital Repository
at the Raman Research Institute
Girija Srinivasan, Y.M. Patil and Jacob Rajan
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital
Libraries (ICSD
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2007), February 21
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23, 2007,
Bangalore.
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Birth of the RRI Digital
Repository
We have a large collection of newspaper
clippings about Raman dating back to the
1930s.
We have a complete set of all RRI papers in
the pdf format from 1971.
We were keen to make all these documents
accessible not only on our Intranet but also
on the Internet. This way we could also
support the Open
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Access movement
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RRI Digital Repository
–
some
milestones
April 2005
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Test installation of DSpace
July 2005
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Dedicated server
March 2006
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The repository was
launched on the internet
Registered with OAISTER and ROAR
soon after.
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Current Configuration of the RRI
Digital Repository
As on 20
th
February 2007
Home URL:
http://dspace.rri.res.in/
IR Software: Dspace Version 1.3.2
Software: CentOS 4.0 Linux,
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9,
Apache Ant 1.6.5,
PostgreSQL 8.0.0,
Sun Java JDK 1.5.0_01
Server: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 1GB RAM,
160GB SATA Mirrored Hard disks
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Policies & Guidelines
Ours will be an
Omnibus Repository
containing different types of documents.
Any faculty member or student of RRI may
submit/post documents.
But to start with, the project team (which
comprises all the library staff) will add the
documents to the repository after
checking copyright clearance, correct
format & metadata.
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Policies & Guidelines
(contd)
We will provide open access to the full
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text of
papers (in the permitted format) wherever
possible.
Where this is not possible, we will restrict access
to the full
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text and make only the bibliographic
details available. If possible, we will also provide
a link to an alternative location, e.g. on a
publisher
’
s site.
In case an open
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access version is available at
arXiv.org or at any other website, we will give a
link to it in the alternative location.
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Content Development: the
Biggest Challenge
At RRI,
we have used the following
strategies to develop content.
1.
General promotional activities
2.
Mediated depositing services
3.
Content harvesting
4.
Usage information
5.
Self
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archiving policies
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1.
General promotional activities
Personal interaction with several faculty
and members of library committee.
Announcement through email and
notice boards in RRI.
Online information is made available on
the repository homepage.
Periodic emails about the progress
made.
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2. Mediated Deposit
At RRI, almost the entire content has been
added by the project team on behalf of the
authors
First to be added were the newspaper
clippings
Next, papers whose publishers gave
permission to host the published pdfs (Indian
Academy of Sciences, American Physical
Society, American Institute of Physics, IEEE)
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3. Content Harvesting
Searching for articles which are already
open
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access in the web and adding them to
the repository e.g.
Authors
’
personal web pages
Publisher
’
s websites
NASA ADS
arXiv.org
Even if we don
’
t have permission to host these
articles on our repository, we have linked to the
above alternative locations.
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4. Usage/citation Information
Statistics are available on our repository
page
We have future plans to implement the
University of Minho statistics add
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on
for more user
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friendly statistics
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5. Self
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archiving policies
Many RRI authors have been following
the self
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archiving tradition established in
the fields of physics and astronomy by
depositing their papers in arXiv.org.
The earliest open
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access RRI paper in
arXiv.org is dated 1995!
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Conclusions
It supports the open access movement and
plays a vital role in the scholarly
communication process;
It collects and preserves all the publications
of the institute in a central place;
It adds one more dimension to the
information services provided by the library.
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