Forwarded from Digial Opportunity Channel:
Bio-medical open archive at National Informatics Centre
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/125039/1/1138>
Self-Archiving is an important model of the Open Access
movement. National Informatics Centre has been providing various
services and products to the biomedical community. Building up a
Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied sciences was
a natural extension of these activities.
To make this repository interoperable with other such repositories
Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
was adopted. The selection of suitable software for the archive was
done from OAI-PMH compatible softwares.
GNU EPrints was finally selected. A prototype was build for planning
of activities, demonstration and checking security aspects. To provide
subject-wise browse view to the archive a MeSH based categorization
was adopted. A dedicated server was procured and installed in the NIC
Network Domain under RedHat Advanced Server Version 3.0. EPrints
software was then installed and customized. Making scientists
and authors aware of Open Access and its benefits remains a major
challenge for any such attempt. However efforts are bearing fruits
in the form of Open Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and
Allied Sciences i.e. OpenMED_at_NIC [
http://openmed.nic.in].
More:
http://openmed.nic.in/1108/
Received on Tue Jan 03 2006 - 14:08:35 GMT