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user profile system. NCSI is also maintaining the Institute's theses and dissertations repository, 81 metadata harvesting service for the OAI-compliant institutional repositories in India, 82 and the science information portal. 83 Francis Jayakanth National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Email: franc@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [ROAR, however, gives a birth date of 5 April 2004]. He also wrote two of the early papers on open access from India. 84 The year 2004 also saw the birth of three other Indian repositories: Librarians Digital Library, the first DSpace-based repository of India; and the repositories of National Aerospace Laboratories and Indian Institute of Astrophysics. All four repositories are in Bangalore, the city known for the abundance of scientific institutions. In late December 2003, a special session on open access was organized as part of the Annual General Meeting of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), held at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, where among others both Subbiah Arunachalam and D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications spoke. 85 Following this event, Prof. M S Valiathan, the then president of INSA, signed the Berlin declaration and persuaded the Fellows of the Academy to make its ‘proceedings’ open access. The Indian Medlars Centre, a joint effort of ICMR and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) commenced hosting open access versions of many Indian medical journals in 2003. Most of them are published by professional societies. Currently, the number is 40 [See Box 4, Open Access Versions of Indian Medical Journals hosted by Indian Medlars Centre, NIC]. 81 http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. 82 http://casin.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/oai 83 http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. 84 Rajashekar TB (2003), Open Access Initiatives in India. International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, 10 – 11 March 2003, Paris, France, in Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium, The National Academies Press, Washington D.C., 2004, 154-157; http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309091454&page=154, and Rajashekar TB (2003), Improving the Visibility of Indian research: An Institutional, Open Access Publishing Model. Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Interoperability, Washington D.C., June 23 – 25, 2003; www.pitt.edu/~super7/28011-29001/28821.ppt; http://ncsinet.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/gsdl/collect/drtbrara/index/assoc/HASHbfb0.dir/doc.pdf 85 Arunachalam S (2003), India's March towards Open Access, SciDev.Net; http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/indias-march-towards-open-access.html. Page | 32
Box 4, Open Access Versions of Indian Medical Journals hosted by Indian Medlars Centre, NIC No. Journal 1 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia 2 Endodontology 3 Health Administrator 4 Health and Population: Perspectives and Issues 5 Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine 6 Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology 7 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia 8 Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences 9 Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry 10 Indian Journal of Community Medicine 11 Indian Journal of Gastroenterology 12 Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology 13 Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 14 Indian Journal of Medical Research 15 Indian Journal of Nephrology 16 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine 17 Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental Medicine 18 Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck 20 Surgery 21 Indian Journal of Pediatrics 22 Indian Journal of Pharmacology 23 Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine 24 Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 25 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 26 Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 27 Indian Journal of Tuberculosis 28 Indian Pediatrics 29 J.K. Practitioner 30 Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine 31 Journal of Family Welfare 32 Journal of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology 33 Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine 34 Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association 35 Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India 36 Journal of The Anatomical Society of India 37 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons Page | 33
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