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Digitalization of Scientific Information and Its
Dissemination
Krishan LalNational Physical Laboratory
New Delhi-10012and
Usha Mujoo-MunshiIndian National Science Academy
New Delhi-110002
12 Jan 2006, 16th CODATA Task Group DSAO Conference, Bangkok
Some basic facts about R&D in India
Major initiatives in digital data generation, storage, archiving and dissemination
Projects in the pipeline
Outline
R&D Infrastructure
Institutions, Manpower, and Publications
National Institutions of Importance 13
IIT’s 7
Universities 306
Deemed Universities 89
Medical Colleges 164
Engineering Colleges 880
Colleges 6500
Source: (R&D directory, NSTMIS, DST, 2001)
R&D Institutions: National Organizations, State Institutions, Universities, Private Sector ~3,000
Total Indian Journals ~ 12,000[2000 core scientific journals][2000 core scientific journals]
Technical Reports ~ 8000
Theses and Dissertations* ~ 11,500
Patents (2000-2001) Applications Filed Patents Granted Patents In-force 8387 1318 8025
Conferences ~1000
*(2001-2002)
Scientific Information Dissemination
Standards
No. of Standards in Force ~ 20,000
Unpublished Research Findings
Scientific Information Dissemination…
Books*
Total No. of Books Published in India as in 2001
S&T Social Sciences Humanities
~12,500 ~21,000 ~16,000
•Research Papers**
R&D Sec Ind. Sec S.Sc. &H
~13000 ~ 2000 ~ 5000
Scientific Information Dissemination…
*Indian Books in Print 2001 ( A bibliography of Indian Books Published in English Language)
**R& D Statistics – 2000-2001, DST. Published May 2002
Scientific Information Dissemination…
(10 Year Rankings – Top 3 Countries Viz-a-Viz India) Country Rankings among All Countries and All Fields
(10 Year Rankings – Top 3 Countries Viz-a-Viz India)
CountryResearch Papers Citations
Total Rank* Total Rank*
USA 2,758,037 1 34,345,536 1
Japan 699,840 2 4,922,468 4
Germany 632,261 3 5,802,656 3
India 184,086 13 595,627 21
*Rank among all countries in number of papers/citations
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Total Top ESI papers Viz-a-Viz India’s Contribution in10 Years Period (1994-2004)
About About 160160 billion rupees being spent annually billion rupees being spent annually on R&Don R&D
Investment in R&D Investment in R&D > 1 % > 1 % of GDPof GDP
Contributing ~ Contributing ~ 3 %3 % of the world’s publication of the world’s publication output output
India has over India has over 2000 2000 core scientific journals core scientific journals
Number of S&T personnel has been increasing Number of S&T personnel has been increasing @6%/year*@6%/year**Pursuit and Promotion of Science: The Indian Experience. Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (p74). 2001
Important Indicators
Open Access Initiatives
National Seminars and Workshops
Open Access to Scientific Data and Information
Open Access and Institutional Repositories – INSA, MS Swaminathan Foundation; Others
Open access repositories being set-up
International Collaboration INSA - signatory to Berlin Declaration on Open
AccessINSA actively participating in IAP initiatives
Institutional Initiatives
Digital Archives and Institutional E-Print Archives
Typical Examples
IISc. Bangalore (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/)
INSA (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in:9080/insa)
IIT, Mumbai http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/etd/
CSIR laboratories (e.g. National Chemical Laboratory) http://dspace.ncl.res.in/dspace/index.jsp
Some Academic Institutions
Institutional Initiatives…Institutional Repositories
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Important Data Centres,Products and
Services
National Collection of Industrial micro-organism (NCIM) (http://www.ncl-india.org/ncim/)
A national facility dedicated to isolation, preservation and distribution of authentic cultures
Indian Biodiversity informatics (http://www.ncbi.org.in)
NCL Centre for Biodiversity Informatics (NCBI) is an effort to
Collect, collate, analyze, predict and disseminate knowledge about Indian biota and its environ
Indian MEDLARS Centre : IndMED ( http://indmed.nic.in/ )
Web based Indian Biomedical database
A Bibliographic database of Indian biomedical journals
Major Indian Data Centres
National Health Information Collaboration (NHIC) (http://www.nhicindia.ernet.in/)
Info-highway for health professionals
•Health InterNetwork India (HIN India) -WHO/ ICMR project ( http://www.hin.org.in/ )
•Targeted to serve health service providers, researchers and policy makers
Development of Tele-medicine technology
Pilot project of DIT, GOI (Demonstration in Indian Pavilion, WSIS Tunis)URDIP: CSIR Unit for Research and Development for Information Products (http://www.urdip.res.in/)
Open access to Indian patents and medicinal plants, pollution technologies, CSIR rural technologies, ETD and research reports
Patent Search (http://patinfo.nic.in/ )Most comprehensive databases on the Patent Bibliography.
EPO has been receiving the bibliography of all the patents filed and granted in approximately 71 countries since 1968.
Database contains over 33 millions references from 1968 onwards
~ 3 millions references are added each year
Gateway services for open access resourcesSciGate: Science Information Portal (IISc) (http://www.ncsi.iisc.
ernet.in/ )
AeroInfo: Aerospace Virtual Library (NAL)
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Usage Statistics for patinfo.nic.inSummary Period: Last 12 MonthsGenerated 09-Nov-2005 17:23 IST
Summary by MonthMonth
Daily Avg Monthly Totals
Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
Oct 2005 5187 4055 3423 274 4536 2791593 8510 106117 125714 160801
Sep 2005 4071 2302 1674 292 8829 2505163 8783 50243 69072 122156
Aug 2005 2910 2114 1095 189 3907 3101501 5870 33957 65550 90230
Jul 2005 4012 2398 2442 598 7985 2156647 18558 75728 74340 124387
Jun 2005 4262 3362 3121 415 7050 2465122 12472 93659 100877 127874
May 2005 2396 1867 1272 194 4265 2013677 6016 39449 57882 74306
Apr 2005 2762 2188 1505 187 3713 1696031 5639 45166 65647 82867
Mar 2005 2825 2293 1659 175 3661 1682564 5449 51452 71102 87594
Feb 2005 3432 2673 2017 169 3387 1266117 4756 56481 74869 96107
Jan 2005 2706 2168 1518 154 3404 1624390 4796 47072 67225 83902
Dec 2004 2159 1777 1215 146 3305 1162534 4535 37666 55102 66945
Nov 2004 2776 2214 1907 141 2828 1261194 4231 57213 66437 83285
Totals 23726534 89615 694203 893817 1200454
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Typical Examples
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Full-text of all journals available online for Free, Unlimited & Unrestricted Access http://www.insa.ac.in
Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), - http://www.ias.ac.in
National MedIND : http://medind.nic.in/
E-Journal Portals
Digital Archiving and Information Dissemination
Digital Library of India (http://dli.ernet.in)
National Mission for Manuscripts500,000 manuscripts identified in India150,000 mauscripts from outside India
National Missions
Traditional Digital Library (TKDL) (http://203.200.90.6/tkdl/LangDefault/common/Home.asp?GL=Eng )
Documents traditional Indian knowledge of Indian health care systems, based on herbal medicines.
Dware Dware Gyan SampadaPromoted and supported by C-DAC
Vidyanidhi- a digital library initiative for digitizing and hosting theses and dissertations (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/)
Other Important Activities
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Institutions as Access Facilitators
National Level Consortia for access to digital resources
INDEST Consortia (http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/) UGC-INFONET Consortia (http://www.ugc.ac.in/new_initiatives/infonet.html) CSIR Consortia. (http://202.54.99.7/ejournal/ejournalhome1.htm) Others :(MIT/NIC/DoT)
OthersNISCAIR (CSIR) - several other databases/information services (http://www.niscair.res.in/)
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Several proposal are at the conceptual stage to promote digital archiving; content creation and information access/dissemination
National Digital Library (NDL) -DIT, GOI
National Digital Library of Learning Objects by CEC,University Grants Commission
Initiatives in the Pipeline
•North-south and south-south collaborations essential for fast growth and mutual benefit
•Need for noted international organizations like CODATA to take lead in these matters
High Potential For International Collaboration
Fairly Large resource-base
Supporting and promoting access to scientific information by creating Indigenous digital databasesE-journalsInstitutional RepositoriesDigital Libraries
Providing and facilitating access to digital resources through consortia
Not an exhaustive account
Summary
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