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Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University

Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University

Dimple Patel, Deepti Thakur
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 32
ISBN13: 9781522516972|ISBN10: 1522516972|EISBN13: 9781522516989
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1697-2.ch011
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Patel, Dimple, and Deepti Thakur. "Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University." Scholarly Communication and the Publish or Perish Pressures of Academia, edited by Achala Munigal, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 224-255. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1697-2.ch011

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Patel, D. & Thakur, D. (2017). Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University. In A. Munigal (Ed.), Scholarly Communication and the Publish or Perish Pressures of Academia (pp. 224-255). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1697-2.ch011

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Patel, Dimple, and Deepti Thakur. "Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University." In Scholarly Communication and the Publish or Perish Pressures of Academia, edited by Achala Munigal, 224-255. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1697-2.ch011

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Abstract

Open Access (OA) to scholarly information has now become a reality. Due to the efforts of OA supporters worldwide now even commercial publishers have started supporting open access to their content through various open access models. Many public institutions like universities and R&D Labs have realized the importance of OA in developing the society in general. As a result, these institutions have come up with OA repositories, archives and libraries. As with any such proliferation of information, OA resources have increased manifold and can easily overwhelm even an experienced user. Also different repositories may use various digital library software, which presents the problem of multifarious search interfaces and features. The solution can be found in the open community of open source software and open standards. The open source metadata harvesting software PKP-OHS and the open protocol for metadata harvesting i.e. OAI-PMH come to the rescue. This chapter discusses how PKP-OHS was implemented as a pilot study at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP).

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