Prof. Sumant Goel

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ETD Efforts-India Marches Ahead

• Prof. Sumant Goel
• Secretary Healthcare Trust
• Prof. Of Orthodontics

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JCDV Vidyapeeth-An upcoming University
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Dental School
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• It is so wonderful to be here on this educational
  paradize and participate in various activities.
• I would like to thank John Hagen and his
  colleagues for having us here and giving
  opportunity to share my thoughts.

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• I am an orthodontist
• Have been teaching all my life
• When I started guiding thesis I found that
  students at other schools were not even aware
  about topics other students were researching for
  their thesis
• There was no access to the unpublished work of
  other workers.

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Today

• ETD movement in India
• Digital Libraries
• Open source movement

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Information War

• How much of our work is based on Indian research
  ? (medicine)
• Hardly any, mostly we rely only on western
  research
• Its high time we pay attention of state of our
  research.

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Information War

• This Era is the Era of Information war.
• People who are better informed will be the
  Leaders.
• If we want to be on the forefront we will have to
  learn to SHARE and work as a GROUP.

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Information War

• In last few years India has gained eminence in
  field of information technology.
• Some of the worlds largest IT companies are in
  India.
• Surprisingly benefits of IT are yet to fully
  pervade our society in all relevant sectors.

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• But it would be fair to say that India is rapidly
  changing.
• Communication has seen unprecedented growth.
• Internet is spreading very fast, broadband access
  is being given to remote areas and villages.

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Wasted Resource

• In US alone 350,000 graduate degrees are awarded
  each year, but most of these theses are not
  readily available! ?
• By making ETDs available via
• the Web for others to read, we make our
• work useful to other researchers and
• both graduate and undergraduate students
• who will study them for years to come.

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Wasted Resource

• About 3 years ago I met the chief editor of
  AJODO. When I mentioned to him about ETD he was
  quite interested but unable to understand why in
  medicine and related areas ETD implementation has
  been slow.
• Is it to do with commercial interests/ or quality
  of research/ or human nature ?

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• There are about 1200 Engineering colleges.
• Over 200 Dental schools
• About 242 Medical schools
• Total of all types of colleges over 15000

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If it is not digital it does not Exist
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ETD In India

• ETD movement in India started from year 2000
• Digital Dissertation foundation started by us and
  Vidyanidhi at Mysore by Shalini Urs
• Vidyanidhi has made better progress compared to
  medical field.
• Let us look at institutes in India adopting ETDs

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• December 2003, the Indian National Science
  Academy (INSA) held a one-day conference on
  access to scientific data and information as part
  of its annual meeting in Pune
• They discussed poor access to international
  journals and the low visibility of papers
  published by Indian scientists and the possible
  solutions offered by electronic publishing and
  open archives.

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• World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and
  Agriculture Organisation (FAO) were helping
  developing countries improve electronic access to
  expensive journals through the HINARI and AGORA
  programs, respectively.

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• Unfortunately, however, India has not benefited
  from either of these programs.
• Although journal publishers are willing to
  provide toll-free electronic access to
  researchers in countries where relatively few
  scientists read their journals, they are not
  prepared to do so in larger developing countries
  such as India (GNI 560 USD)

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• All 10 journals of the Indian Academy of
  Sciences, for example, as well as the four
  journals of INSA are open-access journals.
• In fact, INSA has already produced free-access
  electronic versions of back volumes for all its
  journals, and the Indian Academy of Sciences is
  also attempting a similar 'retro-digitization'.

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• Several Indian publishers have already adopted
  the open-access philosophy for the electronic
  versions of their journals.
• Unlike some open-access journals in other
  countries, in which authors pay to publish their
  papers, Indian open-access journals use
  government grants and subscriptions to their
  print version to cover publishing costs.

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• Medknow Publications, a small company based in
  Mumbai, has helped 10 medical journals including
  the Journal of Post Graduate Medicine and
  Neurology India make the transition from print to
  electronic open access.
• All of them are doing much better now than
  before.

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Workshop on open access Bangalore 2002
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Workshop on open access 2-8 May 2004
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Its a long ROAD, but A Thousand mile journey
Begins with one step
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