ICT in Science & Engineering: Library Perspective
G. Sivakumar
Computer Science and Engineering IIT Bombay
siva@iitb.ac.in
May 16, 2005
Some Observations
Tamil Proverb
What has been learned is like a fistful of sand, what remains is like the whole earth!
Solution?
Giving a scholar access only to raw information is like giving only seeds to a hungry man.
Way Forward?
If I have seen further [than others] it is by standing on the
shoulders of giants... Issac Newton
Some Observations
Tamil Proverb
What has been learned is like a fistful of sand, what remains is like the whole earth!
Solution?
Giving a scholar access only to raw information is like giving only seeds to a hungry man.
Way Forward?
If I have seen further [than others] it is by standing on the shoulders of giants... Issac Newton
How can Libraries close this gap? Are they in competion with ICT?
Some Observations
Tamil Proverb
What has been learned is like a fistful of sand, what remains is like the whole earth!
Solution?
Giving a scholar access only to raw information is like giving only seeds to a hungry man.
Way Forward?
If I have seen further [than others] it is by standing on the
shoulders of giants... Issac Newton
Information Hierarchy
How are libraries affected?
How Much Information?
Paper Vs. Digital
A tree can produce about 80,500 sheets of paper, thus it requires about 786 million trees to produce the world’s annual paper supply.
The UNESCO Statistical Handbook for 1999 estimates that paper production provides 1,510 sheets of paper per inhabitant of the world on average. ...
Moreover, today’s research relies more on global digital data collections of observatoinal, experimental or computational data
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Protein Data Bank
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Temperature/Climate Data
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Earth Sciences/Social Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/meetings/2005/LLDDC draftreport.pdf
Global Collaboration: CERN Project
How Much Information
Library of the Future?
Online Journals
Even this is costly (INDEST to the rescue?)
Open Access Journals
What is open access publishing?
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Free and unrestricted online access to the research literature and databases
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Users are licensed to download, print, copy, redistribute, and use
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Author retains copyright and the right to be acknowledged
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Papers are deposited in a public database that allows sophisticated searches (such as PubMedCentral)
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(Bethesda Principles, April 2003)
Why is open access important?
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Maximum impact for authors
access to the largest possible audience
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New ways to access and use literature
full-text searching and mining (e.g. Google Scholar)
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Greatly expanded access to research
for scientists, educators, physicians, the public Economic analysis at
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc WTD003181.html
Arxiv.org
arXiv.org is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic
standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell
University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is
also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
Digitizing Books also!
Google’s Project
Google will digitize all volumes in the University of Michigan and Stanford University library systems along with parts of research libraries at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and Oxford University in England. More information on the scope of projects at the individual institutions can be found at news.com. The project looks to be an extension of Google Print and Google Scholar, while reaching all the way back to the Stanford library digitization project where Google originated.
Europe’s Response
Nineteen European national libraries have joined forces against a
planned communications revolution by Internet search giant Google
Digitizing Books also!
Google’s Project
Google will digitize all volumes in the University of Michigan and Stanford University library systems along with parts of research libraries at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and Oxford University in England. More information on the scope of projects at the individual institutions can be found at news.com. The project looks to be an extension of Google Print and Google Scholar, while reaching all the way back to the Stanford library digitization project where Google originated.
Europe’s Response
Nineteen European national libraries have joined forces against a planned communications revolution by Internet search giant Google to create a global virtual library, organizers said Wednesday. The 19 libraries are backing instead a multi-million euro
counter-offensive by European nations to put European literature
Open Access not only for Consumers!
Wikipedia
Why no Indian Languages?
Libraries vs AmazGoogle
Modern Students demand
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Comprehensive
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Accessible
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Immediate gratification
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Followability of data
What they expect from a Library? E-learning!
Open World Catalog
Learning Spaces
MANAGEMENT Web
PRESERVATION
RE TRIEVAL
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ISSION
DSpace
an open source dynamic digital repositorySubmitter
End-user Collection
Curator
File Metadata File
archive updated to current format
Collection Item
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