Sukhdev in Web Land

Most Indian Bio-Medical Journals with Top Impact Factors are Open Access Journals

2011-07-27T13:04:00.003+05:30

Few days back I got an email giving latest (2010) Impact Factors for Indian Journals according to JCR. I selected Bio-Medical Journals out of these and ranked them according to their Impact Factors.

Journal	ISSN	IF (2010)	Access Type
J BIOSCIENCES	0250-5991	1.888	Open
INDIAN J MED RES	0971-5916	1.826	Open
J POSTGRAD MED	0022-3859	1.589	Open
J GENET	0022-1333	1.338	Open
INDIAN J VIROL	0970-2822	1.133	Closed
ANN THORAC MED	1817-1737	1.06	Open
INDIAN J MED MICROBI	0255-0857	1.006	Open
INDIAN J MICROBIOL	0046-8991	0.938	Closed
INDIAN J DERMATOL VE	0378-6323	0.932	Open
INDIAN PEDIATR	0019-6061	0.9	Open
NEUROL INDIA	0028-3886	0.834	Open
INDIAN J OPHTHALMOL	0301-4738	0.827	Open
J CANCER RES THER	0973-1482	0.825	Open
ALLELOPATHY J	0971-4693	0.635	Closed
INDIAN J PATHOL MICR	0377-4929	0.57	Open
NATL MED J INDIA	0970-258X	0.541	Open
INT J DIABETES DEV C	0973-3930	0.509	Closed
INDIAN J PEDIATR	0019-5456	0.502	Closed
INDIAN J PHARM SCI	0250-474X	0.455	Open
PHARMACOGN MAG	0973-1296	0.432	Open
ANN INDIAN ACAD NEUR	0972-2327	0.415	Open
INDIAN J PHARMACOL	0253-7613	0.303	Open
INDIAN J ORTHOP	0019-5413	0.285	Open
INDIAN J PHARM EDUC	0019-5464	0.163	Open

Contrary to the common myth that open access journals lack quality - the top journals, as can be seen from above table, are Open Access Journals.

Venturing into DSpace

2010-09-10T17:54:00.002+05:30

After using EPrints for a repository that has earned me a bit of fame among Indian LIS professionals, I am now venturing into DSpace. Well this does not imply my preference to either of these.

So, the news is that I managed to install DSpace (1.6.2) on a RHEL 5 box.

Well, to admit, it was not smooth. However the following did helped me:

DSpace Installation (Manual) in Redhat Linux
AN ALMOST IDIOT'S GUIDE TO INSTALL AND UPGRADE TO POSTGRESQL 8.4 WITH YUM
Howto Install Sun Java (JDK, JRE) on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat

JDK Installation

DSpace 1.5.2 installation procedure on CentOS 5.3
Installing DSpace on CentOS 5
Apache virtual hosting with Tomcat and mod_jk

I got struck at two places. First it was problem with 'xml-commons-apis'. It was missing. When I installed it by
'yum install xml-commons-apis', Yum automatically removed Sun Java. I had to re-install Sun Java. Second time I got struck with 'ant fresh_install'. The problem was with

Downloading http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

The server was not able to download GeoLiteCity.dat.qz file. I had to cheat 'ant fresh_install' by downloading the file from alternative location and placing it on my server and then tweaking the installation script.
Now finally the DSpace 1.6.2 is working for me. But, I have yet started.

Where do Indian Open Access Repositories stand in world ranking?

2010-01-28T13:30:00.003+05:30

January 2010 Edition of the "The Ranking Web of World repositories" is now available. Cybermetrics Lab has been bringing out such ranking of open access repositories for past few years.

Ranking of Indian Repositories in top 400 world's repositories is given below:

82 - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore ePrints

148 - Openmed

180 - Indian Statistical Institute Digital Library

218 - Indian Institute of Astrophysics Dspace

245 - National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository

278 - Raman Research Institute Digital Repository

370 - National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository

Visibility occupies more weight in their methodology as compared to number of documents in repository.

So, how does India score - Good, bad or just OK?

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

2009-11-23T15:51:00.001+05:30

Found this on SlideShare.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

View more documents from Jane Hart.

Text Translation on Google Translate

2009-11-18T10:32:00.002+05:30

Google Translate is a tool that allows you to translate text, documents and webpages between over 50 languages.

Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging 21st Century Learning Through Participatory School Librarianship

2009-11-13T14:01:00.001+05:30

Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging 21st Century Learning Through Participatory School Librarianship

View more presentations from Buffy Hamilton.

Handwriting fonts.

2009-10-13T16:13:00.003+05:30

Was wondering how people make PPT slides with handwritten fonts. Then I came across this useful post on Rapid eLearning Blog - "Over 100 Free Handwritten Fonts". I am yet to try fontcapture.com to create a font for my own handwriting. Anyway, there are few common handwritten fonts readily available from other sources.

in reference to:

"Over 100 Free Handwritten Fonts"
- Over 100 Free Handwritten Fonts » The Rapid eLearning Blog (view on Google Sidewiki)

YouTube Video: Social Media Revolution

2009-10-12T15:09:00.001+05:30

A writeup on limitations of Google Scholar for academic citing.

2009-09-29T17:33:00.001+05:30

Newswire Analysis: Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems - 9/24/2009 - Library Journal

Via Mallikarjun Dora on Lis-Forum

Why Libraries should use and adopt Open Source Software?

2009-09-27T16:37:00.003+05:30

I am just back from 12^th NATIONAL CONVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE, LIBRARY AND INFORMATION NETWORKING (NACLIN 2009) of DELNET. There, I argued that Open Source Software is best candidate for being used in Libraries. Both Library as well as Open Source Communities have similar ideologies. Computing history has shown us that both hardware and software have very short life span. They tend to get obsolete in no time when compared to Libraries - which are long term entities. Open Source software is a community effort. Thus there would be someone from community to take place of original developers in case they leave the project. Using Open Source Software is as good as legally owning it. Even libraries can sponsor further development. Thus it is worth to use and adopt open source software for long-term gains and continuity.

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) Wiki

2009-05-15T14:56:00.000+05:30

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) Wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

Pazpar2

2009-05-15T14:52:00.000+05:30

Pazpar2 is a metasearching middleware webservice featuring merging, relevance ranking, record sorting, and faceted results.

Twitter Hindi Reference

2009-05-11T17:28:00.000+05:30

Twitter:
`Chidiyaghar` ya phir `Chahchahati Bahar`

Tweet:
Chahchahana

Tweetup:
Chahchahata Milan

VT:
Yeh Bapu ne bola hai. VT bole toh Vaapis Tweet

Trending Topics:
Ubharta Vishay

Hashtag:
Soochak Shabd

LOLZ:
MKH=Mogambo Khush Hua(Ho Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha)

ROTFL:
MLLKH=Mogambo Lot Lot ke Khush Hua

Via Jai Hind: Proud to be an Indian in 'Twitter Hindi Diwas'

24 new features planned for the next release of EPrints

2009-04-21T15:42:00.000+05:30

Leslie Carr in his post EPrints and its Development talks about new features planned for the next release of EPrints.

Access to the scientific literature in India

2009-04-21T14:54:00.000+05:30

A paper Access to the scientific literature in India uses an evidence-based approach to assess the difficulties faced by developing country scientists in accessing the scientific literature. According to this paper Indian scientists have shorter references lists; they are more likely to cite articles from open access journals and are less likely to cite articles from expensive journals.

Evolution of Librarianship in ICE age.

2009-04-15T15:43:00.002+05:30

Who, Why & How We Serve: The Evolution of Collaborative Librarianship Through Social Media

View more presentations from Health sciences Libraries.

It talks about how librarianship is changing in this era of WEB 2.0 / Social Web. Hope all of us can fellow the evolution path indicated in the presentation.

Repositories Support Project (RSP)

2009-04-03T17:14:00.001+05:30

Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a useful resource to guide establishing, maintaining and promoting Open Access repositories.

New Launch: Open Access Solutions

2009-04-03T16:54:00.002+05:30

OPENACCESSSOLUTIONS.COM may be of interest for those who wish to edit, publish and electronically distribute a highly professional OA journal, yet remain independent.

VTLS Announces the Release of VITAL 4.0

2009-03-12T10:36:00.000+05:30

Release of VITAL 4.0

VITAL is VTLS' solution for today's digital and institutional repositories. Designed to provide all functions of a repository VITAL provides capabilities to ingest, create, maintain, validate, uniquely identify, secure, preserve and export the contents of institutional collections.

Video on XAMPP - Install Apache, PHP, MySQL without fuss

2009-03-09T16:55:00.002+05:30

If you want to try out an Open Source Software that requires LAMP (Linux, Apache, MyQSL and PHP / Perl), here is a simple solution. You don't have to run to a Linux Box. You can try and play with it on your Windows desktop itself. There is a packaged software that will install required files of Apache, MyQSL and PHP / Perl on your windows desktop. It is called XAMPP.

Here is a video that will help in installing this wonderful package.

Recent article cautioning over-reliance on Impact Factors

2009-02-18T14:03:00.001+05:30

Here is yet another article cautioning over reliance on Impact Factors for measuring research impact.

[0902.2183] A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures

..scientific impact is a multi-dimensional construct that can not be adequately measured by any single indicator, although some measures are more suitable than others. The commonly used citation Impact Factor is not positioned at the core of this construct, but at its periphery, and should thus be used with caution..

Open Source for Libraries

2009-02-10T12:53:00.003+05:30

Good presentation on Open Source Softwares and issues associated with Open Source model. Surveys few Open Source Softwares that can be used in Libraries. Remember, there are many more.

Open Source for Libraries

View more presentations from Nicole Engard. (tags: opensource open)

novo|seek

2009-02-09T11:06:00.000+05:30

novo|seek is an another search engine for PubMed. It claims to retrieve more relevant references with ability to fine tune search query.

RSS and Libraries

2009-02-03T16:12:00.000+05:30

RSS and Its Use In Libraries

View more presentations from Sukhdev Singh. (tags: rss libraries)

Ranking of Indian Repositories

2009-01-30T23:51:00.001+05:30

Ranking of Indian Repositories based on Ranking of Web of World Repositories, January 2009 Edition.

World Ranking among all types of Repositories

38 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore ePrints
105 Indian Statistical Institute Digital Library
119 OpenMED@NIC
208 Indian Institute of Astrophysics Dspace
212 Raman Research Institute Digital Repository
234 National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository

World Ranking among Institutional Repositories