Sinha, Manoj Kumar(INFLIBNET Centre, November 6, 2008)
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The present paper describes about the universal access to knowledge and information in the network
and digital environment. It highlights the Open Access Declaration, Open Access Movement in India
and aboard, Open Source Software for establishing Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries
for open access. Besides this it also highlights the recommendations of the Working Groups of
National Knowledge Commission for Libraries and Open Access and Open Access Educational
Resources. Some of the national level digital library initiatives and institutional repositories have
also been listed for the benefit of the professionals. Initiatives taken by the INFLIBNET Centre ,
Ahmedabad and IISc , Bangalore and other institutions for creating Digital Libraries using Dspace
has also been described. The initiatives taken by the INFLIBNET Centre and IIT Bombay for initiating
Electronic Theses and Dissertation Project has been described in brief.
Baruah, Bobby Goswami(INFLIBNET Centre, December 7, 2007)
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The key concepts open access, open source and open standards are playing a great role today
when we talk about borderless libraries. Immense benefits and importance to libraries are being
examined. Greater benefits include lowering of cost, greater accessibility and better prospects especially
for long term preservation of scholarly works. The paper mainly discuses on the importance
and utility of the three concepts i.e. open access, open source and open standards in libraries
emerging, which has helped to widened the gap in resource sharing, making it accessible in a far
better way, limiting the expenses and above all standardizing which helps different systems to share
their resources.