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Abstract:
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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. |