Transcript What is ETD? - West Virginia University

Prof. Sumant Goel
Secretary Healthcare Trust
Prof. Of Orthodontics
JCDV Vidyapeeth-An
upcoming University
Dental School
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.
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There was no access to the unpublished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.
Today
ETD movement in India
Digital Libraries
Open source movement
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.
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.
Information War
In last few years India has gained
eminence in field of information
technology.
Some of the world’s largest IT
companies are in India.
Surprisingly benefits of IT are yet to
fully pervade our society in all relevant
sectors.
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.
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.
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 ?
There are about 1200 Engineering
colleges.
Over 200 Dental schools
About 242 Medical schools
Total of all types of colleges over 15000
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
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.
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.
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)
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'.
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 openaccess journals use government grants
and subscriptions to their print version
to cover publishing costs.
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.
Workshop on open
access Bangalore
2002
Workshop on
open access
2-8 May
2004
It’s a long ROAD, but
A Thousand mile
journey
Begins with one step
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