Transcript A Model for Scientific & Technical Consortium: Case Study
A Model for Scientific & Technical Consortium: Case Study of CSIR
Poornima Narayana* and I R N Goudar**
National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore – 560 017
* Deputy Head, ICAST. E-mail: [email protected]
** Head, ICAST, Email: [email protected]
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About CSIR
Largest Government funded R & D organization with a chain of 38 National Laboratories Dealing in diverse areas of knowledge Chemical, Physical, Biological, Engineering, Information Sciences > 5000 Active Researchers (>3000 PhD/MTech) Innovation/Core competency in knowledge is functionally access dependent to latest developments in S &T by CSIR scientists Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
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CSIR LICs
Well established Library and Information Centers Good IT Infrastructure with campus wide LANs and high bandwidth Internet facility Journals are the major sources of R & D information Together subscribe to >3350 foreign scholarly journals ( 2500 unique titles) Costing >Rs. 25 Crores Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
E Journals and Consortium
Print versions posing many problems - Price escalation, lack of selectivity, peer review problems , unnecessary delays Solution??? E-Publishing - But not total Librarians forced to form Subscription clubs/Consortium for E-Journals Consortium: A Strategic alliance of institutions with common interest Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Indian Scenario
CSIR – ScienceDirect (Soon for more publishers) IIM – Bibliographic databases FORSA – Some Astronomy/Astrophysics Journals INDEST – ScienceDirect, Springer, IEL, J-Gate, WOS etc.
Problems – INFLIBNET – ACS, RSC, IOP etc., RGUHS – OVID Biomedical journals Inadequate funds, single point payment, rigid administrative policies, financial/auditing rules etc.
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WHY??
CSIR E-Journals Consortium
Premier scientific agency with the largest information resources in the country CSIR libraries cumulatively spend about Rs.25-30 crores per year on books and journals Individual laboratories spend between Rs.20 -150 lakh per year on resource building Rich print sources, distributed among 38 labs, not well established DDS About 50% budget spent on duplicating, sometimes triplication titles within CSIR system.
Still not in a position to acquire all titles required Need to cope up with rest of the world in adopting IT applications.
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Earlier Attempts
Idea conceived at 1 st Bangalore in 1993 HOLIC meet at NAL, Creation of exhaustive databases in 5 major disciplines of S &T using journals of CSIR LICs (Proposal did not take off!) NAL volunteered to lead CoMSAC for 14 Bib. Databases of Aerospace/Material Sci. of CSA Attempt failed as only 3 Institutions paid out of 15 committed.
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CSIR E-Journals Consortium 1
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Proposal got the nod
Network Project under 10th Five Year Plan Budget Layout Rs. 11.79 crores for the plan period 2002 – 2007 Targeting access to 4500+ online journals NISCAIR (INSDOC + NISCOM) – Identified as Coordinator Setting up of: - Monitoring/Steering Committee - Task Force Team Nodal Officers from all labs Initial agreement with M/s. Elsevier Science Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Trial Access to Elsevier’s ‘ScienceDirect’
Around 600 titles subscribed – largest compared to other publishers 450 unique titles Cumulative expenditure around $1.2 M Trial access from January to June 2002 Access to 1,200 S & T journals Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Agreement with Elsevier
Access from June 2002 2000 base year Maintain print subscription for 2002- 2004 Certain % of the print subscriptions, access to - 1200 Titles + - 173 Academic titles (Free 1 year only) 6% CAP Making available the Usage Statistics ‘ Train the Trainer ’ program Poornima & Goudar DRTC contd...
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Agreement with Elsevier
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Back issue rights: - Minimum five years - Access to new/added titles at no extra cost Titles discontinued/merged: to provide back issue access Archival Policy: On termination/expiry, full text on prevalent formats (with state-of-art archival technology and retrieval software??) Poornima & Goudar DRTC contd … 08-10-2004
Agreement with Elsevier
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Payment: Multiple year agreement invoiced annually Advance payment with BG/LC Payment computation on pro-rate basis w.e.f date of contract entered into Tenure: Multiple year agreement automatically renewed for successive 1 year term unless either party gives notice of 1 month latest by 1 st December contd … Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Agreement with Elsevier
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Training: Six locations of 2 days duration ; licensor to bear all expenditure Usage Statistics: - Current/pervious months, cumulative for current/previous years - No. of downloads monthly and cumulatively (full text/abstract) Data both journal wise and lab wise Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Usage statistics CSIR level (Jan-Dec 2003)
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Usage statistics CSIR level (Jan-Dec 2003)
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Usage Summary CSIR level (2002 -2003)
Total Downloads - CSIR : 101393 - Engineering Labs : 8540 - NAL : 2690 No. of CSIR Labs with downloads > 1,000 – Subscribed (CSIR) Journal usage by NAL – 14 labs 338 (Out of about 450 unique titles) Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Usage Statistics: NAL
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Science Direct Advantages
Benefit of access to + 750 journals (600 total titles subscribed; 450 unique titles) by paying certain % extra above print charges Smaller LICs most beneficiaries SD being First Source made available, lead to:
Nucleate the culture of electronic access to large number of journals on the web
In the long run, catalyze the evolution of ‘Digital Libraries’
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Other Publishers: Commercial
1. BlackWell 9. Research Information Ltd 2. Cambridge University Press 10. Springer 3. Kluwer 11. Taylor & Francis 4. Marcel Dekker 12. Wiley Interscience 5. MCB University Press 13. World Scientific Publishing 6. MIT Press 7. Nature Publishing Group 8. Oxford University Press Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Society Publishers
1.American Ceramic Society 2.American Foundrymen Society 16.CRC Press 17.Electrochemical Society 3.American Geophysical Union 4.American Chemical Society 18.Geological Society of America 19.IEEE/IEE Electronic Library 5.American Institute of Chemical Engineers 20.Institute of Physics 6.American Institute of Physics 21.Institution of Mining and Metallurgy UK 7.ASTM USA 8.American Oil Chemist Society 9.American Physical Society 10.American Phytopathological Society 11.American Society of Civil Engineers 12.American Soc. of Mechanical Engineers 13.American Society of Microbiology 14.American Welding Society 15.Canadian Institute of Mining 22.National Geological Society 23.Optical Society of America 24.Royal Chemical Society 25.Royal Society of London 26.Scientific American 27.Seismological Society of America 28.Soc. for Indust. and Appl. Mathematics 29.Society of Chemical Industry UK 30.Society of Glass Technology
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General Terms and Conditions
CSIR regarded as Subscriber Publishers/Provider as Licensors In case access stopped in between for some reason the subscriber: - Get access for period/time as the breakdown OR - Deduct the proportionate amount from the fees If the publisher sells or transfers ownership to another publisher, the Licensor to provide non exclusive copy along with volumes published and make them available through publisher ’ s site.
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General Terms and Conditions
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Maintain integrity of the licensed products.
Ensure access to and use of licensed products limited to authorized users.
Not responsible for ST, VAT, License fee except for Invoice amount.
Agreed Terms/Conditions not to be altered without mutual consent.
Licensor to indemnify CSIR for losses/claims/ compensation caused by third party.
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Terms and Conditions of RFP
Access with the following options - All the journals to all the labs - All the journals to select labs - Select journals to all the labs - Select journals to select labs Access IP/User Id based Unlimited access to all users Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
Suggestions for Refinement: NAL
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Possibility 1: First Priority a. Full Text journals from Publishers covering multidisciplinary subjects (SD, Springer-Kluwer, Blackwell, Francis Taylor, etc.) b. One or two multidisciplinary bibliographic databases like WOS c. Customized gateway service e.g JCCC (J-Gate) Second Priority a
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Full text journals of one or two important publishers in 5 major disciplines (e.g. ACS titles for Chemical Sciences Labs.) b. One major bibliographic database for each of the discipline (e.g. Compendex for Engineering Labs) 08-10-2004
Suggestions
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Possibility 2 : Not all journals of all publishers for all labs.
Classify titles of all/selective publishers as: - Core for all labs - Core for selective labs (discipline wise) Negotiate accordingly with publishers and provide access. Permission for DDS among labs for the titles not available.
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Conclusions
National Consortium, the most practical solution Consortium efforts should lead to increase in productivity of scientific and research output both in quality and quantity CSIR Consortia, in future to give access to databases, patents and other documents Content creation activity in acquisition of digital contents on CD Electronic submission of theses and dissertations Integrated interface for searching all digital resources.
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Tail Piece
“Man can live individually, but can survive only collectively.
Hence, our challenge is to form a progressive community by balancing the interests of the individual and that of the society. To meet this we need to develop a value system where people accept modest sacrifices for the common good” A Quote from the Vedas Poornima & Goudar DRTC 08-10-2004
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