News And Events (1st July 2006)
Seminar on:
“E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Publications”
on
1st July, 2006, Auditorium, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Vihar Lake, Mumbai
Panel discussion
Panel Members
Dr Sukhdev Singh (DSS)
Dr A S Ranade (ASR)
Ms Kanchan Patil (KP)
Ms Sudha Ganapati (SG)
Ms Chitra P Rao (CR)
ASR initiated the discussion by putting forth his views and comments.
ASR – Editor of Indian Journal of Veterinary & Monthly Vetline bulletin.
- Print version can not be replaced by e-print.
- International Publication can not be all in all for our culture.
- Our industrial journals are extremely good. Should be rated and local language.
- Enhancement of visibility of Industrial Journal.
- Suggest - we should promote, we have to make popular among our scientist.
KP – managing roles of publishers & libraries
KP next lead the discussion with her comments, views and suggestions.
- Impact of IT on pub. & libraries communicate online journals.
- Indian Journal not published in time.
- Replace difficult.
- Raising prices and constrained budget give a best solution for online journal.
- Need to have online journal for Indian.
- Shared ownership material city level consortia.
- Selection, sharing of expenses of profit.
Then we have the publisher's view point from SG.
- Lack of space or pressure to publish.
- Delayed ASR editor problems other responsibilities. Suggest - academician should be on advisory board.
- International & Indian Publications cannot be compared.
- quality control.
- Regional hub for other countries like Turkey, Hong Kong, Singapore.
- Both print and online.
- Enhance the quality we can not go to global promotion.
The librarian's views, comments and suggestions was further elaborated by CR
- Each institute should publish electronically to get better quality.
- Common platform for Indian journal.
- Liking, 35 institutes has VRL author criticize, host on common platform to larger audience.
- Aggregator marketing.
- Ease of use, search tools, 24 hrs. suggestion – Devnagari.
The discussion was chaired and proceedings narrated by DSS:
- Electronic journal cannot be print mentality.
- Indian Journal quality was not good.
- Local content.
- Suggestion advertising by professionals.
- Relationship between library & publisher.
- Ownership to accessibility.
- Important Issues publication starts and then perish, so it is difficult for author.
- From DSS observation that in Social Science, they publish books. So the articles are less in Social Science
Then the topic was opened for the question and answer sessions:
Mahindra Parikh, editor camma & Abless. Querry - when get the text & photograph. Pressing some other button. He wants flexibility to see the article comments - whether print journal will disappear. There are medical journal only electronically. Newspaper any where to read. Timeliness of the publication. Professional society Editors not full time, bother about finance. In addition hard copies from publisher.
- visibility marketing
- Print e.g. Govt. medical college and private medical college. Fund allocation shrinking e-publication will go on.
SG - responded professional publication. Sage publication 4 times more money. Better option to e-publishing.
DSS-different version of same article. Electronic pub. do provide better accessibility. Online reading not comfortable. PDF.
Mr. Greesh Behal told PDF /mb. Actual 0.01 mb. It will download first article text, chart, photograph (heavier part) article is immediately visible. Highlight open access era, online easy search and wider accessibility.
Scholarly do not allow advertising at this moment not to discuss this point.
CR talked on host journal part to part there are business journal.
His next question was how you will regulate the quality archival.
DSS clarify open access various from just like journal publication.
Self archival either publication Article or the publication to be published, Do not quality control. Traditional publication lot of copies, readers’ choice.
SG - open access site, copyright access to peerless viewed documents. Journal peerless biology, impact factor. Copyright violation - originally holds the copyright author. He has to surrender his copy to publisher. Elsevier they allow their.
If research from Govt. money then it should come in public open access. Journal publication not free for author.
Aditya’s question - right now lndia.com 7 free journals. Role of aggregation. Anil aggrawal Toxicology, journal of veterinary, fine engineers.
Librarian commerce decision of the publisher.
Veena Rangalekar from National Blind Welfare - Magazine blind welfare in house bulletin, news items. What is the possibility of hosted on lndia.com.
CR - different policy.
Mangesh Ghodke’s (Pidilite Industries) question: Since I come from an Industrial Library where hundred journals are subscribed, if our users require commercial aspects rather than articles, e.g. technical advertisements, how will you cope up with this thing?
Mr. Jaideep Gurwara replied : This can be done but we will have to see whether we want to do this. When we say we host a Journal, it means Cover to Cover publishing. However, the advertisements can be removed.
Ms Komal Ghanekar - Crisil - Business & finance proper corporate. Whatever journal available, generic port project will have multiple.
Conclusion
E-publications do help in visibility end user can search, electronic can be printed.
E-publications will not take over Print Publications.
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