PurposeThe purpose of this study is to comprehend the different concepts that are closely associated in understanding the open access journal movement. The study aims to demonstrate the methodology of compiling lists of open access journals in an academic library environment. A web‐based service of this kind in select subjects of study (knowledge domains) ensures visibility for open access literature in the scientific community.Design/methodology/approachThe study generates comprehensive lists of open access journals in mathematics and statistics, library and information science and economics. Popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! are employed to identify open access journals that are available in the above‐mentioned areas. Some open access platforms such as DOAJ, Open J‐gate and EMIS are also identified as popular source for open access journals.FindingsResearch findings indicate that there are quite a number of sources that provide access to open access journals, and they are scattered across the internet. The journal home page is the most authentic source for accessing the full‐text articles at any given time. DOAJ and Open J‐gate have been identified as the next two popular platforms from where open access journals can be accessed.Practical implicationsThe study signifies the usefulness of a one‐stop platform for accessing open access journals in a specific subject. Since they are free by virtue of being open source, they can be accessed by anyone from any part of the world, irrespective of geographical barriers.Originality/valueThis study acts as a guide for librarians to initiate an easy‐to‐provide web‐based service to users.
Purpose -Facets of digital data dissemination, namely RRI Digital repository and Imprints collection, are two methods in which science communication can happen in the digital world. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the design, novelty and functionality of these facets as an archive, comprising a collage of profiles and publications of RRIians whose imprints on the sands of time have been culled and collated for posterity. Design/methodology/approach -RRI Digital repository makes use of DSpace to preserve and showcase the research papers in text format, audio/video of lectures and images. Imprints collection is designed using Dreamweaver software. Images are uploaded using Jalbum.net software. Findings -DSpace, an open source software meant for managing digital assets can be used as a platform to develop a modern genre of data dissemination. An example to this end is the Imprints collection, a bio-bibliographic database with many valuable additions showcasing the digital scholarship of an institute with archival value. Practical implications -Practical implications of both RRI digital repository and imprints collection is to act as support service to enhance the creativity and collaboration among scientists of the institute within and across different research institutes in the country and across the world. Further, ResearcherID embedded in the profile pages of scientists helps scientometricians in citation analysis. Originality/value -Novelty associated with imprints collection in science communication using DSpace data is the strength of this tool. This is a unique style of digital data dissemination with supporting links between authors, their persona, their papers, lectures and photographs.
Abstract. The advent of the Internet and the mushrooming of information in various digital formats have resulted in looking at the library and its services with newer perspectives for conserving and disseminating scholarly publications. This paper discusses two mechanisms of digitization initiated at Raman Research Institute (RRI) in India, namely 1) the Digital Repository of RRI and 2) the Imprints Collection. The digital repository of RRI is the institutional repository built in 2006 to bring visibility to the scholarly publications of its founder Sir C V Raman. This paper discusses a decade long experience in building and sustaining an institutional repository. A value addition to this repository is the "Imprints Collection"-a bio-bibliographic database of retired scientists of RRI. The design and functionality of the Imprints Collection are also discussed in this paper.
S. K. Pottekkat has been the most influential travel writer in Malayalam for many generations of Malayali readers. His travels in Africa in the year 1949-50, recorded in five travelogues beginning with the midtwentieth century Kappirikalude Nattil, have inspired generations of Malayalis to follow suit and pursue the African dream. This is much more pronounced in the case of well-known Malayali writers whose attempts to write about Africa have inevitably involved a "writing back" to Pottekkat. In this paper, I analyze the African travelogues of two such writers -Tatapuram Sukumaran's African Poorvadeshangalil in 1986 about his trip to Tanzania and Paul Zacharia's Oru African Yatra( 2005) about his travels from South Africa to Egypt in 2000. Sukumaran is hailed by the Malayali diaspora as the first Malayali writer after Pottekkat to visit the country while the writer-journalist Zacharia is on a self-proclaimed mission "to seek out the present-day form of that Africa which Pottekkat found 54 years ago". Unsurprisingly, the major part of his journeys is undertaken through the well-trodden paths taken by Pottekkat who himself was inspired by the celebrated travel accounts of Livingstone and Stanley. In this paper, I intend to explore how these two writers writing about Africa in the humungous literary shadow of Pottekkat negotiate his African legacy in the Malayali literary imaginary. How far does the "anxiety of influence" of Pottekkat's picture of Africa, which was colonial and Eurocentric, impinge on these writers who are trying to represent postcolonial Africa for a different audience in a different time? What are the strategies they adopt to create a distinct voice? These questions, in turn, lead to larger questions about how each tenderfoot traveller's gaze is mediated by the verisimilar lens of existing discourses as well as by the horizon of expectations of his/her reading public brought up on these canonical narratives.
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