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27 Jul 2011

Most Indian Bio-Medical Journals with Top Impact Factors are Open Access Journals

Few days back I got an email giving latest (2010) Impact Factors for Indian Journals according to JCR. I selected Bio-Medical Journals out of these and ranked them according to their Impact Factors.

Journal

ISSN

IF (2010)

Access Type

J BIOSCIENCES

0250-5991

1.888

Open

INDIAN J MED RES

0971-5916

1.826

Open

J POSTGRAD MED

0022-3859

1.589

Open

J GENET

0022-1333

1.338

Open

INDIAN J VIROL

0970-2822

1.133

Closed

ANN THORAC MED

1817-1737

1.06

Open

INDIAN J MED MICROBI

0255-0857

1.006

Open

INDIAN J MICROBIOL

0046-8991

0.938

Closed

INDIAN J DERMATOL VE

0378-6323

0.932

Open

INDIAN PEDIATR

0019-6061

0.9

Open

NEUROL INDIA

0028-3886

0.834

Open

INDIAN J OPHTHALMOL

0301-4738

0.827

Open

J CANCER RES THER

0973-1482

0.825

Open

ALLELOPATHY J

0971-4693

0.635

Closed

INDIAN J PATHOL MICR

0377-4929

0.57

Open

NATL MED J INDIA

0970-258X

0.541

Open

INT J DIABETES DEV C

0973-3930

0.509

Closed

INDIAN J PEDIATR

0019-5456

0.502

Closed

INDIAN J PHARM SCI

0250-474X

0.455

Open

PHARMACOGN MAG

0973-1296

0.432

Open

ANN INDIAN ACAD NEUR

0972-2327

0.415

Open

INDIAN J PHARMACOL

0253-7613

0.303

Open

INDIAN J ORTHOP

0019-5413

0.285

Open

INDIAN J PHARM EDUC

0019-5464

0.163

Open

Contrary to the common myth that open access journals lack quality - the top journals, as can be seen from above table, are Open Access Journals.

10 Sept 2010

Venturing into DSpace

After using EPrints for a repository that has earned me a bit of fame among Indian LIS professionals, I am now venturing into DSpace. Well this does not imply my preference to either of these.

So, the news is that I managed to install DSpace (1.6.2) on a RHEL 5 box.

Well, to admit, it was not smooth. However the following did helped me:

I got struck at two places. First it was problem with 'xml-commons-apis'. It was missing. When I installed it by

'yum install xml-commons-apis', Yum automatically removed Sun Java. I had to re-install Sun Java. Second time I got struck with 'ant fresh_install'. The problem was with

Downloading http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

The server was not able to download GeoLiteCity.dat.qz file. I had to cheat 'ant fresh_install' by downloading the file from alternative location and placing it on my server and then tweaking the installation script.

Now finally the DSpace 1.6.2 is working for me. But, I have yet started.

28 Jan 2010

Where do Indian Open Access Repositories stand in world ranking?

January 2010 Edition of the "The Ranking Web of World repositories" is now available. Cybermetrics Lab has been bringing out such ranking of open access repositories for past few years.

Ranking of Indian Repositories in top 400 world's repositories is given below:

82 - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore ePrints

148 - Openmed

180 - Indian Statistical Institute Digital Library

218 - Indian Institute of Astrophysics Dspace

245 - National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository

278 - Raman Research Institute Digital Repository

370 - National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository

Visibility occupies more weight in their methodology as compared to number of documents in repository.



So, how does India score - Good, bad or just OK?

23 Nov 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Found this on SlideShare.

18 Nov 2009

Text Translation on Google Translate

Google Translate is a tool that allows you to translate text, documents and webpages between over 50 languages.

13 Oct 2009

Handwriting fonts.

Was wondering how people make PPT slides with handwritten fonts. Then I came across this useful post on Rapid eLearning Blog - "Over 100 Free Handwritten Fonts". I am yet to try fontcapture.com to create a font for my own handwriting. Anyway, there are few common handwritten fonts readily available from other sources.

in reference to:

"Over 100 Free Handwritten Fonts"
- Over 100 Free Handwritten Fonts » The Rapid eLearning Blog (view on Google Sidewiki)

27 Sept 2009

Why Libraries should use and adopt Open Source Software?

I am just back from 12th NATIONAL CONVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE, LIBRARY AND INFORMATION NETWORKING (NACLIN 2009) of DELNET. There, I argued that Open Source Software is best candidate for being used in Libraries. Both Library as well as Open Source Communities have similar ideologies. Computing history has shown us that both hardware and software have very short life span. They tend to get obsolete in no time when compared to Libraries - which are long term entities. Open Source software is a community effort. Thus there would be someone from community to take place of original developers in case they leave the project. Using Open Source Software is as good as legally owning it. Even libraries can sponsor further development. Thus it is worth to use and adopt open source software for long-term gains and continuity.



15 May 2009

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) Wiki

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) Wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

Pazpar2

Pazpar2 is a metasearching middleware webservice featuring merging, relevance ranking, record sorting, and faceted results.

11 May 2009

Twitter Hindi Reference

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21 Apr 2009

24 new features planned for the next release of EPrints

Leslie Carr in his post EPrints and its Development talks about new features planned for the next release of EPrints.

Access to the scientific literature in India

A paper Access to the scientific literature in India uses an evidence-based approach to assess the difficulties faced by developing country scientists in accessing the scientific literature. According to this paper Indian scientists have shorter references lists; they are more likely to cite articles from open access journals and are less likely to cite articles from expensive journals.