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DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE AWARNESS AN USER COMMUNITIES APPROACH ON WEB PORTAL TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION E- RESOURSES: A STUDY ITS IMPACT ON
 COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTERS
K. SEKAR*          Prof. Dr. V. KASI RAO**
*Asst Librarian & Ph.D. Research Scholar, AMET University, Kanathur-603 112, Chennai, India.
**Principal Documentation Officer and Head, Documentation, Retd. CSIR-CLRI, Ministry of Science   and Technology, Government of India, Adyar, Chennai-600 020, India,
ABSTRACT
                     This paper illustrated about the utilization of Open Access Resources on make it  avail to the user communities in the library and information centers. The Open Access Resources (OAR) has played an eminent role in the present E-knowledge society. The main motto of these resources is to boost up the university library and information centers an  user communities to publish innovative concepts of research articles. Innovative concept of  open access resources identity  Knowledge Access and Sharing Information for Resources Approach Objectives (KASIRAO)are in popularly in the present digital knowledge based society. The Scientific scholarly communication of open  access resources  to provide the E-resource database and free access to the end users who are in the entire worldand the  majority of university libraries have linked up the Open Access resources have set their own knowledge web portals.
Keywords: Open Access Resources (OAR), scholarly communication, Open Courseware.
1.      INTRODUCTION
            Every year we are celebrate Open Access Week from October 22 to 28. The open access resources are very essential for research scholar, faculty members in the user communities. They ensure and enrichment of  digital knowledge pandemic communities. They provide to avail make use of scholarly materials and grant license for non commercial use subject to proper acknowledge of original authors. The open access resources facilitate the library user communities to make use of scholarly resources available freely internet an open access platform such as Dspace, eprint,greenstone,ETD,and open access resources. Open access is a new business model for scholarly communication. It came into emerge largely due to the restriction imposed by scholarly information and urge for free of information for research communities. Completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, research scholars and faculties. Open access we mean its immediate free availabilities on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute and print out of these materials are those that can be accessed by anyone at any time without restraint.    
2.      THE  CONCEPT E-CONTENT: A DEFINITIONAL ANALYSIS
          “By open access, we mean its immediate, free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” (Budapest).
Open access resources are scholarly literature that is "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions." This means that the material is available without a subscription charge for anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, display and modify. A goal of open access is anyone with access to the Internet can find and use, to the fullest capacity, any open access publication. (Peter Suber)
3.      AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
                The main aims and objectives of the open access resources provide access to qualitative electronic resources is as follows:
v  To identify the open access resources
v  To find out the user of open access resources
v  To know the attitude towards open access searching
v  To identity the open repository resources
v  To find out   video and webs courses materials
v  To identify instuitional e learning study materials
4.      ADVANTAGES OF OPEN ACCESS RESROUCES
         The main advantages of open access resources are as follows: 
v  Open Access  resources enhances an impact of one's own Research  work and publish the  articles
v  Free access to scientific knowledge, information and data strengthens and  knowledge
v  Developing specialized research institutions and corporations have access to all Open Access articles.
v  Open Access articles are published sooner than articles in non-Open Access journals.
v  Open Access articles reach broader audiences than articles in non-Open Access journals.
5.      METHODOLOGY
            The data search and collected from various open access webportal contents available in the database by open access platform such as Dspace,eprint,greenstone,ETD,and open access resources,Open Access Theses Repository, Shodhganga, e-ShodhSindhu: Consortium, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
6.      DATA ANALYSIS
          The relevant data were extracted from the website and analyzed by simple calculation and ranking methods and some examples as indicated below the tabular form and figures.
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7.      OPEN ACCESS E-CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOP PROJECTS TOWARDS VIDYAMITRA
            The contribution made by top seven projects in the Vidya-Mitra database has analyzed and the same is given Table  1 and Figure 1.






TABLE: 1
E-CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOP PROJECTS
S. No
Description
No. of E- Contents
Percentage
Rank


1
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
34134
51.72 %
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      1
Top of Form


2
e-PG Pathshala
16781
23.42 %
2




3
eGyankosh
10853
18.44 %
3


4
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
1172
1.87 %
5


5
National Council of Educational Research And Training (NCERT)
361
0.58 %
6


6
National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
220
0.35  %
7


7
Vidya-Mitra
2475
3.95%
4



                                                        Total
65996
100



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                          Figure:1  E-CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS
             It is fond from the  Table  and Figure 1 that National programe on Technology Learning (NPTEL) 34134 (51.72%) has contributed large number of e-content in the Vidya-Mitra and placed in first rank among top projects.It is further fund that e-PG Pathshala has contributed 16781 (23.42%) e-contents and occupied second rank. It is also indicated that eGyankosh has contributed 10853 (18.44%) e-contents, which is followed by vidya mitra 2475 (3.95%), Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) 1172 (1.87%), National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) 361 (0.58%) and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) 220 (0.35%) e-contents, placed third, fourth, five ranks respectively.
8.      DIGITAL DIVIDE AN OPEN ACCESS THESES REPOSITORY: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS 
               The Open access resources Electronic resources are as indicated below in tables.
TABLE - 2
OPEN ACCESS  E-THESES AND DISSERTATIONS (ETDS)
Sl.No
Open Access Theses Repository
Links
1
Shodhganga
2
DART-Europe
3
LSE Theses Online
4
DSpace@Cambridge
5
NDLTD
6
e-ShodhSindhu: Consortium
http://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/
7
Open Access Theses/Dissertations
https://oatd.org/
8
http://docs.ndltd.org/dspace/
9
https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.htm
10
Open Thesis
11
Dyuthi Digital Repository
12
USU Institutional Repository
13
KrishiKosh
14
EThos: e-theses online service
15
ISIM Dissertations
16
Open AccessTheses and Dissertations
17
Shodhgangotri
18
GyanKosh- a National Digital Repository
19
BASE :  Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
20
DLIST
21
ERIC
21
India Environment Portal
http://lgimages.s3.amazonaws.com/data/imagemanager/46527/picture2.jpg
 Figure:2  USAGE OF OPEN ACCESS  E-THESES AND DISSERTATIONS (ETDS)
TABLE – 3
The Open access Electronic journals are as indicated below in table.
OPEN ACCESS E- JOURNALS

Sl.No

Open access E- Journals

Links

1
NISCAIR ONLINE PERIODICALS REPOSITORY
CSIR-NISCAIR! Full text facility is provided for all eighteen research journals viz. ALIS, BVAAP, IJBB, IJBT, IJCA, IJCB, IJCT, IJEB, IJEMS, IJFTR, IJMS, IJNPR, IJPAP, IJRSP, IJTK, JIPR, JSIR & JST. NOPR also hosts three Popular Science Magazines viz. Science Reporter (SR), Vigyan Pragati (VP) & Science Ki Duniya (SKD) and a Natural Products Repository (NPARR)
2
SPRINGEROPEN
The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals and books. Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication, and our high-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the work.
3
ELSEVIER  OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
4
SAGE OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
5
DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curate online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.



6
HIGHWIRE PRESS
The full-text science on Earth! As of 3/25/15, we are assisting in the online publication of 2,434,604 free full-text articles and 7,659,003 total articles. There are 4 sites with free trial periods, and 84 completely free sites. 163 sites have free back issues, and 346 sites.
7
HINDAWI OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
Hindawi publishes peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science. Hindawi’s journals are indexed in the leading abstracting and indexing databases, including the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, and Chemical Abstracts.
8
THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING (EURASIP) JOURNALS
The EURASIP was founded on 1 September 1978 to improve communication between groups and individuals that work within the multidisciplinary, fast growing field of Signal Processing in Europe and elsewhere, and to exchange and disseminate information in the field all over the world. The association exists to 9further the efforts of researchers by providing a learned and professional platform for dissemination and discussion of all aspects of signal processing.
9
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS (IOP) –
The IOP is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000 and is a leading communicator of physics-related science to all audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics.
10
DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE COMMONS REPOSITORY
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
11
THE ROYAL SOCIETY JOURNALS
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
12
OMICS INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
Make the best use of Researched information from 700+ peer reviewed, Open Access Journals operated by 50,000+ Editorial Board Members and esteemed reviewers and 1000+ Scientific associations in Medical, Clinical, Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Technology and Management Fields. Meet Inspiring Speakers and Experts at our 3000+ Global Conferenceseries Events with over 600+ Conferences, 1200+ Symposiums and 1200+ Workshops on Medical, Pharma, Engineering, Science, Technology and Business

13
DSpace@MIT
DSpace@MIT is a growing collection of MIT's research that includes peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, working papers, theses and more. End-user downloads of the 60,000+ items regularly exceed one million per month.


TABLE – 4
The Open access Electronic Books are as indicated below in table.
FREE E – BOOKS WEBSITES
 
Sl.No
E – Books Websites
Links
1
University of Pennsylvania -
2
Project Gothenburg - 
3
Free e books -
4
Free Tech books
5
Campus books
6
University of Virginia; e-book Library
7
NAP Open Book -
8
Internet public Library -
9
Direct Text book
10
e-books -
11
e-books Palace
12
Electronic Library of Mathematics -
13
Directory of open access books –
14
Intech Open access books -
15
arXiv e-Prints Archieve
16
Authorama Public Domain Books
17
Bartleby.com
18
Bibliomania
19
Biodiversity Heritage Library  
20
Complete Works of William Shakespear
21
Digital Library of India
22
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
23
24
Ebooks Online Library
25
The E Server
26
Free Books
27
The Free Library 
28
Great Books and Classics
29
The Internet Archive: Text Archive 
30
Internet Public Library
31
Internet Sacred Text Archive
32
Just Free Books 
33
LibriVox
34
Lit2Go






















TABLE- 5
The Open access Institutional Repositories are as indicated below in tables.

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES-WORLD WISE
Sl No.
Institutional Repositories-World
URL
1
Arxiv.org e-Print Archive
2
Social Science Research Network
3
Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System
4
Europe PubMed Central
5
Research Papers in Economics
6
CiteSeerX
7
HAL Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique Archive Ouverte
8
University of California eScholarship Repository
9
CERN Document Server
10
Virginia Tech University Digital Library and Archives
11
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.co.in/
12
OaISTER
http://www.oclc.org/oaister
    13
OARiNZ
14
NCSTRL
http://www.ncstrl.org/

TABLE- 6
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES-INDIA
Sl.No
Indian Initiatives
URL
1
Open Access Repository Publications of Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Institutional Repository
3
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Institutional Repository
4
National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository
5
Information and Library Network Centre Institutional Repository
6
National Institute of Technology Rourkela eThesis
7
OpenMed National Informatics Centre India
8
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Open Access Repository
9
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Institutional Repository
10
National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository
11
Search Digital Libraries
http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/sdl
12
MetaMED
13
Open Index Initiative 

TABLE- 7
OPEN COURSEWARE-WORLD
Sl No.
Open Courseware Initiatives
URL
1
 Open Yale Courseware
2
 MIT Open Courseware
3
 U-Now
4
Open Courseware Consortium
5
Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/
6
Udacity
7
CORE OpenCourseWare Consortium 
8
GUIDE - Global Universities in Distance Education 
9
ISSUU: OpenCourseWare Consortium 
10
Japan Opencourseware Consortium (Jocw) 
11
OCW Consortium Europe 
12
Ocw Universia Consortium 
13
Open CourseWare Consortium on Vimeo 
14
Taiwan Opencourseware Consortium 
15
GUIDE - Global Universities in Distance Education
http://www.guideassociation.org
16
ISSUU: Open Course Ware Consortium
http://issuu.com/ocwconsortium

17
 Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW)
http://www.jocw.jp/index.htm
18
OCW Consortium Europe
http://www.opencourseware.eu
19
Open CourseWare Consortium on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/ocwconsortium
20
 Ocw Universia Consortium
http://ocw.universia.net/en
21
Social Science Research Network
https://www.ssrn.com/en
TABLE- 8
OPEN COURSEWARE-INDIA
Sl.No
Indian Initiatives
URL
1
ePG Pathshala
http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
2
NPTEL
3
e-Gyankosh
4
Learning Object Repository CEC





TABLE- 9
OPEN ACCESS VIDEO LECTURES
1
LearnersTV 
2
Academic Earth 
3
Free Science Videos and Lectures /
http://www.freesciencelectures.com
4
Engineering Tube 
5
Free Lecture videos 
6
Video Lecture 

TABLE- 9
OPEN ACCESS PATENT SOURCES
Sl No.
Open Courseware Initiatives
URL
1
usPat
http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/quickSearch.do
2
Esp@cenet
http://ep.espacenet.com
3
Indian Patent Office
http://ipindiaservices.gov.in/publicsearch
4
US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

TABLE- 10
MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
Sl No.
Multimedia Resources
URL
1
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
2
Open Course Ware Consortium
3
OpenLearn
4
Open.Michigan
5
Open Yel Courses
6
World Lecture Project
9.      CONCLUSION
              Knowledge Dissemination and Knowledge Access are essential for  Digital Knowledge Awarness an User Communities Approach on Web Portal Towards Open Access Scholarly Communication E- Resourses. This kind of theme study has been found  that the E- content of open access  e-resources thereby the faculty  members, Research scholars and students use it. The research scholars were highly aware of DOAJ,NPTEL,ETD,Shodhganga and E- Shodhsindu  open access resources are tremendous increased in the all field of the scientific e- knowledge society.
10.    EFERENCES
Kasi rao, V. (2013). ICTs: Its Impact on Knowledge  Dissemination and Knowledge Access and Sharing Information for Reforms Approach Objectives(KASIRAO) in Examination and Education (2E) Patterns for Quality  of Education towards sustainable Development. International Journal of Education & Extension(IJEE),Vol.1(1),January,2013:39-42- ISSN.2278-537X.
Kasi rao, V. (2014). Innovative library services through Information and Communication Technology(ICT) Based tools: A Changing Scenario. International Journal of applied engineering research. ISSN- 0973-4562, Vol. 9(13), 2014:2001-2010.
      https://www.tue.nl
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts



arXiv e-Prints Archieve


Authorama Public Domain Books


Bartleby.com


Bibliomania


Biodiversity Heritage Library  


Complete Works of William Shakespear


Digital Library of India


Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)




Ebooks Online Library


The E Server


Free Books


The Free Library 


Great Books and Classics


The Internet Archive: Text Archive 


Internet Public Library


Internet Sacred Text Archive


Just Free Books 


LibriVox


Lit2Go


The Online Book page


OAPEN 


Oxford Text Archive


Project Gutenberg


PublicLiterature.Org: Read Books Online 


Read Print Site







TABLE- 10
RESEARCH TOOLS
Sl.No Formate Guides Available
01 APA http://content.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/apa-format/

Chicago http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

MLA http://content.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/

IEEE https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html

Harvard Referencing https://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing

Vancouver Referencing especially for subject Medicine/ Medical http://library.vcc.ca/downloads/VCC_VancouverStyleGuide.pdf

MHRA Referencing http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/quickstyleguide.html

OSCOLA Refe
rencing
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/publications/oscola
Following are free open source softwares researchers can use reference management and Citations management:
Name of the Software or Tool Description Website
Mendeley It is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. Showcase your work and assess the impact of your research https://www.mendeley.com/

Endnote Completely free, online basic reference manager – perfect for writing that first research paper http://endnote.com/

Zetero Zotero is a veteran and completely free browser based plugin that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. This tool lives right where you do your work; in the web browser itself. Whether you need to create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations, or bibliographies, Zotero will do all the dirty work for you, leaving you free to focus on your writing. Create citations in Word and OpenOffice without ever leaving your word processor and add references to an email, a Google Doc, or some other editor simply by dragging one or more references out of Zotero. The only disadvantage? Zotero doesn’t allow you to annotate a PDF document. https://www.zotero.org/

RefWorks

RefWorks is an online citation manager. One can use it to create an online list of references from your searches, to insert or paste citations into a document and to insert or produce a bibliography in a selection of styles

http://www.proquest.com/products-services/refworks.html
 for trial version


Cite This For Me It helps to create your citations, reference lists and bibliographies automatically using the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of button. Simply browse to the page you wish to cite and click the button to generate a correctly formatted citation. Then copy-paste the citation into your assignment, or add it to your online bibliography for safe keeping until later. Cite This For Me also comes with a Google Chrome extension. https://www.citethisforme.com/

RefMe Helps to create your bibliography over 7,500 reference styles, including Harvard, APA and MLA, etc https://www.refme.com/

EasyBib A great citation generator, EasyBib compiles your bibliographies and citations for you, saving you valuable time. You don’t need to create an account if you are using MLA, but Chicago or APA style citations require a paid account. EasyBib also offers an app for iOS and Android, so you can cite your sources on the go. http://www.easybib.com/

Citavi A reference manager, knowledge organization, and task planning program for Windows, published in Switzerland. The free version is limited to 100 references per project, so it is ideal for students. Is also integrates with Chrome and Word. https://www.citavi.com/en/index.html






Citefast Cite your work at APA, MLA, and Chicago without leaving the homepage in 3 easy steps. The fourth step allows you to download your bibliography; you can even save it if you create an account. Your citations will be kept as long as you keep visiting the site, but after four days of inactivity your citations will be deleted. http://www.citefast.com/

Docear An open source reference manager that is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and offers PDF metadata retrieval, free online backup of your mind maps, a monitoring function for new files (PDFs, images, etc.), and an MS-Word add on. Oh, and it also allows you to have full control over your data (no registration required). http://www.docear.org/





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Other open access Plagiarism check software available online are as below.

There are certain softwares on plagiarism is available on trial basis, I am giving certain names of the same You may try but take care while uploading pages for trial checking. Read carefully their terms and conditions of trial check.
Sl.No Description Website
01

02
https://unplag.com/free-plagiarism-checker/
03
http://www.plagscan.com/seesources/
04
http://plagiarisma.net/
05
http://www.plagtracker.com/
06
http://www.duplichecker.com/


http://elearningindustry.com/top-10-free-plagiarism-detection-tools-for-teachers




Turnitin.com,    




urkund.com,     




scanmyessay.com(viper),       















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