Open Access Books
- Indian digitization initiatives of centuries old manuscripts
These are:
- Kalasampada: Digital Library Resource for Indian Cultural Heritage (DL-RICH)[http://www.ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm]
- National Databank on Indian Art and Culture [http://www.ignca.nic.in/ndb_0001.htm]
- Kritisampada : National Database of Manuscripts by National Mission for Manuscripts ; http://www.namami.org/our%20programes.htm
- Muktabodha online library of Selected Sanskrit Religious and Philosophical Texts [http://www.muktabodhalib.org/digital_library.htm]
- Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (KBOPL)Collections http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/onlinecat.htm
- The Shaiva Manuscripts of Pondicherry ; http://muktalib.org/access_page.htm
- The Institute of Asian Studies Preservation and documentation of Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts [http://www.xlweb.com/heritage/asian/palmleaf.htm]
You can also get more detailed information on the South Asian initiatives in the following book:
"Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives – The South Asian Scenario"
This Book describes successful digital library and open access initiatives in the South Asia region that are available in the forms of digital archives, open courseware, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, national-level open access repositories and institutional repositories.
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Anup Kumar Das
New Delhi, India
http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com
"Science Dissemination using Open Access"**
The ICTP Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) is pleased to announce
the release of the new free book:
"Science Dissemination using Open Access".
It can be downloaded for free, or seen on-line at the website:
The book is a compendium of selected literature on Open Access, both
on the technical and organizational levels, and was written in an
effort to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open
Access, and the plethora of low-cost solutions available. The book
also aims to encourage decision makers in academia and research
centers to adopt institutional and regional Open Access Journals
and Archives to make their own scientific results public and fully
searchable on the Internet. Discussions on open publishing via
Academic Webcasting are also included.
The book is an effort by ICTP-SDU (Italy) in collaboration with CERN
(Switzerland) enabled by the support of INASP (UK).
By releasing this work under a Creative Commons license, the Editors hope to
disseminate it as widely as possible, bringing this information into the
hands of people who need it most.
Our sincere thanks go to the many contributors/authors of the
Open Access literature selected for the book. We have given
proper attribution to the author(s) of each section and/or
chapter included in this work. In particular we would like to
acknowledge the contributions of Philip Bourne (PLoS), Leslie
Carr (ePrints.org), Richard D. Jones (HP Labs), Ismael
Pen-a-Lope'z (Univ. Oberta de Cataluya), Kevin Stranac (OJS,
Public Knowledge Project), Peter Suber (Earlham College) Imma
Subirats (FAO), Jens Vigen (CERN) and everyone else who has made
this project possible.
Cordially yours,
E. Canessa, M. Zennaro
The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce that records from
our MBooks collection are available for OAI harvesting. The MBooks
collection consists of materials digitized by Google in partnership with the
University of Michigan.
Only records for MBooks available in the public domain are exposed. We have
split these into sets containing public domain items according to U.S.
copyright law, and public domain items worldwide. There are currently over
100,000 records available for harvesting. We anticipate having 1 million
records available when the entire U-M collection has been digitized by
Google.
In conjunction, we have released our open-source OAI toolkit on SourceForge.
This toolkit contains both harvester and data provider, both written in
Perl.
For questions about the project, please contact dlps-help@umich.edu.
Haven't checked these out yet. Hence no annotation.
http://print.google.com
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=free_download
FHSST (Free High School Science Texts) is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa.
http://www.fhsst.org/
The goal is to create a free library of 1,000 electronic textbooks for students in the developing world
The library will cover the range of topics typically encountered in the first two years of a university's undergraduate programs
The global academic community and global corporations will be engaged in creating and sponsoring this library
http://globaltext.org/
HSRC Press is South Africa's open access publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science research based publications, in print and electronic form. The Press publishes the research output of the Human Science Research Council and externally authored works. A formal peer-review process guarantees the highest academic quality and the Press has a very active local and international marketing programme, in addition to collaborating with foreign publishers on specific titles
http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/
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