E-Publishing Initiatives in India

Abraham, T and Minj, S (2007) provide a report about the Scientific Journal Publishing in India (SJPI) project which promotes electronic publishing of scholarly journals. It covers briefly the objectives, implementation and outcomes of the project. The SJPI project was based at National Centre for Science Information at IISc, in Bangalore, India, carried out during Oct. 2004 – March 2007. The project was wet up in two phases – in the first phase, set up a prototype journal indexing and management systems for a sample of Indian journals. In the second phase the project aimed to help Indian journals to go online and to develop a Hindi language interface for Open Journal System (OJI) open source software for online management and publishing of journals with OAI-PMH compliance, developed by Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The outcomes of the project was installing and configuring OJS for 11 journals from Indian Academy of Science, and one each from SRELS and IISc, Bangalore and developed a Hindi language interface for OJS. The project installed PKP Harvester under the title ‘SJPI Cross Journals Search Service’ to harvest data from all of the thirteen prototype journals.

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Abraham, T., & Minj, S. (2007). Scientific Journal Publishing in India: Promoting electronic publishing of scholarly Journals in India. The First Monday, 12 (10). Doi: http://firstmonday.org/thbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1954/1831.