creators_name: Chandra, Harish
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-08-18
lastmod: 2008-11-19 08:53:29
metadata_visibility: show
title: Open Access to Knowledge Resources in Science and Technology : The Role of Digital Reference Service to Facilitate Accessing Scholarly Information
ispublished: pub
subjects: HP
full_text_status: public
keywords: Open Access Initiatives, Knowledge Resources, Digital Reference Service, Digital Reference Sources, Open Access Literature, IIT Madras, Open Access Archives, Open Access Journals, Open Access Books
abstract: The present paper discusses the importance, objectives and major developments in open access initiatives. It further examines the specific use of digital information services including the digital reference service. The paper also highlights the various steps taken in this direction at the Central Library of IIT Madras. 
date: 2005
date_type: published
publisher: Organising Secretary, SIS-2005, DLIS, Andhra University
refereed: FALSE
altloc: http://www.andhrauniversity.inf
altloc: http://www.harishchandra.net
referencetext: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=129
Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm
http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration 20-22 October 2003
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing released on June 20, 2003
Peter Suber, Open Access Overview on http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #71, March 2, 2004 on http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/03-02-04.htm#oai-priorities
http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in
http://www.doaj.org/ 
http://www.thomsonisi.com/selection/

citation: Chandra, Harish (2005) Open Access to Knowledge Resources in Science and Technology : The Role of Digital Reference Service to Facilitate Accessing Scholarly Information. . In 23rd Annual Convention and Conference on Delivery of Information Services Through Distributed Digital Environment (SIS-2005), Visakhapatnam (India), 27-29 January 2005. [Conference Paper]
document_url: http://eprints.rclis.org/4458/1/SIS2005.doc