MedIND Presentation for ICADL 2013 in the Indian Digital Library Initiative (IDLI, scheduled on 11 Dec 2013) at ICADL 2013 at Le Meridien, Bangalore, 9-11 December 2013.
3. MedIND
• MedIND = Medical Journals from INDia;
http://medind.nic.in
• Why?
– One point source for Free Full Text of Indexed Indian
Medical Journals
– To expose the Indian medical research literature globally
– Supplement Search Results of Indexing Service (IndMED)
by Cross Linking References with their Fulltext Articles
• Provide a world wide free access over the Web
4. Technology
• In-house developed solution.
• Server Side Includes (SSI) technology was used
to build portal of Medical Journals.
• Retrieval is through a Bibliographic Database
(IndMED – http://indmed.nic.in)
• PERL is used for CGI Scripts.
• Dynamic hyperlink with the “reference” when
the full text is available in MedIND.
6. First Indian Initiative
• One of the early initiatives to provide free full
text of indexed (IndMED / PubMed) Indian
Medical Journals over Internet in India.
• Portal made public way back in 2003
• Now 65 Indian Medical Journals covered in
MedIND
• MOUs with Journals. Thus no IPR issues.
7. Supplements IndMED
• Initiative was to supplement the indexing
service i.e. IndMED
• When full text article for a reference in
IndMED Search Result is available in MedIND,
hyperlink to full text article is shown
11. Journals’ Individualities Retained
• Journals’ editors wanted to get their “online
avatars” in lieu of parting with their full text
articles.
• Wanted to retain their journals’ their
hardcopy “feel and look” in their online
avatars.
• Thus, it was not a simple case of attaching full
text articles files to their respective indexed
bibliographic record (metadata).
12. • With such design constraints, MedIND was
conceived to be an aggregation of different
“online avatars” of participating medical
journals
• Common minimum elements for journals’
description
– SSI Templates used for these elements
• Available full text articles listed under
separate section facilitating Browsing
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20. Explicit File Naming Policy
• Explicit documented ‘file naming and
organization’ policy.
– Journal Title = 3 Character Code
• Indian Journal of Medical Research = iby
– Year of Publication = 3 Character Code
• 2013 = t13
– Issue 4 = i4
– Article = Starting Page of Article
• P785
21. URLs Algorithmically Derived
• With ‘naming policy’ in place, the URL of a
particular full text article could algorithmically
derived from the bibliographical details of the
article.
http://medind.nic.in/iby/t13/i4/ibyt13i4p785.pdf
Generated from Bibliographic Description
• Indexing and Hosting of Fulltext articles are
separated
22. Impact of the Initiative
• This is one of the early initiatives of India
• Availability journals on web for free, helped
them to reach their international audience.
• Even the lesser known journals in the
company of better known journals being
served from single point got exposure.
• Increased their manuscript submission rate
and thus had liberty to select the best ones.
23. • Gradually with better quality paper
submissions with them and online exposure
their impact factors (where applicable)
gradually rose over the period.