Providing Open Access to Heterogeneous Information Resources without Compromising Privacy and Data Confidentiality

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
Daniel G. Alemneh ◽  
Kris S. Helge
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Data Confidentiality ◽  
Heterogeneous Information

Online legal information system for Indian environment: a user’s perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 593-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj Kumar Bhardwaj ◽  
Madhusudhan Margam
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Assessment Survey ◽  
Needs Assessment Survey

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore legal information requirements of the legal community in India for a proposed online legal information system tailored to the Indian environment. Design/methodology/approach A needs assessment survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire circulated among 750 respondents from eight institutions in Delhi. A total of 397 filled-in questionnaires were personally collected by the investigator, showing a response rate of 52.9 per cent. All these questionnaires were selected for analysis and interpretation of data. Responses to 45 questions were analyzed and presented in the form of tables and figures using various statistical techniques. Findings The findings of the study show that majority of the respondents felt they faced a number of problems in using online legal resources such as accessibility of legal information in legal resources, lack of online help features, description of legal information sources, search screen too confusing and poor website design. In addition, respondents highlighted that access instructions on the online resources are not clear. Lack of expertise and insufficient knowledge of information and communication technology in using legal databases are also major hurdles. Majority of the respondents are somewhat satisfied in using open-access and commercial legal information resources and not aware of open-access resources in the field of law. Model online legal information system (OLIS) was designed and developed based on the findings drawn in the needs assessment survey to empower the common man with legal resources at no cost, and foster research in the field of law. Research limitations/implications The model OLIS contains only a sample collection. It is expected that the proposed system will be implemented on a wider scale, so that lawyers, research scholars and common people can benefit. Practical implications The findings of the study will help libraries to subscribe to legal information resources and to design robust OLIS suitable in the Indian context. It is anticipated that the needs assessment survey of OLIS will help government agencies and law libraries to understand the problems of the legal fraternity in accessing legal information. Originality/value The present study designed a model OLIS for the Indian environment (www.olisindia.in) to aid the legal community in India, enabling them to save their valuable time. This system will help and foster interdisciplinary research learning and can be used as a tool for learning the basic concepts, as well as help deliberate on the emerging areas in the field of law.

scholarly journals Digital Copies of Bibliographic Publications in the Structure of Information Resources of Federal National Libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Nadezhda S. Maslovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Language ◽  
Electronic Documents ◽  
Bibliographic Information ◽  
State Library ◽  
Digitized Documents ◽  
National Libraries

Modern libraries have considerable information resources. Digital copies of publications, including bibliographic ones, are an integral part of information resources. The author studies the activity of the Russian libraries of Federal level on creation of digital copies of bibliographic editions, basing on the own library holdings. There are three national libraries — the Russian State Library, the National Library of Russia and the Presidential Library named after B. Yeltsin. The purpose of the study is to analyse the array of digitized bibliographic publications and to identify the place of digital copies of bibliographic publications in the information resources of the national libraries. The author considers the content of the electronic catalogues of these libraries by entering the same type of request. The article presents the results of study of the volume and content of electronic catalogues, obtained by the method of bibliographic keyword search. The author analysed the array of digital copies of bibliographic publications on various parameters — chronological coverage of digitized documents; language features; terms of access to electronic documents. The author notes that the priority is now given to the digitization of publications in the national language. The article presents the types of access to digital copies of bibliographic publications from the user’s point of view. The author considers the statistical data on the availability of digital copies of bibliographic publications in the collections of electronic documents and the presence of special electronic collections. The emphasis is made on the study of open access to digitized documents. The study revealed that the volume of digital copies of bibliographic publications in the national libraries is very small for the implementation of their inherent scientific and educational function; the access to bibliographic information resources is mostly limited. The author concludes that the level of availability does not meet expectations of the user; and Russian libraries should develop their activities to expand open access to bibliographic information resources.

Methods for integration of heterogeneous information resources in molecular biology in the digital library GeneExpress

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Kolpakov ◽  
N. L. Podkolodnyi ◽  
S. V. Lavryushev ◽  
D. A. Grigorovich ◽  
M. P. Ponomarenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Heterogeneous Information

Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University

2017 ◽  
pp. 224-255
Author(s):  
Dimple Patel ◽  
Deepti Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Metadata Harvesting ◽  
Experienced User

Open Access (OA) to scholarly information has now become a reality. Due to the efforts of OA supporters worldwide now even commercial publishers have started supporting open access to their content through various open access models. Many public institutions like universities and R&D Labs have realized the importance of OA in developing the society in general. As a result, these institutions have come up with OA repositories, archives and libraries. As with any such proliferation of information, OA resources have increased manifold and can easily overwhelm even an experienced user. Also different repositories may use various digital library software, which presents the problem of multifarious search interfaces and features. The solution can be found in the open community of open source software and open standards. The open source metadata harvesting software PKP-OHS and the open protocol for metadata harvesting i.e. OAI-PMH come to the rescue. This chapter discusses how PKP-OHS was implemented as a pilot study at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP).

Predatory Open Access Journals and Attainment of Educational Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Wole Michael Olatokun ◽  
Ojinga Gideon Omuinu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Education System ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Predatory Publishing

Putting into consideration the objective of the SDG 4, it would be important to note that the provision, access, and use of information resources such as open access (OA) journals is a sine qua non for quality education in Africa. Despite its importance to the education system, open access journals have been proliferated by predatory journals. Stakeholders in the OA movement and academia claim that predatory publishing is a big problem for scientific communication and could undermine development efforts. Hence, the increasing use of predatory open access journals could affect the attainment of SDGs in Africa; hence, there is the need to raise awareness to enhance the possibility of attaining the SDGs in Africa. This chapter will among others enumerate the possible havocs predatory open access journals can create and the setbacks on the attainment of SDGs in Africa. It will also spell out the necessary prospects of curtailing these havocs and setbacks towards providing quality-based information resources such as open access journals to the education societies in Africa.

Development the RNPLS&T’s Open Archive system

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Goncharov ◽  
Kirill Kolosov
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Electronic Archive ◽  
Search System ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Federated Search ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Heterogeneous Information ◽  
Current State ◽  
System Access ◽  
Open Archives

RNPLS&T’s experience in providing open access and developing open archives is discussed. RNPLS&T’s heterogeneous information resources are evaluated; the structure of the inhouse digital resources in 2018 is described, including digitized books in RNPLS&T’s Electronic Archive, employees’ articles, articles in journals published by the Library, articles in the Library conferences proceedings, all hosted by the E-library, and the RNPLS&T’s information systems. The technologies of access to RNPLS&T’s digital resources are characterized, including in-house and commercial ones: access with Summon federated search system, access using Z39.50 and SRU/SRW protocols and access via the National Electronic Library access to the RNPLS&T’s resources, access to RNPLS&Ts E-library metadata using OAI-PMH protocol, etc. Integrated search external services are described. The technology of remote users access to individual subscriptions and licensed databases is specified. The current state of software solutions for server modules of the RNPLS&T’s open archive based on IRBIS64+ ILS is characterized.The goal is to provide users with the extended set of instruments for information retrieval and access to demanded full-text publications, including the external ones.

Choice of architecture for heterogeneous information resources integration systems in natural-technical objects complex modeling

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.A. Zelentsov ◽  
◽  
S.A. Potryasaev ◽  
I.Yu. Pimanov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Experiment Planning ◽  
Heterogeneous Information ◽  
Resources Integration ◽  
Verbal Analysis

The paper presents a methodology of an architecture type multi-criteria choice for a system of integrating heterogeneous data required for complex modeling of natural-technical objects. Suggested methodology is based on using linguistic scales for architectures quality particular indicators, as well as methods of decisions verbal analysis and the experiment planning theory for processing results of peer review in the final architectures quality assessment.

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