Emerald Insight | Library Management | KrishiKosh: an institutional repository of National Agricultural Research System in India

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-27

Summary:

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in Library Management available from Emerald.  The abstract reads as follows: "Purpose - To provide online access to valuable resource i.e., rare books, Institutional Publications, Historical Reports, Theses, Success stories ..etc. to the researchers, teachers, extension specialists, farmers and scientists working in the ICAR institutes and State Agricultural Universities. Design/methodology/approach - Using Open Source software, the material in the repository was organized into Institution-wise collection of documents such as books, journals, theses, reports, articles etc. The process of digitization including scanning, cleaning, cropping, conversion to text (OCR), conversion to PDF/A, is currently being done at four different centres. So far, more than 10 million pages from 19,495 documents have been digitized along with the necessary Metadata. Findings - The ‘KrishiKosh’ is a collaborative project which envisages launching an Indian agricultural knowledge portal over the Internet and sharing its research information including Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) with the rest of the world using latest Information and Communication Technologies. Research limitations/implications - Users are able to access any information they want, from anywhere in the world, and at any time over the Internet. It also culminated in launching of an Indian agricultural knowledge portal over the Internet for sharing its research information including Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) with the rest of the world using the latest information and communication technologies. Practical implications - The Agricultural Research Community will have access to the vast amount of rare and precious literature to further Research and Developments in Agriculture and Allied sectors to achieve self sufficiency in food production. Originality/value - The Indian agricultural knowledge portal over the Internet for sharing its research information including Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) among agriculture policy makers, scientists etc. using latest ICT. The portal helps to avoid duplication and to acquire more resources to the Agriculture knowledge centres."

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Date tagged:

05/27/2014, 17:56

Date published:

05/27/2014, 13:56