1. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 1 Naina Pandita ICMR-NIC Centre, NIC, New Delhi naina@nic.in

2. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 2 The presentation.. Briefly on ICMR-NIC Centre’s Biomedical Information Services ICMR-NIC Centre’s Free Access Initiatives - IndMED, medIND NIC’s Open Access Initiative – OpenMED@NIC Archive

3. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 3 ICMR-NIC Centre’s Biomedical Information Services ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information catering to biomedical information needs of medical professionals since 1986 Recognized as the 17 th International MEDLARS Centre or Indian MEDLARS Centre (IMC) Providing information from various biomedical information Net resources including MEDLINE Support services include documentation support services (Union Catalogue and NLM’s DOCLINE); training & user awareness programmes

4. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 4 IMC’S FREE ACCESS SERVICES medIND launched in Aug. 2003 IndMED launched in 1998

5. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 5 Indian Medlars Centre (IMC) – Free Access Initiatives IndMEDDesigned & developed IndMED database in 1998 - Bibliographic database of peer reviewed Indian “non-Medline” Indian biomedical journals; coverage from 1985 onwards medINDFull-text version of IndMED launched in 2003 – medIND currently has 37 full-text journals. Also covers full-text of Medline journals (Indian) Prospective coverage from 2003 onwards and retrospective from 2000; archiving to commence shortly

6. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 6 IndMED ( http://indmed.nic.in ) Designed on similar lines as NLM’s MEDLINE Bibliographic information including abstracts Articles indexed using MeSH; free text search; use of AND, OR, NOT operators Facility to “look up” related information in Google Provides “help” if no references not retrieved.

7. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 7 medIND ( http://medind.nic.in ) Full text of articles from 37 IndMED journals MOU signed with editors; copyright remains with them while IMC owns content; MOU available from site Journals’ contents obtained in hard / soft copy formats Hard copy scanned, OCRed and converted to PDF Free hosting and free access

8. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 8medIND… Non commercial site; free hosting & access Browse contents / search thru IndMED database/ IMC site medIND articles “cited” in various Internet resources Links to medIND journals in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ Each journal has individual webpage “About Journal” information provided by editors

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13. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 13 OPEN ACCESS OpenMED@NIC launched in May 2005

14. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 14 OpenMED@NIC OpenMED@NIC An international Archive for Medical & Allied Sciences Provide a platform for self – archiving for Indian professionals (free of charge) Developed using E-Prints software (installed on RedHat Linux) Archive exclusive for Medical / Biomedical and Allied Sciences Self Help Tutorials Available for beginners

15. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 15OpenMED@NIC... Medical Subject Headings for indexing so more relevant search for medical/biomedical terms Has simple and advanced search Browse by Subject or Year Over 890 publications from 1952 onwards; over 200 related to TB; 1 st issue of Indian Journal of Tuberculosis (1953) Backed by reliable NIC (GOI) infrastructure

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20. Indian Science Congress, Jan. 2006 20 Thank you Thank you