role of hec digital library - october 26, 2010
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Presented at
NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, October 26, 2010
Presented by
Hassan Zaidi
Project Coordinator, National Digital Library Program Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
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National Digital Library Program
National Digital Library Program
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Flagship Program of HEC for the promotion of research culture in the institutions of higher learning across Pakistan.
Launched in 2003. Beneficiaries includes, public sector universities,
private sector universities, research institutions, non-profit and development organizations for education or research.
Current members approximately 400 and continuously rising.
Introduction
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It provides an opportunity to the academic community to share a single copy of a journal or a book which, is in stark difference to the paper-based on print versions of the same material.
Highly sought-after journals and books are quite expensive for our universities to subscribe. This information available in print further reduces its impact on the academic community.
Through Digital Library, electronic versions of these journals and books creates a significant impact on the institutions as all the students and faculty of universities can access the same information simultaneously.
Electronic resources are considerably economical in comparison to paper-based resources.
Any updates to the information become immediately available to multiple academic communities through electronic resources whereas, for the paper-based information updates may requires months or years before it become available for the single academic community.
What Digital Library is all about?
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To provide researchers within public and private universities in Pakistan and non-profit research and development organizations with access to international scholarly literature based on electronic (online) delivery, providing access to high quality, peer-reviewed journals, databases, articles and e-Books across a wide range of disciplines.
To support our universities to attain a steady growth in the research output originating from Pakistan.
Objectives of HEC Digital Library
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Ever since its inception, Digital Library is striving hard to provide our institutions with superior quality peer-reviewed, full-text, academic and research material in the shape of e-journals as well as e-books. Some of them are,
Springer Link Blackwell Synergy
Cambridge Uni. Press Science Online
EBSCO IEEE
JSTOR Ebrary
McGraw-Hill Professional ISI – Web of Science
Science Direct Emerald
For a complete list of e-resources please visit www.digitallibrary.edu.pk
E-Resources
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Research Output Analysis
•Conducting analysis on research output from national institutions
Electronic Database
•E-Databases: 34 •E-Journals: 23,000
•E-Societies: 09
Electronic Books:
•E-books in various disciplinesover 50,000
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Open Access (OA):
•OA Resources: 80
British Library Documents
Delivery Service
•Electronic copies of requested articles
E-Resources6
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Over 50,000 e-books available via three quality platforms
Ebrary
McGraw Hill Professional Series
Springer
E-Books
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SUBSCRIPTION:
The end-user has the access rights to the information for a set amount of time. The user do not own the material. Relatively economical.
1. Per Institution basis
An agreed amount of fees has to be paid for every institution listed to access the information.
2. Country-Wide basisA set amount of fees has to be paid to the publisher
irrespective of the number of institutions that may access the information.
Almost all of e-resources that HEC has acquired belong to either of the above two mentioned models.
Licensing Models for E-Resources
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HEC acquires all the e-resources through Consortium model.
It is a highly centralized consortium model where HEC pays the publishers on behalf of all the institutions.
E-resources acquired on country-wide license agreement, are provided to all public, private universities, research institutions, non-profit organizations without any costs.
For resources on per-institution license agreement public universities are funded 100% whereas private universities pays 50% of the costs.
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Financing the E-Resources
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The funding was provided completely by the government in order to sustain the initiative.
A tight centralized consortium was formed where all negotiations and payments are made at single office i.e. HEC.
It serves both HEC and the publishers very well. Publishers gets the volume sales they are usually after like substantial amount of subscribing institutions on the other hand HEC gets huge discounts from the publishers that considerably reduces the overall costs which institutions are forced to pay had they handle it themselves.
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Central Consortium Benefits
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The figure here shows comparative discounts that HEC gets from some of the publishers.
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Access is enabled through IP address (a unique ID for internet access) for each institution.
Each university provides its IP ranges and Digital Library interacts with publishers to get the access enabled through these IP addresses.
Access is limited to authorized users within the premises of the institutions and via remote access (VPN, etc.)
Digital Library conducts training workshops for the universities.
Progress of universities is monitored through usage stats provided by the publishers and the research output originating from each university.
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Accessing the information
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For an in-depth analysis of the history of research output originating from Pakistan, a comparison between eight years prior to HEC and a similar time span since HEC was carried out. The output was a revelation, as a true picture of impact of HEC on the research culture of Pakistan was emerged.
For the Pre-HEC eight-year period (1994-2001), a total of 4,667 articles were published whereas during the post-HEC eight-year period (2002-2009), a total of 15,197 articles were published. This reflects a staggering increase of over 320% since HEC started to revamp tertiary education in Pakistan.
Impact of Digital Library
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Market share
Due to the efforts of HEC, Pakistan’s market share of world publication has increased rapidly from 0.1 % in 2002 to 0.21% in 2009.
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16 Impact – Universities in Top 600
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University Rank in 2009
1. National University of Science & Technology 376
2. Quaid-e-Azam University 543
3. University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore 572
4. University of Karachi 576
5. University of Lahore 578
The HEC Digital Library also contributed significantly in facilitating national institutions to attain famous The Times Higher Education – QS Ranking. At present there are four universities from Pakistan listed among the Top 600 universities in the world.
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Digital Library regularly gather usage stats of all its members.
All usage stats obtained are COUNTER-compliant Usage stats help determine effectiveness of each
e-resources that has been acquired. It also reveals the special interests of
institutions. Usage stats are inter-linked with the research
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Usage Stats – An Insight
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Due to continuously increasing downloads the cost per download article decreased significantly from US $2.30 to US$ 1.17. This represent nearly 50% decrease in cost per article since the year 2004.
Usage Stats – An Insight
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The download patterns amongst the institutions also represent a dramatic shift during the same period.
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Usage Stats – An Insight
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Country 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total
1. Turkey 12425 15392 16661 18848 21273 84,599
2 Iran 3285 4240 5578 7311 10195 30,609
3 Egypt 3225 3163 3303 3795 4110 17,596
4 Malaysia 1373 1514 1777 2097 2415 9,176
5 Saudi Arabia 1748 1676 1627 1727 1868 8,646
6 Pakistan 948 1028 1306 1714 2423 7,419
7 Lebanon 1069 1233 1410 1556 1609 6,878
8 Jordan 762 820 939 991 1193 4,705
9 Indonesia 577 610 686 822 843 3,539
10Bangladesh 554 582 637 723 775 3,271
11Kuwait 625 627 610 671 671 3.204
12Oman 294 308 330 334 369 1,635
20 Research Output – an OIC glance
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Country 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total
1 Japan 90,281 91,357 90,073 93,562 89,735 455,008
2 China 52,243 64,389 75,431 92,504 99,716 384,283
3 South Korea 23,118 27,289 29,725 32,694 33,713 146,539
4 India 23,352 25,217 27,862 31,405 35,884 143,720
5 Taiwan 14051 15798 17525 20078 21244 88,697
6 Hong Kong 8427 8904 8929 9308 9638 45,206
7 Singapore 5723 6558 7255 7778 7820 35,134
8 Thailand 2400 2520 3031 3812 4255 16,018
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The local Publications – Next Step22
• There are approximately 400 journals published from Pakistan
• They cover fields like Agriculture & Plant Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering, Information Technology, Social Sciences etc.
• Not all of them are being published online and there is no single platform where all these journals are available for researchers.
• As the Digital Library has taken roots in the higher education community in Pakistan, Digital Library has been asked to kickstart an initiative called Pakistan Journals Online. This initiative will bring all quality journals published from Pakistan on single platform electronically and available globally.
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HEC believes that user-level training are of utmost importance as it paves the way for uplifting the standard of education and research at the institution level and for professional growth at the individual level.
Nation-wide prgramme of Digital Library training workshops.
Theme-based or Subject-Specific Workshops. Mega Training event in collaboration with various
publishers. Institutional competition for usage and research output
All these activities offers tools and mechanism to gauge the critical indicators for national research & development.
Training Workshops and Events
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To kickstart Integrated Library Management System project.
Digitization project for preservation and conversation of local heritage that exist in the form of paper publications.
To develop databases of localized contents and make it available for international audience.
Future Plans
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Thank You
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