1. Open Access Resources Dr. R. Balasubramani Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science http://drbalasubramani.webs.comlisbala@gmail.com

2. Introduction  21stCentury –Rapid changes in Education  Teaching and Learning moving online  More advantages of e-resources  Electronic resources available in Web enabled medium

3. Internet usage statistics

4. Size of internet Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google estimated the data in internet around 5 million terabytes. 155 million websites on the Internet. 75 million servers worldwide Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or.004% of the total size. About 500 million use the Internet at least once a week.

5. Information & communication Technology The ease of communication along with the Internet, has brought a paradigm shift in information usage from the need to know basis – information available when and where you need it. Digital publishing technologies and global networking have given rise to the development of higher education. “Ten years ago we saw the convergence of the human- readable Web with increased connectivity. Now we are seeing communicating applications and more pervasive, broadband connectivity. The world is flatter because computing and communications is more pervasive of our working and learning lives: we create, share and use digital content and services”.

6. ICT in Higher Education –Strategic Force –E-Content Generation and Management –Virtual University, Virtual Classroom, Virtual Laboratories, Virtual –Libraries and Virtual Learning concept –Wireless networking –Students and teachers have web space –E-learning, Online discussion –Higher level computing facility –Every student/teacher has access to updated knowledge –Information Consumption is high

7. Open Source Software (OSS)? Software available FREE with source code under GPL license to use, change, improve and redistribute it modified or unmodified. Open source software can be used freely without having to pay license fees to its developers. SourceForge.org, which provides ready access to over 60,000 open source software projects.

8. OSS INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation (California public benefit corporation) formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open- source community. Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. ROSI – Romanian Open Source and Free Software Initiative, was formed by a community of people, acting at their best to develop and sustain a healthy Free Software. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) created the International Open Source Network (IOSN) with the goal of helping developing countries in the Asia-Pacific Region achieve rapid and sustained economic and social development by using free and open source software.

9. OSS NATIONAL INITIATIVES Anna University, Chennai formed a National Level Resource Centre for Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) C- DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) at CES, IISc, Bangalore Centre for Advance Training in Free and Open Source Software (CATFOSS), Ernakulum. NIC Kerala OSS Labs, Bangalore Oksociety community Groups.

10. OAI

11. E-learning - Digital Library – Virtual Library What? Why? How?

12. Web-technologies Existing Technologies Emerging Technologies DoubleClick-->Google AdSense Ofoto-->Flickr Akamai-->BitTorrent mp3.com-->Napster Britannica Online-->Wikipedia personal websites-->blogging evite-->upcoming.org and EVDB domain name speculation-->search engine optimization page views-->cost per click screen scraping-->web services publishing-->participation content management systems-->wikis directories (taxonomy)-->tagging ("folksonomy") stickiness-->syndication

14. Web- application for teaching and learning

15. BLOG

16. Wiki

17. Rich site summary RSS is a structured XML-based metadata schema used to distribute news items through a web medium. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content. RSS is a content delivery channel that allows you to easily deliver Internet content to your target audiences.

18. Podcasts Create Record episode Edit episode Distribute Publish episode to web server Reference episode in feed Access Subscribe using podcatcher Download episode Playback episode

19. Vodcast Learn English via Ipod

20. Webinar

21. dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam.

22. teacher tube - YouTube

23. Social Bookmarking

24. Flickr

25. Instant Messaging (IM)

26. facebook

27. Mobile technologies Potential of mobile devices in learning, research, etc. GPS combined with web services for weather, traffic ETC. mobile-based email

28. Web 2.0 Skype / VoIP VoIP is coming, so now’s the time to gain experiences. What are the implications of ‘free’ always-on telephony (i.e. it's not just about software) - you could be broadcasting this talk now! Skype is a good example of Internet telephony: Integrated voice, IM, Web (and now video) Can be high quality Free / cheap calls Conference calls Accessibility benefits  Proprietary  Network issues

29. Cloud computing

30. Open Source software for teaching and learning

31. Learning Management System

32. Content managements System

33. Institutional Repositories

34. E-learning initiatives

35. E-learning - Sakshat

36. UGC- CEC

37. eGyanKosh

38. World Lecture Hall

39. NPTEL

40. Contact: bdulib@gmail.com