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Issues of Multilingual Electronic Publishing in India with Special Reference to Academic Universities Rajesh Chandrakar Rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad. Introduction. India is a big country second largest in population. It is multilingual and multicultural country.

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  1. Issues of Multilingual Electronic Publishing in India with Special Reference to Academic Universities Rajesh Chandrakar Rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  2. Introduction • India is a big country second largest in population. • It is multilingual and multicultural country. • Indian Universities publishes more than 300 journals and newsletters. • As per the INFLIBNET’s Serial Union database, 37 journals are being published in Indian languages. LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  3. Indian Languages and ICT • India has got 418 languages, where • 407 are living languages, • 11 are extinct, • 18 languages are constitutionally recognized written in varieties of script, • 10 different scripts needed to represent these languages. LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  4. Indian Languages and ICT • Arabic, Devnagari, Bengali, Gurumukhi, Guajrati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malyalam • Unicode standard version 3.0 and + represent all Indian scripts. Chapter 9 deals for 9 Indian scripts and Chapter 8 describes Urdu language under Arabic Script. LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  5. Current Indian Scenario • Only English language journals are potential. Most of the universities have not taken initiatives for English languages also. • A publisher, Taylor and Francis has taken initiatives for publishing commercial organizations journals in electronic format. • J-gate Informatics is also one of the commercial organisation, who is trying to put all free journals in one platform including the commercial one with Indian e-journals. LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  6. Current Indian Scenario .. Continues • Most of the journals do not follow International standards. • It doesn’t have wider coverage due to not having in electronic format. • Facing technology problems due to not having skilled manpower, however technology is available. • Most of the universities have financial problems for this kind of extra activities. LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

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  8. Flow of Electronic Publishing Acceptance/ Rejection/ Modification Intimation Author Editor Reviewer For Review Submission Publication Print | Electronic PDF/HTML/TEXT Hosting on Server LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  9. Technology • Fonts : True Type and Open Type • Keyboard Layout • Software and Web interface • TDIL, C-DAC, Microsoft, Linux and Google • OCR • C-DAC, Pune has developed OCR for Indian languages • Machine Translation- Microsoft, Google etc. LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

  10. Conclusion • Special project is the only solution • Training of staff of the university publication department may help • It needs complete implementation of technology available for electronic publishing such as DOI, OpenURL, Indexing, Cross Reference linking under fully supported national repositories LRC - X 13-14th September 2005

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