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iGroup In India Balani Infotech. Kelvin Poh. iGroup APAC. 25 years providing and facilitating teaching and reference resources to the Academic community in APAC. Geographical Coverage with physical presence currently expanded to include:
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iGroup In IndiaBalani Infotech Kelvin Poh
iGroup APAC • 25 years providing and facilitating teaching and reference resources to the Academic community in APAC. • Geographical Coverage with physical presence currently expanded to include: • China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh • Staffing of over 500
iGroup APAC • Key Consortia Partners • CALIS (China) • JULAC (Hong Kong) • KESLI, KERIS (Korea) • CONCERT (Taiwan) • CAUL (Australia) • CDC (Malaysia) • MUA Consortium (Thailand) • Serving over 700 Higher Learning and Research Institutes APAC wide
iGroup APAC • Increasing Distribution partnerships with Publishers • Ejournals, Databases, e-Books • Increasing Reputation for Scholarly and Scientific societies, as well as University Press • Increasing involvement in publishing • Equity investments into existing publishing houses • Establishment of iGroup publishing arm • Helping smaller scholarly societies and Asian Universities publish electronically with low financial investment • Help promote Asian content to the global market
iGroup APAC • Increasing activities into Learning Resource Management and Teaching Applications • Plagiarism detection solutions • Federated Search Engines • Topical Teaching Software • ePreservation and ePublishing solutions • Scanning equipment, applications and services • Rare books digitization • Commercialise privately held collections
iGroup in India • Started in 2000 • Limited distribution partnerships • Premise of focus on consortium based models • Representing not for profit society publishers
iGroup India • Distributing for over 40 publishing partners Project Muse, Hein Online, Turnitin, OECD, IG Publishing, ASHRIDGE, ACM, Books 24X7, OSA, CINDAS, CRC-net BASE, Idea Group Inc. Electronic Resources, Informa Law, Cengage, American Chemical Society (ACS), MD Consult, Computing Reviews, Keesing’s, Live Maths, Palgrave McMillan, Oxford Univ Press, IEEE Computer Society, KluwerLaw Online, Physics Demo, BrititshStandard Institute, U.K., Karger, eBrary, Grokker, SPIE Digital Library, H.W. Wilson, WIPS, SPRINGER, Thieme, SIAM, iSino Law, Plunkett Research, Proquest, Columbia Univ Press, Project Euclid (Duke Univ)
iGroup IndiaBalani Infotech • Current Consortium Partners • AICTE-INDEST • INFLIBNET • HELINET • CSIR / DST • DELCON • BIT • LPS • DRDO
New Directions • Increase coverage of eContent resources • More Societies and Univ Press • Ebooks • Increase customer support programs • Expand service portfolio
iGroup IndiaBalani Infotech • Increase in staffing count • More offices • Maintaining knowledge levels and continuing education programmes
Content Delivery vs Content Management • Acquiring digital content resources • Get more • Pay Less • Implement • Educate • Managing the acquired resources • Federated Search • Web 2.0 • Creating digital resources • Univ Publishing • Preservation • Integrating content, applications, learning management. • Plagiarism detection • Learning Management Systems • Teaching applications
iGroup India Thank you for the privilege of partnering your drive towards creating a digital learning environment.