Information Sources on the Internet for Teaching, Learning and Research

Information ServicesUniversity Informatics Centre (UIC)Bharathidasan University

Outline

• Accessing the e-Resources • Role of UIC in disseminating e-Resources

to the academic and research community of BDU

• Bringing the e-Resources at your desktop

About UIC

• Informatics Centre caters to the information and technology needs of Bharathidasan University

• Network and Server management, Data center administration, web and portals, information dissemination, etc. are the key responsibilities of Informatics Centre

Information Resources: Locating docs!

• The web is a massive collection of interconnected documents

• Due to its complex structure, the information retrieval has become a clumsy process

• Scenario of drowning in data and starving for knowledge

• Search engines are far from being ‘perfect’ when it comes to finding the right data

• The two big issues about the declining visibility of Indian research :• Poor local access to global research• Poor global access to Indian research

Water, Water, Water… everywhere, not even a drop to drink!

Centre for Knowledge Repository (CKR)

• An institutional portal/repository to provide open access to scholarly digital content (launched in 2010 Nov.)

• Journals, e-books, articles, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), video & audio resources (NPTEL)

• Web based access to global information sources• Within the campus (Intranet) as well as outside the

campus (Public domain)• Categories: e-books, open access journals,

gateways, ETDs, Journals with institutional access

E-Resources in Public Domain

E-Books• Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/First and largest single collection of free ebooks. (> than 32000).

• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library, 25000 e-books on different subjects.

• MIT’s OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

• MIT OpenCourseWare• URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/

• Open Yale Courseshttp://oyc.yale.edu/

More..

• Academic Videos: http://www.world-lecture-project.org/?navId=1

• Educational Resources @ Open Michigan https://open.umich.edu/

• The Open University’s open learn portal http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

E-Journals (Open Access)

• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/There are now 2514 journals in the directory. Currently 747 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 124159 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

• California University’s Open Access Portal: http://escholarship.org

• DMOZ directory of open Access journals http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Journals/Free_Online_Journals/

E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd.

• Public Library of Science: http://www.plos.org/ PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians

committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

• Bioline International: http://www.bioline.org.br/ It is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.

• BioMed Central: http://www.biomedcentral.com/It is a Publisher of more than 160 peer-reviewed open access journals.

E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd.

• The Electronic Journals Library http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=enOffers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet.

• HighWire Press: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1010 journals and 4,074,364 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers.

• ePrints of IISc, Banglore http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ Scholarly publications from our scientists and Researchers

E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd.

• Indian Academy of Sciences : http://www.ias.ac.in/ The Academy's journals are 'open access' and full text is available as PDF files on each journal's website.

• Journal of Digital Information: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

• Free Medical Journals: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/index.htm Full text medical journals.

• Indian Journal of Science and Technology http://indjst.org/

• Strategian: http://www.strategian.com/ The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology,

Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology

Open Access Journals –

http://www.bdu.ac.in/infonet

Gateways – Contd.

• Google Scholar: search and find academic papers, abstracts and other scholarly sources

• Pinakes: A subject launch pad http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

Pinakes is a compilation of Internet resources, which links to the major subject gateways.

• E-Print network http://www.osti.gov/eprints/Provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites.

Gateways – Contd.

• Digital library of India http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/

• WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.orgCatalog of Internet resources.

• Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/Organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.

• intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ A trusted source of selected, high quality Internet

information (but no updates since July 2011)• Cogprints http://cogprints.org/ An electronic archive for self-archive papers• Bubl Information Services http://bubl.ac.uk/ BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service

which provides links to over 12,000 internet resources

E-Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

• Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/• A repository of Indian theses (global access to local

theses)• More than 4200 + (still counting..) Theses• Search by University/Department• All Indian Universities are Contributing• MoU for uploading and plagiarism detection

ShodhGangotri : Repository of Indian Research in Progress (Abstracts)

http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/

Shodhganga Project

Shodhganga Project and BDU

Other Indian Repositories

• Mahatma Gandhi Universityhttp://www.mgutheses.org/

• Indian Institute of Sciencehttp://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/

• Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Servicehttp://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/

• Dyuthi, Digital Repository of Cochin University of Science and Technologyhttp://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/

• Vidyanidhi Digital Library (University of Mysore)http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/

Global Repositories

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). 

http://www.ndltd.org/

Almost every University in Europe and US are contributing to NDLD. To know more, visit: http://www.ndltd.org/about/members/ndltd-members

NDLTD is powered with SCIRUS Search. http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search

Global Repositories – Contd.

• Scholars’ Bank (University of Oregon) - http://libweb.uoregon.edu/

• Emory University's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository - https://etd.library.emory.edu/

• EThOS (The British Library) - http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

• Pakistan Research Repository - http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/

Other Global Repositories – Contd.

• DissOnline (GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY) - http://search.dissonline.de/

• SUDOC (SUDOC Catalogue) - France Universities - http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/

• DART - Europe (DART-Europe E-theses Portal) - http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

• DATAD (Association of African Universities) - http://www.aau.org/datad/

Resources with Institutional Access

• UGC INFONET Journals (Managed by the University’s Central Library)

• Visit: www.bdu.ac.in/infonet

• for more details.

E-books in our local repository (CKR)

• Huge collection of e-books• Subject Collections with search facility• 6000 + e-books in different subjects• NPTEL lecture notes (web courses)• NPTEL video tutorials • Lets go live: www.bdu.ac.in/about-ckr

Disclaimer

• Putting documents or pages on the web is easy, cheap or free, unregulated, and unmonitored.

• A self-publishing medium, that is, anyone can publish anything and not everything one finds on the Web is equally valuable or reliable.

• Therein lies the rationale for evaluating carefully whatever one finds on the Web.

• The burden is on the reader to establish the validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity of what he/she finds.

Suggest resources, ask questions!

• Write to: inf@bdu.ac.in • • Thanx!