D’mello, Collin; Jha, Amit(INFLIBNET Center., February 25, 2009)
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The goal of electronic content discovery with Metasearching is to investigate issues related to locating,
retrieving, and promulgating information in large networked environments. The Internet and WWW
provide a challenging environment for deployment of these services. The needs of information
publishers - to maximize audience reach - and the user - to minimize information overload - require
advanced technical solutions and investigative research. As the deep web of information grows at an
exponential rate, efforts to make the technology more manageable and affordable are highly in
demand. Applying advanced information retrieval techniques i.e. meta-search and open link resolver
are some approach to such efforts. In this paper we present our attempt to apply open source initiatives
for retrieval model based on NISO Standards, relevance mechanisms and a meta search technique as
an integrated electronic resource discovery system for the Deep Web. This paper discusses challenges
and issues involved in Meta-Searching, as well as practical issues such as retrieval effectiveness,
usability and scalability.
This paper introduces the concepts of open access publishing and institutional repositories. Examples
of such repositories are given. An overview is provided of projects being funded by the Joint Information
Systems Committee within the UK in higher education institutions and information on how some of
the outcomes of this work can be useful to those in other countries is provided. The progress of the
Wales Repository Network in developing an integrated network of institutional repositories in Wales
is described. Finally, the author’s experiences in the use of an institutional repository at Aberystwyth
University, Wales are given.
Bhatt, Jyoti; Joshi, Nilesh(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Considering the impact of IT and ICT, E-Resources are found supplements and compliments to
Library resources. E-Journals valued to the research activity has accelerated usage of the research
material in academic libraries. The present study focuses on the usage impact of E-Resources
accessible through UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium on the campus of The Maharaja Sayajirao
University of Baroda.
Guruprasad, R; Nikam, Khaiser; Rao, M Gopinath; Mudkavi, Vidyadhar(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Most scientists today have access to full-text e-journals. In most cases, this facility is provided right
at the desktop. In this paper, we present a case study of full-text e-journal patterns amongst the
scientists and engineers at the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of the Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The facility at NAL is provided right to the desktop
through the NAL-CSIR-NISCAIR e-conglomerate. Today, National Institute of Science Communication
and Information Research (NISCAIR) provides e-access to more than 4042 world-class e-journals to
all S&T personnel of the CSIR fraternity. This CSIR-NISCAIR initiative allows any scientist in any
CSIR Laboratory to access this electronic information to keep abreast of the latest technological
developments in his area of specialization.
The analysis of data on the full-text e-journal patterns is presented for the period 2005 to 2007. The
major findings that we would like to highlight in this paper are: (a) the mean number (per-month) of
full-text downloads for the above three years was found to be different through Kruskal Wallis test of
‘One Way Analysis of Variance’ at 1% level of significance and (b) Chi-Square test was applied to test
whether there is independence between the years and the publishers. The calculated value of Chi-
Square was found to be 510.6, which is highly significant. Hence we conclude that for the full-text
downloads data, the years and the publishers are not independent. This Chi-Square test was carried
out for only those publishers (4 in number) for which the data was available for all the three years
(2005-2007).