Information Sources on the Internet for Teaching, Learning and Research

1. Information Sources on the Internet for Teaching, Learning and Research Information Services University Informatics Centre (UIC) Bharathidasan University

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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!

5. 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

6. 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 OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

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

8. Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/

9. 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/

10. 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/

11. 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.

12. E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. • The Electronic Journals Library http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en Offers 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

13. 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

14. Open Access Journals – http://www.bdu.ac.in/infonet

15. 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.

16. Gateways – Contd. • Digital library of India http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/ • WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org Catalog 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

17. 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/

18. Shodhganga Project

19. Shodhganga Project and BDU

20. Other Indian Repositories • Mahatma Gandhi University http://www.mgutheses.org/ • Indian Institute of Science http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ • Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/ • Dyuthi, Digital Repository of Cochin University of Science and Technology http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/ • Vidyanidhi Digital Library (University of Mysore) http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/

21. Global Repositories • NetworkedDigital 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

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

23. 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/

24. 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/

25. Resources with Institutional Access • UGC INFONET Journals (Managed by the University’s Central Library) • Visit: www.bdu.ac.in/infonet • for more details.

26. 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

27. 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.

28. Suggest resources, ask questions! • Write to: inf@bdu.ac.in •  • Thanx!