READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
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Web-of Science which covers Science Citation Index, Current Contents<br />
and Physics Abstract(INSPEC)<br />
Engineering Village which covers EI-COMPINDEX, INSPEC etc.<br />
Other aggregators (some also act as document delivery services)<br />
J-Gate, Infotriev, INGENTA, EBESCO, PUBMED CENTRAL,<br />
BIOMEDNET, MEDLINE, OVID, JSTOR<br />
• Publishers journal databases<br />
Most of the publishes provide features like full-text linking(through DOI<br />
and Crossref), references linking and citations in their own journals.<br />
Important databases( also known as info-bases or knowledge bases) in the<br />
field of science and technology are SCIRUS(Science Direct<br />
Database(Elsevier), CITATION(AIP & APS and Pub-Med), IOP,<br />
OSA(Optics Infobase), IEEE Electronic Library etc.<br />
• E-print archives<br />
E-Print Archives gives access to preprints from world wide. “ArXiv” of<br />
Los Alamo National Laboratory and “SPIERS” of SLAC & DESY<br />
laboratory are two popular e-print archive in the field of science and<br />
technology.<br />
• Search engines<br />
In the field science and technology “Google Scholar” is one of the best<br />
search engines that provides contextual search facility <strong>for</strong> most of the<br />
publishes scientific in<strong>for</strong>mation with full text link, reference link and<br />
citation.<br />
3. CHANGES IN LIBRARY SERVICES DUE TO THE CHANGES IN<br />
KNOWLEDGE SOURCES IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
Science and technology libraries have started providing following services due to the<br />
change in the knowledge environment<br />
• Link to relevant web resource (licensed and free) through library portals<br />
and electronic resources registry databases<br />
• Photocopying to digital photocopying to network printing<br />
• Translation service from manual to automatic<br />
• Citation analysis through Web-of Science<br />
• Library web-services<br />
-Web based interlibrary & photocopy request and digital document<br />
delivery service<br />
- Web based newspaper clipping service<br />
- Web based conference announcement<br />
- Web based CAS<br />
-Web-OPAC etc.<br />
• Digital archives<br />
- Journal articles, research report, thesis, project reports and other<br />
internal publications through the institutional repository<br />
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