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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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