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5.3 Lakshya: Mode of Access
In current practice there are three methods of authentic access of web site as
• Anonymous access: mostly web access is anonymous to the global community.
• Login and password: to access the resources of web site, web administrator can
restrict the access with login & password.
• Institute IP authentication: many web resources have provided the IP (internet
protocol) based access. In this case all the Internet access from the premises of
institute IP address are authentic.
A large number of journals are covered under a Consortium. In addition journals form
publishers who are providing complimentary online access to their E-Journal archivals
against currently subscribed print journals in the Central Library, are also available.
Apart from these, many journals, which are available freely, are also included in Lakshya.
In coming months, many more journals and other E-resources would also be hosted on
Lakshya, some of them under consortia.
5.4 Lakshya: An array of value added features
The complete list of available online resources on Lakshya web site is mainly categorized
into two sections viz. alphabetic list of online journals wise collection and alphabetic list
of publisher wise collection. Some of the major features of Lakshya are
• User friendly and seamless access to E-Journals available on either IP address
based or login ID based access
• Downloadable Full text articles in different file formats as supported by publishers
• Search for E-Journals available on Lakshya, BARC
• Title-wise alphabetical list of E-Journals
• Publisher-wise alphabetical list of E-Journal titles
• Online references, encyclopedias, Internet-INIS database, E-Books, Useful web
sites etc. are also available
• Bulletin Board for news updates on trial online offers from various
publishers/agents
• Online facility for submission of suggestions /Feedback from users
• Consolidated list of useful links
Lakshya : Future Plans
How to manage 3C (changes, challenges and Content) is a very difficult task for a digital
manager with on going demands for fast and wide subject coverage. To facilitate better
search results from Lakshya, a complete revamping of search interface is being developed
and is under testing phase. With new search interface, one can search the title either by
keywords or descriptors with one click hyper link to online journal.
An upcoming FAQ facility related to online resource will also help the users to
communicate in a better manner. Moreover many technicalities and know-how about
online access are also covered in FAQs. Fig. 5 shows the front end of upcoming Lakshya.
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