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    Access to E-Resources for Indian Higher Education System and the Role of INFED (INFLIBNET Access Management Federation)
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2017-07-01) Patel, Yatrik; V Raja
    Indian Universities and institutions of higher education have witnessed a boost in e-resources accessible to their users through various consortium initiatives. However, at present, mostly the access is restricted to only university/institute campuses within specific IP ranges. There is a need to widen the access of e-resources. Ideally the access to e-resources should be available to users from anywhere i.e. on-campus, off-campus, from home, while travelling and at any given point of time. The purpose of this article to give an overview of the role of INFED (INFIBNET Access Management Federation) to expand the reach of e-resources and make some suggestions about how effective it is from perspective of practice with a view to justifying its role. This paper attempts to describe the scope of INFED and benefits of inter federation services, beyond the features off-campus access.
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    Cloud Computing and Its Impact on Library Services
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2011-04) Patel, Yatrik
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    Ensuring High-Level System Availability of Computing Services
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-10-01) Patel, Yatrik; V, Raja
    Today number of institutes and their day-to-day activities are solely depended on IT. Almost every aspect of the institutional activity and services needs Internet connectivity and computing infrastructure to function. IT made the things faster, easier. At the same time, the responsibilities of implementer has increased multi-fold to ensure less downtime of applications and services. The cost of downtime is very high and may spoil the reputation of institution and its services. The best way to overcome the failure of the system or applications is setting up the high-level system availability. High-level system availability refers to a server or an application that ensures uninterrupted operational for a maximum possible time. In fact, a fault-free system or application that is expected to run without fail has to be well-designed and thoroughly tested before its deployment. Nowadays servers and underlying network have to manage a large volume of traffic to serve millions of clients. Perhaps, a single server may not sustain such a heavy load. In this computer era, it is very challenging task to achieve “100% Operational” or “never failing” of any computing environment. This can be achieved by implementing various redundancy mechanisms for hardware as well as software. Most of the organization prefers to deploy their applications on cloud so that the disaster recovery can be achieved with immediate effect without much complexity and safeguarding investments. High-level system availability can avoid having single point-of-failure. If failure occurs restoration can be performed in microseconds. This article attempts to give glimpses and technical highlights on achieving maximum uptime with minimal chances to failure of computing environment using presently available technologies.
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    INFLIBNET's Virtual Classroom Using A-View: A Step towards Innovative e-learning Environment
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2013-10) Patel, Yatrik; Vaghela, Divyakant
    A virtual classroom is an innovative e-learning online environment. As human resources development in ICT and LIS skill is one of the core mandates of the INFLIBNET Centre, a variety of training programs are being conducted on regular basis. For better outreach, INFLIBNET Centre has initiated Virtual Classroom for benefiting the users of our services. The user will have the facility to learn from his/her own choice of place. This article explains the training provided by INFLIBNET Centre through A-VIEW software and how user can join our classroom to avail the benefits.
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    R: An Open Source Software Environment for Statistical Analysis
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2017-04-01) Patel, Yatrik; Vaghela, Divyakant; Solanki, Hitesh; Vaidya, Mitisha
    The research data and its efficient analysis play a vital role in successful research as well as in drawing meaningful inferences. Students, scholars, research institutes, Government and non-Government organizations around the World depend heavily on statistical and data analysis to carry out their research as well for taking decisions based on statistical analysis of data. Statistics plays a vital role in almost all domains of knowledge. This article provides an overview of various comprehensive, proprietary and non-proprietary statistical packages that are available in the market place for carrying out statistical analyses on data such as SPSS, Stata, Minitab, SAS, etc. The article especially focuses on non-proprietary and open source statistical package called R, which is widely used in all research domains for statistical analysis, data mining and data visualization across the world.
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    Shibboleth Based Access Management for Consortia
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2010-01) Patel, Yatrik