Browsing by Author "Cholin, V S"

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    Consortia for Academic Libraries in India- INFLIBNET Approach
    (INFLIBNET Newsletter, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2002-07-01) Cholin, V S
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    Library consortia for Academic Libraries in the E-Publishing Era
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2002-02) Cholin, V S; Karisiddappa, C R
    Academic libraries in India have been affected by an uncertain financial environment in which resource buying has been restricted, causing them to look at ways of extending their purchasing capabilities to compensate for reduced budgets. Technological developments, electronic publishing of scholarly journals, emerging of consortia, prizing models of the publishers gives new opportunities for libraries to provide instant access to information. Library consortium is the one of the emerging tool kit for libraries to survive in the e-publishing environment. An attempt has been made to identify the objectives, types, major issues and approach for co nsortia in Indian environment. The paper also highlights some of the important consortia arrangements at International level. The proposed models for academic libraries through different vendors / publisher has been discussed at the end.
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    Potential Role of Subject Gateways, Portals and OPAC’s in Electronic Journals Access
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-02-02) Prakash, K; Murthy, T A V; Cholin, V S
    Outlines the access methods and new technologies in accessing local and global electronic resources in the libraries. The subject gateways, portals, search engines and Library OPAC’s (Online Public Access Catalog) are an important method of providing current and reliable information in a variety of disciplines and research areas. This paper describes various access points that disseminate information to researchers, librarians, and other web users in the various disciplines. Summarizes some of the issues, and explore the potential role of World Wide Web portals in helping library consortia to fulfill their objectives. At the end the paper highlights the importance of portal service to the Indian academic community in the light of UGC-Infonet E-Journals consortium.
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    Study of Design and Development of an Integrated University Library System in the Digital Environment
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-02-02) Cholin, V S; Karisiddappa, C R
    Library plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of higher degree of research in the university environment. Information technology has revolutionized the information handling activities in the academic libraries during the past few years. The Information Society demands that all the relevant technologies; that are involved in information processing, consolidation, repackaging and retrieval be merged so as to evolve an integrated system; capable of providing diversified services. In this direction the automation of individual university libraries is a first step, rather a pre-requisite for the development of such an integrated university library and information system. In this research study an attempt has been made to study the automation and networking of universities in India and discuss the need for an integrated information system and the components of integrated information system.
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    UGC- Infinet E-Journals Consortium Access to Scholarly Journals and Databases for Indiaan Academic Community -A Status
    (INFLIBNET Center., 2006-02-02) Cholin, V S; Thiyam, Satyabati; Murthy, T A V
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    UGC-Infonet E-Journals Consortium an Indian Model Bridging the Gap between Scholarly Information and End User
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-02-02) Murthy, T A V; Chauhan, Suresh K; Cholin, V S; Patil, Raghavendra
    Any educational system must have to depend on authentic, factual, fast and up to date information. Indian educational system is one of the largest in all over the world but due to financial limitations large number of libraries have not been able to subscribe to quite a good number of journals required for research and academic community, University libraries could play a major role to further improve the status of higher education system of India. After analyzing the situation the University Grants Commission initiated two important projects viz. UGC-Infonet providing connectivity to universities and UGC-Infonet, E-Journals Consortium to provide scholarly access to electronic journals and databases. Probably this is the golden era in the history of higher education system in India. The total program is funded by UGC and ERNET (Education and Research Network) has been entrusted to establish infrastructure within member universities on a turn key basis and the overall monitoring and execution of the project is being done by INFLIBNET. Through this program large number of e-resources subscribed and provided access to faculty and research scholars working in universities. To make people aware about the use of e-resources good number of user awareness training programs and also conducted 5 national seminars at five different places. Usage statistics provided by different publishers are also very interesting and encouraging.