Browsing by Author "Pradhan, Dinesh Ranjan"

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    Access to E-journals through UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium: A Study of Usage Trends among the Universities of North East India
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Chand, Prem; Arora, Jagdish; Naga, Moses M; Pradhan, Dinesh Ranjan
    The paper highlights the usage trends of access to e-journals in ten universities of North East India. The preliminary findings from the data of last five years revealed that there is an upward trend. The paper briefly describes open access journals and the measurement tools of e-journals.
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    Federated Search & Discovery Services : A Standards and Protocols Perspective
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2014-10) Pradhan, Dinesh Ranjan; Pandya, Mitesh
    With advent of information and communication technology, drastic changes can be seen in the services offered by the libraries. One of the primary objective of the library is to serve their users in a time brand manner. In this age of information explosion there are lots of printed as well as digital documents that are stored in a library are available online either in open access or on subscription and it is very difficult to find relevant one in time. Federated search and discovery tools facilitate integrated searching for all types of materials from a single search box. The article describes some of the standards and protocols that can be used to streamline the operation of developing federated search engine and discovery tools.