Browsing by Author "Prakash, K"

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    Access to Scholarly Literature in Higher Education Institutions Under Inflibnet Consortium
    (Inflibnet centre, 2007-02-08) Chand, Prem; Prakash, K; Satyabati, Thiyam; Chauhan, Suresh K
    The escalating price of electronic journals, Indexing and abstracting databases along with traditionally published print subscriptions has forced library community to explore alternative means of subscription. The consortia based subscription is perhaps a solution for subscription of peerreviewed journals. In India, during last five years we have witnessed many consortia based subscription, ranging from subject specific to institution specific. The advancement of Internet and telecommunication has made it possible to subscribe network based resources to the users. The paper describes about the initiative taken by INFLIBNET in this direction and highlights the importance of current trends of usage statistics of networked resources of various publishers. Further the authors describe the patterns of electronic journal usage by the members of UGC-Infonet Digital library consortium during the last three years.
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    Application of Data Mining in Library and Information Services
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2004-11) Prakash, K; Prem Chand; Gohel, Umesh
    Knowledge Discovery or Data Mining is the partially automated process of extracting patterns, usually from large data sets. Library and information services in schools, colleges, universities, corporations and communities obtain information about their users, circulation history, resources in the collection, and search patterns. Now a days many libraries have taken advantage of these data as a way to improve customer service, manage acquisition budgets, or influence strategic decision-making about uses of information in their organizations. The paper tries give an overview on data sources and possible applications of data mining techniques in the library.
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    Developing Library and Information Services for E-Learning Environment
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Vatnal, R M; Mathapati, G C; Prakash, K
    Now internet has shown new paths to learning. The educational resources are accessible to students. Learner needs are increasingly seen to be continuous throughout the working life. Education is a means of empower their lives and future within workplace. In India e-Learning systems and online courses are already started. This paper covers the issues of developing e-Learning system its requirement, and its implication in e learning.
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    Improving Access to Open Access Journals: Abstracting,Iindexing and Citation Sources
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Sangam, S L; Prakash, K
    The Open Access movement comprises many complementary initiatives, including digital scholarly journals, discipline-specific e-print servers, institutional repositories, and author self-archiving. Researchers are extensively using these repositories to publish their research outputs. Bibliographic control of scholarly literature of commercial publications is mostly available in the form of Abstracting, Indexing and Citation sources. But in the similar way for the open access publications it not the same case. Bibliographic control of open access e-resources is a major issue. The rapid growth of scholarly information resources available in electronic form and their organisation by digital libraries is proving fertile ground for the development of sophisticated new services, of which citation linking will be one indispensable example. Many new projects, partnerships and commercial agreements have been announced to build citation linking applications. Authors made an effort in this paper to articulate few bibliographic and citation resources.
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    Institutional Repositories, Open Access Movement and OAI- PMH Complaint Software
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2004-11) Chand, Prem; Murthy, T A V; Prakash, K; Gohel, Umesh
    The article outlines the overview of Institutional Repositories. A growing number of universities across the globe are running institutional repositories projects using open source software, while many others are in the planning stages. We move towards global sharing of information using these software and librarian have to play pivotal role in archiving the digital content, produced by the faculty members. Within next few years, I expect that universities in India also create repositories and effectively use open source software. This article describes about the current development of Open Access Initiative, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) an important infrastructure component for Institutional repositories. A convergence of technology developments and other initiatives has made IRs possible. Technology costs, especially storage costs, have dropped significantly. There is now a variety of open source and commercial software platforms available for an institution wishing to develop an IR.. The paper highlights about general overview of Institutional Repositories, open source software, standard and protocol and role of INFLIBNET.
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    An Overview of Future Role of Catalog in Academic Libraries
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-02-02) Sangam, S L; Prakash, K
    Catalog used to be a one point resource locater in Library in earlier days. Library professionals and users are happy with that practice in the print only era. Due to emergence of Electronic Resources, the role of catalog is also changing. Electronic resources have become reality along with print resources. Accessing electronic resources shows that librarians and users are facing a complex set of challenges. While a number of products have evolved for each aspect of the problem, the question is, how can they all be designed and implemented in such a way that they all work together, providing a clear and seamless interface for library users and avoiding redundant work for library staff? To date, no single product exists that provides comprehensive management of electronic resources. Will portals or federated search solutions be the answer to managing and providing access to resources available from academic libraries as well as other content needed by the academic community? With many, disparate electronic information sources available today, users are challenged with identifying and locating resources that match their needs. This paper explores some of the issues related to future of the catalog.
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    Portals : The Changing Face of Library Services
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2006-02-02) Vatnal, R M; Prakash, K
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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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    Standards for Creating Bibliographic Databases in Indian Academic Libraries under INFLIBNET Umbrella
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2004-11) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Prakash, K; Chand, Prem; Murthy, T A V
    In the field of library and information science, importance of cataloguing, classification, abstracting and indexing standards play a major role to represent the appropriate information of any document for patron’s use. In beginning, these standards were used to the documents in the print formats like shelf list, catalogue card etc. Gradually, after the invention of the computer technology, representation of information in print format has changed into the electronic format. There with the development of technology, due to flood of information and variations in the representation of the information, were forced the profession to develop different bibliographic standards; till date almost more than 30 bibliographic standards has emerged. Thus, every country is following their own bibliographic standards for representing the print documents into the electronic format. Same way, India is also working in creating the bibliographic databases of the resources available in different academic libraries of the country. INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre, UGC, Ahmedabad has embarked upon this issue and working in war footing level to achieve the goal. The authors describe the bibliographic standards being used for creating databases by Indian Academic libraries under INFLIBNET umbrella.