Browsing by Author "Satyabati, Thiyam"

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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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    Institutional Repository of INFLIBNET Centre Using Dspace
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2004-11) Satyabati, Thiyam; Hosamani, H G; Murthy, T A V
    Universities and other organization are producing digital objects articles, reports, thesis, Audio/Video, datasets in ever increasing number. Libraries around the world are building up their own Institutional repository centre using a variety of software packages for digital asset and content management and also collect, preserve and provide access to these digital objects. This paper will highlight the needs of an Institutional Repository and the initiative taken up by the INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network Centre) in building up the Institutional Repository by using the open source software Dspace developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.