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PROGRAM TO POST-PROCESS THE CDROM DATABASE RECORDS TO INDICATE THE JOURNAL AVAILABILITY IN J R D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
If knowledge implies power, then its basic ingradient- information is a vital source of power. Scientific and technical information plays an important role in the development of nations. The proliferation of research and development programmes has resulted in an enormous output of the scientific proceedings, etc that is growing exponentially. Added to this, there is a growing user population, making greater demands for information and increasing cost of materials and services.
Challenge and Response:
In the above context, information handling and transfer have become extremely complex. The conventional techniques of bibliographic control have been put to severe strain in recent years, to cope up with this complex problem. Efforts to meet the challenge caused by the information explosion and to make the available relevant information to the user in time and in an economic manner have led to the evolutions of newer techniques in processing and storing of information for quick and efficient retrieval.
Information services:
Information service has been defined as a service provided by, or for, any Information centre which draw attention to information possessed in its centre in anticipation of demand; this is done by preparing and circulating newsheets, literature surveys, reading lists, abstracts, particulars of articles in current periodicals, etc which it is anticipated will be of potential interests of the users of the service.
The factors that mainly diminish the usefulness of the general information services to the users of a library are the time lag and scattered information. In view of this, libraries scan through the reading materials received by them and issue their own local documentation lists to meet the need of their clientele. These are in the form of a) Simple Documentation lists b) Abstracts c) Indexing documentation lists d) Document Delivery Services. Other types of services will include document procurement, either by purchase or by Inter Library Loan and translation and reprographic service.
So, to meet the needs of user community it has become important
function of the any library to do the document delivery service (DDS).
1.2 NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENCE INFORMATION
NCSI is a UGC Inter-University Centre for Science Information, functioning as a constituent of the Indian Institute of Science. It has been the mandate to act as a national level information facility for researchers in Indian Universities and colleges in the areas of Science and Engineering. The centre was started in 1983, under the chairmanship of Prof. V Rajaraman and has today developed into a premier information centre, providing a variety of computer-based information services.
Catalyst for Quality research:
Information services provided by the Centre was designed to reduce the time for gathering information and assimilation of information by the scientists and also aid immensely in directing their
efforts towards quality research.
Resource Base:
NCSI has adapted information technology for harnessing S & T information. Our technology base includes networked PCs and workstations, CD-ROM workstations, a 28 CDROM server, Internet and online database connectivity, Web and E-mail servers, scanning and CD recording facilities.
The information services provided by the centre are derived from its electronic library of key international level bibliographic, full text and factual databases on CDROM covering major areas of Science and Engineering.
Information Services:
Major function of NCSI is to help researchers in gaining access to results of research work conducted world wide, related to his/her field of specialization. Towards this end, the centre has developed a variety of information services.
Database search services:
Under database search services, the centre provides both current and retrospective information services. Current information services provide latest information in specific areas of science and technology. These are profile based and operate on yearly subscription . Current Awareness Service(CAS) and Contents Of Periodicals in Science and Technology(COPSAT) are two key services under this category. Retrospective services support on-demand, comprehensive database searches for specific period. CD-ROM search service(CDRS), Online Search Service (OSS) and Factual Data Search Service (FDSS) are three retrospective information services provided by NCSI.
Document Delivery Service:
Database search services of the Centre have succeeded in creating more demand for full text of research papers, while the document supply facilities within the country have worsened due to drastic cuts in subscription of periodicals by libraries. The DDS of the centre helps the researchers with the daunting task of finding full text papers. NCSI has international tie-ups with BLDSC, K., NLA, Australia and KR Sourceone, USA to supplement the IISc library collection.
Network Information Services:
A networked environment offers an unique opportunity of serving research information to the end users right at his/her desktop computer. NCSI has taken cognizance of the emerging national and global network infrastructure and integrate its information services into the overall networked environment. Network Information services of the centre include: E-mail based services, Internet Search Services(ISS), Infowatch, LIS-Forum. The excellent campus intranet existing in IISc is used by NCSI to offer network access to its CD-ROM databases. Recently, the centre introduced three existing profile-based services, delivered to individual through E-Mail. Electronic Table of Contents(ETOC) delivers content pages of journals selected by the researcher every week. Citation Alert Services delivers citing paper and source paper data to individual faculty, pertaining to their research publications. Hot Papers in Science(HPIS) delivers highly cited research publications during the recent most two-year period, to the faculty based on the topics identified by them.
Projects:
The centre has been able to attract a modest number of consultancies and sponsored R & D Projects thanks to the enterprise and infrastructure facilities developed over the years. These projects have helped in further sharpening of their technical competence and to develop new techniques, tools and innovative products and solutions. The Centre’s staff have also been called upon to serve on various national level committees set up by agencies like the UGC, MHRD, planning Commission dealing with the formulation of plans and policies, curriculum development, etc in the area of information science and technology.
1.3 J R D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The Library of the Indian Institute of Science(IISc) Bangalore, was established in 1911 and it is one of the first three departments started in the Institute. It is regarded as one of the best scientific and technical libraries in India. Apart from the main library it has departmental libraries also. In 1995 the library was renamed as “ J R D Tata Memorial Library”.
The primary mission of the library is to support the educational and research programmes by providing physical and intellectual access to information, consistent with the present and the anticipated educational and research functions of the institute. The secondary mission is to serve as a resource centre for the scholars and scientific community of the country. The collection of the library includes books, journals, reports, standards and patents is regarded as the one of the richest collections in the country. The annual budget of the library is about 6.5 crores of which subscription receives over 1557 periodical titles of which 1229 are subscribed while the remaining titles are as gratis and on exchange basis. The total holdings of the library exceeds 4,11,676 documents.
The library offers services such as Reference Services, Referral services, User Guidance services, Circulation service including Inter Library Loan and Document Delivery Service, Book Bank Service, weekly display of Xerox copies of articles and books including Email distribution of these lists to users on the mailing list, Bibliographics service, Xerox service, etc. The library has been using the LIBSYS an Integrated Library Management software package will all the modules for the library housekeeping operations. Further, the bibliographic information of books are also accessible through web (Co-operative effort of Library and NCSI).
The library is participating in the Networking and resource sharing activity in the city libraries through Bangalore Library Network(BALNET) and maintains a union catalogue of all periodical publications received in the city and union catalogue of books and four major libraries in the city.
Document Delivery Service at IISc Library:
The library offer DDS ( material if it is with them) to the students and researchers from other research centres and universities on special request. This service offered on cost basis without violating the copyright law.
1.4 DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE (DDS)
Post-processing of online search results is a fact of life. A searcher will routinely open a captured search session file in a word processing application and edit it by removing false drops or duplicates, and deleting search statements, login and logout displays, cost information, headers and banners—in essence removing anything deemed irrelevant or unnecessary to the client.
According to "Harrod's - Librarians Glossary and Reference Book",
"Document Delivery Services" - hosts enable users to order copies of materials retrieved by online searches, either by direct despatch of items by the host, or via an agent. Such document delivery services may also be offered online to the users' terminals, rather than in
hard copy.