N list e-resources in the college library. a study
- 1. DR.NINGAPPA.N.ARABAGONDA ASSOCIATE LIBRARIAN GOVT FIRST GRADE COLLEGE BYADAGI-581106 KARNATAKA(INDIA)
- 2. The Project entitled“National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N- LIST)”,being jointly executed by theUGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST- AICTEConsortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGC-INFONETresources for technicaluniversities and UGC-INFONETresources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST Project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre.The authorized users from colleges can access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre
- 3. Easy access to information any where any time to any one without physical existence. The potential to display materials that are in inaccessible formats, for instance, large volumes or maps. Comparatively economical and potential for Comparatively economical and potential for integration into teaching materials. d) Access to related material though linkage. Enhanced search ability, including full text. Integration of different media (images, sounds, video, etc.) The ability to satisfy requests for surrogates (photocopies, photographic prints, slides, etc.).
- 4. Today, e-resources have become a major field in the world literature. Electronic publishing are those publications, which are found in electronic or digital media. The electronic documents are made available either on CD-ROMs or on the Internet. The electronic documents, which areInternet. The electronic documents, which are available on CD-ROM, are referred as offline documents while those on the Internet are known as online documents. All types of documents are available through internet or network. Publishing industry has been heavily depending on it. In formally we can divide all available resources in two categories i.e. Paid resources, Open access resources.
- 5. The Project has four distinct activities and components, To subscribe and provide access to selected UGC- INFONET e-resources to technical institutions (IIMs, IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs) and monitor its usage; To subscribe and provide access to selected INDEST e-resources to selected universities and monitor itse-resources to selected universities and monitor its usage; To subscribe and provide access to selected e- resources to all Govt.aided/non- aided colleges and monitor its usage; and To act as a Monitoring Agency for colleges and Evaluate, Promote, Impart training and monitor all activities involved in the process of providing effective and efficient access to e-resources to colleges.
- 6. Universities: 100 universities covered under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium can now accessWeb of Science. Technical Institutions: IITs, IISc, IISERs and selected NITs (i.e. core members of the INDEST- AICTE Consortium) can now accessselected e- resources namely Annual Reviews, JSTOR, Project Muse, Nature and Taylor&Francis.Project Muse, Nature and Taylor&Francis. Colleges: All colleges including Govt., Govt.- aided as well as non-aided colleges (except colleges imparting education in agriculture, engineering, management, medical, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing) can now access selected electronic resources including electronic journals, electronic books and bibliographic databases. These resources include more than 6000+ e-journals and 97,300+ e-books.
- 7. Sl. No E-Resources/E-Journals Publishing Country No of Journals Back files 1 American Institute of Physics USA 18 TenYears 2 American Physical Society USA 10 TenYears 3 Annual Reviews USA 33 TenYears 4 Cambridge University Press UK 224 TenYears 5 Economic and Political Weekly INDIA 01 1966+ 6 Indian Journals.com INDIA 186 2007+ 7 Institute of Phy UK 46 Vol.1+ 8 MathSciNet (Bibliographic Database) sics USA 01 1940+ 9 Oxford University Press UK 206 - 10 Royal Society of Chemistry UK 29 -
- 8. Sl.No E-Resources No. of E-books 1 E-brary 70,000 2 Oxford Scholarship Online 902 3 NetLibrary 9863 NetLibrary 986 4 McGraw Hill 1,308 5 Cambridge University Press 1000 6 Hindustan Book Agency 65 7 ISEAS Books 382 8 Springer e-books 1500 9 Taylor & Francis 1500
- 9. E-resources of NLIST can be accessed by the users with the help of a valid user Id and password. The colleges registered under NLIST have to prepare a list of authorized users of the college such as teachers, students, staffs in the prescribed format for the purpose of getting User Id and Password from the INFLIBNET centre, Ahmedabad. After obtaining User Id and Password from the INFLIBNET from the INFLIBNET centre, Ahmedabad. After obtaining User Id and Password from the INFLIBNET centre, user can access e-resources by login at NLIST site i.e. http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in. Total number of registrations: (4742) Numberof 12B/2FColleges: (3116) Numberof Non-aidedColleges: (1179) Numberof 12B/2fandNon-aidedColleges: (4306) Today's Registration: (4) (SOURCE; INFLIBNET WEB SITE 20/08/2015)
- 10. User’s awareness is very much essential as many users do not know how to access. The INFLIBNET Centre conducts Awareness and Training programmes in various universities to generate awareness regarding availability of e-resources to colleges under the N-LISTof e-resources to colleges under the N-LIST Project. Besides, universities are also being encouraged to conduct awareness training programmes for its affiliated colleges. Besides, N-LIST website host online tutorials, user guide and spoken tutorials for e- resources covered under the project
- 11. Colleges should have adequate number of Internet-enabled PCs and connectivity to Internet so as to access e-resources through N-LIST
- 12. The N-LIST Project has initiated Inter Library Loan (ILL) services for the benefit of users from colleges enrolled under the NLIST Project. All faculty, staff and students from member colleges are welcomed to use this service and request journal articles and chapters from books that are not available through resources subscribed under the N-LIST Project. Theresources subscribed under the N-LIST Project. The requests for articles can be sent online using Online ILL Request form available on the N-LIST website (http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/article/). This service is free of charge. Users are required to log- in with their username ID and password to request articles using N-LIST/ILL Service. The username ID and Password for ILL requests are the same that have been provided to the users for accessing N- LIST resources.
- 13. How to Access E-Resources through N-LIST? Follow the steps given below in order to access e-resources through N-LIST Programme
- 14. Login Launch your Internet Browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and Log on to http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in. Enter Your Username and Password in text entry box and click on Login as shown below. If you do not have username and password, please contact your college authorities to register with N-LIST and obtain username and password. On successful Log-in, a list of e-resources subscribed through NLIST Programme will be displayed. will be displayed. Access E-resources Click on the desired e-resource to reach out to the full-text e-resource on publisher’s website. For further help in search, browse or navigate articles / book chapters through publisher’s website, Click on User Guide / Help from navigation bar and download user manual and tutorials.
- 16. Click on “Search” option on navigation bar of N-LIST Web Site to search journals covered under the N- LIST Programme. Enter name ofLIST Programme. Enter name of journal or a subject term in text entry box and click on “Go”. Search results will be displayed with link to full-text of journal(s) on publisher’s Web site.
- 17. For Librarian Click on button on your browser to logout. ClickHere Click on button on your browser to logout.
- 18. Get Registered Faculty, staff, students and researchers from colleges covered under the 2F / 12B Act of UGC are eligible to access e-resources through the N- LIST programme. Follow the steps given below if your college is not registered with the N-LISTyour college is not registered with the N-LIST Programme as yet. Click on “Register” option from navigation bar of N-LIST Web site, N-LIST Registration page will be displayed as shown below.
- 21. With the advantages of the information age the libraries have brought new opportunities to enhance their services. Using new technologies to achieve the highest degree of security possible if new technologies are ensured and need another layer of action for the effectiveneed another layer of action for the effective use of the resources. The INFLIBNET Centre Ahmedabad is providing NLIST subscriptions free of cost to all the college libraries of India which are under 2F/12B section of UGC.. So it the need of the hour that all college libraries of india must avail these facilities put forwarded by INFLIBNET.