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Bibliographic Search Instruction for Web-Users
Get PDFMost of the Libraries and information centres, now-a-days, have acquired access
to Internet. Users of these libraries and information centres are making good use
of this facility. However, it has been observed that freshers and laymen find it
difficult to browse Net effectively. Whenever they attempt to browse they often
fail to get the desired results. In other words, these neo-users do not know about
the proper searching instructions used while browsing the Web. Henceforth,
knowledge of search instructions is very much necessary if one wants to browse
the Web with desired results. There are various search engines that offer simple
and advanced searching like Yahoo, Alta-Vista, Excite, Lycos, Hotbot, etc. But
searching of required information is possible only when one is aware of the
syntax used in making a search. This paper gives information about the
searching instructions used in different search engines while making a query.
This paper also gives information about the ‘phrase searching’, ‘truncation’,
‘Boolean logic’, ‘case and accent sensitivity’, etc., that will prove helpful to the
users in browsing the web
Visualising Electronic Data Interchanging (EDI) and Virtual Information System (VIS) for Manipal Institutions
Get PDFPaper discuses a case study on a virtual information system for a
group of institutions in Manipal. A demonstration model, which
has been developed, is discussed
Design and Development of Web-Based Databases of Current Periodicals at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Get PDFThe library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
(IITKGP) was the first library in India which attempted to set up an electronic
library for its clientele under the auspices of AICTE. While placing the library
of IITKGP on Internet, the facilities offered by the WWW are exploited to
provide information services of more than 1000 current periodical titles (with
hard copy to on-line). This paper begins with a brief description of the
electronic resources available in the Central Library, IITKGP. As the web
sites are being set up by the libraries of all IITs, it is emphasized that the use
of Internet will enable to share their resources in general and periodical
publications in particular. Highlights the various types of web-based
information services on scholarly journals including electronic journals
(full text) which are linked to publishers’ addresses. Discusses the methods,
with illustrative examples, associated with the creation of several web-based
tools like alphabetical list of periodicals including availability of CD-ROM
databases, both in full text as well as abstracting and indexing journals, on-line
journals (full text), departmentwise list of periodicals, current arrival list of
periodicals, union list of periodicals (3500) subscribed by all IITs for
resource sharing purpose and other free on-line services provided by the
various publishers. Key word search program, hardware and software
requirements, HTML tags to create several hyper linked files, editors and
Internet solution for automatic web-page designing are also presented
Electronic Journals : Access and Delivery Models
Get PDFSeveral factors have been successfully pushing the conservative science
publishers to accept the transition to e-journals. Some of the influancing factors
are, the conveniences of web for access and browsing, the economics of Internet
for delivery, the digital library revolution etc. The paper discusses the
technological history of E-journals, access models, archiving, pricing and other
several issues
Secondary and Tertiary "Electronic" Souces of Information
Get PDFA key to finding the primary sources of information is the secondary and
tertiary sources of information. These sources in the electronic form
started with the online information retrieval systems. They have since
evolved from magnetic tapes to the microforms and then to the CD ROMs.
Now these are also available as DVDs and on the Internet. These sources
have become an inevitable part of a scholar or a researcher's or even a
student's pursuit of information. This paper is an attempt to give an
overall view of some of the "electronic" secondary and tertiary sources of
information
Document Identification and Classification Using Transform Coding of Gray Scale Projections and Neural Tree Network
Get PDFIn today’s technological environment, there is a definite need to
identify and classify documents reliably. The existing approaches are not
likely to prove effective in practical applications because of large
dynamic range and high computational cost. This paper discusses the
approach that involves a preliminary data reduction step, gray scale
projections and transform technique that greatly reduces the
computational complexity of the problem. Further classification is
successfully achieved using neural network. Subsequently, the
robustness of this approach to different conditions are provided
E-Journals in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities : A Critical Study
Get PDFThe previously arcane electronic publishing has now changed into a popular everyday
phenomenon fulfilling the exciting promises of many years. In recent years, a respectable portion
of the traditional top journals in various disciplines have started offering new channels of access
via electronic media that do not differ essentially from their paper formats. Increasingly more full
text editions are appearing on the Internet. These electronic versions have both merits and
demerits. Some of the advantages include improved retrieval and hyperlinking capabilities and
speed of production and distribution. Disadvantages posed by e-journals include technological
barriers, economic barriers etc. This paper critically examines some of the important e-journals in
disciplines like Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Science News Services on the Internet
Get PDFScience is the design or conduct of reproducible experiments to test how
nature works, or formulation of theories that can themselves be tested by such
experiments. It is the research that makes science so powerful and exciting.
Science adds to our store of knowledge. It is the seeking that makes science what
it is. Research is the very important component of science.
Scholarly journals report the results of research, but only months after the
fact. Given the high and increasing costs of paper publishing, they are expensive.
This puts them virtually out of reach for many individuals and even many
institutions, especially those in less developed nations. Even the appearance of Ejournals
have not solved the problem, because of the high cost of subscription. So,
there is a need for a faster and cheaper medium of communication of science
news.
This paper, discusses about the fast and cheaper mode of communications
of science news, i.e. ‘Science news on the web’. Bits move virtually
instantaneously; a news release sent by e-mail can be on any World Wide Web
news page within minutes. These are the forces that come together to make a
science news service on the web a virtual necessity. Many of the sites in the
Internet have been dedicated for Science and Technology news. They are
discussed in detail. These include Scinews, Eurekalert, Scicentral, Unisci, Scilink,
Sciencedaily, etc
Web Page Designing : An Introduction
Get PDFGeologists and natural biologists have proved that world has been shrinking over
the past millions of years. But technologists have proved that it does not take
even half a century to shrink so much (though not geographically), thanks to the
advent of Internet and advances in telecommunication. Today, we can learn
about any corner of the world with a mere click of the mouse. Internet has
become the world’s window to information and Web pages serve as the
information-carrying documents. This paper gives an introduction to Webrelated
concepts, Web page designing using HTML codes and MS FrontPage
Digitization : Vision and Task
Get PDFThis paper discusses the problems and difficulties
encounterd by traditional library systems while preserving and maintaining the library material. The paper tries to document in the form of DL, how to preserve and maintain the traditional and old records of library and information centres. It also discusses the various aspects of digital libraries like its definition, advantages and
disadvantages of digitization. Digital library is a powerful tool of preservation, because there are tremendous amount of facilities, advantages and sustainability which in a far comprehensive and greater way exists over the traditional libraries. The paper in the main stream of thought compares and contrasts the traditional
library and new form of digital library in order to arrive at a conclusion for a necessity and need for making digitization. This paper discusses the need and advantages of Digitization. It highlights the process of digitization which will be helpful in undertaking the digitization projects and utilizing the
funds in digitizing their resources