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Vision, Present Status amp; Action Plan for Development13;
No full textHarmonization amp; Optimization of distributed knowledge base and information systems and application of developments in digital world for providing high quality and quick information services as a basic input for boosting Aerospace Ramp;D activities in the countr
AeroInfo : a WorldWide Web Virtual Library for Aerospace Sciences
Get PDFThe Internet and Intranet, particularly WWW facilitate the world community to get the information they need exhaustively, expeditiously and easily, regardless of its physical location. The flexibility and interactive nature of WWW facilitates the information to be tailor made to suit its target audience. Web designing is an art of contents planning, content organization and providing suitable layout design and effective search engine. Planning and building a Website requires expertise in Web technologies, understanding the power of Web as a medium, Internet resources available and Web advertising. Besides this, one needs to analyse the results, validate links provided, observe the effects of changes to contents, organization and navigation and finally refine and constantly maintain the Website.13; 13; Keeping this in mind ICAST has provided a number of approaches for searching information through its newly launched Website x2018;AeroInfox2019;, a WWW Virtual Library for Aerospace Science and Technology. The contents planning and organization of this site is unique in the sense that the visitors can search information by Source Type, Document Type and Subject Categories.13; 13; While the thrust is for sources on Aerospace the site has provided thousands of links to the sites covering Physical, Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Indian and Worldwide Academic and R amp; D information. Being a new site Virtual Library updation is done very often and improvement upon the contents organization for facilitating better information retrieval intended.13
A Model for Scientific amp; Technical Information Consortium: Case Study of CSIR
Get PDFThe Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 having its office at Anusandhan Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi and is the one of the largest13; government funded R amp; D organization in India with a chain of 38 laboratories spread across the country (Appendix 1). CSIR has about 5,000 active researchers (3,000 of them are PhDs/MTechs) who are actively supported by 11,000 technical officers and 5,000 administrative and other supporting staff and has been responsible for pioneering research in all aspects of scientific amp; industrial research covering broadly Chemical, Physical, Biological, Information, Environmental and Engineering Sciences and Technologies. CSIRx2019;s research output in terms of publication compares well with the leading scientific institutions such as IISc, Bangalore, TIFR, Mumbai and IITs. Councilx2019;s innovation and core competency in knowledge development is functionally access dependent to latest development in S amp; T by its scientists and technical officers.13; Most of the laboratories have well established library or documentation centers. Apart from document sources like books, standards, technical reports, conference proceedings and patents, the scholarly journals are a major sources of R amp; D information. CSIR spends annually about Rs. 25.00 crores for journal subscription alone. Put together, all the 38 labs of CSIR subscribe to as many as13; 3,356 foreign research and scholarly journal titles annually at a cost of about Rs. 25 crores. As some of the laboratories are inter disciplinary in nature, some13; of the titles tend to be subscribed by more than one laboratory. However, the unique number of titles being subscribed by these laboratories is around 2500.13; These print editions collections create an annual depository of 5,000,000 plus printed articles spread across the labs in stand-alone manner. Most of the library13; and information centers of CSIR are well equipped with good IT infrastructure with network facility and high speed Internet connectivity
Emerging Pricing Models for E-Journals Consortia and Indian Initiatives
Get PDFThe print journals continue to dominate both from users point of view and publishers revenue. The advent of e-publishing has brought a revolution in journal publication, subscription, access and delivery mechanism. Print journals publishing costs include high article processing costs, high production and marketing costs. E-journal production and access costs are increased further due to infrastructure, customer support, IT savvy human resources, etc. While these costs form the base, other pricing factors include number of nodes, multiple campuses, access mode, training, perpetual access, etc. A study indicates that one of the US University Science Library spends 76 % of its journals budget on titles of 10 major publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Harcourt, Kluwer, Plenum, Blackwell, AIP, Marcel Dekker and Taylor Francis. This holds good for most of STM institutions too. The dwindling library budgets and growing number of journals force libraries to form consortia for accessing e-journals. The old concept x2018;consortiax2019; means a strategic alliance of institutions having common interests. Neither libraries nor the publishers have sufficient experience or data to determine the appropriate unit cost of information, the effective return on investment, or the most appropriate economic model for charging or paying for electronic information. There are no universally acceptable e-journals pricing and licensing models. Current pricing models for e-information, which are developing during a period of experimentation, are not sustainable. Although it can not be generalized the learned society publishers are increasingly prepared to make all their non-subscribed journals available to consortia in return for a relatively small extra payment. Many libraries especially in developing countries are not geared up for accessing e-Journals due to various reasons including user ignorance, infrastructure and funds. While there is an urgent need for changing the mindset of librarians, users and the administrators for subscribing to e-journals in India, a satisfying note is that few forward looking libraries have made a modest beginning in forming consortia. Some initiatives include x2013; Indian Institutes of Management for accessing bibliographic databases, CSIR Laboratories for Science Direct, FORSA for accessing Astronomy and Astrophysics journals, Hyderabad Knowledge Park members for J-Gate, INFLIBNET initiative for providing access to six universities for J-Gate and INDEST for Science Direct , IEEE Journals, few bibliographic databases for the benefit IITs and IISc. Some of the pricing and payment constraints specific to Indian libraries include - inadequate funds, single point payment, rigid administrative, financial and auditing rules, problems of defining asset against payment and pay-per-view not yet acceptable
A Multipurpose Indian Gateway for Aerospace Information
Get PDFAerospace Science and Technology encompasses the work carried in good number of branches of Engineering, Physical, Chemical, Material and other sciences. Electronic publishing is order of the day and aerospace Samp;T falls in line. This paper identifies various types of aerospace information generated in a variety of media and different access mechanisms. Few aerospace virtual libraries and library sites attached to aerospace institutions world over provide links to relevant sources. However Indian National Aerospace Laboratoriesx2019; portal x2018;AeroInfox2019; (www.aeroinfo.org.in) designed, developed and maintained by its Information Center (ICAST) is unique Aerospace Information Gateway in many respects. More than 50,000 web sources have been indexed under various headings including General Categories like- associations, organizations, space agencies, education, research and museums; Interdependent Subjects like- physics, chemistry, materials, mechanical engineering, electronics and composites; NASA Subject Categories like- aeronautics, aerodynamics, avionics, wind tunnels, composites, materials, etc; and Aviation Categories like- aircraft, airlines, air shows, airports, helicopters, etc. Indian Aerospace sources are covered exhaustively and are indexed separately using many subject headings and further grouped under four main categories- Aviation, Space Samp;T, Associations / Organisations and General. Links have been given to different servers for searching and downloading different types of aerospace documents like technical reports, journals, patents, regulatory information, conferences and news. ICAST also creates its own digital content including news clippings in aerospace, table of contents of 280 journals it subscribes, OPAC of library with gt;3,00,000 records, union catalogue of journals subscribed in 40 CSIR and 25 aerospace libraries, proceedings of conference on Knowledge Management and full text of NAL technical reports. Based on these resources a number of value added web/e-mail based information services are provided for the benefit of aerospace community within and outside NAL. The portal has been evaluated and indexed by many search engines and aerospace portals maintained by world aerospace leaders
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