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Singh, Yogendra; Murthy, T A V (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Big deal or the consortia site licensing is the most preferred way of e-journal subscription for Indian Consortia be it INDEST or the UGC Infonet. In the big deal model all the journals published by a publisher or hosted by an aggregator on its web site are made available to the consortia members at a so called “highly reduced” price. It has been seen that the librarians throughout the world haves been raising objections to this mode since beginning. There are various concerns which have been identified such as monopoly of the publishers, use of a limited number of titles, effect of citation ranking of journals published by the small publishers and the fear of death of journals published by the developing countries. Though a number of articles have been published on this topic but most of them have been on the qualitative aspects of such deals. There are a few studies that have been conducted on quantitative aspects. In this paper a study of use of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect at IIT Roorkee has been presented which clearly shows that a very limited number of titles are frequently used in the Institute. This data clearly indicates that the Big Deal mode of subscription is not at all in the favour of the consortia. Supports an alternate model for subscription which should be based on the fixed fee access to the limited set of journals which are frequently used and pay for use for the journals which are less frequently used. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1578 Files in this item: 1
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Lohar, M S; Kumbar, Mallinatha (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: To evaluate the use of Digital Resources and services in Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET) college library in Davanagere (Karnataka). a survey of 100 Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Research Students of different branches was conducted by administering questionnaire. The analysis of the collected data covers the digital resources and services and how the digital resources improve carrier of the students and also deals with the problems that are faced in using the resources and services. Finally, it concludes that the main intention of the use of digital resources and services has been the academic interest of the students. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1552 Files in this item: 1
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Ramesh Babu, B; Tamizhchelvan, M (INFLIBNET Centre, February NaN, 2003)[more][less]
Abstract: The design and development of OPACs are the recent development of libraries in India in general and Tamilnadu in particular. The major objective of the paper is to gain an overview of the subject access features of the OPAC interfaces being used in Tamilnadu. A sample of 50 libraries in Tamilnadu was selected. The analysis of the data represents the state-of-the-art of the libraries in the winter of 2002. The data includes, the types and nature of the libraries, Information Technology application, interface used, range of access points provided, subject access facility and types of searches in OPACs. The major findings of the survey are: an emerging trend in the development of OPACs; use of a variety of commercial software, in-house developed software also used in a few libraries; coverage of OPACs limited to book collection only; and absence of standardized vocabulary control tools for subject access. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/174 Files in this item: 1
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