Browsing by Author "Karmakar, Gouri Sankar"

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    E-Resources in College Libraries of Guwahati with Reference to NLIST: A Study
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Karmakar, Gouri Sankar; Deka, Prasanta Kumar; Singh, Sanjay Kumar; Sarkar, Sankar
    In the era of Information explosion e-resources are the only solution in the academic community for dissemination of knowledge in the present context. The paper mainly discusses on the use and application of e-resources in the college libraries of Guwahati, Assam. It highlights the present scenario of NLIST including access facility, user awareness and also discusses the security threats of digital era. The INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad is providing e-resources to Colleges in India in general and NE Region in particular.
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    Institutional Repositories in India: A Comparative Study of Dspace and Eprints
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2010-02-18) Karmakar, Gouri Sankar; Das, Rumi; Thakuria, Juli
    This paper identifies and outlines the role & importance of various Institutional Repositories (IR) in India. The rapid advent use of IT has completely revolutionized the library systems and changed library services. In India open access movement is getting momentum in libraries to overcome the access barriers of scholarly publication. The institutional repositories were identified through a study of the literature, as well as internet searching and browsing. Each of the Institutional Repository software has a lot of features, unique facilities and excellent capabilities, which the users could explore and experiment. But in this paper we have tried to compare only, two Institutional Repository software i.e. Dspace & Eprints & its role in building Institutional Repositories along with the comparison the various aspects of D-space & E-print software, the various institutions using it in India for their Institutional Repository. Most of the Institutional Repositories (IR) in India use D-space and E-prints software.
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    Use of Online Resources Among the Students of Science & Technology Libraries of Guwahati: A Study
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Karmakar, Gouri Sankar; Choudhury, Nisangka; Goswami, Pallab
    The online resources are the emerging information systems and services in every discipline and becoming more and more popular particularly in science & technology disciplines. This paper tries to evaluate the use of online resources among the science & technology students of selected libraries of Guwahati and examines the problems in accessing the online resources, student’s level of satisfaction, frequency of use and various aspects of online resources.