Management of e-Resources in R amp; D Centers: A Case Study of the Information Center at NAL13;

The developments in information technology and their applications to library and information services have given new dimension to the entire spectrum of information management. The information generated is usually stored in four physical media: paper, film, optical, and magnetic disks. The e-document be it a book, journal, technical report, conference proceedings is portable; has random access to its contents; and the document can also be a multimedia object, in that it may contain not only text, but also graphics, drawings, photographs or video. Now we have the emergence of publications over the electronic networks and the activity took off in a big way following the invention of the World Wide Web. The Open Access movement is becoming the order of the day. More than 3000 journals are free on net for anybody to access. A number of Institutional repositories and e-Prints archives have thrown challenge to the publishing industry. Consortium approach through different pricing, management and licensing models is enabling the libraries to provide access to thousands of e- journals, e-books and other kinds of e-documents. The Information center at NAL with its state-of-the-art library has progressed a good deal in this direction by acquiring different kind of documents especially e-form, cataloguing amp; processing them appropriately, storing and giving access to its patrons not only in library premises, but on to the desk tops spread in three different campuses through laboratory LAN and also extending selected services through Internet for the benefit of any body from any part of the world. 13; Created and maintained by ICAST the Portal x2018;AeroInfox2019; (www.aeroinfo.org.in) serves as one window information search facility for Web sources in aerospace science and technology. This virtual library facilitates multiple approach to information seekers as the web sources are indexed and organised using different schemes of classification including NASA subject categories. Care is taken to cover Indian aerospace sources exhaustively. The ICAST site (www.icast.org.in), apart from giving detailed information about library sources including books, journals, E-journals, databases and technical reports makes available different search tools for its users. Other details like working hours, library rules, staff details, contact persons, etc are provided. One can submit an online query and suggest documents for acquisition using online forms provided. The Library Database (OPAC) is probably is single largest in the country with more than 3.25 lakh bibliographic records of books, technical reports, patents, standards, journals, etc. ICAST users can search International databases like Aerospace Database, NTIS, J-Gate, Medline, etc through campus LAN. Users can access more than 2500 full text journals covering titles published by Elsevier (ScienceDirect), ASME, AIAA, Springer, John Wiley, OUP, CUP, AMS, World Scientific, few Annual Series, etc. Created by ICAST an e-journals gateway with browse and search (alphabetical and subject wise) facility for titles provides access to more than 700 journals available free on the net. The Centre provides a number of web/e-mail based innovative information services including Journal Contents Service, News Clipping Service, Monthly Documents Additions Lists covering both Books and Technical Reports, Web Alert Service and Union Catalogue of Journals -CSIR and Aerospace Libraries, etc

Institutional Repositories in India: A Case Study of National Aerospace Laboratories

This paper traces the history and developments in Open Archives Initiatives including open access journals, e-print archives and Institutional repositories. The setting up of NAL’s Institutional Repository using OSS GNU Eprints, document types with statistical analysis, country wise statistics of full text download, levels of accessibility and technologies used in building the Institutional Repository have been discussed at lengt

AeroInfo : a WorldWide Web Virtual Library for Aerospace Sciences

The 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 Multipurpose Indian Gateway for Aerospace Information

Aerospace 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

E-Resources management through portal: A case study of Technical Information Center

The heterogeneous nature of the documents both in terms of physical forms, types,sources of generation following different standards and that of users carrying both 13; research and development work demanding services suitable to them and co-existence of both old timers loving only print documents and younger scientists asking for documents on to their desk tops, the responsibility of information professionals is becoming much more challenging. The developments in information technology and their applications to library and information services have given new dimension to the entire spectrum of information management. The information generated is usually stored in four physical media: paper, film, optical, and magnetic disks. The e-document be it a book, journal, technical report, conference proceedings is portable; has random access to its contents; and the document can also be a multimedia object, in that it may contain not only text, but also graphics, drawings, photographs or video. Now we have the emergence of publications over the electronic networks and the activity took off in a big way following the invention of the World Wide Web. The Open Access movement is becoming the order of the day. More than 3000 journals are free on net for anybody to access. A number of Institutional repositories and e-Prints archives have thrown challenge to the publishing industry. . The developments in ICT have enabled the Information Centers to develop many innovative tools and techniques for acquiring, organizing, retrieving and disseminating knowledge sources, generating information services and marketing them to its clientele. 13; 13; Consortium approach through different pricing, management and licensing models is enabling the libraries to provide access to thousands of e-journals, e-books and other kinds of e-documents. The Information center at NAL with its state-of-the-art library has progressed a good deal in this direction by acquiring different kind of documents especially e-form, cataloguing amp; processing them appropriately, storing and giving access to its patrons not only in library premises, but on to the desk tops spread in three different campuses through laboratory LAN and also extending selected services through Internet for the benefit of any body from any part of the world. 13; Created and maintained by ICAST the Portal x2018;AeroInfox2019; (www.aeroinfo.org.in) serves as one window information search facility for Web sources in aerospace science and technology. This virtual library facilitates multiple approach to information seekers as the web sources are indexed and organised using different schemes of classification including NASA subject categories. Care is taken to cover Indian aerospace sources exhaustively. The ICAST site (www.icast.org.in), apart from giving detailed information about library sources including books, journals, E-journals, databases and technical reports makes available different search tools for its users. Other details like working hours, library rules, staff details, contact persons, etc are provided. One can submit an online query and suggest documents for acquisition using online forms provided. The Library Database (OPAC) is probably is single largest in the country with more than 3.25 lakh bibliographic records of books, technical reports, patents, standards, journals, etc.13; 13; ICAST users can search International databases like Aerospace Database, NTIS, J-Gate, Medline, etc through campus LAN. Users can access more than 2500 full text journals covering titles published by Elsevier (ScienceDirect), ASME, AIAA, Springer, John Wiley, OUP, CUP, AMS, World Scientific, few Annual Series, etc. Created by ICAST an e-journals gateway with browse and search (alphabetical and subject wise) facility for titles provides access to more than 700 journals available free on the net. The Centre provides a number of web/e-mail based innovative information services including Journal Contents Service, News Clipping Service, Monthly Documents Additions Lists covering both Books and Technical Reports, Web Alert Service and Union Catalogue of Journals -CSIR and Aerospace Libraries, etc. 13

A Model for Scientific amp; Technical Information Consortium: Case Study of CSIR

The 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

Vision, Present Status amp; Action Plan for Development13;

Harmonization 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