The Ratan Tata Library Its Resources A Presentation

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The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources AN OVERVIEW OF THE RATAN TATA LIBRARY (RTL), DSE RTL is about 63 years old now and its first purchase of book was done on 23. 07. 1955 with the accession no. 14716 and catering to the needs of basically of four departments at DSE namely, Commerce, Economics, Geography and Sociology, in addition it also provides services to other faculties and departments of DU and other universities and institutions in India & abroad because of its rich collection and the requirement of users in view of interdisciplinary approach. The collection is divided broadly in four groups: Books, Journals, Reference Sources and Theses and Dissertations. WHAT IS AVAILABLE WHERE Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources WEBSITE RTL Website: The Users can access DULS/ RTL-Website by clicking on libraries on the webpage of Delhi University accessing. The subscribed electronic resources (ERs) can be accessed through URLs provided on the website using DU campus network. RTL Website URL: http: //crl. du. ac. in/rtl/ Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources REFERENCES SOURCES Reference Sources: These include Gazetteers, Bibliographies, Statistical Sources, United Nations Documents and are placed in Current Periodicals Section and rest documents, viz. , dictionaries, encyclopedias etc. are on the Ground Floor in the Circulation Section. Census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. censuses; Gazetteer A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory , an important reference for information about places and place names. District Gazetteer The District Gazetteer is a comprehensive geographical, economic, social and cultural catalogue of the India n subcontinent. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources PERIODICALS Periodicals: subscribing to 305 journals (from CNA+BW+AEA)+60 (BW)+ other govt documents costing app. Rs. 93 Lakhs, of which about 152 journals are of Commerce & Economics and in e format subscribing to 168 journals . The RTL is also receiving many central and state govts. documents, UN documents, corporate sector reports. Periodicals Section is in the annexe of the library where current issues of journals are available on the first floor and bound volumes of periodicals will be on the ground floor. These can be consulted and photocopying. However, if any document is available in e format, the RTL does not issue its print version, therefore, ensure it before making a request. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources ECONOMICS JOURNALS You need DUCC Campus Internet connectivity to use all the links for subscribed databases. However, public domain electronic resources can be used from any where. http: //crl. du. ac. in/subjectportal/ECONOMICS/ECON OMICS. htm Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Open Sources: Internet and its most used component WWW has turned into a biggest source of information with widest coverage and the fastest access. It is the most powerful tool for global communication and exchange of information. DULS regularly research on open access e-resources and provides a link to these resources for use in teaching, learning and research. http: //crl. du. ac. in/oa/index. htm Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Subscribed Sources: 86 Electronic Databases have been subscribed by the DULS and made accessible through DU Campus Network. It includes the Reference Sources, Bibliographic Sources, Statistical Sources, and Full Text Sources. A brief description of these under given resources including the Subject Coverage, Search Features, Database Services, Document Category, etc. are available through more information for the help of users. The given URL Address directly takes to the concerned database. http: //crl. du. ac. in/sub. database/SUBS. E-RESOURCE. htm Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources ELECTRONIC RESOURCES The UGC-Infonet: Digital Library Consortium subscribes to the following resources for its member institutions. All electronic resources subscribed are available from the publisher's Web site. Following is the list of E-Resources with link to their brief introduction. List of Journals including Title, URLs and Coverage is available here. UGC Infonet: http: //crl. du. ac. in/Infonetresources. htm Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE Explore the world’s leading citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of over 10, 000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120, 000 conferences. Powerful tools include cited reference searching, Citation Maps, and the Analyze Tool. http: //isiknowledge. com/ Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources Searchable A-Z List of e -Journals This is University of Delhi sponsored Electronic Journal Listing Service (EJLS) Project. A large number of e-journals databases are accessible through DU campus network. EJLS provides a searchable database of all the ejournals available through various databases. It facilitates searching the ejournals by title and subject. Besides, it also provides A-Z list of all e-journals as well as listing of e-journals by publishers and by database. The Help menu gives guidance for searching of the EJLS database. The Search result includes Title, Access period, URL Address, Publishers, Database and Remarks, if any, for individual e-journals. The URL address takes directly to the concerned e- journal web page. Link: http: //crl. du. ac. in/atozn/ Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources KNIMBUS “KNIMBUS is a customized Federated Search Service available. Using this search service Delhi University users will be able to search across multiple e-resources (Journals) through a single user interface instead of searching each eresource individually. This powerful and easy to use search service is functionality rich and designed for benefit of faculty, researchers and students. ” http: //www. knimbus. com/user/auth. do Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources Financial and Statistical Sources Indiastat. com Capitalline. Plus ISI Emerging Markets CEIC Asia ISI Emerging Markets EMEI Asia The World Bank e-Library Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources LIBRARY SERVICES Library Services: RTL- Online Catalogue, Internet, and electronic resources with the help of 64 terminals. Lending, reservation, Photocopying, lists of additions of books to the library brought out fortnightly. RTL also obtains books required by the users and not available in the RTL on inter library loan from other libraries through DELNET. Bibliographies on topics and subjects are made available on demand. Scan Documents and CD’s format are placed in e Library. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources A SAMPLE OF SINGLE AUTHORHIP BIBLIOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A BOOK ACCORDING TO ALL THREE CITATION MANUALS Chicago Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006. MLA (Modern Language Association) Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. New York: Putnam, 1955. Print. APA (American Psychological Association) Kidder, T. (1981). The soul of a new machine. Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE The Chicago Manual of Style presents two basic documentation systems: (1) notes and bibliography and (2) author-date. Choosing between the two often depends on subject matter and the nature of sources cited, as each system is favored by different groups of scholars. The notes and bibliography style is preferred by many in the humanities, including those in literature, history, and the arts. This style presents bibliographic information in notes and, often, a bibliography. It accommodates a variety of sources, including esoteric ones less appropriate to the author-date system. The author-date system has long been used by those in the physical, natural, and social sciences. In this system, sources are briefly cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by author’s last name and date of publication. The short citations are amplified in a list of references, where full bibliographic information is provided. Aside from the use of notes versus parenthetical references in the text, the two systems share a similar style. Click on the tabs below to see some common examples of materials cited in each style, including examples of common electronic sources. For numerous specific examples, see chapters 14 and 15 of the 16 th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. http: //www. chicagomanualofstyle. org/tools_citationguide. html Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources MLA CITATION STYLE MLA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the Modern Language Association for acknowledging sources used in a research paper. MLA citation style uses a simple two-part parenthetical documentation system for citing sources: Citations in the Text of a paper are used to point to an alphabetical Works Cited list that appears at the end of the paper. Together, these references identify and credit the sources used in the paper and allow others to access and retrieve this material. http: //www. library. cornell. edu/resrch/citmanage/mla Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources APA CITATION STYLE APA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for documenting sources used in a research paper. APA style requires both in-text citations and a reference list. For every in-text citation there should be a full citation in the reference list and vice versa. The examples of APA styles and formats listed on this page include many of the most common types of sources used in academic research. For additional examples and more detailed information about APA citation style, refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and the APA Style Guide to Electronic References. Also, for automatic generation of citations in appropriate citation style, use a bibliographic citation management program such as Refworks or End. Note. You can find more information on this in our Citation Management page. http: //www. library. cornell. edu/resrch/citmanage/apa Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an autonomous Information and Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It is a major National Programme initiated by the UGC in 1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad. Initially started as a project under the IUCAA, it became an independent Inter-University Centre in 1996. INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India and connecting them as well as information centres in the country through a nation -wide high speed data network using the state-of-art technologies for the optimum utilisation of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in India. http: //www. inflibnet. ac. in/about/ Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources UGC-Infonet is an ambitious programme of UGC to interlink all the Universities in the country with state-of-art technology. The Network is being switched to BSNL backbone w. e. f 1 st April 2010 and renamed as UGC Infonet 2. 0. ON the new scheme 10 Mbps(1: 1) Leased line is being established in 180 plus universities preferably by using Fiber to provide Internet Services. INFLIBNET is responsible for executing and monitoring the entire project. The UGC-INFONET mainly provides Internet bandwidth, a prerequisite for delivery of scholary content subscribed through the UGCINFONET Digital Library Consortium. The scheme has now been extended to 200 Universities and 6 Inter-University Centres of the UGC. http: //www. inflibnet. ac. in/infonet/ Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK ERNET (Education and Research Network) has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country. It practically brought the Internet to India and has built up national capabilities in the area of net-working, especially in protocol software engineering. It has not only succeeded in building a large network that provides various facilities to the intellectual segment of Indian society --the research and education community, it has over the years become a trendsetter in the field of networking. UNDP has lauded ERNET as one of the most successful programmes it has funded. The Govt. of India has committed itself to further strengthen the project by including it in the 9 th Plan with the allocation of funds and by creation of a new organisational set-up in the form of a Society. The Science community of the country has also recognized ERNET's contribution--both for infrastructure services as well as for R&D. The Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet has adopted ERNET as the platform for launching an S&T network in the country. http: //www. eis. ernet. in/ Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own original work. "[1][2] The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18 th century, while in the previous centuries authors and artists were encouraged to "copy the masters as closely as possible" and avoid "unnecessary invention. “ Plagiarism is not a crime but is disapproved more on the grounds of moral offence. However, this has now been a crime under Copyright Law. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources Google: Searching Tips : These are some nifty modifiers to type in your google search box to refine your searches and get the best results. Google Scholar : Google Scholar helps you search and find academic papers, abstracts and other scholarly sources – all with the speed and accuracy of Google search. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Books Electronic versions of printed books that can be viewed online via any PC connected to the Internet. It includes mostly the classics. Some public domain e-book resources are: Project Gutenberg http: //www. gutenberg. org/ Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books. The collection consists of more than 20, 000 e-books. Bartleby. com http: //www. bartleby. com general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Books The Online Book Page http: //digital. library. upenn. edu/books/ The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about 25000 e-books on different subjects. MIT Open. Course. Ware http: //ocw. mit. edu/index. html It is a site for 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free download Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Books Read Print site http: //www. readprint. com/ It is very useful for historians and lovers of literature, as this site contains mainly the classics. It offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. Free Books http: //www. e-book. com. au/freebooks. htm A site which provides comprehensive web links on Best free Digital Libraries – Australia; Best free Digital Libraries – World; Other Free Australian Books; Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English; World - Other Languages, Regional and National; Individual Topics/Miscellaneous; Sacred Texts & Religion. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Journals published in electronic format, often available on the Internet. q Directory of Open Access Journals http: //www. doaj. org/ There are now 3811 journals in the directory. Currently 1338 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 244429 articles are included in the DOAJ service. q New. Jour : http: //gort. ucsd. edu/newjour/ An archive for the Internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet q Openj-Gate. com http: //www. openj-gate. com/ It is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals q Public Library of Science: http: //www. plos. org/index. php PLo. S is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. q Bioline International: http: //www. bioline. org. br/ It is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. q Bio. Med Central: http: //www. biomedcentral. com/home/ It is a Publisher of more than 160 peer-reviewed open access journals. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals q High. Wire Press: http: //highwire. stanford. edu/ A division of the Stanford University Libraries, High. Wire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1010 journals and 4, 074, 364 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. High. Wire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1, 566, 498 articles free. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals q Indian Academy of Sciences : http: //www. ias. ac. in/ The Academy, founded in 1934, aims at promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science in pure and applied branches. The Academy's journals are 'open access' and full text is available as PDF files on each journal's website. See the Publications page for links to the journals and other Academy publications. q Journal of Digital Information: http: //journals. tdl. org/jodi First publishing papers in 1997, the Journal of Digital Information is an electronic-only, peer-reviewed journal covering the broad topics related to digital libraries, hypertext and hypermedia systems, and the issues of digital information. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals q Free Medical Journals: http: //www. freemedicaljournals. com/htm/index. htm Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. q Strategian: http: //www. strategian. com/ The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance: Subject Gateways are portals to information that are usually limited to a specific domain or subject area. The resources accessible through these gateways are reviewed, selected, evaluated and catalogued by information professionals or subject experts. Some examples are: q Pinakes: A subject launchpad http: //www. hw. ac. uk/lib. WWW/irn/pinakes. html As the Internet grows in size it becomes increasingly difficult to locate relevant material. The Pinakes is a compilation of Internet resources, which links to the major subject gateways. q Cogprints http: //cogprints. org/ Cog. Prints, an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e. g. , artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e. g. , mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e. g. , ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e. g. , Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e. g. , primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance Subject Gateways © Bubl Information Services http: //bubl. ac. uk/ BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service which provides links to over 12, 000 internet resources in a wide range of subject areas. Initially designed as a resource for librarians, it includes a directory of UK organisations and institutions, job postings, usergroup links, surveys and comprehensive archives. BUBL provides links to current editions of all major UK newspapers, as well as abstracts and selected full text from over 200 journals. © E-Print network http: //www. osti. gov/eprints/ Provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites. It is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance Subject Gateways © WWW Virtual Library http: //vlib. org/? / © Infomine © intute Catalog of Internet resources. Indexes cover a broad range of subject areas. Each entry within a subject area links to the appropriate Internet resource and is accompanied by a brief description and a relevancy ranking. http: //infomine. ucr. edu/ A Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet. http: //www. intute. ac. uk/ A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in Science & Technology, Arts and Humanities Social Sciences, Health and Life Sciences. Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

The Ratan Tata Library & Its Resources E-Resources in public domain at a glance Subject Gateways © Voice of the Shuttle © Renardus http: //vos. ucsb. edu/ Made publicly accessible in 1995, this site began as an introduction to the Web for humanists. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources in the humanities and associated disciplines. http: //renardus-broker. sub. uni-goettingen. de/ Integrated search and browse access to records from individual subject gateway services across Europe. It provides a source of selected, high quality Internet resources for those teaching, learning and researching in higher education in Europe. q Socio. Site http: //www. sociosite. net/index. php Social Science Information System based at the University of Amsterdam Dr. Lokesh Sharma Librarian

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