ABSTRACT
Due to advent of new technologies have made it imperative for Libraries to absorb, adopt, adapt, and to provide Information Technology based services to the users. The institutions use modern communication technologies for information management and dissemination. This paper describes the experiences in using the GNU EPrints software and explains in brief the various aspects of an Institutional Repository. It is usefull web based Library and Information services of CMRIT Library.
Keywords: Institutional Repository, Open Access, EPrints, CMRIT
Introduction:
The Institutions are producing good number of research documents that are expanding the frontiers of Knowledge and scope for technological innovation. Advent of new technology have made imperative for Libraries to absorb, adopt, adapt, and to provide information technology based services to the users. Institutions use modern information and communication technologies for information management and dissemination. The Intellectual output of the Institution can be shared by others institutions. The sharing of knowledge may lead to development of Institutional Repositories. A variety of web based systems are becoming available for accepting deposit of papers. These systems make the research output of institution easier to discover, manage and preserve. They also make it possible to share information globally through compliance with a standard metadata harvesting protocol.
Institutional Repository is contemporary concept that captures and makes available as much of institutional research output as possible to the users. It is a sort of database of digital information resource accessible through Internet or Intranet. It consists of formally organized and managed collection of digital content generated by faculty, staff, and students at an institution. The Institutional repository might include electronic documents such as Research Papers, Project Reports, Patents, Thesis and Dissertations. It may also includes Lecture Notes, Conference Proceedings, Learning Objects (Study Materials, Assignments, Question Papers, Audio-Video material, Multimedia presentations, Syllabus etc.) etc.
Definition:
Rick Johnson, SPARC defined Institutional repositories as “digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community”
” To self-archive is to deposit a digital document you have written in a publicly accessible website”, From ECS, U. of Southampton, research self-archiving policy
Clifford Lynch defined Institutional repositories as follows, a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.
Mark Ware (Ware, 2004) adds OAI-compliance in his Institutional repository and defined Institutional Repository is to be a web-based database (repository) of scholarly material which is institutionally defined (as opposed to a subject based repository); cumulative and perpetual (a collection of record); open and interoperable (e.g. using OAI-compliant software); and thus collects, stores and disseminates (is part of the process of scholarly communication). In addition, most would include long-term preservation of digital materials as a key function of Institutional Repositories.
Hardware Requirements
v Intel Pentium 4 Processor or Duo Core
v 512 MB RAM or more
v 20 GB Hard Disk or more
Software Requirements
An Institutional Repositories can build with technology building blocks such as
v Linux or Fedora Core or Windows
v Webserver such as Apache Tomcat or IIS
v Databases such as MySQL, DB2, Oracle, Postgres SQL Server
v Tools like Word, Pdf, Latex, Power Point etc.
v Institutional Repository Software (EPrints, DSpace, Fedora etc)
Software Packages for Institutional Repositories:
There are good number of software packages is available for Institutional Repositories and they are available in several different licensing and distribution models.
v Commercial Software’s
These are available for the Purchase, this software’s can be customized but the source code will be available with vendor. Few of the commercial software’s are
1. CONTENTdm: It is Digital collection management software by Dimema., Inc.
v Open Source Software’s
It can be downloaded for free and these are open source standards. We can customize the source code and can be redistributed. They are
Archimeda: Developed at Laval University Library
CDSWare (CERN Document Server Software) developed by CERN, European organizations for Nuclear Research.
DSpace: Developed by MIT Library and HP Labs.
Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository): Developed by University of Virginia and Cornell University.
Greenstone (GSDL): Developed by Newzeland Digital Library project at the University of Waikato.
GNU EPrints: Developed by University of Southampton.
MyCoRe: It is developed by MILESS Project of the University of Essen. It is a core bundle of software tools to support Digital Libraries and archiving solutions.
v Service Model Software’s
Software vendor owns and distributes a software platform, and also hosts and manages the data of repository. They are
bepress: Developed by the Berkley Electronic press, it builds and hosts their customer repositories.
Open Repository: Service Model software offered from Biomed Central.
GNU EPrints@CMRIT
CMR Institute of Technology is a pioneering institute in the field of Engineering Education for the future Engineers, established in the year 2000 under CMR Jnanadhara Trust. It is offering both U.G and P.G courses, more than 2500 students are studying and more than 180 staff are working. The programme is directed towards modernization of Library and Information center, and establishment of mechanism for Information transfer and access to support scholarship learning and academic pursuit.
Many of the institutions started creating the Institutional Repositories by utilizing open sources and to provide open access to the scholarly literature. They are using long term preservation of Information for the future generations in an economical way. The institutions are using variety of open source softwares for archiving like Greenstone, EPrints, DSpace etc. After experimenting the some of the open source softwares, CMRIT is decided opt GNU EPrints for its Institutional Repository.
GNU EPrints is generic software developed by the University of Southampton. It is available freely for download. It is developed under open source standard. Its primary goal is to setup an open archive for Research papers. Information can be stored in images, audio, video and other graphical information but we need do more changes in configuration files.
GNU EPrints can be run on Redhat Linux or Fedora core 5 or higher and on all other Linux distributions also it will run. EPrints 3 can now install on Windows.
EPrints version 2.3.13 is downloaded form the eprints.org and installed on Fedora Core 5 with httpd server. EPrints is customized according to our requirements and created the subject tree. EPrints is accessible through http://10.201.6.158.
< xml="true" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" prefix="v" namespace="">
Figure 1: Homepage of eprints@cmrit
Browse Items:
Items included in CMRIT Repository are
v Articles or Research reports submitted for publication
v Learning materials , courseware, and Teaching materials
v Conference Papers
v Student Projects
v Theses and Dissertations (Doctoral & Masters)
v Question Papers
Items can be browsed by
v Year of the Publication: Here we can browse according to the year of the publication.
v Subject wise: The arrangement according to the Department wise, here we have created subject tree according to our need i.e.
Subject Areas (Department Wise)
o Bio-Technology
o Chemistry
o Civil Engineering
o Computer Sciences
o Electrical and Electronics Engineering
o Electronics and Communication Engineering
o General
o I & II Semester BE Courses Syllabus - New Revised 2006
o Information Sciences
o Library and Information Science
o Master of Business Administration
o Master of Computer Applications
o Mathematics
o Mechanical Engineering
o Physics
o Question Papers
o Telecommunication Engineering
Figure 2: Browse by Subject
v Person wise (Author): This arrangement is according to the Author wise in alphabetical order.
Search:
Searching of items can be by Simple Search and Advanced Search. In Simple search we can search the items by Title, Full Text, Authors, and Date. Advanced search can be by Full Text, Title, Authors or Creators, Abstract, Uncontrolled Keywords, Subjects, Item Type, Department, Editors, Status, Refereed, Journal, and Date.
Figure 2: Advanced Search
Register:
Depositing of the items can be possible only after registration with the EPrints Repository. As a registered user you will be able to manage the EPrints up to the point of submitting them for Editorial Review. If Editorial review is successful, the EPrint will be deposited in the repository, if it is not successful it will bounce back to user with a comments. If User forgotten the User ID or Password can be changed here.
User Area:
Begin a new item: It will allow to cerate a new item and to attach files. The deposited items will not appear until they have been checked by the responsible person.
Editorial Review: This option allows us to view, edit and approve items which are submitted by the users.
In this page we can also see the un deposited items, pending items, most recently accepted items, review of items in the repository, and also we can change the password.
Figure 3: User Area
Conclusion:
Institutional Repositories are recent development in the field of Open Archive Initiatives. It is contemporary concept that captures and makes available research out put of the institution and it consists of formally organized and managed collection of digital content generated by the faculty, staff, and students of the institution. These are stockholders of digital Information with this we can achieve great success in dissemination of Information to end-users and also we can achieve the sharing of information globally.
References:
Institutional Repository, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
Barton, Mary R and Waters M Margaret, Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS workbook, MIT Libraries. http://www.dspace.org/implement/leadirs.pdf
EPrints 2.3 Documentation, www.eprints.org
Self-Archiving and Institutional Repositories, SPARC Paper, Europe.
http://www.sparceurope.org/Repositories/
A Guide to Institutional Repository Software, 3rd Edition, August 2004.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_IR_Software_v3.pdf
Patel, Yatrik, Vijayakumar, J.K. Dr. Murthy, T.A.V, Institutional Digital Repositories / e-archives: INFLIBNET initiatives in India.
Published in SALIS 2007 National Conference at Anna University.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
Open Access to E – Resources
Open Access to E – Resources
Venkatarama Reddy C S
Email: venkat_222002@yahoo.co.in
Introduction:
The Open Access movement is the world wide effort to provide free online access to Scientific and Scholarly research literature, especially peer – reviewed journal articles and their preprints.
Many Libraries, faced with budgetary crunches and the resultant lack of technological resources, have opted for open source solutions to some of their Information technology problems.
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
“Resources those are openly available to users with no requirements for authentication or payment.”
The first OA Initiative is Budapest Open Access Initiative, and it was big initiative in the world (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml).
Major E – Resources of Open Access
Open Access Journals
Open Access Journals are primarily electronic journals, these journals allow the authors to retain their copyrights. Three organizations play a major role in the publication and archiving of Open Access Journals, they are BioMed Central, the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and PubMed Central. Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is an inovative Sceintific Electronic Publishing Cooperative that focuses on providing open access to Latin and Caribbean Journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/): It covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals (2609 journals), and aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Open J–Gate (http://www.openj-gate.com/): It is an electronic gateway to global journals literature in Open Access domain, it is world’s biggest open access English Language Journals portal and it covers more than 3000+ journals.
Open Access Journals in the field of Education (http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/): American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group has been given the links to peer reviewed electronic Journals in the field of Education.
Free Medical Journals (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/index.htm): It is maintained by Bernd Sebastian Kamps, around 400 E – Journals are free to access in the field of Medical Sciences.
Indian Journals.com (http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx): it is a product of Divan Enterprises to provide single platform to Indian Journals and highlight Indian contributions internationally.
E – Books
E – Book is a electronic book, it is cheaper and easier to produce than a paper book. E – Books can be updated, rewritten, corrected and kept fresh. E – Books will offer a rich learning experience, audio, video, 3D animation and collective learning tools. There are good number of electronic books are available on the internet for free of cost. They are available in most of the subject areas. Some are available for browsing and many titles are for download.
Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/)
Provides free full text online access to reference, literature and verse books.
Computer Books (http://freecomputerbooks.com/)
It is a free collection of computers and Information Technology related books from all over the world.
Computer and Internet Books Online (http://hogan-productions.com/books/)
This database contains links to free ebooks available online.
Ebrary (http://shop.ebrary.com/)
It holds a collection of e-books on various subjects, here only viewing is free. To browse one has to download their plugin.
Freebooks4doctors (http://fb4d.com/)
FreeBooks4Doctors is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. There are good number of titles available on different aspects of medical sciences. It provides links to free of cost e-books available on different sites.
Free online Books (http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html)
It provides links to online full text of educational and technical books. Also provides links to online course, workshops, etc.
Free Programming and Computer Science Books (http://www.techbooksforfree.com/)
Here we can download programming and computer science books for free.
Free Tech Books (http://www.freetechbooks.com/)
It lists free online computer science and engineering books, and also Lecture Notes.
World e-book Library (http://www.netlibrary.net/Public.htm)
It is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Provides free access to collection listed under 'Public'.
For further information on free E – Books is available in the following web address http://www.infolibrarian.com/ebook.htm
Institutional Archives Repositories
Institutional Archives provide access to the world wide literature of one or more fields. An Institutional repository includes a variety of materials produced by scholars such as e-prints, technical reports, theses and dissertations, data sets, teaching materials, e-books, and e-journals etc. Dspace at MIT is a good example of an Institutional Repository (http://dspace.mit.edu/).
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), it is an directory of Open access repositories of the world. In this directory we can search all the leading repositories of the world.
(http://www.opendoar.org/)
eScholrship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/), is a service of the eScholrship initiative of the California Digital Library. The Repository includes the Journals, Seminar Series, Postprints etc.
Some of the important Indian Institutional Repositories
Ø Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository (DSpace@IIA) (http://prints.iiap.res.in/)
Ø DSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (DSpace@IIMK) (http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/ )
Ø Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Scholarship Repository ( http://eprints.iimk.ac.in/)
Ø Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science (http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/)
Ø Open Access Repository of IISc Research Publications (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ )
Ø Digital Library at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (ISI Library)http://library.isibang.ac.in:8080/dspace/
Ø Librarians' Digital Library (LDL) (https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ )
Ø DSpace@INFLIBNET (http://dspace.inflibnet.ac.in/ )
Ø National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository (NAL Repository) (http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/ )
Ø DSpace at National Chemical Laboratory (DSpace@NCL) (http://dspace.ncl.res.in/dspace/ )
Ø OpenMED@NIC (http://openmed.nic.in/)
Ø DRS at National Institute Of Oceanography (DRS@nio) (http://drs.nio.org/)
Ø Dspace@National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace/ )
Ø OneWorld South Asia Open Archive Initiative(http://open.ekduniya.net/)
Ø Raman Research Institute Digital Repository (http://dspace.rri.res.in/dspace/ )
Ø University of Delhi (http://eprints.du.ac.in/ )
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (http://www.ndltd.org/) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) (http://etd.vt.edu/) at Virgina Tech is a cooperative effort between the Graduate School and the University Libraries. Since 1997, there has been a move from paper theses and dissertations to electronic format which is now a requirement for graduation.
Vidyanidhi (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/) is a repository for Indian doctoral thesis. At present it provides access to metadata of Indian thesis and dissertations of all the Universities, few full text theses [ETDs] are presently available in its database. It started as a project in 2000 with support from NISSAT, Govt. of India. It welcomes Universities and Researchers to participate in this Programme. The project is based at Dept of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, Karnataka.
E Reference Sources
Dictionaries
Dictionary of Difficult Words (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/)Roget's Internet Thesaurus (http://thesaurus.reference.com/)Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)WWWebster Dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm)WordNet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/main/)Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/)
Rogets Thesaurus (http://asadz.com/thesaurus/)
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of the Orient (http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm)Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia (http://medlineplus.gov/)Encarta Encyclopedia (http://encarta.msn.com/)Encyclopedia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/)Encyclopedia (http://www.encyclopedia.com/)Discovery online (http://www.discovery.com/)Tech Encyclopedia (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/)World of Mathematics (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/)News Papers
Online Newspapers.com (http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/) is offering thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips. We can access by country wise.
Maps and Atlases
Rare Maps (http://www.raremaps.com/)Maps and Atlases (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlhome.html)MAPS (http://www.mapquest.com/)Freeality Online Atlases, Maps, and Travel Directions (http://www.freeality.com/maps.htm)
Atlas (http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm)Geography : Atlases (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/gen//Atlases.html)
Venkatarama Reddy C S
Email: venkat_222002@yahoo.co.in
Introduction:
The Open Access movement is the world wide effort to provide free online access to Scientific and Scholarly research literature, especially peer – reviewed journal articles and their preprints.
Many Libraries, faced with budgetary crunches and the resultant lack of technological resources, have opted for open source solutions to some of their Information technology problems.
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
“Resources those are openly available to users with no requirements for authentication or payment.”
The first OA Initiative is Budapest Open Access Initiative, and it was big initiative in the world (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml).
Major E – Resources of Open Access
Open Access Journals
Open Access Journals are primarily electronic journals, these journals allow the authors to retain their copyrights. Three organizations play a major role in the publication and archiving of Open Access Journals, they are BioMed Central, the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and PubMed Central. Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is an inovative Sceintific Electronic Publishing Cooperative that focuses on providing open access to Latin and Caribbean Journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/): It covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals (2609 journals), and aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Open J–Gate (http://www.openj-gate.com/): It is an electronic gateway to global journals literature in Open Access domain, it is world’s biggest open access English Language Journals portal and it covers more than 3000+ journals.
Open Access Journals in the field of Education (http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/): American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group has been given the links to peer reviewed electronic Journals in the field of Education.
Free Medical Journals (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/index.htm): It is maintained by Bernd Sebastian Kamps, around 400 E – Journals are free to access in the field of Medical Sciences.
Indian Journals.com (http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx): it is a product of Divan Enterprises to provide single platform to Indian Journals and highlight Indian contributions internationally.
E – Books
E – Book is a electronic book, it is cheaper and easier to produce than a paper book. E – Books can be updated, rewritten, corrected and kept fresh. E – Books will offer a rich learning experience, audio, video, 3D animation and collective learning tools. There are good number of electronic books are available on the internet for free of cost. They are available in most of the subject areas. Some are available for browsing and many titles are for download.
Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/)
Provides free full text online access to reference, literature and verse books.
Computer Books (http://freecomputerbooks.com/)
It is a free collection of computers and Information Technology related books from all over the world.
Computer and Internet Books Online (http://hogan-productions.com/books/)
This database contains links to free ebooks available online.
Ebrary (http://shop.ebrary.com/)
It holds a collection of e-books on various subjects, here only viewing is free. To browse one has to download their plugin.
Freebooks4doctors (http://fb4d.com/)
FreeBooks4Doctors is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. There are good number of titles available on different aspects of medical sciences. It provides links to free of cost e-books available on different sites.
Free online Books (http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html)
It provides links to online full text of educational and technical books. Also provides links to online course, workshops, etc.
Free Programming and Computer Science Books (http://www.techbooksforfree.com/)
Here we can download programming and computer science books for free.
Free Tech Books (http://www.freetechbooks.com/)
It lists free online computer science and engineering books, and also Lecture Notes.
World e-book Library (http://www.netlibrary.net/Public.htm)
It is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Provides free access to collection listed under 'Public'.
For further information on free E – Books is available in the following web address http://www.infolibrarian.com/ebook.htm
Institutional Archives Repositories
Institutional Archives provide access to the world wide literature of one or more fields. An Institutional repository includes a variety of materials produced by scholars such as e-prints, technical reports, theses and dissertations, data sets, teaching materials, e-books, and e-journals etc. Dspace at MIT is a good example of an Institutional Repository (http://dspace.mit.edu/).
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), it is an directory of Open access repositories of the world. In this directory we can search all the leading repositories of the world.
(http://www.opendoar.org/)
eScholrship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/), is a service of the eScholrship initiative of the California Digital Library. The Repository includes the Journals, Seminar Series, Postprints etc.
Some of the important Indian Institutional Repositories
Ø Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository (DSpace@IIA) (http://prints.iiap.res.in/)
Ø DSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (DSpace@IIMK) (http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/ )
Ø Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Scholarship Repository ( http://eprints.iimk.ac.in/)
Ø Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science (http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/)
Ø Open Access Repository of IISc Research Publications (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ )
Ø Digital Library at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (ISI Library)http://library.isibang.ac.in:8080/dspace/
Ø Librarians' Digital Library (LDL) (https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ )
Ø DSpace@INFLIBNET (http://dspace.inflibnet.ac.in/ )
Ø National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository (NAL Repository) (http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/ )
Ø DSpace at National Chemical Laboratory (DSpace@NCL) (http://dspace.ncl.res.in/dspace/ )
Ø OpenMED@NIC (http://openmed.nic.in/)
Ø DRS at National Institute Of Oceanography (DRS@nio) (http://drs.nio.org/)
Ø Dspace@National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace/ )
Ø OneWorld South Asia Open Archive Initiative(http://open.ekduniya.net/)
Ø Raman Research Institute Digital Repository (http://dspace.rri.res.in/dspace/ )
Ø University of Delhi (http://eprints.du.ac.in/ )
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (http://www.ndltd.org/) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) (http://etd.vt.edu/) at Virgina Tech is a cooperative effort between the Graduate School and the University Libraries. Since 1997, there has been a move from paper theses and dissertations to electronic format which is now a requirement for graduation.
Vidyanidhi (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/) is a repository for Indian doctoral thesis. At present it provides access to metadata of Indian thesis and dissertations of all the Universities, few full text theses [ETDs] are presently available in its database. It started as a project in 2000 with support from NISSAT, Govt. of India. It welcomes Universities and Researchers to participate in this Programme. The project is based at Dept of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, Karnataka.
E Reference Sources
Dictionaries
Dictionary of Difficult Words (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/)Roget's Internet Thesaurus (http://thesaurus.reference.com/)Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)WWWebster Dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm)WordNet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/main/)Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/)
Rogets Thesaurus (http://asadz.com/thesaurus/)
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of the Orient (http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm)Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia (http://medlineplus.gov/)Encarta Encyclopedia (http://encarta.msn.com/)Encyclopedia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/)Encyclopedia (http://www.encyclopedia.com/)Discovery online (http://www.discovery.com/)Tech Encyclopedia (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/)World of Mathematics (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/)News Papers
Online Newspapers.com (http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/) is offering thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips. We can access by country wise.
Maps and Atlases
Rare Maps (http://www.raremaps.com/)Maps and Atlases (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlhome.html)MAPS (http://www.mapquest.com/)Freeality Online Atlases, Maps, and Travel Directions (http://www.freeality.com/maps.htm)
Atlas (http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm)Geography : Atlases (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/gen//Atlases.html)
Resume
Venkatarama Reddy C.S.
C/O Shankar Reddy Building, WASA Layout, Karthiknagar, Doddanakundi Bangalore- 560037
Email: venkat_222002@yahoo.co.in
Mobile: 9845976966
Career Objective
Timely access to information is an essential service that adds a great value to the productivity of any R&D work. This is the thrust area of Information/Library Sciences.
Armed with the requisite skills for efficient Information and library management, I intend to bring forth the best of my potential talents, work meticulously with full commitment and take an active interest in the growth of the organization that I will be part of with innovative ideas, and achieve fame by scaling peaks of excellence.
Work Experience
¨ Presently working as Asst. Librarian in CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Responsibilities include managing the library with administrative functions such as acquisition/subscription of books and journals, issue of books and journals and budgeting; providing the required information to the users from the internal and external resources; Internet searches and database searches. (Since September 2002)
¨ Worked as a Temporary Project Assistant at J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore. Responsibilities included, handling Circulation Section, Periodical/Journal Section, Reference Section, Automation and Database Maintenance, Barcoding, Digitization of Thesis. (12th December 2001 to 29th June 2002).
¨ Worked as Librarian Larven Educational Center, Bangalore. Responsibilities included organization of the collection using classification and cataloguing techniques, managing the Library with administrative functions such as acquisition & subscription of Books & Journals & transactions. (July 2001 to December 2001)
Education
¨ Master of Philosophy in Library and Information Science (M.Phil) with a First Class from Alagappa University in 2005
¨ Postgraduated in Library and Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.) with a distinction (67%) and secured Third Position, from Bangalore University in 2001.
¨ Graduated (B.Sc. in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology) in 1998 from Govt First Grade College, Chikkabalapur.
¨ Passed II year Pre-University in 1995 from National College, Bagepalli.
¨ Passed S.S.L.C in 1993 from Govt High School, Nagaragere.
Technical Expertise
Software
¨ Operating Systems : MS-DOS, Windows-95/98/NT/2000, Linux
¨ Packages : MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, XML, Perl
¨ Library Packages : LibSys, Libsoft
¨ Digital Library Packages : GSDL, EPrints, DSpace, Koha
Internet Skills
Configuring, Browsing, Searching.
Projects/Dissertation
1. Post Graduation (M.L.I.Sc.) Research Topic – Analysis of the Contributions of the Journal “Information Studies” involving Citation Analysis techniques, submitted to Dept. of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University.
2.Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) Research Topic – Design, Architecture, and Development of CMR Institute of Technology Digital Library.
Language Proficiency
English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu.
Interests
Listening to Music, Reading, Surfing the Net and Traveling.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 11th December 1976 (11/12/1976)
Nationality: Indian
Home State: Karnataka
Gender: Male
Father’s Name: Srinivasa Reddy.
Strengths: Good Analytical, Communication & Interpersonal skills, Highly inquisitive, True team player, Sincerity, Will Power & Meticulousness
(Venkatarama Reddy C.S)
C/O Shankar Reddy Building, WASA Layout, Karthiknagar, Doddanakundi Bangalore- 560037
Email: venkat_222002@yahoo.co.in
Mobile: 9845976966
Career Objective
Timely access to information is an essential service that adds a great value to the productivity of any R&D work. This is the thrust area of Information/Library Sciences.
Armed with the requisite skills for efficient Information and library management, I intend to bring forth the best of my potential talents, work meticulously with full commitment and take an active interest in the growth of the organization that I will be part of with innovative ideas, and achieve fame by scaling peaks of excellence.
Work Experience
¨ Presently working as Asst. Librarian in CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Responsibilities include managing the library with administrative functions such as acquisition/subscription of books and journals, issue of books and journals and budgeting; providing the required information to the users from the internal and external resources; Internet searches and database searches. (Since September 2002)
¨ Worked as a Temporary Project Assistant at J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore. Responsibilities included, handling Circulation Section, Periodical/Journal Section, Reference Section, Automation and Database Maintenance, Barcoding, Digitization of Thesis. (12th December 2001 to 29th June 2002).
¨ Worked as Librarian Larven Educational Center, Bangalore. Responsibilities included organization of the collection using classification and cataloguing techniques, managing the Library with administrative functions such as acquisition & subscription of Books & Journals & transactions. (July 2001 to December 2001)
Education
¨ Master of Philosophy in Library and Information Science (M.Phil) with a First Class from Alagappa University in 2005
¨ Postgraduated in Library and Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.) with a distinction (67%) and secured Third Position, from Bangalore University in 2001.
¨ Graduated (B.Sc. in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology) in 1998 from Govt First Grade College, Chikkabalapur.
¨ Passed II year Pre-University in 1995 from National College, Bagepalli.
¨ Passed S.S.L.C in 1993 from Govt High School, Nagaragere.
Technical Expertise
Software
¨ Operating Systems : MS-DOS, Windows-95/98/NT/2000, Linux
¨ Packages : MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, XML, Perl
¨ Library Packages : LibSys, Libsoft
¨ Digital Library Packages : GSDL, EPrints, DSpace, Koha
Internet Skills
Configuring, Browsing, Searching.
Projects/Dissertation
1. Post Graduation (M.L.I.Sc.) Research Topic – Analysis of the Contributions of the Journal “Information Studies” involving Citation Analysis techniques, submitted to Dept. of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University.
2.Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) Research Topic – Design, Architecture, and Development of CMR Institute of Technology Digital Library.
Language Proficiency
English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu.
Interests
Listening to Music, Reading, Surfing the Net and Traveling.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 11th December 1976 (11/12/1976)
Nationality: Indian
Home State: Karnataka
Gender: Male
Father’s Name: Srinivasa Reddy.
Strengths: Good Analytical, Communication & Interpersonal skills, Highly inquisitive, True team player, Sincerity, Will Power & Meticulousness
(Venkatarama Reddy C.S)
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