About Library
The INFLIBNET Library plays a vital role in the collection development and dissemination
of scientific and technical information to meet the present and future needs of
the Centre. The INFLIBNET Centre has a small, specialized library consisting of
2000 documents on computer, communication, information and library science. The
library is fully computerized using SOUL integrated library management software.
The collection of the library is available online through the web OPAC facility
of the SOUL. The INFLIBNET Library plays a vital role in the collection development
and dissemination of scientific and technical information to meet the present and
future needs of the Centre. The Library maintains databases of participants who
attended various training programmes at INFLIBNET Centre; SOUL installations; and
universities and its contact details including e-mail and website addresses. These
databases are accessible through the library website at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/universitydirectory/
Library Services
The library provides following services to its users:
- Reference Service
- Document Delivery Service
- Current Awareness Service
- Inter Library Loan Service
- Electronic Information Service
- Photocopy Service
CD ROM-based Search Services
The Centre subscribes to a large number of databases on CD-ROM consisting of bibliographic details of research articles mainly in the area of social sciences, arts and humanities. Services from these databases are available free-of-cost to the academic community including research scholars and the students for their research activities. These CD ROM databases have been discontinued since 2003 given the fact that e-resources are now being made available to universities under the purview of UGC through the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The CD-ROM databases available at the INFLIBNET Library are as follows:- LISA: Library and Information Science Abstract [1969-2003]
- Dissertation Abstracts International: Humanities & Social Sciences [1987-2003]
- EconLit: Economic Literature [1969-2003]
- EMBASE Drugs & Pharmacology CD [1986-2003]
- Philosopher's Index [1999-2003]
- PsycLit: Psychological Literature [1887-2003]
- Sociofile: Sociological Abstracts [1974-2003]
- Current Contents on Diskette: Social and Behavioral Sciences [1999-2003]
- Inside Science [1999-2003]
- Inside Social Science [1999-2003]
The Centre also subscribes to the following bibliographic databases of books that are being used for authenticating bibliographic records in union catalogues. These databases are also available to visiting users:
- Ulrich's On Disc: International Periodicals Directory
- ISSN Compact: The ISSN register on CD-ROM [1999, 2003]
- NUCSAL: National Union Catalogue of Serials in Academic Libraries [2005]
- BNB: British National Bibliography, Current file [1986-2001]
- OCLC: Recent Books [1999]
- OCLC: Old Books [1999]
- OCLC: Serials [1999]
- OCLC: Authority file [1999]
- CDMARC: Subject Headings [1996]
- CDMARC: Names [1996]
- CDMARC: Holdings [1996]
Besides receiving access to e-resources on complementary basis under
the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, the Centre maintains a separate Archival
Library consisting of print journals received as a part of the agreement with the
participating publishers of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Under the
agreement, the publishers are requested to submit a copy of all the issues of the
journals. This archival library is open to all users interested in using these print
resources for their study / research.
The Centre has received issues of 286 journal
titles from different publishers. During this year under review, issues of 100 journals
each were received from the Taylor and Francis, Blackwell and Oxford University
Press. Users can access information about these journals on their desktops at the
website.
IR @ INFLIBNET
The IR @ INFLBNET has been set-up to host full-text of research publications of
technical staff as well as other publications of the Centre using Dspace, an open
source digital library software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Dspace supports the Open Archives Initiative�s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH), an internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards.
The IR @ INFLBNET provides a platform for researcher in LIS to deposit, reuse and
share their research publications. The repository also has the ability to capture,
index, store, disseminate and preserve digital materials created in the Centre.
Staff members can register themselves with the digital repository and submit their
pre-prints (pre-refereed version of an article), post-prints (post-refereed final
version) and publisher PDFs (if allowed by the publisher). The papers publish in
CALIBER and PLANNER proceedings have been uploaded in to the IR @ INFLIBNET in PDF
format. The Institutional Repository also includes Course Materials, Newspaper Clippings,
etc.
Institutional Member
The Centre has institutional membership of following national and international
organizations:
E-Journals Archival Library (Print Version)