Information Sources on the Internet for Chemistry Research

1. Information Sources on the Internet for Chemistry Research Information Services University Informatics Centre (UIC) Bharathidasan University

2. Outline • Accessing the e-Resources • Role of UIC in disseminating e-Resources to the academic and research community of BDU • Bringing the e-Resources at your desktop

3. About UIC • Informatics Centre caters to the information and technology needs of Bharathidasan University • Network and Server management, Data center administration, web and portals, information dissemination, etc. are the key responsibilities of Informatics Centre

4. Information Resources: Locating docs! • The web is a massive collection of interconnected documents • Due to its complex structure, the information retrieval has become a clumsy process • Scenario of drowning in data and starving for knowledge • Search engines are far from being ‘perfect’ when it comes to finding the right data • The two big issues about the declining visibility of Indian research : • Poor local access to global research • Poor global access to Indian research Water, Water, Water… everywhere, not even a drop to drink!

5. Centre for Knowledge Repository (CKR) • An institutional portal/repository to provide open access to scholarly digital content (launched in 2010 Nov.) • Journals, e-books, articles, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), video & audio resources (NPTEL) • Web based access to global information sources • Within the campus (Intranet) as well as outside the campus (Public domain) • Categories: e-books, open access journals, gateways, ETDs, Journals with institutional access

6. E-Resources in Public Domain E-Books • Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ First and largest single collection of free ebooks. (> than 32000). • http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library, 25000 e-books on different subjects. • MIT’s OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

7. MIT OpenCourseWare • URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/

8. Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/chemistry

9. More.. • Academic Videos: http://www.world-lecture-project.org/?navId=1 • Educational Resources @ Open Michigan https://open.umich.edu/ • The Open University’s open learn portal http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

10. E-Journals (Open Access) • Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ There are now 2514 journals in the directory. Currently 747 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 124159 articles are included in the DOAJ service. • California University’s Open Access Portal: http://escholarship.org • Directory of Free Full Text Journals in Chemistry http://abc-chemistry.org/ • DMOZ directory of open Access journals http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Journals/Free_Online_Journals/

11. E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. • Public Library of Science: http://www.plos.org/ PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. • 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. • BioMed Central: http://www.biomedcentral.com/ It is a Publisher of more than 160 peer-reviewed open access journals.

12. E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. • The Electronic Journals Library http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en Offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet. • HighWire Press: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl Largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1010 journals and 4,074,364 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. • ePrints of IISc, Banglore http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ Scholarly publications from our scientists and Researchers

13. E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. • Indian Academy of Sciences : http://www.ias.ac.in/ The Academy's journals are 'open access' and full text is available as PDF files on each journal's website. • Journal of Digital Information: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi • Free Medical Journals: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/index.htm Full text medical journals. • Indian Journal of Science and Technology http://indjst.org/ • Strategian: http://www.strategian.com/ The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology

14. Open Access Journals – Chemistry http://www.bdu.ac.in/infonet/oa_chemistry.php

15. Gateways – Contd. • Google Scholar: search and find academic papers, abstracts and other scholarly sources • Pinakes: A subject launch pad http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html Pinakes is a compilation of Internet resources, which links to the major subject gateways. • Chemistry and related Information on the Internet http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/cheminfo/internet.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/chemistry.html • E-Print network http://www.osti.gov/eprints/ Provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites.

16. Gateways – Contd. • Digital library of India http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/ • WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org Catalog of Internet resources. • Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/Organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet. • intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ A trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information (but no updates since July 2011) • Cogprints http://cogprints.org/ An electronic archive for self-archive papers • Bubl Information Services http://bubl.ac.uk/ BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service which provides links to over 12,000 internet resources

17. E-Theses and Dissertations (ETD) • Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ • A repository of Indian theses (global access to local theses) • More than 4200 + (still counting..) Theses • Search by University/Department • All Indian Universities are Contributing • MoU for uploading and plagiarism detection ShodhGangotri : Repository of Indian Research in Progress (Abstracts) http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/

18. Shodhganga Project

19. Shodhganga Project and BDU

20. Other Indian Repositories • Mahatma Gandhi University http://www.mgutheses.org/ • Indian Institute of Science http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ • Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/ • Dyuthi, Digital Repository of Cochin University of Science and Technology http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/ • Vidyanidhi Digital Library (University of Mysore) http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/

21. Global Repositories • NetworkedDigital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).  http://www.ndltd.org/ Almost every University in Europe and US are contributing to NDLD. To know more, visit: http://www.ndltd.org/about/members/ndltd-members

22. NDLTD is powered with SCIRUS Search. http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search

23. Global Repositories – Contd. • Scholars’ Bank (University of Oregon) - http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ • Emory University's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository - https://etd.library.emory.edu/ • EThOS (The British Library) - http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do • Pakistan Research Repository - http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/

24. Other Global Repositories – Contd. • DissOnline (GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY) - http://search.dissonline.de/ • SUDOC (SUDOC Catalogue) - France Universities - http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/ • DART - Europe (DART-Europe E-theses Portal) - http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php • DATAD (Association of African Universities) - http://www.aau.org/datad/

25. Resources with Institutional Access • UGC INFONET Journals (Managed by the University’s Central Library) • Visit: www.bdu.ac.in/infonet • for more details.

26. Resources pertaining to Chemistry • OMICS publishing http://www.omicsonline.org/chemistry-journals.php • Teaching and Learning Resources in Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry • http://www.chemcollective.org/ • http://www.adichemistry.com/ • http://eppe.tripod.com/index.htm • http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html

27. Resources – Contd. • http://www.unige.ch/biblio/sciences/disciplines/chimie_en.html • http://www.unige.ch/biblio/sciences/disciplines/cristallographie_en.html • More resources on the URL List…

28. E-books in our local repository (CKR) • Huge collection of e-books • Subject Collections with search facility • 950 + e-books in Chemistry • NPTEL lecture notes (web courses) • NPTEL video tutorials (engineering chemistry) • Lets go live: www.bdu.ac.in/about-ckr

29. Disclaimer • Putting documents or pages on the web is easy, cheap or free, unregulated, and unmonitored. • A self-publishing medium, that is, anyone can publish anything and not everything one finds on the Web is equally valuable or reliable. • Therein lies the rationale for evaluating carefully whatever one finds on the Web. • The burden is on the reader to establish the validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity of what he/she finds.

30. Suggest resources, ask questions! • Write to: inf@bdu.ac.in •  • Thanx! • URL List: URL_List_Chem_final.pdf