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Dr. Poornima NarayanaHead, Information Center for Aerospace S&T(ICAST)National Aerospace LaboratoriesBangalore, India
Specialists Meeting on “Advances in Scientific Databases in India”
10th-11th August, IGCAR, Kalpakkam
India is one of the major producer of scientific data Partners for international cooperative research Has the responsibility of pooling to World’s knowledge
base Number of attempts have been to create scientific
databases of specialized nature both at national and international levels.
Distribution in different scientific institutions / agencies. Internet an effective media for providing access to these
databases Not many attempts to provide a common platform for
providing a single point access to these databases
Lack of willingness of the database creators to share the information
Identification of scientific databases already compiled or forthcoming
Commercial attitude of the creators of the database
So-called sensitive nature of the data
Absence of mandated national policy especially for sharing the data among the institutes concerned
Inadequate digital archiving and access policies
Lack of international cooperation
Lack of standards especially metadata to handle scientific data
Need for open source software to archive, organize and retrieve the data both at the Individual database level and harvesting level
Absence of Metadata standards to facilitate interoperability among similar databases
Absence of national policy in this matter
Multidimensional nature of the scientific databases created in various disciplines
Lack of awareness about the sources to be consulted for creating specialized databases
Need to compile the list of information resources of different kinds facilitating compilation of specialized databases, be in bibliographic form or access to full text.
INFORMATION SOURCES Institutional (National/ International)
Scholarly Publications
Internet Search engines (Google, Google Scholar)
Databases (General, Multidisciplinary, Specialized)
Institutional Repositories (Individual , Cross Archives, Meta harvesters)
NIST ( (http://www.nist.gov/srd/index.htm). NIST Data provides easy access to
many (currently over 80) of the NIST S&T databases
CODATA(http://www.codata.org/about/index.htm
An Interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU), which works to improve the quality, reliability, management and accessibility of data of importance to all fields of S & T
The Academy of Science for Developing World (TWAS)
(Board on Intl Scientific Organizations (BISO) Intl. Council for S&T Information (ICSTI) Intl. Network for Availability of Scientific Publications
(INASP) Global Alliance for Promoting Access to & use of
Scientific Data in developing countries (GAPASD) National Academics Press Office of S&T Policy (OSTP) Science Commons Materials Research Society
Bibliographic
J-Gate (http://www.jgate.informindia.co.in/) e-journal Gateway, million articles, >20,000 journals Web of Science: >8,500 journals of high quality SCOPUS: > 15,000 journals
SCIRUS: (Web sources for Scientific Literature)
-contd….
Biomaterials
Ceramics
Coatings and Films
Composites
Corrosion
Extractive Metallurgy
General and Others
Melting, Coating, Powder Metallurgy
Metals, Minerals, Ores & Alloys
169
121
103
214
49
38
250
53
182
Nanomaterials
Packaging Materials & Technology
Physical Metallurgy
Rubber Technology
Super Conductors
Textile materials
Treatment & Finishing
Wood, Paper & Cellulosics
Working, Forming, Machining & Joining
137
44
32
22
46
21
61
29
56
ScienceDirect:M/S Elsevier About 1800 titles Springerlink SAGE Royal Society of Chemistry Nature Materials IEEE Wiley MultiScience……Many More
Inspec Engineering Index Aerospace Fluidex NTIS Energy S&T JICST- ePLUS Derwent (Patent) Delphion (Patent)…..
Metadex Chemical Abstracts Aluminum Industry Abstracts Corrosion Abstracts Ceramic Abstracts AESIS Derwent Chemistry Resources
contd…
Specialized Databases
PIRA PaperChem
Packaging S&T Abstracts
Plastic Properties Database
Materials safety blue sheets
RAPRA
Registry of Toxic effects of chemical substances
World Scientific Abstracts
SciSearch
World surface coatings abstracts
A digital collection of an institution’s scholarly/creative output
World: >1500 India: >50 Academic/R&D/Corporate/PSU … IISc, IITD, NAL, NCL,RR I, DU…
Harvests all OAI-PMH compliant IRs of Institutions facilitating searching through unified search interface
International: OAISTER, ARC,UIUC, NASA…
National (India): CSIR Knowledge Harvester, IISc Cross Archive…
Aero Polymers (http://www.nal.res.in/polysearch/contents/aeropolymers.html)
Developed by Dr. Kalyani Vijayan Ex scientist, Materials Division, NAL
Polysearch Polyselect
While in this presentation, an attempt has been made to identify different sources of information for creating Scientific database in Material Science, not enough justification has been made for exhaustiveness because of time paucity and readily available data
Efforts could be for other disciplines of S&T at National/International Levels