Importance of Digital Libraries in Progr

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The Importance of ElectronicThe Importance of Electronic

Scientific Resources for ScientistsScientific Resources for Scientists

Presented by,Presented by, Dr.Dr. FirdausiFirdausi QadriQadri

Senior ScientistSenior Scientist

ImmunologyImmunology

ICDDR,BICDDR,B


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What is Digital libraryWhat is Digital library

A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in

digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media)and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored

locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library [access on 31

Jul 2010]

Sun Microsystems defines a digital library as the electronic

extension of functions users typically perform and the resources

they access in a traditional library. These information resources

can be translated into digital form, stored in multimedia

repositories, and made available through Web-based services.

Source: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/raja/is214/is214-2006-01-

04/topic-1.htm [access on 31 Jul 2010]


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Benefit ofBenefit of Digital LibraryDigital Library

1. Research paper/articles are instantly available upon publication

2. It save the time of researcher or scientist as instantly available upon publication

3. Digital Library brings information to the user, at work place or at home

4. It is available through desktop, user never need visit a library building

5. Support full text searching - finding information in paper-based material is very difficult

6. Digital copy can collect through online apart from any place of the world.

7. Digital can store in a local hard drive in the computer

8. Digital copies are portable by using pen drive or in Laptop even in some latest cell phone.

9. Information can be shared more easily

10. Not limited by time and geography (3 A's - any time, any where, any format)

11. Materials are never checked out, mis-shelved, or stolen

12. Digital representation can support features and manipulations not possible in print form

(e.g. chemical structures, mathematical equations, multi-media)

13. Allow collaboration and exchange of ideas

14. It is easier to copy digital information, without errors - no fear of maintaining one physical

object permanently. So rare publications and artifacts may be preserved better byproviding access to their digital versions.

15. Digital copies are easy manageable and no physical space is required.

16. Huge number of digital copies can easily handle by the computer

17. No chances of damage of digital copies


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1. Electronic resources should be available upon publication

electronically2. Access to online resources of various publishers should be

available through library

3. Facilities of getting full text of the document

4. Development and access of institutional repository

5. Facilities for collaboration6. Easy access systems on the online platform

7. Remote access facilities

8. Extra price consideration of poor countries

As scientist, what we except from electronic resourcesAs scientist, what we except from electronic resources


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Comparison betweenComparison between

Web of Science (Web of Science (WoSWoS)) ANDAND SCOPUSSCOPUS

1. Articles have been indexed from journals

since 1960 and over 8000 journals

2. WoS is the online version of the ScienceCitation Index

3. covering science, social sciences, and

the arts and humanities

4. covers nearly 23 million source papers

from the 1940s to the present

5. 850,000 fully indexed journal articles have

been added

6. 10,000 journals from 265 multidisciplinary

categories; cover-to-cover indexing

7. 19 million citations in total

8. Complete backfiles to 1945, put total at 37

million records

9. Author identification tools10. Analysis capabilities

11. Direct links to your full-text collections

12. Index Chemicus: Over 2.6 million

compounds, to 1993

1. Scopus has 38 million records

2. 19 million records include references going

back to 1996 (78% include references)3. 17 million pre-1996 records go back to

1841

4. 18,000 peer-reviewed journals from more

than 4,000 publishers

5. over 1200 Open Access journals

6. 500 conference proceedings

7. over 600 trade publications

8. 200 book series9. Results from 386 million scientific web

pages

10. 22 million patent records from 5 patent

offices

11. Seamless links to full-text articles and

other library resources

12. Innovative tools that review search resultsand refine to most relevant hits

13. Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new

articles matching your search query, or by

favorite author

14. Scopus covers 250 million quality web

sources, including 22 million patents


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ICDDR,Bs Subscribed journals from ElsevierICDDR,Bs Subscribed journals from Elsevier

1. Advances in Pediatrics

2. Vitamins and Hormones

3. Yearbook of Medicine

4. Yearbook of Pediatrics

5. American Journal of Medicine

6. American Journal of Preventive Medicine

7. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

8. Gastroenterology - Orlando

9. Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

10. Journal of Pediatrics11. Medical Clinics of North America

12. Nutrition Research

13. Pediatric Clinics of North America

14. Translational Research - the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

15. Reproductive Health Matters

16. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene & International Health

17. Best Practice and Research in Clinical Gastroenterology

18. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

19. Public Health

20. Social Science and Medicine

21. Vaccine


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ICDDR,B Library CollectionICDDR,B Library Collection Based onBased on thethe Following AreasFollowing Areas

Child Health

Chronic Disease

Gender, Human Rights and Health

Health and Family Planning Systems

HIV/AIDS

Improved Health for the Poor

Infectious Diseases & Vaccine Sciences

Nutrition

Population Sciences

Poverty & Health

Reproductive Health

Zinc in Childhood Diarrhoea


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KeyKey Features ofFeatures of ICDDR,BICDDR,B LibraryLibrary

Automated

Digitized

Access to online resources

Cyber corner

WiFi access

Around 1,000 desktop computers have access to library resources

Provides services to all Bangladeshi medical researchers

Member of Bangladesh INASP-PERI Consortium

Collaboration


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EE--resources management process in ICDDR,Bresources management process in ICDDR,B

Subscription to online journals

Participation in Consortium

E-books purchase

E-journals database registration

Free e-resources registration

Orient the researchers with library resources

Training of patrons:

E-resources search skill

Information literacy

Reference management software


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FactFact Sheet of LibrarySheet of Library

Books 13,860 copies

Print journals (current) 175 titles

Bound Journals 32,500 volumes

E-journals > 20,000 titles

Electronic database 33 titles

Library area 5,000 sft (app.)

Computers 23 nos.

Printers 04 pcs

Library server 02 pcs

WiFi zone 01

Library staff 08 persons


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OnlineOnline databasesdatabases

Registered

HINARI

AGORA

OARE

Bentham Open Access

Bioline International

BMJ Journals

J-Stage

Bangladesh Journals Online

DOAJ

Subscribed

ISI -Web of knowledge

Harvard Educational Review

Harvard Business Review

JSTOR

ProQuest

Travax

ASM Online Journals

Elsevier - 21 titles

178 titles print journals

BIPC-INASP- PERI consortium


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Institutional repository (IR)Institutional repository (IR)

IR is a system of digital storage of information

Uses DSpace software for maintaining the digital

repository

DSpace is a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)

Captures and preserves ICDDR,B research and relatedcontents and make them available to users, online.

Scanning and uploading documents

Make searchable through Internet


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Status of digital access to research materials inStatus of digital access to research materials in

Bangladesh throughBangladesh through BIPCBIPC--INASPINASP--PERI consortiumPERI consortium

Public universities 15

Private university 12

Research organization 11

International university/international research institute 03

Total : 41 organization/university


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Participating publishers of Bangladesh INASPParticipating publishers of Bangladesh INASP--

PERI ConsortiumPERI Consortium Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

African Journals Online (AJOL)

American Astronomical Society

American Chemical Society

American Institute of Physics

American Physical Society (APS)

American Society of Civil Engineers

Annual Reviews

Beech Tree Publishing

British Library Direct

British Psychological Society

Cambridge University Press

Cochrane Library

De Gruyter

EBSCO Communication and Mass

Media Complete (CMMC) Database

EBSCO Host Research Databases

Edinburgh University Press

Geological Society

Institute of Electronic and Electrical

Engineers (IEEE)

International Forestry Review

IOP Publishing

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,

NPG - Nature


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Participating publishers of Bangladesh INASPParticipating publishers of Bangladesh INASP--

PERI ConsortiumPERI Consortium (Cont)(Cont) NPG - Palgrave Macmillan Journals

NRC Research Press

OSA - Optical Society of America

OUP E-books Oxford Scholarship

Online

Oxford Journals (OUP)

Policy Press Journals

Professional Engineering Publishing

Project MUSE

Royal College of Physicians

Royal Society

SPIE Digital Library

Springer eJournals

Symposium Journals

Taylor & Francis Online eBook

Library University of California Press

University of Chicago Press,

Wiley-Blackwell - InterScience

Content

Wiley-Blackwell - Synergy content World Bank Global Development

Finance (GDF) Database

World Bank Publications

World BankWorld Development

Indicators (WDI) Online Database

World Bank: Africa Development

Indicators

TotalTotal 44 publishers/agencies44 publishers/agencies


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Other than Consortium some librariesOther than Consortium some libraries

are also subscribingare also subscribing

ACM

Harvard Educational Review

Harvard Business Review

JSTOR

AGORA

OARE HINARI

Emerald

ProQuest

Science Direct

Chicago Journals ACS publications

ISIWeb ofKnowledge

Travax


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ThankThank yyou very muchou very much

Dr. Firdausi Qadri

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