Friday, February 20, 2009

Science and Technology Librarian

http://www.istl. org/09-winter/ index.html

ISTL publishes substantive material of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians to share details of successful programs, materials for the delivery of information services, background information and opinions on topics of current interest, to publish research and bibliographies on issues in science and technology libraries

Now Available The Winter 2009 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

http://www.istl. org/09-winter/ index.html

Articles :-

Using Google Scholar to Search for Online Availability of a Cited Article in Engineering Disciplines

Comparing Safari Tech Books Online and Books24×7 E-book Collections: A Case Study from the University of British Columbia Library

A Physics Professor and a Science Librarian Challenge Non-Majors to Evaluate Science

The Emerging Engineering Scholar: A Citation Analysis of Theses and Dissertations at Western Michigan University

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Viewpoint: Publishers and Librarians: New Dialogues in Challenging Times

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Elctronic Text Archives

Electronic Text Archives

There are innumerable text archives are available on the internet. These could be research papers, working papers, journal articles etc. Please use the following links to get access to these archives.

  • Alex catalogue of Electronic text

    • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Documents can be downloaded in .pdf and other fromats.

  • Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

    • It contains documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.

  • Bibliomania

    • It has more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources. Most of them are taken from public domain and users are free to download one copy of any e-text for personal use.

  • Bioline Eprints

    • This Eprints server is part of the Bioline International system for increasing the visibility and providing open access to research publications from developing countries. The primary content on the server is journal articles that are also present on the Bioline International main site located in Brazil and hosted by CRIA.

  • Caltech Library System Papers and Publications

    • It contains full text papers related to library systems and technology.

  • Chapter One

    • It allows you to read first chapter of books reviewed by the Washington Post.

  • Clinical Medicine Netprints

    • A repository of non-peer reviewed original research.

  • CNR Bologna Research Library Eprints Service

    • It is a repository for the self-archiving of research and technical papers in Information Science and Computer Science, and other disciplines pertinent to the Library activities.

  • CogPrints

    • CogPrints, an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. One time registration is required to gain access.

  • Computer Science Preprint server

    • Computer Science preprint server-the permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in the field of computer science. At present there are around 341 full text papers are available.

  • Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

    • The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.

  • DLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology

    • Dlist is a repository of electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Here you can deposit your papers related to the above fields.

  • Drucker Archives

    • Provides access to archives of Dr Peter F. Drucker, guru of management. The mission of the Drucker Archive is to preserve the profound intellectual legacy of Peter F. Drucker and to manage that legacy to the benefit of the scholarly community, the institution and the practice of management as a whole.

  • EconWPA

    • This service has been provided by the Economics Department of Washington University. It is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in Economics. Links can also be found on it to the other electronic archives in Economics.

  • Electronic Text Center at Uni of Verginia

    • Its holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images.

  • Electronic Texts in Philosophy

    • Tt provides a database of over 900 links to electronic texts by famous philosophers throughout history. Texts are searchable by three ways: title keyword, philosopher, topic category.

  • e-Print archive

    • It holds classic collection of e-papers in Physics, Mathematics, Nuclear Sciences and Computer Sciences. This archive is based upon activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

  • E-Prints for Library and Information Science [E-LIS]

    • E-LIS is an electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. E-LIS is an archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other LIS publications, it is a service for finding and downloading documents in electronic format, offered as a free service to the international LIS community.

  • ERPAeprints Service

    • This service is an Open Archive set-up for the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) in conjunction with DAEDALUS to provide an ePrints preservation and access facility for the cultural and scientific heritage community.

  • Escholarship Repository

    • It is a repository of papers established by University of California under its digital library program. Provides access to full text papers/articles deposited by faculty and research students of University of California and its units.

  • E-text archives

    • Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal.

  • Findarticles.com

    • FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. Articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost.

  • High Energy Physics E-texts

    • Contains more than 450,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.

  • Intellectual Property E-Archive

    • It holds excellent collection of electronic materials on Intellectual property related matters.

  • Magportal.com

    • Magportal indexes and provides free of cost access to full text of articles selected from good number of free magazines available on the net on different subject areas. The coverage of most of the magazines starts from 1999 or 2000. It sends a newsletter of hot articles to subscribed members and also there is a provision to create your accounts as per your subject interest.

  • Mathematics Archives

    • Holds materials which are used in the teaching of mathematics. Currently the Archives is particularly strong in its collection of educational software. Other areas, ranging from laboratory notebooks and problem sets to lecture notes and reports on innovative methods, are growing.

  • Mathematics Preprint server

    • Mathematics Preprint Server is the permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in the field of mathematics. At present it holds 814 articles in its database.

  • OpenMED Archive

    • OpenMED is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. Here authors / owners can self-archive their scientific and technical documents. OpenMED is a discipline based International Archive. It accepts both published and unpublished documents having relevance to research in Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. It has been developed by Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India.

  • PhilSci Archive

    • PhilSci an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. At present, the PhilSci Archive contains 495 documents.

  • PhysicsWeb, Best of

    • The Best of PhysicsWeb brings together articles about the most exciting areas of modern physics in a single place. Areas covered in it are applied physics, astronomy, condensed matter, etc.

  • Political Research Online

    • PROL is a pre-print server that serves as the common resource for all emerging scholarship in political science. Provides free full text access to preprints in political science.

  • Religion Online

    • Provides access to more than 3,000 full text articles and chapters.

  • Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An anthology of articles, papers and reports

    • Provides access to over 185 full text articles/papers related to the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I.

  • Victorian Women Writers Project

    • It contains works by British women writers of the 19th century.

  • William Shakespeare's Complete Works

    • Provides access to full text of all his works.

  • Xrefer.com

    • It contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations from the world's leading publishers.

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Electronic data base

Electronic Databases

Electronic databases come very handy for searching vast data within a shortest possible time. There are good number of such databases are available on the internet today, which can be accessed free of cost. Please follow the links to get further information.

Bibliographical Databases

General:

  • World Biographical Index 7

    • This database contains 2,8 million records, each record covers brief biographical information of individuals.

  • Contemporary Africa Database

    • Contais information on African people, organisations and history. At present a Who's Who of prominent Africans now living or who have died since 1950, in all fields of expertise is available online.

Subject Specific:

India

  • Asiatic Society Journals Index

    • Provides access to bibliographic details of articles published in Asiatic Society journals published between 1700 to 1960

  • Gendwaar

    • It is a bibliographic database on Women's Studies and related issues. It includes Books, Reports, Conference Proceedings, Theses & Dissertations, Journal & Newspaper articles in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

  • INDMED: Index to Indian Biomedical Journals

    • The ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information (Indian MEDLARS Centre) has designed and developed a bibliographic database from Indian biomedical literature. To startwith 75 prominent Indian journals, have been selected to build up the database entitled IndMED. The coverage of database is from 1985.

  • ISID Index to Indian Social Socience Journals

    • Indexes around 105 Indian Social Science journals enabling users to search for references on the basis of string (series of characters) either for author's name, or words in titles for selected journals. Most of the journals are indexed from the first volume. Also indexes press clippings taken out from 14 India's English dailies. Access is free with simple registration.

  • National Law School Library Article Index

    • Indexes articles from the journals subscribed by National Law School Library, Bangalore. At present it is having around 11,000 records in its database.

  • Open Index Initiative

    • Indexes Indian Social Science Journals. Presently under development stage covers selected journals starting from 2003.

International

  • AgEcon

    • AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.

  • AgeLine

    • It is a searchable database of books and articles related to aging. It contains detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos.

  • Agricultural Online Access (Agricola)

    • It is an index to all aspects of agricultural sciences

  • AGRIS [International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology]

    • AGRIS provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature. Developed by the AGRIS Co-ordinating Centre, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, AGRIS offers an international perspective on crucial agricultural research. The database coverage is from 1975 till present.

  • American Society for Civil Engineers CE database

    • ASCE CEDB Provides Access to over 90,000 bibliographic and abstracted records of its publications. The current coverage is form January 1973-June 2001.

  • Annual Comprehensive Index Bibliographic Database

    • The database has approximately 38,818 bibliographic entries. The entries for the period 1976 to 1987 come from INFORMS journals, while for the period 1988 to 2001 they come from a total of approximately 663 different INFORMS as well as non-INFORMS journals. The subjects include operations research, management, computing etc.

  • Anthropological Index Online

    • It is an Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the the Anthropology Library at the British Museum.

  • American Chemical Society Free search Database

    • Gives access to ACS journals' full text, images, illustrations, halftones, structures, figures and supporting information.

  • Beilstein Netfire

    • A bibliograhic database covers 140 Chemistry journals.

  • Cancerlit

    • It is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s.

  • Center for Airospace Information Technical Report Server

    • The CASI TRS database contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for publicly available aerospace documents, journal articles, and conference proceedings.

  • Chemweb.com

    • Provides access to abstracts of articles published in over 350 journals and 15 databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures.

  • Child Abuse and Neglect Databases

    • Its document database contains over 32,000 records on child abuse and neglect and child welfare issues.

  • ChildNet Bibliographical Database (Global)

    • This database contains an ever growing number of screened bibliographical citations on child-related issues.

  • CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research

    • It contains citations relating to rehabilitation research conducted outside of the United States. The database is updated monthly. It presently includes citations from 1996 to the present and will eventually include citations from 1990 to the present.

  • Current Cites

    • Provides an annotated bibliography of selected articles, books and documents on Information Technology.

  • Current Index to Statistics

    • Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974. The free access is available only to the records up to 1994.

  • DoIS [Documents in Information Science]

    • DoIS is a searchable database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. At the moment it holds about 12908 articles and 3902 papers, 9258 of them are downloable from the site.

  • Earthquake Engineering Abstracts

    • Provides access to world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971. The database contains 96,000 abstracts. A maximum of 200 records will be returned on any individual search.

  • Ecommunics: Personalized Economic Research Community

    • ECOMMUNICS is the most featureful free economics research platform and network online, with many useful features for economists. It includes paper database from RePEc and other institutions, free blogger.com compatible weblog, per-paper discussion and rating, free email notification of new papers on specific topics and many community features and discussion possiblities. Registration is required to avail this FREE service.

  • EEVL Xtra

    • Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing.

  • Elsevier Mathematics

    • You can search content of over 95 key journals, from Elsevier as well as from other publishers or societies. The search also includes accepted but not yet published articles ('articles in press') and preprints. All abstracts, preprints and "Our Editor Selects" articles are freely available.

  • Elsevier Health Science Periodicals

    • It is a portal of Elsevier Health Science periodicals. Here one can search contents of their health science peridicals plus MEDLINE.

  • ENB Health Care Databases

    • Health Care Database is a bibliographical database with abstracts for each entry. As at July 2001, the Database contains nearly 55,000 records from UK health care journals since 1986.

  • Energy Citations Database

    • Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)of USA. The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present.

  • ERIC database

    • ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The data is available from 1966 onwards.

  • Evaluation of Web Search Engines

    • This database is dedicated to gather all scientific literature published in the web about the evaluation of search engines.

  • Fuel Property Database [Advanced Petroleum based Fuels]

    • Provides key data on advanced compression ignition fuels. The database includes data on various physical; chemical; operational; and environmental, safety, and health properties. The data result from tests conducted according to standard test methods i.e. ASTM.

  • Getcited.org

    • getCITED is an online, member-controlled academic database, directory and discussion forum. Its contents are entered and edited by members of the academic community.

  • Hazordous Chemical Database

    • This database will allow the user to retreive information for any of 3995 hazardous chemicals or 'generic' entries based on a keyword search. Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS and EPA).

  • Index Morganagus: Full text index of library related electronic serials
  • Index Translationum: International bibliography of translations
  • Infotrieve Online Article Finder

    • Gives access to bibliographic details with abstract on Science and technology. The data coverage is from 1966 to present from over 30000 journals.

  • Ingenta.com

    • Ingenta.com offers access to article summaries from over 25,000 publications linked to the full text of over 5,200 titles. Full text access is set by each of our 170 publisher partners, but typically individual subscribers, or individuals within institutions that subscribe, can access the full text of their publications for free. Non-subscribers can, for the majority of articles, pay-per-view choosing from electronic, fax or Ariel delivery.

  • Institute of Physics Journals search

    • Search for articles appeared in all the journals published by Institute of Physics can be made. The coverage of database is from 1874 till date. Full text access to current articles is available for registered members at free of cost. Full text articles articles are available in the first 30 days of publication.

  • Intellectual Property Digital Library

    • The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to various intellectual property data collections currently hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include Madrid, PCT and JOPAL (non-patent reference) data and support fully searchable information retrieval and display by users on demand. The access is free of cost by user name and password as guest.

  • LTSN Engineering Resources

    • LTSN Engineering Resource Database is a searchable catalogue of learning and teaching resources for engineering academics.

  • MatWeb

    • MatWeb, the FREE materials information database with data on 24,704 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites.

  • National Library of Medicine Databases

    • NLM provides a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. Some important such resources are MEDLINE, Toxnet, Biomedical information, Clinical alerts, etc.

  • New Technolgies in Libraries: Citations

    • Provides citations/bibliography of articles on recent developments in Library and Information Science field. The articles are selected from a sizable number of LIS journals. The coverage is from 1998.

  • Nonlinear Dynamics Bibliography

    • The bibliography contains about 12617 references.

  • PATH Database

    • The California PATH Database provides access to the largest and most comprehensive collection of bibliographic information on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).

  • Peeters Online Journals

    • Allows all users to conduct searches, view tables of contents, and view abstracts for all online journals in theology, classics, oriental studies, archaeology, philosophy, literature and linguistics. Full text is restricted only to subscribers or pay per view facility may be used.

  • Population Index

    • It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. The coverage is from 1986-2000, containing total of 46,035 citations.

  • Project Euclid

    • Project Euclid is a user-centered initiative to create an environment for the effective and affordable distribution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. Search can be made on contents of 38 journals.

  • Psci-comlit: Gateway to the Public Understanding of Science

    • psci-comlit is a bibliographic database covering science communication, public engagement with science and the broader issues of science and society.

  • PsycARTICLES

    • PsycARTICLES is an online database containing more than 26,000 entries from 49 peer reviewed journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present. Full text articles covered in it are available for price.

  • Questia: Online library of Books and Journals

    • It holds an over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Search for this database is free, however access to full text of the documents is priced.

  • Recent Advances in Manufacturing [RAM] Database

    • Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in well over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings.

  • Research Index

    • ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature. Includes over 400000 documents and over 5 million citations.

  • Selection Service of Articles on Metallurgy and Moulding

    • The SESAMM bibliographical database gives access to the entire CTIF information holdings made up of more than 33,000 documents.

  • Social Psychology Network

    • Social Psychology Network, is a database providing links to more than 12,000 resources related to psychology.

  • Social Science Research Network e-library

    • Contains over 34,400 abstracts for papers submitted to SSRN. Also gives access to few full text articles.

  • Transportation Research Information Services Online

    • Provides access to over 420,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and other media. Literature covered from 1960 to present. Also selected links to full text or sources of full text have been given.

  • TRIP Database

    • TRIP Database started in 1997 provides search facility with a focus on medical articles considered evidence-based.

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Fulltext Databases

  • Economic History Encyclopedia Index

    • Search can be made for high quality full articles related the area of Economic and Business History.

  • Scientific Electronic Library Online [SCIELO]

    • SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as "lost science".

  • Searchable Ornithological Research Archive [SORA]

    • It is an open access electronic journal archive. The content can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files.

Statistical Databases

Data Sources Collections

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India

  • Census Information

    • Provides statistics of All India population totals as per the Census 1991 and Census 2001, India and State maps, etc.

  • Database on Indian Economy

    • This databse covers data on financial sector, real sector, financial market, external sector, public finance and corporate finance related to Indian economy. This has been developed by RBI.

  • Department of Statistics, Govt of India

    • Broad statistical information like national accounts statistics, energy statistics, consumer expenditure, annual survey of industries, live stock statistics, etc. can be found here. Most of these statistics is brought out by its agencies Central Statistical Organisation and National Sample Organisation.

  • Economywatch.com

    • Economywatch.com is a commercial site provides information and data on Indian economy. The data type available on this site include statistics related to national income, foreign investment, agriculture, industry, money and banking, balance of payments, population etc.

  • GISTNIC

    • The information available on database includes banking statistics, industrial statistics, public finance, social sector statistics, census data etc.

  • Reserve Bank of India

    • Provides free of cost online access and download to vast amount of data related to banks and banking in India.

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International

  • Asian Development Bank

    • ADB gives access to social and economic data of its developing member countries. The type of data includes national accounts, financial accounts, trade, population, labour and employment etc.

  • Demographic and Health Surveys

    • Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) datasets are available for most countries. The datasets include individual women's data, household data, men and husband's data, couple's data, children data and service availability/facility, etc.

  • Eurostat

    • Provides latest and the most complete statistical information on the EU and the zero-zone. The topics include general statistics, economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade and services, agriculture and fisheries, etc. But only the key indicators are available for free of cost.

  • FAOstat

    • FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in the areas of production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products etc. At a time, maximum 1000 records on any topic of different combinations can be downloaded from their site free of cost.

  • Global Statistics

    • Globall Statistics deals with statistics on the human population. The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure, etc.

  • Indian District Database

    • Indian district database provides district-level data from census and agricultural sources between 1961 and 1991.

  • Infonation

    • InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.

  • International Database (IDB)

    • It is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

  • International Labour Office

    • ILO database (LABORSTA) on labour statistics covering economically active population (data since 1945) employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries, occupational accidents, and strikes and lockouts (data since 1969) of different countries of the world. Also gives access to one more database, which contain data on 'Economically Active Population, 1950-2010' of different countries of the world.

  • Nationmaster

    • It is a central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.

  • Penn World Data

    • Provides online access statistics covering 28 key variables on all the major world economies, from 1950 to 1998.

  • Statbase

    • StatBase provides access to a comprehensive set of key statistics drawn from the whole range of official United Kingdom government data sets. Topics covered include population, income, balance of payments, birth and death rates, consumer expenditure, marriage and divorce rates, economic activity, employment and unemployment, education and training, etc.

  • Times Series Data Library

    • It is a collection of about 800 time series, drawn from many different fields viz. Agriculture, Crime, Finance, Health, Labor market, Macroeconomics, Production, etc.

  • UNESCO

    • UNESCO gives access to its data sources on education, literacy, science and technology and culture and communication of different countries of the world.

  • United Nations

    • United Nations provides data on different countries. Its data sources include social indicators, population statistics, and monthly bulletin of statistics.

  • USA and Canada Trade Data Online

    • Trade Data Online provides access and the ability to generate customized reports on Canada's and U.S. trade with over 200 countries. The data types include imports, exports, trade balances by product and industry.

  • USAID Global Education Online Database 2000

    • GED Online provides education data in two ways. Users can select a single indicator for multiple years and multiple countries by clicking on one of the bulleted groups of indicators under the UNESCO or DHS headings.

  • World Bank

    • World Bank provides national statistics for countries and regions and country profiles of all its member countries pertaining to the aspects of agriculture, education, environment, finance, health, population, urban and social development etc.

  • World Crime Statistics

    • United Nations World Crime Surveys of Crime Trends and Criminal Justice data sets are available here. Data is available in ASCII, Lotus 123, and SPSS formats.

  • World Health Organization

    • WHO provides access statistics from its statistical system 'Whois'. The data types can be accessed from their databases are on mortality, basic health indicators, HIV/AIDS, statistical data from world health report, population etc.

  • World Trade Organization

    • WTO provides online access to many of its data sources, which include international trade statistics, annual reports and trade policy reviews.

  • World Tourism Organization

    • WTO Data Base covers statistics on international outbound tourism, international inbound tourism, and tourism indicators covering a wide variety of tourism trends.

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Library consortium

The term Digital Library has a variety of potential meanings, ranging from a digitized collection of material that one might find in a traditional library through to the collection of all digital information along with the services that make that information useful to all possible users. As there are many definitions of a “digital library,” terms such as “electronic library” and “virtual library” are often used synonymously. A digital library is nothing but a large database for the people who are working on hypertext environment. It is an environment, which supports the full life cycle of creation, storage, preservation, dissemination and use of data, information and knowledge

Consortia in Libraries

Consortia or Consortium is now being overheard everywhere. It is more because of electronic or digital form of information. In the West, Consortia is a thing of the past, where there were models for print journal subscriptions, co-operative resource sharing, etc. But in this electronic age it has gained momentum even in the developing countries. Please go through the following links to know more about consortia.

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Consortia Coalitions:

    India:

  • Consortia development: Three success stories

    • Informatics India with initiation from three different educational institutes has successfully developed three consortium models. These are SNDT University conortia of Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) with other six universities, Secondly Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics [FORSA] consortia of Kluwer E-journal consortia program with five institutes and finally IIMs consortia of 33 Kluwer journals in management sciences.

  • CSIR Consortia

    • It is a consortium for CSIR Laboratories for Accessing e-journals.

  • Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics [FORSA]

    • Electronic access to journals published by few publishers with member and branch libraries has been made possible under this forum.

  • Indian Digital Library of Engineering Science and Technology [INDEST] Consortium

    • The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as per the recommendations of expert group headed by Prof Balakrishnan of IISc has set-up "Consortia-based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in India". This consortia is available in three models. Presently all the IIT's, IISc, NITIE, most of the Regional Engineering colleges and Indian Institute of Management's are its members. The consortium being an open-ended proposition, welcomes institutions to join it on their own for sharing maximum benefits it offers in terms of lower subscription rates and better terms of agreement with the publishers. All electronic resources being subscribed shall be available from the publisher's Website. The membership of the consortium is open to any Private or Government-funded Engineering / Technological / Educational institutions / Universities for one or more electronic resources. The consortium will charge nominal annual fee for its services.

  • Inflibnet: Consortium of e-journals among university libraries

    • Inflibnet under UGC Infonet is planning to have consortium of e-journals subscriptions among the university libraries. It is being planned to provide this service through higher bandwidth of internet connection, which will be given to University libraries in a phased manner.

  • Partnership for Success: A case of IIMs libraries' consortia model [Article]


    International:

  • BC Electronic Library Network

    • The British Columbia Electronic Library Network (ELN) is a partnership between the Province of British Columbia and its post-secondary libraries. ELN's purpose is to develop, promote and maintain system-wide mechanisms that allow post-secondary libraries to meet the expanding information needs of the province's learners and educators, at the lowest possible cost.

  • Center for Research Libraries [CRL]

    • It is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. CRL is governed by the major research libraries of North America and is funded by fees, grants and contributions.

  • Illinois Digital Academic Library [IDAL]

    • Provides high quality collection of full text and image digitized resources that supports instruction, study, and research by students, faculty and staff in all eligible Illinois higher education institutions.

  • International Coalition of Library Consortia [ICOLC]

    • It is an informal, self-organized group comprising (as of September 2000) nearly 150 library consortia from around the world. The Coalition serves primarily higher education institutions by facilitating discussion among consortia on issues of common interest. It conducts regular meetings to keep members informed about new electronic information resources, pricing practices of electronic providers and vendors, and other issues of importance to directors and governing boards of consortia.

  • Library Consortia in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho

    • It provides an overview of selected library consortia active in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, with an emphasis on those that include academic libraries.

  • South Asia Library Consortia

    • Members of the Committee on Insitutional Cooperation [CIC] with major South Asia collections joined together in 1993 for a program of cooperative activity that will improve collections on South Asia in the Midwest and access to them. This ensured the development of Digital South Asia library. The library includes good number of Indian and other South Asian countries publications.

  • Washington Research Library Consortia

    • It is a regional resource-sharing organization established by several universities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to expand and enhance the information resources available to their students and faculty.

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Friday, February 13, 2009

project titles

Student are requested to see these details accordingly in these sequences

Sl.No
Name of the Student
Year of study
Project Title
Guide Name
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Abstract
1.
Amabashankar,S
2003-2006
Mobile Banking System
Mr. Justus,S
To computerize the bank processes in Mobile system with reduce the customer’s transaction time.
2.
Govindaraj,R
2003-2006
WIPRO Management Software
Mr. Justus,S
GUI based software to monitor and control the client machines in the network.
3.
Kandaswamy,M
2003-2006
ACCUSYS
Ms.RamaLakshmiPraba,
Application Customized to maintain the entire activity of associate corporate client, who are outsourcing their business to the business outsourcing partners (BOP`s).
4.
Karthick,R
2003-2006
HR Portal
Mrs Anitha,D
To organize the ability to manage their human resource function easily and effectively.
5.
Palaniappan,S
2003-2006
DRM :Digital Right Management
Mrs.Prema,P
To enforce predefined policies
controlling access to software,
Music, movies or other digital data.
6.
PradeepKumar,D.S
2003-2006
Co-operate Banking and Generic Components
Mr Karthikeyan,T
Development and Servicing provided by the co-operate banking application that provide the user with choice of using the internet as a remote delivery channel for banking service.
7.
Pushparaj,T
2003-2006
Supply Chain Management
Ms.Priyamai,T.S
Is a software integrates with database system and help to manage the different parts of a company or business and main, aim is to improve the cooperation and interaction between all the departments.
8.
Rajkumar,B.S
2003-2006
Tourism Travel Logistics
Ms.Renukadevi,N
Online transaction for customers benefits such as reservation status of rail Etc.,
9.
RajaMohamed,S
2003-2006
Traders Network
Ms.Balapriya,C.D
Web application mainly intended for providing information and controlling users within a network
10.
Ramkumar,S
2003-2006
Secure Corporate Mailing
Mrs. Sarojini,B
Designed for communication through emails within the organization and also helps the organization by saving the cost incurred on implementing a public network connection.
11.
Shyamsundar,S
2003-2006
Mobile Message System
Mrs. Devika,S
Information can be retrieved from the report without any complications from Mobile Message System
12.
Vijay Senthil,V.K
2003-2006
(12 Project)
Net Browser
Mr. Joel Joyston,K
Is a platform independent web browser that helps users to browse HTML documents on the World Wide Web (WWW) and to chat with multiple clients and it allows clients to make online communication which is text based approach
1
Jeya Arockia Jasmine,J.S
2004-2007
Process Monitor
Mr. Joel Joyston,K
Its main aim is to monitor the processes running in the devices that are connected in the network using Simple Network Management protocol
2
Anicham,T
2004-2007
Multi Organizational Dash Board for colleges using Portal server
Mrs. Sarojini,B
To develop a portal in which the websites of the colleges are integrated the system is to be enables the staff, students and managing committee members of the colleges to interact to share information with each other
3
Annapoorani,B
2004-2007
Disaster Tolerance Switch Systems
Mrs. Sarojini,B
Future enhancements that can be made as per the client’s requirement in rectifying the problems that were present in the existing systems
4
Arunkumar,V
2004-2007
E-Investment
Mrs. Sarojini,B
E-Investment helps customer to purchase shares through online. The system is highly interactive and user-friendly in which a customer can easily purchase the share through online.
5
Senthil Kumar,M
2004-2007
ERP:Enterprise Resource Planning,CRM: Customer Relationship management
Ms.Renuka Devi,N
ERP & CRM is a software that covers to manage their relationships with customers, including the capture storage and analysis of customer information
6
SivaRamaKrishnan,K.C
2004-2007
Business Management solution
Mr. PonnuRajan,P
It entitles the views in Business management processes services helps in inventory requirements, set targets, and report actual and projected inventory status
7
Saravanan,K.V
2004-2007
Business Service Mapping in the SLO Frame work
Ms.RamalaxhmiPraba
Business services in satisfying its customers requirement
in-cooperation with IT resources
8
Madhavan,A
2004-2007
Honey nets in the Network Security using Multi layer Data control and Data capture mechanisms
Mr. Justus,S
It is addition to a security system serve as the community through their ability to collect and record information on black-hat activities
9
Ganesh,C
2004-2007
Issue Tracking System
Mrs. Devika,S
It can be used by all team members to coordinate their work and up-to-date minute project information and status to team members everywhere to foster better communication and collaboration automatically
10
Indumathi,M
2004-2007
DSR Fuzzy Logic
Mr. Joel Joyston,K
DSR: Dynamic Source Routing generate routes for unknown destination paths
11
Neeraja,T.N.N
2004-2007
Secured audio Video Transfer Using Real time
Ms.Balapriya,.C.D
Deals with video conferencing among hospital, banks, small companies with real time transmission of audio video data can be transformed over a network
12
Harini,R
2004-2007
Automated Provisioning of a NAS service for SLO framework
Mrs. Devika,S
Provides facility to automatically provision the NAS service and requirement of effective software development to measure service metric target in qualitatively
13
Mutheeswari,G
2004-2007
Spare bandwidth utilization
Ms.C.D Balapriya
Greater utilization of bandwidth enhances qualitative destination and major advantages of this process is cost saving
14
Vishalini,L.R
2004-2007
RF Hot spot information systems
Mr. V.Francis DanielRaj
To help the strangers in finding
in finding the route when they travel using radio frequency technology
15
Vigneshwaran,V
2004-2007
Customizing material
Management
Mr. V.Francis DanielRaj
Deals with tangible components with supply chain management

16
Eunice,M.S
2004-2007
Early packet discard ATM for congestion control
Mr.Justus
Is to implement early packet discard, a reactive approach to follows the principle whenever congestion occur it drops better cells of packet rather than to randomly
17
Ashockkumar.M
2004-2007
Virtually distributed
Java Functionality using RMI
Mr.Justus
Indented to access the resources of one environment to another provides cross plat form database access platform database access and resource sharing mechanism to establish unique operating system, environment to provide sharing of all o/s dependent s/w & h/w resources in future
18
Venkatesan,R
2004-2007
Network security Integrity systems
Mr V.Francis Danielraj
Ensuring that data to kept safe from corruption and it helps to ensure privacy and protecting data
19
SenthilNathan,R
2004-2007
Kerberized cryptic systems
Ms. N RenukaDevi
Used to keep the security in top layer in the inter connected architecture and save to prove to identify the users
20
Kathikeyan,C
2004-2007
Digital Asymmetric key secure
Mr.Justus
Techniques for ensuring that data stored cannot be read or compromised by any individuals without authorization
21
Prabhakaran,G
2004-2007
Remote database adminstration
MsC.D Balapriya
Project handles is to generate required report for query and query builder wizard guides the users and the users has the choice to choose any data base and connect to the database as per his/her requirement
22
Bharathi,G.V
2004-2007
Corporate management
Mr. Justus
Manages the information of multinational company through the web using the concepts of MIS: Management Information systems
23
Jincy Thomas
2004-2007
Cyber voting
Mrs. D.Anitha
To develop a secure voting system, using digital media of communication
24
Kalaivanan,K
2004-2007
Auto mail response for customer care
Mrs. D.Anitha
More automated procedure for handing customers, e-mail inquires with ensure services
25
Jaiganesh,G
2004-2007
Secure compatibility synchronization systems
Mr.Joel Joyston
It supports automated processes for constructing pockets and assures security
26
Rajesh,G
2004-2007
Dynamics load balances
Ms.M.RamalaxhmiPraba
Relies on workload of the processes and distributed the load among the host based on utilization of processes cycle
27
Ganesh,M
2004-2007
Wireless Network RCC
Mrs.G Devika
It enhances the way of communication in remote mobile computing
28
Karthick,M
2004-2007
Message monitoring systems
Mrs.D.Anitha
It motivates the interaction through web services and the communications passed to corresponding destination through new software called message monitoring systems
29
Mahendran,P
2004-2007








30
Baskaran,K
2004-2007
Hospital management using MVC architecture
Mr.Justucs
It prevails to get treatment in time and assigned the doctor to attend the patient in time
31
Sherin,J
2004-2007








32
Selvam,S
2004-2007
Batch data communication systems
Ms.M.Ramalaxmipraba
Is a form of communication vendors
System design implementation in alerted time with fullest extend of the client specification
33
Thangaraj,P
2004-2007
Scalable disk cluster
Mr.P.Ponnurajan
It ensure the safe keeping of data and can be retrieve at any time in actual form with any loss of documents
34
Sirajudeen,S
2004-2007
(34 Projects)
Task scheduling systems
Mr.P. Ponnurajan
Web based application to follow-up the companies project activities







1
Vinodha,A
2005-2008
ERP for small Business
Mrs K.Sumathi
Used to manage the resource to the fullest extend and also information has to made available at any time in organization
2
Mahesh,A
2005-2008
Chat application Online Support
Ms.RamalakshmiPrabha
Application for the user in order to record all the services in company to the client for easy interaction in all forms of management
3
Indumthi,N
2005-2008
Privacy preserving Data mining systems
Ms RamalakshmiPrabha
Its supports in marketing weather fore-casting medical diagnosis and national security and special concern for private data
4
Pugalmuni,R
2005-2008
Image Pattern search in Distributed Image Database
Mr Ponnurajan
Image as a basic component for information exchange and its facilitate to store and retrieve analyzed data
5
Guruprasad,D
2005-2008
SNMP based network management tool for fault isolation detection and recovery
Mr.K Joel Joyston
Is to identify the root cause of fault based on one or more symptoms and to enhance the level of automation in fault isolation and recovery
6
Balu,K
2005-2008
Material Management for Pharmacy
Mrs. B.Sarojini
Aim to simplify your day to day work and report that provide extensive information on all materials with their stock data
7
Azif Alikhan,S
2005-2008
IT Asset management system
Mrs. B.Sarojini
Objective is to manage the hardware and software asset in an IT organization or in an Institute to transfer the information based on there users action
8
Vinoth Kumar,A
2005-2008
Pre/post processing of data/GUT using TCL/TK scripting language for object oriented software frame work opensees
Mrs. K.Sumathi
Simulation of model of the real time str
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Java bean and java complete reference book

Learn more java

Introduction to Threads

Multithreading refers to two or more tasks executing concurrently within a single program. A thread is an independent path of execution within a program. Many threads can run concurrently within a program. Every thread in Java is created and controlled by the java.lang.Thread class. A Java program can have many threads, and these threads can run concurrently, either asynchronously or synchronously.

Multithreading has several advantages over Multiprocessing such as;

  • Threads are lightweight compared to processes
  • Threads share the same address space and therefore can share both data and code
  • Context switching between threads is usually less expensive than between processes
  • Cost of thread intercommunication is relatively low that that of process intercommunication
  • Threads allow different tasks to be performed concurrently.

The following figure shows the methods that are members of the Object and Thread Class.

Thread Creation

There are two ways to create thread in java;

  • Implement the Runnable interface (java.lang.Runnable)
  • By Extending the Thread class (java.lang.Thread)

Implementing the Runnable Interface

The Runnable Interface Signature

public interface Runnable {

void run();

}

One way to create a thread in java is to implement the Runnable Interface and then instantiate an object of the class. We need to override the run() method into our class which is the only method that needs to be implemented. The run() method contains the logic of the thread.

The procedure for creating threads based on the Runnable interface is as follows:

1. A class implements the Runnable interface, providing the run() method that will be executed by the thread. An object of this class is a Runnable object.

2. An object of Thread class is created by passing a Runnable object as argument to the Thread constructor. The Thread object now has a Runnable object that implements the run() method.

3. The start() method is invoked on the Thread object created in the previous step. The start() method returns immediately after a thread has been spawned.

4. The thread ends when the run() method ends, either by normal completion or by throwing an uncaught exception.

Below is a program that illustrates instantiation and running of threads using the runnable interface instead of extending the Thread class. To start the thread you need to invoke the start() method on your object.

class RunnableThread implements Runnable {

 Thread runner;
 public RunnableThread() {
 }
 public RunnableThread(String threadName) {
  runner = new Thread(this, threadName); // (1) Create a new thread.
  System.out.println(runner.getName());
  runner.start(); // (2) Start the thread.
 }
 public void run() {
  //Display info about this particular thread
  System.out.println(Thread.currentThread());
 }
}

public class RunnableExample {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  Thread thread1 = new Thread(new RunnableThread(), “thread1″);
  Thread thread2 = new Thread(new RunnableThread(), “thread2″);
  RunnableThread thread3 = new RunnableThread(”thread3″);
  //Start the threads
  thread1.start();
  thread2.start();
  try {
   //delay for one second
   Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000);
  } catch (InterruptedException e) {
  }
  //Display info about the main thread
  System.out.println(Thread.currentThread());
 }
}

Output

thread3
Thread[thread1,5,main]
Thread[thread2,5,main]
Thread[thread3,5,main]
Thread[main,5,main]private

Download Runnable Thread Program Example

This approach of creating a thread by implementing the Runnable Interface must be used whenever the class being used to instantiate the thread object is required to extend some other class.

Extending Thread Class

The procedure for creating threads based on extending the Thread is as follows:

1. A class extending the Thread class overrides the run() method from the Thread class to define the code executed by the thread.

2. This subclass may call a Thread constructor explicitly in its constructors to initialize the thread, using the super() call.

3. The start() method inherited from the Thread class is invoked on the object of the class to make the thread eligible for running.

Below is a program that illustrates instantiation and running of threads by extending the Thread class instead of implementing the Runnable interface. To start the thread you need to invoke the start() method on your object.

class XThread extends Thread {

 XThread() {
 }
 XThread(String threadName) {
  super(threadName); // Initialize thread.
  System.out.println(this);
  start();
 }
 public void run() {
  //Display info about this particular thread
  System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());
 }
}

public class ThreadExample {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  Thread thread1 = new Thread(new XThread(), “thread1″);
  Thread thread2 = new Thread(new XThread(), “thread2″);
  //     The below 2 threads are assigned default names
  Thread thread3 = new XThread();
  Thread thread4 = new XThread();
  Thread thread5 = new XThread(”thread5″);
  //Start the threads
  thread1.start();
  thread2.start();
  thread3.start();
  thread4.start();
  try {
 //The sleep() method is invoked on the main thread to cause a one second delay.
   Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000);
  } catch (InterruptedException e) {
  }
  //Display info about the main thread
  System.out.println(Thread.currentThread());
 }
}

Output

Thread[thread5,5,main]
thread1
thread5
thread2
Thread-3
Thread-2
Thread[main,5,main]

Download Java Thread Program Example

When creating threads, there are two reasons why implementing the Runnable interface may be preferable to extending the Thread class:

  • Extending the Thread class means that the subclass cannot extend any other class, whereas a class implementing the Runnable interface
    has this option.
  • A class might only be interested in being runnable, and therefore, inheriting the full overhead of the Thread class would be excessive.

An example of an anonymous class below shows how to create a thread and start it:

( new Thread() {

public void run() {

for(;;) System.out.println(”Stop the world!”);

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Engineering_Distributed_Objects_-_Wol_f_g_a_n_g_E_m_m_e_r_i_c_h.pdf (4522KB)

: http://lislinks. ning.com

OC to study distribution of bibliographic
data<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/01/loc-to-study-distribution-of.html>
*
Library of Congress Announces Study of Bibliographic Record
Publication<http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-011.html>,
press release, January 23, 2009. (Thanks to
ResourceShelf<http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/01/23/library-of-congress-announces-study-of-bibliographic-record-publication/>
.)

The Library of Congress today announced the next phase of its investigation
into the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and
Canadian libraries. The Library has commissioned a study to research and
describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format,
with primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing
incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability. The study
will be carried out by R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H.

The Library has recognized that its role as a producer of bibliographic data
is changing and that other libraries have options as they consider sources
for cataloging records. The conclusions outlined in a report issued last
year, "On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the
Future of Bibliographic Control," indicate that cataloging activity must be
shared more broadly and equitably among all libraries. Before the Library
considers any changes to its cataloging commitments or priorities, however,
it is vital to understand the extent to which other libraries rely on its
contributions. The study will examine cataloging production and practice
across all library types, including cooperative activity through OCLC, the
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), the National Library of Medicine,
the National Agricultural Library, library consortia, and other shared
cataloging initiatives.

Under the general direction of Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for
Library Services at the Library of Congress, R2 will develop a description
of the current economic model and will determine the extent of library
participation in and reliance on existing structures and organizations. The
study will show the degree to which sources other than the Library of
Congress are supplying quality records in economically sufficient
quantities, or whether most libraries use records created by the Library.
This project is oriented toward fact-finding and reporting rather than
solutions, and it is intended to produce a snapshot of the existing market.
The project is scheduled for completion by June 30, 2009, with a written
report and visual representation of the existing marketplace. Progress
reports, along with various other data collection and communication tools,
will be made available via the R2 <http://www.r2consulting.org/> Web site
and theBibliographic Control Working
Group<http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/> site
...
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