User awareness programme on N-LIST organised at Allahabad University

ALLAHABAD: The authorities of the Central Library of Allahabad University in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad (an IUC of University Grants Commission) organised a day's user awareness programme on N-LIST, on Friday. Organised at the seminar hall of AU's guest house, the awareness programme was attended by representatives of over 75 different educational institutions of higher studies, not only from city but from various other districts too.

Detailing on the successful programme, deputy librarian, Dr B K Singh said that the project entitled 'National library and information services infrastructure for scholarly content (N-LIST), is being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET digital library consortium, INFLIBNET centre and the INDEST-AICTE consortium. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET centre.

The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized user through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET centre.

Faculty members, staff, students and researchers from eligible colleges covered under Section 12B/2F of UGC Act and Non-Aided colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing) are eligible to access e-resources through the N-LIST project. Members can access more than 4000 e-journals and 80000 e-books through this project. tnn

There were more than75 participants in this programme which includes the principals, librarians and faculty members of the constituent colleges of AU as well as other colleges situated in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Dean Research and Development Prof NR Farooqi, inaugurated the programme. He stressed on maximum usage of AU's library and motivated those attending the programme that as authorities put so much of efforts in providing various amenities in the library, the real beneficiaries should come forward and make use of the library.

Prof-In-Charge of the Central Library of AU, Prof HD Sharma, welcomed the guests and participants while senior scientists of INFLIBNET, Ashok Kumar Rai gave the detailed exposition of N-LIST. The deputy librarian, who was also the coordinator of this programme delivered the vote of thanks.

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Affiliated colleges of Bharathidasan University are not serious about securing NLIST access

Affiliated colleges have so far shown tepid response to the opportunity created by Bharathidasan University through its library to access NLIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) resources constituting thousands of text and reference books at graduate, postgraduate and research levels, in addition to 3,000 scholarly journals.

By networking at regional, national and international level, the library is able to provide affiliated colleges access to enormous scholarly information through inter-library loan and online document delivery service, on payment of a registration cost of just Rs.5,000 to the INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) director. According to Vice Chancellor K. Meena only 23 colleges have registered so far despite repeated requests to principals.

The university library, she informed, would network bibliographic databases of its own documents and those of affiliated colleges, and provide the user community online access to catalogues. The university plans to conduct an awareness programme and a workshop on accessing and using scholarly information resources and systems in collaboration with INFLIBNET, DELNET (Developing Library Network), and other information agencies.

The initiative, said Srinivasa Ragavan, librarian and head, university library, would bridge the gap between the resource-rich libraries and smaller ones in colleges where the budget for books is less.

Meanwhile, Bharathidasan University has signed an MoU with INFLIBNET and is one among 25 universities in the country to receive UGC sanction of Rs.11.5 lakh (second largest) in first phase for digitisation of all submitted Ph.D theses.

This would pave way for students, scholars and teachers to seamlessly access full text theses and approved synopsis of Ph.D. programmes of various subjects through the university website.

A press release said the university has sustained its fifth rank position at national level for the fourth consecutive year for using scholarly resources through UGC Infonet e-resources consortia.

During 2011, the university faculty and students downloaded 5,40,571 research articles and book chapters for academic and research information needs, compared to 2,94,338 the previous year. By virtue of subscribing to Springer e-books, Scopus, India stat, and other databases, the university has over 1.5 lakh downloads of journal articles and e-book chapters.

Referring to the Web of Science, the global indexing database for scholarly research, the release said Bharathidasan University research index has received a global citation score of 18000.

With h-index ranking of 51 (3rd rank in the State), the score of 7.62, as average citation per article, propped the university to second rank in the State as on June 15, 2012.

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