Workshop on e-Resources and N-List Access

    On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024, the Library and Information Centre and IQAC collaborated to host a Workshop on e-Resources and n-List Access

    Student Kum. Subha S L. served as the program's anchors, and student Mr. Praveen, III B. Sc. sang the invocation song at the beginning. The programme began at 11.30 AM. The main guests watered the plant while Dr. Nirupama M., welcomed and introduced each dignitary. Mrs. Kavitha J.N., Librarian, SAFGC introduce the chief guest. Principal Dr. M.K. Manjunath addressed the students and instructed them to write down the points to be conveyed in the performance.

    During the Workshop on e-Resources and N-List Access, Dr. Nagaraju, B.G., a Senior Grade Librarian, at Government Home Science College, Hassan, was the chief guest. They were APJ Abdul Kalam and A.A. Home started the session by recalling references. He explains the definition and format of e-resources, he discussed the feature and why e-resources are important in student life.1. An up to date resource that can be downloaded instantaneously. 2. Read any time (24/7). 3. It may be brought anywhere using a portable PC. 4. It allows you to hold and change pages easily. 5. Users with physical disabilities can hear audible electronic resources. 6. Some e-resources are interactive and feature background music and animations. 7. Additional features include a search function, links to other publications, and more. 8. E-resources do not require bindery and repair, and he described various types of e-resources.1. Any information resources that are accessible online, e.g. 2. Electronic journals. 3. Scholarly databases. 4. Electronic books. 5. Internet Gateways and Search Engines 6. Electronic Newspapers and 7. CD-ROMS. He offered information about prominent publishers in e-resources such as Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, and others. 

He later gave a live demonstration of open educational resources or repositories and how to extract content from them.

National Digital Library of India:- The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), has launched the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot project to create a framework for a virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

He showed the students how to log in and search NDLI.

Karnataka Digital Public Library:- The Karnataka Public Library Department has created a digital library website and an app service called eSarvajanika Granthalaya. Approximately one lakh books, 95000 English books, magazines, language books, and videos have already been digitised and uploaded on the website. Public library users can access all of these services by registering on the e-library website and app. Recently, the Karnataka Public e-library surpassed 1 crore+ readers.

e-PG Pathshala:- e-Pathya is one of the verticals of e-PG Pathshala, which is a software-driven course / content package that assists students pursuing higher education (PG level) through remote learning and campus learning modes. It also enables offline access 

DOAJ:- DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and gives access to high-quality, peer-reviewed publications. It was established in 2003 at Lund University in Sweden, with 300 open access journals. The independent database now has 12,360 open access journals from 129 countries, spanning all fields of science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities. All data are freely available.

DOAB:-The Directory of Open Access Books is a service provided by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. The Foundation is a worldwide project established at the National Library in The Hague that promotes Open Access monographs and volumes. The directory is accessible to any publishers who publish academic, peer-reviewed books in open access, and it should include as many books as possible, as long as they are open access and fulfil academic criteria.

https://www.doabooks.org

Internet Archive:- The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library established in San Francisco, aims to provide "universal access to all knowledge".It offers free public access to digital assets such as websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving photos, and approximately three million. https://archive.org/

BASE Search Engine:- BASE is one of the world's largest search engines, particularly for academic web sites. BASE offers about 140 million papers from more than 6,000 sources. The complete texts of around 60% of the indexed publications are freely available (Open Access). BASE is run by the Bielefeld University Library.

Sci-Hub:- Sci-Hub, founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in Kazakhstan in 2011, offers free access to millions of research articles and books, breaking publishers' paywalls in various ways.

doi: 10.1140/EPJC/S2004-02003-4.

Project Gutenberg:- Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer-led initiative to digitise and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."[2] Michael S. Hart, an American writer, developed it in 1971, making it the earliest digital library.[3] The majority of its library consists of full-text novels or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free using an open format layout that works on practically any machine. As of February 13, 2024, Project Gutenberg had 70,000 free eBooks in its inventory.

CORE:- CORE's mission is to collect and make public all open access research outputs from repositories and publications around the world. CORE facilitates free and unrestricted access to research for all. The Open University of England provides this nonprofit service. https://core.ac.uk/

Z-library:- Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib; formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library initiative that provides file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts, and general-interest books. It started as a mirror of Library Genesis, but it has since grown significantly.

N-List:- The "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)" project is being carried out collaboratively by the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre, and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi.

He instructed the student to go to the library and register for the N-list in order to gain entrance for the demonstration and he explained the limitation of N-LIST. 

Vote of thanks done by Mrs. Arpitha H.J., HoD of Physics.