Sahapedia : An open online encyclopedic resource

Sahapedia is an open online multimedia encyclopedic resource on the Indian culture, arts and history. It is based on New Delhi and registered in 2011 as a not-for-profit organisation under the societies Act of 1860. The portal provides articles , books , videos , interviews and having an image database. It  is available in Bengali , Chattisgarhi , English , Hindi , Malayalam , Marati , Tamil , and Urdu. Users can explore historic sites and natural spaces through virtual walks, timelines and interactive maps. Sahapedia is both a resource and a platform in that registered users may log into a personal work space from where they can submit material for curation and form communities of interest. It is also an online archive that hosts a library, cultural events calendar and news. 

Sahapedia Introduction Video

Access Sahapedia at http://www.sahapedia.org/

"Applied Innovative Research" new journal by NISCAIR

The new journal entitled  "Applied Innovative Research" brought out by CSIR- NISCAIR ( National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources ) in Collaboration with Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute ( AMPRI ), Bhopal. It will focus in various innovative fields of science & technology including nuclear energy sector, environment and climate change , information technology , agriculture sciences , alternative sources of energy , biotechnology , applied mathematics , physics , chemistry , nanotechnology , engineering & material sciences etc. It is open access journal and can access at http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/

The Standard Address Number - A unique address identifier

The Standard Address Number (SAN) is a unique seven digit identifier used to signify a specific address of an organization in the publishing industry. The SAN is used for identification of customers for electronic ordering transmission, voice recognition ordering systems, tele-ordering, and billing or shipping account numbers. SANs reduces the problems faced by other non-standard numbering systems such as billing errors, books shipped to the wrong points, errors in payments and returns.

The SAN was initially developed at R.R. Bowker to standardise account to facilitate ordering across the supply chain. It was intended to meet the trading needs of the stake holders of the publishing industry by identifying them by a standard number and could process business transactions effectively and accurately. The SAN consists of six digits and a check digit. This seven digit code is hyphenated after the third digit for easy human transcription, but the hyphen need not be retained in electronic systems. It is approved in 1979 as ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1980 standard and updated in 1993.


To know more on this topic

• The Use of the Standard Address Number (SAN) in the Supply Chain

• Standard Address Number (SAN) by R R Bowker

• ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1993 (R2017) Standard Address Number (SAN) for the Publishing Industry

The 'Journal of Big Data' - An open access journal on Big Data

The Journal of Big Data publishes high-quality, scholarly research papers, methodologies and case studies covering a broad range of topics, from big data analytics to data-intensive computing and all applications of big data research. It is published by Springer and available in open access platform.  The journal examines the challenges facing big data today and going forward including, but not limited to: data capture and storage; search, sharing, and analytics; big data technologies; data visualization; architectures for massively parallel processing; data mining tools and techniques; machine learning algorithms for big data; cloud computing platforms; distributed file systems and databases; and scalable storage systems. Academic researchers and practitioners will find the Journal of Big Data to be a seminal source of innovative material.

To know more and access the journal- https://journalofbigdata.springeropen.com

e-Acharya: A gateway to all learners

e-Acharya is an integrated e-content portal developed under National Mission for Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The portal provides facility to search and browse the learners all learning materials includes audio, video, textual materials, etc. through a single interface. The portal cover quality learning resources from top institutions in the country in eight subject categories viz Agriculture Science, Biological Science, Chemical Science, Physical Science, Medical and Health Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

You can start your search from the home page using free text search and exact search options. For example search using the keyword 'Nano Science' a total of 1118 records will be displayed, 100 on each page. Each record will contain the title, project name, course,  subject, contributor, institution, key word and the language in which the record is available. On the right side of the record there is option to refine your search. You can  narrow your search by content type, target users, by subjects, by institute and by project name. Each refine term shows how many item included in the term. Take the example of the 'Nano Science' refine by institute - IISc Bangalore, eighteen items contributed by IISc on the topic will get. To select the item click on the title and open it. You can browse by other access points from the record window.

Anyone can register to the portal for free by adding  name, email id and category in which belong. It will help to create a profile and manage the portal in the personalised way. You can select the subject, search on the subject, you can store e-text and videos; You can manage number of collections in your profile, number of visits on the websites, last login time, and login count. You can contribute open access content and any project with special collection. 

Link to portal:  http://eacharya.inflibnet.ac.in 

Shodh Ganga : A reservoir of Indian Theses

Shodhganga is a digital repository of theses and dissertations submitted to Indian universities. It is maintained by INFLIBNET Centre which is an autonomous Inter-University Center of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. More than 397 universities and  centrally funded institutions contributing their research out put to the Shodh Ganga and  467 institutions signed MOU with the project.There are 231171 full text theses and 6450 synopses are currently available at the portal. The full text of all the documents submitted to Shodh Ganga are available to read and to download in open access to the academic community worldwide.

According to Shodh Ganga website "Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. Theses and dissertations remain an un-tapped and under-utilized asset, leading to unnecessary duplication and repetition that, in effect, is the anti-theses of research and wastage of huge resources, both human and financial." To solve this problem since 2016 May UGC made mandate submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations. The online platform of electronic theses will help to easy access and archiving of theses and dissertation of all institution participating in the project. This facilitate to improve the standard and quality of academic research by avoiding duplication of research.  

 The Shodhganga depository is built using open source digital library software DSpace developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in partnership between Hewlett- Packard (HP). The DSpace uses internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards. So the  repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations). Access the portal at https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in .

 

Shodhganga home page

The Diary of Wimpy Kid Series

Cover of the first book

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a children's novel written and illustrated by American cartoonist  Jeff Kinney. The story was first appeared in FunBrain, an educational browser game website for children and adults, in 2004. The first print edition of thirteen book series was published in April 2007 with the title Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The story is around the activities of a mischievous boy Gregory Heffley. Greg, has trouble with family, friends, and his local middle school. He is very concerned about how popular he is at school, and he daydreams a lot about being rich and famous when he grows up. He tries to fit in at his school, but usually he does not succeed. Facing many challenges, Greg attempts to handle them very creatively, but unfortunately his antics often backfire on him.

This book can recommend to children from age seven who enjoy reading as it is quite easy to read. The book will help to learn language and its usage. The book with illustration creates interest in reading. This series is must for every school libraries and public libraries which serve child patrons. Have a look at the series;

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Published on April 1, 2007

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Published on February 1, 2008

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Published on January 13, 2009

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Published on October 13, 2009

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, Published on November 9, 2010

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, Published on November 15, 2011

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel, Published on November 13, 2012

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Published on November 5, 2013

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul,  Published on April 28, 2014

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School, Published on October 27, 2015

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down, Published on November 1, 2016

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway,  Published on November 7, 2017

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown, Published on October 30, 2018

Visit:  https://wimpykid.com/

e-Adhyayan: Depository of books for UG and PG courses in India

e-Adhyayan is a repository of e-Books for the Under-Graduate & Post-Graduate Courses. The e-Books are being derived from the e-text of e-PG Pathshala. The project is initiated by the University Grants Commission and Ministry of Human resource Development, Government of India. The author / course coordinator of books are Indian experts. Currently, e-Adhyayan has 50 e-Books in Sociology, Library & information Science, Computer Science & IT. It is available in open access under Creative Common platform. The platform of e-Books is pressbook which is open source. It has been deployed and customized by the INFLIBNET Center. It also facilitates e-book publishing off-line, where author can write and publish his/her own book.

Access the resource at http://epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in

Science Direct: A databse for research literature

Science Direct is a subscription based database which provide scientific, technical and health research information. It has started in  1997 and provided by Elsevier . It provides access to more than 3500 e-journals and 34,000 e-books. Journals are grouped in to four categories- Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. The contents of the database is peer reviewed and includes open access contents.  The abstracts of journal articles are freely available but for full text you have to subscribe or pay per view.

Visit Science Direct website at https://www.sciencedirect.com

MathSciNet : A bibliographic database for Mathematics and allied fields

MathSciNet is an online Bibliographic database for Mathematics, Statistics and Theoretical Computer Science created by American Mathematical Society in 1996. It contains electronic version of 'Mathematical Review'  and over 3.5 million items which includes citations, reviews, links to journals and full text articles. It is available in English, French and German. MathSciNet is an essential tool for researchers in Mathematics and allied fields. It can access through subscription  through researcher's affiliated Institution, normally individual subscription is not possible

You can do publication search from MathSciNet home page using different access point such as author, title, key word , Mathematical Review number, etc. and combination of these using Boolean operators. When you click to-down menu on the right side of the author you can see all the possible searches Author, Author/Related, Title, Review Text, Journal, Institution code, Series, MSC Primary/ Secondary, MSC Primary, Mathematical Review Number, Reviewer and Reference. You can narrow your search by year of publication, period of publication by giving in between two years. Again narrow your search by type of document - Books, Journals, proceedings or by all type of document. The result can chose either in PDF or HTML.


Search using any access point will lead to a page contain the bibliographic entries on the relevant topic. Each entry here shows MR number, the author of the document, the title of the document, the title of the journal in the case of journal articles, year of publication, the reviewer, etc. Click on the MR number you will get more information on selected item. An abstract or review of the item, link to the journal, link to the article itself are provided in this window. If the article having access to your institution you can directly go to the full text of the item.


The MathScieNet database is an excellent bibliographic database for Mathematical researchers and student to assist your literature search with more than 2,900,000 records, more than eight hundred thousand authors indexed from 1800 mathematical journals. Most of these peer reviewed journals are indexed cover to cover. For more information visit official website of MathScieNet at www.ams.org/mathscinet/

Indian Science Abstract : an abstracting jurnal of Scientific publication in India

Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) is a semi-monthly abstracting journal which has been reporting scientific work done in India since 1965.  It is published by NISCAIR. Original research articles short communications, review articles, and informative articles published in current scientific and technical periodicals, proceedings of conferences and symposia, monographs and other publications, as well as patents, standards and theses are reported in ISA.

Indian Science Abstract is available in both print and online format. It is available online from 2000 onward  . You can search by Document type, Title,  Journal Abbreviation , Subject Category , Author name,  Keyword , Geographic term, Generic term,  ISA volume and  ISA issue. You can access the online archive of the journal at https://www.niscair.res.in/