2. INTRODUCTION: ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
DIVISION
Electronic Resources Division of Central Library, IIT Delhi, provides its users with
bibliographic and full‐text databases, journals/proceedings, eBooks, archives, standards and
academic tools.
IIT Delhi is having the access to 71,468 full‐text electronic journals, 8,396 eBooks and 2,993
archives.
The subscription is made either through e Shodh Sindhu (eSS) consortia or directly from the
publishers/exclusive distributors.
The prime work of this section is to investigate, acquire, implement, evaluate, review and
renew electronic resources.
The access is provided to its users by IP, shibboleth and in some cases username and
password basis.
The division compiles various reports throughout the year. These reports help in the overall
analysis of usage and strategic planning, and policymaking.
3. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE
Bibliographic databases provide a descriptive record of an item, but the item itself
is not provided in the database. Such databases provide citations to the original
publications along with the abstract and are generally searchable by author, date,
title, and keyword text.
Bibliographic Databases subscribed by IIT Delhi.
1. MathSCiNet
2. SciFinder Scholar (only for registered users)
3. SCOPUS
4. Web of Science
4. FULL‐TEXT DATABASE
Full‐text database, as the name suggests, provides the full document.
Databases may index specific types of information, such as books, journals,
conferences, statistics, or a combination of resources.
Full‐text Databases subscribed by IIT Delhi.
There are 19 full‐text databases subscribed by IITD. A few are as:
1. CMIE
2. Indiastat
3. Manupatra
4. SPIE Digital Library
5. OnePetro
6. Nexis Uni
6. JOURNALS/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
A journal is a scholarly publication containing articles written by researchers,
professors and other experts. Unlike newspapers and magazines, journals are
intended for an academic or technical audience, not general readers.
Journals are published on a regular basis (monthly, quarterly, etc.) and are
sequentially numbered.
Each copy is an issue; a set of issues makes a volume (usually each year is a
separate volume).
A conference proceeding is the published record of an academic meeting such
as a conference, workshop, congress, symposium, or other professional meeting
hosted by an academic or research organization.
10. STANDARDS SUBSCRIBED BY IITD
IITD has subscribed four standards, they are as follows:
1. ASTM (American Society forTesting and Materials )
2. BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards)
3. IEC (The International Electrotechnical Commission)
4. ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
12. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE (ERMS)
Library budget continues to be increasingly expended on electronic journals and
databases.
These collections necessitate a need for systems that provide functionality and
capability to manage resource configurations, cost details, licenses, account
administration, title lists and usage collection.
ERMs (Electronic Resource Management Software) have evolved to support the
complexity of this work.
Large collections may require more complex data storage and workflow options to
manage and track subscriptions from the acquisitions phase through the lifecycle
and maintenance of the resource.
13. CORAL : A ELECTRONIC RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
CORAL is an electronic resources management system.
It is available as a free, open source program.
It started by the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries initially.
It is designed to be both simple and highly customizable.
Each module can be installed independently or used together depending on your
library’s needs.
If library decide to install the entire suite, easy access to linked records help make
sense of the electronic resource through the entire life cycle of acquisition,
licensing, administration, support, and usage
15. AN OVERVIEW OF LOCKSS, CLOCKSS,
PORTICO, ANDTHE KEEPERS REGISTRY
Introduction :
Electronic resources are becoming the backbone of many library
collections.
Electronic journals in particular have become the default format for
most periodical literature in all fields of scholarship.
The mission of librarians, the publishing industry, and nonprofit
organizations is to ensure that electronic scholarship remains
accessible to future generations in an affordable and sustainable
manner.
LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, and the Keepers Registry are the four
initiatives dedicated to the preservation and to the perpetual access
of electronic scholarship.
16. LOCKSS
LOCKSS or Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe is part of the Stanford University libraries.
It was originally developed to preserve journals as they appear on their publishers’ websites
but now also includes electronic books and other digital resources.
It began in 1999 and is the oldest of the above five initiatives.
LOCKSS is a decentralized and distributed preservation system rather than a centralized
repository.
It is “the first and only mechanism to apply the traditional purchase‐and‐own library model
to electronic materials” and provides software that turns a library’s dedicated server or a
virtual machine into their local LOCKSS box.
Content of a local LOCKSS box remains authentic and authoritative by continually
comparing lots of copies of the same content collected by other institutions’ LOCKSS boxes
located around the world.
LOCKSS boxes are registered with various LOCKSS Alliance networks.There are two types
of networks, global and private
17. LOCKSS
LOCKSS Boxes deliver content immediately whenever the publisher’s website is
unavailable for whatever reason.Content is always available, not just when the
publisher ceases to exist or when there is some other problem.
Librarians can add new content, monitor the content being preserved, and control
access to content.
Publishers and libraries are invited to join the LOCKSS Alliance. Publishers
participate in the Global LOCKSS Network for free; however, openings to join are
limited.
Libraries pay a fee that is based on the size of their institutions. Membership
provides technical support for LOCKSS boxes and access to locally owned
collections from publishers
Any differences among the copies are corrected.Content is kept safe from natural
disasters, server outages, and other unexpected disruptions in service. It is
unlikely that the content of all copies would be destroyed or tampered with.
18. CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS, or Controlled LOCKSS as its name implies, is a network of LOCKSS.
It is a nonprofit partnership between academic publishers and research libraries.
E‐book and e‐journal content from publishers is preserved in a dark archive and is
made freely available to scholars worldwide when it is no longer from the
publisher or a triggered event occurs.
A triggered event includes situations in which the publisher is no longer in
business, the title is no longer offered, back issues of a title are no longer
available, or there is a catastrophic failure when content is permanently lost.
When a triggered event occurs, content is automatically migrated to the newest
format.
19. CLOCKSS
Libraries and publishers of all sizes and budgets from around the world can
support and participate in the work of CLOCKSS.
The annual fees for libraries start at $400 and are based on libraries’ materials
budgets.
Consortia discounts are available. Fees for publishers start at $200 and are based
on total publishing revenue.
The first 500 journal articles and 50 e‐books are ingested for free .There is no
charge for back file and backlist ingest of all material types.
20. PORTICO
Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not‐for‐profit organization whose mission is “to help
the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record
and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways”.
JSTOR is also part of ITHAKA.
A total of 922 libraries from 14 countries and 303 unique commercial, not‐for‐
profit, society, and university publishers participate in Portico’s global
collaboration.
In 2002, Portico began as a project funded by the AndrewW. Mellon Foundation.
It was originally developed to preserve electronic journals and now also preserves
electronic books and other digital resources.
21. PORTICO
Like CLOCKSS, Portico preserves electronic content in a dark archive.
The Portico archive is a centralized preservation repository; whereas, LOCKSS and
CLOCKSS have decentralized and distributed systems.
Title, publisher, available volumes and issues, ISSN, E‐ISSN, and other key
metadata elements are gathered at the initial point of preservation.
Content is only migrated to the archive at the point where it becomes necessary.
Portico conducts self checks to ensure that the content remains authentic,
authoritative, and secure.
In 2010, it became the first preservation initiative to independently undergo an
audit by the Center for Research Libraries.
22. KEEPERS REGISTRY
The Keepers Registry was developed by EDINA, the Jisc funded national data
service center at the University of Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre
in Paris.
It was developed during the Piloting an E‐Journals Preservation Registry Service
(PERS) project and was launched in October 2011.
It enables librarians, publishers, and others to identify which preservation
initiatives are preserving or keeping which electronic journals.
It also documents which journals have no “keepers” and are at risk of being lost.
As of September 2015, a total of 28,690 journals are archived and ingested by at
least one keeper. In addition, 10,039 journals have three or more keepers (Jisc,
n.d.).
23. KEEPERS REGISTRY
Ten archiving agencies or keepers are participating in the Keepers Registry.
CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and Portico as well as the Archaeology Data Service, the British
Library,The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Science Library, e‐Depot, HathiTrust,
the Library of Congress, and Scholars Portal are associated with the service.
Each agency provides regular updates.They supply metadata on the journals they are
archiving to the Registry, and these metadata are crossed‐checked against the
authoritative bibliographic information obtained from the ISSN register.
The bibliographic information includes eight metadata elements.The title and any variant
titles are supplied for each journal.
Both the “Print” and “Online” ISSN are usually displayed to the user.The first publisher is
the name of the journal’s earliest publisher, the publisher at the time the ISSN was
assigned.