Use of UGC‐Infonet Digital Library Consortium resources by research scholars and faculty members of the University of Delhi in History and Political Science
Purpose – This paper focuses on the use of UGC‐Infonet Digital Library Consortium Resources by research scholars and faculty members of University of Delhi in History and Political Science. The main aim is to determine the needs of research scholars and faculty members of University of Delhi in the discipline of history and political science and to find out how far their information needs are fulfilled by the information resources available through UGC‐Infonet Digital Library Consortium. The paper attempts to define this consortium, its objectives, scope, e‐resources subscribed and the government initiative to provide current information in various disciplines for research and teaching excellence.Design/methodology/approach – To study the information usage pattern and needs of the respective users a survey was conducted among faculty and research scholars. The population included in the study comprised 105 respondents from both departments and of that, eight are faculty and 97 are research scholars.Findin...
Electronic article and journal usage statistics (EAJUS): proposal for an industry‐wide standard
Usage statistics are a topic of much current attention. They are the subject of a White Paper recently written for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) by Judy Luther (www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/ pub94abst.html) which was discussed at the Charleston library conference in November 2000 and in April 2001 at the STM conference in Amsterdam. The White Paper notes many initiatives and working groups known to be interested in usage statistics – a list that constantly expands. In October 2000, both the Innovations Committee and the Library Relations Committee of STM – the international STM publishers association – decided at their Frankfurt meetings that usage statistics should be their next topic of consideration. (Noting the overlap, Innovations has left it to Library Relations.) These are merely examples of the current level of interest. Journal publishing is unusual, if not unique, in the media industries for having existed with no widespread or robust usership figures. Libraries occasionally undertake their own ‘shelving’ or ‘gate’ surveys. Individual publishers have their own market research. But most of us know little about the readership of our paper journals, and almost nothing comparative. The new era of electronic publishing can readily provide an answer to this knowledge gap. All publishers with journals on the web are regularly asked for usage statistics by their customers. Responses vary. Publishers in physics, chemistry, mathematics and related subjects have been wired for some time and generally have good in-house statistics. Some variation lies in their willingness to share them with customers. Medical publishers are increasingly publishing web versions, and they bring a different heritage: pharmaceutical companies have long demanded readership data in medical publishing and will demand electronic access figures when they are giving financial support. In 1998 the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) produced a set of guidelines for usage statistics (www.library. yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html). Their intention was that publishers who have contracts with library consortia should supply the consortia with usage statistics in the manner described in the guidelines. Both these current situations – publisher to individual buyer, and publisher to consortium – provide figures
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.