Digital Library Resources Awareness programme presentation did at South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.

1. Awareness Programme on Library and NSF Services
20th June 2023
A member of the Sri Lanka Scientific and Technical Information Network (SLSTINET)
Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced
Technological Education

2. National Science Library & Resource Centre - NSLRC
Website
www.nsf.gov.lk nslrc.nsf.gov.lk
E-mail
manuja@nsf.gov.lk
National Science Foundation

3. About National Science Foundation
Tel : +94 112694170
+94 112696771-3
Fax : +94 112694754
E- mail : dg@nsf.gov.lk
info@nsf.gov.lk
Web : www.nsf.gov.lk
: https://www.facebook.com/nsflk/
: https://t witter.com/NSFSriLanka
: https://www.youtube.com/user/NSFSL
National Science Foundation
47/5, Maitland Place,
Colombo - 07,
Sri Lanka.
National Science Council (NRC) by the
Act No. 09 of 1968
Natural Resources, Energy & Science
Authority (NARESA) in 1982 by the Act
No. 78 of 1981
National Science Foundation (NSF) in
1998 by the Act No. 11 of 1994

5. Functio
ns

7. Research Division (RD) Activities
 Competitive Research Grants (CRG)
To facilitate and encourages scientists to carry out research of high standard and to strengthen
the research base and promote R & D activities directed towards the socio-economic
development of the country
 National Thematic Research Pogramme (NTRP)
A mission -oriented, multidisciplinary collaborative research programme initiated to address
national needs and to drive the national research system to produce well defined outputs that
can be harnessed for national development
 International Collaborative Research Programme (ICRP)
To facilitate active researchers to share and disseminate ideas and/or techniques, initiate and
undertake collaborative research/technology development and facilitate interaction and
training
 Research Scholarships
To attract and encourage outstanding science/ engineering graduates to conduct fulltime
research leading to postgraduate degrees

8. Research Division (RD) Activities
Contin….
 Postdoctoral Research Scientist Grants
To Provide an opportunity for scientists / engineers with recent PhD or equivalent
qualifications to carryout fulltime research within the country
 Research Equipment Grants
To support the purchase of research equipment by Universities and R & D Institutions
 NSF Research Awards
To bestow on NSF grant recipients who have attained a high level of excellence in their
research work, the recognition they deserve and to recognize their contribution to the
advancement of science
 Support Scheme for Supervision of Research Degrees (SUSRED)
To motivate, support and recognize the scientists / engineers engaged in supervising students
conducting research in all areas of Science & Technology, leading to postgraduate degrees
National Instrument Database
https://idb.nsf.gov.lk/

9. Technology Development & Innovation Division
1) Technology Grants
2) Patent Support
3) Technology Commercialization
4) Technology Transfer
5) National Awards for Science & Technology Achievements (NASTA)
6) Technology Awards
7) Special Project on Cinnamon

10. International Affairs Division
NSF Global Digital Platform
Goal
To tap the potential of the highly competent Sri Lankan Expatriates in S & T, Industry, Higher
Education etc. for national development.
Objectives
1. Provide greater opportunities for higher education and capacity building
2. Enhance academic cooperation and research collaboration
3. Create a culture of creativity and innovation
4. Promote joint publications and ranking of Sri Lankan universities
5. Facilitate technology transfer for industrial development
6. Promote joint enterprises/business partnerships
Modalities
 Cross-border transfer of cutting-edge knowledge
 Establishment of partnerships for bilateral/multilateral R&D collaboration & scientific cooperation
 Capacity building /training workshops
 Train the trainers
 Remote supervision of research degrees
 Conducting modules of postgraduate courses
 Curriculum development & guidance for setting up high-end infrastructure
 Linking expatriates to the industry with special attention to SMEs to accelerate innovation projects
https://gdp.nsf.gov.lk/

11. International Affairs Division
 Grant Schemes
 ITG, OSTP & IPSAT
 ICRP, ICGEB-CRP,DAAD
 Bilateral Scientific Cooperation
 MoUs with PSF/Pakistan, NSFC/China, JST/Japan, DAAD/German
 RFBR & Sao Paulo Research Foundation (in the pipeline)
 Multilateral Scientific Cooperation
 NSF serves as the focal point for ICGEB,ISC,GRC,GRA,UNESCO,FABA,TWAS
 Facilitating networking and cross boarder knowledge transfer
 Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme
 New Initiative for tapping the global talent pool : NSF Global Digital
Platform
https://gdp.nsf.gov.lk/

12. Science Communication and Outreach
Division
 Science Popularization through different media
“Vidurava” Science Magazine - 4 Issues per year in all three language
‘Mihimadala’ Television documentary on different themes
3. Books, Booklets, tabloids, news paper articles
TV programmes, Radio discussions
 Popularize science among different strata of general public using various
outreach programmes and media
 Establishment of Science Societies in Schools and Universities
 Conduct Science and Research Competitions
 STEM Education Research Programme

13. 2.Science Popularization and
Education through Electronic and
print Media
1. 1. ‘Vidurava’ Science Magazine – Published 4
Issues per year in all three language ;
2. 2. ‘Mihimadala’ Television documentary on
different themes in all three language ;
3. 3. Books, Booklets, tabloids, news paper articles
4. 4. TV programmes, Radio discussions on
important priority topics
5. 5. Video programmes on science education

14. National & International Recognition Received

15. 3. Grant Schemes
1. Support infrastructure development of science
education facilities in schools
2. Sponsor Science Education and Popularization
activities conduct by schools, other
institutes/organizations (SEPP)
3. Publication Grant Scheme for Promoting Science
and Technology Publications
4. OSEP grant scheme for overseas STEM
programmes

16. 4. Celebrating World Science Day
The NSF celebrates Word
Science Day annually since
2004 with the participation
of School community,
undergraduates, scientists ,
media personnel and policy
makers

17. Science and Technology Policy Research
Division (STPRD)
 National Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Survey
 Science and Technology Management Information System (STMIS)
 S & T Policy related activities
 Indigenous knowledge-related activities
 Social Science related activities

18. STMIS is a computerized information system
developed and maintained by the NSF since
2004.
The STMIS database contains information on
a) Scientists​
b) S&T related institutions
d) locations and availability of advanced
scientific equipment.
e) Information on services and training
programmes offered by​ the S&T
institutions​.
f) Research publications and information on
the ongoing research activities in the
country.

19. Overview of STMIS Database
•The database was upgraded to a new Online System with improved functionality in 2019
7000+ individual registrants
Information of 100+ S&T related organizations
Over 900 average monthly hits
Circulation of updates about local and foreign scientific events and opportunities
Provision of customized comprehensive reports generated based on the requests of different
stakeholders.
https://stmis.nsf.gov.lk/

20. Journal Publishing Unit
 Journal of the National Science Foundation
 Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS)

21. National Science Library & Resource
Centre
Gateway to SL S&T Information
 NSLRC act as national focal point of
exchange and sharing of Science and
Technology Information in the country
Largest Online S&T Collection
 NSLRC Provide access to Sri Lankan’s
largest online digital scientific literature
collection.
Mandate 03: Foster interchange of scientific information among scientists in SL
and abroad

22. Our Goal and Objectives
To be the catalyst for Science & Technology Information dissemination in the
country
Improve efficiency of Information Services through adaptation of modern
Information Technology services
Liaise other Science & Technology Libraries to establish strong information
service network in the country
Promote NSLRC website to function as a Central Hub to Local and International
S & T Information Sources in the country

23. NSLRC Services & Facilities
National Digitization Project
Sri Lanka Journal Online Project
National Instrument Database
SLSTINET Services
Development of e-repositories for local libraries
Installation of Library Software & Maintenance
Conduct Training programs and workshops for
librarians
Literature search & documentation service
Current awareness programs

24. NSLRC Services & Facilities
SL largest collection of scientific literature Databases
NSF Publication Database,
Institutional Repositories
Digital Library of 200,000 full text publications
available
Sri Lanka Scientific Literature DB
International Bibliographic Databases
Book & Magazine collection of local & international
publications

25. Physical Collection
National Science Foundation Publications Online:
A complete collection of NSF Publications reports/theses
and research communications of NSF funded research
projects is maintained.
• Journal of the National Science Foundation
• Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science
• Vidurava
The collection can be searched and full documents could be
downloaded at http://viduketha.nsf.gov.lk/ and at
http://dl.nsf.ac.lk

26. Periodical Collection
Local Journal Collection :
A complete collection of locally published scientific printed
journals is maintained. These are also available in digital form
for online access within NSF premises at
http://viduketha.nsf.gov.lk
Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL) provides access to 82 Sri
Lankan journals world wide.
www.sljol.info
Benefits of SLJOL to academics & Students
• Free materials
• Easy access
• Sophisticated Search tool
• Alerts to newly published material
• Information on events
• Networking

27. Gateway to Local Literature
Local Information Sources
 Sri Lanka Science Index Database
 Union List of Periodicals holdings in S & T libraries. (on-line
consortium of printed journals)
 Database of SLAAS Proceedings (abstract)
 Union catalogue of books (in local libraries)
 Databases of National Network
 Research and Technology Grant Database

28. Gateway to International Literature
International Journals:
• NSLRC subscribes to several online full text databases covering several
thousands of international high impact journals for searching latest and
cutting edge research information across the globe. Access is also
provided to a range of full text high impact journal archives and Open
Access journals through the NSLRC web site.
http://vishwa.nsf.ac.lk/nslrc/index.php/component/content/category/8-
static-items

29. NSLRC Activity During Last 3 Years Base on Mandate 2020-03
Vote Activity Outcome
2020-03/A Strengthening Resource
Base
2021 2020 2019 2021 2020 2019
2020-03/A/1
Sri Lanka
Journals
Online
(SLJOL)
• Enrolment of New
Journals
17 08 04 111
Journals
1,776
Issues
15,653
Articles
303,596
Visitors
147,467
Downloads
93
Journals
1,531
Issues
13,488
Articles
269,269
Visitors
129,230
Downloads
85
Journals
1,346
Issues
11,944
Articles
209,568
visitors
97,950
downloads
• Publishing of New
Journals
245 185 174
• Publishing of New
Journal Article
2,167 1,544 1405
• Other administrative task
on SLJOL platform
Issue of DOI, obtain a free ORCID IDs, Training,
Trouble shooting

30. NSLRC Activity During Last 3 Years Base of Mandate 2020-03
Vote Activity Outcome
2020-03/A Strengthening
Resource Base
2021 2020 2019 2021 2020 2019
2020-03/A/2
National
Digitization
Project (NDP)
• Number of pages
digitized
14,950 - - 28
Repositories
1,622,778
Visitors
330,457
Downloads
28
Repositorie
s
1,622,77
8
Visitors
330,457
Downloads
27
Repositorie
s
96,688
Visitors
57,919
Downloads
• Number of digital
repositories
established
01 01 03
Number of articles
added to repositories
9,840 4,649 7,283
Number digital
articles available for
access
83,082 73,242 68,345

31. Growth of Databases of the National Science Library &
Resource Centre (2011-2020)
40181 40895
43915
46156
49200
52226
56577 56669
58446
61156
69,278
26777 26963 27166 27233 27239 27421 27514 26998 27241 27799 27,861
7461 7626 7727 7985 8127 8263 8367 8557 8632 8634 8,984
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
80000
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
NO.
OF
RECORDS
YEAR
Growth of Databases of the NSLRC
(2011-2021)
SLSI SLSTICAT SLAAS

32. Implementation of National Instrument Database
Creating a high-end analytical instrument database and maximum utilization of
available instrument effectively
FEATURES
 Rationalize the high-end equipment available in
universities and R&D institutions
 Prevent unnecessary duplication of expensive high-
end equipment
 Accredited laboratories in universities and R&D
institutions for high-priority analyses and testing
services for industrial growth and export promotion
 Enable enhanced revenue generation by Sri Lankan
universities and R&D institutions
 Promote strategic public-private partnerships (PPPs)
ESPECIAL FEATURES
NSLRC
 Developed and Owned by NSF
 Registered institutes have ownership and
responsibility of date
 Well defined authorization hierarchy
 Report generation
 Google maps (Time/Money)
 Suggest correct spellings (fuzzy logic)
https://idb.nsf.gov.lk

34. https://idb.nsf.gov.lk
National Instrument Database
Creating a high-end analytical instrument database and
maximum utilization of available instruments effectively

39. NATIONAL DIGITIZATION PROJECT
Digitization & Networking for Wider Access to Science & Technology Literature of Local Research
http://dl.nsf.ac.lk
launched in 2011

40. National Digitization Project - Objectives
1
• To Digitizing the collective literature out put of local research.
2
• To set up Institutional Repositories (IR) at the institutional level.
3
• To ensure all research out put of local scientists are deposited in the respective
Institutional Repositories.
4
• To operate a National Network of Institutional Repositories among Academic, Research
and related Institutions.
5
• To provide high visibility to local research literature through easy and quick online access.
6
• To offer resource discovery facilities across Institutional Repositories in the national
network.
7
• To preserve the local scholarly literature

41. Who will benefit?
1
• Academics, Scientists, Researchers
2
• Policy makers
3
• Industry and entrepreneurs
4
• Administrators
5
• Library and Information professionals
6
• General public

42. Project Scope
 Phase I – 2012/2013
 Digitization of 673,625 pages
 Participating institutions - 09
i. National Science Foundation
ii. University of Moratuwa
iii. Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture
iv. Council for Agricultural Research Policy
v. Industrial Technology Institute
vi. Central Environment Authority
vii. Coconut Research Institute
viii. Rubber Research Institute
ix. Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Training
and Research Institute
 Phase II – 2014/2015
 Digitization of 643,806 pages
 Participating institutions - 08
i. National Library of Sri Lanka
ii. South Eastern University
iii. Irrigation Department
iv. Mahaweli Authority
v. Department of Census and Statistics
vi. Geological Survey and Mines Bureau
vii. Institute of Fundamental Studies
viii. Tea Research Institute

43. Project Scope
 Phase III – 2016/2018
 Digitization of 653,245 pages out of 1.5 M
target
 Participating institutions - 08
i. Department of Agriculture
ii. National Aquatic Resources Research &
Development Agency (NARA)
iii. The Institution of Engineers
iv. National Building Research Organization
v. Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
vi. Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
vii. University of Ruhuna
viii. Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
ix. Irrigation Department*
i. Central Environment Authority*
ii. Department of Census & Statistics*
iii. Geological Survey & Mines Bureau*
iv. National Library*
v. South Eastern University*
vi. National Science Foundation*
* Continuation of phase I &II

44. Digital Repositories hosted at NSF Server
URL Institution Name
1. http://cea.nsf.ac.lk Central Environmental Authority
2. http://cri.nsf.ac.lk Coconut Research Institute
3. http://doa.nsf.ac.lk Department Of Agriculture
4. http://harti.nsf.ac.lk Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute
5. http://ifs.nsf.ac.lk National Institute of Fundamental Studies
6. http://nerdc.nsf.ac.lk National Engineering Research and Development Centre of Sri Lanka
7. http://dl.nsf.ac.lk National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka
8. http://rri.nsf.ac.lk Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka
9. http://suslrepo.nsf.ac.lk Sabaragamuwa University
10. http://tri.nsf.ac.lk Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka

45. National Digitization Project
Phase Duration Number of
Libraries
participated
Estimated
pages
No. of
Pages
digitized
Phase I Year 2011 – 2013 9 750,000 673,625
Phase II Year 2014 – 2016 9 800,000 643,806
Phase III Year 2017 – 2018 15 1,500,000 1,380,326
Total 3,050,000 2,697,757
0
200000
400000
600000
800000
1000000
1200000
1400000
1600000
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
NDP Project Progress Summary
Target Achievement
National Digitization Project was initiated by National Science Library & Resource Center of National
Science Foundation in year 2011 with objective of digitizing 3 million local S&T literature available in 25
research & academic libraries in the country to facilitate easy & quick online access to the full text
through a national network of Institutional Repositories developed under the project. Currently 61,062
articles are available to search online and another 22,497 articles are in processing to upload to
institutional repositories as at 31.12.2018

46. Development of Institutional Digital Repositories by 2021
1,459
1,687
950
2,057
1,327
119
1,233
19,800
16,100
2,439
8,139
1,000
1,702
1,414
2,830
5,269
1,988
3,339
1,763
4,527
134
2,873
1,081
878
1,753
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
No.
of
Documents
Development of IRs by 2021

47. CEA,
250,047
CEA,
338,687
NIFS,
2,437
NIFS,
9,510
RRI,
284,398
RRI,
298,055
TRI,
81,769
TRI,
101,897
HARTI,
74,140
HARTI,
91,247
CRI,
242,276
CRI,
256,257
NSF,
2,429,524
NSF,
2,583,741
IESL,
371
IESL,
4,962
DA,
7,337
DA,
17,504
SUSL,
0
SUSL,
896
NO. OF FULL TEXT DOWNLOADED BY 2019 NO. OF FULL TEXT DOWNLOADED BY 2020
CEA NIFS RRI TRI HARTI CRI NSF IESL DA SUSL
Usage of Repositories Hosted on NSF Server
(Number Of Full Text Documents Downloaded)

48. Sri Lanka Journal Online Project - SLJOL

50. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Journal Issues 28 87 92 91 92 93 94 105 170 158 166 174 186 245
Research articles 257 945 865 965 783 766 876 1031 1315 1322 1442 1405 1544 2167
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Growth of the SLJOL since its inception in 2008

51. 153532
204409
195056
204973 209568
269269
303596
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Users of SLJOL given on Google Analytics (2015-
2021)

52. 48,395
64,826
78,774
98,964 97,950
129,230
147,467
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Fulltext downloads from SLJOL given on Google Analytics
(2015-2021)

53. Global Distribution of SLJOL Users (Top Thirty-Six
Countries)
Country No. of users Country No. of users Country No. of users
Sri Lanka 83668 Thailand 1319 Ghana 537
India 22062 South Korea 1310 United Arab Emirates 535
United States 21002 Ethiopia 1143 New Zealand 500
Philippines 8720 France 1123 Russia 452
China 7024 Singapore 979 Poland 444
United Kingdom 5603 Egypt 974 Hong Kong 435
Japan 4822 Nepal 951 Sweden 388
Australia 4004 Mexico 883 Tanzania 376
Nigeria 3996 Netherlands 852 Iraq 365
Indonesia 3718 Italy 843 Colombia 345
Pakistan 3358 Saudi Arabia 793 Portugal 341
Malaysia 3181 Kenya 773 Uganda 335
Bangladesh 1704 South Africa 713 Myanmar (Burma) 322
Canada 1671 Iran 659 Belgium 312
Brazil 1633 Spain 639 Switzerland 309
Turkey 1604 Vietnam 562 Peru 300
Germany 1499 Taiwan 555

54. THANK YOU
Manuja Karunaratne
Head – National Science Library and Resource Centre
Mobile: 0773322697, 0712479491
Email: manuja@nsf.gov.lk