Lecture Presentation to Students

1. Usage of Digital Resources
By Muhammad Yousuf Ali

2. Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy is the ability to
• Use Information and Communication Technologies
• To find information,
• To evaluate,
• To create, and
• To Reuse information
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources
American Library Association (ALA)
September 12, 2012

3. Digital Library
Digital Library is library where Digital Resources available for
users
• Free or License Access
• 24/7 Access
• Remote Access
• Serve Multiple Users a at a Time
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

4. Category DR
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources
Born Digital Conversion/Digitalization
Create born digital Manual/Printed into Digital
Material digitalized Material
convert

5. Digital Resources
Born Digital Materials: Digitized Materials:
The born digital materials includes;
e-books,
e-journal,
e-newspaper,
e-magazine,
Thesis & dissertations,
reports,
Website & www-resources
Digitized materials means converting
the materials from other format;
Books,
Journals,
Newspapers & magazines,
etc. in print format
into digital format;
e-books,
e-journal,
e-news paper & e-magazine, etc.).
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

6. Formats of Digital Materials
• Full Text
• Meta Data
• Multimedia/ AV materials
• Websites
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

7. Formats of Digital Materials
Full Text
 E-books
 Scholarly Journals
 E-Newspapers
 Open Access
 Theses & Dissertations
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

8. Formats of Digital Materials
Meta Data
 OPAC/Catalogue
 Abstracting &Indexing databases
 Indexes to archives
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

9. Formats of Digital Materials
Multimedia/AV Materials
 Still Images
(Photographs, print, paintings etc.)
 A/V materials
(Films, moving, video recording etc.)
 Sound recording
 Animations
Muhammad Yousuf Ali Usage of Digital Resources

10. Formats of Digital Materials
Websites
 Websites are the most commonly used digital resource among
peoples, (researchers, teachers, students etc.)
 There are different kinds of websites like;
▫ Educational .edu
▫ Governments .gov
▫ commercial and business .com
▫ Organizational website .org etc.
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

11. Use of Digital Resources
E-Books
An electronic version of a printed book which can be
read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld
device.
Find free eBooks , www.gutenberg.org
Muhammad Yousuf Ali Usage of Digital Resources

12. Use of Digital Resources
Scholarly e-journals:
An academic or scholarly journal is a peer-reviewed or
refereed periodical in which scholarship relating to a
particular academic discipline is published.
• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
• http://www.tandfonline.com/page/looking-for-
something
• https://doaj.org/ etc.
Muhammad Yousuf Ali Usage of Digital Resources

13. Use of Digital Resources
E- Newspapers
 E-Newspapers are published electronically which is
formatted identically to print version.
 It is a complete version of print newspaper.
 This format is considered more environmentally friendly
due to reduction of paper and energy use.
 http://epaper.dawn.com/
 http://e.thenews.com.pk/
 https://e.jang.com.pk/
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources

14. Use of Digital Resources
Theses and dissertations
Full text dissertation and These are one of the digital
Resources
http://dspace.mit.edu/
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15. Use of Digital Resources
Close Access
 Open Access is a system of providing users access to
the full text of quality, peer reviewed research articles
which uses a funding model that does not charges user
or their institutions for access.
https://amazon.com
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Open Access
 Scholarly journals such as those covering the digital
library area (Ariadne, D-lib magazine and First
Monday) would be included in this category.
Muhammad Yousuf Ali by Usage of Digital Resources
https://doaj.org/

16. Digital Resources @ SMIU
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Digital Resources @ SMIU
ASTM (Computer Science Faculty & Students
http://compass.astm.org/
Ebrary (Business, Media, Computer & Education)
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/hec/home.action
Institute for Operations Research & Management
Sciences (Books & 12 Scholarly Research Journal)
http://pubsonline.informs.org/
McGraw Hill Collections (Engineering & Science)
http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/mcgraw.html

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Digital Resources @ SMIU
Springer Link (Books & Journal for relevant
subject)
http://link.springer.com/
Taylor & Francis Journals
http://www.tandfonline.com/
University of Chicago (Books)
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/journals.html
Wiley (Research Journal site)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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Digital Resources @ SMIU
HEC Summon Serial
http://hecpk.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/

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Upcoming Resources @ SMIU
EBSCOHOST
KBHE Library Purchase for Business Administration
Students and Faculty
https://www.ebscohost.com/

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Upcoming Resources @ SMIU
Online Public Access Catalogue (KOHA)

22. Contact us
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Feedback & Suggestions
sgul@smiu.edu.pk
library@smiu.edu.pk
Ext 310 & 338

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