This document summarizes a talk on electronic resources for research. It begins by outlining the objectives of discussing what research is, resources used in research, and electronic resources specifically. Electronic resources include digitized books, journals, databases, and tools that can be accessed online. They provide benefits like easy access from anywhere, full-text searchability, and cost effectiveness. However, they also pose dangers like questions of authenticity and plagiarism. Different types of electronic resources are then detailed, including online public access catalogs, digital journal archives, academic networking sites, search engines, and Scholarpedia - an open-access peer-reviewed online encyclopedia.

1. Welcome
to a talk on
e resources for research
by
Sujit R. Chandak
17th of July 2010 @ MDSMC

2. 

OBJECTIVES
What is research
Resources in research
 E- resources







Why
What
How
Benefits
Dangers
TYPES/ DETAILING/ LISTING
Q&A

3. What is research
Any Scientific Enquiry is Research.
In actual practice it covers:

1.
Study of a phenomena
2.
Analysis of a revolution
3.
Survey, Facts, Outcomes, Events etc.
4.
Solution of a problem
5.
Basis of Policy

4. Resources in research

Tools used in Research:
1.
Books/Encyclopedia/Journals/other reading
matter
2.
Libraries
3.
Data-base/ archives
4.
Tools to create required data
5.
Testing of hypothesis tools
6.
Publicizing the finding / creating new knowledge
base

5. E- resources



The computing / connecting revolution has
altered many a things: VIRTUAL
Brought about many changes in research
and its processes
Tools of research- resources- have also
changed in their characteristic

6. E- resources - What?

When the delivery mechanism of these
resources is electronic. It includes all the
available resources and more…..
1.
Books/Encyclopedia/Journals/other reading
matter
2.
Libraries
3.
Data-base/ archives
4.
Tools to create required data
5.
Testing of hypothesis tools
6.
Publicizing the finding / creating new knowledge
base

7. E- resources - why?

Ease of access/ delivery/ storage/ retrieval
use

World wide sharing

Suits scholarship

8. E- resources - How?



Machine, Connectivity & Privileges…
Know-how to use- methodology-easier to
learn than physical resources
Golden rule: Use & Contribute

9. E- resources - Benefits?

Ease:
Input:-Publishing/ Storing/ archiving
 Output:- access/ sharing





Full text search
Cost-effective
Self-sustainable
Interactivity

10. E- resources - Dangers?






Questions on authenticity
Plagiarism
Quality
Digital-divide
Acceptability
Does not contain all the answers

11. E- resources - Dangers?
NOT ANY DIFFERENT FROM
THE PHYSICAL WORLD

12. E- resources - Types

OPAC

JOURNALS

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

SEARCH/ ARCHIVES

SCHOLARPEDIA

13. E- resources - OPAC

Online Public Access Catalogue

These are catalogues of reputed libraries
which are there for all to access

Many a times other than title and content
details they also contain a v. short
summary of the work

14. E- resources - OPAC

IGIDR

E F L UNIVERSITY

IITs

Institute of Advanced studies, Shimla

Most of the institution with a really good
library

15. E- resources - JOURNALS

Journals are so many that they pose a
challenge in terms of reading and
searching and doing research

Problem is also that of storing these
journals

16. E- resources – JOURNALS
an example

JSTOR is an online system for archiving
academic journals. It provides full-text
searches of digitized back issues of
several hundred well-known journals
dating back to 1665 in the case of the
“Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society.”

17. E- resources – JOURNALS
an example

As of September 23, 2009, Jstor
contained 1,079 journal titles in 18
collections representing 51 disciplines,
and 262,042 individual journal issues,
totaling over 33.7 million pages of text.

Other such services are also there…

18. E- resources - ACADEMIC
COMMUNITY

Creation of and exchange between
academic community becomes a much
less cumbersome task

ITHAKA

NETWORKING SITES

19. E- resources - SEARCH/
ARCHIVES

Archiving is an activity which is of great
importance for both a research who has
finished and one who is starting

Maximum benefit accrued to archives

Search – its part of research – electronic
search and search engines

20. E- resources -
SCHOLARPEDIA

Scholarpedia , the peer-reviewed openaccess encyclopedia written by scholars
from all around the world

Scholarpedia feels and looks like
Wikipedia as it uses “MediaWiki”

21. E- resources - SCHOLARPEDIA

Initial authorship and review are similar to a
print journal so that Scholarpedia articles
could be cited, articles are not frozen and
outdated, but dynamic, subject to an ongoing
process of improvement moderated by their
curators. This allows Scholarpedia to be upto-date, yet maintain the highest quality of
content.

22. Thanks
sujitchandak@gmail.com