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Reference Sources and Services

Notes Indian Social Science Literature in Electronic Form

Under this project, started in 2003 -2004, digitisation of Indian Social Science Periodical Literature
was undertaken. The purpose was to digitise Indian Social Science Literature published in 119
periodicals since their inception to 1970. It has 97492 references. Two disciplines, i.e., Economics and
political science have been taken for this project. The work was outsourced to a commercial agency
M/S Udbhav Computers Ltd. The product has been completed and the database has been released in
CD - ROM (INSPEL).
The references in CD-ROM can be searched by name of the author, title of the article, subject of the
article, name of the journal in which article has been published. Free search (i.e., the term may exist
in any field) can also be conducted. The search results can be printed, saved, or exported to MS
word. INSPEL has been developed in Visual Basic as Front End for circulation on CDs. It shall be
distributed to all the ICSSR institutes and Regional Centers free of cost.
Digitization of Theses Collection
NASSDOC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Vidyanidhi Digital Library
Project of Mysore University to digitise the Ph.D. Theses collection of NASSDOC for wider
dissemination to scholars. More than 2000 Ph.D. theses have been digitised and put on CD–ROM
format. The ultimate objective is to put them on the web, so that research scholars can view them on
the website.
Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore Indian ETD Collection : http://
dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/

10.6 INFLIBNET Library

The INFLIBNET Library plays a vital role in the collections development and dissemination of scientific
and technical information to meet the present and future needs of the Centre.
The INFLIBNET Centre has a small, specialized library consisting of 2000 documents on computer,
communication, information and library science. The library is fully computerized using SOUL
integrated library management software. The collection of the library is available online through
the web OPAC facility of the SOUL.
The INFLIBNET Library plays a vital role in the collection, development and dissemination of
scientific and technical information to meet the present and future needs of the Centre. The Library
maintains databases of participants who attended various training programmes at INFLIBNET
Centre;
SOUL installations; and universities and its contact details including e-mail and website addresses.
These databases are accessible through the library website at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/
universitydirectory/

Library Services

The library provides following services to its users:
Reference Service
Document Delivery Service
Current Awareness Service
Inter Library Loan Service
Electronic Information Service
Photocopy Service.

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