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Unit 6: Document Delivery Services and Online Services

Journal publishers have also begun to offer similar situation, for example Elsevier, for electronic Notes
version of their journals. Large R&D libraries can take advantage of these developments and
provide desktop access to key database and electronic publications to their users.
Apart from the externally purchased databases, libraries have their own collection of CD-ROM
databases mounted on their CD server/tower. Online database vender such as Dialog, Lexis-
Nexis, and ERIC is delivering their database over internet. So a library which subscribes to this
database can now easily access them over Web.

6.6.1 Bibliographic and Cataloguing Services

This service can also be prepared from different databases available on the Web.

Example: Physics the Los Alamos e-print archives is the more productive means of
communication for Astrophysics, Quantum Physics, Considered Matter Theory, etc.

Veronica’s net-wide index, Archie and NCSTRL’s technical report on Computer Science and
some other. www.chemceter.org is the American Chemical Society’s “virtual community” for
chemistry professionals, researchers as central source for information on Chemistry related
resources. It is an interesting, integrated electronic workplace where we—
1. Receive information on ACS’s (American Chemical Society) program and activities.

2. Provide awareness of important scientific issues.
3. Explore career option and job opportunity.
4. Link to publication of ACS.

5. Link to world’s most comprehensive database of Chemical information.
Telnet access to remote computer of different organizations’ library catalogue is also available.
Information on books which are not easily available may be accessed through telnet. Library of
Congress Catalogue is a very popular online service LC. Other libraries, which are on the Web,
can be easily accessed through telnet services, which help the researchers. Some of the
bibliographic service is available online on the Net. Links from the library homepage can be
provided to those sites.

6.6.2 Bulletin Board Services

A bulletin board is a public discussion area where people can post message without sending
them to anyone’s e-mail address that can be viewed by anyone who enters the area. On
CompuServe a bulletin board is called a forum. On the Internet, the equivalent areas are called
newsgroups.

Separate notice board option can be created through e-mail facility and the latest information of
the daily news, job opportunities, admission notice, entrance examination, scholarship and
fellowships, new courses etc. can be posted and made available for the users though this bulletin
board service.
It is proposed to provide this facility to display/view news, announcements etc. with constant
updating of information in an electronic bulletin board. The UGC circular can also be put on this
board. Several bulletin boards can be made available in the networks for each specific category
of user discipline.

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