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Information Sources and Services

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Searchable full Text e-Journals and Databases: GUL provides the access to searchable full
text of thousands of e-journals and databases through the UGC-Infonet e-journals
consortium, providing 34 broad subjects and other e-journals and databases from
publishers/vendors such as: ACS Publications, Jstor, Emerald, Blackwell, Institute of
Physics, American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, Cambridge, Springer
Link, Nature, Science Online, Elsevier’s Science Direct, STN, Royal Society of Chemistry,
Taylor and Francis, Annual Reviews, and Project Muse, etc. on the campus-wide intranet.
In addition to the above, the GUL website provides links to trials and free access to
thousands of e-journals and databases in 24 broad subjects. This will provide the best
current and archival periodical literature from all over the world to the university
community and mitigate the severe shortage of periodicals faced by university libraries
for many years, due to the widening gap between the demand for literature and the limits
of available resources.
NISCAIR Services: GUL is a regular user of the National Information Science
Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) services such as Contents, Abstracts
and Photocopying Services (CAPS), the Standing Order Abstract Services (SOAS), and the
Full Text Journal Services (FTJS). These services serve to reduce the financial burden of
subscribing to expensive journals without compromising access to these resources.

DELNET Services: GUL is a member of Developing Libraries Network (DELNET). DELNET
offers access to web-based databases. GUL uses the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system to make
ILL requests from a union catalogue of books (more than one million records), periodical
article database, and the database of thesis and dissertations. GUL is also a member of
institutions such as National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune and Indira Gandhi Institute
for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. These institutions specialize in particular
subjects and send photocopies when requested by GUL.
Current Awareness Bulletin: GUL provides contents pages for subscribed journals and has
created a new monthly newsletter, which contains links to resources and information on
developments in subject areas.
Library Website: The library website is to guide to the physical facilities that delivers
detailed information about the library as well as providing access to all computer based
services. GUL Website <http://goalnet.unigoa.ac.in/gulibrary/> also provides links to
reference sources, tutorials, library projects, and presentations.
GUL has launched Remote Access Service. A Remote Access Service (RAS) Server has been
installed for networking with affiliated college libraries of Goa University and other
institutions. Services such as OPAC, querying, ILL management, and electronic mail-
based alert services have been provided. It is hoped that a separate dial-in-server will ease
the bandwidth difficulties during peak hours.
Physical Distribution of Information
Corrall and Brewerton (1999) describe acquisition as getting the raw materials and sending
that out. GUL has acquired documents as gifts from 52 different donors. There are collections
from Dr. P.S.S. Pissurlekar, Mr. Nuno Gonsalves, as well as government publications. To
fill in the gaps in collection, the library also has exchange relations with universities all
over India and a few foreign universities. Of course, the library also lends material to
clients, locally and through ILL. There is a reading room that holds 50 students that is open
around the clock. Nearly 400 students at a time can use the stacks. Students and faculty
members of affiliated colleges of Goa University, Goa, and research scholars from different
universities/institutions of India and abroad can also use the library’s collections.

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