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Information and Literature Survey in Social Sciences

Notes institutions - that provide working papers for distribution through SSRN’s eLibrary and abstracts for
publication in SSRN’s electronic journals. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an abstract database
containing abstracts of over 42,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic
paper collection currently containing over 23,600 downloadable full-text documents in Adobe Acrobat
PDF format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of fee-based publications. The
network encourages readers to communicate directly with authors and other subscribers concerning
their own and others’ research. SSRN’s database abstracts of some journals for both accepted paper
series and working paper series. The homepage of SSRN is reproduced below:

Fig. 12.2

12.1 Meaning and Concept of Networked and Distributed Database

Networking is a common concept, which concerns itself with mutual co-operation and co-ordination
between systems of information for exchange of resources, services, facilities, etc. This exchange is
termed as a network when these activities are performed in a systematic pre-planned manner. A
network can be defined “as group of individuals or organizations that are interconnected. The linking
must include a communication mechanism, and many networks exist for express purpose of facilitating
certain types of communication among their members.

Caution In the library world, institutions from networks primarily to achieve better sharing
of resources consisting of bibliographic information and of collections and better
service to patrons.

Alphonse F. Trezza has defined networks as “a formal organization among libraries for co-operation
and sharing of resources, in which the group as a whole is organized into subgroups, with the exception

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