e-Resources for Humanities and Social Sciences

E (WEB)-RESOURCES

E- resources means , “an information which can be stored, accessed and transmitted through electronic media”

The two forms are :Full text form Non full text form. ( Abstracts ,indexes etc.)

Available as electronic version of print and electronic only as fee based or free of cost.

Types of Electronic Resources

1. E- journals

2. E-books , E-reference

3. E-theses and dissertations

4. E-guides, manuals & E-maps etc.

5. Web 2 search engines

E-JOURNAL

E-journals are defined broadly as “an article or complete journal available fully electronically via a website on the net” or defined as “any journal, magazine, webzine, news letter or type of electronic serial publication which is available over the internet”.

It is very important source for the scientific research and development.

E-journals are becoming vital to carry any meaning full research.

This resource is widely used by R& D workers and other users of the libraries to carry out day-to-day qualitative research, education and knowledge.

OPEN J-GATE

Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006

Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online.

Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 4731 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

The Open J-Gate site is updated every day.Open J-Gate indexes articles from 4731 Journals.In that 2577 of them are peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

OPEN J-GATE

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

It covers 3810 journals in the directory1338 journals are searchable at article leveltoday 2,44,280 articles are included in the DOAJ

serviceIt aims to be comprehensive and cover all open

access scientific and scholarly journals Users can "read, download, copy, distribute, print,

search, or link to the full texts of these articles.

Directory of Open Access Journals

JSTOR-http://www.jstor.org/

Business – Journals

Economics - journals

Management -Journals

UGC Infonet Resources

Springerlink (E-Books and E-Journals)http://www.springerlink.com/

EPW

NLIST

Historical Research

http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Emerald Management e-journals

http://www.proquest.co.uk/

http://www.oxfordjournals.org

http://www.sciencedirect.com

Social Sciences and humanities

Scopus

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

Contains 46 million records, 70% with abstracts

Nearly 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide

Includes over 4.6 million conference papersProvides 100% Medline coverageOffers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and

visualize research

Scopus-Homepage

Citation of Prof. Laemmli, U.K.

St. Joseph’s College

Address/Affiliation

Highly Cited Papers

Authors

Web of Science

Social Science Citation Index

Indian Citation Index

Open Access Resources

http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/library/24hr/journals/

All Academic Research

E-Books

E- books means “books that can be accessed electronically via the Internet. It can be described that the entire flow of information from author to reader is in the machine readable form”.

www.ebooks.com www.sciencee-books.com www.onlinecomputerbooks.com www.digits.com www.j-gate.informindia.com www.Springeronline.org

http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/en/ebooks.html

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There are many networked digital library of theses and dissertations

www.library.ait.ac.th www.ndltd.org www.thesis.org www.dissertations.com www.vidyanidhi.com

Search Engine for ETD

http://www.ndltd.org/

NDLTD-Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation

Online Union Catalogue for E-Resources

http://adt.caul.edu.au/

E-Theses at Indian Level

www.vidyanidhi.org

www.egyankosh.ac.in

DSPACE-IIMK

DSPACE-BMA

http://mit.dspace.org/

REFERENCE SOURCES ON ELECTRONIC FORMAT

e-Dictionaries : Dictionaries are used to know, meaning, spellings etc. Many dictionaries are available on the net.

www.onelook.comwww.dictionary.cambridge.org

e-Encyclopedias www.britannica.comwww.wikepaedia.orgwww.encyclopaedia.comwww.libraryspot.comwww.letsfindout.com

http://www.britannica.com/

e-Directories

It is a comprehensive list of addresses of suppliers, buyers in case of business directories list of institutions with their addresses.

www.library.albany.edu www.123india.com/123trade/ www.braintrack.come-Maps

A virtual atlas includes maps of the world as well as images of planetary objects

www.explomap.free.fr www.mapsinfo.co.in www.aus.maps.com

http://www.infromationr.net/

http://www.cinahl.com/

Open source for arts and humanities

http://www.finweb.com/

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/elecswrk.htm

http://www.socialworkers.com/

http://www.icssr.org/

Commercial access

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