The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon.
Students and researchers will no longer have to sit for long hours in front of the computer glued to any search engine as this website will contain all the information for every subject under separate heads. From Shakespeare to Jane Austen, from Aryabhatta to Plato and from Louis Philippe to Churchill, this website, consisting links and hyperlinks, will prove to be a gateway to information for students of any subject and interest.
As all kinds of primary and secondary sources of electronic texts, including journals, newsletters, encyclopedias, footnotes and bibliographies of scholarly articles, will be available, research papers in different subjects by students of foreign universities will also be just a click away. "The electronic journal is a hybrid.
It springs from an effort to merge the informality, speed, and relative cheapness of network communication with the durable scholarship of the print world. The aim is to use the networked information sources in scholarly communication.
Visual and multimedia information in the form of graphics, pictures, sound and video will also be an important content of the website.
Not only the electronic resources available in free domain are included in the website but the electronic translation of the printed publications, to which the university library subscribes, will also be added in the list.
In addition to an online catalogue to assist the available library, the books, which are out of the Copyright Act, will be digitised. Trials run of electronic database for three months helpful for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses is already on with participation from 35 colleges, connected through the Intranet.
Over 1,800 students have accessed such resource in the first month. "The aim of the trial run was to assess the usefulness of the data base on the basis of the access made by the faculty members, research scholars and students," said Dr Majumdar.
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