Accessing Internet Resources: The Best Practice
with Special Reference to Biomedicine
Dr. Surya Nath Singh
BSc (Hons); MLISc; MA; PhD
Sr. Library and Information Officer
Group leader, Information Centre &Library,
National Institute of Virology,
Pune
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E-Mail: snsingh@niv.co.in; nivicl@pn3.vsnl.net.in
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National Information System for
Viral Diseases-Proposed New NIV-ICL +
Auditorium Building (MCC)
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Information/Knowledge Management-Internet
 Information is as vital to Research and Clinical
Practices as blood to the sinking patients.
 S&T, BT, IT and now LIT
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Day to day Informational Needs of Society
Socio-Economic Development
Decision Making
Education (Formal education at different level, IL, Print, Digital, AV)
Research (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
Health and hygiene
Recreation &TK-Cultural heritage
…Tell, where it is not ???? INTERNET ???
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After 4Ms i.e., Money, manpower, machine, and materials, information
has also become a strategic input for decision making.
However, Internet has become an important tool to get information from various resources.
 After food (ROTI), Clothing (KAPARA), and Shelter
(Makan), information is 4th Factor for any society
 ??? Global Village --The Internet???
– Information Over Load
• The best practices
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resources
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Internet and its Resources
 Internet is forcing libraries to move
from “Owner Model” to “Access model”
– Internet Resources: Organizing and accessing
Internet resources has been a problem despite
sophisticated search engines, tools, and
techniques/practices.
– Surfing is not searching
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“Not all the information that exists in
the world is on the Internet-Not all the information that is
on the Internet is accurate.”
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Mrs. Kotsch
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An hour on the Web may not answer a
question that you could find within two
minutes of picking up a reference book.
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1. Main Points-Outlines
1.1 Introduction
• Objectives
• Need of Accessing Internet Resources
– Internet growth
– Search Tools-Directories, Search/meta engines, Virtual Libs, etc
• Advantages-Internet Resources
• What are e-resources?; Primary, secondary, tertiary-metadata,
• Resource-Sharing an Digital World
• Biomedical Users-Internet
• LISc Professionals-Internet
– Poor Communication Behaviour (Attitude, Skill,
Knowledge-ASK)
• Accountability
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Finding Internet Resources
 Internet growth
 Search tools
 Types of Search tools
 Current trends in Internet Searching
 Steps in Internet searching
 Before starting an Internet search
 Related sources
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…Main Points-Outlines
 Concept of the Best Practices: techniques and principles.
– Need of the best practices
– Basics
– Steps in Internet Searching
 Main Search Strategies
– Prepare, Organize, Combine
• Free Keywords;
• A Classified Directory
 The Library web page-Provides second Front Door
 More Items to Consider including
– Links to
– Study Skills and Tips- Integrate all resources, Speeding Up, Filtering, etc
NIV-ICL-The Best Practices-A Case Study
Suggestions
Conclusions
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…Main Points
 Document/Information-What? Where? Why, WHO?, How?
 Users and their Needs, Information seeking behaviour
 LISc Professional; Know Yourselves-ASK=attitude, skill, knowledge.
Biomedical Resources on Internet
Clinical Practices, Education,
research, evidence based Medicine
/decision making as a way of
improving allocation of scarce
resources to improve health-potential
of Internet to get digestible information
to right user, at right time in right form
and format even more apparent.
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1.2.
Objective
 Its objective is to provide high quality structure
and practices that can be routinely fed into the
design, evaluation and auditing of Internet
based information systems:
– Irrespective of form, format and geographical
location) needs will no longer prove to be the
problem as it has been in the past.
• Library web sites, online databases, wikis, blogs,
resources, open sources, OPAC, and data mining..
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1.3.
Need of Accessing Internet Resources
 Main reason to access the Internet resources is
to get global overload information pinpointedly,
exhaustively, and expeditiously at proper time in
proper format/forms, irrespective of geographical
location, and language barriers.
 Some of the advantages of the best practices are:
• It improves the performance to increase the utilization of
resources on Internet;
• Facilitates the round clock access for better decisions.
• Save the time and research potential of users
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Need of the Best Practices
 Availability of vast information on Internet
 But reliability in most of cases doubtful,
questionable and unauthentic
 However, searching for information can be
Wearisome and frustrating-Partly due to type and qualitydominated by search engines based on free key word searching.
 Finding too much information/too little
information or not being sure to get right information at
right time in right form/ format
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Need Best Practices -Access Systems for Internet Resources
 “ i. It is huge-Size is unknown/perhaps unknowable
Document growth is at least double/year
 The pouring information resources on the Internet is turning users
away from electronic medium back to printed i.e. pre-internet resources.
 , ii. It grows and obsoletes very fast-Contents are
highly volatile-May be removes/shifted to new location
 iii. Even the combined indexes of major search
engines cover only a small fraction of resources
available on Internet,
 iv. Even the most dedicated suffer using the best
practices/search systems would be able to barely
one third of the pages”
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Internet Growth
 Variety of information
 resources-Heterogonous
 -Form, format, geographical
location, languages
 Various search engines are
available for Internet access but cover a very small
fraction of web,
 Furthermore, different search engines have their own style/systems of
indexing and ranking their resources on the Internet.”
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It is essential to know the availability of pinpointed information of our users irrespective
of form, format, geographical location and language boundaries.
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…Contd
 “Studies also indicate that poor search engines and information
revolution are causing web-rage among the Internet users.
 On average, users get angry and frustrated after 12 minutes of
fruitless searching.
 About seven percent of the respondents, it takes only three minutes
before web-rage strikes.
 There is neither simple way to index and organize the resources on
the Internet nor central agencies to get a submission of the resources
to grant copyright protection and also to assign an International
Standard Identification Number (ISIN).
 -----Various studies
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…Contd
 Information and Information Resources
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It is important point to note that it is not only linking information but also linking
users/peoples globally, which matters.
The desired information can be obtained from RSS, Wikis, blogs and blogging, advance
portals and portlets, commentary and comment functionality-everywhere,
personalization and My Profile features, Streaming multimedia, reviews and user driven
ratings, personalized alerts-SDI and CAS, web services for enhancements, data mining,
instant messaging and virtual references, folksonomies, tag clouds and taggings,
Flicker/Picasa- Photos, social networking, Open-access, source, contents, social driven
contents/book marking, etc.
Internet based Library 2.0 is an exciting concept that creates next generation access to
databases, OPACs, interactive and portals in a way that is allowed the end users to
thrive and survive.
we can provide pinpointed, expeditious and exhaustive information to users even
without having our own resources but following the best practices of the Internet access.
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we can provide pinpointed, expeditious and exhaustive information to users even without having
our own resources but following the best practices of the Internet access.
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Categories of Information on the WebBefore you begin searching, you first need a little understanding about how
information is stored and accessed on the Web. There are basically three
categories of information on the Web:
• The Free, Visible Web. This category includes all the publicly mounted Web pages.
These pages are indexed by search engines. To find information from this category, use a good search engine
or directory.
• The Free, Invisible Web. This category includes the contents of sites that provide
their articles or information free to users, but that content may be accessible only by going directly to the
site. In other words, search engines cannot index it. Some magazines, newspapers, reference works, and
other sites are in this category. Many databases such as legal, medical, and financial are here, too. To find
information from this category, you must go to the appropriate database.
• Paid Databases over the Web. This category includes commercial
databases that libraries subscribe to, containing scholarly journals, newspapers, court cases and the like.
Providers like Lexis-Nexis, UMI Proquest, Infotrac, JSTOR and others are in this group. To find information
from this category, you must have access to the database (through password or an on-campus computer) and
search on the database directly.
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Main Advantages-Internet Resources
“Accessible – can be accessed from any computer on campus and usually any
computer off campus, any time of the day or night, so there is no need to make a visit
to the library.
 Easily searchable - each e-books/journals and other documents can be searched
quick and easy often through the complete full text of articles and via online index.
 Speed - Articles/issues appear online before printed version is available now a day.
 Interactive - Rapid turnaround time means articles can be read, commented by the
readers, amended quickly and greater feedback thru the web
 Links - Hypertext format should be exploited and links to related articles,
information on other web sites, stable URLs for individual articles and email alerts
when latest issue loaded.
 Added Value - Advantages taken on the web is to add value by using animation,
virtual reality and interactive mathematical charts.
 Inexpensive - savings can be made over printing costs, distribution costs and extra
costs by new features.
 Flexibility - E-journals evolved quickly. They are not tied to a format, printer, and
distribution network ”
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What are Internet E-Resources?
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Primary-Mainly journals articles, personal communication
Secondary-Indexing and Abstracting Services ,
Tertiary-metadata,
Online tools that index, abstract or provide electronic
access to
 articles,
 books,
 dissertations and theses
 other types of contents.
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1.5. Biomedical Users
 Doctors, researchers, students, clinicians,
pharmacists, other medical and Para-medical staff,
 General Public,
 Press/Media,
 Patients, and their family/attendants, etc
– Every thing is related to life and death, health and
hygiene-expeditious, effective. pinpointed
information is required-Internet Resources
• The best Practices of Internet access
• Well prepared searches will eliminate
useless hits wasted time
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1.5. Users
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 A new generation of the Internet users is emerging- IT Literate.
 The concept of use and user has been changed drastically and has
been replaced with the new term-the I-player to describe digital
information user needs and the best practices to access these
 Firstly, one who communicates via a Facebook account and
 Secondly, one that shares information/data/ knowledge via Flickr,
MySpace, Second Life, Active Worlds, YouTube, Really, and
Simple Syndication (RSS) and uses resource sharing feeds to keep
him/her updated.
 This new generation of users is not only expects to find his/her
information/data/knowledge they need online, but also expects to be
able to manipulate this piece of information to suit his/her useful
needs.
 If an ICL cannot provide the pinpointed information to suit users
needs from its own resources, they will simply look somewhere else
until they do find it especially Internet resources.
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End Users
 Internet and Information Society
 Users contribution and feedback
 Reuse: Share content and Meta data- for reuse in other services is
a good practice for the Internet access.
 Rethink digital library practices/services/databases
 Go where user are-databases- primary-journals mainly,
secondary-indexing and abstracting and tertiary/metadataWikis, weblogs, open sources, RSS Feeds4, Postcasts,
social tagging, etc.
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1.6. LISc Professional
 LISc professionals must know themselves
– Attitudes
– Skills
– Knowledge
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Search Tools-Getting Started
One should know URL/address and very difficult to
remember- the required sites/sources.
– retrieval is major concern hence, search various search tools
have been developed.
– Information retrieval becomes a major concern
 Search Techniques
 Search Tools
– Directories-General/Subject specific-Biosites-www.libraryucsf.edu/biosites/;
Sciseek-www.sciseek.com, Medical search Tools, etc
– Databases-Specialist-MEDLINE, Science Direct, Proquest, Ovid, etc
– Search engines/Meta Search Engines
– Virtual libraries/subject gateway
• Scicentral-www.scicentral.com
• Chemistry-www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html
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Types of Search Engines
 Yahoo, and Alta Vista
are the most useful search
engines for beginning searches.
 Google, Northern Light,
and Snap access the greatest
percentage of the WWW
--only around 15-16%.
 Dogpile will search through
several search engines at once.
 A collection of search engine links is available at the
OWL web site:
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Use Search Engines to Advantage
 Pick the right search engine
for your research needs.
– Yahoo and AltaVista will
help you to distinguish
between different
categories of web sites.
– Hotbot, however, locates
information based upon the
popularity of the site.
 Refine your search
whenever possible.Human,
Sex, Age, date, form, language, etc.
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Types Search Tool
• Search Engines. A search engine consists of the interface you use to type in a query, an
index of Web sites that the query is matched with, and a software program (called a spider or bot) that goes
out on the Web and gets new sites for the index. The bot crawls the Web at certain intervals, in order to
index new material. When you use a search engine, you are asking it to look in its index to find matches with
the words you have typed in. Some search engines index not only the World Wide Web, but also Usenet
newsgroups. Many search engines are now becoming reference sites which contain much more than just
search capability. They may also have news, weather, free software, picture indexes, ratings of web sites, and
other features. There are several hundred search engines, but they fall into a handful of types:
• Global. This type of engine, typified by Google, Fast Search, Northern Light, HotBot, AltaVista, and
others, reads pages from all over the world in many languages. These engines may index more than a
billion pages.
• Regional. Some search engines are limited geographically. For example, only information on Web
sites in Australia may be indexed.
• Targeted. These search engines limit themselves to one subject, like biography, medicine, graphics,
art, fishing, and so forth.
• Reference. These provide information from a set of reference works, such as an encyclopedia.
Britannica, Bartleby and xrefer are examples.
• Directories. Directories are categorized lists of sites picked out by human editors. Directory
databases are therefore much smaller than those of search engines. However, the fact that the sites are hand
picked often means that you will find very high quality sites or articles in the results. Example directories are
Yahoo, Look Smart, and Snap.
• Meta Search Engines and gateways
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Search Tools
One can maximize the chances of finding the
required information by understanding
– How these databases are constructed,
– How sites are indexed,
– How best to query them, and
– How they report their findings.
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Combine key words with… for better results
Search Engines generally supportsStop words, Span blockers,
Boolean-AND OR, NOT, + ,Proximity searches-NEAR, ADJ, BEFORE;
Phase searches-“ ..”
Studies have indicated that if we use above Boolean
logic and Proximity/Phases searches-users get better hit/results
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2. Concept of the Best Practices:
techniques and principles:
 The best practices have implications in every walk of life.
The various other related terms used are: “Bench
Marking”, “Code of Conduct”, “Code of Practices, etc.”
 The term best practices implies that some sources has
final answer to a question and some well known
authority has come up with a list/idea/practices to solve
the task, product and/or goal.
 In general it is a specific most effective/efficient trick,
technique, process, or methodology to achieve a desired
result/goal than any other technique, process, etc
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3. Two Main Search Strategies
– Free Keywords-User can utilize a search
engine to search by free keywords
• Very effective search for specific people, place,
things that have unique names
– A Classified Directory-Where documents are
organized systematically to facilitate navigation.
• Very useful search when concepts that can be express in
multiple ways. A directory controls
synonymous/homonymous and provided context for index
terms by placing in hierarchical order
However, user can adopt either or/both search strategies
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4.1. To Search-Type of search Tools
 Search engine-As index of a book-Alta
Vista, Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek
 Search directory-as table of content-book
 Meta Searches
 Virtual libraries
/Subject Gateways
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There is no standard to access Interneteverybody is doing in her/his ownways
 Users are using I-Resources in completing
their assignments even without cross
checking
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Current Trends in Internet Search
 Development of supplementary Browser Tools
– Intelligent search filters/agents- (E.g.: Alexa:
www.alexa.com)
– Offline/desktop browsers- (E.g.: Netferret:
www.netcent.com /spotlight/ferretsoft/)
– Automatic content delivery packages- (e.g.:
Wingflier)
– Page retrievers- (e.g.: WebWhacker:
www.bluesquirell.com/whacker/)
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…contd Current Trends in Internet Search
 Improvement in quality and structure of
information on the Web
– Exhaustive coverage v/s Selected qualityoriented coverage
– (E.g.: NorthernLight (www.northernlight.com)
 Standards for web documents
– Metadata
– XML
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4.3. Basics-The Best Practices
 Standard Hardware
 Standard Software
 Internet Security
– Suitable Bandwidth-Broad band 2 G and 3 G, next 4 G
– Secured Access• Every user must has multi layer Password
• Antivirus
• Installing appropriate software to avoid malicious attacks and
hacking
• Use appropriate Firewalls-Web browser
– Monitoring and Filtering-Compile complete list of trusted sites/links
– To Provide Disastrous Recovery Solution
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4.4. The Library web page-Provides
second Front Door
 Open 24 X 7 X 365
 Check information against date of the last updated
 Be aware of sites biased
 Check your authorizations to use materials
 Links to full text e-documents and websites
– Specific topic
– Research Guide
– Citation Guidelines
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4.5. More Items to Consider including
 Links to
 Study Skills and Tips
– Careful Selection-Search Tools/
engines
– Local OPAC and other library
catalogues
– Links to Web Page-indexes/ directories
– Metadata-database of databases
– Online databases-Free/Subscribed
– List of periodicals-Subs/Open Source
– News Sources-related
– Reading links, book reviews
– Online tools to help research
and clinical practices
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Directories/thesaurus/citation Guides
 Management of Internet
Resources/Relationship forDesigning, Management and Maintenance
– Users-improve interaction
– Librarians-Team Management
– Library Staff-E-Participation
– Public-Developing Self Reliance
– Subject areas
– Slide shows
– Utilize, Encourage Open Access
Movement
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4.6. Integrate All resources-current trends
 Interactive Portal-Access to many resources in
different media from a single window/siteeffective library web page pulls together all resourcesPrint/electronic
 Catalogue, which indexes all the media-print/
non print, selected websites and e-documents.
 Provide pages of links or document markers
 Provide links to various related libraries
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4.7. Steps in Searching
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Users’ queryAnalysis Sources I-Sources
Consider Ethical issues-Copyrights, Authorizations
Information within Intranets/Firewalls
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Analyze the users information needs
Select the search engines
Translate the concept into Syntactical Search
Performing the Search
Refining the Search based on the Results
Surfing actual sites and saving/linking for future
Update regularly
• MR Lalitha Courtesy “NSCI Site and Internet sites”
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Before Search
 Prepare
– Know your topic
– List of terms-RT, BT, NT
– Includes-related names, Organizations, etc
 Organize– Make list of terms that are critical to search
– Term Don’t want to appear and discard the rest
 Combine-AND, OR, BUT NOT, “”,
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Use AND to connect the terms you want to see.
Use NOT to exclude terms you don’t want.
Use OR to include similar terms.
Use quotation marks around names or phrases
Use lower case for all proper nouns, except for acronyms
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Limit your keyword search
 It is a good idea to
read directions for
each search engine
to get most out of
your search.
 Use words like AND
and OR to limit your
search and get more
specified information.
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Steps to Better Searching
Evaluating Websites
Is the information prejudiced?
Who is the author?
Is the information accurate?
Is the information current? When was the
last time the website was updated? Are the links broken?
Copyright Issues
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Identify the web site
 Whenever possible, try to locate
the home page.
 You can often do this by
eliminating some information
from the end of the URL.
 Sometimes the actual purpose of
the web site may not be clearly
articulated.
 Can be difficult to separate
advertising from accurate
information.
 Some marketing sites will offer
misleading information in
attempts to sell their products.
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Identify the web site
 Who is the creator of
the site?
 What is the purpose
of the site?
 Who is the audience
of this site?
 Can you purchase
products at this site?
 Is the site affiliated
with a research
business or Education?
 Does site offer idiosyncratic
information about a
particular person or
group?
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Evaluating web sources
 Use search engines to your
advantage
 Identify the web site
 Examine for credibility
 Determine depth and scope
of information
 Assess date of information
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Before Starting an Internet Search
 Consider what's Not included in Internet
– Content of Adobe PDF and formatted files
– The content in sites requiring a log in CGI output such
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Information within Intranets/Firewalls
Institutional resources requiring membership
Materials protected by copyright
Commercial resources with domain limitations
Sites that use a robots.txt file to keep files and/or
directories off limits
Non-Web resources (E.g.: Text files)
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4.7. Speeding Up
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Flush the Buffer
Reduce Usage of Images
Avoid Caching on the Web Pages
Avoid any Redirection of URLS
Reduce Number of DOM Elements
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4.8. Users-Finding Relevant Pages
 A system user has to perform-Summarize the
document in terms of few words
 Pose a query to a search engine using these words.
 User can utilize a search engine to access for specific
word e.g. keywords
 User can employ a classified directory, where
information is organized systematically to facilitate
navigation;
 Shift through results, searching for ones i.e. actually
related
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 Display retrieved records-a subject hierarchic order;
 Recommend/add/update the new sites and resources
in existing system-Routinely
 Access original resources using links protocols
provided in the retrieved records
 Users Information Needs Evaluation-From time to time
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4.9. Information Filtering
 Search results are often redundant, containing
copies of the same page from same server/More
garbage/Unlimited links
– Annoying users in place of helping
– Most of the search engines have provisions of
filtering
 Hence, system must filter the results to avoid
information overload.
– Design prototype to collect search engine results and
cluster similar page for user to browse.
– Remove duplicates and mirrors.
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5.1. Selected the Best Practices at NIV-ICL
 NIV-ICL has taken various major initiativesthe best practices to improve access
Internet resources/facilities.
 Adding some more new facilities
– Close to open to users’ desk/tabletops
– To provide functional access to ever growing
special collection/IT Infrastructure
– Value added services
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5.2. Vision-2015
 To provide pinpointed, expeditious and
exhaustive information to proper users, at
proper time, related to human viral diseases
and virology
 Using modern and the latest information
technology in digital form irrespective of
geographical location, language &desired form.
 Also to make web accessible from anywhere at
any time (24x7 x365)
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5.3. Objectives
 To provide information through single
window-Portal by developing digital
information & library system
 To have a separate functional new digital
library building at MCC Pashan with
provision of virtual ICL
 To develop its services at par with
international standard to get ISO by adopting
standard operating procedure (SOP), and
 To coordination with ICLs, Organizations,
and individuals in field of Virology.
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Study of viroids
Molecular Biology
Tumour Virology
Bioinformatics
(Viroinformatics)
Nanotechnology
Virology
Immunology
Viral Diseases
Genetics: Gene therapy,
Genetic engineering
Cytology
Public Health and
Hygiene
Tissue Culture
Virology and Allied Subjects
Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Bacteriology
Mycology
Medical Entomology
Microbiology
Biosafety
Biological Warfare
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Relationship among Various Vira
Information Systems
NINVDI
Bibliographical Information System (BIS)
Full-Text
Databases
-Subscribed
Clinical Information System
-Free
-Internet
NINVDI
Psychological Information System (PsyIS)
Geographical Information System (GIS)
Metrological Information System (MIS
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ONLINE INFORMATION SERVICES:
Overview
 NIV Web Site (http://niv.co.in)
 Web OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
 Online Consortium, Journals & Database
– ERMED (www.informindia.com/ermed)
– Proquest Database (included in ERMED)
– Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com)
– OVID Database (www.gateway.ovid.com)
– DELNET ONLINE (www.delnet.nic.in)
– NIV Subscribed Journals
– Reprints of NIV Scientists (PDF Format
mostly scanned images of articles)
– Free Important Virology websites
(http://www.virology.net)
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Web OPAC
 LibSys Software: For library operation
 Installed in all the sections of NIV.
 Main functions: Searching documents
available in databases of NIV-ICL (with
details of documents: class no. of document,
author, title, combinations, etc).
– Books
– Journals,
– Reports,
– Reprints, etc
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Snapshot of Web OPAC
Search books
from this icon
Search articles
from this icon
Search Journals
available in Library
from this icon
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Searching Books from the WEB OPAC
If you know the
author, click on
Author menu and
type surname of
Author
If you know
the title, click
on Title
menu and
type the Title
If you want to search the
books on specific topic
or subject, you just click
on the Combination
Search and type your
keyword
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Searching Journals from the WEB OPAC
Type title of the journal
in this bar & list will be
displayed below.
Select the journal from
the list.
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ERMED Consortium
(www.informindia.com/ermed)
 National Medical Library’s Electronic Resources in
Medicine Consortium is an initiative taken by DGHS &
MOHFW to develop nation wide electronic information
resources in the field of medicine for delivering
effective health care.
 Member : Total 39 Libraries
– 10 DGHS libraries + 28 ICMR Libraries and AIIMS library
 Total Journals :
– Full Text:
– NML Print Journals:
2754+ free Titles
1900+
655
 Publishers:
–
–
–
–
–
ProQuest
Cambridge University Press
The Royal Society of Medicine Press
Wiley InterScience
Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins
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How to Access ERMED Consortium
Step 1: Type website address
as
www.informindia.com/ermed
In the address bar of Internet
Explorer
Step 2: Click
on Search
and Browse
e-Journals
Icon
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How to Access ERMED Consortium
Contd…
Step 3:
Click on
User
Icon
Step 4:
Click
on
By
Journal
Icon
You can search with keywords
among the whole database of
ERMED
bySNclicking
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Database option
How to Access ERMED Consortium
Contd…
List of Online
Journals will
be displayed
Click on
the
Journal
title it will
open new
window &
available
issues will
be
displayed
# Labeled journals
available online
* Labeled journal
titles are subscribed
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How to Access ERMED Consortium
Contd…
Latest
issue & its
content
will be
displayed
For earlier issues
click on
Archives Icon
For full text
article click on
Full Text Icon
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Science Direct
Total online titles-90+15
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Science Direct
 Science Direct is one of the product of Elsevier Inc.
 Science Direct contains over 25% of the world's
science, technology and medicine full text and
bibliographic information.
– More than 2500 Online Journals
– More than 6000 e-books
 NIV has subscribed 15 print journals of Elsevier, Inc
 and has also paid additional cost for online access of
these 15 journal titles.
 Online access for 100 + journal titles (1995 to present
including our subscribed 14 print journals.)
 No login ID & password (IP Address based access)
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How to Use Science Direct
1.
2.
3.
Open the website www.sciencedirect.com
Click on Browse module
Select options from left side corner
- Full Text available
&
- Journals & Book Series
4.
5.
6.
7.
Then click on Apply button.
Click on All button.
The alphabetical list of 90 journal titles
will be displayed
Select the Journal of your interest.
- Green colour icon indicates we have online
access of
that
journal
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Science Direct
List of full text
online journal
from
ScienceDirect
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OVID Database (166+ J Titles)
 We can also access the OVID full text
database (http://gateway.ovid.com) for 166
online journals.
 Procedure for accessing Ovid database is
given below
1) Open the website http://gateway.ovid.com
2) Login ID- ermed27
3) Password- rummage
4) Select online resources by clicking on “Your
Journals@Ovid” icon
5) Then choose your option of browsing or
searching database.
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OVID DATABASE
Type ID:
ermed27
Type
Password:
rummage
Click on Start
OVID SP
Button
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OVID DATABASE
Click on
Your Journals@Ovid
icon
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DELNET
DELNET is in operation since January 1988 and was
registered as a society in 1992.
Membership Total 1781 Libraries Over the globe.
India1761
International20
(major universities &
research institutes:
USA, UAE, Oman,
Philippines,
Sri Lanka etc).
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DELNET Statistics as on 31-3-2010
No
Feature
Value
1
Union Catalogue of Books-CCF
83,69,299
2
Union List of Current Periodicals
33,541
3
Union Catalogue of Periodicals
20,235
4
Databases of Periodical Articles
9,12, 042
5
CD-ROM Database
11,715
6
Union List of Video Recordings
5,000
7
Union List of Sound Recordings
748
8
Databases
of
Dissertations
9
DEVINSA Database
Theses
and 44,304
20,000
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How to Access “DELNET Online”
Step: 1
Type website address as
http://delnet.nic.in
Step: 2
Click on the “DELNET
ONLINE” Icon
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DELNET ONLINE
Type User
Name:
mhniv
Type
Password:
niv78
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NIV SUBSCRIBED JOURNALS
2010-11
 ERmed consortium
2754+
 NIV Subscribed Print Journals:
79
 NIV Subscribed Print + Online Journals: 43
(List of Online Journals)
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National Library, Kolkatta
Agreement yet to be signed
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Others: Electronic Database Services
Full Text of Books Available on CDs
 Bibliographical & Full Text on Floppies
Paper Published by NIV Scientists
NIV Publications
NIV Annual Reports
Local libraries-BCL, NCL, PU, MCs?,etc
National ICLs-NML, NIMHANS?, NISCAIR
International-Virtual libraries, NLM-USA
All Viruses-Free
Important sites-Virology & Viral diseases
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Approaches and Strategies
 Ensure Support/Developing of a Highly Motivated,
Knowledgeable and IT Skilled LISc Staff
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Developing of Virtual Library/Road Show
Developing E-DDS at Users’ desk/tabletop
To Conduct Regular Users’ feedback
Keep up to date-To Conduct Periodical-Review of HW/SW
-Search Engine Watch LINK
-Search Engine Showdown LINK
-LLRX LINK
-Virtual Chase LINK
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Search Tips
1. Use several search tools. No engine has the entire Web indexed. Use several engines and several directories, and
look at reference and targeted engines as well for the most thorough search. (And remember the Invisible Web!). See "World Wide Web
Research Tools" for a list of good engines and other tools.
2. Read search tips/help information at each search engine.. For example,
AltaVista, Excite, and InfoSeek allow the use of quotation marks to create an exact phrase search, a plus sign to indicate a word that must
occur to yield a hit page, and a minus sign to exclude pages that include the word. By combining these items, you can create a very
powerful and specific search: "lesson plans" +K-12 -science tells the engine to search for the exact phrase lesson plans (rather than just the
two words anywhere in the document, on pages that must include the term K-12 and that must not include the word science.
3. For keyword searches, use several words.
4. Guess a location. The address or URL (uniform resource locator) of a web site is, surprisingly, often guessable.
5. Select the wheat from the chaff by thinking about what you want.
What are you looking for? Facts, opinions (anyone's opinion or an expert's), statistics, narratives of personal experience, eyewitness
descriptions, new ideas, proven solutions, reference material? See the companion article, "Evaluating Internet Research Sources" for more
information.
6. Back up to find out where you are. When you click on a hit from a search engine, you
are connected directly to the page where the search terms were matched. It is not always clear exactly where you have arrived. If you are
doing research for a report or project, be sure to write down the URL and all pertinent information so that you can cite the source properly.
(See below for example citation style for this page.) If you print directly from your browser, the URL will be printed for you in an upper or
lower corner. But if you save the page to disk, the URL will not be included, so be sure to copy it down.
Lifesaver tip: If you accidentally neglect to write down the URL, but have a printed or disk copy of the article, you can either see
the URL printed at the top of the page or you can use a search engine to locate the article for you again. To do this, type in from the article
a four or five-word phrase that contains the most unusual words you can find. Then perform an exact phrase search for these words. The
engine will almost always take you right to the article.
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Seven Stages of Search Strategy
 Unpack your query
 Phrase your query
 Categorize your query
 Match a tool to your query
 Seek advise from relevant persons
 Try again
 Evaluate your result
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…Approaches and Strategies
 To provide Safe/Comfortable Environment to User/Staff
 Regular Training programmes/calendars-users and
staff- January and July + demand basis
 Multi-lingual Support
 Links to Course Materials- MScVirology
 Links to important PPT presentations
 Maintain keyword bank/subject headings-MeSH
 Creation of Portal
 E-gate for online Journals E-consortium
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Suggestions and Recommendations
1. It is suggested to understand in detail the access
processes by analyzing, comparing the practices
of others and finally implementing the steps if
necessary to fill in the gap.
2. It is now essential that LISc professionals should
become Librarian 2.0, who has the ability, insight
and knowledge to influence to cope with the
future of profession, which includes the best
practices of access of Internet resources.
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Suggestions and Recommendations
3. Consider the following criteria in selecting
online databases: Contents, Cost, Bundling,
Full text/abstract/citation, Coverage, Different
versions, Currency, Reliability, Format, Ease of
use, Support and back-up, Free trial, Terms of
License, and User behavior.
4. We cannot have above changes without some
improvements by adopting the best practices
and also in the capacity, competencies, and
behaviour i.e. attitudes, skills and knowledge of
the users as well as LISc professionals.
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Suggestions and Recommendations
5. Above discussion point out that there is an
urgent need for training and support in relation
to Internet technology. About the new
developments related to Internet resources
based trainings to be organizes/added from time
to time.
6. It is suggested to develop institutional portals
based on Library 2.0 principles to enabled the
library and information science professionals as
well as users to access Internet resources from a
single widow.
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Related Resources
 Learning to search Internet
– AskScott (/www.askscott.com/)
– The Tutorial:Guide to effective searching on the
–
–
–
–
Internet (www.thewebtools.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm)
Learn the Net (www.learnthenet.com/)
Search engine tutorials
(www.netstrider.com/tutorials/internet/)
Terena guide to network resource tools
(http://www.terena.nl/libr/gnrt/)
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators:Slide shows for
learning & Training
(http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/shows.html
)
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Where can you go for help with
researching the Internet?
 Purdue University
Writing Lab
 Heavilon 226
 Grammar Hotline:
(765) 494-3723
 Check our web site:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
 Email brief questions:
owl@owl.english.purdue.edu
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Keeping Current
– SearchEngineWatch (www.searchenginewatch.com)
– Search Engine Forums
(searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi)
– A listserv is available for search engine developers at :
searchenginesecrets@sparklist.com
– ResearchBuzz: Offers a free subscription based
newsletter over email.
http://www.coppersky.com/ongir/news
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Conclusions
 We have the ability, attitude, skills, insights
and knowledge to cope with the new
challenges arises due to Internet resources.
– Hence, it is essential that we should start
preparing ourselves to become Librarian 2.0 now.
 It is true that we can not treat the patients but
we can treat their information anxieties using
the best practices of access to internet resources
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Conclusions
 Use IT as a complement and supplement
not a solution
 The Internet is a not substitute to library
but a library is substitute to the Internet
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I am sure that this seminar would be benefited by vast
and rich experiences of LISc Professionals.
The deliberation and recommendations would be
certainly prove useful to LISc professionals
 With these words, I extend best wishes and hearty
welcome to all the guests and delegates of this seminar
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Thank you
Best of LuckPl supplement /share your experiences
Questions Please…???
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