Transcript E-Resources in Social Sciences

Emerging Trends
In Accessing
Social Science Information
Resources
By
Dr. S. Majumdar
University Librarian
University of Delhi
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Development of Literature in
Social Sciences, January 24,
2006
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Perception
Every discipline in the universe of knowledge
undergoes a change & new trends are imbibed
with existing structure;
 While, identification of new trends in the
social science discipline can effectively be
done by the social scientists;
 Identifying and imbibing the new perspective
in the library science discipline will be the
responsibility of librarians & library scientists
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Emerging Trends
 Library
Science per se is undergoing
phenomenal change;
 The traditional professionalism has the
challenge to imbibe the IT revolution
especially the Web services through
Internet;
 The libraries must resolve to introduce
HYBRID LIBRARY SYSTEM
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TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS
#
Country or Region
Internet Users,
Latest Data
Population
( 2005 Est. )
Internet
Penetration
Source and Date
of Latest Data
% Users
of World
1
United States
203,576,811
296,208,476
68.7 %
Nielsen//NR Sept/05
20.9 %
2
China
103,000,000
1,282,198,289
7.9 %
CNNIC June/05
10.6 %
3
Japan
78,050,000
128,137,485
60.9 %
C+I+A Mar./05
8.0 %
4
Germany
47,127,725
82,726,188
57.0 %
Nielsen//NR June/05
4.8 %
5
India
39,200,000
1,094,870,677
3.6 %
C.I.Almanac Mar./05
4.0 %
6
United Kingdom
37,800,000
59,889,407
63.1 %
ITU Oct./05
3.9 %
7
Korea (South)
32,570,000
49,929,293
65.2 %
KRNIC Dec./04
3.3 %
8
Italy
28,870,000
58,608,565
49.3 %
ITU Sept./05
3.0 %
9
France
25,614,899
60,619,718
42.3 %
Nielsen//NR June/05
2.6 %
10
Brazil
22,320,000
181,823,645
12.3 %
C+I+A Mar./05
2.3 %
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Russia
22,300,000
144,003,901
15.5 %
C.I.Almanac Mar./05
2.3 %
12
Canada
20,450,000
32,050,369
63.8 %
C.I.Almanac Dec./03
2.1 %
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Mexico
16,995,400
103,872,328
16.4 %
AMPCI Oct./05
2.3 %
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Spain
16,129,731
43,435,136
37.1 %
Nielsen//NR Sept/05
1.7 %
15
Indonesia
15,300,000
219,307,147
7.0 %
C.I.Almanac Mar./05
1.6 %
16
Taiwan
13,800,000
22,794,795
60.5 %
C+I+A Mar./05
1.4 %
17
Australia
13,991,612
20,507,264
68.2 %
Nielsen//NR Sept./05
1.4 %
18
Netherlands
10,806,328
16,316,019
66.2 %
Nielsen//NR June/04
1.1 %
19
Poland
10,600,000
38,133,891
27.8 %
C-I-A Mar./05
1.1 %
20
Turkey
10,220,000
26,500,699
13.9 %
ITU Sept./05
1.1 %
TOP 20 Countries
768,722,506
4,022,907,484
19.1 %
IWS - Nov./05
79.0 %
 The
structure and content of the social
sciences and their information system &
collections are closely interrelated with
the social systems of the country itself
(i.e., educational system, societal
structures, parliamentary and legal
system, social services);
 Therefore, the organization and
representation of the content, is often
very individual
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 However,
certain international
similarities can be distinguished - which
can also in part be attributed to the
impact of new technology in both the
field itself and in information work
 With the increased use of the Internet,
national or linguistic limitations do
present subject-oriented challenges to
the social sciences librarian;
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 These
affect not only the methods
and instruments used for information
retrieval and acquisition, but also the
development of value-added services
which can place appropriate
information in the correct context
and provide targeted information in a
vastly expanding field.
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 The
primary impact of new technology in
the social science libraries is thus in the
realm of expanded access to a wider
variety of international sources based
on access via the Internet on a fairly up
to date basis.
 This impact requires network skills, new
methods of information retrieval and
presentation (or brokering), and often
involves the librarian in creating and
designing new systems applications to
facilitate adequate information services
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 Researchers
especially from Social
Science will become increasingly
dependable on electronic resources in
future;
 Variety of electronic resources is
important to research. Hence, they
are valuable
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 They
contain;
 Universities,
research institutions,
International Organisations and their
activities;
 Books, Articles, Research Reports etc. ……….
 Discussion groups in the form of Listservers;
 Subject gateways;
 List of databases with the specific subject
details;
 Library resources;
 Public domain resources;
 Many more …………..
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Hence, A Sample Study
 Is
an attempt to present the Information
System in a changing perspective with the
emergence of new technological impact;
 Therefore:
 It
processes the information in an innovative
way;
 It exposes the hidden information which are
part of the Web resources;
 It presents the information system in a new
perspective with value added services
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E-Resources in Social Sciences
Its strength
Alltheweb – 1,90,000
Altavista – 1,92,000
WiseNut -- 406,184
HotBot -- 39,900
MSN Search -- 25,413
Teoma -- 39,900
Google -- 366,000
Yahoo – 1,94,000
What Google has to say
Search Element
 “Recent
 and
Trends in Social Sciences”
there are 33,200,000 citations
Relevance and Precision ?
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Yenza
"Yenza" - which means "do it" is a
guide to using the Internet for
research and teaching in the Social
Sciences and Humanities.
“Yenza” also provide links to online
resources relating to specific
disciplines
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Social Science Research
Network
 Ranking
List
Top Down Loads : Social Sciences
 Top Down Loads : Economics
 Top Down Loads : Information Systems and
Business Management
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Top Down Loads: Management Research
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Research Resources for the Social
Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa
 Which
contains CONTENT TO BROWSE
 Also contains GENERAL RESOURCE
SEARCHERS
 Also contains GENERAL REFERENCE
MATERIALS
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Research Resources
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and
Social Research
Social, Economic and Political Change
A web site of: The Global Social Change
Research Project
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Research Resources
 INFOMINE
-- Scholarly Internet
Resources Collection
 Direct
Search is a growing compilation
of links to the search interfaces of
resources that contain data not easily
or entirely searchable/accessible from
general search tools
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Institutions
Social
Science Research
Council
The Apex Council
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Institutions
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ICPSR : Inter-University Consortium for
Political and Social Research, Michigan
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provides access to a vast archive of social
science data for research and instruction,
and offers web based training in
quantitative methods to facilitate
effective data use
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Institutions
 School
of Slavonic and East
European Studies.University
College, London
Centre for the Study of Economic
and Social Change in Europe
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Institutions
SOCIAL SCIENCE INSTITUTIONS
IN INDIA
129 Institutions in India
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Gateways
Resources Discovery Network
The RDN selects, catalogues and
delivers high-quality Internet
resources for further and higher
education: the best of the Web
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Gateways
In ancient times, the Library of Alexandria was
seen as a universal store of human knowledge.
As the Library grew in size, however, it became
increasingly difficult to locate relevant
material. The poet Callimachus solved the
problem by compiling a catalogue called The
Pinakes. On a far smaller scale, these Web
pages hope to provide a similar function for
Internet resources, by linking to the major
subject gateways
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Gateways
SOSIG
Social Science Information Gateways
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Gateways
GEsource
Geography and Environment Gateway
Browse Headings by Subject
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Gateways
DMOZ : Open Directory Project
Economics Institutions
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Subject Specific Resources
 Social
Science Subjects
 Social
Science Resources : General
 Library
of Congress : Social
Sciences
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SocioSite : Social Science
Information System
 Electronic
Journals and Magazines
 Activism, Collective Action, Social
Movements, Utopianism
 Sociology of Aging - Age Inequality,
Ageism, Gerontology
 Social and Cultural Anthropology
 Famous Sociologists
 Sociological Theories and Perspectives
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Anthropology
 Anthropology
Resources
on the Internet
 BIOGRAPHIES
 HUMAN CULTURE
 ANTHROPOLOGY
TUTORIALS
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Economics
 Economic
and Political Development:
Information Resources
 About.com
on World of Economics
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The WWW Virtual Library:
International Affairs
Resources
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Librarian’s Internet Choice
 Anthropology
 Society
 Demography
 Economics
 Library
Science
 Linguistics
 Political Science
 Psychology
and
Social Sciences
 Urban Planning
 Urban Studies
 Area Studies
 Sociology
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 Directory
of Open Access Journals
covers free, full text, quality
controlled scientific and scholarly
journals on all subjects and
languages. There are now 1991
journals in the directory. Currently
492 journals are searchable at article
level. As of today 83324 articles are
included in the DOAJ service.
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Scholarly Societies
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Thanks
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