Friday, September 07, 2007

E-Journals Gateway upgraded with Open Access Journals

'Scholar Search' an e-Journals Gateway of IIITM-K Digital Library has been upgraded with Hundreds of Open Access Journals.

Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available to the reader without financial or other barrier other than access to the Internet itself. Many organisation are publishing their journals online in Open Access Domain, and many are peer-reviewed.

'Sholar Search' e-journals gateway is a single window interface for accessing electronic journals, which include journals subscribed as bundled packages, individual e-journals subscribed or received as complementary, and Open Access journals. Many libraries face difficulty in managing access to such e-journals received from vareous sources, hence such an interface was created using Free software namely GenISISWeb.

Library provide training and consultancy in developing such e-journals gateways using GenISISWeb for interested libraries. For details contact Librarian at sainul [at] iiitmk [dot] ac [ dot] in

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