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Friday, February 09, 2024

Elsevier Scopus AI: cutting-edge AI for improved scholarly research

LibCognizance AI tools for researchers , Artificial intelligence

In the generation of AI, a global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier has now come up with its new intuitive and intelligent AI powered search tool, Scopus AI. It represents a significant advancement in the field of academic research through the integration of generative AI. This AI-powered research tool has been designed to enhance the capabilities of researchers and academic institutions by providing fast and accurate summaries, insights into research, and fostering collaboration for societal impact. The platform utilizes the extensive database of SCOPUS, featuring over 29,200+ peer-reviewed journals from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide. Natural language processing is also used by Scopus. Users can now enter in their question, statement, or hypothetical using natural language, without having to worry about matching certain keywords or Boolean operators.

E-books vs. Print books popularity: current scenario

LibCognizance E-books vs. print books , E-Resources

Cite: E-books vs. Print books popularity: current scenario - LibCognizance

With AI technology driving the digital age, print books are still in demand and account for about half of readers, or even up to 60–85 percent of the total readership in some regions. Industry watchers predicted that print book sales would decline over time as e-reader usage grew quickly in early 2000s. Let's examine a few figures compiled from various sources to determine the prevailing patterns.

Open science tools for scholarly literature search

LibCognizance Data , E-Resources

This post is intended to help the scientific research community and the library professionals involved in making every effort for enabling the research community in accessing more and more research results that are behind the paywall or beyond the paywall.

India’s first Preprints Repository to improve research quality in the country

LibCognizance agriRxiv , Agrixiv

India’s first Preprints Repository to improve research quality in the country

Researchers in any field, accessing research publications face two main problems. One, it takes around one year in the whole process of submitting, reviewing, accepting, and publishing research work in an online journal to be accessible. Another one is most of the papers remain behind the paywall as they are published in journals that are accessible only after having a subscription. So, many researchers in different countries, and of different universities and colleges who don't have subscriptions to these journals are unaware of the research findings in their fields. The need to make the current research results, immediately and freely accessible to the research community for building the ground for further research, has given rise to Preprints servers. A growing number of disciplines are building online repositories of preprints that are openly accessible to all readers. India also launched its preprints service in 2017 in agricultural sciences and now launched the country's first community Preprints service IndiaRxiv.

Why publish open access?

LibCognizance E-Resources , free full text article

Why publish open access?

It is really important that scientific discoveries be made freely and readily available to the research community so that, they have the most impact on moving science forward. Open access to the articles has huge benefits, the more people have access to the research, the more will be able to advance and approve those findings through their work.

Copyrights are owned by the authors

In the case of open access journals, the copyrights are owned by the authors unlike the articles behind the paywalls in which, no part of the article can be reused by the researchers without the permission

of publishers.

You are free to share your research with the

world anytime

Under open access, the author owns the copyright of work (CC-BY) license and can share it anywhere at any time. Readers are free to access, download, and share your work without any fee.

In CC-BY license, anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

Getting more visibility and credibility

Open access articles are also fully indexed and easily searchable online. They are more likely to be cited as

they are more discoverable and visible. Thus, open access helps you get noticed and get credit.

It helps accelerate discoveries

When your work is immediately available to the researchers and they are free to access the full text, reuse, and share it further. Without delays and barriers, researchers can use and work upon the findings of others, this accelerates the research.

Open access removes the barrier of paywalls

Open access allows everyone to benefit from your research, not just a selected group of researchers and users from institutions paying a lot to access paid

journals.

During Covid-19 libraries shifting online: crisis driven opportunity to innovate

LibCognizance Covid-19 resources , Digital Library

Covid-19 has changed the habits of the whole world in terms of living, working, reading.

During COVID-19 libraries shifting online: crisis-driven opportunity to innovate (pdf)

COVID-19 has changed the habits of the whole world in terms of living, working, reading. Not a single aspect of life has remained unaffected. Everything has changed the pattern to fight with Covid-19 and develop in a revolutionized way to prepare for the future.

The libraries are not exceptions. It has given the libraries a compulsive opportunity to scale up their online capabilities. If we talk about the role of libraries during a pandemic, then its role is indispensable.

Role of National Digital Library of India amid COVID-19 pandemic

LibCognizance COVID-19 , Digital Library

During this COVID-19 pandemic, the government has closed all the educational institutes for safety reasons and all e institutes are moving towards shifting their courses onlin e

Role of National Digital

Library of India amid COVID-19 pandemic pdf

During this COVID-19 pandemic, the government has closed all the educational institutes for safety reasons and all the institutes are moving towards shifting their courses online.

According to UNESCO, “more than 1.5 million students across the world are affected by the COVID-19 outbreak." As an education emergency response, UNESCO has launched the Global Education Coalition which is a multi-sector partnership to promote distance education for all learners. This will not only mitigate the immediate disruption in the education system but also try to establish new approaches to develop a more open and flexible education system for the future.

In this response, Digital libraries have emerged as a knowledge portal offering more and more free content (eBooks, journals, and other educational content.)Digital libraries not only provide access to the education content but also bring information technology, education and culture together and play a role in the sustainable growth and development of any nation. According to IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries. “Bridging the Digital Divide: making the world’s cultural and scientific heritage accessible to all.”

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

Indian higher education system is the third-largest in the world and to establish e-learning in the education system, the National digital library is a key enabler to provide equity and assure the quality of education.

NDLI (National Digital Library of India) launched in 2018, is headquartered at IIT Kharagpur. It is a virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility, initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD). It hosts nearly 48 million records, including ebooks, theses, audio, video lectures, annual reports, technical reports articles, monographs, datasets, and web courses, etc.

During this COVID-19 pandemic, the NDLI has come up at the forefront of learning, to provide free access to the variety of content from the primary level to the postgraduate level across all disciplines. New steps have been taken by the NDLI to help students in this tough phase of lockdown due to COVID-19.

NDLI in collaboration with AICTE (All India Council of Scientific and Technical Education) has initiated a specially designed collection of e-resources for a specific group of students. Students can log in, register and get access to the resources at https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

A JEE preparation module prepared by IIT Kharagpur is available on the NDLI platform for the students appearing in JEE Advanced 2020 to help their nonstop preparation for the exam.

Some features of NDLI:

It is currently available as an android app having a multilingual search facility.

The contents are available in all 22 official languages of India and in other languages also.

NDLI has content for the visitors of all age groups, from school and college students to the teachers, academicians, legal professionals, and even the learners with special needs.

It has a variety of resources types including e-books, theses & dissertations, audio, video lectures, annual reports, technical reports, articles, monographs, datasets, and web courses, etc.

NDLI Has covered all the disciplines like science and technology, history & geography, literature and music, philosophy and psychology, agriculture, religion, and law, etc.

It has all the contents from the different multidisciplinary government portals (NPTEL, NCERT, Krishikosh, Shodhganga, Librivox) integrated and available at a single portal.

A digital library of India is a digital library with a variety of contents in a variety of formats and for a variety of users with an aim of shifting the education system of India through online learning for everyone, to the advanced stage and thus contributing in the sustainable growth and development of India.

References:

Cited here:

Online-Platform-and-Covid-19-Pandemic-Situation.pdf (researchgate.net)

Google's Dataset Search: access to 25 million free datasets

LibCognizance Data , Data search

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets available online. It is a product of Google. Dataset Search (Beta version) was first launched in 2018. Now, it has come out of beta with improved quality of dataset descriptions and filter searches. It has indexed about 25 million datasets. It is a single place for searching datasets and also provides links to where the data is. Dataset search product has targeted mostly the Academic research scholars, Students, Business analysts, and Data scientists but not limited to them. It has almost covered all the subjects that interest you. The largest covered topics are Geoscience, Agriculture, and Biology.

Google's Dataset Search: access to 25 million free datasets

Pdf

Features of Dataset Search

Based on the feedback received from the people who tried the beta version over the past year, it has added some new features.

Dataset search is now available on mobile also.
Filter search is available for the format of data in which you want the results like Table, Text, and image.
Filter search also works for whether the data is free from the provider.
Datasets' search results also cover maps in case of searching about geographical areas.

Anybody who publishes their datasets online and wants to make their datasets discoverable in Dataset Search then Schema.org is an open standard to describe the properties of their datasets in a particular format on a web page.

Schema.org

To publish data on the Internet, web pages, email messages, it needs to be described in a structured format, so that it can be easily located and retrieved. A shared vocabulary is a collection of entities/ concepts ( real-world objects, people, places, events) and their semantic relationships and actions. Entities described in such a manner that their description is interlinked with each other, which helps the users in better search, navigation, retrieval of information and question answering. Schema.org is one such shared vocabulary to help webmasters and developers to build upon it the structure of their webpages and to get the maximum benefit of their efforts.

“Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond. Founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Yandex, Schema.org vocabularies are developed by an open community process, using the public-schemaorg@w3.org mailing list and through GitHub”¹

In the Context of Libraries

Libraries of scientific and research organizations have a vast collection of datasets but they use traditional search engines. By describing their datasets properties with Schema.org their datasets can become discoverable by Google Datasets Search Engine. This makes the data sets more accessible to researchers and Scientists. Some libraries across the world have datasets that are searchable by Dataset Search, for example:

Overall the Dataset Search has received positive responses from the scientific community. It has encouraged older institutions and organizations to publish with proper metadata standards to make their data discoverable on Dataset Search. This will make the change in the sense that, now the scientific data will become more accessible in the future.

Glossary

Beta version: A version of a piece of software that is made available for testing, typically by a limited number of users outside the company that is developing it, before its general release.

Dataset: A collection of related sets of information that is composed of separate elements but can be manipulated as a unit by a computer.

Semantic Relationship: Any relationship between two or more words based on the meaning of the words.

References

https://schema.org/

To know more

https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/

https://blog.google/products/search/discovering-millions-datasets-web

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Dataset_Search

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-new-dataset-search-engine-comes-out-of-beta/344860/#close

To know more:
Quiz 4

CSIR-Knowgate: an example of private cloud infrastructure for Knowledge Resource Centres.

LibCognizance Cloud computing , CSIR-KNOWGATE

When we talk about the sharing and distribution of resources and technology, then cloud computing technology can do a lot cost-effectively.

Moreover, If we are using private cloud infrastructure it also makes sure the safety and security of our research data which we prefer to be stored in our data centers. As the Indian CSIR Labs (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Laboratories) are creating lots of research and technical data, so the option of choosing a private network is good where the security of data is concerned.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is using Internet-based remote services and resources which are being hosted by others.

Types of cloud-based on their characteristics:

According to NIST, there are four types of clouds based on their deployment characteristics:

Private cloud: In private cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on-premise or off-premise.

Community cloud: In community cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). The organizations or a third party may manage it and may exist on-premise or off-premise.

Public cloud: In a public cloud, the cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services.

Hybrid cloud: In a hybrid cloud, cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-balancing between clouds).

CSIR-Knowgate:

CSIR-Knowgate is a CSIR knowledge gateway and open source private cloud infrastructure. As we know that in private cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by an organization or third party and may exist on-premises or off-premises. A private cloud can make it easier for an organization to customize its resources to meet specific IT requirements. Private clouds are often used by government agencies, financial institutions, any other organizations seeking enhanced control over their environment.

All 39 CSIR laboratories, CSIR M(Madras) Complex and CSIR headquarters have a private cloud-based network for sharing resources and knowledge among laboratories.

It is the best example of a private cloud and how the institutions/ organizations can be benefitted from cloud services in a cost-effective and more organized and more accessible way. An Open Source Software Technology Solution Cell (OSSTSC) which provides Open Source Software solution for library automation, digital libraries, building institutional repositories, network security, and management is on the cloud to provide its services to all KRCs of CSIR labs. Koha, an open-source Integrated Library System (ILS) is being used in KRCs.

Objectives:

Sharing of computing resources and technology (Open Sources Software) within a private cloud network of laboratories.
An open-source software-based integrated library management system work through cloud infrastructure in all Knowledge Resource Centers (KRCs) of laboratories.
To share information resources among these KRCs.
Analyzing research and technical data generated in all laboratories.

In the context of libraries, the very aim is to make all the library resources to be accessible to maximum users which can be achieved with sharing and distribution of resources within a community.

CSIR Distributed Library:

CSIR distributed library is a virtual library having the holdings of the Knowledge Resource Centers (KRCs) of all CSIR laboratories. It is an example of hosting your OPAC on the cloud. Users can access the resources available in all the KRCs through the virtual union catalog. These resources can also be shared among the libraries through the ILL (InterLibrary Loan) feature of a virtual union catalog. Thus, CSIR Distributed library is helping in information dissemination.

References:

39 Copyright Free Rare Books - Library and Information Science

LibCognizance E-Resources , eBooks

S.N.	Year	Title
1	1827	The Bengal Directory And General Register Ed. 2nd
2	1813	Pamphlets On East India Company Vol. 5
3	1886	The Year-Book Of Treatment For 1886
4	1908	A Descriptive Catalogue Of Sanskrit Manuscripts Vol. 4
5	1923	Textbook Of Office Management Ed. 1st
6	1900	Catalogue Of Messrs BlackWood And Sons
7	1827	A Catalogue Of Books And Manuscripts
8	1945	Abiskarer Katha Ed. 2nd আবিষ্কারের কথা
9	1865	Classified Catalogue Of Tamil Printed Books
10	1850	The New Annual Army List For 1850
11	1888	Index
12	1852	Roget's International Thesaurus Ed. 1st
13	1859	Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Sanscriticorum
14	1827	A Catalogue Of Books And Manuscripts
15	1955	Granthagar Sangrakshan গ্রন্থাগার সংরক্ষণ
16	1960	Documentation And Its Facets
17	1878	The Golden Health Library Vol. 4
18	1799	Index Of The Asiatic Researches
19	1851	Official Descriptive And Illustrated Catalogue Vol. 2
20	1961	AN ESSAY IN PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY VOL. 2
21	1908	a descriptive catalogue of the sanskrit manuscripts in the adyar library, vol. 1
22	1930	library andolan o shiksha-bistar লাইব্রেরী আন্দোলন ও শিক্ষা-বিস্তার
23	1896	catalogue of the coins of the indian museum
24	1859	catalogus codicum manuscriptorum sanscriticorum
25	1851	official descriptive and illustrated catalogue vol. 2
26	1956	granthagar o lokshiksha গ্রন্হাগার ও লোকশিক্ষা
27	1960	a descriptive catalogue of bengali manuscripts
28	1957	bangladesher granthagar vol.1 বাংলাদেশের গ্রন্থাগার খণ্ড ১
29	1919	the public library system of great britain
30	1960	libraries and librarianship of ancient and medieval india
31	1927	catalogue and index of the allahabad public library
32	1957	manual of reference work
33	1957	manual of reference work
34	1909	A Bibliography Of Unemployment And The Unemployed
35	1877	Testing 2
36	1914	The Library Of Business Practice - Vol.6
37	1939	Granthakar Nama গ্রন্থকার-নামা
38	1937	Granthagar
39	1925	A Descriptive Catalogue - Vol.1