November 16, 2009

E-books

1. BIOSCIENCEnetBASE
An online collection of over 90 full-text handbooks and monographs in the biosciences, including biochemistry, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, biostatistics, biotechnology, epidemiology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and toxicology.
2. COMPUTERSCIENCEnetBASE
A collection of full-text handbooks and monographs covering most areas of computer science.
3. CRCnetBASE
A searchable online database containing over 3,000 scientific and technical handbooks, reference works and other texts published by Taylor & Francis.
4. Ebrary
More than 21,000 recently published books on all subjects.
5. ENGnetBASE
Engineering handbooks.
6. Knovel
Engineering and scientific books from a wide range of publishers.
7. InfoSECURITYnetBASEOnline collection of handbooks on computer security published by CRC Press.
8. ITKnowledgeBASE An online collection of 278 fulltext monographs on information technology, from Auerbach Publications and CRC Press.
9. netLibrary
Major collection of books on all subjects.
10. PHYSICSnetBASE Online collection of books on physics published by Taylor & Francis.
11. Referex
Comprises over 300 fully searchable e-books in three subject collections: chemical, petrochemical and process engineering; mechanical and materials engineering; electronics & electrical engineering. Each collection includes handbooks of engineering fundamentals, titles focused on technique and practice and specialized scholarly monographs.
12. Safari Tech Books Online
A collection of books on information technology from a range of publishers, including O'Reilly, Microsoft Press, Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, and Cisco Press. The Library's licence covers 183 titles -- click on Library to retrieve a list of titles available for reading. Titles are searchable via Voyage.
13. SIAM Reference Collection
A searchable online collection of over 300 books published by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
14. SpringerLink
SpringerLink gives full-text access to over 1800 journals published by Springer, Birkhauser, Karger, and others: some 2.87 M articles.
It also give full-text access to some 10,000 books. Apart from complete coverage from 1997 onwards of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (approx. 3300 books in 139,000 chapters); most books are only available full-text AFTER 2004.
15. STATSnetBASE
Online collection of handbooks and other statistical texts published by CRC Press. Covers statistical theory & methods in all areas, including Bayesian approaches, computer applications, environmental statistics, medical statistics and biostatistics.
16. Synthesis (Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science)
An online collection of searchable compact e-books or 'lectures' published by Morgan & Claypool. Arranged in a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series, each 50-100 page lecture covers an important research or development topic, and is written by a prominent contributor

Major Engineering Databases

1. Academic Search Premier
A scholarly, interdisciplinary database indexing more than 8,000 journals.
2. ASTM Digital Library
A searchable online collection of technical reports, symposia proceedings, manuals, and journal articles published by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
3. ASTM Standards
A searchable online collection of standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials.
4. CINDAS
It provides critically evaluated materials properties databases for thermal, mechanical, electrical, physical and other properties of various materials, including aerospace alloys.
5. Compendex (1884 - current, updated weekly)
Covers about 5000 engineering journals, conference proceedings and reports all over the world. It is the most important database for engineers.
6. CRCnetBASE
A searchable online database containing over 3,000 scientific and technical handbooks, reference works and other texts published by Taylor & Francis.
7. Derwent Innovations Index
A searchable online database on the Web of Knowledge platform, providing worldwide patent information, with English language abstracts. Derwent covers over 11 million inventions from 42 patent-issuing authorities and can be searched via text or chemical structures.
8. Energy Citations Database
Contains citations of reports, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Please see online help additional search information.
9. ENGINE - Australian Engineering Database
ENGINE is produced by the Institution of Engineers Australia and provides access to Australian engineering information, and in particular to publications of the Institution since 1980. It covers all branches of engineering, including agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, computer, electrical, electronic, mechanical, military, structural, transport and water.
10. Engineering Village (1884 - current, updated weekly)
Over 16,000 engineering web sites; access to technical databases and engineering libraries, a full text engineering management journal, handbooks, patents, standards and Compendex.
11. IGA Geothermal Conference Papers Database
A searchable online collection of conference papers on geothermal science produced by the International Geothermal Association.
12. Ingenta ( free public access)
A global research gateway providing a free online search service of published content from reliable research sources. It offers access to nearly 6,000 electronic full-text titles and millions of articles from the world's leading scholarly and professional publications.
13. NTIS(free public access)
The largest, central resource for US government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information currently available. It provides free searching of 450,000 abstracted publications and a portal to online purchasing.
14. New Zealand Standards Online
A searchable online collection of all Standards New Zealand and AS/SNZ standards, compiled by IHS Australia. The documents are in PDF format and can be printed and downloaded.
15. Patent Databases (free public access)
An annotated bibliography and full-text of patent databases available on the Internet (both free and some fee-based) from international organizations such as WIOP (World Intellectual Property Organization), major industrial countries.
16. Science Direct (mostly 1994- current but some titles from the first issue published)
Covers the full text of more than 1800 mostly Elsevier Science journals in the engineering, physical, technical, medical, life and social sciences. Science Direct also includes abstracts of journal articles from the other publishers.
17. Scopus
It indexes Elsevier publications (including conference proceedings) and covers over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers. . Has many full text links to Science Direct-hosted articles, and uses the Scirus search engine for each standard search (results presented separately). Subjects include engineering, chemistry, physics, maths, life-health science, psychology, economics, biological/environmental, and general science. Full cited reference information from 1996.
18. SpringerLink
Gives full-text access to over 1800 journals published by Springer, Birkhauser, Karger, and others: some 2.87 M articles. It also give full-text access to some 10,000 books. Apart from complete coverage from 1997 onwards of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (approx. 3300 books in 139,000 chapters); most books are only available full-text AFTER 2004.
19. Synthesis (Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science)
An online collection of searchable compact e-books or 'lectures' published by Morgan & Claypool. Arranged in a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series, each 50-100 page lecture covers an important research or development topic, and is written by a prominent contributor to the field.
20. Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge is the web interface for ISI group of products including Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, ISI proceedings, Current Contents and Web Citation Index. You must have a personalised login to Web of Knowledge if you wish to save searches from either of these databases -- especially if you wish to create an email alert.
21. Web of Science (updated weekly)
Consists of three citation databases: Science Citation Index (1900 - current), Social Sciences Citation Index(1956 - current), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - current) which are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. You can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. This mutlidisciplinary database lists 39 million items from some 8700 journals.
22. Wiley InterScience - Journals(1997 - current)
Covers the full text of Wiley journals in Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Psychology, Business, Finance & Management, Education and Law.
23. Wiley Interscience - Online Books
Online books in the fields of Chemistry, Engineering, Bioscience, and Medicine, published by Wiley.

November 10, 2009

Toll Free Numbers in India,

Airlines
Indian Airlines -1800 180 1407
Jet Airways - 1800 22 5522
Spice Jet - 1800 180 3333
Air India -- 1800 22 7722
Kingfisher - 1800 180 0101
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Banks
ABN AMRO -1800 11 2224
Canara Bank - 1800 44 6000
Citibank - 1800 44 2265
Corporation Bank - 1800 443 555
Development Credit Bank - 1800 22 5769
HDFC Bank - 1800 227 227
ICICI Bank - 1800 333 499
ICICI Bank NRI - 1800 22 4848
IDBI Bank - 1800 11 6999
Indian Bank - 1800 425 1400
ING Vysya - 1800 44 9900
Kotak Mahindra Bank - 1800 22 6022
Lord Krishna Bank - 1800 11 2300
Punjab National Bank - 1800 122 222
State Bank of India - 1800 44 1955
Syndicate Bank - 1800 44 6655
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Automobiles
Mahindra Scorpio -1800 22 6006
Maruti - 1800 111 515
Tata Motors - 1800 22 5552
Windshield Experts - 1800 11 3636
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Computers/IT
Adrenalin -1800 444 445
AMD - 1800 425 6664
Apple Computers - 1800 444 683
Canon - 1800 333 366
Cisco Systems - 1800 221 777
Compaq - HP - 1800 444 999
Data One Broadband - 1800 424 1800
Dell - 1800 444 026
Epson - 1800 44 0011
eSys - 3970 0011
Genesis Tally Academy - 1800 444 888
HCL - 1800 180 8080
IBM - 1800 443 333
Lexmark - 1800 22 4477
Marshal's Point - 1800 33 4488
Microsoft - 1800 111 100
Microsoft Virus Update - 1901 333 334
Seagate - 1800 180 1104
Symantec - 1800 44 5533
TVS Electronics - 1800 444 566
WeP Peripherals - 1800 44 6446
Wipro - 1800 333 312
Xerox - 1800 180 1225
Zenith - 1800 222 004
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Indian Railway Enquiries
Indian Railway General Enquiry 131
Indian Railway Central Enquiry 131
Indian Railway Reservation 131
Indian Railway Railway Reservation Enquiry 1345,1335,1330
Indian Railway Centralised Railway Enquiry 1330/1/2/3/4/ 5/6/7/8/9
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Couriers/Packers & Movers
ABT Courier -1800 44 8585
AFL Wizz - 1800 22 9696
Agarwal Packers & Movers - 1800 11 4321
Associated Packers P Ltd - 1800 21 4560
DHL - 1800 111 345
FedEx - 1800 22 6161
Goel Packers & Movers - 1800 11 3456
UPS - 1800 22 7171
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Home Appliances
Aiwa/Sony -1800 11 1188
Anchor Switches - 1800 22 7979
Blue Star - 1800 22 2200
Bose Audio - 1800 11 2673
Bru Coffee Vending Machines - 1800 44 7171
Daikin Air Conditioners - 1800 444 222
DishTV - 1800 12 3474
Faber Chimneys - 1800 21 4595
Godrej - 1800 22 5511
Grundfos Pumps - 1800 33 4555
LG - 1901 180 9999
Philips - 1800 22 4422
Samsung - 1800 113 444
Sanyo - 1800 11 0101
Voltas - 1800 33 4546
WorldSpace Satellite Radio - 1800 44 5432
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Investments/ Finance
CAMS -1800 44 2267
Chola Mutual Fund - 1800 22 2300
Easy IPO's - 3030 5757
Fidelity Investments - 1800 180 8000
Franklin Templeton Fund - 1800 425 4255
J M Morgan Stanley - 1800 22 0004
Kotak Mutual Fund - 1800 222 626
LIC Housing Finance - 1800 44 0005
SBI Mutual Fund - 1800 22 3040
Sharekhan - 1800 22 7500
Tata Mutual Fund - 1800 22 0101
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Travel
Club Mahindra Holidays -1800 33 4539
Cox & Kings - 1800 22 1235
God TV Tours - 1800 442 777
Kerala Tourism - 1800 444 747
Kumarakom Lake Resort - 1800 44 5030
Raj Travels & Tours - 1800 22 9900
Sita Tours - 1800 111 911
SOTC Tours - 1800 22 3344
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Healthcare
Best on Health -1800 11 8899
Dr Batras - 1800 11 6767
GlaxoSmithKline - 1800 22 8797
Johnson & Johnson - 1800 22 8111
Kaya Skin Clinic - 1800 22 5292
LifeCell - 1800 44 5323
Manmar Technologies - 1800 33 4420
Pfizer - 1800 442 442
Roche Accu-Chek - 1800 11 45 46
Rudraksha - 1800 21 4708
Varilux Lenses - 1800 44 8383
VLCC - 1800 33 1262
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Insurance
AMP Sanmar -1800 44 2200
Aviva - 1800 33 2244
Bajaj Allianz - 1800 22 5858
Chola MS General Insurance - 1800 44 5544
HDFC Standard Life - 1800 227 227
LIC - 1800 33 4433
Max New York Life - 1800 33 5577
Royal Sundaram - 1800 33 8899
SBI Life Insurance - 1800 22 9090
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Hotel Reservations
GRT Grand -1800 44 5500
InterContinental Hotels Group - 1800 111 000
Marriott - 1800 22 0044
Sarovar Park Plaza - 1800 111 222
Taj Holidays - 1800 111 825
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Teleshopping
Asian Sky Shop -1800 22 1800
Jaipan Teleshoppe - 1800 11 5225
Tele Brands - 1800 11 8000
VMI Teleshopping - 1800 447 777
WWS Teleshopping - 1800 220 777
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Others
Domino's Pizza -1800 111 123
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Cell Phones
BenQ -1800 22 08 08
Bird CellPhones - 1800 11 7700
Motorola MotoAssist - 1800 11 1211
Nokia - 3030 3838
Sony Ericsson - 3901 1111

October 31, 2009

Knowledge Gateway

LIST OF FREE e JOURNALS & FREE e books

CHEMICAL SCIENCE

Chemistry Central Journal: http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/home/

Current Science : http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/

Indian Journal of Chemistry: http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/59

International Journal of Molecular Sciences: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms

Open Organic Chemistry Journal: http://www.bentham.org/open/toocj/

ARKIVOC - Online Journal of Organic Chemistry:http://www.arkat-usa.org/

Metal-Based Drugs: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mbd/

Journal of Chemical Engineering: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php

MATHS

Advances in Fuzzy Systems: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/afs/

Abstract and Applied Analysis: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aaa/

Applied Mathematical Sciences: http://www.m-hikari.com/ams/index.html

Asian Journal of Algebra: http://www.scialert.net/

Computational and Applied Mathematics: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php/script_sci_serial

Contributions to Discrete Mathematics: http://cdm.math.ca/index.php/cdm

Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra: http://www.math.technion.ac.il/iic/ela/

Electronic Jrl. of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations: http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/ejqtde

Integers: Electronic Jrl. of Combinatorial Number Theory:http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/

International Journal of Algebra: http://www.m-hikari.com/ija/index.html

International Jrl. of Computers, Communications & Control:http://journal.univagora.ro

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science: http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/

International Journal of Computer Science: http://www.waset.org/journals/ijcs/

International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security:http://ijcsns.org/index.htm

Journal of Computer Science:http://www.scipub.org/scipub/

Journal of Computers: http://www.academypublisher.com/jcp/

Journal of Computing and Information Technology:http://cit.zesoi.fer.hr/home.php

Journal of Multimedia: http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/

Journal of Networks: http://www.academypublisher.com/jnw/

Journal of Software: http://www.academypublisher.com/jsw/

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society: http://www.scielo.br

Computer sciences and Telecommunication Jrl. : http://gesj.internet-academy.org.ge

Computer software journal: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jssst

Electronic journal of information system:http://www.ejisdc.org

Electronic transactions on artificial intelligence: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/

Artificial intelligence: http://aepia.dsic.upv.es/

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Information Technology Journal: http://scialert.net/

Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal: http://www.osra.org/journal.html

Int Jrl of Communication Networks and Information Security:http://ijcnis.kust.edu.pk/index

International Journal of Information Technology: http://www.waset.org/journals/ijit/

ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS

Elektrika: Journal of Electrical Engineering: http://www.fke.utm.my/elektrika

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ES

International Journal of Electronics, Circuits and Systems: http://www.waset.org/journals/ijecs/

ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATION

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/

International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems: http://www.ijics.org/

International Journal of Signal Processing: http://www.waset.org/journals/ijsp/

Journal of Electrical Systems: http://journal.esrgroups.org/jes/

Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal: http://www.bentham.org/open/toeej/

VLSI Design http://www.hindawi.com/journals/vlsi/

Communications Engineering & Design: http://www.cedmagazine.com/

Communications Systems Design: http://www.commsdesign.com/

Electronic Design Online: http://electronicdesign.com/

TElectronic Green Journal: http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclalib/egj/

MECHANICAL

Advances in Mechanical Engineering: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ame/

Advances in Tribology: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/at/

Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics: http://www.jafmonline.net/

Advanced Manufacturing: http://www.automationmag.com/

Applied Welding: http://www.millerwelds.com

Automotive Design and Production: http://www.autofieldguide.com/


Journal of the Brazilian Society of mechanical Sciences: http://www.scielo.br

Journal of Materials Research: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php

Cadalyst : http://www.cadalyst.com/

Free E-Books

eBooks Lobby: http://www.ebooklobby.com/

Free E-Books: http://www.free-ebooks.net/

Shareware ebooks: http://www.sharewarebooks.com/

Free book: http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

Planet PDF http://www.planetpdf.com/

Fictionwise - Free Books: www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm

Many Books: http://manybooks.net/

Easy Media Broadcast: http://www.easymediabroadcast.com/

Web Source: http://www.web-source.net/free_ebooks.htm

Web Books: www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/library.htm

October 28, 2009

Workshop " Digital libraries for academic Instituions"

One day state level workshop on the topic "DIGITAL LIBRARIES FOR ACADEMIC
INSTITUTIONS" was organized by myself @ NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE- KOVILPATTI (TN) , on 4ht Nov, 2008 around 60 library professional participated in the workshop.
workshop was organised with a technical collaboration with SALIS.