Abstract:
The library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
(IITKGP) was the first library in India which attempted to set up an electronic
library for its clientele under the auspices of AICTE. While placing the library
of IITKGP on Internet, the facilities offered by the WWW are exploited to
provide information services of more than 1000 current periodical titles (with
hard copy to on-line). This paper begins with a brief description of the
electronic resources available in the Central Library, IITKGP. As the web
sites are being set up by the libraries of all IITs, it is emphasized that the use
of Internet will enable to share their resources in general and periodical
publications in particular. Highlights the various types of web-based
information services on scholarly journals including electronic journals
(full text) which are linked to publishers’ addresses. Discusses the methods,
with illustrative examples, associated with the creation of several web-based
tools like alphabetical list of periodicals including availability of CD-ROM
databases, both in full text as well as abstracting and indexing journals, on-line
journals (full text), departmentwise list of periodicals, current arrival list of
periodicals, union list of periodicals (3500) subscribed by all IITs for
resource sharing purpose and other free on-line services provided by the
various publishers. Key word search program, hardware and software
requirements, HTML tags to create several hyper linked files, editors and
Internet solution for automatic web-page designing are also presented.
