Knowledge Portals

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Knowledge Portals

• A Web Retrieval Tool for
• Library Information Center
• Tata Consultancy Services

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Introduction

• With the emergence of IT applications,
  particularly Internet, there has been a major
  shift from traditional print resources to
  electronic resources.
• The importance of e-resources portal in providing
  information service is, very significant in
  todays context for any organization, especially
  for company like TCS.

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E-Resources Portal

• E-resources portal integrates captures and
  manages various e-resources published through
  various publishers at various places at a single
  web portal.
• E-resource portal is a single shop/gateway for
  subscribing all kinds of e-resources published
  worldwide.

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Features of E-resources Portals

• They can be delivered to the desktop
• More than one person can read them at a time
• The entire text can be searched
• They can include multimedia and graphics, in
  colour, at marginal cost
• They can publish more quickly than print
  publications
• They can be interactive they can foster an
  online exchange of ideas by email
• They can make use hyperlinks, both internally and
  to other publications
• Articles can be retrieved directly through links
  from abstracting and indexing database
• The content can be reproduced, forwarded and
  modified
• User feedback can be obtained dynamically and
  very easily

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Access to E-resources

• The libraries and information centers cater the
  information and reference needs to a variety of
  users in different discipline. Subscription to
  all e-resources in all fields of knowledge is
  indeed tedious job for libraries.
• To avoid the inconvenience access to e-resources
  available through various publishers, information
  aggregators are the best options for subscribing
  relevant electronic resources in specific domain
  from a single gateway.

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• In order to make the maximum use of
  e-resources and access options, one has to be
  very careful in
• Subscribing the e-resources
• About various IT issues and
• Formats availability such as (HTML, PDF, and
  SGML)
• Access to e-resources is provided either by
  publishers themselves or through e-resources
  portals by owner of resources

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About Tata Consultancy Services (TCSL)

• Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the
  world-leading information technology consulting,
  services, and business process outsourcing
  organization.
• TCS commenced operations in 1968, when the IT
  services industry didnt exist as it does today.
• Today, with a presence in 35 countries across 6
  continents, a comprehensive range of services
  across diverse industries, it is one of the
  world's leading Information Technology companies.

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TCS Practices
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Library Information Center (LIC)

• The First library in TCS was established in 1969.
  Along with company network of library and
  information services is also growing
  continuously.
• The TCS Library and Information Centre, is a
  specialized information and knowledge delivery
  centre, with a clear mandate of providing
  information to meet the business needs of the
  organization.
• Today it has grown into 65 libraries 25 Library
  corners in 13 cities across India handled by 120
  professionals. Library facilities are also
  extended to overseas offices, client locations
  and GDCs.

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The following are the some popular e-resources
portals integrated in TCS library portal.
EBSCO is a worldwide leader in providing
information access and management solutions
through print and electronic journal subscription
services
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Reference ware
Reference ware is the largest online book
resource offering unobstructed access to the
complete unabridged contents of thousands of the
latest and best business and technology books.
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• ITPro
• Designed by and for IT professionals who need to
  keep pace with the accelerating speed of
  technology and innovation. With thousands of
  books, ITPro provides both broad and deep
  coverage of over 100 different technology topics
  including the latest programming languages,
  coding methodologies, network security, telecom
  protocols, IT asset management strategies, to
  name just a few.
• BusinessPro
• suitable for every corporate professional,
  provides instant guidance on a range of practical
  topics that drive business results. Topics range
  from leadership to writing business plans and
  from interviewing skills to project management.

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Apart from above, there are numerous other
databases available and used by various corporate
houses.Few of them are listed below
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• Successful implementation of this model
• depends on following factors
• Proper requirement analysis
• Consolidation of resources
• Portal building
• Definition of proper access methods
• Final roll out
• Backup and disaster recovery plan
• Advantages of such systems
• Automated compilation of Use and user statistics
  (quantification)
• Subscription renewal of electronic resources
  based on actual use
• Wide spread / increased utilization of available
  resources
• Better Return on Investments
• Minimal manual intervention in user services
• Standardization of formats and services

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• Paid services from information aggregators like
  Informatics India can help in building web
  portals combining various e resources for
  organizations who can not afford technological
  and manpower investment.

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Conclusion

• The emerging technology of e-portal undoubtedly
  in coming days will provide a significant move in
  achieving the realistic and reliable, affordable
  and acceptable, effective and efficient tool for
  retrieving and downloading the scholarly
  knowledge.
• with the use of e-portal technology, it has
  become possible to users to access any
  information object (i.e text, animation, chart,
  picture, voice etc.) without having to know, its
  location, format or access methods
• LIC, Tata Consultancy Services are dealing with
  modern web retrieval tools and technologies for
  their digital resources in service of their
  employees.
• This model can be implemented in any small or big
  size organization like university or company
  spread geographically in various continents.