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E-journals : NSL has access to 4000+ journals in addition to over 2000 open access journals, and several important Databases and Standards like Web of Science (WOS), Derwent Innovations Index (DII), Delphion, QPAT, Scifinder, ASTM Standards and Indian Standards. The library is providing free access to electronic journals from 29 leading international publishers and database providers, like Elsevier, Springer, American Institute of Physics, Blackwell, John Wiley, Cambridge University Press, OUP, OSA, ACS, Taylor & Francis, Scifinder, WOS, DII, Delphion, Qpat etc. (as per details in the table). Researchers irrespective of their affiliations may walk-in to access, browse, download and print any article from such a valuable knowledge resource for their scholarly work. The researchers / scholars, who walk-in to the CSIR labs /Institutions libraries for their scholarly work are also permitted to use these electronic resources of the consortium through the computer terminals placed in the library free of charge/fee.
On-line databases Libray has access to a large number of international databases like Chemical abstract (CA), Web of Science (WoS), Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA),and many more available through DIALOG and STN International, etc.
Patent databases Researchers frequently use the different patent databases such as Delphion, Micropatent, Derwent Innovation Index, WIPs, Q-pat for checking the novelty of patents before filing. The academic, scientific, business and industry communities are extensively using the database facility at NSL provides access to international patent databases viz., Derwent Innovations Index (DII), Delphion, Micropatent, WIPS, Questal, etc.
Standards databases NSL has access to national and international standards databases viz. ASTM Standards and Indian Standards. |