Dr. Poornima NarayanaHead, Information Center for Aerospace S&T(ICAST)National Aerospace LaboratoriesBangalore, India

Specialists Meeting on “Advances in Scientific Databases in India”

10th-11th August, IGCAR, Kalpakkam

India is one of the major producer of scientific data Partners for international cooperative research Has the responsibility of pooling to World’s knowledge

base Number of attempts have been to create scientific

databases of specialized nature both at national and international levels.

Distribution in different scientific institutions / agencies. Internet an effective media for providing access to these

databases Not many attempts to provide a common platform for

providing a single point access to these databases

Lack of willingness of the database creators to share the information

Identification of scientific databases already compiled or forthcoming

Commercial attitude of the creators of the database

So-called sensitive nature of the data

Absence of mandated national policy especially for sharing the data among the institutes concerned

Inadequate digital archiving and access policies

Lack of international cooperation

Lack of standards especially metadata to handle scientific data

Need for open source software to archive, organize and retrieve the data both at the Individual database level and harvesting level

Absence of Metadata standards to facilitate interoperability among similar databases

Absence of national policy in this matter

Multidimensional nature of the scientific databases created in various disciplines

Lack of awareness about the sources to be consulted for creating specialized databases

Need to compile the list of information resources of different kinds facilitating compilation of specialized databases, be in bibliographic form or access to full text.

INFORMATION SOURCES Institutional (National/ International)

Scholarly Publications

Internet Search engines (Google, Google Scholar)

Databases (General, Multidisciplinary, Specialized)

Institutional Repositories (Individual , Cross Archives, Meta harvesters)

NIST ( (http://www.nist.gov/srd/index.htm). NIST Data provides easy access to

many (currently over 80) of the NIST S&T databases

CODATA(http://www.codata.org/about/index.htm

An Interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU), which works to improve the quality, reliability, management and accessibility of data of importance to all fields of S & T

The Academy of Science for Developing World (TWAS)

(Board on Intl Scientific Organizations (BISO) Intl. Council for S&T Information (ICSTI) Intl. Network for Availability of Scientific Publications

(INASP) Global Alliance for Promoting Access to & use of

Scientific Data in developing countries (GAPASD) National Academics Press Office of S&T Policy (OSTP) Science Commons Materials Research Society

Bibliographic

J-Gate (http://www.jgate.informindia.co.in/) e-journal Gateway, million articles, >20,000 journals Web of Science: >8,500 journals of high quality SCOPUS: > 15,000 journals

SCIRUS: (Web sources for Scientific Literature)

-contd….

Biomaterials

Ceramics

Coatings and Films

Composites

Corrosion

Extractive Metallurgy

General and Others

Melting, Coating, Powder Metallurgy

Metals, Minerals, Ores & Alloys

169

121

103

214

49

38

250

53

182

Nanomaterials

Packaging Materials & Technology

Physical Metallurgy

Rubber Technology

Super Conductors

Textile materials

Treatment & Finishing

Wood, Paper & Cellulosics

Working, Forming, Machining & Joining

137

44

32

22

46

21

61

29

56

Peer-reviewed Journals - 518 Free Journals - 79 Peer-reviewed+Free Journals - 54

ScienceDirect:M/S Elsevier About 1800 titles Springerlink SAGE Royal Society of Chemistry Nature Materials IEEE Wiley MultiScience……Many More

Inspec Engineering Index Aerospace Fluidex NTIS Energy S&T JICST- ePLUS Derwent (Patent) Delphion (Patent)…..

Metadex Chemical Abstracts Aluminum Industry Abstracts Corrosion Abstracts Ceramic Abstracts AESIS Derwent Chemistry Resources

contd…

Specialized Databases

PIRA PaperChem

Packaging S&T Abstracts

Plastic Properties Database

Materials safety blue sheets

RAPRA

Registry of Toxic effects of chemical substances

World Scientific Abstracts

SciSearch

World surface coatings abstracts

A digital collection of an institution’s scholarly/creative output

World: >1500 India: >50 Academic/R&D/Corporate/PSU … IISc, IITD, NAL, NCL,RR I, DU…

Harvests all OAI-PMH compliant IRs of Institutions facilitating searching through unified search interface

International: OAISTER, ARC,UIUC, NASA…

National (India): CSIR Knowledge Harvester, IISc Cross Archive…

Aero Polymers (http://www.nal.res.in/polysearch/contents/aeropolymers.html)

Developed by Dr. Kalyani Vijayan Ex scientist, Materials Division, NAL

Polysearch Polyselect

While in this presentation, an attempt has been made to identify different sources of information for creating Scientific database in Material Science, not enough justification has been made for exhaustiveness because of time paucity and readily available data

Efforts could be for other disciplines of S&T at National/International Levels

Dr. A R Upadhya Director NAL Dr. Baldev Raj Director IGCAR Dr. R K Dayal Convener SAMSD Logistics Committee SAMSD