34th Annual Report (2021-22)

123 The IUCAA library provides access to a comprehensive collection of books and journals in astronomy, astrophysics, and related areas. In addition to the Springer Physics and Astronomy eBook collection for 2021-22, comprising 390 titles, the library purchased 177 publisher-specific eBooks, as below. The library also renewed its subscription to Grammarly Premium and the Overleaf premium software. Further, the library renewed its subscription to 78 journals. In addition to the E-journal subscriptions, the library continued to receive access to the following seven e-resources courtesy of E-Shodh Sindhu Consortium for Higher Education Electronic Resources, MHRD, Government of India: The library team of five professionals facilitated the following activities and services: 1. Document Delivery Service for articles and book chapters— fulfilled 273 article requests from 144 users and 07 book chapter requests from04users. 2. The library processed 15 publication charge requests. 3. The library assisted four users in o r de r i ng 15 books f r om t he i r contingency grant. 4. The library provided plagiarism reports using Ouriginal for research papers and Ph.D. thesis. 5. The IUCAA library YouTube channel presently has 207 videos with a subscriber base of 6567 and 89581 views. The IUCAA Library The E-Books and E-Journals usage during the year is depicted below: ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ New Scientist Physics Today Physics Education Popular Science Science Direct ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Springer Nature Taylor and Francis IUCAA Institutional Repository Web of Science World Scientific Publisher Annual Reviews De Gruyter Institute of Physics John Wiley and Sons Number of eBooks 02 93 37 45 6. The library staff assisted the Publications Section in the compilation of the following content for the Annual Report: a) Publications by IUCAA Academics. b) Publications by Visiting Associates (alongwith Visitor Services). c) Pedagogical. d) IUCAA Centres for Astronomy Resea r ch and Deve l opmen t (ICARDs). The library deployed a middleware solution, 'RemotLog,' to facilitate off-campus access to the library subscribed e-resources. The e-resources from the following publishers have been accessed by users, including Visiting Associates of IUCAA. American Association of Physics Teachers American Institute of Physics American Scientist Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Applied Optics American Physical Society Cambridge University Press EDP Sciences Institute of Physics Institutional Repository Nature ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬