35th Annual Report (2022-2023) - ENGLISH

95 The IUCAA library provides users access to a comprehensive collection of books and journals in astronomy, astrophysics, and related areas. The library added 51 print titles, 391 eBooks of the Springer Physics and Astronomy eBooks collection for 2022, and 246 publisher-specific eBooks, namely, Annual Reviews, John Wiley and Sons, and IPC standards. The library renewed its subscription to the Grammarly Premium and Overleaf Premium software. The library renewed its subscription to 67 journals for the year 2022. In addition to the e-journal subscriptions, the library continued to receive access to seven e-resources courtesy E-Shodh Sindhu Consortium for Higher Education Electronic Resources, MHRD, Government of India. American Institute of Physics AmericanPhysical Society ¬ ¬ IUCAA Library ¬ ¬ ¬ Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) database. JGate Plus Springer Link andNature ¬ ¬ Taylor and Francis Web of Science The E-Books and E-Journals usage in the year is depicted below. The Remotlog access and authentication software has been deployed by the library to facilitate off-campus access to all the e- resources subscribed to by the library. The following e-resources have been accessed by users including Visiting Associates of IUCAA using EZproxy. 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 IUCAA Institutional Repository Nature New Scientist Physics Today Physics Education Popular Science Science Direct Springer Nature Taylor and Francis Web of Science World Scientific ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ In addition to the usual library business, the library teamof five professionals and one library trainee facilitated the following activities and services: 1. Document Delivery Service for articles – fulfilled 218 article requests from87 users. 2. Inter-library LoanService: Facilitated the loan of 04 books to four libraries. 3. The library processed fifteen publication charge requests. 4. The library provided plagiarism reports using Ouriginal (formerly Urkund) for research papers. 5. The library YouTube Channel has a collection of 206 videos. With 866 new subscribers, the current subscriber base is 7433, and there have been a total of 89581 views. 6. The library staff assisted Publications Department in compiling the list of publications by IUCAA Academics and the Visiting Associates, Pedagogical Content and compilation of ICARDs, for the 2022-23 Annual Report.