Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women

Library Orientation and Training

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Library provides a student induction program for first-year students at the beginning of every academic year.

Institutional Repository

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Institutional Repository is an archive for collecting preserving and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution.

Library digitalized its materials using DSpace software and created an institutional repository which be accessed through internet facility.

Remote Login

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Access to the e-resources subscribed by the library is available to all faculty and students through remote access.
Remote Access Username and Password will be provided by the Library
This access is provided free of charge to the faculty members and students.
Usage of the resources will be strictly monitored.

Open access is a broad international academic movement that seeks free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. When anyone can read download copy distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or another way within the legal agreements the publication is called open access. As there are no financial, legal or technical barriers.

Grammar Checking Software

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Library subscribes to a premium version of Trinka AI software

Plagiarism Checking Service

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The Library has the facility to detect plagiarism using the softwares like Turnitin (subscribed) and URKUND (supported by UGC INFLIBNET).
The software helps to detect possible plagiarism in a document and generates a report showing the similarities with other documents.
Library handles plagiarism verification for Ph.D. theses, M.Phil dissertations, Projects, Papers presented for conference/ workshop, abstracts through Urkund Antiplagiarism software.

Reference Service

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Reference Service is an important service offered by the library. It helps users to make full use of the resources available in the library.

Bibliographical Service

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Bibliographical service is service related to the library collection and access to those collections, whether print or online. In modern libraries, these services are provided online through websites.

Bibliographical services is one of the technical divisions which includes:

Citation Analysis

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Citation analysis is a way of measuring the relative importance or impact of an author, an article or a publication by counting the number of times that author, article, or publication has been cited by other works.

Citation analysis may be conducted for the following purposes:

To establish the impact that a particular work has had by identifying which other authors based their work upon it or cited it within their own papers.
To learn more about a field or a topic by identifying seminal works in that area.
To determine what impact a particular author has had within his/her own discipline and beyond by looking at his/her total number of citations broken down by discipline and by country.
For promotion and tenure purposes by looking at the quality of sources where a scholar’s work has been published and cited

Sources for Citation Analysis: There are several tools available for citation analysis, some are subscription-based and others are free. Each tool has its strengths and weaknesses and none of them covers the entire universe of scholarly publications. Therefore, it is important to use more than one tool to get a fuller picture of the scholarly impact of an author or a journal.

The citation data will relate only to articles indexed within the database. Using citation information from multiple databases and comparing the results can offer a better perspective of impact within a field. The three best-known citation analysis databases are Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.

Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics
Subject Focused: Science, Technology, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
A citation database of select high profile journals and other scientific publications.

Scopus by Elsevier
Subject Focused: Science, Technology, Medical, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
A citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

Google Scholar by Google
Subject Focused: Medical, Scientific, Technical, Business, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Consists of scholarly articles including journal papers, conference papers, technical reports, theses, pre-prints, post-prints and other publications on the Web.

Current Awareness Service

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In the Current Awareness Service (CAS) service, the reader is contacted with the latest information. This service is important for the reader who wants to know the latest development only in his specific subject.

According to Ranganathan - "CAS tries to provide the reader with the latest information about his specific subject and related topics in an expeditious manner."