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Library Regulation on Systematic or Excessive Downloading

Observing the law on copyright and systematic or excessive downloading of electronic content

The use of Library materials and facilities is subject to data protection legislation, copyright law and vendor license agreements. Users must observe the applicable copyright law and the terms of any vendor license agreements for materials they use, including print materials, electronic resources and materials in all other formats.  The Law states that serious infringement in photocopying, scanning or downloading of copyrighted material could lead to civil action or even criminal prosecution.

What does 'systematically download', or 'excessively download' mean?

It is defined as a deliberate attempt to copy or distribute a whole or significant part of an electronic resource using 'robots' or any such software, or any manual means designed for wholesale infringement, which results in a vendor license violation on the part of the Association and/or its Library.

So, it means that users may not continuously download one article after another, one entire issue of an e-journal after another, the complete run of an entire e-journal, one after another. By extension, it also means that users may not set robots, spiders, or Web wanderers free upon their data repositories, to do this same systematic or excessive downloading. These information providers wish to protect their intellectual property. They do not wish to see their entire electronic resource, or massive chunks of the same, pirated away to be hosted on servers outside their control, and thus loose a potential revenue.

Authorized individual use. An Authorized User may, acting as an individual and not in a professional capacity as a librarian of the Subscribing Institution:

• Download individual articles from any Journal for personal use, and archive them on his/her own personal computer.  Note: the purpose of this is to enable research-driven, as-needed downloading.   This means (among other things) that bulk downloading is expressly forbidden, as is serial or cumulative downloading that results in the user reproducing on his or her computer, in effect, all or any substantial subset of any issue of any Journal.

• Print out individual articles from any Journal for personal use.  As above, bulk printing and serial printing that results in the user reproducing all or any substantial part of any Journal issue are not allowed.

• Send one copy of any Journal article by email, hard copy, or fax to one person at another location for that individual's personal use as above. This means (among other things) that bulk forwarding is expressly forbidden, as is serial or cumulative forwarding that results in a third person’s reproducing on his or her computer, in effect, all or any substantial subset of any issue of any Journal.  The Subscribing Institution’s librarians may not distribute copies outside the Subscribing Institution Make traditional scholarly re-use of material within the bounds of fair use.

We ask for your compliance, so that all of us will abide by the terms of contract of The Association with the respective Vendor and continue to enjoy access to all of the electronic resources that they provide.

Its primary objective is to support and help in promoting research by catering to the needs of its scientific community. In light of this, it has four clear objectives :

• To select, acquire, organize and utilize the materials for the purpose of information dissemination relevant to the aims and objectives of the Association.

• To provide services to scholars and staff and also members of the Association for the effective utilization of library resources.

• Carry out research in areas of need and interest in the library with a view to improving resources and services of the library.

• Any user, anywhere, will have immediate access to the library resources, in the desired format, at an affordable cost. 

It has vast collection of very old scientific journals of immense historical and archival values -- a collection that has no parallel in any other library of a research Institute.  Its present collection is as follows (as on 31.03.2014)

• Books, Standards and Reports (in usable condition) : 20,000 (approx.)

• Journals and Serials (Current titles) : 1305 (approx.)

• Journals and Serials (Back Volumes) : 50,000 (approx.) (in usable condition)

• Other Materials (like CD/DVD-ROM, Thesis, Micro-fiche, Microfilm) : 1,000 (approx.)

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The library has a special responsibility to keep its clientele up-to-date and intellectually stimulated by providing pertinent literature, not only in areas of immediate concern, but also in areas of emerging and developing importance within the scope of the library; and by contributing to the preservation; transmission, and accessibility of new knowledge.

It extends one of the most liberal usage facilities in the region -- all potential users have direct access to the shelves of the books and journals and offers extensive reprographic services to users from all over India. Keeping in view, the basic services are :

i) Reading facilities for all members and non-members on permission
ii) Borrowing facility (for staff and our students)
iii) Bibliographic and reference services
iv) Reprographic or document supply service to all including outstation users
v) Resource sharing programme between Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and our Association
v) Documents supply via Email
vi) Internet facility for the library members.
vii) Online database search service.

 ABOUT THE LIBRARY

The IACS library, has grown out of the research needs of the Association from its very beginning (1876). So it is the oldest library of its kind and occupies a unique position among the academia of the Eastern India. A measure of its social impact may be gained by noting that it caters to the needs of more than 3000 external users, while the staff and scholars of the Association would total to nearly 350. Yearly budget for the Library is more than five Crore. An air-conditioned new building house the library with all amenities to the users.

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 Elsevier E-Books 
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E-Journals and Bibliographic services Available from IACS (For internal use)

1. SCIENCE DIRECT has evolved from a web database of Elsevier journals to one of the world's largest providers of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) full text and bibliographic information.

2. SPRINGER LINK offers electronic literature from Springer-Verlag is including Urban and Vogel, Steinkopff, and Birkhauser. At present it offer over 1,200 journals, and more than 2,500 book titles in over 25 series. And the retro-digitization of Journal Articles will add another 1.5 million articles, all available through a single interface.  

3. Springer Materials – The Landolt-Bornstein Database  SpringerMaterials is based on the Landolt-B�rnstein New Series, the unique, fully evaluated data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. SpringerMaterials also comprises the Dortmund Data Bank Software & Separation Technology, a Database on Thermophysical Properties and the Linus Pauling Files, a Database on Inorganic Solid Phases and chemical safety data.

4. WEB OF SCIENCE and INSPEC offers bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from highly regarded journals and books world-wide. Science Citation Index Expanded from 1999 to present cover over 6,000 science and technical journals from around the world. It uses citations (author footnotes) to help researchers search backward and forward in time - easily identifying which articles have the most impact in their areas of study.

5. SciFinder provides access to the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of chemistry-related information. For accessing this database one has to register first by clicking the Registration Link and follow the instructions there to get registered as a valid user.

6. SciVerse Hub  Elsevier's search product suite for search and discovery. Science Direct and Scopus integrated in this hub. 
SciVerse Hub is your key to performing advanced searches across SciVerse ScienceDirect and SciVerse Scopus content, and web content.

7. SCOPUS - The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources

 

8. Wiley online library publishes journals on CHEMISTRY and Polymers & Materials Science (full text available).    

• Other Willey online services available are:

  Major References Works ( MRW )	Database
  i )  International Tables for Crystallography      ii)  Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups      iii) Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology     iv) Biopolymers Online     v)  Fieser and Fiesers's Reagents for Organic Synthesis    vi) Organic Reaction	i)  e-EROS   ii) Organic Synthesis   iii) Springer Materials – The Landolt-Bornstein Database  iv) ProQuest Online Database

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Journal Digital Archive (Backfiles) of Major Publishers

American Chemical Society (ACS) Journal Legacy Archive: 1879 - 1995

  1. Accounts of Chemical Research �(1973 - )
  2. Chemical Reviews (1924 - ) 
  3. Inorganic Chemistry (1962 - ) 
  4. Journal of Organic Chemistry (1936 - )
  5. Journal of Physical Chemistry (1925 – 1946 ) (1952 – 1996)
  6. Journal of Physical & Colloid Chemistry (1947 – 1991)
  7. Journal of Physical Chemistry A� (1997 - )
  8. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (1997 - )
  9. Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2007 - )
10. Journal of the American Chemical Society� (1915 - )
11. Organic Letters (2001 - )
12. Langmuir (1992 - )
13. Analytical Chemistry� (1947 - )
14. Biochemistry� (1962 - )
15. Chemistry of Materials� (1989 - )
16. Organometallics� (1984 - )

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Archive: 1841-2004

  1. Chemical Society Reviews� (1972 - )
  2. Natural Product Reports� (1984 - )
  3. Journal of the Chemical Society� (1966 – 1971)
  4. Journal of the Chemical Society A
  5. Journal of the Chemical Society B
  6. Journal of the Chemical Society D
  7. Discussion of the Faraday Society � (1947 – 1971)
  8. Faraday Discussion of the Chemical Society (1972 - )
  9. JCS: Faraday Transactions (1972 – 1998)
10. JCS: Chemical Communications� (1972 - )
11. JCS: Dalton Transactions� (1972 - )
12. JCS: Perkin Transaction I (1972 – 2002)
13. JCS: Perkin Transaction II (1972 – 2002)
14. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (1999 - )
15. Journal of Materials Chemistry (1996 - )
16. New Journal of Chemistry (1999 - )
17. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry (1904 – 1967)
18. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry A (Serial) (1979 - )
19. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry B (Serial) (1967 - )
20. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry C (Serial) (1979 - )�����

American Institute of Physics/American Physical Society (AIP/APS)
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)

AIP Digital Archive

  1. Applied Physics Letters (1962 – 1998)
  2. Chaos (1991 – 1998)
  3. Journal of Applied Physics (1931 – 1998)
  4. The Journal of Chemical Physics (1933 – 1998)
  5. Journal of Mathematical Physics (1960 – 1998)
  6. Physics of Fluids (1958 – 1998)
  7. Physics of Plasmas (1958 – 1998)
  8. Review of Scientific Instruments (1930 – 1998)

PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)

  1. Physical Review Letters (1958 – Present)
  2. Physical Review Series III (1970 – Present)
  3. Physical Review Series II (1913 – 1969)
  4. Physical Review Series I (1893 – 1912)
  5. Reviews of Modern Physics (1929 – Present)
  6. Physical Review Special Topics (1998 – Present)
  7. Physical Review ST Accel. Beams
  8. Physical Review ST Physics Ed. Research

Institute of Physics (IOP), UK – Digital Archive: 1874 – 2000

  1. Classical & Quantum Gravity (1984 – Date)
  2. Europhysics Letters (EPL) (1986 – Date)
  3. Journal of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics (2003 – Date)
  4. Journal of High Energy Physics (1997 – Date)
  5. Journal of Instrumentation (2006 – Date)
  6. Journal of Physics A: General Physics (1968 – 1972)
  7. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & General (1975 – 2006)
  8. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & Theoretical (2007 – Date)
  9. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear & General (1973 – 1974)
10. Journal of Physics B: Atomic & Molecular Physics (1968 – Date)
11. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics (1968 – 1988)
12. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (1989 – Date)
13. Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics (1968 – Date)
14. Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments (1968 – 1989)
15. Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics (1971 – 1988)
16. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear & Particle Physics (1975 – 1988)
17. Journal of Scientific Instruments (1923 – 1967)
18. Measurement Science & Technology (1990 to Date)
19. Nanotechnology (1988 – Date)
20. Nonlinearity (1988 – Date)
21. Nuclear Fusion (1960 – date)
22. Physica Scripta ( 1970 – date)
23. Physics in Medicine and Biology ( 1956 – date)
24. Proceedings of the Physical Society (1926 – 1948)
25. Proceedings of the Physical Society – Sec. A (1949 – 1957)
26. Proceedings of the Physical Society – Sec. B (1949 – 1957)
27. Proceedings of the Physical Society of London (1874 – 1925)
28. Reports on Progress in Physics (1934 – Date)
29. Semiconductor Science & Technology (1986 – Date)
30. Superconductor Science & Technology (1988 – Date)

Nature Digital Archive: (1869 – Present)

Taylor & Francis – Physics & Chemistry Archive

Physics Archive� (1798 – 1996)
�[Journals included are over 30/ Over 1300 volumes of peer reviewed research]

Chemistry Archive (1949 – 1996)
�[Journals included are over 40/ Over 1440 volumes of peer reviewed research]

Springer Archive (Journals & Book Series)

Springer Book Sr. – Backfiles/Archives

  1. Lecture Notes in Physics: 1969 - 1996
  2. Advances in Solid State Physics: 1954 -1996
  3. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics: 1922 - 1996
  4. Topics in Applied Physics: 1973 -1996

Springer Online Journal Archive (Physics & Astronomy)

  1. IL Cimento (1843 - )
  2. IL Nuovo Cimento (1855 - )
  3. IL Nuovo Cimento A (1843 - )
  4. IL Nuovo Cimento B (1965 - )
  5. IL Nuovo Cimento C (1978 - )
  6. IL Nuovo Cimento D (1982 - )
  7. Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy (1980 - )
  8. Journal of Phase Equilibrium & Diffusion (1980 - )
  9. La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento (1949 - )
10. Lettere Nuovo Cimento (1969 - )
11. Pramana (1973 - )
12. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (1983 - )
13. Acta Mathematica Hungarica (1946 - )
14. Acta Mechanica (1965 - )
15. Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (1988 - )
16. Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing (1973 - )
17. Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics (1973 - )
18. Archive for History of Exact Sciences (1960 - )
19. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (1957 - )
20. Archive of Applied Mechanics (1929 - )
21. Astrophysics (1965 - )
22. Astrophysics and Space Science (1968 - )
23. Atomic Energy (1956 - )
24. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (1969 - )
25. Chromatographia (1968 - )
26. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves (1965 - )
27. Communications in Mathematical Physics (1965 - )
28. Computational Mechanics (1986 - )
29. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (1989 - )
30. Czechoslavak Journal of Physics (1952 - )
31. Earth, Moon, and Planets (1969 - )
32. Electrical Engineering (1912 - )
33. European Biophysics Journal(1974 -)
34. Experimental Astronomy (1989 - )
35. Experiments in Fluids (1983 - )
36. Few Body Systems (1986 - )
37. Fire Technology (1965 - )
38. Fluid Dynamics (1970 - )
39. Foundations of Physics (1970 - )
40. Foundations of Physics Letters (1988 - )
41. General Relativity and Gravitation (1962 - )
42. Heat and Mass Transfer (1968 - )
43. Hyperfine Interactions (1975 - )
44. International Applied Mechanics (1966) –
45. International Journal of Infrared and Milimeter Waves (1980 - )
46. International Journal of Theoretical Physics (1968 - )
47. International Journal of Thermophysics (1980 - )
48. Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics (1965 - )
49. Journal of Applied Spectroscopy (1964 - )
50. Journal of Biological Physics (1973 - )
51. Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics (1962 - )
52. Journal of Fusion Energy (1981 - )
53. Journal of Low Temperature Physics (1969 - )
54. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (1968 - )
55. Journal of Russian Laser Research (1980 - )
56. Journal of Statistical Physics (1969 - )
57. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (1988 - )
58. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (1969 - )
59. Letters in Mathematical Physics (1975 - )
60. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (1993 - )
61. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (1948 - )
62. Monatshefte fur Chemie/Chemical Monthly (1880 - )
63. Nonlinear Dynamics (1990 - )
64. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals (1977 - )
65. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics (1963 - )
66. Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics (1965 – )
67. Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (1974 - )
68. Rheologica Acta (1958 - )
69. Russian Physical Journal (1965 - )
70. Shock Waves (1965 - )
71. Solar Physics (1990 - )
72. Space Science Reviews (1962 - )
73. Structural and Multidiscplinary Optimization (1989 - )
74. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review (1989 - )
75. The European Physical Journal A (1920 - )
76. The European Physical Journal B (1962 - )
77. The European Physical Journal C (1979 - )
78. The European Physical Journal D (1986 - )
79. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (1989 - )
80. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (1969 - )
81. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation & �Modeling (1962 - )
82. Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP) (1950 - )

�Wiley Journal Back-file Collections

Angewandte Chemie International Edition (1962-1997)

Chemistry Backfile Collection

1. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (1834-1998)
2. Applied Organometallic Chemistry (1987-1995)
3. Chemie in Unserer Zeit (1967-1999)
4. Chemkon (1994-2001)
5. Chirality (1989-1995)
6. Helvetica Chimica Acta (1918-1998)
7. Heteroatom Chemistry (1990-1995)
8. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics (1969-1995)
9. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (1967-1995)
10. Journal of Computational Chemistry (1980-1995)
11. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (1987-1995)
12. Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie (1892-1997)

Materials Science Backfile Collection

1. Advanced Materials (1989-1997)
2. Advanced Functional Materials (1992-1995)
3. Chemical Vapour Deposition (1995-1997)
4. Fire & Materials (1976-1995)
5. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research – Pt. A (1967-1995)
6. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research – Pt. B (1990-1995)
7. Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology (1979-1995)
8. Materials and Corrosion (1950-1997)
9. Materialswissenschaft� und Werkstofftechnik (1970-1998)
10. Particle and Particle System Characterization (1984-1997)
11. Polymer Composites (1980-1995)
12. Polymer Engineering and Science (1961-1995)
13. Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics (1979-1995)
14. Surface and Interface Analysis

Polymer Backfile Collection

1. Acta Polymerica (1979-1997)
2. Advances in Polymer Technology (1981-1995)
3. Die Angewandte Makromolekulare Chemie (1967-1997)
     (Macromolecular Materials & Engineering)
4. Journal of Applied Polymer Science (1959-1995)
5. Journal of Polymer Science (1946-1995)
     (Journal of Polymer Science – Part A: Polymer Chemistry)
6. Journal of Polymer Science (1946 – 1995)
     (Journal of Polymer Science – Part B: Polymer Physics)
7. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (1947-1997)
8. Macromolecular Rapid Communications (1980-1997)
9. Macromolecular Theory and Simulations (1992-1997)
10. Polymer International (1969-1995)
     (Formerly British Polymer Journal)
11. Polymers for Advanced Technologies (1990-1995)

Printed Journals available in the IACS Library

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Printed Journals available in the IACS Library