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TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University on Friday strengthened its recognition as a top-ranking higher educational institution in Tamil Nadu in accessing e-resources under the UGC Infonet Programme by launching a Centre for Knowledge Repository (CKR). The centre would provide comprehensive access to scholarly digital content (journals, e-books, articles, electronic document tracking system, video and audio resources) to every student, faculty and staff of the university. The resources include several digitised books and digital content contributed by the university's faculties and research scholars, the Vice-Chancellor K. Meena said. Virtual classrooms Besides meeting information needs of faculties and students, the Centre would pave way for virtual classrooms, the Vice-Chancellor said at the launch function. Digital learning was imperative in the knowledge era. With openly accessible publications getting cited frequently, institution-based repositories would enable unprecedented usability and analysis in future, she said. The ‘in-house repository' has over 5,000 volumes of e-books, e-journals, video tutorial and digitised palm leaf documents (ancient Tamil literature while the ‘online repository' opens a gateway to world's top web based academic resources as a single-point source for innumerable number of open access journals, EDTs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations), institutional repositories, historical archives, web-based course contents and NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) resources. Web interface The University Informatics Centre that was instrumental in the creation of the Centre for Knowledge Repository has deployed user-centric web interface that provides federated access to various resources and repositories. The interface also has a custom-built search engine for searching and retrieval of digital content.
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