1. By Sunethra Perera National Science Library & Resource Centre
Information Gateway to Local Scientific Literature Knowledge Sharing Programme for Staff Development 2009 – By
Sunethra Perera
National Science Library & Resource Centre

2. Gateway to Local Scientific Literature National Repository of S & T Literature

3. Gateway to Scientific Literature National Repository of S & T Literature
Resources
Printed
Electronic
Multimedia
Web resources
Local language material
Search tools (databases)
Access facilities
Print copy
E-copy
NSF LAN
Online remote access
Resource collection
Periodical articles (local/foreign)
Conference & seminar papers
Policy documents
Research/Technical Reports
Reports of NSF Grants
Monographs/NSF publications
Annual Reports

4. How comprehensive is the collection?
Resource collection
Comprehensive?
Access o item
Journal articles
Local Journals
Yes. Few gaps
Print/electronic
International Journals
Yes to some extent since 2005
Print/electronic/web site
Conference/Seminar papers No
Mostly Print
Policy documents (national)
To some extent
Research/Technical Reports
Reports of NSF Grants
Monographs
Annual reports
Print
The collection is not comprehensive
Need cooperation of scientists
Solution?
Establish e-repositories at the institutional level - network

5. Access to Documents
Establishment of the NSF digital library was initiated in 2006
Physical paper copy (2005 & before)
Soft copy (electronic copy) available on-line within the NSF LAN (2006 onwards)
Virtual copy - Link to Online full text of publication at the publishers site (2006 onwards)

6. Search tools/databases
Database/Search tool
Comprehensiveness/no. records
Level of Access
Research Grants database
1809 records
Online Full Text
NSF publications Database
Over 2500 records
JNSF online
All issues
Sri Lanka Journals on- line
Since volume ?
since volume 36
Sri Lanka Science Index
Over 26,000 records
Online Full Text since recently
SLAAS abstracts
,2007,2008
Abstracts only ,
Newspaper articles database
15,590 records
Since 2005
NSLRC catalogue
Over 25,000 records
Print/online Full Text

7. Let us have a demonstration
search session