DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue: 5

Role of Spacenet in Sharing Digital Resources among ISRO Libraries

  • Author:
  • A.B.S.V. Prasada Rao, Ashalatha Laxminarsaiah
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 3 to 6

* Indian Space Research Organisation Headquarter, Antariksh Bhavan, New BEL Road, Bengaluru-560 094, E-mail: asha@isro.gov.in.

National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Balanagar, Hyderabad-500 625, E-mail: prasadarao_absv@nrsc.gov.in.

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Abstract

Spacenet is a Closed User Group (CUG)-based communication network of Department of Space/Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) catering to a variety of space community needs. It offers wide range of potential benefits both to libraries and end-users across the ISRO centres in India. Over a decade, Spacenet has evolved as a community network for the space community in India. The paper explains how the resources of various ISRO information centres are shared/utilised, digital libraries (DL) built, accessed, and institutional repositories (IRs) organised among the libraries using Spacenet.

Keywords

Spacenet, intranets, institutional repositories, digital library services, ISRO, NRSA