Full-Text Electronic Journals of ASME, ASCE, and ACM through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium
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We are subscribing full-text electronic journals of ASME, ASCE, and ACM through the INDEST-AICTE Consortium. The access to electronic resources are IP-enabled for institutional members of the Consortium. As such you do not require Login ID and Password to access resources available through the Consortium, instead, the resources are accessible to you anywhere on the Campus network. To access ASCE and ASME Journals logon to http://www.scitation.org/, the interface would display all the journals hosted on the Scitation website (an online e-journal platform). Click at "Browse" given at the top of the page and select "ASCE" or "ASME" from "Publisher" drop down menu to list all journals published online by these societies. Click at the journal you wish to browse. To access ACM Digital Library logon to http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm/, the interface would provide access to ACM journals, magazines, transactions and proceedings. The INDEST-AICTE Consortium website (http://indest.iitd.ac.in) also provides an interface for accessing the electronic resources along with their URLs.
Most e-journals are made available in similar format and are accessible in the same or similar ways. Articles in e-journals are available in HTML, PDF, or Postscript formats. To view a document in PDF format, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Follow the steps given below to use an electronic journal: 1. Find the website for the e-journal you require Look for link to the volume/ issues available for that journal., 2. Click at the required volume and issue. This will take you to the Table of Contents of selected volume / issue. 3. Scroll through the table of contents (arranged according to page numbers) and find the articles you require. 4. Click on the fulltext or PDF link to view the articles. 5. Print the article or save it to your disk. You can browse an e-journal just as you browse a print journal using electronic browsing features offered by most e-journals that are more convenient than conventional print journals. All e-journals provide 'Table of Contents' in HTML format for their current as well as for old issues. All e-journals provide iterface to search for subject keywords, words in titles/ abstracts, authors, etc. All the students and faculty members are requested to make use of the electronic resources.
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