E-JOURNALS
An electronic journal
is a periodical publication which is published in electronic format, usually on
the Internet. Electronic journals have several advantages over traditional printed
journals: You can search the contents pages and/or the full text of journals to
find articles on a certain subject. You can read journal articles on your
desktop, you don't have to be in the Library. You can e-mail articles to
yourself or download them for printing. The article that you want to read will
always be available, even when the Library is closed. Hypertext links allow you
to move to different sections within individual journals or articles and can
link you to related resources on the Internet. Journals can include more images
and audio-visual material. Journals can be interactive - you can e-mail the
author or editor with your comments. Many electronic journals which are
available are electronic versions of journals which exist in print. Some journals
are only available in electronic format and although some of these journals are
of a high "academic" quality, please be aware that not all of them
have gone through the same process of academic peer review as traditional print
journals.
DIGITAL LIBRARY
A digital library is a
collection of digital documents or objects. This definition is the dominant
perception of many people of today. Nevertheless, Smith (2001) defined a
digital library as an organized and focused collection of digital objects,
including text, images, video and audio, with the methods of access and
retrieval and for the selection, creation, organization, maintenance and
sharing of collection. Though the focus of this definition is on the document
collection, it stresses the fact that the digital libraries are much more than
a random assembly of digital objects. They retain the several qualities of
traditional libraries such as a defined community of users, focused
collections, long-term availability, the possibility of selecting, organizing,
preserving and sharing resources. The digital libraries are sometimes perceived
as institutions, though this is not as dominant as the previous definition. The
following definition given by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) brings out
the essence of this perception. “Digital Libraries are organization that
provide the resources, including the specialized staff to select, structure,
offer intellectual access to interpret, 3 distribute, preserve the integrity of
and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that
they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or
set of communities.”
E-GOVERNANCE
The term 'Governance'
is wider than 'Government'. Governance may be an activity of governing/controlling
a country by its Government, controlling of an organization or a company by its
CEO or Board of Directors or controlling of a house hold by the head of the
house, Accordingly E-governance may also involve governing of a country, organization,
company or a household, however with the help of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT).But when we talk of E-Governance in the popular parlance we
only refer to the governing of a Country/State using ICT. E-governance
therefore means the application of ICT to transform the efficiency,
effectiveness, transparency and accountability of exchange of information and transaction:
between Governments, between Government agencies, between Government and Citizens
between Government and businesses E-governance also aims to empower people
through giving them access to information
E-LEARNING CONTENT
DEVELOPMENT
e- Learning Content
Development can range from simply posting PowerPoint decks with audio into a
Learning Management System to a complex and custom interactive multimedia
experience. The content development approach that you take will be based
upon the quality and complexity of the eLearning you wish to create. For
example, you can use a tool like Articulate Presenter to quickly convert a
PowerPoint file into an online eLearning course within minutes. Spend a
little extra time and you can add audio narration, quizzes, and other
interactive items to your course. However, unless you are a
professional-level voice talent with a decent sound studio and you are a
professional graphic artist with a great eye for design, your course may not
look and sound as great as courses developed by skill professionals in each
area of eLearning content development.
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