Social Sciences & Humanities
Library & Information Science
Scholarship on information organisation, retrieval, and stewardship — and the profession that operates much of the research-data and scholarly-communication infrastructure other sectors depend on. Metadata standards, repository practice, and bibliometrics all originate substantially here.
15 pages across 3 topic areas
Research Information & Identifiers
- InCommon Explained: The US Research and Education Identity Federation
InCommon is the identity federation operated by Internet2 that lets a US researcher’s campus login work at thousands of external services. This guide …
- OpenAthens Explained: How It Works and How It Differs from Shibboleth and EZproxy
What OpenAthens is, how the OpenAthens account model relates to institutional SSO, and how its SAML federation differs from Shibboleth and from EZprox…
- Shibboleth Single Sign-On: How Federated SAML Authentication Works
Shibboleth is the open-source SAML software behind “Login via your institution” — how Identity Provider and Service Provider roles work, how InCommon,…
- KENET: Kenya’s Research and Education Network (NREN) Explained
What KENET (Kenya’s National Research and Education Network) is, how its membership and connectivity services work, how it runs eduroam, and how NRENs…
- BanglaJOL (Bangladesh Journals Online): What It Hosts and How Access Works
BanglaJOL is Bangladesh’s national platform for locally published scholarly journals, part of the INASP-founded Journals Online (JOL) family. This gui…
- Philippine E-Journals (PEJ): What It Covers and How to Use It
How Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) aggregates Philippine-published scholarship, how subscription vs open access actually works, and how to find Philippin…
- HEC National Digital Library: How Access Actually Works for Pakistani Researchers
How institutional and off-campus access to Pakistan’s HEC National Digital Library actually works, who is eligible, why publisher coverage varies by l…
- ERIC Database: What It Indexes and How to Search It
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the free, federally funded bibliographic database for education research — what it indexes, EJ vs ED …
- What Is ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)?
What ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) covers, how university-mediated deposit works, the author-rights difference between Traditional and…
- How to Use WorldCat to Find and Request Materials
A practical guide to using WorldCat as a research tool: locating held items, understanding holdings data, requesting via interlibrary loan, the OCLC n…
- CNKI Explained: What It Is and How to Use a Citation Into It
CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) is China’s largest academic database of journals, dissertations, conference papers, and newspapers. Wha…
- Shodhgangotri: INFLIBNET’s PhD Synopsis Repository
Shodhgangotri is INFLIBNET’s repository of approved PhD research synopses submitted at registration — the companion collection to Shodhganga, which ho…
- Shodhganga: India’s National Repository of PhD Theses (INFLIBNET)
Shodhganga is INFLIBNET’s mandatory national repository for Indian PhD theses. Here’s the UGC regulation behind it, how deposit actually works, embarg…
Scholarly Publishing
- HEC Recognized Journals (HJRS): W, X, Y Categories Explained
What HEC’s Journal Recognition System (HJRS) is, how the W/X/Y category structure works, how journals get categorized and re-evaluated, how it drives …
Research Tools & Software
- RefWorks: What It Is, Institutional Licensing, and How to Migrate Your Library
RefWorks is a Clarivate/ProQuest reference manager distributed almost entirely through institutional library subscriptions rather than sold to individ…
