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Scholarly Databases

The following databases, to which DULS subscribes, are available via the DU e-Library.

About: Scopus is a comprehensive multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, launched by Elsevier in 2004.
Features: Advanced search and filtering tools, citation tracking, author profiles, and a rich variety of metrics (CiteScore, SJR, SNIP) with daily updates.
Subject Coverage: Physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences, and social sciences.
Content: Over 92 million records—including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and patents from major offices worldwide—updated daily.
Significance: Vital for researchers and institutions to discover literature, analyze impact, benchmark performance, and inform research policy.

About: Web of Science is a paid-access research platform owned by Clarivate, providing integrated reference and citation data across multiple scholarly databases.
Features: Advanced search and filtering across disciplines, citation tracking, multidimensional researcher profiles, and bibliometric indicators to analyze impact and collaboration.
Subject Coverage: Covers over 256 disciplines spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities with curated subject categories for precise retrieval.
Content: Includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and patents—79 million records in the Core Collection and 171 million on the full platform, with indexing back to 1900.
Significance: Essential for researchers and institutions to discover literature, perform citation analysis, benchmark performance, and inform research strategy and policy.

About: MathSciNet is an authoritative database by the American Mathematical Society providing access to reviews and bibliographic data for mathematical literature.
Features: Expert-written reviews, author profiles, citation tracking, and advanced search tools.
Subject Coverage: Pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, and interdisciplinary fields.
Content: Millions of records from journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Significance: Vital for researchers to discover, evaluate, and trace developments in mathematical sciences.

About: SciFinder is a premier research discovery tool developed by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, for accessing chemical and related scientific information.
Features: Powerful search capabilities for chemical substances, reactions, references, and regulatory information using keywords, structures, and molecular formulas.
Subject Coverage: Chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, materials science, and chemical engineering.
Content: Access to the CAS Registry, millions of journal articles, patents, and authoritative data on substances and reactions.
Significance: Essential for chemists and researchers to explore chemical information, design experiments, and stay current with scientific developments.

About: EPWRF India Time Series (EPWRFITS) is an interactive online database on the Indian economy providing accurate, timely, and comprehensive time-series data across macroeconomic and financial sectors.
Features: Accuracy, timeliness, and completeness; interactive tree-view selection of variables; export to Excel; charting tools; and ability to query up to 25 variables at a time.
Subject Coverage: Twenty-one modules including national accounts, state domestic product, price indices, agricultural statistics, financial markets, banking, insurance, industry, external sector, monetary statistics, and more.
Content: Over 35,000 annual, quarterly, and monthly series with state-level and district-level breakdowns for many indicators, sourced from official surveys and government publications.
Significance: Essential for researchers, policymakers, and students to analyze historical trends, forecast economic indicators, inform policy decisions, and support scholarly research on the Indian economy.

About: Indiastat is perhaps the most comprehensive online database of secondary‐level socio-economic statistical data on India—its states, sectors, and regions—maintained by Datanet India.
Features: Interactive tree-view selection of variables; exportable tables to Excel, Word, or HTML; charting tools; source citations on every table; weekly updates; ability to query up to 25 variables at a time.
Subject Coverage: Thirty-one broad socio-economic modules, including Agriculture, Industry, Services, Demographics, Health, Education, Finance, Infrastructure, Environment, Crime, Labour, Foreign Trade, and more.
Content: Millions of data points drawn from government reports, ministry publications, autonomous bodies, and other authentic sources, presented “as-is” in tabular form with state- and district-level breakdowns.
Significance: Vital for researchers, policymakers, institutions, and students to analyze historical trends, forecast indicators, inform policy decisions, and support academic and professional research on the Indian economy and society.

About: ProwessIQ (Prowess for Interactive Querying) is CMIE’s internet-based application for querying its proprietary database on the financial performance of listed and unlisted Indian companies.
Features: Interactive tree-view interface; 61 specialized query triggers; advanced charting and export to Excel/Word; well-formatted reports with analytical ratios and benchmark comparisons; downloadable source documents (annual reports, ratings rationales).
Subject Coverage: Financial statements, profitability ratios, balance-sheet items, market prices and returns, shareholding patterns, corporate actions—across 50,000+ Indian companies (listed on NSE/BSE and unlisted).
Content: Over 3,500 standardized data-fields per company; time-series data from 1989; sourced from audited annual reports, quarterly filings, stock-exchange feeds, and Ministry of Company Affairs submissions.
Significance: Enables analysts, investors, researchers, and policymakers to identify companies meeting complex financial criteria, perform inter-company and temporal comparisons, and support credit evaluation, investment screening, and academic research.