*Author for correspondence SRELS Journal of Information Management, Vol 56(4), August 2019, p.193-200 ISSN (Print): 0972-2467 ISSN (Online): 0976-2477 DOI: 10.17821/srels/2019/v56i4/125996 Abstract Technological advancement has given us an opportunity to retrieve and disseminate information in any form. Internet has drastically changed the way information is distributed and has reduced the cost of information distribution. Library and information institutions are implementing advanced tools, techniques. In This paper reports work on an information retrieval system on Ganga River within the West Bengal jurisdiction. Data on research related to the Ganga River have been collected and incorporated into the system. The technologies like Google earth, WordPress and php have been used in a customized way. Keywords: Ganga, Google Map, Information Retrieval System, Scholarly Communication An Information Retrieval System Based on Google Earth with Special Reference to Ganga River in West Bengal Jurisdiction Mohitosh Das 1* and Sudip Ranjan Hatua 2 1 Rabindra Bharati University, Jorasanko, Kolkata – 700007, West Bengal, India; mohitosh_s@yahoo.com 2 Department of Library and Information Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Jorasanko, Kolkata – 700007, West Bengal, India; sudiprh@gmail.com 1. Introduction Internet has impacted society and has revolutionized sharing, retrieving and dissemination of information. People are increasingly depending on the Internet to get required information. Considering the varied approaches of users seeking information, information centers are implementing different tools and techniques to provide better services to the user community. The new tools and techniques, academics are exchanging their ideas among them. Government and non-government organizations have taken initiative on Ganga River and publications emanating from these organizations are scattered. It will be helpful to get all the relevant information in one place. Kristicev (2013) stated that continuous development in IT is effecting in every parts of our society, library is an important part of our society and it is also trying to adopt new technology for changing its systems and services. Topcu (2011) stated that communities desire to have the required information in a simple way and also want to accumulate and share with peer group. An Information system on Ganga River will help the research community to know the work on Ganga Riverand will help provide published information on Ganga River thus enhancing communication with the user community. Considerable amount of information on Ganga may be available in digital form; common search engines may not retrieve all the information available. The present work provides a model so that not only digital sources but also all printed source of information in a specific domain could be retrieved from a single interface. Here we have concentrated to retrieve all the bibliographic information on Ganga river in West Bengal jurisdiction through a single interface. Searching the Web with the database information system like scopus, proquest, sciencedirect shodhganga etc. may help to satisfy the user requirement. 625 km Ganga Valley is in West Bengal state between 87° 54′ 51.4800″ E- 88° 6′ 0″ E East to 24° 47′ 51.3600″ N-21° 48′ 0″ N North (Misra, 2010). The Ganga sub- basin area constitutes about 26.2% of India’s geographical area.