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Changes In Teaching And Learning In Higher Education During Covid-19 Lockdown: A Study Of Lis Students In India, Sana Aslam, Sharad Kumar Sonkar, Valentine Joseph Owan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the rapid advancement of society, online learning has become more popular in the entire world due to Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic offered almost a total paradigm shift to online teaching and learning across various educational platforms. This paper was aimed at reviewing the teaching and learning changes in higher education during COVID-19 Lockdown using empirical evidence from central universities in India. The study adopted a survey method utilizing an online questionnaire as the primary tool for data collection. The study covered 19 Central Universities in India that are offering Library and Information Science courses. Major findings showed, amongst others, …

Best Practices In The Libraries Of Provincialised Degree Colleges Of Karimganj District, Assam: A Study, Niraj Barua, Shyam Thakuria, Tilak Sarma

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The paper discusses the best practices adopted by the college libraries of the Karimganj District of the State of Assam in India. The best practices are a set of guidelines or ideas which aims to take the most efficient and effective course of action to fulfill the goals of the library. The present study adopted the best practices guidelines set by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of India. The researcher adopted the survey method to study the present problem. The questionnaire was used as the principal tool for data collection. However, interview, gathering data from websites of respective …

Designing A Comprehensive Information System For Safeguarding The Cultural Heritage: Need For Adopting Architectural Models And Quality Standards, Gireesh Kumar T. K. Dr.

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In every sphere of activity, knowledge or information is the major constituent that determines the quality and relevance of actions. Social, cultural, technological and economic progress is based on what we have achieved till now. Heritage items contain knowledge embedded in them on the technology already developed and the discoveries made in different disciplines during the past which gives perspectives of culture and civilization and forms the major base for further progress. So conservation of heritage, especially knowledge heritage, is essential for future generations for sustainable development. In India, even though regional level conservation efforts are occurring, no comprehensive information …

Investigation Of Preventive Conservation Of Library Materials In National Library Of India, Kashish Fatima, Nishat Fatima

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Preventive Conservation being interdisciplinary in nature has been implemented by libraries from the time when libraries were considered merely as storehouses of knowledge. Since inception, libraries have taken the responsibility to preserve the library materials for a prolonged life. The present study is undertaken to survey the preventive conservation activities in National Library of India. For this purpose, a well structured questionnaire was designed and distributed to the head of the library and concerned library professionals who are directly engaged in preventive conservation activities of the library. Results of the study show that all the basic methods of preventive conservation …

Content Analysis Of Library Websites Of National Institutes In West Bengal, India: An Evaluative Study, Santosh Kumar Tunga

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Institute libraries as resource centers and disseminators of information occupy primary place in Institute setup. Library websites integrate it resources and services and has to be taken in designing and developing from perspective of users needs. The present study is concerned with web based content analysis of library websites of Institute of National Importance in West Bengal, India. The required content information has been collected through searching, browsing and analyzing the selected library websites of said Institutes during October to December, 2020. The library websites of studied Institutes were identified from Google, Wikipedia and other E-Resources. Only five Institute libraries …

Webometric Analysis Of Bengali Language Newspaper Websites In India: An Evaluative Study Using Alexa Internet, Ankit Das, Laltu Aich

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The main concern of this study is to conduct an evaluation of Bengali newspaper websites from West Bengal, Tripura and Assam in India based on the eight Alexa indexes from Alexa Internet. A total of 30 Bengali newspaper websites are selected from web directory of world newspapers, magazines, news sites, and newspaper publishers (w3newslive.com) for evaluation in the present study. Each newspaper websites were searched in Alexa databank and relevant data using Alexa indices including traffic rank (India and Global), pages viewed, links, bounce percentage, time on site, search percentage, and percentage of Indian/foreign users were collected. The collection of …

Indian Institutes Of Technology (Iits) Library System: A Comparative Study, Sambhunath Sahoo, Krushna Chandra Panda

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The main purpose of the study is to examine the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Library System in India. The survey method is applied to IIT Libraries, where the questionnaire is used as a tool for data collection. This study is limited to IIT Libraries of India that established till 2015 with the inclusion of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, one of the oldest institutes of the country, renamed in 2016. Data analysis revealed that the IIT Kharagpur library has the highest number of registered users (13254) and hardware resources (182), while the IIT Tirupati library has the lowest number of registered …

An Evaluation Of The Indian Chemical Science Research Publications Output Of The Last Two Decades (2000 – 2019), Mahadevi Nyamagoudar, Gavisiddappa Anandhalli

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This study evaluates the Indian chemical science research output of the last two decades (2000 to 2019). We have made a scientometric analysis of contributions from India in leading chemical science journals over 20 years period 2000 – 2019. We have compared India’s performance with that of the USA. The data was sourced from the Scopus database during 2000 – 19. The study finds that the research output of the world in chemical science research was 76, 08,260 publications and it was 469,689 publications by India, accounting for 6.1% global publications share in a 20 years window covering the period …

Rural Women Health Information Sources And Channels In Manipur, North East India., Florence Guite, Paokholun Hangsing, Jayanta Deb

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In order to identify the existing health information sources and channels of rural women, 213 married women of child bearing age from four villages of Kangpokpi District in Manipur, India were randomly selected. A questionnaire method was adopted for the data collection and Descriptive Statistics was used for analyzing the data collected from the women. The study identified a number of health information sources such as Family members, Friends, among others and Information channels like Word of Mouth ASHA, Pamphlet in Mother tongue, Mobile phone Short Message System (SMS) for communicating their health information needs.

Webometric Study Of World’S Top Daily Newspaper Websites: An Evaluation, Atanu Mondal, Santashree Basu

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This study aims to evaluate world top daily newspaper websites selected from newspaperland.com, a web directory of world newspapers, magazines, news sites, and newspaper publishers (https://www.newspapersland.com/). A total of 20 newspaper websites are selected and are to be evaluated on the basis of selected Alexa indexes from Alexa Internet tool for the purpose of this study. Data such as the traffic rank (both home country and global), search traffic percentage, sites linking in, bounce rate percentage, daily time on site, the average number of pages viewed by users, the percentage of home country users and the percentage of foreign users …

Geographical Indications In India: Present Scenario, Rajiv M. Patel Mr, Lavji N. Zala Dr.

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Geographical Indication (GI) has developed as a significant type of Intellectual Property Rights issue in India. It provides the right to use the indication for the product to their manufacturers or producers from that particular region. It also means that they have the legal right to prohibit the use of the sign or name which doesn’t have certain qualities and characteristics ensured by the GI of that particular product. Till 30^th September, 2020 out of 706 applications, 370 products were registered under GI in India. Some products were also registered by foreign countries in India. 15 products from 9 …

A Comparative Study Of India And Australia Open Access Repositories In Opendoar, Alekha Karadia, Dr. Jyotshna Sahoo

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An open access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate, and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research. OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. Its repositories provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. This paper deals with Comparative analysis of India …

Continuing Of Library Services During The Covid-19 Outbreak In Indian Academic And Research Libraries: A Survey, Saroja Kumar Panda, Atul Bhatt, Vijaykumar M, Ravindra Pratap Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries are considered the heart of academic and research institutions. Without a library, academics will have no progress. Though the digital library is a frequent buzzword for libraries and information centres in the present era, traditional services, especially in public and academic libraries, still exist. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all types of libraries have been equally affected. The paper discusses the impact of the COIVID-19 pandemic on the continuity of library services and access in the Indian academic and research libraries. It describes how the libraries safeguard the resources and staff and examine the difficulties and challenges faced …

Research Productivity Of Nigerian, Pakistani And Indian Authors In The Online Journal Of Library Philosophy And Practice From 2008 To 2013: A Bibliometric Study/Analysis, Rasheed Ahmed Mr, Anwar Muhammad Mr

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Purpose

The prime purpose of this study is to find out the research productivity of three regions Nigeria, Pakistan, and India. The bibliometric quantification was used to analyze the data. The present research identifies the importance of this online journal. The study discloses frequency of publication growth, author’s collaborations, papers length, and most cited papers, most productive authors, and total references used.

Design/methodology/approach

The survey method was used to find out the full-text research articles on the online database of LPP. The Google scholar was used to retrieve the citations. All the collected data has been analyzed using MS excel …

Assessment Of Occupational Stress Among Library Professionals In University Libraries Of Assam, India, Pallabi Devi, Research Scholar, Dlisc., Narendra Lahkar, Former Prof. & Head, Dlisc.

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Occupational stress has become presently a vital issue for research and a major concern for human resource management in any organization. The present study intends to categorize and assess the levels of occupational stress faced by the library professionals in university libraries of Assam, India and also to identify the most powerful stressors generating occupational stress amongst them. Descriptive research design and survey method was used for this study to obtain data from 66 Library Professionals working in the libraries of Central universities, State universities, and the Institution which has been given the status of a university. A structured questionnaire …

Collaboration Trends In National Institute Of Technology Karnataka (Nitk), Surathkal, India: An Analysis Based On Network Mapping, Iranna Shettar, Gururaj S. Hadagali Assistant Professor

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The study analyzes the research productivity and collaboration trends of National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK Surathkal) during 2010-2019 as indexed in the Web of Science database. A total of 2,405 records were published over a period of ten years and have received 24,456 citations. The indicators used for the study are: the Degree of Collaboration; Collaborative Coefficient; Collaboration Index; Authorship & co-authorship pattern; various types of Collaboration patterns like: Institutional, National and International Collaboration; collaboration with other types of Institutions in India; most preferred collaborative Institutes and Countries etc. The findings of the study indicate that the NITK …

Scientometric Study Of Nuclear Science And Technology Research In India And China Based On Web Of Science (2000-2019), Subhodip Bid, Sukumar Mandal

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The present study attempt to compare the research output in terms of publications between two Asian giants India and china in nuclear science and technology for the period 2000 to 2019 as indexed in web of Science database under different parameters like publications size, mode of communication, research wise distribution, authorship pattern and collaboration pattern, citation pattern. The study reveals that India published 8637 research papers while China published 16879 papers which is almost twice of India’s publication. India leads China in terms of average citation per paper. China shows tremendous growth after 2012. In terms of collaboration, Germany is …

Attitude Towards Information Technology And Digital Divide: A Study Among Students In Universities In Kerala, India, Aswathi P, Mohamed Haneefa K

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The main aim of this research is to evaluate the attitude of university students' towards Information Technology (IT) and to identify whether their attitude plays any significant role in contributing digital divide among them. The study used quantitative research design and administered a pre-validated questionnaire to a sample of 644 postgraduate students selected with stratified random sampling. This study reports that about one third of the students fall under the high level attitude towards IT, while just above two thirds of them came under the medium level attitude. A significant gender divide persisted in the case of attitude towards IT …

Scientometrics Of Indian Bioinformatics Research Output: A Study On Web Of Science, K G Sudhier Dr., Jahina S. Roselin

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The paper investigates Indian Bioinformatics research during 2011-2019 using Web of Science database. It attempts to quantify the national contribution to growth efforts and identify areas of citation, h-index and highly cited articles. Also highlighted the growth of Indian bioinformatics output using different scientometrics indicators. The results show the output for collaborative study, top ranked journals and authors, citation of the journals, h-index, p-index score and mapping of co-authorship and cited reference. PLOS One and Gene are the top ranked journals in bioinformatics. The study also covers for funding agencies in bioinformatics research. UGC, CSIR, DST and DBT are the …

Authorship Trends And Collaboration Pattern In The Neuroscience Literature In India During The Year 1989-2018: A Scientometric Study, Raghavan B K

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Background: The present paper analyses authorships trends and pattern of authorship in the field the of neuroscience

Objectives: The main objective of the study is to identify neuroscience publication form type, year wise distribution, Authorship pattern, to known the Measure of collaboration it will provide Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaboration Coefficient (CC) and Modified Collaborative Coefficient (MCC), to know the most prolific Authors in Neuroscience in India and top 20 journals and their rank based on the publication and India Collaborative with other Countries

Materials and Methods: The PubMed database has been used for obtaining required …

Journal Of Documentation: A Bibliometrics Analysis (2005-2018), Rajinder Kumar, Bhanu Partap, Anil Kumar Dr

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The purpose of this article was to explore the pattern of publications, using bibliometric analysis, of Journal of Documentation for the period of 2005 to 2018. The results of the study shows that a total of 687 articles were published in the 14 years period from 2005 to 2018, with 71 (10.3%) articles being published the highest total in the year 2018. The study confirmed that the maximum number of articles i.e. 304 (43.9%), were published by single authors, out of which, a large number were on research articles. Out of total number of articles published 228 (33.1%) were 16-20 …

Authorship Trends And Collaboration Pattern In The Neuroscience Literature In India During The Year 1989-2018: A Scientometric Study, Raghavan B K

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Background: The present paper analyses authorships trends and pattern of authorship in the field the of neuroscience

Objectives: The main objective of the study is to identify neuroscience publication form type, year wise distribution, Authorship pattern, to known the Measure of collaboration it will provide Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaboration Coefficient (CC) and Modified Collaborative Coefficient (MCC), to know the most prolific Authors in Neuroscience in India and top 20 journals and their rank based on the publication and India Collaborative with other Countries

Materials and Methods: The PubMed database has been used for obtaining required …

Mapping Of Data Mining Research Productivity In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Sumathi Meyyar, Ranganathan Chandrakasan

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This study analyses the Indian Scientists contributions of research papers related to the topic in Data Mining was undertaken from Web of Science Databases has been used to retrieve the data for 22 years (1999-2020) by the searching the keyword “Data Mining”. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 88.59% of articles were published in journals. More numbers of articles were published in the year 2019. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 1096 literature published, 95.53 % of the publication published under the joint author. It is …

Road Traffic Accident Research In India: A Scientometric Study From 1977 To 2020, Dr. Jayaprakash G. Hugar, Dr. Mirza Muhammad Naseer, Dr. Abu Waris, Muhammad Ajmal Khan

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This study carried out the scientometric analysis of road traffic accident research in India from 1977 to 2020. It aimed to examine type of publications with their citations and usage, the year wise publication and citation growth, most preferred journals, authors’ preference of keywords used, collaboration of Indian authors, authorship pattern and most prolific authors, and top contributing organizations. During 44 years of study, 1,132 research items were published and indexed in Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic database. Analysis discovered that number of publications increased from one (0.08%) in 1977 to 182 (16.07%) in 2018 and observed good progress in …

Research Productivity Of Lis Women Faculty In India: A Bibliometric Study During 1988-2018, Jaba Moni Das, Lambodara Parabhoi

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The current study conducted to quantify the research contribution of Library and Information Science (LIS) women faculty of India between 1988 and 2018. The study prepared an inclusive list of Indian universities offering LIS education by visiting its official websites individually and collected the names and other details of the LIS women faculties engaged in the teaching profession. The bibliographical data were extracted from the Scopus database during the year 1988-2018. Finally, a total of 146 research articles published by 38 LIS women faculty in India. The core findings of this study were the majority of research works published in …

Research Productivity Of Lis Women Faculty In India: A Bibliometric Study During 1988-2018, Jaba Moni Das, Lambodara Parabhoi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current study conducted to quantify the research contribution of Library and Information Science (LIS) women faculty of India between 1988 and 2018. The study prepared an inclusive list of Indian universities offering LIS education by visiting its official websites individually and collected the names and other details of the LIS women faculties engaged in the teaching profession. The bibliographical data were extracted from the Scopus database during the year 1988-2018. Finally, a total of 146 research articles published by 38 LIS women faculty in India. The core findings of this study were the majority of research works published in …

India’S Research Contribution In Physical Sciences During 2000-2019: A Bibliometric Study, Miteshkumar Pandya, J P Singh Joorel

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This study provides an overview of the research productivity of scientists/researchers/faculty from across India, in terms of the number of research publications contributed in the Physical Science discipline. The study attempted to analyze bibliometric indicators of published research that have been indexed in Scopus database. There are 1116847 documents published during the period of twenty years i.e. 2000-2019. The study revealed that there is a consistent growth in number of documents published. It has been observed that there are 543728 documents published during 2015-2019 which is higher than the total publication during 2000-2014. The subject discipline, ‘Engineering’ has been emerged …

Gender Disparity Among Indian Library And Information Science Professionals: A 20-Year Sample Of Publications From 1999-2018, Lambodara Parabhoi, Ramani Ranjan Sahu, Dr. Rebecca Susan Dewey, Damodar Parabhoi

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Gender disparity is present in many research fields including in Library and Information Science (LIS). This paper studied gender disparity among Indian LIS professionals and measure the intellectual output 20 years. The study reviewed 1,195 publications in the LIS field from 1999 to 2018, determining the gender of the first author. An analysis of the publication list determined the yearly contributions of male and female authors, together with the average distributions, yearly citation rates and other metrics, by gender. Across the whole study period, publications first-authored by men outnumbered those by women. Similarly, overall contributions by men were higher than …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Indian Optics Research: Identifying Knowledge Domain, Mallikarjun Kappi, B S Biradar Dr.

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Optics is a significant research area both for its scientific importance and industrial solicitations. This study examines the optics research activities of India during 2015– 2019, based on the total publication output, its growth rate, quality of papers published and growth rate of India in the international perspective. Patterns of international collaborative research output and the major partner institutions of India are also deliberated. This study also evaluates the research performance of different types of Indian research institutions and the features of published literature in Indian and overseas journals. The data has been retrieved by using SCOPUS database. Total number …

Indian Contribution Status Of The Cataract Research: A Bibliometric Analysis, Shiv Singh, Sanjay Kataria

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Based on cataract research data obtained from the Scopus database, it is comprehended that 3673 (3.93 % global share) researched articles from India on cataract had been published till 2017, which place India on 6^th position in the world in terms of research paper output. About 62.13 % of the Indian publications appeared during the period 2008-2017. L.V. Prasad Eye Institute India and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi was the most productive as they had been publishing the highest number of papers, i.e., 424 and 385, respectively. About 38.71% Indian publications are a result of …