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A Bibliometric Survey On Polymer Composites In Energy Storage Applications, Babaji Ghule, Meena Laad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Ceramic polymer composites have gained a significant place in energy storage applications for electrical capacitors due to their distinguished properties. There is a huge demand of capacitors with high energy density, high dielectric strength, negligibly low dielectric loss, light weight, chemically less reactive in energy storage applications. These requirements can be fulfilled by ceramic polymer composites only which exhibit all the above-mentioned characteristics. Considering the huge demand of such capacitors, it has attracted the attention of researchers around the world. The present work attempts to summarise all the research conducted on Polymer Composites for energy storage applications and provides an …

Mapping The Contribution Of Electronic Theses And Dissertations By The Universities Of Assam To Inflibnet Shodhganga Project: A Study, Parishmita Hazarika

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are considered as generally significant and broadly utilized assets by the researchers in higher educational institutions. The current paper assesses the contribution of Universities of Assam in India's ETD Database Shodhganga. In order to share the research information among the Universities, the Shodhganga Project was initiated by INFLIBNET Centre, which providing free access to theses and dissertations through the archive. In this project, 12 Universities of Assam have marked MoU for Shodhganga and just 10 universities have submitted their research reports.

University Libraries In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Ghalib Khan Dr., Saeed Ullah Jan Dr., Izhar Muhammad Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was designed to investigate the history and administrative structure, financial management, collection, users and library staff of university libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study covered all those well-established public and private sector universities of the province which were chartered by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and recognized by HEC (Public= 18 and Private = 9, Total 27 universities). The newly established universities which were housed in rented buildings and had no proper library facilities were excluded from the study. Data was collected from the library professionals of universities through structured questionnaire. Results of the study show that …

Publication Trend -Information Needs And Seeking Behavior: A Content Analysis, Saeed Ullah Jan

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The main focus of this study is to evaluate the literature available on Information needs and seeking behavior by Pakistani researchers. Research articles published in local and international Journals were extracted and reviewed. It was pointed out that a reasonable amount of literature available on the subject under study. The Punjab has contributed more as compared to the rest of Pakistani territories. Dr. Saeedullah Jan, Khalid Usman, Teresa. Welsh, Dr. Ghalib khan, Dr. Rubina Bhatti, Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen, M. Arif, Syeda Bushra Naqvi, M. Asif Naveed, Mumtaz A Anwar, Surraya Bano, Shakeel A Khan, Farzana Shafique, Salman Bin Naeem Salman, …

Connecting With Library Science Research Scholars And Alumni Using The Facebook Page: An Empirical Study, M Leeladharan, P. V. Nileena, S Thiyagarajan

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Purpose – The Department of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University, has a Facebook page created a decade back to reach out to its Alumni and Research Scholars. This research is to collect feedback on the FB page to improvise it.

Design/methodology/approach – A well-structured questionnaire comprising two sections: section A: demographic details and Section B: consist of questions with provisions to rank on a five-point Likert scale, circulated on the Departments Facebook Page (DLIS-Pondicherry-University). Sixty responses were recorded during data collection and analyzed using SPSS.

Findings – The present study results show that the Facebook page is used more …

Coronavirus Research Output During 2001-2020: A Scientometrics Analysis, Lambodara Parabhoi, Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma

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COVID-19 virus originated from Wuhan city of China in December 2019. The emergence of COVID-19 the whole world and severely affected by The United States, China, Brazil, and India etc.. World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a pandemic in March 2020. Due to COVID-19, a large number of literature published in early 2020. However, very few studies address the impact of published related to literature Coronavirus. In response to the current study conducted and reviewed 20 years' period from 2001- May 2020. A total of 14439 documents were found in the Scopus database, which was published during the study …

Libraries And Restructuring Questions In Nigeria: The South Eastern Librarian’S Perception., Adaora M. Orakpor, Obiageli M. Ilika, Nkeiruka J. Ofor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study is a descriptive survey research design; the purpose of this study is to examine the south eastern librarians’ perception of libraries as information providers in the restructuring of Nigeria; find out the benefits of restructuring; determine the barriers to the implementation of restructuring; find out the librarians’ perception of the place of libraries in the issue of Nigerian restructuring and determine the extent to which librarians perceive libraries as information providers in restructuring Nigeria. Questionnaire was designed to collect data from a population of 300 librarians from South East Nigeria. Out of which, 260 copies were collected; the …

A Survey On The Influence Of Emotional Intelligence And Self-Esteem On Social Adjustment Of Librarians In Federal Universities, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examined the influence of emotional intelligence (EI) and self esteem on librarians’ social adjustment in federal universities in Nigeria. The study seek to ascertain whether emotional intelligence and self esteem predict social adjustment using a sample of 107 librarians drawn from 40 federal universities in Nigeria within the age range of 25 to 60 and a mean (X) age of 36.68) years and SD of 6.21. The multiple regression analysis shows that emotional intelligence has no significant relationship with social maladjustment thus showing a negative relationship. This indicates that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and …

Library Services Needed By The Disabled In Iran: A Qualitative Study, Mansoureh Feizabadi, Esmaeil Vaziri, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Nazila Akbarfahimi, Ayoub Sakhaei, Leila Ghaneifard

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Persons with Disabilities are the world's largest minority. This group, like others, needs information and skills to play a positive role in the community. Public libraries play an important role in providing services to the community, including People with Disabilities, by providing a variety of sources and services. The present study has been conducted using the qualitative content analysis method for identifying the types of library services and programs required for people with visually impaired, physically disabled, and hearing impaired using a semi-structured interview. The sample of the study consisted of 84 individuals, including librarians of public libraries and the …

A Bibliometric Survey Of Smart Wearable In The Health Insurance Industry, Apeksha Shah, Swati Ahirrao, Shraddha Phansalkar, Ketan Kotecha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Smart wearables help real-time and remote monitoring of health data for effective diagnostic and preventive health care services. Wearable devices have the ability to track and monitor healthcare vitals such as heart rate, physical activities, BMI (Body Mass Index), blood pressure, and keeps an individual notified about the health status. Artificial Intelligence-enabled wearables show an ability to transform the health insurance sector. This would not only enable self-management of individual health but also help them focus from treatments to the preventions of health hazards. With this customer-centric approach to health care, it will enable the insurance companies to track the …

Measuring Knowledge Acquisition And Knowledge Creation: A Review Of The Literature, Abdoulaye Kaba, Chennupati K. Ramaiah

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This paper presented a review of the literature related to knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. The paper discussed the nature and types of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, theories and models of knowledge acquisition, in addition to the review of empirical studies measuring knowledge acquisition. For knowledge creation, the paper discussed the definition of knowledge creation, theories and models of knowledge creation, and review of empirical studies measuring knowledge creation. Findings of the review revealed how researchers and scholars have used a variety of variables in investigating and measuring knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation among managers, engineers, and faculty members.

Saudi Arabian Top Four Medical Journals Bibliometric Study, Manuelraj Peter, Spurgeon Anandraj Samuel, Mohamed Idhris, Arun Vijay Subbarayalu

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to measure the progress of scientific research outcomes of four medical journals, which are indexed to National Library of Medicine (USA) PubMed published from Saudi Arabia during the period from 2000 to 2019

Methods: Scientific papers that are published under the category of original and review articles, short communications, case, and short reports were downloaded from the top four medical journals indexed in the PubMed database viz. (i) Saudi Medical Journal (SMJ) (ii) Neurosciences (iii) Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (SJKDT) and (iv) The Annals of Saudi Medicine (ASM) and their …

Analysis Of Global Research Output In Greenhouse Effect: A Scientometric Investigation, Mohanathan P, Rajendran N

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This paper covers 18873 publications on Greenhouse effect in global level from the period of 2004-2018. The Scopus international multidisciplinary bibliographical database has been used to identify the Global contributions in the field of Greenhouse effect. The most number of papers were published in the journals as Article, i.e. 11982 (63.49%). Globally, USA is the highest publications country with the contribution of 4172 papers. India is in the ninth position of global level research output with 484 (2.55%) published articles.

A Bibliometric Survey Of Fashion Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence, Seema Wazarkar, Shruti Patil, Satish Kumar

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In the 21^st century, clothing fashion has become an inevitable part of every individual human as it is considered a way to express their personality to the outside world. Currently the traditional fashion business models are experiencing a paradigm shift from being an experience-based business strategy implementation to a data driven intelligent business improvisation. Artificial Intelligence is acting as a catalyst to achieve the infusion of data intelligence into the fashion industry which aims at fostering all the business brackets such as supply chain management, trend analysis, fashion recommendation, sales forecasting, digitized shopping experience etc. The field of “Fashion …

How Perceptions Of Work-Life Balance And Technology Use Impact Upon Creativity In Collaborative Spaces, Carlotta Cochis, Elisa Mattarelli, Fabiola Bertolotti, Anna Chiara Scapolan, Fabrizio Montanari, Paula Ungureanu

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This paper unpacks creative processes in collaborative spaces (CS). We focus on how the positive resources related to wellbeing and work-life balance derived from working in CS interplay with the use of collaborative technology in affecting individual creativity. We conducted a survey study with individuals working in 27 different CS in Italy. We propose and find a positive relationship between the perceived level of work-life balance satisfaction and individual creativity. Instead we do not find a significant relationship between the frequency of technology mediated interactions with external actors and individual creativity. Furthermore, the relationship between work-life balance and creativity is …

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 …

Covid-19 Information Seeking Strategies Of Rural Dwellers In Delta North, Nigeria, Rhima Tracy Efe

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The study assessed the COVID-19 information seeking strategies of rural dwellers in Delta North, Nigeria. This study adopted a survey research design. Fifty (50) respondents were randomly selected from each of the rural communities in Delta North used for the study, which amounted to 450 respondents used for the study. Out of the 450 copies of the questionnaire distributed to the respondents, the researcher was able to retrieve 418 copies of the questionnaire from the rural dwellers, thus there was 92% response rate. The method of data analysis adopted was descriptive statistics covering frequency count and percentage. The finding of …

Bibliometric Survey On Supply Chain In Healthcare Using Artificial Intelligence, Shruti Maheshwari, Gagandeep Kaur, Ketan Kotecha, Pramod Kumar Jain Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the increasing demand for the supply chain in the service sector, new techniques have become essential. With the latest emerging technologies, it has become crucial to have a bibliometric analysis of supply chain management (SCM) in the healthcare sector. The paper represents the analysis of research supply chain in the service sector using artificial intelligence techniques. The main aim of the analysis is to accomplish the technology in healthcare supply chain management using SCOPUS, Google Scholar, Research Gate, etc. and the various softwares like Gephi, GSP Visualizer, etc. The bibliometric analysis shows that India has ranked 4th in publishing …

Indian Institutional Repositories (Irs) Reflected In The Directory Of Open Access Repository (Doar): A Case Study, Ramesh Kuri, Madan Singh

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Open access resources are an essential part of the academic community by which students, researchers, and even faculties get useful resources to pursue their academic requirements. Open access repositories enhance the visibility of scholarly publications and improve the collaboration among the authors with the support of global networks. Open access institutional repository provides a platform to showcase the intellectual works of an individual organisation. At present a total of 5414 repositories were found on DOAR from all countries on different subjects. Out of 5414, 96 repositories were from India. The analysis presented in this study is based on selected criteria …

Fighting Illiteracy During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Adaptation Of Libraries In Morocco, Asmaa Bouaamri, Ágnes Hadju Barát

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

During the Coronavirus Pandemic, the situation of libraries and the services they are offering have changed. The shifting from the physical world to the digital environment was disturbing for many developed libraries around the world. However, this switch created many complications specifically for developing countries that are suffering not only from the lack of infrastructures and materials, but also with high illiteracy rate. This article discusses the situation of literacy and the role of libraries and librarians in Morocco, shedding lights on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and actions done to overcome these circumstances.

Cataloguing Education In The Midst Of The Coronavirus (Covid-19): The Authors Perspectives., Madireng Monyela

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The nature of cataloguing modules requires face-to-face interactions between lecturers and students for the explanation of concepts and the practical use of manuals and standards applied. Due to Covid-19 outbreak that led to lockdown in many countries and consequently to closure of the face to face universities, teaching and learning should be altered to continue with the university mandate. This paper investigated Cataloguing Education (CE) and suggest relevant approaches of CE outside the traditional classroom context. This research employed the qualitative approach grounded on documents/textual content analysis of literature and the experiences attained by the author. Findings revealed that cataloguing …

Trend Setters In Library & Information Studies In Pakistan A Bio-Bibliometric Study Of Professor. Hamid Rahman’S Contribution To Lis Literature, Abid Hussain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This quantitative study presents the bio bibliometrics analysis of Prof. Hamid Rahman, and the literature produced by him from 1983 till the end of 2020. The basic aim of the study was to investigate the life and contribution to the field of the Library and Information Science in Urdu, English and Hindko, language, professor devoted in his professional career. Prof. Hamid Rahman wrote award winging papers, and won IVP (International Visitor Program) scholarship. He was remained an external/internal supervisor for undergraduate and postgraduate Library Science programs in many leading Universities of the country. He organized six library science conferences at …

Freedom Of Information Bill, A Policy For National Development: The Library’S Perspective, Patience Ebisemen Lulu-Pokubo Mrs, Andrea Akporoghene Afuedeli Mrs

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Abstract

The paper examines freedom of information bill, a policy for national development: the library’s perspective. The provision of timely and accurate information from an authentic source(s) is a booster to national development. Freedom of Information is the right to access information held by government and public institutions. Libraries are positioned to provide and promote access to information which will translate to development of the society. Freedom of information is a necessity in order to salvage the nation Nigeria. This paper therefore, is an opinion paper which gives us an overview of the FOI bill …

A Scientometric Analysis Of Journal Of Agronomy And Crop Science (2000 -2019) Indexed In Web Of Science, Ali K. S., Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Manjunath D. Kaddipujar, Manjunath B. Hadimani, Engin Senel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study attempts to analyze the publication productivity of the "Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science" during the year 2000-2019. The study was based on the data extracted from the Web of Science database. The primary purpose of the study is to analyze the research contributions of the journal under review. Through this investigation, the authors have tried to know the publication trend in the field of agronomy and related areas. The analysis covers the number of articles, year-wise distribution of articles along with citations, authorship pattern, institutions/organizations with the highest contributions, and the study also gives year-wise h-index …

History Of Islamic Economic Thought: A Content Analysis, Luqman Hakim Handoko

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There are many sources of Islamic economic thought left by Muslim Scholars. For decades, contemporary Muslim economists have been trying to explore and examine the contribution of Muslim Scholars. Among the efforts is to produce the book of the history of Islamic economic thought (HIET) either by thematic approach or by a personal approach. The current study aims to explore how often and profoundly the discussion of the economic thought of the Muslim scholars among authors of HIET, especially on a personal approach. Therefore, to extract and analyze the data will use a simple content analysis and descriptive approach. Twenty-two …

Information Behavior Of Children Using Public Libraries In Taiwan And Indonesia, Dessy Harisanty, Nove Anna

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Parents as primary socialization agents have a major influence on the development of children. The facilities that can be used to maximize child development are libraries. Libraries are information centers that help meet information needs. This research aims to identify information behavior of children using public libraries in Taiwan and Indonesia and the role of parents as a child's primary socialization agents for library utilization. This study was conducted in Taichung City-Taiwan and Surabaya-Indonesia. Both cities are cities of literation and the second largest cities in each country. The libraries provided in both cities have special services for children. The …

Social Scientist Perception And Attitude About The Academic Social Networking Site Of Researchgate, Stephen G, Upasana Yadav

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ResearchGate is an Academic Social Networking (ASN) Site that focuses on sharing the publications, tracking the number of reads, recommendation, citations metrics about the researcher work. With over 15 million members, ResearchGate is place researcher can create a profile and share them research. ResearchGate is “built for scientists/social scientist” Researcher/scientist /social scientist can share the research, data, background, possible to add CV. follow other researchers and can even endorse the skills. This study found that 38 percentages of the respondents have RG score is between 11-15, 31 percentages of the social scientist RG score between 6-10. 43 percentage of the …

Spartan Daily, October 29, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 30

Civic Engagement Through Open Government Data: Challenges And The Way Forward, Zaheer Ahmad, Nosheen Fatima Warriach Dr

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Communities participation in the public domain leads to better informed and more empowered citizens and this involvement can best be achieved through Open Government Data (OGD). This study is based on an extensive review of the literature, aims to investigate the role of OGD, identify key challenges and way forward to promote civic engagement. The findings showed that copyright issues, lack of data literacy, accessibility, digital divide, and mismatch of information are the major challenges However, resolving the licensing issues, availability and easy accessibility of OGD, data literacy education etc. are the way forward to enhance citizen’s participation in society’s …

Assessment Of Utilization Of Health Information Resources By Diabetic Patients In Benue State Nigeria, Tondo Richard Iorver Mr

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ABSTRACT

The study assessed the utilization of health information resources by diabetic patients in Benue State Nigeria. Specifically, the study looked at: types of health information resources required by diabetic patients, sources of accessing health information, health information resources utilized, extent of utilization of health information resources and the challenges of utilization of health information resources by diabetic patients in Benue state. Five specific objectives with corresponding research questions guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The population of the study comprised of all the 1,698 registered diabetic patients in 2017 and 2018 in Benue State. A …