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Genealogical Plagiarism And The Library Community, Katherine S. Richers

School of Information Student Research Journal

Plagiarism is regarded as an academic crime, but can affect hobbies that rely on research and information sharing such as genealogy. The issue is well-known within the genealogy community. However, information professionals who aid genealogists in their research may not know enough about the issue. How can the library field respond constructively to the issue of uncontrolled plagiarism in genealogy? While the genealogy community condemns plagiarism and offers resources to correct it, current library practices concentrate on services and not on plagiarism education in the genealogy context, concentrating more on copyright and legal problems. The library field can help professionals …

Scientific Productivity Of Cryogenic Research During 2014-2018:A Scientometric Study, Balaji Maddisetty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study attempts the analysis of research output of the cryogenic during 2014-2018. The data extracted from Web of Science and analyzed and tabulated. The study analyses the author patterns, language, year, journal, continent wise distributions. This paper analyzed 8073 papers in cryogenic research output of which is 2018 topmost publication year and IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity ranked first with 1104 Citations, Articles are preferred source of publications and English language got top position; Continent wise Europe occupied top position, degree of collaborations is 0.96 during the study.

Digital Library Challenges And Opportunities: An Overview, Vipan Kumar Sharma, Suresh Kumar Chauhan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries have been long been endless sources of information for users. The face of libraries is changing as content is moving toward a digital platform and internet access is becoming more of human necessity than a privilege, which got influenced by technology. New technology has given rise to a new concept of modernization of academic libraries using digital technology and now going to become a part of daily work culture of under-developed the scenario. This paper also examines some of these challenges and opportunities in context to academic libraries. Digital library is an innovative technology to develop the learning and …

Spartan Daily, December 4, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 41

Spartan Daily, December 3, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 40

Application Of Bradford's Law Of Scattering And Obsolescence In The Literature Of Chemistry: A Study Based On Doctoral Theses, Mithu Anjali Gayan, Sanjay Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The proposed study tries to investigate citation pattern of Chemistry theses submitted to Central library Tripura University. The study considered only those theses submitted to Shodhganga, the Indian ETD initiative. Hence data were collected from 20 theses constituting 6214 citations during 2007 to 2016. Bardford’s law is used to find out the core journals in the field of Chemistry. The rank list of journals showed “Phytochemistry” is the most cited journal. The dataset of the study did not follow the Bradford’s law. However, the dataset follow the Leimkuhler’s model. Half life of Chemistry journals is found to be 12.6 years. …

Medi-Cal Retention, Christina Salvatier

Master's Projects

This research identified the factors that contributed to the decline of Medi-Cal enrollment in the County of Santa Clara (CSC). Additionally, it determined the actions that the County of Santa Clara Health System (CSCHS) can adopt to mitigate such decline. The CSCHS is the local safety-net healthcare provider for the residents of the CSC. Despite the CSCHS experiencing a significant increase in Medi-Cal covered individuals with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, this trend has overturned by 2019, with the County witnessing a significant decrease in Medi-Cal enrollment rates.

Customer Relations Twitter @Indonesiagaruda Of Garuda Indonesia Airlines In The Social Customer Era, Ira Purwitasari, Engkus Kuswarno, Uud Wahyudin, Ninis Agustini Damayani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this research is to be able to analyze in depth the airlines of. Garuda Indonesia and its public customers in establishing good relations by utilizing social media Twitter. In the current era of digital communication where the use of social media is community-based media, companies inevitably have to deal with social customers. Customer relations is a process of building long-term relationships with customers to maintain satisfaction and to keep them coming back. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Data collection in this study consist of primary and secondary data. Primary data were carried out through in-depth …

Bibliometric Analysis Of The Research Output Of Kuvempu University’S Publication In Isi Web Of Science During 1990 – 2019, Mallikarjun Kappi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is a bibliometric assessment of scientific research output of the Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shivamogga, Karnataka (1990 – 2019). The data collected from the Web of Science. The analysis includes yearly output of research productivity. The study focuses on Author Productivity pattern, types of documents/records, individual author’s research productivity, geographical collaboration of authors (countries of contributing authors) and distribution of research output by language.

Literature Output On Childhood Schizophrenia; A Scientometric Study During 2009-2018., Janarthanan Pichai Mr., Nithyanandam Kannan Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Childhood schizophrenia is an extraordinary however extreme mental issue in which kids translate reality anomalous. Schizophrenia involves a range of problems with Intuitions (cognitive), behavior or emotions. The data was collected from PubMed data base using keyword childhood schizophrenia in India, the collected data was arranged in excel format for Analysis. The year wise growth of Literature Output on Childhood Schizophrenia shows 1075 research literature found during 2009-2018, Authorship pattern shows collaborative author contributed more number of research publications than single author contributions, 74 research papers was contributed by single author, Collaborative author contributed 1001 research papers, authors preferred language …

Scientometric Study Of Literature Output On Internet Addiction In Children From 1999-2018, Janarthanan Pichai, Nithyanandam Kannan Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Internet addiction. Phone addiction. Technology addiction, now a days all the parents are expressing worries that their children are addicted to their devices. Children, who become addicted to the Net, are mostly allured by online games initially. However, they may eventually be exposed to unwanted or obscene content on the Net or even commit a cybercrime. The data is collected from PubMed database using keyword search. The collected data is analyzed for total number of publications on Internet addiction in children, authorship pattern, geographical wise contribution, most prolific author contributions, most affiliated institute, relative growth rate and so on. From …

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: A Scientometric Study, Janarthanan Pichai, . Prabakar Stanleay Dr., . Nithyanandam Kannan Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

“Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever” is the topic selected for the Scientometric study to assess the responsibilities of the global scientists through the measurement of the impact of their research publications. “Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever” affects the health of the society and particularly the young generation are suffering a lot and many of them destined to “Early Death”. The Scientometric study in this research reveals that only 646 publications were published from 2009 to 2018, which means the research contribution on “Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever” is very low. The country wise publications show that “India” leads the table with more number of publications than …

Spartan Daily, November 21, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 38

Information Seeking Behavior In Academic Assignments Using Smartphone Among Elementary School Students, Rahma Sugihartati

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article discusses information seeking behavior developed by elementary school students in completing academic assignments, their reasons for using smartphone to find information related to academic assignments, and students' opinions about the role of school libraries. All data presented in this article are the results of a study on 500 elementary school students in four major cities in East Java Province, Indonesia, namely Surabaya, Malang, Madiun and Malang. This study found that there has been a change in information seeking behavior among elementary students who no longer rely solely on information from textbooks in the libraries. The students have become …

Electric Car: A Research Impact By Means Of Scientometric Analysis, Sivasekaran Kamatch Dr., Prabakar Stanleay Dr., Chithiraivel Subramanian Dr., Ashok Kumar P Dr., Thirumagal Arumugam Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The day-to-day increasing costs of petrol and diesel and to control the air pollution makes an impact to do a scientometric analysis on the research ouput on “Electric Car”. Therefore, the research publications indexed in Web of Science for 28 years have been downloaded from 1991 to 2018 for the analysis. The research reveals that a total of 2424 publications is published during the above-mentioned year. The regression test proves that the deviation among the data is low and has possibility to calculate the doubling time on the basis the last 14 years. The doubling time proves that the growth …

Spartan Daily, November 14, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 35

Spartan Daily, November 13, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 34

Swot Analysis Of Federal University Lafia Library, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, Jacob Fagga Tsegba, Rebeca Ape, Kingsley E. Enyi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study highlights the Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and Threats in Federal University of Lafia Library. It examined the staff in terms of their numbers, professional status, educational qualifications and allocation and all the departments in the library. This is done in terms of their support of the university mission. Identify available information resources, ascertain the number of students registered with the library in comparison to the available resources and seating capacity. Documentary sources (records) from the Library and the Academic department were used as data. Personal observation and interview method were instruments used for data collection. Data was analysed using …

Mapping And Global Research Trends In Sharia Insurance (Takaful) Using The Scopus Database (An Analysis Of Bibliometrics), Arwendria Arwendria Arw, Lailatur Rahmi Llr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The research objectives are: 1) to analyze the pattern of temporal distribution of journal articles about sharia insurance; 2) to show the contributions of authors, leading countries and the most productive academic institutions; 3) to map research topics; 4) to map state domination based on its application, and 5) to provide insight into the potential for collaboration and future directions. Data were analyzed using content analysis techniques based on maps produced by the CiteSpace V. application. Content analysis is a systematic test that can be replicated from communication symbols, where these symbols are given numerical values based on valid measurements, …

Information Accessibility And Risk Practices Of People Living With Hiv/Aids In South-West, Nigeria., Tajudeen Temitayo Adebayo, Michael Segun Omole Dr., Muyiwa Adekunle Amin, Adebayo Olawepo Ogunniran

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) access information from different sources. They are being warned regularly on the need to stay away from all forms of risk practices which may cause further spread of the dreaded diseases. The study endeavour to investigate the level of information access opened to PLWHA and tried to find the relationship between information accessibility and risk practices.

The study adopted survey research design of correlational type. The target population was 8,135PLWHA in the selected three health institutions. Pooled standard error of proportion was used to determine 339 PLWHA and critical incident technique was used to …

Bibliometric Survey Of Privacy Of Social Media Network Data Publishing, Rupali Gangarde Ass. Prof., Amit Sharma Dr., Ambika Pawar Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

We are witness to see exponential growth of the social media network since the year 2002. Leading social media networking sites used by people are Twitter, Snapchats, Facebook, Google, and Instagram, etc. The latest global digital report (Chaffey and Ellis-Chadwick 2019) states that there exist more than 800 million current online social media users, and the number is still exploding day by day. Users share their day to day activities such as their photos and locations etc. on social media platforms. This information gets consumed by third party users, like marketing companies, researchers, and government firms. Depending upon the purpose, …

Attitude Of Library Staff Towards People With Visual Impairment In The Provision Of Library And Information Services In University And Public Libraries In Tanzania, Rehema Corbinian Ndumbaro Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper investigated the attitude of library staff towards people with visual impairment in university and public libraries in Tanzania, with regard to the provision of library and information services. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. The study population was randomly and purposively selected; and involved patrons with visual impairment, library staff, library directors, readers for people with visual impairment, institutions associated with people with visual impairment. Snowball techniques were used to select library users with visual impairment and readers for users with visual impairment. The findings revealed that the attitude of library staff towards people with …

Spartan Daily, November 7, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 33

Student’S Perception Towards Plagiarism: A Case Study Of Central University Of Haryana (India), Anil Kumar Dr., Amit Kumar Dr., Manju Yadav Mrs.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Plagiarism is an academic misconduct in which a person use or steals others intellectual property and presents it as own. This paper indicates about the perception of Central University Haryana students towards plagiarism. It is observed that the issue of plagiarism is a matter of great concern in higher educational institutions. This survey study was conducted on 150 post graduate level students of central university of Haryana where student’s perception towards plagiarism was assessed on the basis of a questionnaire. Results revealed that most of the students had a positive perception towards the plagiarism aspect assessed in this study. The …

Spartan Daily, November 5, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 31

Study Of Information Seeking Pattern Of School Teachers In Sri Lanka With Respect To Curriculum Planning, Chamani Gunasekera, Balasubramani R, Arumugam J

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was conducted to examine information seeking pattern of school teachers in Sri Lanka. The survey method was adapted for this study and a self-administered questionnaire was used as main data collection tool. The school teachers who enrolled to follow postgraduate courses in the Department of Education, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka were selected as the study population and the collected data were analyzed using SPSS (21.0). The study found that most of the respondents used face to face discussions and mass media as communication channels and most of the respondents study curriculum, teachers’ guides and students’ text books …

Assessing The Value Of Korean School Library Research: A Bibliometric Comparison Of Korean And International Journal Papers, Eungi Kim

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aimed to assess the value of Korean school library research by comparing Korean and international research on school libraries. To conduct this research, records of international papers indexed by Scopus and domestic papers indexed by the Korean Citation Index (KCI) on school libraries were downloaded. These records were analyzed and compared in terms of publication trends, journals, and author keywords. Approximately, four Korean LIS journals collectively published 39% more papers than the international journals indexed by Scopus, suggesting the substantial contributions made by Korean researchonschool libraries. The unique subtopicsofschool libraries in Korean domestic research were the revitalization of …

Global Research Trend On Cyber Security: A Scientometric Analysis, Somesh Rai, Kunwar Singh Dr, Akhilesh Kumar Varma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Scientometrics is a quantitative analysis of scholarly literature related to a particular subject or area (well defined by some limits, scope and coverage), which helps to understand different aspects about the scholarly literature’s growth in various dimensions of knowledge. Similarly, this study is a quantitative analysis of the Global research trends in cyber security. Some works related to scientometrics of ‘deception, counter-deception in cyberspace’ had been published in 2011, but we have focused on ‘cyber security’ as the topic of research. For analysis we have utilised the published data available in Scopus database, which is directly related to ‘cyber security’. …

Spartan Daily, October 31, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 30

Communication Crisis In Tourism Office: Negative News By Online Media, Faustyna Faustyna Faustyna, Lukiati Komala Erdiana, Hanny .. Hafiar ., Iriana .. Bakti .

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to provide an explanation of how the Medan Tourism Office carries out communication crisis activities on negative coverage produced by online media on the culinary tour "Merdeka Walk" Medan Methodology: This research uses the constructivism paradigm. Ontologically, mental construction on social experience is local and specific and depends on the party doing it.. Finding: Negative coverage by online media triggered by fallen trees in 2017 at night culinary tourism location in "Merdeka Walk" has drawn a response from the Governor of North Sumatra with intrusion closing and diverting the function of night culinary tourism …