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A Bibliometric Study Of Mphill Theses At The Department Of Information Studies, University Of Ghana (2000 – 2018), Philip Kwaku Kankam, Earvin Kofi Okyere, Paulina Awuah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

It is evident from literature that bibliometric analysis and application of citation indexes have been established as far back as the 18^th century. It is a major tool employed to evaluate the performance and also measure the impact of scientific publications. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) theses accepted at the Department of the Information Studies (DIS) of the University of Ghana for the period between 2000 to 2018. Through the use of the DIS library catalogue, the study retrieved 101 accepted theses and these theses served as the source documents for …

Global Cities And Socioeconomic Inequality: A Pathways Inquiry, Herman Boschken

Faculty Publications, School of Management

Inequality in metropolitan areas is part of a paradoxical triangle of competing motives over resources allocation. Chief among inequality/equity rivals is the penchant for urban economic development, but in recent decades, ecological sustainability has also become increasingly important in this triangle. To understand inequality in global cities in such a context, one must recognize the intensity of economic development motives for those particular metropolitan areas seeking to maintain worldwide centrality, connectivity and command over the forces of globalization. As a comparative analysis of 53 large U.S. metropolitan areas, this paper examines the apparatus of a global city in response to …

Citation Analysis Of Doctoral Theses Submitted To The Department Of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India, Anjuma Saikia As, Utpal Saikia Us

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The present study is based on 13057 citations, appended in the 34 Doctoral theses of Chemistry submitted to Dibrugarh university, Assam to confer Ph.d degree during the period of 2015-2019.The primary objectives of this study was to investigate authorship pattern of the citations, type and form of literature cited, and compiled a rank list of core journals in chemistry. The study revealed the fact that journals were the most favourite source of information among Research Scholars in Chemistry Department. The data reveals the fact that journals achieved highest no of citation which is10446 followed by books with 11.76 % …

Information Dissemination During Covid-19 And Lockdown: The Role Of University Libraries Of Sindh, Pakistan, Sadia Ishtiaq Ms, Naveed Sehar, Attya Shahid

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Universities librarians play vital and varied roles in the life of the university, guiding students and faculty at the reference desk, instructing library research sessions, and developing library collections. It is a truism to say that librarians in all sectors of an academic library wear many different hats and provide numerous services to patrons. This research paper seeks to investigate the role of university libraries in this outbreak situation. The novel virus COVID-19 discovered as a global pandemic. This contagious virus changed the working Style tradition to online because of the shutdown of all activities of life. The main objective …

Global Scientific Research On Coronavirus : A Scientometric Study, Pooja P. Dadhe, Manju N. Dubey

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

To understand the global research trend of the scientific publication on coronavirus, this scientometric study was carried out for the period 2002 to 2019 based on scientometric indicators such as growth of publication, productive authors and institutions, collaboration among authors and institutions, the hotspot of research area and the citation pattern. A total of 8541 records downloaded from PubMed formed the dataset for the study and were analysed using Bibexcel and VOSviewer. The findings reveal that the research on coronavirus was noticeable but it was not significant. A correlation between the number of publications and emergence of SARS in 2002 …

Research Productivity And Citation Impact Of S.C. Sharma As Seen Through The Scopus Database, N Vasantha Raju, N.S. Harinarayana

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study presented the bibliometric analysis of Sharma’s research publications as found in the Scopus database. The study presents the publication profile of Sharma in terms of the number of papers published, top journals where Sharma has published his research papers frequently, subject area, author collaborations, and institutional collaboration and so on. The study also analyzes the research impact through citations count, highly cited papers and h-index. VOSviewer, a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks, was used to visualize the co-author collaborations, country collaborations and keyword analysis. A comparative analysis of the Scopus and the Google Scholar indicates …

Bibliometrics Of Covid-19 Publications In First Three Months Of 2020, Anil Kumar Siwach

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper is an attempt to analyze the publications on COVID-19, an infectious disease which has been declared a pandemic by WHO. The publications during Jan-March 2020 have been selected for the study that has been indexed in Scopus database till March 31, 2020. It was found that during this span of three months, 884 documents have been published on COVID-19 in the form of articles, news, letters, notes, editorials, reviews, short surveys and erratum. These documents received a total of 2603 citations and six documents received even more than 100 citations. China has contributed maximum documents and Huazhong University …

Ru(Ii)-Diimine Complexes And Cytochrome P450 Working Hand-In-Hand, Celine Eidenschenk, Lionel Cheruzel

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

With a growing interest in utilizing visible light to drive biocatalytic processes, several light-harvesting units and approaches have been employed to harness the synthetic potential of heme monooxygenases and carry out selective oxyfunctionalization of a wide range of substrates. While the fields of cytochrome P450 and Ru(II) photochemistry have separately been prolific, it is not until the turn of the 21st century that they converged. Non-covalent and subsequently covalently attached Ru(II) complexes were used to promote rapid intramolecular electron transfer in bacterial P450 enzymes. Photocatalytic activity with Ru(II)-modified P450 enzymes was achieved under reductive conditions with a judicious choice of …

Social Media Use And The Challenges Of Information Dissemination During Emergencies: Experience Of Library And Information Scientists On Covid-19 In Nigeria, Saheed Abiola Hamzat, Dumebi Otulugbu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Corona virus is a form of respiratory ailment that ravaged human health and social interaction. Since its emergence and subsequent spread to various countries of the world, various governments, organisations, agencies and individuals have been making frantic efforts to curtail the disease using different media. Prominent among the media being used is social media. However, the preliminary investigation of the researchers indicated that the social media are being wrongly used to disseminate information on the emergence, causes, prevention and curtailment of the disease particularly in a developing country like Nigeria. The need to address these challenges and to drum home …

Mentoring For Capacity Building Of Librarians In Private Universities In South West Nigeria, Omobolanle Seri Fasola, Philomena Abieyuwa Mamudu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examined mentoring of librarians for capacity building in private universities in Nigeria. The survey research method was used with questionnaire formulated in line with the research questions put forward. The total enumeration method was used to select librarians and library officers in selected private universities in South-West Nigeria. Data was analyzed using frequency count and statistical mean. Findings revealed that the most prevalent strategy for mentoring practiced in libraries in private universities was senior professionals sharing their wealth of knowledge with younger ones (97.2%). This was aided by the fact that younger inexperienced librarians sought advice from more …

Break-Even Year: A Concept For Understanding Intergenerational Trade-Offs In Climate Change Mitigation Policy, Patrick T. Brown, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Ken Caldeira

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Global climate change mitigation is often framed in public discussions as a tradeoff between environmental protection and harm to the economy. However, climate-economy models have consistently calculated that the immediate implementation of greenhouse gas emissions restriction (via e.g. a global carbon price) would be in humanity’s best interest on purely economic grounds. Despite this, the implementation of global climate policy has been notoriously difficult to achieve. This evokes an apparent paradox: if the implementation of a global carbon price is not only beneficial to the environment, but is also ‘economically optimal’, why has it been so difficult to enact?One potential …

“Onlaing” A Distance Learning Management Information System Platform With Heutagogy Approach In Industrial Revolution 4.0: A Design, D. Djadir, R. Rusli, Ansari Saleh Ahmar, Abdul Rahman, Helmi Abdullah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to design distance learning platform using heutagogy approach. This study is expected to help to improve the quality of student learning outcomes and to motivate students to learn. This type of research is the development of research, known as research and development (R&D). The design of this study adapting by the SDLC model. The aim of this study is to design an online platform in Industrial Revolution 4.0 using Heutagogy Approach. The design will use the website programming namely PHP and MySQL as databases. Result of this study: the design and development of distance …

Bibliometric Study Of Selected Lis Journals Published Online In The 21st Century, Asish Maity, Nivedita Bhattacharyya Sahu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper is a study of the LIS journals published by Emerald group of publications which originated online in the 21^st century upto the year 2015. Five such journals include Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM), Journal of Intellectual Capital(JIC), Online Information Review (OIR), Performance Measurement and Metrics (PMM) and Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES). Highest publication is by OIR and 2009 produced most articles followed by 2008. Research paper tops the list in all the five journals. Single authored papers are predominant followed by two authored papers. Authors from UK contribute maximum numbers of …

Spartan Daily, September 10, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 9

Lotka’S Law And Authorship Trends In Library And Information Science: A Study Based On Select Journals Of India, Us And Uk, Garima Bisaria

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study investigates authorship trends and productivity among LIS professionals who contributed journal articles in the selected 12 peer reviewed LIS journals of India, US and UK. For the purpose of the study four periodicals from each country are chosen during the period 2007 to 2017. The results analyzed proved that journal wise author distribution is highest in the published literature of UK with (3546) authors followed by India with (3162) and US (2420) authors. The obtained values of ᵪ²= 66.331, ρ=0.05 found that there is an association between type of authorship and country. As India and UK accounted …

Adoption Of E-Learning In Library And Information Science (Lis) Education In North-East India: A Proposal, Debajit Borgohain, Rima Nath, Pallabi Devi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

E-learning allows for efficient transfer of knowledge in the real-time process, while at the same time empowering learners with the information technology awareness and skills crucial to succeed in the present Knowledge Revolution Era. The world scenario of Library and Information Science (LIS) education is changing fast. The change is enforced by many forces such as technology, demographic features, economic characters, etc. The present paper discussed the concept of e-learning and its application in LIS education. It also emphasized on the potential benefits of implementing e-learning in LIS education in North-East India and equally discussed the challenges that can affect …

Spartan Daily, September 9, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 8

Aspects Of Literacy In Vision And Mission Of University Libraries In Indonesia, Kundharu Saddhono, Puji Lestari, Yuliana Sari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Literacy is closely related to libraries. Aspects of literacy existing in visions and missions become the main points and characteristics of a library. This study aimed to describe and explain aspects of literacy of libraries in top universities in Indonesia in terms of text and social context. It employed content analysis with descriptive qualitative approach. It also used critical discourse analysis model as proposed by van Dijk. It was textually related to micro analysis and socially connected to activities supporting the textual analysis. The result shows that aspects of literacy in top universities in Indonesia are textually and socially dominated …

A Scientometric Analysis Of Research Journal Of Chemistry And Environment (2005-2019), P Sumathi Pandy, Dr Palaniappan M, R Sargunapathi Kalidas, Dr S Sirajunissa Begum

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study presents the Scientometric analysis of the Research Journal Chemistry and Environment during the year 2005 to 2019. The study reveals that the total no. of articles 1,470 include 1,408 Research Articles, 45 Reviews, 10 Mini Reviews and 7 Short Communications were published in this journal has been carried out. Fifteen volumes of the journal containing 24 issues from 2005 to 2012 (Quarterly Journal) and it updated to Monthly journal from 2013 to 2019 it containing 84 issues (totally 108 issues) have been taken into consideration for the present study. The number of contributions, authorship pattern, author productivity, …

Electronic Legal Databases In Context To Connectors/ Symbols/ Command Used In Legal Research: A Comparative Study, Ritu Nagpal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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Impact Of Academic Library Services On Students Success And Performance, Maya Carvalho E Rodrigues Dr., Bala Mandrekar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries play an important role as a reliable and beneficial information provider in the students academic success and performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the students satisfaction with library resources and services provided by the academic library. Random surveying was conducted to find out the problem and difficulties faced by the students in accessing the library resources and its impact on their academic success and performance. The finding in the study showed that there is a significant and remarkable relationship between the library usage and the students’ academic performance and success. the major finding of the study …

Association Of Usage Of Online Journals With Impact Factors: A Descriptive Analytical Study, Jessy A, Mahabaleshwara Rao, Kalesh M. Karun, Shivananda Bhat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A case study of association between usage of online journals and their impact factors was conducted for the subscribed journals of the Health Sciences Library of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. The publisher-generated usage statistics were collected and tabulated for the period 2010-2015. The full text usage was considered as the criteria for identification of the extent of usage of online journals from different publishers. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of these journals were retrieved in 2015 from Journal Citation Report to check whether association existed between the most used and the least used journals with their impact factor. …

Adolescent- Parent Communication And Information Sharing, Shantha Kumar M.V.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

The study is conducted among 100 adolescents in Kerala State in India to know the sharing of information by the adolescents with their parents. The matters they communicate with their parents and the matters they are reluctant to communicate are studied. The data was collected using questionnaire. The analysis of the data was done based on the responses received from 92 adolescents. The analysis reveals that the adolescents communicate with their parent most frequently. The females are more communicative in many respects. They share with their parents the method of teaching, behavior of their teachers, marks obtained in the …

A Holistic Evaluation Of Buddhism Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Global Publications Related To Buddhism Between 1975 And 2017, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Engin Senel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Although Buddhism is the fourth largest religion of the world with almost 500 million followers, to the best of our knowledge, academic literature lacks a bibliometric study investigating Buddhism documents. We used four databases provided by Web of Science; Thomson Reuters to extract the academic documents related to Buddhism and included all items published between 1975 and 2017. We generated info-maps and info-graphics showing distribution of world countries’ publication productivity and connections in bibliometric networks. A total of 25,267 articles were included and the most common document types were original articles, reviews and meeting reports (76.11, 19,38 and 3.84, respectively). …

Availability And Accessibility Of Information Resources In University Libraries For Students' Academic Use: A Case Study Of Pharmaceutical Science Students Of The University Of Jos, Daniel Abubakar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose for the establishment of every university library is to provide information resources, make them available and accessible while ensuring the information resources meet the information needs of the users. This study became necessary considering the poor performance of university students and low reading habit nowadays. This study aimed at finding out the availability and accessibility of information resources for Pharmaceutical science students of the University of Jos. The study adopted survey as the research design, 549 undergraduate students of Pharmaceutical science constituted the population and from which 55 samples were drawn to represent the population. Questionnaire (closed ended) …

The Effectiveness Program Of User Education At University Of Malaya’S Library, Dessy Harisanty, Aulia Farah Diba, Khoirotun Layyinah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction: The college library is established to support academic activities including education, research and public services. Then particular services are needed for particular users related to the learning process with the availability of user education. User education acts as literacy of information to users in mastering accessing and evaluating sources of information needed.

Data Collection Method: It uses a quantitative methodology of descriptive research by making direct observation when program user education was held by Bahagian Kemahiran Maklumat.

Results and Discussions. This study found that the implementation of user education resulted in the effectiveness of the program from …

Assessment Of Social Media Use On Study Habits Among Nursing Students: A Case Study Of Babcock University, Sussan Udoaku Ogbuiyi Phd, Chuks Daniel Oriogu, Folashade Munirat Lawal, Chukwuemeka Anthony Onyebuchi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective- The main objective of the study is to investigate the assessment of social media use on study habits among nursing students in Babcock University ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. Methods- The study adopted survey research design. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analysis. Specifically, data collected were analyzed using charts, graphs, percentages and frequency were used to answer the research questions. The Analysis of Variance were used to test hypotheses at 0.05 significant level.

Results- The results and findings revealed that 66 (68.8%) of the respondents use the social …

Knowledge Sharing Through Mobile Phone To Develop A Knowledge Base: A Study On Rural Women Of Bangladesh, Md. Mahbubul Islam, A.K.M Eamin Ali Akanda, Md. Nazmul Hasan, Dr. Partha Biplob Roy, Farzana Islam Any, Mst. Tahera Khatun, Md. Armanul Haque, Xiaojuan Zhang, Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

The study has an aim to figure out the role of mobile communication in developing Knowledge base among rural women through knowledge sharing. Using a structured questionnaire quantitative data have been collected by survey method and qualitative data through FGDs. Data has been collected on the way of sharing knowledge, areas of expertise, sharing knowledge types, with whom sharing knowledge etc. Rural women are being interested in knowledge sharing through mobile phone because mobile phones are cheap, easier, and available medium for communication to them. Among the rural women who have completed at least secondary education, are sharing both …

Elucidating The Information Literacy Activities Of Fm Radio: A Comparative Study, Srijani Kundu, Aditi Mukherjee, Nilofer Nishat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: The main concern of this study is to compare how the government and private FM radio channels cater to information literacy to the general people through their programmes.

Design/methodology/approach: The study encompasses 1 Government FM channel namely FM Rainbow run by All India Radio from the Akashvani Bhavan, Kolkata and 1 Private FM channel namely Radio Mirchi Kolkata run by the Times Group. The radio personnel associated with both the channels were interviewed in order to accomplish the study. A web survey was carried out to depict the effect of the information literacy programmes of the channels on the …

A Survey On Reading Habit Of Library Users During Covid-19 Lockdown, Kshama Parikh, Priyanki Vyas Dr, Saurin Sharad Parikh Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

E-Libraries has become more relevant in present situation of COVID-19 pandemic as it has caused an international lockdown in the world and India. Causing majority of the citizens to stay at home. The survey was conducted to study the reading habits of various library users (volunteers) during this situation. Besides the reading habit, the survey also collected the data for the various activities carried out by users at home. Main finding of the survey is that the users had taken keen interest to switch over to reading eBooks and 70% of student users and 53% of faculty users are reading …