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Libre Open Access In Science Journals: An Analytical Study Of Doaj, Pooja Kumari, Heenam Gakhar, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Jyoti Sharma, Prof Rupak Chakravarty

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This study is based on metadata extracted from the well known and authoritative global Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals managed by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), United Kingdom. Disciplines chosen for the quantitative study belong to Science as categorised in DOAJ were analysed using different criteria like language, Creative Commons (CC) licence, publisher country, etc.,. Findings of the study reveal that there are 104 Zoology Journals, 218 Chemistry Journals, 111 Botany Journals, 139 Geology Journals, 242 Physics Journals, 85 Microbiology Journals, 38 Astronomy Journals, 52 Physiology Journals, 11 Anatomy …

Strength Weakness Opportunity And Challenge (Swoc) Of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service (Vrs): A Feasibility Study In Consortia Environment, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Shiv Kumar

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Reference Service considered as the most essential service for academic and special libraries whether or not face-to-face communication is possible. While reference services differ from one library to the next, most libraries have an information or reference desk where a librarian can assist their users. Almost all libraries provide telephone information services, and many libraries also provide reference service through email, text or chat. The present study contains the universe of sample of 20 members of the CRIKC libraries was initially used in this analysis, but the number was later increased to 29. As a consequence, the research is restricted …

Use Of Open Source Software In Indian Institutional Digital Repositories: A Study, Rushmanasab Gurikar, Gururaj S. Hadagali Assistant Professor

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Abstract: The present paper determines the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in building Indian Institutional Repositories. The paper further covers the use of different OSS, use of OSS in different types of institutions, Indian States / UTs and different disciplines. The data were collected from Open DOAR, ROAR, AGRIS and LIS link Kerala. A total of 209 Open Access Repositories were identified. The outcomes of the study reveal that Dspace and Eprints are the most used OSS in Indian Institutional Repositories; the institutions of Karnataka, New Delhi and Maharashtra State / UTs have used a good number of OSS …

A Scientometrics Analysis Of Ovarian Cancer Research During 2010 To 2019: With Special Reference To South Asian Contribution, Kusumita Jamatia, Mithu Anjali Gayan

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A scientometrics analysis of ovarian cancer research during 2010 to 2019 is performed in this study. It is an attempt to find out the various scientometrics indicators such as: type of document wise distribution, authorship pattern, year wise publication, Co-occurrence of keyword. A total of 927 bibliographic records were collected from web of science database and as a data source it has been analyzed using MS excel and VOS viewer software. Kumar, S from University of Birmingham is found to be the most productive author. Multi - authorship is found to be dominant in this area of research. South Asia …

Research Trends Of Chennai Mathematical Institute (Cmi) During 2005-2019: A Study Reflected On Web Of Science Data Base, N Senthilkumar, Radhakrishnan Natarajan

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The present study examines the publication pattern of Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) during 2005 - 2019 using Web of Science (WOS) database from Clarivate Analytics. 632 articles were published during the study period, more number of articles published in 2019 with 94 (14.87%) and highest number of papers published in physical review letters journal which havs more h-index (567), average annual growth rate of CMI publications was 18.48. Researchers are interested with joint authorship rather than solo authorship pattern. Arun K G is the most prolific author with 94 records and USA is the top collaborative country for CMI with …

Ranking And Research Trend : A Comparative Study Of Research Output Of Top Ten Nirf Ranked Engineering Institutions Of India Based On Scientometric Indicators, Pooja P. Dadhe. Assistant Librarian, Manju N. Dubey. Librarian

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The first decade of 21^st century has witnessed an unprecedented increase of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in India. In the first decade itself 19493 new colleges and 257 universities were established, bringing the total number of colleges and universities to 31,324 and 493 respectively by the end of 2009-2010 (UGC, 2010) as against 11831 colleges and 236 universities till the year 1999-2000 (UGC, 2000). This sudden surge in the number of institutions attracted many debate on the quality of higher education in the country. Apart from the mandatory accreditation of courses/institutions by government established bodies, in 2015 government of …

A Review On Classification Of Breast Cancer Using Histopathological Images Using Deep Learning, Jyoti Kundle, Sudhir Dhage

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The review paper provides the perceptible description of Breast Cancer (BC) and its classification and various classification strategies associated with BC. It discusses the related studies pertaining to the analysis and classification of BC through histopathological images and investigates the crucial advancements in the BC classification procedures. Furthermore, it provides the analysis of breast histopathological images using traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The paper discusses the distinct Deep Learning (DL) methods involved in enhancing the performance of BC classification. By discussing all major studies this review assists researchers in better classification and analysis of BC thereby providing a concise perspective …

Awareness And Competency Level Of Undergraduates For Entrepreneurship Opportunities In Library And Information Science Profession In University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ify Evangel Obim Mrs, Evangeline U. Nwankwo Mrs, Jude Chidike Onah

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The study examined the awareness and competency level of undergraduates for entrepreneurship opportunities in library and information science profession in University Of Nigeria, Nsukka. Six research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of the entire undergraduates in LIS, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, which is 240. 43 Final year students were purposively sampled because they had spent more years in the system, are on the way to the labour market, have undertaken most of the courses in the curriculum that will prepare them for the needed skills and …

Evaluation Of Friction Stir Processing For Fabrication Of Composites In The Context Of Industry 4.0: A Bibliometric Review, Arunkumar Bongale, Pragya Saxena, Satish Kumar

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Aluminum alloys having good strength to weight ratio and resistance to corrosion have a wide range of applications in aerospace, automobiles, military, sports and many other applications. In order to enhance the hardness and wear resistance of the surface without compromising the bulk properties, aluminum matrix based surface composites fabricated with various reinforcements on the surface are now a days being utilized widely as new generation materials. In the manufacturing of metal surface hybrid composites (precisely of light weight alloys like- Al, Mg, etc.), the friction stir processing is a promising new solid state processing technique which is versatile enough …

The Use Of Internet For Seeking Health Information Among Narh-Bita College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study. Tema, Ghana., Zakaria Abukari

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The Internet provides information on a variety of subjects including health-related information. Access to Internet health information could potentially promote healthy adolescents' lifestyles. Consequently, this may reduce the number of common illness among the youth and thereby reducing the overall cases at health centers. This study was carried out to examine the use of Internet for seeking health information among Narh-Bita College students, Tema, Ghana. The study was a quantitative cross-sectional survey with a convenience sampling method. The study covered one hundred and sixty-one (161) students. The findings of the study revealed that almost all the students were active users …

The Five Laws Of Reading, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Nahida Nasreen

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Reading has played the best role in the transformation of societies from nomadic to agriculture; agriculture to industrial; industrial to information and knowledge-based societies. It has played a crucial role to transform humans from wild wanderers to world leaders. However, with the technological advances, many new hobbies have taken a greater time slice of human lives, which ultimately affects their reading habits as well. Therefore, the authors have suggested “The Five Laws of Reading” in the present study to keep the reading habits active among humans in times to come. “The Five Laws of Reading” devised are:

1. Reading …

Technological Countermeasures Of Copyright Piracy Enforcement In Nigeria: An Alternative To Creative Works Owners’ Livelihood In A Monolithic Economy Post Covid-19, Leonard Ume

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The Coronavirus pandemic is a global problem that came with its attendant economic shock that is higher than the one brought by World War 1 and 2 put together. The attendant consequences expectedly landed Nigeria economy to recession. Nigeria over the years has been grappling with the problem of diversification of her economy to forestall the ugly impact of monolithic economy. This paper investigated the effect of using technology in fighting intellectual copyright piracy which will encourage the citizens to harness their creative endowment to eke out a living with its resultant effect on the reduction of unemployment. The study …

Application Of Bradford's Law Of Scattering To Synthetic Biology Literature, Naheem Kt Mr., Sivaraman P. Dr., Saravanan G Dr

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This study aimed to examine Bradford's law of scattering on the global synthetic biology literature output published between 2005 to 2019. The authors used the publications data obtained from Web of Science database for the present study. The total data set consists of 8411 journal articles and 1453 journals. The authors employed both verbal and graphical formulations of Bradford's law. The author's calculated the value of Bradford's multiplier using Egge's formula and found it as 10.52. This analysis shows that a three-zone Bradford's distribution fits with the present data west with computed value Bardford's multiplier 10.52. A list of core …

Status Of Global Research Data Repository: An Exploratory Study, Rashmi Rekha Gohain

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re3data.org registry is a research data repository and provides information seekers, publishers, libraries and funding organizations an overview of the diverse research data repositories internationally. Under the FAIR Data project and with the ‘CoreTrustSeal’ certification, re3data is an amiable platform for the researchers to upload and retrieve research data through their appropriate domain repositories. The re3data.org registry of data repository services is explored and relevant data related to general profile, access policies, restriction and licenses, content types, subject coverage and other related services has been collected and analysed in this research study. The study found that, United States has the …

Trends In Iot Research: A Bibliometric And Science Mapping Analysis Of Internet Of Things, Nidhi Gupta Research Scholar, Rupak Chakravarty Professor

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Internet of Things (IoT) is about augmenting the existing power of the Internet beyond computers and smartphones to a whole range of other things, processes, and environments involving living or non-living species. It can bring life to the objects and enable them to communicate. This study presents the bibliometric analysis and science-mapping analysis on IoT. The data were extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1989–2019. In total 14,469 documents (articles, review, editorial material, proceedings, etc) were retrieved, which were further processed by VOSviewer software to perform advanced bibliometric analysis and science-mapping analysis. This research identifies the most …

Applications Of Biomimicry In Construction And Architecture: A Bibliometric Analysis, Mugdha Praveen Kshirsagar Mrs, Sanjay Kantrao Kulkarni Dr, Ankush Kumar Meena Mr, Danby Caetano D’Costa Mr, Sushant Sunil Bhavsar Mr

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Biomimicry can be considered to be a way of connecting the environment created by man to the natural world. Biomimicry is a science that, as a model, a measure and a tutor, looks to nature. Via site work, construction and everyday operations, biomimicry can be used to enhance the way the built environment is constructed. The main objective of this paper is to perform a bibliometric study of biomimicry-related literature in order to discover the growth of biomimicry as an architectural method in recent years. The time frame considered for this survey is between 1990 and 2020. The findings, however, …

Scientometric Analysis Based On Dimension Of Research Productivity Of Faculty In Vit University From Web Of Science, Rajeswari S, Dhana Sekar N, Sathya S

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This study to be providing a quantitative evaluation of science output in VIT University. Investigations have analyzed the research productivity and global citation score of the scientist. The data are collected from Web of Science one line Database. In the scientometric, the main criterion is ranking of the scientific centers and particularly the university. It is the rate of scientific production an innovative and in all participations in the global scientific development. The study merely focuses on year wise research output, citation impact at Local and Global level, prominent authors and their total output. Top journals of publications, Collaborating countries …

Adopting Flipped Classroom Model For Effective Library User Education In Nigerian Universities: Challenges And Strategies, Jude Chidike Onah, Ebubechukwu Arinze Okonkwo, Nwando Ogochukwu Eseni, Fatima O. Momohjimoh

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Twenty Years Of Islamic Banking In Indonesia: A Biblioshiny Application, Lina Marlina, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Paidi Hidayat, Nil Firdaus

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This study aims to determine the development of Islamic banking research trends in Indonesia published by leading journals on the theme of Islamic economics and finance. The data analyzed consisted of 500 indexed research publications. The data is then processed and analyzed using the R Bibliometric application to find out the bibliometric map of the development of the role of Islamic banking. The results showed that the number of publications on the development of the role of Islamic banking research in Islamic economics and finance has increased significantly. Then, the most popular writer are Sukmana R, Ascarya, and Ismal …

Librarians’ Information And Communication Strategies For Solving Restiveness Among Secondary School Students In Enugu-North Local Government Area Of Enugu State, Angela Ngozi Nwadike Ph.D, Grace Ngozi Omeje Ph.D, Bartholomew Chinweuba Nwefuru Ph.D

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The study sought to determine Librarians’ information and communication strategies for solving restiveness among secondary school students in Enugu-North local government area of Enugu State. The study was borne out of the numerous cases of deviant behaviours among secondary school students in Enugu North, other part of the state and Nigeria at large. The study explored all the public secondary schools in Enugu North local government area of Enugu State. The study was guided with a research question. A descriptive survey was adopted for the study. The study was carried out in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu state, …

Bibliometric Review Of Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Models: With Special Reference To Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Rainfall Prediction, Shilpa Manoj Hudnurkar, Neela Rayavarapu Dr.

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Rainfall is a result of several complex atmospheric processes making it challenging to predict. For countries whose economy is dominated by agricultural sector, accurate rainfall prediction is highly essential. A huge network of weather stations is spread across the globe for the observation of meteorological parameters. These generate vast amounts of data which can be used to accurately predict the weather. This necessitates the use better tools such as various artificially intelligent algorithms. This study aims to explore global research trends in monsoon rainfall prediction techniques using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Scopus database has been used …

Analysis Of Recent Trends In Malware Attacks On Android Phone: A Survey Using Scopus Database, Sonali Kothari Tidke, Vijayshri Khedkar

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In past few years, smartphone use has shifted from professional access to personal need. Smartphone has now become an essential requirement to perform day to day activities. This has made smartphones unsecured and vulnerable to cyber threats and malware attacks. This study is also focused on finding intersection between malware attacks and Android OS considering Android as the most widely used mobile OS. A comprehensive search is conducted on Scopus Database for peer-reviewed articles. The study is carried out on bibliometric data of the considered articles to generate a highly useful concept map.

Review And Analysis Of Failure Detection And Prevention Techniques In It Infrastructure Monitoring, Deepali Arun Bhanage, Ambika Vishal Pawar, K Kotecha

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Maintaining the health of IT infrastructure components for improved reliability and availability is a research and innovation topic for many years. Identification and handling of failures are crucial and challenging due to the complexity of IT infrastructure. System logs are the primary source of information to diagnose and fix failures.

In this work, we address three essential research dimensions about failures, such as the need for failure handling in IT infrastructure, understanding the contribution of system-generated log in failure detection and reactive & proactive approaches used to deal with failure situations.

This study performs a comprehensive analysis of existing literature …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Authentication Based Access Control In Cloud Using Blockchain, Yogesh Gajmal, Udayakumar R.

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Access Control is mentioned to as the imprisonment of particular activities of an individual to carry out an action. Cloud storing similar to any other untrusted surroundings wants the capacity to protect the shared data. The one of the apparatus of access mechanism is ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption system over and done with dynamic characteristics. With a blockchain based distributed ledger, the scheme offers immutable log of whole significant safety events, for example key generation, change or revocation, access policy assignment, access request etc. Number of different problems similar to single point of failure, security and privacy etc. were targeted through …

An Exponential Trend And Mapping Of Research In Web 2.0, Baskaran C. - -

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The study analyses the research paper on the publications of Web 2.0 during 2000-2019 and total no. 7123 publications recorded over the period of study. A maximum 825 (12.08%) of the publications appeared in 2016, followed by 793(11.61%),745(10.91%), and 730(10.69%) of the publications that appeared in the year 2015,2017 and 2018. Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (Dt) of the publications on Web 2.0 global data during 2000-2019. The analysis made on the records based on Web of Science (WoS). The majority of 5743 (84.12%) of the publications appeared in Journals. The study dictates that the majority 134 (1.96%) …

Bibliometric Survey On Image Processing Techniques Using Lattice Boltzmann Method For Cfd Simulations, Priyambada Praharaj Mrs, Chandrakant Sonawane Dr, Madhura Ingalhalikar Dr

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This bibliometric analysis aims to understand how Lattice Boltzmann Method could be a potential solver in integrating computational fluid dynamics with image segmentation smoothly. Cardiovascular diseases have been a major health problem in our society and have been an interesting topic for researchers to focus on. Computational Fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation on well-segmented patient-specific images could help the clinicians in diagnosing many cardiovascular diseases in the initial stages itself thereby avoiding surgery. This paper focuses on how various methods have been used since 1988 and been successfully implemented in subsequent years. The bibliometric analysis is done from Scopus and the …

Research Contributions Of Nobel Laureate Francis H Arnold: A Study Of Bibliometric Analysis, Prakash Kumbar, Mallinath Kumbar

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The study on ‘Single Author’ research analysis highlights the qualitative and quantitative aspects of research contributions made by Nobel Laureate Arnold FH in the field of chemical sciences for the directed evolution of enzymes. During her productive career 1980-2021, she has produced a count of 355 (273 journal articles) publications with 30644 citations were retrieved from Scopus database. The present study includes the analysis of research contributions made by Arnold FH with the bibliometric techniques and her role in the advancement of chemical science in the world. Her publications were distributed over 135 source titles which are having a good …

Scientometric Analysis And Visualization Of Astrovirus Based On R-Packages, Sivankalai S, Virumandi A, Sivasekaran K, Bala Sankar B, Balamurugan B, Sharmila M, Kaladevi P

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We examined scientific production of the astroviruses study community done the past two decades in the worldwide. Scientometric methods, particularly the literature development models, Document types, Most Global Cited Documents, Most Frequent Words, Authors collaboration, Author Impact (h-index, g-index, m-index), Most Local Cited Authors, Relevant Countries by Corresponding Author, Most Cited Countries, Most Relevant Affiliations are identified. The results of this study confess that the scientific literature on astroviruses in worldwide had grown-up exponentially with an annual growth rate of about 8.86% during the above declared period. Journal of medical virology were the most productive journals contributing 71 articles of …

A Case Of Pre-Implementation Of The Integrated Repository For University Administration By Academic Librarians, Marek Deja, Leszek Szafrański

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The purpose of this paper is to observe how employees of academic library administration are developing and how they comply with the internal quality assurance policy (IQA) regarding pre-implementation of the integrated repository (IR). We are interested in information practices of administration staff in the scope of cooperation and open communication with the management staff and external entities. We have studied the role of the current information practices in the successful implementation of IR at the university by academic librarians. We used the method of participant observation and unstructured interviews supported by BPMN modelling (Business Process Model and Notation) and …

Analysis Of Recent Trends In Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Nlp, Vijayshri Nitin Khedkar, Sonali Kothari Dr, Aarohi Prasad, Arunima Mishra, Varun Saha, Vinay Kumar

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Oralism is an ideology and practice that advocates communication that is based solely on speech. This practice is encouraged from a pretty early age in our country. As a consequence, the hard of hearing are constantly forced to negotiate with schools, colleges, organisations, workspaces, and families that don’t acknowledge the need and preference for sign language over oral languages. This results in inconsideration of an entire community for admissions, jobs and general social position. We aim to close that communication gap a little and take a step towards fighting the stigma associated with Sign Language. The aim is to provide …