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Adoption Of Smart Technologies In University Libraries Of Pakistan: A Qualitative Review, Abid Hussain, Pervaiz Ahmad Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Technological advancement has a deep influence over all the sectors of life including libraries. The libraries are coping with these developments accordingly but the pace of development is not the same around the globe. The Smart library concept emerges from the idea of smart cities, where all functions are controlled by the latest technology to minimize human involvement. This study aims to present a comprehensive model of smart library technologies and applications. The peer-reviewed literature published from 2016 to 2020 was reviewed to model eleven smart library technologies. The feedback from the selected, senior university librarians of Pakistan on the …

The Impact Of Covid-19 On University Library Services: A Systematic Literature Review, Muhammad Zareef, Pervaiz Ahmad Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The impact of COVID-19 on university library services is a less researched area. For the systematic literature review, the researchers searched Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Initially, the researchers found 903 potentially relevant citations. From 903, 427 duplicate citations were removed. The remaining 476 articles were rechecked for relevance. There remained 34 full-text papers that were assessed for eligibility. Only 13 of these studies fulfilled the eligibility criteria to provide information on university library services in the pandemic era. PRISMA guidelines are followed in this study.

The findings of this systematic literature review contribute towards a better understanding …

Do Search Engines Display All Search Hits?, Mufazil Ali, Fayaz Ahmad Loan

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ABSTRACT

Purpose: The web is used to gather information through Search tools globally. These search tools display results as HITS (Hyper-Text Induced Theme Search). This study aims to explore how accurate search tools are when search hits are counted and displayed.

Methodology: The paper began with search tools and search terms recognition. Academic search tools Google Scholar, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), CORE (Connecting Repositories) were identified. Using the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), the subject areas were selected from the fields of Economics and Political Science. Search terms were selected from the Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH). The …

Use And Perception Of Faculty Members Regarding Electronic Information Resources: A Study Of Universities Of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Saddiqa Saddiqa, Mohammad Hussain, Mohammad Sohail Haider

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Abstract

Purpose: The study probed the use and perception of faculty members about electronic information resources, the use of various search engines and their preferred information format.

Research Design and Methodology: The questionnaire-based survey was conducted to collect data for the study. The faculty members of six public sector universities situated in the southern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituted the study’s sample. The stratified sampling technique was used, and 340 faculty members were selected from the total population of 661. The collected data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 and descriptive statistics was applied to …

Awareness, Satisfaction And Problems Faced By Faculty Members Regarding Electronic Information Resources: A Survey, Ms Saddiqa, Mohammad Hussain, Muhammad Shahab

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Purpose. This study evaluated the awareness and satisfaction of faculty members with of e-resources. The specific objectives were to identify the sources from which faculty members learn about e-resources, the extent of awareness, satisfaction and problems faced by teachers while accessing e-resources.

Research Design and Methodology. The study was quantitative, and the questionnaire-based survey was conducted to achieve the target goals. Three strata of faculty members were made, and then a sample of 340 faculty members was taken using the random sampling technique. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22 (SPSS) was used to analyze the data, and descriptive and …

Predatory Journals: Threat For Academicians, Rajendra Kumbharjuvenkar, Bala Mandrekar

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The publication journey for most of the researchers starts from the Ph. D. onwards. University guidelines for the Ph. D. enable the researchers to publish one or two papers in peer-reviewed journals. The inexperienced or young researchers are in a hurry in the process of publishing their articles. They are unaware of the predatory journals and they publish their articles in these predatory journals. The focus of the present paper is to create awareness among the young researchers and offer some basic knowledge so that they can avoid publishing in predatory journals.

Interactive Technology Competencies Required By Business Education Graduates In Universities, South-South Nigeria As Perceived By Lecturers, James Okoro Phd, Ekwere A. Umoeshiet Phd

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This study assessed interactive technology competencies required by business education graduates in universities, south-south, Nigeria as perceived by lecturers. One research question and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive Survey design was chosen for the study. The population comprises 146 lecturers in Universities, South-South Nigeria. There was no sampling since the population was manageable. A 32-item questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument was validated by six experts and Cronbach alpha was used to determine its internal consistency which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.86. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the …

Users’ Perceptions About 21st Century University Libraries In The Federal Capital Of Pakistan: Current Status And A Way Forward, Hafiz Abdur Rehman Mr., Muhammad Shahid Soroya Mr.

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Aim

The aim of this research is to investigate and explore the users’ perception about the 21^st century university libraries in the federal capital of Pakistan. The study examines the current status of available resources, services and facilities in the university libraries along with the incorporation of technological advances and level of satisfaction of library users regarding the available infrastructure.

Methods

Research methodology used in this study with a mixed method approach including the quantitative research method and qualitative research method. Questionnaire having the structure of open ended and closed ended question was used a data collection tool in …

Exploring The Current Status And Emerging Trends Of Digital Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis Of “Australian Journal Of Chemistry”, Sana Zia, Sudharma Haridasan

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The main aim of this paper is to investigate the current status and emerging trends of digital scholarly communication through the distribution of citations. It specifically identifies the usage framework of digital research works by the citation analysis of “Australian Journal of Chemistry”. Articles published in “Australian Journal of Chemistry” were chosen as a sample source for data. The data were collected from the time of 2011-2020 i.e. the period of 10 years. The references of every article from each issue of the “Australian Journal of Chemistry” were searched on May 19, 2021. Total of the 42126 citations were retrieved, …

Perceived Usefulness Of Social Media Tools In Research: A Survey Of University Lis Postgraduate Students, Ahmad Nawaz, Dr. Rais Ahmad Samdani

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The intense penetration of ICT through the application of social media in society, particularly in communications, has altered the ways of social interaction, business, education and research. Being a bandwagon concept, postgraduate (PG) students are also heavily influenced by the use of SMTs in their research. Thus, the present study assesses the extent and perceived usefulness of SMTs for communication, collaboration and, multimedia/Interactive media services in addition to find influential factors to use SMTs in research. The study has employed census taking enumerative approach to collect data on a structured questionnaire from the LIS postgraduate students (M.Phil and Ph.D) enrolled …

A Comparison Of Scholarly Journal Evaluation Between Indonesia And South Korea, Ayu Shabrina, Hani Febri Mustika, Yaniasih Yaniasih, Ambar Yoganingrum, Jungyeoun Lee

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Indonesian government has succeeded in increasing the number of local scientific journals. However, in terms of quality, such as the number of citations and errors in bibliographic writing still requires to be improved. This paper aims to explore the problems in Indonesian scientific journals' evaluation system by comparing the system to South Korea. The country has local journals like Indonesia. This paper uses references desk for collecting the data. The paper is focused on discussing publishers and journal citation databases. The conclusions are drawn by making arguments and reasons based on critical thinking analyzes. At the end of the paper, …

Ca: A Cancer Journal For Clinicians: A Bibliometrics Study, Kavitha Es

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Bibliometrics can help libraries to understand their local community’s journal usage patterns, and to identify the most influential journals to subscribe to. Collection development can be informed by bibliometrics data on both the relative influence of journals in the worldwide community, and on the publication and citation patterns. The study analysis the CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians from 2010 to 2019. On the study period, 419 articles published and received 2,52,572 citations. It is noticed that citation per year is 25257.2 and citation per paper calculated as 602.8. The cites per authors noticed as 69859. It is clear …

Growth And Productivity Of Research Articles Of D-Lib Magazine: A Bibliometric Study, Sanjukta Mondal, Bijan Kumar Roy

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The present study reveals the bibliometric analysis of research articles published in D-Lib Magazine from 2013 to 2017. The study covers the growth of literature and authorship patterns of the journal during the said period. Further, it analyzes various bibliometrics aspects such as authorship pattern, authors’ degree of collaboration, geographical productivity in scholarly publications and form of citation. For this study, a total of 185 articles are taken up for the evaluation. Necessary bibliometric measures are applied to analyze different publication parameters. The study indicates that the maximum number of articles are in 2015, representing 25.94% of total contributions. The …

Research Productivity Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology: A Bibliometric Review, Kunwar Singh, Madan Singh, Ayush Kumar Patel, Gireesh Kumar T K, Satyajit Nayak, Avadhesh Kumar Patel

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The study examines the research productivity of the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) for a selected period of 2012-2020. In 2012, the Scopus database started indexing DJLIT publications, and it was the motivation behind choosing this specific period for the present study. The sourced data for the present study was extracted from the Scopus database covering the period 2012-2020. The various bibliometric parameters have been applied, such as year-wise distribution of publications with citations, RCI, ACPP, CAI, Citation analysis, the collaboration of authors, institutions and countries to measure the research productivity. The study's findings revealed that the …

Open Access Social Science Journals Indexed In Doaj: A Critical Analysis, Bijayananda Pradhan, Akash Padhan, Kotrayya Agadi

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The primary purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive view of social science open access journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ is the most recognized and most authoritative list of scholarly open access social science journals indexed in DOAJ.Data is based on open access social science journals indexed on Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). A total of 955 social science journals were selected from DOAJ database available online at http://www.doaj.org. This study found Indonesia is the highest productive country; 2012-16 is most productive year and most of the journals published …

Web Services In Cloud Computing Research: Insights From Scientometric, Sivankalai S, Virumandi A

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The research is the outcome of the investigation of 4035 papers on web services and cloud study, as covered in the Web of Knowledge core collection database during 2010 - 2019, going through an overall group author contribution of 29.00% during the period, Iosup, Alexandru, et al with a citation impact per paper of 44.10% and a journal impact per paper of 5.768 by Future generation computer systems-the international journal of science. The world's web services and cloud research output is diverse, with the top three open access research journals accounting for 66.59% (All Open Access 44.03%, DOAJ Gold 17.41%, …

Genetic Counseling In India: A Bibliometric Study, O Priya Singha, Dhan Maya Chetry, Nabin Chandra Dey

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This study aims to analyze and visualize the contribution of Indian researchers in “genetic counseling”. PubMed and JGate databases were used as sources to retrieve the required data for six years, which was published between 2015-2020 (February). The data were assessed on the following parameters, growth of research publications authorship and publication patterns frequently used keywords. The study also identifies core journals and active institutions in India publishing genetic counseling research. Analysis of data was restricted to only journal articles; other types of documents were excluded. Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis. Collected data were analyzed …

Researchers' Perception And Attitude Towards Open Access (Oa) Resources: An Alternative Model And Important For Academic And Research Libraries, Perumal Ganesan, Gunasekaran Mangai

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Open Access (OA) resources has become an alternative resource as the pandemic outbreak has forced all the educational institutions remain closed. It has become a great source for the research scholars as the libraries have stopped traditional functioning of the libraries and focussing more on online-based services. This study has been conducted based on the data collected from the research scholars of Bharathidasan Uiversity, India, one of the prestigious universities has got highest rank. The study results showed that research scholars were aware of OA resources such as e-journals, e-books, e-theses and dissertations, Open Access Coursewares, whereas they were not …

Content Analysis For Advocating The Role Of Digital Scholarship In University Libraries In Delhi Under Open Access Environment, Ritu Nagpal

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The present study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of Digital Scholarship. The introduction of Digital Scholarship in Libraries has become indispensable. The study is established upon Digital Scholarship in University Libraries in consideration to Content Analysis of Academic Library Website. The research work further more examines the different entities to analyze and interpret the parameters for applicability of Digital Scholarship in University Libraries. Limiting to the Central University Libraries in Delhi according University Grants Commission the study proposes a model of Digital Scholarship which could be adopted by the Institutions of National importance. The proposed model highlights the transformational …

Misinformation, Indigenous Health Information And Hiv Prevention Among In- School Adolescents, Uganda, Olivia Nina Rugambwa Lecturer, Ruth Nalumaga Deputy Librarian -Associate Professor, J.R Ikoja-Odongo Professor -Information Science, Maxwell Otim Onapa Director Of Science, Research And Innovation

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HIV/AIDS is still a major killer disease among adolescents in sub- Saharan Africa and Uganda in particular. There are many factors attributed to high HIV infections among young people in Uganda such as, multiple sexual partners, low condom use, those born with HIV and poverty. High level misinformation in the indigenous knowledge related to sexuality and HIV prevention remains an under investigated and under documented factor escalating the disease. Yet, the indigenous knowledge health information system is a major critical information source adolescents depend on for health information on HIV prevention in Uganda. Indigenous knowledge informs health interventions for HIV …

Information Behavior Of Santri In The Digital Era: From Literacy To Multiliteracy, Chusaini Mustas

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This article discusses information behavior developed by santri (Islamic boarding school or pesantren students) and how literacy is developed when santri develop information behavior. This study was focused on a unique phenomenon that occurred at Abdullah Faqih Islamic Institute (INKAFA), where a salaf (traditional) Islamic school has “dared” to implement innovations in the learning process in the form of information multiliteracy-based teaching in order to empower and increase the competitiveness of its graduates. The research setting is Mambaus Sholihin Islamic Boarding School (PPMS), located in Suci Village, Manyar District, Gresik Regency, East Java Province. Based on the results of a …

Public Library System In Andhra Pradesh: An Overview, Dr B. Deenadhayalu, Dr M. Prasantha Kumari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The state of Andhra Pradesh has a long history of library system before Indian independence as part of the Madras Presidency. Significant changes have taken place in the public library system over the time. This paper gives a brief description of the public library movement, aims and objectives of the library movement, library legislation and organizational structure of public library system in A.P.

Modeling The Growth Of Telemedicine Literature, Viswanathan V, Tamizhchelvan M, Elango B

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study elaborates the current publication trends in the field of telemedicine as well as the application of growth models to forecast future trends with the goal of determining the fitness of growth in publications using exponential, linear, and logistic growth models. The data for the study was downloaded from the Scopus database over a fifteen-year period, from 2005 to 2019. During the period, a total of 45719 publications were found with publication productivity showing an upward trend throughout the period. The results show that the growth of publications fits into the exponential model than linear or logistic models. This …

A Bibliometric Study On Dc, Rgt, And Dt Of Publications And Citations Of Istl Journal During 2010-2020, Dr Arup Kumar Mondal, Librarian

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This paper presents a bibliometric study on DC, RGT, and DT of Publications and Citations of ISTL Journal during 2010-2020. The study was based on 224 articles published in ISTL Journal during the years 2010-2020. This paper aims to analyze the Authorship distribution of the publication, degree of collaboration among authors, relative growth rate, and doubling time of publications and citations. It is found from the analysis that the degree of collaboration in ISTL publications is 0.5 i.e., equal to the standard DC. It means the progress of collaborative research neither slow nor so fast. It is in a balanced …

Digital Humanities In India: A Developing Country Perspective, Anant Madhav Kulkarni, P. Muthumari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The buzzword Digital Humanities (DH) is gaining attention in developing country like India. The activities so far undertaken in India includes organization of conferences on Digital Humanities and offering of post graduate courses by some institutions and Universities. The DH activity is confined to specific states of India only. The role of Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals is negligible. Still defining DH is a problem. There is a need of collaboration between DH specialist and LIS professionals to foster DH development in India. This paper will overview DH developments in India.

Referencing Style: A Study Of Phd. Theses In Jadavpur University During 2010 To 2016 Under Faculty Of Arts, Saptami Das, Parikshit Mondal

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Referencing is most important part of every research work. This work has been done to find out the referencing style of doctoral dissertation under Faculty of Arts of Jadavpur University. In this study it has been tried to show that how many researchers follow which reference guideline to display citation and which one is the most popular among them.

Wireless Network Research Output In India From Scopus Database During 2010 -2019: A Scientometric Analysis, Ravichandran Shanmugam, S

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to analyze the scientometric study of wireless network research publications in India from SCOPUS database during 2010 - 2019. From this study, it is identified that India has occupied third placed and the contribution is 8559 publications and average publications per year is 856 publications. Out of that, maximum of 1561(18.24%) publications in the year 2019, CAGR is 35.98. and total numbers of citation is 25558. During the study period, 74 countries are collaborated by India with 914 publications. The relative growth rate is 0.91 in the year 2011 and 0.20 in the year 2019. At the …

A Systematic Study Of Research Productivity Of The Disciplines In Social Sciences And Humanities: The Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda., Ashok S. Chaudhary, Dr. Ranjita Niladri Dash

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The purpose of this paper is to explore and provide an overview of the growth and development of research output pertaining to the disciplines covered in Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH), in terms of number of publications, total citations from the year 2001 up to 2020 of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(MSU), Vadodara as reflected in Dimensions in various subject domains such as History and Archaeology, Historical Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Archeology, Education, etc. as shown in (Table-1). The main investigation is based on the primary literature, mostly scholarly articles from different subject fields. The authors attempt to employ …

Piracy And The Nigerian Copyright Law: A Re-Appraisal, Oluyinka Titilope Afolayan

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Effective utilization of intellectual resources plays a significant role in a nation’s development. However, without proper enforcement of the Copyright Act to aid the protection of these intellectual resources, copyright infringements are inevitable. Due to technological advancement, piracy activities in the Nigerian environment have turned on a new tide even in the face of virile copyright law. Based on these current trends, a reappraisal of the Copyright law vis-a-vis piracy activities in the Nigerian environment is the main spectrum of this paper. This paper establishes that socioeconomic factors are responsible for the high commercialization of intellectual products in the Nigerian …

Work Stress And Information Anxiety Of Library Personnel In Academic Libraries In Nigeria, Adenike Ayokari Adebamiro, Sunday O. Popoola Prof

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The paper investigates work stress and information anxiety of library personnel in academic libraries in South-west, Nigeria. The research design adopted for the study was survey method of the correlational type. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample population of 308 (60% of the population) out of 703 library personnel in academic libraries in South-west, Nigeria. The findings of this study revealed that the level of work stress of the library personnel is moderate with a mean score X = 52.45; SD=7.366. The level of information anxiety of is also moderate with mean score X=36.87; SD= 6.370. …