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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 …

Web Presence Of Arts And Science College Libraries In Kerala, India: An Analysis Of Content, Archana Sn

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This study aims to ascertain how and to what extent the information regarding libraries is presented in the websites of the Arts and Science Colleges of Kerala, India. The contents of the library websites/webpages were analysed using a check-list containing 28 criteria, developed for this purpose. A sample of 32 colleges were selected for the study. The most popular features available in these websites were identified and the websites/webpages were ranked on the basis of certain scores assigned to every criterion. The major findings shows that majority of these colleges have a web presence and information regarding library opening hours, …

Halal Tourism Indicators: A Bibliometric Study, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Muhammad Aswad, Wahyu Ario Pratomo, Endang Hendrayanti, Yulizar Djamaluddin Sanrego

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This study aims to determine the development map of halal tourism research that is published by reputable journal. By searching with the keyword “Halal Tourism”, the data analyzed from 65 publications of indexed halal tourism research publications. The results showed that the number of publications on the development of halal tourism research from 2009-2020 experienced a fluctuated increase and the most were published in 2020. The author who published the most research results in the field of halal tourism was Amr Al-Ansi, Mohamed Battour and Joan C. Henderson. In addition, the most significant journal on halal tourism is International Journal …

Exploring The Boundless Influence Of Electronic Resources On The Patrons Of Medical And Engineering College Libraries, Keshav Ramesh Dhuri Dr, Jovita Lobo Ms

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The present research study is a snapshot of the influence and use of e-resources by the patrons of Engineering and Medical Colleges in the state of Goa. Living in the digital era, e-resources are increasingly important to all aspects of education from learning to teaching. The study aims at exploring the boundless influence of e- resources on the patrons, the use and needs and also the availability of e-resources in the libraries of medical and engineering colleges in Goa. The data for the study is gathered from 960 users which comprised of students and faculty. The exploration discovered that the …

Fifty Six Years Research Productivity Of Library Resources And Technical Services: A Bibliometric Analysis, Nusrat Ali, Sanila Aslam, Muhammad Naveed, Nadeem Siddique

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This bibliometric analysis represents the fifty six years (1965-2020) research productivity of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS). Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has been publishing a journal “Library Resources and Technical Services”. It is a peer-reviewed journal and continuously serving from 1957. The research having aims to highlights the research outcomes/research productivity of the journal from the last fifty six years. Data was accumulated from Web of Science (core collection). Tools such as Biblioshiny, VOSviewer and MS Excel have been used for processing and data analysis. The assessment is based on various occurrences such as types …

A Bibliometric Study Annals Of Library And Information Studies, Sachin Vaidya

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The study aims to analyze the Annals of Library and Information Studies for a period 2016 to 2020. In this study the issue wise number of articles, authorship pattern and the degree of collaboration are analysed. The study also analysed the country and state wise contribution of articles, the length of articles on the basis of pages and the number of reference.

Utilization And Awareness Of Electronic Resources By The Teaching Staff Of King Fahd University Of Petroleum And Minerals (Kfupm), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Md.Safiqur Rahaman, Dr. Saleh A Al-Baridi, Asif Altaf, Khadeeja M N Ansari

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Purpose: This study aimed to assess the usages of e-resources by the teaching staff of the KFUPM and evaluate the level of awareness, knowledge of the availability and retrieval of electronic resources.

Methodology: A survey was designed to conduct the study using Google form and send it to the targeted participants through email. One hundred-one responses were received from the eight colleges and 33 departments of KFUPM.

Results: The majority of teaching staff uses electronic resources and are aware of them. Most of them access electronic resources for their research work; most of them access electronic resources from off-campus and …

A Study Of Teacher Educators’ Skill And Ict Integration In Online Teaching During The Pandemic Situation In India, Subaveerapandiyan A, R Nandhakumar

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Information and communication technology prompted the sharing of information over the world. For its impact on education, the government and the authorities like the University Grants Commission in India have energized the higher education institutions in India to implement online education during the pandemic situation. This paper attempts to know the teaching faculties' ICT skills and related online class skills in higher educational institutions in India. In India, like developing countries, quick as the lightning change in traditional to fully online classes are like a rumble of thunder because faculties are adopting this situation but students are challenging to adopt. …

Strategic Human Resource Management As Exemplified By The Centre Of Scientific And Technical Information Of The Lublin University Of Technology, Katarzyna Weinper, Stanisława Pietrzyk-Leonowicz

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So far, there has been no study on strategic management issues at the Library of the Lublin University of Technology. The article presents the main elements of the strategic management of the unit, i.e., the methods and techniques of employee recruitment, staff adaptation and turnover, the employee evaluation system, as well as incentives and motivation. It presents a training strategy supporting professional development and defines the problem of pathology and dysfunction in a unit.

Development And Validation Of The Librarian’S Happiness Program Based On Fordyce Happiness Fundamentals, Leili Seifi, Maryam Hassanzadeh, Mitra Rastgoumoghadam

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The present study was conducted to develop and validate a happiness program for librarians based on Fordyce's happiness fundamentals. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and educational program construction. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, by qualitative content analysis, the steps of developing the training program and its validity were performed. Based on the findings of the content validity index, the approved activities were divided into services such as providing ancillary services, providing social services, providing independent learning services, refreshing the public library environment, and so on. The activities expressed in the content validity …

Google Scholar Adoption By Lis Educators In India: An Exploratory Study, Subham Giri, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty

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Google Scholar (GS) is one of the popular online databases fulfilling the research needs of academicians by providing an open and freely accessible platform for searching scholarly research along with basic research metrics (citations, h-index, i10, etc.) to assess productivity of an author or researcher. Now that GS is being used to measure the research performance of individual’s as-well-as institutions, it becomes very important to maintain a verified profile. This paper aims to analyse dual inter-related issues. Quantify LIS schools in India are the primary focus area of the study. Secondly, the scenario of LIS educators of India under GS …

Plotting The Literature On Learning Outcomes And Academic Performance In Higher Education From 2001 To 2020: A Scientometric Analysis, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Behzad Anwar, Bilal Shaukat

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This paper aims to evaluate the teaching skills, learning skills, learning outcomes, and academic performance using scientometrics analysis from 2001 to 2020. The scientometrics method and a total of 7536 published documents were found. The results reveal that the topic of academic performance and article as a type of published document was highly used. The high majority of these published documents are published in the English language and gradually increased in the number of published documents in terms of the year. Further, the author Chamorro-Premuzic T is the top author with 1139 citations and Univ. Grandada at top of twenty …

Digital Information Seeking Behaviour Of Engineering Faculty Members In Rayalaseema Region Of A.P., India-A Study, B Deenadhayalu

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This paper analyzes the information seeking behaviour of engineering faculty members of selected engineering colleges in Ryalaseema Region of AnadhraPradesh. Data were collected by using questionnaire from 41 engineering colleges in Rayalaseema Region. A structured questionnaire was distributed among 1230 faculty members, of whom 968 (78.69%) responded. This study investigates the information seeking behaviour of engineering faculty members in Rayalaseema Region of A.P. The purpose was to investigate the types of information sources used by the faculty members, problems faced while seeking information, purpose of using e-resources, use of e-consortiums and priority of information seeking habits.

Users’ Satisfaction On Sc/St Book Bank Scheme Through Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis, Kutty Kumar Dr, Kutty Kumar Dr

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Ordinal Logistic Regression (OLR) is used to predict an ordinal structured variable given one or more independent variables. In this study, OLR used to decide the level of satisfaction on SC/ST book bank scheme (ordinal independent variable), measured on a five-point Likert type scale from “completely dissatisfied-1 through completely satisfied-5, depending on the discernment of ‘life science’ and ‘engineering students belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Tribe (ST)’. Model appropriateness depends on determining which explanatory variables considered for the model and selecting the link function (complementary log-log link function used in this study). Likewise, the model fitting perceptions, the accuracy …

Mapping The Research Output Of Bundelkhand University: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Publications From 2000-2019, Aparna Dixit, Ritu Singh D.

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Measuring the productivity and output is a common practice for the institutions, when we discuss about research and publications. Keeping this in mind, the bibliometric analysis of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi from the year 2000-2019 is performed in the given paper. This study shows the growth of Bundelkhand University in terms of Primary research output and publicaions in all disciplines. The total number of publications (579) indexed in SCOPUS were retrieved and analyzed to find out the year wise growth, authorship pattern, collaborative coefficient, prolific authors and popular journals for communicating the research work. MS-Excel is used for analyzing and sorting …

Bibliometric Assessment Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology., Rupsikha Kashyap, Aman Verma

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This study presents a bibliometric study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology for the period of 7 years (2014-2020). The paper covers the bibliometric analyses of year wise publication of articles, authorship pattern, total number of contributions, geographical distribution, average number of references per article, etc. The result showed that out of 384 articles single author contributed 112 articles while the rest articles were contributed by joint authors. Study reveals that most of the contribution are from India with 319(83.07%) and the rest 65(16.92%) only from foreign sources. On average 9.14 articles were published by the journal per …

Scholarly Open Access Veterinary And Animal Science Journals Indexed In The Doaj: A Bibliometric Analysis, Ganesan Rathinasabapathy, Koti Veeranjaneyulu

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The objective of this study is to report the outcome of the bibliometric analysis of Open Access (OA) journals in veterinary and animal sciences (VAS) indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).The DOAJ which indexed 16,460 open access journals as on 10 June 2021, contains 335 open access veterinary and animal science journals (2.03%) and provides access to 1,63,500 articles which is about 2.63% of the total articles. Two journals were indexed in 2003 and the highest number of journals i.e. 46 (13.73%) were added during 2018. The 335 OA journals are contributed by 63 countries and the …

Disruptive Innovative Library Services @ International Nalanda University: Present And Future Roadmaps, Dr. Nihar K. Patra

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This paper discusses innovative technologies that have implemented at international Nalanda University, Rajgir, Bihar, India and also planning to implement some other advanced tools and technologies in future. The Nalanda University is an avant-garde International University, a truly “sui generis” supported by 17 partner countries of the East Asia Summit. The Government of India designates it as an “Institution of National Importance” under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Nalanda University envisions its library to be the central fulcrum of its master plan, both in terms of its design and bearing. This paper explains in details the services which are …

Covid-19 And Nursing: A Scientometric Mapping Of Global Literature During 2020-2021, Surulinathi Muthuraj, Jayasuriya T., Srinivasaragavan S., Rosaline Mary A.

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The main aim of this paper is to analyze the global Covid-19 and Nursing literature to discover underlying trends and developments at the global, national, institutional, and individual level using Scientometric indicators. The publications and citations data for the study were sourced from the Web of Science database published during 2020–2021. The most productive and leading countries are: USA with 621 (43.4%) share far by China with 136(9.5%), UK with 108 (7.5%) share and Australia with 101(7.1%) share and other countries are published less than 5% of publications. India possessed 14^th rank with 15 (1.0%) publications share. International collaboration …

Library Professionals Learning Behaviour With The Level Of Expertise: A Survey From Pakistan, Ahsan Ullah Bhatti, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Tufail Khan

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Purpose: This study is designed to examine the relationship of learning behavior with the level of expertise among library professionals working in Pakistan. It aims to compare the level of professional skills for different library areas. The study also explores the correlation of demographic factors with the level of expertise.

Research Methodology: A quantitative research design is used to carry out the current study. A structured questionnaire is developed to seek responses from respondents. Some hypotheses are developed to check these relationships. Library professionals working as practitioners in different library sectors or faculty members teaching at library schools are the …

Covid-19 And Emergency Medicine: A Scientometric Assessment Of Global Publications, Surulinathi Muthuraj, Prasanna Kumari N., Shanmuganathi A., Bhuvaneswari A., Jayasuriya T.

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This study analyses Covid-19 and Emergency Medicine research output during 2020-2021 on different parameters including global publications share, citation impact, contribution of authors and patterns of research communication in most productive and preferred journals. Web of Science Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 2 years (2020-2021) with 991 publications using the combined search of Covid-19 with topic field and Emergency Medicine with using Web of Science Subject Categories. The USA tops the list, with a publications share of 38.6%(383) followed far by Italy and UK ranks second with 7.7%(76), Canada with 7.6% and India ranks 14 …

Digital Preservation Of Library Resources: Strategic Planning A Management Perspective, Dr. Rakesh D. Parmar, Dr. Urmila Pravin Rawat

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Abstract

Our cultural heritage has been presented on many different materials, including stone, vellum, bamboo, silk, paper and etc. these all materials for information storage had been found in physical medias. That time the attention had been focused only on preserving physical media. Now a day a variety of information exists in digital forms, including emails, blogs, social networking websites, national elections websites, web photo albums, etc.US Library of Congress, had reported(1998) that 44% of the sites available on the internet. It means technology help us to access the cultural heritage from storage of digital memory. However technology creates some …

Research Productivity Of Agricultural Faculty Members With Special Reference To Maharashtra, India: A Scientometric Study, Santosh Dnyanobarao Kadam Dr., Shankar Chandrakant Bhusawar Mr

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The study presented in this paper has examined the research productivity, for the period 2004–2019, of four agricultural universities located in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The 4,120 research publications of these agricultural universities, as reflected in the publications-related output of the Indian Citation Index, were analysed to ascertain the growth and patterns in agricultural research. This study presented, among other things, the year-wise distribution of research productivity, co authorship index, and collaborative index, degree of collaboration, most prolific authors and top-ranked sources preferred by the agricultural faculty members for publishing their research output. It was found that there was …

Innovation Management In The Library: A Bibliometric Analysis, Budi Harsanto

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The library plays a central role in facilitating access to knowledge and being a center in what is currently known as knowledge management. Libraries that are culturally subject to rigid rules and identic with a bureaucratic atmosphere face a high challenge in innovating. The purpose of this paper is to explore the publication development on innovation management in the library. The method used is a bibliometric analysis of publications on innovation in a library context, which is then analyzed using the innovation management perspective. The analysis results identified five clusters: innovation culture, technological innovation, innovative human resources, knowledge management, and …

Knowledge Mapping, Intellectual Capital And Organizational Intelligence, Gautam Gogoi, Dr. Pranab Kr. Barooah

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Knowledge management initiatives rely on maps to locate internal knowledge, similar to how an explorer in the wilderness follows a map. Knowledge maps, like travel maps, are static. A knowledge map is a “snapshot in time” that helps businesses understand and organize knowledge assets. It's anything but an express model inside a business cycle of who has the information, where the information is found, and why it is significant. Perhaps the most well known strategies for recognizing information in associations is information planning. It can help chiefs to all the more likely comprehend the information stream inside the associations. Planning …

Academic Library In Times Of Covid-19, Gopakumar V, Anuradha V Dr

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COVID19 has gripped the whole world. After the Second World War, this pandemic has perhaps had the largest impact on humanity. Though we expect the COVID 19 crisis to come to an end in the near future, the undeniable fact is that we may have to live with restrictions for a while. The management and use of institutions like libraries have also been severely affected by this pandemic and thus forced management and staff to introduce protocols such as social distancing and other measures to prevent the spread of this contagion. This article discusses how academic libraries in Goa, India, …

A Review On Literature Of Islamic Work Ethics In Malaysia Between 2010-2020, Mohd Annas Shafiq Ayob, Faridah Mohd Sairi, Noor Syahida Md Soh, Azhar Abdul Aziz, Mohd Norazri Mohamad Zaini

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Islamic work ethics is the religion-based rules that are formed to generate workers that have high quality and productive. Hence, the objective of this article is to analyze and examine the related literatures on Islamic work ethics in Malaysia between 2010 until 2020. This study is through descriptive research based on the document analysis on previous studies and literatures on Islamic work ethics from free-of-charge and free-of-registration online journals under ‘Islamic work ethics in Malaysia’ keywords, gained from web based journals and articles which including books and conference paper. Therefore, only 33 articles that are published under journals publications comprises …

Digital Publishing Habits, Perceptions Of Open Access Publishing And Other Access Publishing: Across Continents Survey Study, Subaveerapandiyan A, Yohapriya K, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur

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In this transformative world, changes are happening in all the fields, including scholarly communications are trending in the academic area of publication and access to the resources, especially emerging the wave of open access, open science and open research. The study aims to investigate the digital publishing behaviour of manuscript authors. This study applied a quantitative approach and survey questionnaire method. The researcher collected the data from 251 authors, editors, and peer-reviewers from 45 countries worldwide. The research mainly focuses on the importance, need, and author preference for open access journals. Everyone cannot use and access subscription-based journals; the critical …

Assessment Of Literature Growth In Anthropometric Measurement Research: A Bibliometric Analyses Of Scopus Indexed Publications, Khadeeja M N Ansari, Norizzah Binti Nabi Khan, Nur Fadhilah Binti Mohd Omar, Hala A. El-Wakeel, Md Safiqur Rahaman

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Purpose: To evaluate the global published literature in anthropometric measurement research between 1971-2021. Anthropometry is the study of the size and shape of the human body generally refers to the measurements and data used to characterize the size of human users.

Method: Scientometric and bibliometric tools applied to analyze the research published indexed in the Scopus database. The study focused on indices, namely annual research growth, impactful author, relevant source, country collaboration, productive organization, country, etc. MS Excel, Bibexcel, RStudio (Biblioshiny), Scientopy, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer are used for the quantitative analysis.

Results: There is steady growth in the literature of …

Plotting The Literature On Precautionary Measures Of Covid-19: A Scientometric Analysis Of Web Of Science, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Abeel Naseer

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This study attempted to evaluate the scholarly publications on COVID-19, social distance, physical distance, social isolation, and self-isolation employing the scientometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The main purpose was to consolidate the published scholarship on the COVID-19 in the Web of Science indexed documents. A total of 635 publications were found. The results indicated that social distance and COVID-19 was the top topic along with the article as a type of document, and the majority were published in the English language in 2021. The name of Gimenez-Llort L was at top of the list of authors, along with …