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

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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 …

Application Of Citation Analysis In Development Of Core Chemistry Information Sources In Nnamdi Azikiwe University Library, Awka., Angela Nkiruka Ofoedu, E. S. Anaehobi

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This study was carried out to develop core information sources in chemistry using citation analysis. A total of 85 theses submitted to the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2019 constituted the population. A bibliometric study was conducted using indicators such as types of cited sources, most cited journals, most cited books, age of cited journal and books and availability of cited journals and books in the university library. A total of four thousand, seven hundred and thirty (4,730) citations were obtained from the 85 theses. The findings of the study revealed that journal was the most cited source with …

Open Educational Resources (Oer) Issues And Problems Experienced By Social Scientists Of Select Higher Educational Institutions In India, Amit Kumar, Diganta Baishya, Manashjyoti Deka

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Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore the OER issues and problems experienced by social scientists at select higher educational institutions in India. In addition, the study also focuses on to create awareness about the concept and recommends some points to improve the OER practice.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The relevant data for the study was obtained through a well-structured questionnaire followed by personal interview wherever it was required. The well-structured & precise questionnaire was distributed to 300 social scientists (research scholars and faculty) of different higher educational institutes such as University of Delhi (DU), Mizoram University (MZU), Jawaharlal Nehru …

Publication Productivity Of Women Physicists In India: A Scientometrics Study, Bebi Dabas

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The present study focused on the research publications of women faculty in the field of physics, Astrophysics, Astronomy and Atmospheric Science in India. To collect the data we have covered the women faculty of Central Universities, State Universities, IITs, NITs, IISER’s, NISER’s, research institutes, laboratories and some selected deemed universities. The first fact we found was that the number of women were very less as compare to male staff. To see the publication productivity of women authors we tried to analyze the year-wise productivity, authorship pattern, preferred journals, place and designation and the research papers received highest citations for the …

A Review On Recent Advances In Content-Based Image Retrieval Used In Image Search Engine, Smita V. Bhoir Ms., Sunita Patil

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Since the advent of visual data on the Web, there has been a more significant increase in image search activity. Lack of knowledge of visual content can lead to inconsistencies in methods that employ text retrieval. Searching an image and getting a relevant image is a challenging research issue for the computer vision community. The value of recent research on Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has gone up significantly in the last decade because it has focused on discovering relevant images. The first is the problem is due to the intention gap and the second is due to the semantic gap. …

The Policy Studies Journal: A Bibliometric And Mapping Study From 2015-2020, Binti Azizatun Nafi'ah, Ali Roziqin, Dedik Fitra Suhermanto, Amaliana Nur Fajrina

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As a leader of the contribution in public policy and scientific knowledge, Policy Studies has impacted a broad audience, both theoretic and practical. This article aims to provide a complete overview of research trends and research themes published in Policy Studies during the period 2015-2020 with a bibliometric approach. Bibliographic data downloaded from Scopus database. The study uses the bibliometric tools with VOSviewer and R studio programming. Findings indicate that Policy Studieshas consistently published in policy science research. During that period, most researchers were from developed countries, and much of their work was influential. Seven main clusters are often …

Scientometric Study Of The Journal- Carbon, Sivankutty V S Dr, Jinu Sudhakaran Dr.

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Scientometric evaluations have gained popularity in the academic and research fields over the last decade. The present study is a comprehensive scientometric evaluation of the Journal - Carbon. Carbon is a peer-reviewed international journal published by Elsevier and created in collaboration with the American Carbon Society. The author metrices, the applicability of Lotka’s Law and the word metrices in the output during the years 2016-2020 are attempted in this study. The results show that the journal is widely cited. The analysis of author metrices reiterates the extent of collaborative authorship in the journal.

Research Productivity Of University Of Delhi: A Scientometric Study, Shehbaz Husain Naqvi Dr

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Scientometrics studies have now a days become popular to evaluate and rank research productivity of authors, institutions and universities globally. Number of such studies has been published in various journals, conference proceedings, review papers, book chapters, and research reports. The study was taken to analysis research productivity of University of Delhi during the last 30 years.

Websites Of Open Access Digital Repositories Of Agricultural Sciences In European Continents: A Webometric Study, Sanjib Ghosh, Prof. Bijan Kumar Roy

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This study examined the different link structures and web presence of agricultural digital repositories of Europe through webometric indicators. The Google search engine was used in this study to collect data. Different web impact factors and WISER index values have been calculated. The correlation between the WISER rank and Inlink impact factor of these websites is calculated. And found that CaSA NaRA occupied the first position with 90.2% SWIF presence amongst 89 digital agricultural repositories in Europe. Bioversity International Publications ranks first position with 238000 Web Pages and 4950000 in-link web pages and 207.983193 RWIF. UM's institutional repository of the …

Principals’ Management Of Library Resources And Teachers’ Lesson Preparation Practices In Secondary Schools: A Predictive Evaluation, Valentine Joseph Owan, Rosemary O. Osim Ph.D., Emanghe E. Emanghe Ph.D., Eyiene Ameh Ph.D., John Asuquo Ekpenyong

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The literature is predominated by studies seeking to clarify the extent of the availability, functionality, accessibility and/or utilisation of library materials in schools at various levels. The extent of principals' management of library resources and their contribution to the lesson preparation activities of teachers seems to have been under-researched. In bridging the gap, the current study was designed to assess the extent and contribution of principals’ management of library resources to teachers’ lesson preparation practices. Six specific objectives were of interest to the researchers. The quantitative research method, following the ex-post facto research design, was adopted. The stratified proportional random …

Importance Of Information Product For Economic Development, Supriya Mallik, Debasis Bera

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The collection of information and the construction of knowledge has become an inevitable part for the economic growth and development. Now we are living in an advanced world where information is becoming important for every human to upgrade as technical development. The present information age is running to face many more challenges to achieve these much-needed goals. That is rapid technological advancement, which also creates new opportunities for using information virtually in all human pursuits. The extensive development of informational technologies, the emergence of information networks, the increasing reliance of the contemporary society on collecting, processing and distribution of information …

Predictors Of Use Of School Library Makerspace By Secondary School Students In Ibadan, Nigeria, Deborah Keshinro, Olawale Oyewole

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The use of school library makerspace by secondary school students could enhance their skills in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Technology (STEAM). However, findings from empirical studies have revealed that the level of makerspace use by students in Nigeria seems to be low. This seemingly low level of makerspace use by students could be attributed to the perceived usefulness of makerspace from their perspective and their attitude towards innovation. Thus, this study examined the influence of these factors on the use of school library makerspace. The descriptive design of the correlational type was used and the study population consisted of …

Comparative Analysis Of Citation Based Scientometric Indicators Of Desidoc Journal Of Library & Information Technology (Djlit) And Annals Of Library And Information Studies (Alis) Journals Using Scimago Journal Rank For The Period 2016-2020, Dr. Sudhi S. Vijayan, Renjith V. R

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In the academic world, journal rankings have broadly used to evaluate the impact and quality of scholarly journals. The study's key objective is to comparatively analyze the citation-based scientometric indicators of DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) and Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) journals using SCImago Journal Rank from 2016 to 2020. The data was collected from SCImago Journal Rank website. This article discusses the year wise SJR with quartile, citation per document 4years/3years/2years wise, self cites and total cites, external cites and cites per document, percentage of international collaboration, citable and non-citable documents, cited and …

Library And Information Science Professional Skills And Entrepreneurial Intention Among Undergraduates Of Universities, Martina Ekpenyong Ekeng Dr., Abimbola Labake Agboke Dr.

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This study investigated the relationship between Library and Information Science Professional Skills and

Entrepreneurial Intention among Undergraduates of Universities Cross River States and the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The correlational survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 284 undergraduates and this was also used as the sample. A validated research-made questionnaire with a reliability range of 0.71- 0.79 was used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis showed that acquisition of the following variables: indexing …

Research Visualization Of Different Treatment Modalities To Treat Covid-19 Infection: Bibliometric Analysis Of Pubmed Database, Abeel Naseer, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Imtiaz Ahmad

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This paper designed to examine research published in PubMed indexed journals of different treatment modalities to treat COVID -19 infection employing bibliometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The purpose was to consolidate the published scholarly work in the PubMed database on different treatment modalities including vaccine, oxygen supplementation, dexamethasone or steroids, aspirin, heparin, remdesivir, zinc, vitamin c or ascorbic acid, oxygen, anti-malarial like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin or macrolides. We employed a bibliometric analysis technique and found a total of 3043 published documents. The study findings depicted that vaccine and COVID-19 top was at the top of the …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of 14 Private Universities Of Himachal Pradesh Between 2004 And 2019: A Publication In Scopus, Damodar Parabhoi, Rakesh Kumar, Ranjna Devi, Kritika Sharma

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Research evaluation plays a vital role to find out the strength and weakness of the given field. The current research was based on the Bibliometrics analysis of fourteen private universities of Himachal Pradesh between 2004 and 2019 using the Scopus database. A total of 3923 publications were examined in this study. In this research, we took basic parameters like year wise growth of publications, citation growth by University, year-wise citation growth, most prolific author, most favourite source and most global cited documents. The result showed that journal was the most preferred form of publication in this study. Further, the study …

Students’ Knowledge On Library And Information Science (Lis): An Option For Choosing A Career, Elizabeth Allan Lascano

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Library and Information Science (LIS) is a degree program being offered in the different HEIs in the country though this program has been offered long time ago there are few takers of the said program. This study analyzed the level of knowledge of senior high school students on LIS as a career. Further, this study looked into significant differences in terms of knowledge when grouped according to sex and track. Also, this study explored on the possibilities of senior high school students to enrol in the LIS program. The output of this study is to assess their knowledge and to …

A Scientometric Mapping Of Highly Cited Works On Medicianal Plants., Senthamilselvi .. A ., Surulinathi .. M ., Srinivasaragavan .. S ., Jayasuriya .. T .

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This article is written to analyze the articles published in Web of science in the context of the keyword “Medicinal plants”. Using the key word “Medicinal plants” a search was made in the Web of Science database to find the articles which are cited more than 100 times by the authors during the year 1989-2021. From the result of the search it is found that 1387 articles were cited more than 100 times. The main aim of this paper is to help the researchers, in the domain of Medicinal plants, to identify the mostly cited journal, most productive and cited …