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Mobile Reading Habit In The Digital Era: A Case Study Of Under Graduate Students, Tripura, India, Mithu Anjali Gayan

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Purpose: The study was carried out with an aim to understand the mobile reading behaviour among the millennials of the state of Tripura.

Methodology: The questionnaire having 35 questions was administered to 120 under graduate students of different departments from Govt. Degree College, Khumulwng and Ramakrishna Mahavidyalay. Out of 120 students, 82 have responded from Govt. Degree College, Khumulwng and the response rate is 68%. Out of 120 students, 80 have responded from Ramakrishna Mahavidyalay and the response rate is 66.66%.

Results: The study revealed that highest number of respondents from Govt. Degree College, Khumulwng belongs to Female 53 (64.63%) …

Identifying Contextual Challenges And Modifying Traditional Methods Of Library Instruction In Private University In Nigeria, Dr. Saturday U. Omeluzor, Atanda Saliu Sambo, Sunday Ikhimeakhu Dika

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The pilot study investigated the integration of information communication and technology (ICT) with library instruction in Clifford University Owerrinta, Abia State, Nigeria. The emergence of ICT as a tool for teaching and learning and its acceptance in all human endeavours has increased the need for the modification of the methods that are currently been used in the delivery of library instruction in most universities in Nigeria. The study was a pre and post type using a total enumeration method with a population of 124 first year students of 2016/2017 academic session. Two instruments were developed and validated by two professors …

Usage Of Electronic Resources Among The Faculty Members Of Arts In Annamalai University, Soniya R

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The study aims at investigating usage of electronic resources among the faculty members of Arts in Annamalai University. Total of 125 questionnaires were distributed and 110 questionnaires received back. In this Internet era, users have a number of options to fulfill their information needs. They need not come physically to the library to use print formats but can stay at home or the office and access online a variety of library resources and services via networks or authentication methods at any time.

Authorship And Collaboration Pattern In Srels Journal Of Information Management During 2008-2017: An Evaluation, Sunil Kumar Yadav, S N. Singh, Manoj Kumar Verma

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The present study is an evaluation of authorship and collaboration pattern in SRELS Journal of Information Management during 2008-2017. Total 578 articles published during the study period out of which 196 articles are published by single author and rest 386 articles are published by two or more than two authors. It is clear from the study that multiple authorship pattern is prominent in the journal. In the study it has been counted that the average collaboration index is 1.86, average collaboration coefficient is 0.36, average degree of collaboration is 0.66, average relative growth rate is 0.32 and average doubling time …

An Indian Based Mooc: An Overview, Lun Haumin, Margam Madhusudhan ,Associate Professor

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A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to a large number of people. These are online courses with unrestricted numbers of participation and open accessibility. MOOC gained popularity during the early 2010s and have been presented as an alternative to the traditional instructional model, focused on the lecturing instructor and relying on digital content that is available to all students. The present study attempt to introduce all the MOOC available in India, compare them using Similarweb pro, explain why country like India needs MOOC, its challenges and provide few points to address for …

The Use Of Web And Its Resources Among Research Scholars Of Social Science At Guru Ghasidas University (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India: A Study, Ashwani Kumar, Ashwani Kumar

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The main purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the different use of web and its resources among research scholars at Guru Ghasidas University (A Central University), Bilaspur, India. The study mainly focused on the use of web and preferred information source as well as methods to access the web. In this study a well-structured questionnaire survey of Eighty Nine (89) full-time research scholars of various departments under the faculty of the social science reveals that the majority of the respondents access the web regularly. Most of the research scholars’ access to web based resources with simple keywords. …

Reading Habits Among Children In District Central Libraries In Southern Tamil Nadu: A Case Study, Dr.P.Balasubramanian Subramanian Bala Subramanian, Bindhu S Mrs, Balasubramanian P Dr

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The information seeking behaviour of Library users among children was studied based on the objectives of study a questionnaire was set and imparted among randomly selected children respondents. The study was limited to only five districts of Southern Tamil Nadu. The Study areas of five districts were selected based on the bilateral study from earlier research work done. Since, so far, no such study has been conducted on the reading habits among children in Southern districts of Tamil Nadu, the present study has been chosen by the researcher for her research work.

Technical Processing Of University Library: A Theoretical Study, Rajib Kalita

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Technical services operations comprise of ordering, claiming and receipt of materials, cataloging and classification of materials; and serials control. Beside these, other technical services operations contain circulation, documents, foreign language and special collections, and bibliographic instruction in technical services areas. This leads me to believe that the distinction between technical services and public or reader services in individual libraries is based on custom and tradition arising out of incidental circumstances, rather than on fundamental principle. In this article, I tried to provide some basic aspect regarding technical processing which help in maintaining the library bitterly. In this article, I include …

The Role Of Competitive Intelligence In Provision Of Quality Information Services, Akorede Muftau Diyaolu Mr.

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Competitive intelligence CI is the purposeful and coordinated monitoring competitor(s), wherever and whoever they may be, within a specific work or service delivery. Meanwhile, "competitors" are those firms considered as rivals or counterpart in business, and with whom competition is likely.

It is on this light and through review of related texts, that this paper looked at the followings subheadings of the paper:

1. The Overview of Competitive intelligence
2. The role of information professionals in quality service delivery;
3. The relevance of competitive intelligence to information services;

However, suggestions were made on the use of competitive intelligence for the purpose of information …

Where Does Data Science Research Stand In The 21st Century: Observation From The Standpoint Of A Scientometric Analysis, Arindam Sarkar Mr., Ashok Pal Mr.

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In this scientometric study through the meticulous analysis of year and language wise distribution of publications, document type wise distribution of contributions, year wise citation analysis and country wise productivity in the field of data science research, an effort has been made to delineate a vibrant image of the present condition of data science research. Data have been collected from Scopus database for the purpose of the study. The study reflects that among the total 3793 publications on data science, the highest number of publications i.e. 604, were published in 2018 and lowest number of publications i.e.42, were published in …

Bibliometric Portrait Of Select Open Access Journals In The Field Of Library And Information Science: A Scopus Based Analysis, Nilaranjan Barik, Puspanjali Jena

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The present study is a bibliometric analysis of select 10 open access journals in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The study intends to establish an idea about the yearly growth of publications, most contributing countries, most contributing institutions, types of documents published, most cited publications, prolific authors, citation impact, authorship pattern, and some other bibliometric aspect of these journals. The findings in the study reveal that there is steady growth of literature seen in LIS open access journals during the period of study. About 83 countries and 990 institutes/ universities across the globe have contributed to these …

Lotka's Law And Pattern Of Author Productivity Of Information Literacy Research Output, Manthiramoorthi Murugan, Saravanakumar Rr Dr, Thirumagal A Dr

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Bibliometric analysis was carried out in the research output of information literacy using Web of Science (WOS) from 2008-2017. The objectives of the study is to identify the authorship pattern, measure and calculate the relative growth rate and doubling time of the research output and testing of the validity of Lotka's law using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (K-S) goodness of fit test. The result shows that the applicability of Lotka's law was fit to the research output of information literacy.

Cited And Citing Pattern Of Indian Journal Of Pure And Applied Mathematics: An Evaluation, Ajay Kumar Chaubey Mr.

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This paper examines the cited and citing pattern of Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IJPAM) in terms of source, authorship, subject diversity, accessibility, citation-age, quantity & citing-life. This study is based on the data collected from 5 Volumes, consisting of 30 issues, carrying 171 articles, citing 2754 references from 575 citing sources of IJPAM published from 2009 to 2013. Whereas for collecting cited references, every published article from the official website of the journal namely Indian National Science Academy (INSA) was downloaded, for citing references, Google Scholar and Scopus both were explored to recognize the maximum number of …

Recommender Systems For Digital Libraries: A Review Of Concepts And Concerns, Vishal Gupta, Dr. Shriram Pandey Assistant Professor

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The study hopefully has given an understanding of Recommender System (RS) concept and trends of IR systems especially in the domain of digital libraries. It unfolded the concept of RS through the review of literature and presented an outline of the concepts. Paper discussed the importance of recommender systems in the digital library domain. Study further explain the concept of different kind of RS applied to different digital library software systems. This paper shows how recommender systems functions in different library systems and how these recommender system helps to the users to find and retrieve data or information from different …

Mapping Of Scientific Articles On Leukemia: A Scientometric Study, Shilpa B S, Padmamma S, Arun Kumara T S, Walmiki Ramesh H

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The study analyses the Leukemia research publications in India during 2009 to 2018 based on the Web of Science database. The objectives of the study were to perform a scientometric analysis of all Leukemia research publications by Indian scientist. The parameters studies include growth of publications, document-wise distribution of records, country-wise distribution of publications, identification of most prolific authors, highly preferred journals and highly productive institutions. The result showed that 16794 of records were published in 2016 and 575 of records were published in India. Most of the articles were published in the form of articles, meeting abstracts, review and …

Why Users Need Internet In College Libraries? A Study Of College Libraries In India, Lokesha Naik, Dr. Kishore Kumar S

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The purpose of the study is to investigate the why users need Internet in college Libraries. For the concern of this the investigator has made a study on the use of the Internet by the students and faculty members of the colleges’ libraries in Karnataka, India. The main objective is to find out the use of the Internet, analyse the use of the Internet in relation to other information sources and how they perceive the advantages of Internet and problems for accessing them. Study results show that the academic community who participated in this survey are aware of the Internet. …

The Library As Facilitator Of Public Access To Information: 21st Century Approach, Ozonuwe Opene Sunday Oos, Ohwofasa Faith Faith Off, Lateef Elizabeth Bukunola Leb

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This article describes the nature of 21^st century, the new roles libraries and librarians must play to continue to facilitate public access to information in the face of 21^st century where the information and communication technology products such as the web, internet, android mobile devices and social media network have changed the way we live, think, communicate, obtain and disseminate information (world 2.0).It emphasized how these products have made the world omni presence, omni information/knowledge, omin collaboration and omini access. The paper discussed the challenges21^stcentaury librarians may encounter why applying the information and communication …

Examination Of Youtube Videos Related To Dspace, Lambodara Parabhoi, Dr. Namita Pareek Senior Librarian, Priya . Library And Information Assistant

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Online video is playing a significant role in today life. YouTube is a popular videos sharing site used by millions of people around the world. The objective of the current study is to examine the characteristics of YouTube videos related to DSpace software. It is an open source digital library software use in many libraries. The data was extracted from the YouTube using Webometrics Analyst Software. There were 270 videos found related to DSpace. Furthermore, the results showed that about 76% of the DSpace videos had high definition (HD) whereas, 24% videos had standard definition (SD). Moreover, study revealed that, …

Difficulties Of Accessing Electronic Resources Among Postgraduate Library Users In University Libraries In Southeast Nigeria, Flora Ifeoma Okogwu

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This paper is an empirical study of difficulties of accessing electronic resources among postgraduate library users in university libraries in South East Nigeria. The study identifies the difficulties of accessing electronic resources by postgraduate library users in university libraries in South East Nigeria. It employed a descriptive survey design. The population of the study was 2509 postgraduate users in the state and federal university libraries under study. A 10% proportionate sampling technique was used to select a sample of 251 user respondents. The survey used questionnaire as instruments of data collection. Data collected were tabulated and analyzed using simple statistics …

Digital Footprint For The Personal Branding Of Librarians In The Digital Society, Dattatraya Trayambak Kalbande

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Purpose:-The use of academic profiling sites is becoming more common, and emerging technologies boost researchers’ visibility and exchange of ideas. In this paper highlighted profiling sites. These sites are Research Gate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations, Researcher ID and ORCID, Scopus ID, Blogs, Personal Websites etc.

Design/methodology/approach:- The paper adopts the methodology of simple literature review and personal practical experience. The paper reveals a practical case of digital footprint management.

Findings:- Due to the need for librarians to embrace the unleashed steps in creating a digital footprint of themselves in the present dynamic information environment and emerging knowledge society, the …

Status Of Institutional Repository In Indian Institute Of Technology: A Case Study, Abhilasha Priyadarshani

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The study has been conducted to know the status of Institutional repository in all the Indian Institutes of Technology. The main aim of the study is to know the initiatives taken by IITs regarding IR to explain the current status of IR in IITs. The study is an attempt to know how many IITs have been facilitating IRs, how many community & collection they have and Types of the document they are archiving etc. In this study, all repositories website is analyzed.

Perception As Predictor Of Social Media Utilization By Librarians In Universities In Southern Nigeria, Afebuameh James Aiyebelehin, Obiora Charles Omekwu

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This study investigated the extent perception predicts social media utilization by librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria. The correlational survey design was adopted. The study was built on some elements of TAM. The population comprised a total of 174 professional librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria. Total enumeration technique was used to sample the 174 professional librarians in the libraries. The questionnaire was used for collecting data. Pearson r and R2 was used to answer the research questions, while the null hypotheses were tested with linear regression analysis at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that perceived ease of …

Application Of Author Bibliographic Coupling Analysis And Author Keywords Ranking In Identifying Research Fronts Of Indian Neurosciences Research, Sevukan Rathinam, Sri Amudha Sankar

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Probing research fronts identification unfailingly delivers interesting results in any field due to its decisive nature. Citation analysis is an acclaimed method used in this process among which more successful results backing Author Co-citation Analysis (ACA) and Author Bibliographic Coupling Analysis (ABCA). The current study opted to combine author bibliographic coupling network analysis and author keywords to explore and display a graphical representation of prominent research areas’ evolution over the study period in Indian Neuroscience research domain. Application of hierarchical clustering to author bibliographic coupling networks for all non-overlapping consecutive years included in the study period were performed and analysed …

Scientometric Analysis Of Diabetes Research Output During The Year 2014-2018: Indexed By Web Of Science, Boopathi P Mr, Gomathi P Dr

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To assess diabetes research productivity in India and analysis to various parameters in the view of the scientometric analytical study. Collections include (Articles, Reviews, Meeting Abstracts, Letters and book chapter), etc. published 8016 diabetes journals in 2014 – 2018 were screened with the Web of Science database (Clarivate Analytics). The study mainly focused on the Author and journal wise distribution, Year and country wise output and Institution wise collaboration are discussed in this paper. Most of the research articles published from India, between 2016 and 2017 has been published more journals. All India Institute of Medical Science has published highest …

Mapping The Research Publications Pattern Of Faculties Of Library And Information Science Department, Mizoram University, Aizawl From 2008-2017: A Bibliometric Study, Ravi Kumar Shukla, Sanjay Kumar Singh Prof., Manoj Kumar Verma Dr.

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The paper focuses on the mapping of library and information science research publication output of the faculty member of the department of library and information science (DLIS), Mizoram University (MZU) during the period of ten years i.e. (2008-2017). The detailed curriculum vitae of faculty members of DLIS were obtained and bibliographic information of their papers was recorded. The study deals with 279 publications of DLIS, MZU. The present study examines and analysis that the DLIS output by different patterns such as the form of publication, the relative growth rate of publications, doubling time for publications, annual growth rate (AGR) of …

Management Of Digital Libraries For Active Learning Environment: Trends And Challenges, Av Karthick

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E-content learning is one of the innovative information system based learning environment that has adopted in every library throughout the world. It deals with work-related the digital library even in the presence of an electronic resources department. It can be achieved with the assistance of digital technologies for making to access and delivering the contents. A virtual classroom for learning and training has a sustainable increase in recent days. User-friendly Libraries is the major source of that contributes to improving the knowledge of both faculties and students through active search. The biggest advantage of E-content learning is you can learn …

Publishing And Copyright Law In Nigeria: A Preview, Ferdinand Ezekwe

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Publishing is an essential attribute of modern information age which

Is responsible for issuing books, maps, photographs and other printed materials.

The definition of publishing reveals components of the publishing process- book

design, editing work and production processes. Owing to business environmental forces the business thrives in different sizes as determined by their capital outlay

and operational modalities. Along this line the paper examines the brief history

and state of publishing in Nigeria. The copyright law and its regulatory role are

equally discussed. Problems facing the publishing industry in Nigeria such as severe infrastructural defects, lack of marketing programme, undercapitalization, …

Some Methodological Aspects Of Selection Serials To Be Included In The Information Environment For Researchers In A Technical Or Natural Science (By Example Of Optoelectronics And Optical Systems), Vladimir S. Lazarev, Inna V. Yurik, Pavel A. Lis, Dmitriy A. Kachan, Natalya S. Dydik

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A comprehensive citation analysis-based methodology for selecting the world scientific serials to be included in information environment for researchers in a specific natural or technical science is featured. The case study was fulfilled for serials to be included in information environment for researchers in optoelectronics and optical systems (OOS) with the use of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) data. The indices taken for serials evaluation were: total citedness of a serial in the selected journals specialized in OOS; the “discipline impact factor” (Hirst 1978) i.e. the impact factor which numerator is the magnitude of a serial citedness not by all the …

Global Research Publications On Hepatitis C From Scopus Database (2009-2018): A Scientometric Study, Siva N, Vivekanandhan S, Rajendran P

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This paper examines the Global publications on hepatitis C research during 2009-2018. This study aims to analyze the hepatitis c research publications, carried out by using the Scopus online database during the period of ten years from 2009 to 2018. From this study find out the year wise growth of publications, country, author, organization, document type, language-wise publications, and citation analysis and identified the impact factor (IF) of the journal productivity in the field of hepatitis C research.

During the ten year study period, it identified that 59926 publications contributed to the field of hepatitis C research. During the period, …

Accounting, Organizations And Society: A Bibliometric Study Based On The Science Direct Database During The Year, 2005-2014., Barada Kanta Mohanty

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A totalityof 1000 papers from selected journal “Accounting, Organizations and Society” from the subject area of Social sciences has beenconsideredas the major source of data collected from Science Direct Bibliographic database for the present research work as a survey of 10 years (2005-2014)a citation length of whole study.The study examines the various aspects of the journal such as: Authors productivity,degree of collaboration,authorship pattern,citation pattern,productive countries and institutions,prolific author,scholarly publications and research excellence ect. The paper highlightsinstitutions by distribution of their productivity. The research output of this study provides a better understanding of patterns, trends and several important quantitative factors in …