{"title":"Access to electronic resources and services among the research scholars: A study","authors":"K. S. Sivakumaren","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00018.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00018.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the access to electronic resources, services and barriers among the research scholars who are currently pursuing Ph.D programme in engineering, pure sciences, and social sciences in the educational institutions of Tamil Nadu, India. The major objectives of the study are to find the access to e-resources, e-services and also the barriers faced by the research scholars. A well structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents. It is found that majority of research scholars (82.3%) are accessed to “Google Scholars”, and OPAC/WebOPAC service is highly used among other services. It is further analyzed that “Lack of permanent access” and “discontinuation of subscriptions” are formed as major barriers in accessing of e-resources and e-services. The study recommends creating awareness, highlighting the benefits of the resources & services, development/improvement of ICT facilities in the libraries to provide the information requirements of the user community.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115481670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Awareness and use of library resources and services by the research scholars and post graduate students of Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University Fatehgarh Sahib","authors":"Inderjeet Singh","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00023.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00023.7","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to investigate the awareness and use of library resources and services among the research scholars and post graduate students. The objectives are to know the awareness about library resources and services and to investigate the use of library resources, facilities and services. The study also highlights the various type of library resources and services used by the respondents. The study describes that the university library is providing both types of printed and electronic resources to the users. Moreover the study shows the various information searching techniques used by the respondents. The findings of the study show that majority of the respondents have adequate knowledge to use the library resources and services and large number of respondents accesses the electronic resources and services from the university library. Various types of problems and suggestions have been given by the users.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120851796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bradford's Law: Identification of the core journals in the field of Indian Chemical Science literature","authors":"Chaman Sab, D. Kumar, B. S. Biradar","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00022.5","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to analyse the application of Bradford’s Law of scattering to the Chemical Science literature published during 2002 to 2016. The paper presents an overview on scholarly contribution presented on Bradford Law applied in different studies from both theoretical as well as practical aspects and the law is being tested here. The data for this study has been taken from Web of Science.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131733972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ocimum Sanctum (medicinal plant) research: A scientometric assessment of global publications output during 2008-17","authors":"B. Gupta, Ritu Gupta, Anjli Agarwal, Sapna Goel","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00015.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00015.8","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined 1306 global publications in Ocimum Sanctum, as covered in multidisciplinary Scopus bibliographical database during 2008-17, with a view to understand their growth rate, global share, citation impact, international collaborative papers share, distribution of publications by broad subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors, preferred media of communication and bibliographic characteristics of high cited papers. The global publications registered an annual average growth rate of 11.85% and its citation impact averaged to 8.84 citations per paper. Among the top 10 most productive countries, India contributed the global share of more than 79.94% and other top 9 countries global share ranged from 1.0% to 3.37% only. 96.48% of the cumulative global publication share comes from top 10 countries Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics, among seven broad subjects, contributed the largest publications share of 44.41%. Among various organizations and authors contributing to global Ocimum Sanctum research, the 15 most productive global organizations and authors together contributed 15.54% and 6.13% global publication share and 17.67% and 13.14% global citation share respectively. Amongst 1259 journal papers (in 145 journals) in global Ocimum Sanctum research, the top 15 most productive journals contributed 24.94% share of total journal publication output. 18 publications were found to be high cited, as they registered citations from 81 to 213 during 2008-17 and they together received 1969 citations, which averaged to 109.39 citations per paper. It is suggested that the above analysis will help the policy-makers and scholars to explore the full potential of Ocimum Sanctum in preventing and treating diseases and also to identify future research areas in this field.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130134739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marketing of local history collection of public libraries in the age of IT","authors":"Arup Bijali","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00020.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00020.1","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper highlights the importance of marketing technique to promote the local history collections of public libraries. It discusses the value of local history collections, essence of a good collection policy etc. and finally touches on the promotional needs for local history collection, methods of promotional activities and influence of information technology in this regard.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126912332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information literacy among the postgraduate students and research scholars of social science faculty at Aligarh Muslim University, India","authors":"Mohsina Aftab","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00019.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00019.5","url":null,"abstract":"Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to identify the need for information, find, locate, evaluate and use needed information effectively and efficiently. Today, information literacy has become literacy of vital importance because of proliferation of information resources in all forms. This paper explores the information literacy of postgraduate students and research scholars of social science faculty at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. The survey method was adopted for the study. 150 questionnaires were circulated among the postgraduate students and research scholars in social science faculty and 125 were received back for analysis with response rate 83.33%. The findings of the study disclosed that maximum number of the respondents visit the library to borrow/return the books. Books are the most frequently used source of information among them. Google is the favourite search engine used by most of the respondents. It is also found that majority of the respondents are not acquainted with the use of encyclopaedia and journals.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130370945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indexing and Abstracting Bibliographic Electronic Database: A Comparative Analysis","authors":"Bedadyuti Sahoo, Ashok Kumar","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00021.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00021.3","url":null,"abstract":"Indexing and abstracting service provides brief documents assigning descriptors referencing documents. The product of the service may be of abstract of the journal, conference proceeding or any other document which is published in the legitimate manner. This can be served through the gateway of subject bibliography and/or of bibliographic databases. It is required to locate data without being confused and wasting the precious time the users without searching every row of the database table every time. So, it is highly requires for every categories of users’ in general and students, research scholars and faculty members in particular in academic perspectives. So, the aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of the electronic indexing and abstracting databases in the present scenario.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"521 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123574042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Open access journals in the field of computer science and technology - An analytical study of the DOAJ","authors":"Nelofar Jan, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Ashok Kumar","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00016.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00016.x","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the access to electronic resources, services and barriers among the research scholars who are currently pursuing Ph.D programme in engineering, pure sciences, and social sciences in the educational institutions of Tamil Nadu, India. The major objectives of the study are to find the access to e-resources, e-services and also the barriers faced by the research scholars. A well structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents. It is found that majority of research scholars (82.3%) are accessed to “Google Scholars”, and OPAC/WebOPAC service is highly used among other services. It is further analyzed that “Lack of permanent access” and “discontinuation of subscriptions” are formed as major barriers in accessing of e-resources and e-services. The study recommends creating awareness, highlighting the benefits of the resources & services, development/improvement of ICT facilities in the libraries to provide the information requirements of the user community.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128086681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bibliometric study of Indian contribution on Indian Economy during 2006-17","authors":"B. Gupta, Ritu Gupta, Ashok Kumar","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00017.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00017.1","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines 750 Indian publications on Indian Economy as covered in Scopus database during 2006-17, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 15.31%, citation impact per paper of 5.25 and international collaborative papers share of 25.73% during 2006-17. Among sub-fields of Indian Economy, monetary economics contributed the largest share of publications (17.73%), followed by environmental economics (12.80%), political economy (10.53%), business economics (9.20%) etc. 283 Indian organizations and 373 Indian authors participated in research on Indian Economy during 2006-17, of which the top 20 organizations and 15 authors contributed 40.27% and 10.80% publications share and 54.14% and 11.47% citation share respectively of the Indian output and citations. The top 20 journals contributed 52.87% share of the journal output, which decreased from 59.55% to 49.10% from 2006-11 to 2012-17. Of the 750 papers on Indian Economy, only 9 papers registered 57 to 222 citations, and together contributed 973 citations, leading to the average citation per paper of 108.11.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125574631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of information communication technology in Nigerian federal road safety corps operations.","authors":"Richard Paul Chukwugozi","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00025.0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00025.0","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews information communication technology in the operations of Nigerian Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) as well as the paradigm shift in road safety administration in Nigeria. It also reviews the adoption of ICTs and their influence in FRSC, Nigeria. It further sheds light on challenges that inhibit the full utilization of ICTs in FRSC and offers solutions to them. This paper utilized information obtained from secondary (existing literature) sources such as FRSC archived materials and other relevant materials for this review. It therefore suggested the need for government to support FRSC leadership financially in order to strengthen professionalism among its staff through training on ICT and related matters.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124842879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}