CALIBER 2017:Chennai

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Scholarly Research Articles Published from Anna University, Tamil Nadu during 2011-2016: An Altmetrics Evaluation
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Pradhan, Pallab
This paper presents an altmetrics evaluation of scholarly publications of Anna University published during 2011-2016, and indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database. A total of 5056 publications, i.e. only articles with a total of 25850 citations was collected. The other types of published materials such as reviews, book chapters, editorial materials, and proceedings papers have not been considered for this study. Among those 5056 publications, only 4306 (85.17%) publications which were found to have DOI were considered for this study. Webometric Analyst 2.0 software was used to retrieve the altmetrics data from Altmetric.com for those 4306 articles by fetching queries of 4306 DOIs. It was found that only 361 publications were having altmetrics data as per the data retrieved from Altmetric.com which includes online readership / posts / attentions / mentions, etc. Further, this paper presents the year-wise growth of publications and citations, presence of altmetrics data by their sources, altmetrics mentions across WoS - Broad Subject categories, most prominent publications as per their altmetrics score, and finally reveals the Twitter demographics and geographic (country) of tweets / mentions for these publications from Anna University.
Mapping the Women’s Voices in India: An Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Majumdar, Shrabani; Datta, Swaguna
Women’s studies as an interdisciplinary subject, focuses on the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. There has been tremendous growth in research, scholarship and action related works in the subject area of women’s studies. This is to be made visible and the research trends are to be identified to decide upon and evaluate the focus of the subject. Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), through their thesis and dissertation repository project named ‘Shodhganga’, provides a wonderful opportunity to identify the research trends in various subject areas, and ‘women’s studies’ has been chosen as the scope of the present paper. A total of seven contributing universities, two general and five women universities, are chosen for the purpose. For these seven universities, all the PhD theses submitted for last five decades (since 1970’s), relating to different women related issues are taken into consideration to map the research trend. The results show, that researches regarding women related issues have continuously increased and particularly in the new millennium the trend is experiencing almost an exponential growth. Almost 80% of the total theses in the subject area have been submitted after 2000 and the current decade i.e. 2011-17 is undoubtedly the most productive one. The subject area of ‘Women Employment’ and ‘Women in Literature’ has always dominated the field. The research areas got more diverse from 1990’s and particularly in the new millennium newer fields are started to be explored.
Establishment of an Open Access Repository in a University: The Goa University Saga
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Gopakumar, V; Anuradha, V
The scholarly communication scenario was totally monopolized by the publishers hindering the access to scholarly literature. Costs for subscription and restricted access alienated researchers from getting access to such literature. Open Access and Institutional repositories have come up to save the situation to a great extent. Some people believe that Open Access IRs are alternatives to the traditional publishing where as others believes that IRs only supplement the traditional publishing. However, Academic institutions all over the world have set up IRs and allowing faculty and researchers to self-archive or deposit their research output. This article explains in detail the story of the establishment of an IR at Goa University and the issues and impediments the team faced while establishing it.
User’s Perception and Attitude about E – Learning
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) A, Mangayarkarasi; R, Sarangapani
The purpose of this paper is to examine a user’s perception and attitude about e – learning and effects of quality features, consciousness among the users, and a user’s usefulness of intentions and their level of satisfaction, towards the use of e- learning in Bharathiar University. Based on e- learning user data collected through the structured questionnaire survey, and a quantitative study was conducted with 116 survey responses from various departments who were used in e – learning. The sample consisted of e- learning users and past studies seldom examined a particular models followed by the user’s perception on e- learning. The results revealed that the facilitates of technology in academic activities how could improve positively and prove to be decisive for the purpose of continuous usage of e- learning in the academic environment and action on teaching, learning, and research which has come to be known as a technological strategy.
Open Government Data: Right to Information for the Citizens
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Sen, Paramita; Das, Subarna Kumar
Open access to information, Open access movement for information, initiatives for open government data etc are the major trends of modern educational society. We are going to make a society where there will be no digital divide and every citizen will be information enrich and conscious about his or her rights. In the following article the term open data and its benefit, open government and the organization taking initiatives of it, open government data with its life cycle, principles, perspective, benefits and challenges are discussed in brief. The initiatives taken by the government and other organizations in India are also given in this article.
Job Satisfaction Among LIS Professionals in Select Health Science Libraries in Delhi: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Singhal, Neha
This paper presents the results of the survey that was conducted in 2015 with the objective of studying various facets of job satisfaction and determining the level of job satisfaction in the LIS professionals working in major health science libraries of Delhi. A structured questionnaire was developed to collect the data and 57 professionals from 14 different medical libraries responded to it. Likert scale was used to assess respondents on satisfaction with various facets of job satisfaction viz pay, promotion, interpersonal relationships, nature of work, reward and recognition, job autonomy, job security, management, social prestige, working conditions, job stress, fringe benefits, opportunities for growth, training facilities and ICT impact. The analysis of the data shows that out of the 15 facets studied, professionals are least satisfied with their pay and promotion (scores 2.5 and 2.6 respectively) while they are most satisfied with the ‘ICT’ aspect of their job (score 3.8), followed by working conditions (3.7), interpersonal relationships (3.7), social prestige (3.7) and job security (3.6). Suggestions to improve the same have been mentioned. This study can be deemed as significant to the library managers, policy makers and human resource management.
Ranking Research Productivity of the Arts and Science Colleges in Kerala
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Lakshman, Deepika
Rankings have become a powerful phenomenon in higher education and in spite of several criticisms, they are to stay. Policy makers can make use of rankings to assess the performance of institutions or individuals. This study attempts to analyze the research productivity of the Arts and Science colleges in the State of Kerala which has not been attempted so far. The study also identifies the colleges in Kerala which have collaborated with the institutions ranked in Times Higher Education Rankings (THE) 2016 and the two regional league tables -Asian University Rankings 2016 and BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings. This study can provide the policy makers understand the role of rankings, assess the performance of the higher education institutions in the State of Kerala and reinforce higher education and research output.
Connecting the Past and the Future: Memory Institutions Facilitating Access to Information in Zimbabwe
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Chisita, Collens Takaingenhamo; Rusero, Alexander Madanha
Memory institutions serve as the bridge spanning the gap of the past and the future through the preservation of intellectual and cultural heritage to sustain development and prevent memory loss. Access to information serves as a thread that connects communities, research and memory institutions. The future and success of national development goals are premised on access to information and hence the need to explore how technologies can be utilized to integrate libraries and related memory institutions to support digital inclusivity. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities of developing countries like Zimbabwe in sustaining the digital infrastructure. The paper highlights the extent to which libraries can create digital platforms to interact with the digital public in the area of humanities. The paper also examines how academic library consortia are utilising technology to connect with the scholars and researchers. It explores the extent to which libraries can utilise Public and Private sector Partnerships (PPPs) with National Research and Education Networks (NRENS) and Internet Service Providers (ISP) to enhance the value of service delivery. It will also highlight the challenges and opportunities of promoting memory institutions for the benefit of research and education. This paper also brings out another dimension of the media as a critical platform that preserves and facilitates the access to information, arguing that the media is the first draft of history and as such useful bedrock that memory institutions might reliably rest upon. However, the paper is also cognisant of the possibility of the uses and abuses as well as manipulation of memory institutions as instruments of political expediency. This is so, especially in sceptical regimes who may view memory institutions as nothing other than appendages of power. Yet if truth be told, memory institutions are sacrosanct repositories which ought not to be tempered with.
VIVO: Faculty Research Information System and Discovery
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Kannan P; Sanjay Kumar Tiwari
Information about research and research activities is being scattered in various places such as HR system, course management, grant management system, institutional repositories, open and commercial citation databases, funding agencies and scholarly publishers. The research output and activities of the Institute or Faculty need to be archived with the matured architecture adhering International Standards. The existing system and data are not interoperable within or across the organisation. The publication’s information does not reflect the area of expertise of individual or organisation. VIVO is an open source, semantic-based, community-maintained software developed by Cornel University for research discovery and networking of scholars.
Knowledge Audit of Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) workers in Siliguri Subdivision, West Bengal
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Ghosh, Saptarshi; Pradhan, Sarbada
Knowledge plays a strategically key role to the success and continuous growth of an organization. In the last century, an unprecedented speed of new knowledge creation was observed, leading to faster innovation, sophistication of products and services and their supply and demand, and deep changes in all areas of public life. The knowledge audit has come a long way in the last few years. As a management tool Knowledge audit is a systematic examination and evaluation of organizational knowledge health, which examines organization’s knowledge needs, existing knowledge assets/ resources, knowledge flows, future knowledge needs, knowledge gap analysis as well as the behaviour of people in sharing and creating knowledge. The topic of this article is “Knowledge Audit of ICDS workers in Siliguri Subdivision”. The paper delineates the tools for knowledge captured and its measure with audit techniques for knowledge diffusion in organization.
Ontology Engineering Methodologies: An Analytical Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Syamili, C; Rekha R V
Ontology is a broad term including a wide range of activities. Ontology can provide semantics for the next generation of World Wide Web. Recently ontology has become a major research issues in several disciplines of Computer Science and Information Systems. There are a range of domain ontologies on the semantic web such as Gene Ontology, Biological science ontology, CIDOC-CRM ontology of culture heritage documentation, FRBR in Bibliographic and NCI cancer ontology. When a new methodology is going to build, several basic questions arise related to the methodology, tools and techniques which are to be used in the development process. The study discusses various ontology engineering methodologies and compares major existing domain ontologies with these ontology engineering methodologies. The study critically analyses the problems of existing engineering methodologies and put forward some suggestions to overcome these limitations. The study will act as a guide to ontology developers and ontology experts.
Usage of E-learning Sites Among Ophthalmologists - An Opinion Survey
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) R, Govindarajan; S, Dhanavandan
E-learning have effectively used the technological developments and bestowed a new learning paradigm to the community. The e-learning sites for professionals enable them to sharpen their knowledge and skills in their geographical region itself. In particular, the professionals in the medical field who is servicing to the community need not to relocate themselves from service for learning or updating their knowledge & skills. Thus, E-learning not only benefits the professional learners to update or upgrade their knowledge & skills and also helps the community in getting a continuing service. This paper aims to study the usage of e-learning sites among Ophthalmologists – Eye Doctors. A survey method is used to obtain the ophthalmologists’ usage of the e-learning sites. This particular study is a part of the ongoing study “Information Needs, Sources and Seeking Behaviour of Ophthalmologists in Academic Eye Hospitals in India”. A structured questionnaire is randomly distributed among the ophthalmologists in Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India and 39 ophthalmologists responded as e-learning users. Among the 39 ophthalmologists, 56.4% are male and 43.6% are female. A t-test is conducted to find out is there any no significant difference between the e-learning sites usage score and gender. The p-value (0.772) shows that there is no significant difference between the usage score with gender. 33.3% of ophthalmologists are in the age group less than or equal to 30. 48.7% of ophthalmologists are in the age group between 31 to 40. 17.9% of ophthalmologists are in the age group between 41 to 50. ANOVA is conducted to find out is there any no significant difference between the e-learning sites usage score and age groups. The p-value (0.762) shows that there is a significant difference between the usage score with age groups. The frequency table derived from the ophthalmologists’ responses shows that Aurosiksha is the most popular e-learning site which holds the first rank and Eyerounds holds the second rank. The noumber of e-learning site usage per ophthalmologist is ranging from a single e-learning site to five different e-learning sites
Design and Development of Dynamic Information Security Management Models for Sustainable Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Shivarama, J; Dawar, Vaishali A
In the process of library automation, making digital resources available through library website and during communication with users, there are always chances of information security breaches. Many times, the libraries may need to pay very high price and face uneasy consequences for such incidences. This article tries to create awareness among librarians about the complex process of information security management through overview of various such models. The second part of the paper contributes comparative studies on attributes considered in the selected models. Also, comparative study of attributes in each model with Security Controls Sections in Information Security Standard ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and with functions of management ‘POSDCORB’ by Gulik and Urwik.
WhatsApp used by LIS Professionals in India: Impact and Implications
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Munigal, Achala
With introduction of Internet and various tools/applications on the web and mobile; how information is created, shared, communicated and consumed has changed. Along with these new changes; came new situations and challenges that need to be dealt with. Each social tool has Terms and Conditions (T&C) to become a member; giving rise to legal implications of using these apps and jurisdiction they fall, should a problem arise. These tools and technologies did not exist when Indian Penal Code (IPC) was written; and since it is difficult to make new rules; or make amendments to existing ones; the existing rules are interpreted to encompass today’s challenges. As new issues arise, there are new interpretations of existing legal rules. How WhatsApp, an instant messaging service is impacting the life of people using it and how Indian Librarians have adopted using WhatsApp for personal and professional updation is detailed in this article. Since information is the forte of Librarians; they are having additional responsibility of ensuring that they identify fake from real and authentic information from untruths that is floating around on various social tools especially WhatsApp and educate the general community of the same. This article aims to inform admins/users of LIS WhatsApp groups of legal implications of using WhatsApp tool.
Perspectives on Managing Knowledge in the Data-Centric Research Landscape
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Usha, Mujoo-Munshi
The current scenario of migrating from data deficit to data deluge situation is forcing us to give a thought to bring meaning to the mess by effectively managing the data tsunami. In the Knowledge society, the competitive advantage is gained through understanding the information and predicting the evolution of facts based on data. Digital transactions whether social, economic or in relation to government create data which can, in principle, be used for research and innovation. The present paper touches upon various perspectives of knowledge management in the data centric research landscape. While reflecting on the behavioural aspects of the authors, the paper delineates how the researcher’s environment of working with their own silos with their own small data sets is marking a paradigm shift in approach to collaborate as a community for sharing, accessing data for re-purposing to generate new knowledge. The data generation out of the research activities particularly scientific discoveries is colossal and very significant for brining innovations in research. For this, the author remarks that the key issues are to decipher mechanisms for construing, analysing and extracting meaningful information from this colossal data and manage this ever growing universe of knowledge to provide a robust resource support system for research and innovation, and thereby avoiding duplication of efforts. The paper while highlighting the core challenges, elicits issues that can help in managing data searching, discoverability and usability. To this effect, a number of initiatives that are going on world over to promote effective data documentation and sharing to enable reuse have been educed. Emphasis has been laid on making space for innovation, rather than enforcing rules for innovation by following the new norms for creating discipline in three domains- learning, capturing and reflecting on the technology frontier. The paper illustrates several perspectives w.r.t. Library’s role in Big Data and generating knowledge assets for which capacity enhancement becomes naturally imperative. To this effect, attention has been drawn to various aspects on what Librarians need to know about Big Data and play a part in the ecosystem.
Journey of Information Retrieval to Information Retrieval Tools - IR&IRT A Review
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Gondaliya, Tapan P; Joshi, Hiren D
We can say that after thousands of year’s public have to realize and know the value of archiving and finding the information. With the invention of computers, it becomes possible to store a large amount of data and finding the useful information from them. Basically Information retrieval field’s was dawn in year 1950. [1] Meaning of term Information retrieval can be a very wide. Information Retrieval is one kind of activity that main goal is to obtaining the data resources according to the information needed from a collection of information resources. In this kind of activity search is mainly based on the full text or metadata and other content based indexing. [2] Information Retrieval is mainly used for searching some particular result from the large amount of data. Best example of the information retrieval is searching a strings in particular web search engine. In this paper we first of all describe the Information retrieval &its process cycle after that different model of IR and in next phase of this paper we describe the three different Information Retrieval Tools and comparative study of that tool
Skilled Human Capital Assessment in Library and Information Sector in Electronic Era: A Case Study of Central University Library, Delhi
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Kumar, Ajit; Chadha, R K
The paper examine the Ranganathan and Modern Staffing pattern for LIS human capital and proposed a Hybrid Staffing Pattern for Skilled Human Capital Assessment in Library and Information Sector for selected central university libraries in Delhi. It has been noticed that in the past libraries have been the “repositories of knowledge”, and even today, libraries work as the hub of knowledge and provide access to information. In IT era a great challenge appears worldwide to bridge the Digital Divide between the urban & the rural, rich & the poor, the educated & uneducated, information rich & information poor in view of collecting and disseminating information resources
Webometric Analysis of Selected Library Consortium Websites of India: An Evaluative Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Verma, Manoj Kumar; Brahma, Krishna
Nowadays, due to increase in the cost of the information resources, it is quite difficult for the libraries to procure all the information sources are required by the users. When the Library Consortium, for the dissemination of electronic resources got initiated, many institutional problems got solved by financial assistance to the university libraries. Many consortia in India are running well and many library consortium members are benefited too. The present study is an attempt to examine the websites of 9 Selected Library Consortia in India by analyzing the total number of webpages, domain authority, equity-links, internal & external links and based on that to calculate the web impact factor and to rank it. The study observed that Consortium like e-ShodhSindhu and DeLCon are the most popular among the 9 selected consortia of India.
Library Professionals’ Scholarly Communications over Online Forum: Content Analysis of New Millennium LIS Professionals (NMLIS)
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Shukla, Akhandanand; Dawngliana, Jacob MS
The paper deals with the content analysis of scholarly communications posted over online forum NMLIS by library professionals. The paper discusses about online communications of LIS professionals through online discussion forums like NMLIS and in relation to that reviewed available literature. One year’s scholarly communications of NMLIS have been taken in consideration with numbers of related objectives. Data collection and analysis has been done through online survey and observation methods. Eight categories have been identified for groupings of 2403 scholarly communications. The main focus of scholarly communications has been observed; most prolific contributors of every month have been identified from the group communications; extent of file attachments and numbers of files has been calculated and categorized according to their file types; and finally top most contributors of job related information and library specific information have been identified by number of postings and frequency of postings by contributors. Findings and conclusions have been drawn on the basis of analysis of the collected data at the end.
Entrepreneurship Education Though a Blended Teaching Approach
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Vaidyanathan, Rama; Sharmil, Hepsibah
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is designed for large numbers of participants that can be accessed by anyone without entry restrictions through an internet connection, and offer a free complete course experience. These open education courses are a mid-ground between traditional structured class-room teaching and the freely available but fragmented information in the world wide web (Aydin 2017). In a traditional classroom, the educator has a specific course with clearly articulated goals and outcomes. With the push towards digitization of education, increasing competition between Universities, accreditation requirements, there is clearly a movement in Indian Education towards a learner-centric and outcome based education. Educationists are now adopting digital content in their lecture delivery, using methods other than a written examination, such as seminars, assignments, and group projects to assess the outcome. According to a report prepared by Stanford Class Central, it was estimated that more than 500 Universities offer 4200 courses to 35 million learners globally (Shah 2016). Coursera, a for-profit provider, offers more courses than many others. From India, Indian School of Business, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore offer courses through International MOOCs. Swayam is an initiative by the government of India to offer an online education module. Students who take up the course can get credited transferred to their Certificates. These efforts taken by the Government will ensure that the quality of education improve better opportunities for faculty and teachers.

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