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Access to E-journals through UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium: A Study of Usage Trends among the Universities of North East India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Chand, Prem; Arora, Jagdish; Naga, Moses M; Pradhan, Dinesh Ranjan
The paper highlights the usage trends of access to e-journals in ten universities of North East India. The preliminary findings from the data of last five years revealed that there is an upward trend. The paper briefly describes open access journals and the measurement tools of e-journals.
Assessing and Evaluating Research Performance of an Institution using Bibliometric Indicators
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2012-10) Arora, Jagdish; Trivedi, Kruti
This article explains methods and metrics for assessing and evaluating research performance of an institution using Bibliometric Indicators. The paper highlights some of the underlying principles and metrics that are used for evaluation of research performance. It also provides background information to assist the universities / institutions to conduct evaluation of research performance.
Copy Cataloguing in India: a Viewpoint
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2009-10) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Arora, Jagdish
Developing National Ranking for Indian Universities: Moving towards World Class Universities
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2014-07) Arora, Jagdish; Trivedi, Kruti
This article describes important university ranking systems along with indicators and methodology deployed by them for ranking universities. The shortcomings of these ranking systems are highlighted. The article describes I-UGR system of ranking developed for ranking universities in Spain and elaborates on its formula. Finally, the article describes why I-UGR system of ranking universities could also be used for ranking universities in India.
Digital Library Initiative at the INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2012-01) Arora, Jagdish
Digital Preservation and Management: An Overview
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Arora, Jagdish
Digital preservation is not a new concept for libraries. The libraries have been migrating and refreshing their OPAC records as well as their databases developed in-house ever since automation in libraries started in mid 1980s. With availability of products and services in digital forms, libraries are committing larger portions of their budgetary allocation for either procuring or accessing digital contents. Preservation and archiving of digital contents has become a serious concern of libraries for collection either acquired through subscription, purchased in digital media or converted in-house. The article deliberates upon need, relevance and major challenges of digital preservation. It enumerates on dimensions and manifestation of digital preservation and describes traditional preservation tenets as applicable to the digital preservation. The article describes various digital preservation strategies with a caution that appropriate strategies may be adopted depending upon data types, situations, or institutions. The article touches upon digital preservation metadata as a subset of metadata that describes attributes of digital resources essential for its long-term accessibility and describes OAIS Reference Model as well as other major preservation metadata initiatives taken up by the OCLC and ARL. Considering the fact that short life of storage media, is one of the major crucial threat to digital preservation, the article briefly describes storage management as applicable to digital preservation repositories. Lastly, the article touches upon microfilming and digitization as hybrid solution for reliable preservation.
Digital Preservation: An Overview*
(2009-01-29) Arora, Jagdish
E-Learninq Content DeveLopment and Hostinq
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2012-04) Kumar, Abhishek; Arora, Jagdish
INDEST Consortium: Extended
(2003) Guha, Tamal Kumar; Arora, Jagdish
Indian Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium: Consortia-Based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in India: A Government of India Initiative
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2003-02) Arora, Jagdish; Agrawal, Pawan
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has set-up a “Consortia-based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in India” on the recommendations made by the Expert Group appointed by the ministry. The consortium is named as the Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium. The INDEST Consortium has commenced its operation since Dec., 2002 through its headquarters at the IIT Delhi. The Consortium subscribes to full-text electronic resources and bibliographic databases for 38 leading engineering and technological institutions in India including IITs (7), IISc (1), NITs / RECs (17), IIMs (6) and a few other institutions directly funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). While the expenditure on electronic resources proposed for subscription under the consortium for these 38 institutions are being met from the funds made available by the MHRD, the consortium being an open-ended proposition, welcomes all other institutions to join it on their own for sharing benefits it offers in terms of highly discounted subscription rates and better terms of agreement with the publishers. Moreover, beneficiary institutions may also subscribe to additional electronic resources through the consortium that are not being funded by the MHRD. This article introduces the INDEST Consortium, its activities and services.
Indian National Research Productivity in Library and Information Science Charak
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2011-01) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Arora, Jagdish
Information and Communication Technology in Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2009-01-29) Arora, Jagdish
Information technology refers to mosaic of technologies, products and techniques combined to provide new electronic dimensions to information and retrieval activities. The term information technology represents convergence of three strands of technologies, namely computer, microelectronics and communications. It is used to describe products and services that came-up with rapid changes in computer and communication technologies and their fusion. The libraries and information centres have always been quick to find applications of new information technologies in their libraries. Today’s modern libraries perform most of their functions using software packages that are now available off-the-shelf. It has their catalogues available on the Internet with a web-based search interface along with links to resources either acquired through external agencies or created in-house. Most such libraries are on the Campus network with CD ROM networks put-in place to serve the information requirement of their academic community. Several libraries have taken-up small-scale digitisation projects for part of their collection. The librarians and information professionals are required to develop skills that are required to use, develop and maintain IT-based services and products used by today’s libraries. Rapid changes in information technologies and their adoption in libraries during past three decades have drastically changed the functions and activities of information professionals in libraries. The article deals with new information technologies, their applications in libraries and their products and services. It describes webbased library services that are modified versions of existing services and technology-driven new web-based library services.
Library 2.0 : Innovative Technologies for Building Libraries of Tomorrow*
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2009-01-29) Arora, Jagdish
The concept of Library 2.0 is borrowed from that of Web 2.0 and Business 2.0 and follows some of the same underlying philosophies. Library 2.0 encompasses a range of new and contemporary technological tools and techniques that are used for evolving collaborative environment required for Library 2.0. These tools and techniques can broadly be grouped into five categories, i.e. i) Synchronous Communication: Instant messaging; ii) Content Delivery: RSS Feed, HTML Feed, Streaming Media, Podcasting, Vodcasting and SMS Enquiry Services; iii) Collaborative Publishing Tools: Blogs and Wikis; iv) Collaborative Service Platforms: Social Networks, Tagging, Social Bookmarking Services; and v) Hybrid Applications, Programs and Programming Tools: Mashups, AJAX, API and Toolbar. These tools and techniques are useful for libraries in providing new services and making existing services available in new and interesting ways. Implementation of some of these tools and techniques are likely to improve reputation and standing of libraries in the community. Some of them may successfully attract new patrons to the library, others may help to retain existing members or make libraries even more important as centres of the culture and history of their cities and academic institutions. Some of the new services may remain unused, however, since feedback and public opinion is a vital component of Library 2.0, such services may be abandoned in favour of other services that are better accepted by the users. Some of those changes may be viewed as disruptive, while others may not be feasible or applicable to all libraries. These new services and ongoing changes are likely to make libraries more interesting, more relevant, and better acceptable place.Library 2.0 proposes to bring revolutionary changes in libraries that are bound to bring about conceptual, cultural and physical changes in libraries to keep pace with the changes in communities and their information seeking behaviour. Applications of Web 2.0 technologies in libraries will result in a meaningful and substantive change in libraries, its collection, services and methods of delivery of services. The library’s collection will change, becoming more interactive and fully accessible. The library’s services will change, focusing more on the facilitation of information transfer and information literacy rather than providing controlled access to it. The implications of these revolutionary technologies are enormous and are discussed in the paper.
Metadata Crosswalks
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2009-04) Shah, Vaishali; Arora, Jagdish
Open journals System: an INFUBNET Initiative
(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2010-10) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Arora, Jagdish
Searching Online Resources in New Discovery Environment: A State- of-the-Art Review
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Pradhan, Dinesh R; Trivedi, Kruti; Arora, Jagdish
The universe of libraries has evolved and expanded from repository of books, journals and other non-print materials in physical format to knowledge repositories that contain collections in physical as well as electronic and multimedia format. With this changing environment of collection of library resources, the greatest challenge in front of libraries is to find out the best way to present, promote and make accessible the growing collections of heterogeneous resources. Libraries are required to look for search and discovering tools to provide seamless access to their resources. This article introduces basic philosophy of federated search and discovery tools. It elaborates on technological tools, techniques and protocols that are used for developing federated search and discovery tools. The article narrates disadvantages of federated search solutions and discovery tools as compared to conducting a search directly on the interface of primary database. The Concept of open URL as a technology used for link-resolving and finding “appropriate copy” is discussed briefly. Lastly, the article describes contemporary federated search solutions and discovery tools that are available commercially or as open source solution with their merits, demerits and comparative performance.
Shodhganga and Deterring Plagiarismin Research Outputs in Indian Universities
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) K, Manoj Kumar; Arora, Jagdish
Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. The INFLIBNET Centre is entrusted with the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository called "Shodhganga" accessible to all institutions and universities. It is envisaged that the ShodhGanga would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the "poor visibility" and the "unseen" factor in research output. In order to increase quality of research, plagiarism is to be checked before accepting the content in theses and dissertations. Under Shodhganga project, Two plagiarism detection software tools, namely “iThenticate” and “Turnitin”, are being made accessible to 110 universities with funds made available by the University Grants Commission. This paper discusses the model introduced in India for creation of a central repository of theses and dissertations, its current status, guidelines for submission of these, deterring plagiarism under the Shodhganga initiative, criteria adopted by the INFLIBNET Centre for selection of plagiarism detection platform, analysis of usage, recommendation of formulating policies and guidelines to check plagiarism in universities, future plans etc.
WEB-BASED DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES: TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Arora, Jagdish
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