Browsing by Author "Chandrakar, Rajesh"

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    Authorship Pattern and Degree of Collaboration in Indian Chemistry Literature
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Pradhan, Pallab; Panda, Saroj; Chandrakar, Rajesh
    The study presents the trends in authorship pattern and author’s collaborative research in Indian chemistry literature with a sample of 53,977 articles downloaded from SCI-Expanded database in Web of Science during the period 2000-2009. The average number of authors per article is 3.55 %. In the study the degree of collaboration (C) during the overall 10 years (2000-2009) is 0.03, but the year wise degree of collaboration is almost same in all the years of mean value 0.97. In the 10 years of period, the multi authorship articles are higher and predominant on single authorship. The study found that the researchers in chemistry are keen towards teamresearch or group research rather than solo research.
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    Copy Cataloguing in India: a Viewpoint
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2009-10) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Arora, Jagdish
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    Indian National Research Productivity in Library and Information Science Charak
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2011-01) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Arora, Jagdish
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    Open journals System: an INFUBNET Initiative
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2010-10) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Arora, Jagdish
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    Retrospective Conversion Tool for Academic Libraries in India: An Initiative by INFLIBNET
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2003-02) Prem Chand; Gohel, Umesh; Chandrakar, Rajesh
    INFLIBNET has ambitious plan to connect libraries, scholars and student by providing resources spread across the country using latest information technology tools. Collecting the entire bibliographic sources of academic libraries and providing online access facility in the form of union catalogue of these resources is major objective of the Centre. In the past, INFLIBNET has initiated major steps in this direction. Retrospective Conversion software is another effort by INFLIBNET, which is significant tool for libraries, who are in the process of automation. This paper reveals about the tool developed recently by the INFLIBNET Centre for retrospective conversion process at local level
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    Standards for Creating Bibliographic Databases in Indian Academic Libraries under INFLIBNET Umbrella
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2004-11) Chandrakar, Rajesh; Prakash, K; Chand, Prem; Murthy, T A V
    In the field of library and information science, importance of cataloguing, classification, abstracting and indexing standards play a major role to represent the appropriate information of any document for patron’s use. In beginning, these standards were used to the documents in the print formats like shelf list, catalogue card etc. Gradually, after the invention of the computer technology, representation of information in print format has changed into the electronic format. There with the development of technology, due to flood of information and variations in the representation of the information, were forced the profession to develop different bibliographic standards; till date almost more than 30 bibliographic standards has emerged. Thus, every country is following their own bibliographic standards for representing the print documents into the electronic format. Same way, India is also working in creating the bibliographic databases of the resources available in different academic libraries of the country. INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre, UGC, Ahmedabad has embarked upon this issue and working in war footing level to achieve the goal. The authors describe the bibliographic standards being used for creating databases by Indian Academic libraries under INFLIBNET umbrella.
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    Unicode Based Multilingual Catalogue Module: A New Feature of SOUL
    (Inflibnet center, 2008-02-28) Vaghela, Divyakant; Rayka, Dinesh L; Patel, Yatrik; Chandrakar, Rajesh
    The INFLIBNET Centre has SOUL software developed for the automation and management of the Indian academic libraries, which has presence across the country in around 1500 libraries. INFLIBNET Centre being a nodal agency for Indian universities and keeping in view the requirement of the modernization of the their libraries with ICT facilities, Centre has developed this software and made available to the libraries in the nominal cost. With the development of the technology and the requirement changes of the library with the technology, it was due for the INFLIBNET Centre to make some necessary changes with the SOUL software. This paper introduces the new catalogue module of the SOUL software with the very new features such as MARC21, Unicode and MARCXML etc abreast with the new applications of the ICT. The Centre happily announces the new name of the SOUL software from the “Software for University Libraries” to the “Software for Library Automation and Management”.
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    Union Database of Theses at INFLIBNET Centre: An Overview
    (Inflibnet center, 2008-11-06) Chavda, Nilam; Chandrakar, Rajesh
    The INFLIBNET Centre, being a nodal agency of the academic sector of the country working in the area of resource sharing among the community, started developing union databases of library resources available in the university sector. In this regard, PhD dissertation being an important vital source of information for the academic research community, the Centre in the initial period of its establishment, started developing the union database of theses with the support of 82 universities having 52000 records. The database has now 2, 20,206 records with support from 238 universities. This article explains about the creation of theses union database at INFLIBNET Centre. It also includes steps involved in creating the database till the making available online for the user community. Further, it gives complete overview about the union database of theses.