Browsing by Author "Ghosh, Saptarshi"

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    Are They Really Aware? A Digital Venture for Addressing "Digital Literacy"among the P.G. Students at the University of North Bengal
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Esh, Manash; Ghosh, Saptarshi
    The ability to locate, organise, assess, analyse, and utilise using digital technology is referred to as digital literacy. It entails having a working knowledge of several technologies as well as understanding how they might be employed. The study's main objective was to determine the literacy of using digital resources by postgraduate students of the University of North Bengal, West Bengal. Thepresent study also determines the student's level of ICT skills, frequency of internet use by the respondents, determines their awareness ofvarious databases, as well as their expertise with various search algorithms for retrieving E-resources. The study also highlights the Mann-Whitney U Test on the Digital literacy level of the P.G. Students with a two-tailed result where "Male" higher than "Female" or"Female" higher than "Male" doesn't matter.The significant findings of the study highlight the association between "Frequency of use of the library" and "Satisfied with services provided by the library" with a p-value: 0.2496, Pearson's Chi-Squarestatistic as 10.224 and Degrees of Freedom (df) as 8. It was also found that P.G. students rated their digital skills as High (a total mean of 3.809). The parameter with the highest mean (4.33) was "Learning may be enhanced by employing digital tools and resources," and the parameter with the second highest mean (4.26) was "training in technology-enhanced language learning should be incorporated in language education programs."
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    How Worthy is Cloud Computing for Libraries
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Ghosh, Saptarshi
    This paper attempts to demystify the intricacies involved in cloud computing. Models of cloud computing and its effective implementation for mid-sized organization is emphasized. Lastly, it has been attempted to explore how cloud computing can extend Library services for better sustainability.
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    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.
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    Managerial Cores in Open Science: Interpreting ‘Open’ With Library and Information Science
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Roy, Aditi; Ghosh, Saptarshi
    Open Science promotes scholarly communications through collaborations between societal agents by sharing information that is accessible and reusable for everyone. The benefit of science and society promotes transparent and reproducible open knowledge creation and engagement of societal actors to enhance scientific knowledge. This study focuses on the core concepts of Open Science and Library and Information Science discipline to delineate a relational association between the two. This study also tries identifying the motivational traits in Library Management and Open Science by interpreting Maslow’s Need Theory and Schwartz’s Value Theory. Lastly, this study traces technology acceptance by library professionals with the elaboration of the Technology Acceptance Model given by Davis. Libraries provide open access and sharing of resources, information storage and retrieval, data handling and research data management, and guide researchers on open access publishing, open licensing, and others. In the proposed Technology Acceptance model conceived by the authors, the external factors actively or passively influence the attitude and behaviors of library professionals to use technology and systems for promoting Open Science initiatives and practices.
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    Mapping the Global Terrain of OpenDOAR Utilization: Insights from Data Visualization Approach
    (INFLIBNET Centre Gandhinagar, 2024-09-19) Esh, Manash; Ghosh, Saptarshi
    Open-access repositories have become essential platforms for distributing scholarly knowledge globally, fostering accessibility and collaboration within the academic community. Understanding the landscape of OARs and use patterns across different regions is vital for advancing scholarly communication and research dissemination practices. This study maps the global terrain of OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) through a comprehensive analysis using data visualization techniques. Leveraging data from OpenDOAR, insights into the geographical distribution, software preferences, content types, and growth trends of OARs are provided. Advanced data visualization techniques, including dynamic pie charts, line plots, and choropleth maps, offer a nuanced understanding of OAR usage patterns. The analysis reveals significant disparities in repository distribution across continents, with Europe leading in repository count, followed by Asia, North America, South America, and Africa. The United States, Japan, and Germany emerged as top contributors to the repository count. Longitudinal analysis indicates consistent repository growth in the USA, Japan, and Germany, while other countries show varying trends. The analysis of software usage across continents reveals variations in adoption and use within scholarly repository ecosystems, with DSpace emerging as the most widely adopted software globally. This study provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of OAR usage, offering implications for researchers involved in scholarly communication and research dissemination. Understanding these trends can inform strategic decision-making regarding software selection, resource allocation, and collaborative opportunities within the global scholarly community.
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    Metadata Quality Benchmarks of ETDs in International Institutional Repositories: An Automated Appraisal
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2023-11-17) Roy, Aditi; Ghosh, Saptarshi
    Good metadata quality makes a record more discoverable, facilitating search and retrieval. In this study, three methods are used to determine the quality of metadata of Electronic Theses and Dissertations; these are - Marc Report Analysis of Metadata, Metadata Quality parameters suggested by data.europa.eu, and lastly, a java based pre-compiled program by Peter Király has been used in this study. This study provides a brief comparative account of Electronic Theses and Dissertation Metadata structure of Institutional Repositories and Libraries. The comparative analysis of each repository shows that the total number of the record count is much higher in the case of the libraries as it was downloaded using z39.50/ SRU client. In contrast, in the case of repositories, only four sets of data are harvested using OAI-PMH. The field 040$e=rda is absent throughout the records of the institutional repositories. However, the field is present in a few records of the library, i.e., the University of Colorado shows 930 occurrences out of 1000 records. The process of metadata quality analysis involves a combination of automated tools and human expertise, ensuring a comprehensive evaluation of metadata attributes and relationships.