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Global Retracted Research Publications: A Bibliometric Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Garg, Mohit; Hasan, Nabi
The present study used a bibliometric technique to draw the patterns in retracted publications over time. A sample of bibliographic data of 12876 documents up to the year 2021 was extracted from the Scopus database. The analysis found that the number of retracted documents has significantly increased in the last decade, with most documents in 2010 (4377) followed by 2011 (3534). The study found that most retracted documents were from China, followed by the United States and India. The highest number of 70 retracted documents were from the author Nazari, A. of Islamic Azad University, Iran, with a rate of 4.04 retractions per total document published. The other authors were Ueshima, H. (68), Otake, H. (45), Sato, Y. (45), and Iwamoto, J. (41) from Japanese Institutions. The highest rate of retraction per total documents were of Ghoranneviss, M., Islamic Azad University, Iran (24.65), followed by Boldt, J., Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (24.04), and Shamshirband, S. National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (18.54). The majority of the source type was found to be Conference Proceedings (11096, 60.71%), followed by Journal Publications (7159, 39.17%). The study found the maximum number of retracted publications were in the Conference Proceedings (11096, 60.71%), followed by Journals (7159, 39.17%).
Exploring the Readiness of Indian Private University Libraries for Offering MOOC Services
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Lazarus, Flora Charles; Suryasen, Rajneesh
This study focuses on understanding the preparedness of private university library facilities and infrastructure in the MOOC setting. To determine how the platform of these online courses can be better utilized by the students, eventually leading to promoting the quality of education in the university. A survey of 157 library professionals and LAC members was conducted to know the existing situation of the university library and professionals in the MOOC scenario. The data was investigated via the Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS). The results showed that the current library setup is not suitable to accommodate MOOC services for library users and the library professionals are also not adequately trained for understanding MOOCs and deliver MOOC services to the library users. This study delivers actionable points, based on relevant academic literature and the user survey, for library management and policymakers to re-equip the academic libraries to offer MOOC services to the users.
Knowledge Management: A Bibliometric Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Joseph, Jobin
Knowledge management has acquired great importance in this information overloaded situation. Every organization or institution in these days gives utmost priority to knowledge management. Because any organization or institution would be useful and persuasive if and only if it caters the information needs of patrons and society in general. A good knowledge management system is a must to cater the information need of the society. A good, efficient knowledge management system can play a vital role in enhancing the dissemination and retrieval of the information. Besides, it save the time and resources to a great extent. This forced the academic world to concentrate more on the theme knowledge management. Many authors studied and written on this theme further and discussed it from different point of views with a view to paving the way to function better and satisfy the information needs. This article makes a bibliometric analysis of the paper written on the theme knowledge management in order to find the research trends on this theme.
Role of DOAJ in Promoting Open Access in India
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Dandawate, Vrushali Sainath
The Open Access (OA) movement supports online access to scholarly publications, eliminates financial and legal restrictions, and supports the dissemination of knowledge. Open access is not a new concept for Indian researchers. Still, there is some gap in the open access movement in India. Open access journals are growing in India, but many are questionable publications, and researchers are sending their papers to such journals. Many times, researchers are not able to identify the correct journal for their paper publication. The major goal of this study is to evaluate the role of DOAJ in the corpus of knowledge made by scholarly publications published between 2003 and 2022. Worldwide recognized database DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was analyzed for this research study. Open access publishing demonstrates how the world of knowledge is dynamic. India has significantly contributed to the growth of knowledge with its 326 open access journals. DOAJ ambassador and other OA advocates are also trying for promoting open access in India
Status of Indian Research Data Repositories: A Study based on Research Data Registry
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Wadhwa, Vinayak; Joshi, Manoj Kumar
A research data repository is a location to preserve and store research data virtually. Maintaining research data in repositories promotes research collaboration opportunities and increases data transparency. The primary objective of this study is to examine the different research data repositories in India listed in the Research Data Repositories Registry with their subject coverage, access policies, data formats, standards & specifications used for implementation. This global registry presents data in typological classifications like institutional, disciplinary, and multidisciplinary projectspecific repositories.
Current Trend in the Library System: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Parihar, Vinod; Sharma, Diksha; Singh, Pramod Kumar; Sharma, Diksha
There are many trends in the library system, such as, Internet of Things; Electronic resource management; cloud computing; federated search, and many others as well. However, the present research focuses on an academic integrity and plagiarism as the current trend in the system of library science. This research discusses the concept of plagiarism: it adopts the approaches of acknowledging, referencing, paraphrasing, and checking plagiarism by using particular software, such as, Ouriginal; Turnitin; and others. Avoiding plagiarism and acknowledging a piece of text leads a researcher towards realizing the academic integrity. This paper also discusses the significance of the academic integrity in the academic pursuits of a researcher; it also suggests the various ways of establishing the research ethics and integrity in the culture of research.
Convalescent Plasma Therapy and COVID-19: A Scientometric Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Shukla, Svetal H; Asnani, Roma Yogesh
Call to action condition during COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, where no specific antiviral agents were available to treat, convalescent plasma transfusion was used worldwide to prevent severity and disease progression. Since the late 19th century, convalescent plasma therapy was used worldwide to weaken several outbreaks caused by human respiratory viruses like 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, 1958 Argentine hemorrhagic fever in Argentina, 2003 SARS epidemic (SARS-CoV-1), and 2019 COVID-19 pandemic. This scientometric analysis focuses on the research done on CP therapy and COVID-19 during 2019 to 2022 to know the most productive authors with their affiliation, keyword analysis and highly cited publications to get overview of research progress. A total of 1,56,071 publications was found in Web of Science for the years 2019 to 2022. VoSViewer and Bibliometrix R were used for data analysis. Harvard Medical School having highest publications. USA, China, UK, Italy, India, Germany, Canada, Australia, Iran and France are the top 10 contributing countries. Purpose: COVID-19 virus outbreak all over the world. An increasing number of researches for the use of CP therapy in COVID-19 patients are upcoming research and this report aims at performing scientometric analysis of all the available researches to get the detailed analysis.
Internet of Things for the Sustainable Library Development in the Digital World
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Bhoir, Janhavi P; Shivarama, J.
More than at any other time in history, sustainable library growth is essential to providing education and research. One of the key pillars of sustainable library development is the use of ICT and research skills to promote library expansion. The adoption of new technology enhances delivery of library services. Library information activities are changing rapidly due to the advent of new technologies. External elements such as developing ICT infrastructure, online, social networking, and mobile technologies, as well as legal concerns such as digital rights management (DRM), have been used to build digital information systems and services. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the key developments we can see in the library; the Internet of Things (IoT) is believed to impact how we live significantly. Objects in the Internet of Things could be people, animals, or physical objects like cars. The objects could communicate with one another, connect to the Internet, and communicate with people. IoT applications and sensors will inevitably be implemented in our daily lives. Every day, more systems and linked devices call for their use, enhancing quality of life, health, and safety, among many other uses.
Scope of Metaverse Technology in Central Library, Rajiv Gandhi University
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Pandey, D K
The era of the twenty-first century is all about the internet. It’s high time that we are moving from Web 2.0 to web 3.0. With the advent of the pandemic, there has been a push toward access to technology in the education sector, one such technology which is the future of the internet of things is ‘the metaverse. Technology can be best merged with technologies to reach the last miles of the country. As this paper focuses on the scope of metaverse or virtual world technology in Central Library, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. As Arunachal is situated in one of the toughest terrains in the country, it become important to understand how we can connect to the student communities in a virtual world, how it will benefit the students, and what are the obstacles that will come in our path to transform the library into the virtual library. Lastly, the paper discusses the need for a librarian in the virtual library.
Perception and Awareness of Ph.D Students Towards Execution of Internet of Things (IoT) in Library Services: A study of IIT Madras
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Sinha, Priyanka; Panja, Ayan; Brar, Khushpreet Singh
Aim/purpose: The purpose of this paper is subjected to the perception and awareness of Ph.D. students regarding future application of IoT in library services and prominent challenges faced in its execution. Research Methodology: Quantitative research approach involved survey of Ph.D. students from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. The data collected through structured questionnaires from stratified random samples and was analyzed using JASP and excel applications. Findings: The findings showed that most respondents were in favour of implementing new technology, specifically the IoT, in library services. A number of respondents were even conversant with the IoT both generally and in relation to library services. The study on IoT application in library space is a major breakthrough, and with its potential benefits in user authentication, easy remote monitoring of library resources, using IoT applications in libraries will reduce the delivery time of services and reduce the time of book issue/return process, but also pose some challenges that must be acknowledged as deduced, including a lack of staff with domain-specific training, a lack of infrastructure and budget, compatibility issues while installing. Research implication: The aim of this paper is to understand the perspective and acceptance of students towards introduction of new technology IoT in library services and the potential challenges faced during or after its implementation in library services. The empirical results of this study provided a more accurate picture of libraries' readiness to introduce IoT-enabled services and a detailed interpretation of that readiness.
Reaching Out: A Case Study of Jadavpur University
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Datta, Swaguna; Majumdar, Shrabani
In today’s modern world, where everybody is trying to make a living or working towards achieving a goal, we often forget the difficulties of people who are not exactly like us. They need some kinds of assistance to lead a so-called normal life. There are many kinds of disabilities. Amongst them, this paper studies the accessibility of documents by the visually impaired students in a university environment. The things we do without batting an eyelid, they find it difficult to study a simple text. They are called print-disabled person - a person having difficulty in reading printed document due to some physical or visual disability. In this context a case study has been prepared for the Accessible Library for Persons with Disabilities, Jadavpur University. This paper studies in depth the role and function of this accessible library for the visually impaired students of Jadavpur University.
Authorship Pattern and Degree of Collaboration in Librarianship Topic
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Kumar, Rajan; Behera, Mukesh
The professional field of librarianship integrates both theoretical and practical domain knowledge. It is a distinctive profession that deals with knowledge. The function and duty of each author on a research project or paper is currently being defined in the field of research. With a sample of 1538 documents downloaded between the years of 2002 and 2022, the current study describes the topic of librarianship in detail and reveals trends in authorship patterns and author's collaborative research across all publications on the subject as represented in the Web of Science database. There are 1.76 authors on average per article. The degree of collaboration (DC) in the study throughout the course of the entire 21 years (2002-2022) is 0.39. Over the duration of the 21-year period, single-author publications have outnumbered multi-author publications. According to the study, group or team research is more appealing to librarianship scholars than solo inquiry.
A Quick Overview of Open Educational Resources Videos available on YouTube through Sentiment Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Deka, Manashjyoti; T A, Yadukrishnan; Kumar, Amit
In an environment where higher education is competitive, learning resources are frequently seen as significant intellectual property and often come at a cost that leads to the exclusion of a group of aspiring learners. Open Educational Resources (OER) are digital learning materials that are freely and publicly available on the Internet from organizations and people inrecent times. One such platform where OER contents are available is YouTube. By means of examining OER videos on YouTube throughout the year 2021, this article intends to look into the development of the opensource movement. Using sentiment and emotional analysis approaches, this article looks at how viewers perceive and engage with OER YouTube content. It then offers useful information to OER enablers for the movement's efficient growth and spread in the context of user interaction. In the end, this study offers a route towards understanding how sentiment analysis might help in structuring the tactics to make significant and pertinent materials survive and thrive in an era of unending explosion of random information.
Imbibing and Implementation of NEP2020 for Re-imagining Libraries for Research and Development
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Gujral, Garima; Shivarama, J.
Education is the fundamental right for all and is essential for achieving full human potential and an equitable, just society leading to national development. Universal access to quality education is the goal and aids the leadership and economic growth of our country on a global level. Developing and maximizing the potential of our country can be achieved through universal high-quality education. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 4) is about quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Achieving this goal requires re-imaging the education system so that all the critical targets can be met by the year 2030. India aims to have an education system that guarantees equitable access to highest quality education for learners regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds. The National Education Policy 2020 is the first policy of the 21st century that addresses several developmental milestones of our country. NEP 2020 proposes revised and revamped aspect of the structure of education. This paper lays emphasis on the role of libraries in promoting and implementing E-learning, digital education, online learning pedagogies. It traces the pivotal role of libraries and information management centers to achieve the full potential of the policy and understanding technology use and integration in several domains. The role of information scientists and knowledge managers is also highlighted followed by the skills and competencies to achieve the full potential of NEP 2020.
Digital Information Management in Ardent Era - A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Verma, Monika; Verma, Mohit Kumar; Kumar, Pawan
The present study investigated the aim and implementation challenges of NIScPR Data centre, including its deployed architecture, functional components requirement and importance. We also explore applications of data centre hardware components as well as usefulness of running applications. The personnel interaction and interview method has been used to find out the essential information. In depth we found that CSIR-NIScPR has bulk of digital information resources, services, web portal, including official websites of CSIR headquarter and sister labs. Study revealed the importance of streamlining of all the NIScPR services, which running on multiple standalone servers were situated at, distinguish locations. Now, various national level services such as CSIR-IPU Unit, NKRC, ISSN, ISA, OP, NOPR, NSDL and NUCSSI are running properly and securely with effective failure management system.
Library as a Learning Resource: A Study Based on NAAC SSR Submitted by Different Colleges in Assam
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Mahanta, Prafulla Kr.
The primary goal of NAAC is to ensure the quality of higher education institutions in India through a combination of self and external quality evaluation, promotion, and sustainability initiatives. Accreditation status defines the improvement of an institution. It is mandatory for all colleges and universities to be accredited, which takes place once every five years. The NAAC assessment process takes place in three stages: the self-study report (SSR), the student satisfaction survey (SSS), and the peer team report. An institution should prepare the SSR-self-study report prior to visiting the NAAC peer team. The self study report is divided into seven criteria, which cover all aspects of higher education in India. The study is prepared to analyse the SSR submitted by different college libraries in Assam from the year 2020 to 2022. Data was gathered from the NAAC and the respective college websites. The results of the study have revealed that only one college, out of eighteen colleges, has acquired the highest grade of A+, while nine colleges, out of eighteen colleges have acquired B grade. Again, eleven colleges out of eighteen have been found partially automated, while six colleges out of eighteen have been found fully automated. According to the study, college authorities should facilitate modern technologies in libraries by providing a variety of information sources, both print and online, to increase usage of library among the user community.
Topic and Trend Analysis of LIS Research Articles in the UGC-CARE Group I Accredited LIS Journals Using Voyant Tools
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Anand, Vinay; Gaurav, Kumar
This study aims to identify specific topics and trends of academic journals, based on 435 articles published for the limited period of 2021 to 2022 in the UGC-CARE Group I approved LIS journals through Voyant tools. Using this tool, topic modelling, term frequency analysis, trend analysis and keyword context analysis was conducted. The results found ten topics for research articles that were published in the various UGC-CARE listed Group I LIS journals in the limited period of the time. The analysis reveals that most of the research published in UGC-CARE Group I LIS, deals with the topics of diverse library applications and various case studies practices. The results also reveals that the most of the articles are written in the Indian context. It indicates that the researchers write their articles in the Indian prespective, is the most prevanlent in UGC-CARE listed Group I journals
Towards a National Collection: Metadata Aggregation of Digital Cultural Heritage
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Kumar, T K Gireesh; Gireesh, Praseetha
The Preserving and promoting cultural values are essential for the sustainable development of the country, which is a complex task. In the past few decades communities have embraced digital technologies to gather, record, and organize their collection in a systematic way to enhance its discoverability which empowers diverse audiences worldwide. Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAMs), cultural organizations, and memory institutions go beyond the physical display and engaged in transforming the online exploration of cultural artifacts and historical archives by harnessing innovative technologies. Cultural content in digitized form is an important resource and providing online access to these resources enhances their visibility, which can in turn contribute to the economic growth of the country. The potential of digital technology can also be utilized for bringing multiple cultural heritage collections together for better visualization and accessibility. However, standards-based and compatible technologies for the digitization process are essential for their uniformity and interoperability so that they can eliminate the challenges associated with discoverability and usage of resources by potential audiences. Cultural heritage aggregators are platforms that can address the difficulties of discoverability in cultural heritage resources by enabling search across multiple cultural heritage collections and improving access to the contents. This study gives an overview of the various Indian initiatives to safeguard the cultural heritage assets of the country, and its major digital initiatives in this direction, and highlights the need for an Indian aggregator platform for a national collection of cultural heritage.
Towards Advancing Creativity in Libraries Using Natural Language Processing for Data Curation: A Bibliometric Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Rana, Pooja; Singh, Pramod Kumar
Natural language processing has significantly become one of the most advancing topics in the field of artificial intelligence. Knowing its capabilities of using semantics to extract relevant information from large volumes of data, its applications for data curation are worth exploring. NLP has an increasingly signifying role in different fields; therefore this study aims to examine the research output of the NLP for data curation. For this purpose, a bibliometric study on NLP for data curation is presented and research publications are retrieved from Scopus Database. The network analysis is done using the VOSviewer software. The results have shown an increase in the publication from the year 2014-2021 with an average of 29-30 publications each year. The USA is found to be dominating the field among other countries. Among the most prolific authors,Ananiadou, Vijay-Shanker, and Hirschman lead the list, accounting for 7.63% of the total output. The five main thematic areas identified are natural language processing, human, information processing, information retrieval, and data mining. The bibliometric analysis of NLP for data curation, uncovering the present status, paves the way for future research opportunities in libraries.This study will allow us to explore and understand research developments systematically and optimize libraries by employing NLP models for data curation for effective transmission of data for the end users.
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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