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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.
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
Research Data Management through Research Data Repositories in the field of Computer Sciences
(2022-11) Prashar, Prerna; Chander, Harish
The present study described the research data repositories landscape all over the globe briefly. The main objective of the paper is to describe and analyse the research data repositories indexed in re3data.org in the subject of Computer Science. About 98 repositories were indexed in re3data.org. These repositories were analysed for country, software, language of the repository, content type, database access, data access, data upload, data license, policies and metadata standards followed by these repositories. The result will highlight the position of computer science repositories in the registry and further provide insights to the repository developer for further research in this area.
Open Science: Global Position and Share of India
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) S, Nayanthara; Sulochana, Anila
Various movements, such as open access, open data, and open-source software have sought to address different facets of the crisis in science. While the open science movement has been gaining momentum in different parts of the world, the movement hasn’t gained due momentum in India. Like most other parts of the globe, science in India is also facing a severe crisis in various aspects. Unfortunately, appropriate action has not been taken to address the problem in science in India in a holistic manner. With the Open Science movement accelerating globally, it is vital to understand India’s position in formulating and implementing OS initiatives and policies. This article attempts to map the global position of India in advocating, adopting, and supporting Open Science and to figure out India’s share in the global Open Science movement.
Measuring the Open Access Friendliness of Indian Institutions through Data Carpentry
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Roy, Abhijit; Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi
The present study has investigated the open access friendliness of top Indian academic institutions that have been ranked in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2020. Open access friendliness has been measured based on two areas: i) the OA publication area and ii) the use of a license in OA publications. The present study has analyzed, over the last ten years, a total of 6,04,586 primary publication data (2010–2019). The data carpentry tool, named OpenRefine, has fetched the open access status of the institutional publications. The indicator assessed the selected institutions' open access friendliness. The final OAF ranking shows that 36.63% (n=37) of institutions have an OAF score above 50 and OAF scores ranges from 36.51 at the lowest to 74.99 at the highest. The overall OA share for top 100 institutes in India in the given publication time frame is 23.73%.
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.
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.
Impact of Smartphone Among Postgraduate Students of Manipur University: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Hauminlun; Singh, Ch. Ibohal
The present study attempted to explore the use of smartphones by Postgraduate students of Manipur University. It is found that the majority of the respondents i.e 73.91% belong to female users and male students accounted for 26.08%, and 88.04% of the respondents belong to the age group of 21- 25. Android OS is the most used operating software among the respondents. In general, respondents use smartphones for messaging (93.47%), Internet Browsing (91.30%), Calling (Phone calls, Skype, Viber, and etc.) (84.78%), Checking social media accounts(82.60). The academic purposes of smartphones as revealed by students include, to download class materials (93.47%), joining Online classes(89.13%), reading (86.95%), Up/Download Learning Materials (82.60%), to interact with friends and faculty (78.26%), to prepare Assignments (73.91%), to login to the student portal (67.39%), to share academic websites and links (65.21%) etc. applications (Apps) commonly installed include Pdf reader (88.04%), followed by Dictionary apps (67.39%), in the mean time, Applications for learning activities account for only 8.69% and Online class softwares (google meet, zoom) account for only 2.17%.
Global Research Trends in “Big Data” during 2012-21: A Data Mining based on Scientometric Tools
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Borgohain, Dhruba Jyoti; Yadav, Sunil Kumar; Verma, Manoj Kumar
The term “big data” is becoming widespread throughout the world, as it has wide usage because it is no longer limited to the IT industry and entrepreneurship but has entered every aspect of media and communications. But the reason for using big data is only it’s ability in searching, collecting and interpreting huge datasets. Now, the purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the papers related to big data and other relevant fields. Using bibliometric methods and techniques these papers are analyzed and reviewed. The author examined the citation behavior, co-authorship patterns, research hot spots, and trending topics using both traditional and state-of-the-art network visualization and text mining in bibliometric techniques. From the analysis of keyword co-occurrence, a set of 12 clusters of keywords are discovered. Each cluster with identical color and theme. The research hot spots discovered are blockchain, digital twin, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things. The emergence of these keywords indicate that these areas are having lot of scope for future research. To best of knowledge, this study is a first attempt to discover the research streams and will help the researchers to work in these areas to explore new areas and applications of big data in relevant fields.
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.
User-generated Social Tags Versus Librarian-generated SLSH Terms: A Comparative Analysis in Social Science
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Samanta, Kalyan Sundar
The present study tries to evaluate user-generated social tags with librarian-generated SLSH terms in three subjects Economics, History and Sociology under Social Science. The study reveals that both social tag vocabulary and SLSH term vocabulary are not the same for all three subjects but are comparatively large in History. Even the study found a terminological difference between both social taggers and the librarian. Social taggers mostly use single-word-based general subject terms, whereas the librarian uses multi-word-based specific subject terms for all subjects. Again, it is found that social taggers use SLSH terms as tags under three subjects but comparatively use all SLSH terms in major books under Economics. Besides, it is also found that social taggers use more terms from book titles than from the librarian. Social taggers use more title-based terms under History than other subjects. Overall, the present study suggests a combination of social tag and SLSH terms that can enhance the accessibility of social science books.
Usage pattern of e-resources during COVID-19 and post COVID-19: A study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Upadhyay, Navin; Chakraborty, Kanu; Upadhyay, Shambhu Raj; Pandey, Bhaw Nath
The study analyses the usage pattern of e-resources of Shreenivas Deshpande Library IIT(BHU), Varanasi, during the Covid-19 and post Covid-19. The usage data of e-resources is from 2018 until June 2022. The research shows that the usage of e-journals was affected more during the pandemic than e-books. The use of databases and standards also decreased during the pandemic and increased as the Institute reopened and research work started. Highly used journals Science Direct, Springer link, IEEE, and OSA witnessed a sudden fall after March 2020 in usage after the lockdown. Also, access went down even after access to all resources through a remote access facility. The analysis of results will support the library professionals in raising their voices for more budgets before the funding agencies and higher authorities.
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.
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.
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
A Study on Contribution from Indian Universities towards Union Catalogue of IndCat INFLIBNET Centre
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Sundar, R Shyam; Jeyapragash, B
One of the major factors to determine the knowledge of a nation is to understand the collection of books she holds. This study elucidates the contribution of Indian Universities towards the Union Catalogue IndCat. Indeed, 209 Indian Universities participated and 1,36,16,889 book records were submitted to IndCat server for retrieval of information for the public as on 18th June 2022. The number of universities and book records were rapidly growing in numbers as the automation of libraries is achieved. Hence, this study also includes the details about the type of Library Automation Software (LMS) used by universities for a better understanding regarding the development of libraries in technology. Further, this review provides zone-wise distribution of book records and LMS implementation in the respective university libraries. Thus, this study provides a summary about union catalogue of books submitted by participated Indian Universities and type of library software used by the universities towards automation of library and utilization of open source software
Startup Data Preliminaries: A Case Study of Users from Western Maharashtra
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Bhosale, Rupali Sham; Bilawar, Prakash B; Killedar, Sangram A; Hande, Sujata Ashish
The present paper dwells upon the awareness about startups, the support from funding agencies and the role of library and information center in the use of data/information useful for undertaking Startup initiatives of users from Western Maharashtra. The analysis reveals that, 32.78% of users are aware of and working on startup project since last year. Amongst the various types of information resources, search engines are the most frequently resource preferred by 26.22% of users with the mean value of 3.39 followed by the prominent information resources like e-resources, print sources, and online open access resources, etc. as the structural foundation backbone for innovative startup projects. Amongst the preferred working sector, it is noticed that the majority traces towards Science and Technology domain ((59.01%) than the rest of the faculties/subjects. Again, 65.57% of respondents applied customer need and behavior strategy, followed by other strategies like an experiment, practice, trial and error, uniqueness, feedback, marketing, discussion or interview, assumption/confirmation of hypotheses, update, and data diplomacy etc. for their startup plans. Further, 91.80% of respondents opined that after implementing a novel, idea, project, and software it makes an impact on their information-seeking behavior. Again, 70.49% of users opined that finance is a major problem in implementing an innovative idea/project as a part of startup data preliminaries.
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.
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.
Preservation and Management of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Resources in the Information Society: An Outline of the Solution through Emerging uses of ICTs
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Dutta, Anirban; Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi
The goal of this exploratory study is to identify the methods and resources that can help create an information system for cultural heritage resources of an indigenous community. As they live in secluded, self-contained groupings and are completely different in terms of culture and ethnicity from modern cultures, the aboriginal peoples, who were India's first residents, are the least developed in terms of economic development and social standing.The management of cultural heritage resources can best be accessed and experienced when they are in operational condition, as it requires consideration of the lives and living conditions of local communities. Throughout history, many indigenous cultures have either disappeared or have been marginalised to the point of extinction due to colonisation, ignorance of modern civilizations, etc. This paper describes the creation and design of a prototype digital indigenous or aboriginal cultural heritage archive, as libraries, archives, and museums are capable of preserving, disseminating, and reusing such indispensable resources. Only open source software and open standards are being used as technical equipment to carry out this study. This prototype comprises the native indigenous community cultural heritage resources of the Rabha tribal group of the Eastern part of India as a proof of concept and considers the necessity of integrating such a system with the traditional library retrieval system for complex information management needs.

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