027421   ALAHAKOON C N K, SOMARATNE S (Botany Dep, Open Univ Of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, Email: kumaria@pdn.ac.lk) : Development of a conceptual model of ICT self-efficacy and the use of electronic information resources. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(3), 187-95.

The purpose of the study was to identify the ICT self-efficacy (ICTSE) of users, factors affecting ICTSE, and the EIR usage of undergraduates based on the four sources in relation to the self-efficacy theory. The Survey research design was used in carrying out this research. A structured questionnaire was validated through experts and piloted among the final year undergraduates studying Humanities and Social Sciences of four state universities in Sri Lanka. The structural equation modelling was performed using partial least square. The model revealed that ICTSE has a direct, negative, and significant relationship with ICT anxiety and that ICT training also has a direct, negative, and significant relationship with EIR. The model explained that there is a 27 % of variance in the EIR use variable. The management of the library may deem it a worthy investment to instil adequate self-efficacy in users and encourage them to engage in more self-reliant search practices and decrease their dependence on staff. The finalized scales provide a potential tool applicable to different domains and disciplines to yield more common managerial implications in relation to training, teaching, and learning along with can be used as a tool when policy-level decision are made about the behavioral changes among university users on EIR usage in the current ICT domains within the university library systems.

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027431   YUSUF F O, AINA L O (Covenant Univ, Nigeria, Email: felicia.yusuf@covenantuniversity.edu.ng) : Demographic factors as correlates of doctoral degree completion in Nigeria library schools. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(3), 177-86.

A review of literature revealed that doctoral students in Nigeria library schools do not complete their studies at the university recommended time frame. This study therefore examined demographic factors as determinants of doctoral degree completion in Nigeria library schools. The objectives were to find out the average time-to-completion of doctoral degree in Nigeria library schools; ascertain the importance of demographic factors such as gender, age, job designation, work status and marital status to time to completion of doctoral studies in Nigeria library schools; find out if mode of study affects time-to-completion of doctoral studies in Nigeria library schools.The study adopted descriptive research of the survey type. From 26 library schools in Nigeria, 11 were purposively selected. The population comprised 235 doctoral degree holders. Total enumeration of the 235 doctoral degree holders was used. A self-constructed questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data and out of the 235 copies administered, only 183, representing 77.9 % were returned and found usable for this study. The only hypothesis in the study was tested using Spearman Rank Order Correlation. This was tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed a relationship between demographic factors and time-to-completion, while it takes an average of 5.7 years to complete doctoral degree in Nigeria library schools irrespective of mode of study.

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027428   TYAGI U, YANTHAN Z, KUMAR V, TYAGI A K (Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: tyagiuma@yahoo.com) : ICT competency framework for LIS professionals in India: A modular quotient. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(3), 170-6.

The study aims to develop a quotient towards a methodology wherein standards of web-based ICT competency framework for LIS professionals in India can be codified in a broad-based model. This in turn could result in evaluating the current skill-sets and identify ICT requirements for future development in LIS areas. This is also an attempt to design a web-based platform for LIS professionals in ICT competencies in India. The modular web-based framework could be used in the national programme for continuing education of librarians as a tool to adapt curricula to the expectations of professionals in university libraries; foster career-long education and lifelong learning of librarians; support assessment according to the professional development plan and to enhance ICT competencies of university personnel.

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027427   SHARMA J G (Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Email: jagdish1@hotmail.com) : Journal articles based on the dissertations submitted in oncology discipline: A comparative study of India and China. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(3), 160-9.

The study attempts to analyse the conversion pattern of Indian and Chinese oncology dissertations into journal articles. Data were gathered from Web-OPACs of leading national institutes and repositories belonging to both countries and also from the ProQuest database. It is found that compared to India, China has a higher conversion ratio of dissertations into journal articles. It is also observed that Indian authors prefer to contribute articles in Indian journals and Chinese authors publish more in PMC (PubMed Central) based open access journals.

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027429   VIMAL KUMAR V, ABDUL MAJEED K C A (Mahatma Gandhi Library Univ, Kerala - 686 560, Email: vimal0212@gmail.com) : E-resources sharing through linux based virtual private network (VPN): A case study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(3), 156-9.

Mahatma Gandhi University Central Library has established an SSH-based VPN (Virtual Private Network) service to share e-resources with off-campus libraries. The VPN service ensures seamless access to e-resources to the academic community at off-campus departments and Study Centre libraries. Extension of e-resources access to off-campus has increased the usage of electronic resources subscribed by the university. The article presents the first-hand experience of establishing Open Source based VPN service in a university environment.

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027422   CHAKRABORTY S, CHAUDHURI S K (Library and Information Science Dep, Calcutta Univ, Kolkata- 700 073, Email: sarthakchakraborty2012@gmail.com) : Integrating diverse knowledge bases for empowering local farmers in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(3), 147-55.

The dissemination of agricultural information process to the farmers of Baruipur, a community development block in West Bengal, India is studied. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect qualitative and quantitative data from 129 farmers and two government officials. The study reveals that among the available wide range of information sources and learning forms, farmers primarily value local knowledge as it is mainly experience-driven, practical and can be shared or transmitted informally among the farmers. But, informal local knowledge gradually gets influenced by extraneous factors, constructing an alternative pathway that resist the flow of information from reaching to the grass-root level. Limitation of genuine and accurate agricultural information impeded the empowerment of farmers at the micro level which demands for a superior integration among diverse knowledge systems with informal local knowledge. Here, the study identifies a more practical approach for knowledge integration, aiming to secure local preference, dynamisms and internal cohesiveness among participants from different domain. Further, this paper forwards a participatory approach based informal communication model, facilitating two ways communication for better and effective flow of need based, value added, accurate information towards holistic empowerment of the farmers at the ground level.

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027424   INDU M, KANDHOL S, CHERIAN L M (Oral Pathology Dep, Govt Dental College Kottayam, Kerala, Email: indumohan2011@gmail.com) : Digital learning: Whatsapp as a teaching aid in oral pathology for undergraduates. Indian J Dent Sci 2018, 10(3), 160-3.

Influence of social media such as WhatsApp is tremendously increased among students. The query aroused was whether such a familiar platform could be used as a learning tool. The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of WhatsApp as an educational tool in a complex subject such as oral pathology among undergraduate students. Third‑year students of Government Dental College, Alappuzha, were selected as the study population and were divided into Group A and Group B by a simple random sampling. Histopathology slides were discussed conventionally with both Group A and Group B. Furthermore, labeled histopathological images were discussed only for Group A students, in a WhatsApp group named “GDC ALLEPPEY OPATH.” To assess the effectiveness of a new method, a questionnaire was given to both groups and the results were statistically analyzed using Mann–Whitney U‑test. An additional opinion poll was carried out with Group A to identify students’ perspective toward the novel learning tool. Pair‑wise comparison of the mean scores of Group A and Group B showed a statistically significant higher mean score for Group A (P = 0.005). There was a significant improvement in the mean score of Group A in their ability to comprehend individual histopathologic features compared to that of Group B (P = 0.008). WhatsApp can prove to be highly advantageous and enhance learning in undergraduate students when used in supplementation to the conventional learning methods.

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027426   RAO M V V, MAULIK M, GUPTA J, PANCHAL Y, JUNEJA A, ADHIKARI T, PANDEY A (ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi - 110 029, Email: dr_vishnurao@ yahoo.com) : Clinical Trials Registry - India: An overview and new developments. Indian J Pharmacol 2018, 50(4), 208-11.

The Clinical Trials Registry – India (CTRI), launched over 10 years ago, is a free, searchable online platform for registration of clinical trials being conducted in India and as well as countries which do not have a Primary Registry of their own. The objective of the present article is to appraise the current status and the new developments of CTRI, which registers all types of clinical studies, including postgraduate theses. The CTRI which was until now allowing both prospective and retrospective registration is moving towards only prospective trial registration. From April 1, 2018, only those trials where the first patient enrollment has not yet commenced will be registered. Further, the CTRI is in the process of implementing structured summary results disclosure of all interventional clinical trials in the near future.

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027430   WAJEKAR A S, SALGAONKAR S V, CHINCHOLI I H, SHETTY A N (Anaesthesia Dep, KEM Hospital, Maharashtra, Email: swetavs@gmail.com) : Impact of basic medical writing workshop on case report writing by post-graduate anaesthesia trainees: A pilot study. Indian J Anaesth 2018, 62(7), 502-8.

Research is an integral component of medical education and practice. However, the art of medical writing remains neglected. Case report writing marks foray into the world of publications and presentations. We assessed and compared the impact of basic medical writing workshop about case report writing and their perception levels of confidence in these skills, among post-graduate anaesthesia students. A needs assessment for medical writing skills was performed among all anaesthesia residents. A total of 20 students were enrolled in this study. The pre-workshop assignment consisted of writing one case report per participant within 30 days, followed by students’ confidence assessment in these skills. A workshop on basic medical writing including analytical writing, scientific writing and plagiarism were conducted. Post-workshop a similar assignment was provided, followed by students’ confidence assessment. Moderate‑to‑high need for help was felt by 92.63% for analytical skills, 100% for scientific skills and writing without plagiarism, 95.78% for overall writing skills. For case report writing, the analytical and scientific writing significantly improved after the workshop (P = 0.01 and P = 0.016, respectively). There was a significant improvement in the students’ confidence levels post‑workshop in their analytical writing skills, avoiding plagiarism and overall writing capabilities (P = 0.02, P = 0.016 and P = 0.002, respectively). Writing skills of participants and their confidence in these skills improved post-workshop.

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027423   GADDE P, PENMETSA G S, RAYALLA K (Public Health Dentistry Dep, Vishnu Dental Coll, West Godavari - 534 202, Email: gaddephd6@gmail.com) : Do dental research journals publish only positive results? A retrospective assessment of publication bias. J Indian Soc Periodontol 2018, 22(4), 294-7.

The study aimed to determine the presence of publication bias in the top five dental journals with high impact factor published during 2007–2016. The journals included are Journal of Clinical Periodontology, Dental Materials, Clinical Oral Implant Research (COIR), Journal of Endodontics, and Journal of Dental Research (JDR). The content of these journals was hand searched by two authors for scouring the proportion of positive or negative results. Articles showing two outcomes (primary and secondary) were registered depending on the primary result. The present study revealed higher percentage of statistically significant results in the published dental literature. Of five journals, JDR has shown fewer tendencies toward publication of nonsignificant results, whereas COIR has evidenced the highest publication of nonsignificant results. The journals with higher impact factor showed significantly different acceptance rate for research with positive results. However, year‑wise publication (2007–2016) did not depict any significant difference. In dental research journals, articles with positive results are finding a better way in getting published compared to articles with negative results.

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026179   SONAL SINGH S, SINDHAV B, EESLEY D, BHOWMICK B (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur- 721 302, Email: sona.singh610@gmail.com) : Investigating the role of ICT intervention in grassroots innovation using structural equation modelling approach. Sadhana 2018, 43(7), 103.

Research on information communication technologies (ICT) for entrepreneurship development is burgeoning, yet our understanding of the use of ICT in support of grassroots innovation remains unclear. This paper examines the moderating role of the use of ICT on the relationship between grassroots innovation (GRI) and entrepreneurial success (ES). The study involved 400 grassroots entrepreneurs selected from three states in India, and the moderating effect of the use of ICT was analysed using moderated structural equation modelling. The results revealed that the use of ICT partially moderates the relationship between the new learning practices and economic benefits. It also partially moderates the relationship between local solution and economic benefits, but it fully moderates the relationship between networking capabilities and economic benefits, where the relationship is stronger when the use of ICT is high. Furthermore, the study found that the use of ICT does not moderate the relationship between new learning practice and non-economic benefits, relationship between local solution and non-economic benefits and relationship between networking capabilities and non-economic benefits.

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026178   AL-IMAM A (Anatomy and Cellular Biology Dep, Baghdad Univ, Iraq, Email: tesla1452@gmail.com) : The digital epidemiology of dysencephalia splanchnocystica, AKA Meckel-Gruber syndrome: Retrospective analysis and geographic mapping via google trends. Asian J Med Sci 2018, 9(5), 81-6.

Genetic diseases are diverse and many of which have debilitating consequences affecting the individual, the society, and the economy. Trends databases, including Google Trends database, can be used to estimate the digital epidemiology of these diseases. Digital Epidemiology is valuable when it comes to conditions of low prevalence as in the case of ciliopathies including that of Meckel–Gruber Syndrome. To assess the digital epidemiology and the geographic mapping of Meckel- Gruber syndrome via a trends database of the surface web. Google Trends database will be usedfor geographic mapping and retrospective analysis of interest of users of the Surface Web. The aim is to infer and predict the digital epidemiology of Meckel–Gruber Syndrome. A retrospective analysis is conducted as far as the trends database permits (2004-2017). The trends database was explored using the thematic expression of keywords specific to Meckel–Gruber Syndrome including its synonyms. Subsequently, descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out to estimate the digital epidemiology as well as the geographic mapping. The aim was to conclude the existence of any significant change in web users’ interest and the variation of that interest versus geography (country) and chronology (time). Concerning geographic mapping, signals of web users were found to be originating from the United States (68.49 %) and Finland (31.51 %). Globally, the average value of the relative interest of surface web users in Meckel–Gruber Syndrome was 34.10 (+/- 14.59). There was an overall decline in web users’ attention towards the condition for the period 2004−2010 versus 2011−2017 (20.06 vs 4.88, p-value<0.001) and for period 2004-2006 versus 2007-2009 (29.14 vs 14.19, p=0.001). Digital epidemiological analysis has been proven feasible with good accuracy via Googles Trends. In the case of Dysencephalia Splanchnocystica, the geographic mapping of the surface web has been limited to the developed world. Prospectively, Google Trends can be integrated into a predictive early warning system to anticipate any change in the interest of the users of the Indexed Web in a particular disease including genetic ones.

4 illus, 41 ref

026177   LYENGAR M M (Community Medicine Dep, DM Wayanad Institute of Medical Sciences, Kerala - 673 577, Email: madhusudan_kims12@rediffmail.com) : Selection of good medical journals for publication - an innovative approach. Indian J Comm Health 2018, 30(2), 166-9.

The Medical Council of India came out with the criteria of research publications for the promotions for the first time in 2009. Though this was done with the intention of promoting and encouraging research among faculties of Medical Colleges, this has given rise to the genesis as well as mushrooming of predatory journals. Hence MCI has been making attempts to refine the criteria of publications and make the criteria more stringent. The last such attempt was in its PG committee meeting in January 2018 where it decided to constitute a committee of experts in each subject to draw a list of standard journals in their respective subjects so that publications only in these journals would be considered for future promotions. In this context, this article makes an attempt to assist researchers and regulatory bodies in assessing the quality of journals by means of a score-sheet.

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026174   OMELUZOR S U, OGO E P (Clifford Univ, Delta state, Nigeria, Email: dromeluzor@gmail.com) : Role of Nigerian libraries for sustainable educational system, information literacy and national development. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(2), 122-7.

There is a growing concern in the minds of people on the relevance of the library in the 21^st century. This paper critically addresses some of the key functions of the library in supporting education and improving information literacy of the people for national development in Nigeria. It further reiterates the importance of the library in the Nigerian educational system, and concludes that a nation may not be developed without a sustainable educational system and well stocked libraries to support information literacy, learning, teaching and research activities of the people.

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026173   DUTTA B, SINHA P K (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore - 560 059, Email: pk@drtc.isibang.ac.in) : A bibliometric analysis of automatic and semi-automatic ontology construction processes. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(2), 112-21.

Through a bibliometric analysis, the paper reveals the current state and the global research trend in the areas of automatic ontology construction process (AOCP) and semi-automatic ontology construction process (SOCP) during the period of 2000-2016. Scopus, GoogleScholar and Scitepress digital library were used to extract the data for analysis. The study revealed that the majority of the works were published in conference proceedings. China was found to be the most contributing country in this area followed by USA, France, and Spain. The University of Karlsruhe contributed the maximum publications in both AOCP and SOCP whereas Peking University contributed largely to AOCP and Jozef Stefan Institute contributed largely only to SOCP. The majority of the researchers were from computer science background but a significant number of researchers were also from other disciplines including engineering and allied operations, library and information science, management and auxiliary services, making this research area truly interdisciplinary.

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026172   ASMI N A, MADHUSUDHAN M (Library and Information Science Dep, Delhi Univ, Delhi, Email: mmadhusudhan@libinfosci.du.ac.in) : Use of social bookmarking sites by research scholars of central universities in North India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(2), 105-11.

A structured questionnaire survey was carried out on a sample population of 720 research scholars in twelve Central Universities of North India. Five hundred and ninety-seven filled-in questionnaires were received and analysed. The findings indicate that research scholars usually use bookmarking tags to organize the online research-related resources. LibraryThing is the most used SBS for building a personal library with links, pages, notes, and pictures. The study recommends that university libraries should help the research scholars to locate required resources and stresses upon the responsibility of library professionals and research supervisors to motivate the research scholars to effectively use SBSs for their research work.

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026171   BHAT N A, GANAI S A (Library and Information Science Dep, Kashmir Univ, Srinagar-190 006, Email: shabir311@rediffmail.com) : Assessment of user preference to information resources in agricultural libraries in North India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2018, 65(2), 96-9.

Through a survey, this study assesses the preference of users with regard to print and electronic information resources in agricultural libraries of north India and to identify the preferred mode of access thereof. The required data were collected, employing questionnaires and through telephonic surveys. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for analysing the data. The level of association between the user preference and the corresponding variable was derived through Chi Squared (χ²) Test. It is found that the users of agricultural libraries in north India use information resources almost equally both in print and electronic forms, although online resources are favored over print as they are ‘easy to search and retrieve’, ‘easy and quick to access’ and ‘more up-to-date’ than their print counterparts.

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026176   GONZALES J B (Cebu Normal Univ, Philippines) : 3r's for the 21st century educational change implementation in DEPED. Asian J Sci Technol 2018, 9(5), 8112-6.

This study describes the level of readiness, relevance and resources of the DepEd teachers as personally perceived and as observed by the school heads. This study is conducted to formulate an emergent theory which could be helpful in providing interventions and improving the teachers’ competencies in providing the desired 21^st century education. The study was conducted in the school year 2017-2018 and validated in the school year 2018-2019 in DepEd Danao City. A research made questionnaires were utilized in collecting the data, validated by interview of the randomly selected research participants. The result showed that the teachers are highly ready and relevant towards becoming educational change agents, yet they are struggling to be the functional resources. It is also proven that the school readiness, relevance and resources are major indicators for the teachers to reach their full potentials as change agents. It is theorized that 21^st Century school resources and professionally developed teachers create a 21^st century ready, relevant, and resourceful Department of Education in the Philippines. It is recommended that the school will provide training to improve the teachers’ competence and support the teachers with sufficient 21^st century resources.

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026175   PODDER V, PRICE A, SIVAPURAM M S, RONGHE A, KATTA S, GUPTA A K, BISWAS R (Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Nalgonda- 508 254, Email: rakesh7biswas @ gmail.com) : Collective conversational peer review of journal submission: A tool to integrate medical education and practice. Ann Neurosci 2018, 25(2), 112–9.

In this study, we demonstrate a collective collaborative, conversational, pre-publication peer review of a randomized controlled trial. Using Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklist, a group of research-oriented undergraduate medical and pharmacy students and their teacher collectively on an online forum, discuss and review a randomized controlled trial submitted to the Annals of Neurosciences and the explanatory commentary from each reviewer makes a basic scaffold for critical appraisal of the manuscript. This method provided the opportunity for students to engage in online interactive training and allowed them to understand tools used for critical appraisal of a study. Students were incentivized by the potential publication credit and they look forward to continuing this workand perhaps providing one small step to making medical education more interactive. Open peer review involving a group of reviewers at a time produces multidirectional reviewing concepts, thus helps to improve the quality of paper and also may reduce the time between review and publication.

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024950   BRAHME R, GODBOLE S, GANGAKHEDAR R, SACHDEVA K S, VERMA V, RISBUD A (Epidemiology Dep, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune - 411 026, Email: rbrahme@nariindia.org) : Use of computer-assisted personal interviewing and information management system in a survey among HIV high-risk groups in India: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis. Indian J Community Med 2018, 43(2), 107-12.

In India, integrated biological and behavioral surveillance was carried out in 2014–2015 among high-risk key population as a part of second-generation HIV surveillance system. Computer-assisted personal interviewing and integrated information management system were used for the first time in this large national field based survey. We evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of technology use in this survey. Mixed methods comprising of the key informant’s interviews and structured data collected from field interviewers were used to do the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis with defined attributes. Despite the challenges, the technology use in this survey was a huge success with respect to data coverage, response rates, real-time data, and acceptance by respondents. However, such techniques require more focus on the competency of human resource, training, and concurrent evaluation systems to get better data quality, time adherence, and effective use of technology. The recommendations resulted from this analysis will help for strategic management while designing such systems in field‑based community surveys.

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024949   JAIN N C, KHAN G S (HRD Div, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi-110 029, Email: drencejain@gmail.com.) : Predatory journals: A downside on research and hampering the impact and relevance of scientific outcome. RUHS J Health Sci 2018, 3(2), 99-105.

The advancement of medical knowledge is quint-essentially based on the authentic and reliable scientific research and publications. This is in addition to the recently mandated requirement of original research publications in indexed journals to ensure career progression in academic/medical institutions, thus the need for 'publications' in scientific medical scholarly journals has increased substantially. On the other hand, this has given an unparalleled rise in the number of stand alone journals and publishers “Predatory” is the term, who are ready to process the manuscripts on priority with almost guaranteed publication, at a cost, but having no credibility to the research being published. To foster awareness creation among students at the post-graduate level and for faculty of medical colleges and research institutions, it has become very important to avoid these predatory journals. It is high time that the thinking among researchers of 'Publish or Perish' be changed to 'Publish and Flourish' by adopting stringent measures which have evolved over time to curtail this birch of predatory publishing. Researchers should now take the road less travelled. This review article aims to highlight all the relevant and important points about the threats posed by predatory journals and also suggests possible ways to overcome them.

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024948   ASEMI A (Isfahan Univ, Iran, Email: asemi@edu.ui.ac.ir) : A survey on the teenagers' need of public libraries' resources and services. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 295-301.

This paper discusses teenagers’ need of library resources and library services in the public libraries in Iran. Descriptive method is used and a researcher-made questionnaire formed the major instrument for data gathering. Descriptive and inferential statistics are applied. It found that teenagers’ need is more textbooks than other resources, of course their first priority is educational books. It means that the teenagers interest to educational books, but it wasn’t their main need. Most used library services was familiarity to library while adolescents need to expand and improve lending services. Finally, it was concluded that libraries were less successful in meeting the teenagers’ need based on their priorities. Therefore, libraries need to be equally important in the development of their resources and services based on the priorities and needs. In this way, their needs are answered, and according to their priority, the library will answer their leisure time according to teenagers’ interest.

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024947   RAM S (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala- 147004, Email: shriram2576@gmail.com) : "Word Blindness" (Dyslexia): A bibliometric analysis of global research in last fifty years. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 286-94.

Dyslexia (commonly known as word blindness) is a cognitive (learning) disorder characterised by an impaired ability to comprehend written and printed words or phrases despite of intact vision. A quantitative literature analysis was carried out on learning disorder - dyslexia from 1967 to 2016 (50 Year) for assessing the global research trends. The emphasis has been given to analyse the research progress in dyslexia using bibliometric methods. This literature-based study was carried out with the documents retrieved from the Scopus. There were 13455 articles on Dyslexia in SCOPUS, distributed in nine document types and twenty eight languages. These literature were grown at 6 per cent annually. Of ninety eight countries, USA shared highest contribution. India ranked 20th in terms of total publication. The most of the research areas are centered towards psychology, learning ability and linguistics.

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024946   AHMAD S, SOHAIL M, WARIS A, ELGINAID A, MAGID I M A (Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal Univ, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Email: sohailmlis@gmail.com) : SCImago, eigenfactor score, and H5 index journal rank indicator: A study of journals in the area of construction and building technologies. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 278-85.

Present work studies the role of bibliometric indicators and scientometric instruments for checking the qualities of journals published in the area of construction and building technology. Journal quality review targeted comparisons between indicators of significance and merit from reputable databases. Likewise, present work stressed on performance of well cited journals and their informational correlations as predicted by selected indicators complex algorithms. Main research objective focused on review of scientific journal quality indices that included: Journal Impact Factor (JIF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR) and H5 index. Dependable construction and building technology journals were chosen from their category within Web of Science. JIFs and ESs are obtained from Journal Citation Report and the SJR from the SCImago Journal and country rank website. Sixty one construction and building technology journals were selected for this work and their related data records and information documents retrieved from their primary sites in relating designated quality indicators (JIF, SJR, ES and H5). Correlations between indicators were elucidated by means of Pearson’s and Spearman’s statistical correlations produced by SPSS software. All reclaimed journals are indexed in Web of Science and Scopus citation database.

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024945   GHOLANI Z, ABDEKHODA M, GAVGANI V Z (School of Health Management and Medical Informatics, Iran, Email: hiwaabdekhoda@gmail.com) : Determinant factors in adopting mobile technology-based services by academic librarians. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 271-7.

Nowadays, mobile technology seems to become integral part of our life. People with different careers have begun to use it in their jobs. This research aims to identify influential factors in mobile technology adoption at library context. To this end, a conceptual model was presented based on an integrated model of technology acceptance model (TAM) and technology organisation and environment (TOE) model. A researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among 120 academic librarians. Seven Factor out of the integrated model of TAM and TOE were chosen to investigate their influence on mobile technology adoption. The results of the study suggest that the proposed model (integrated model of TAM and TOE) is a favourable one to identify the influential factors in mobile technology adoption at library context. In addition, regression analysis indicated that out of these seven factor, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, compatibility, relative advantage and organisational competency are determinant factors in adopting mobile technology-based library services among academic librarians.

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024944   SADIK BATCHA M (Annamalai Univ, Tamil Nadu- 608 002, Email: msbau@rediffmail.com) : Lotka's applicability on global dengue research publication : A scientometric study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 266-70.

Dengue is currently regarded globally as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease. The true impact of dengue globally is difficult to ascertain due to factors such as inadequate disease surveillance, misdiagnosis, and low levels of reporting. Currently available data likely grossly underestimates the social, economic, and disease burden. Estimates of the global incidence of dengue infections per year have ranged between 50 million and 200 million, there are about 6,031 research paper collectively contributed by 22,234 scientist published in 6007 scientific periodicals in recent 8 years as the focus on this fever attracts attention of Scientists at the considerable rate. The present paper attempts to check the applicability of Lotka’s Law on the global publication on Dengue. The study lights on Lotka’s empirical law of scientific productivity, i.e., Inverse Square Law, to measure the scientific productivity of authors, to test Lotka’s Exponent value and the K.S test for the fitness of Lotka’s Law.

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024943   HAZRA U K, DAS R (Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan- 713103, Email: rajeshdas99@gmail.com) : Evaluation of online learning repositories: A comparative study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 259-65.

Many online learning repositories available around the world. This paper provides a comparative analysis among selected online learning repositories (eGyankosh, ePG pathshala, MIT resources and Sodhganga) for learning resources. The comparative study is based on some analytical parameters, like generic, content related, retrieval related, post processing, interface related, etc. The collected data have been analysed on the basis of parameters. The results have been displayed through different types of diagrams like multiple bar diagrams, pie diagram, etc. It was found that none of the selected online learning repositories achieved the full score. And also found that Sodhganga ranked the highest position among them.

8 tables, 13 ref

024942   GUPTA S, HASSAN N (Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed Univ), Agra- 282005, Email: nabihasan@gmail.com) : Scientometric analysis of metamorphosis: A journal of management research. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 254-8.

Scientometric analysis of 200 research article published in the journal, “Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research” from its debut year 2002 to 2016 is studied. The study focuses on various aspects of the journal such as the distribution of articles, annual growth rate, authorship pattern, authorship productivity, degree of collaboration, collaborative index, country-wise distribution of articles, citation analysis. The study shows that most of the papers, 114 out of 200 (57per cent) were published by single authors whereas 86 out of 200 (43 per cent) were contributed by joint authors. Overall average degree of collaboration, average collaborative index and average citation per paper were 0.43, 2.35, and 25.59, respectively. Remarkable collaborative contributors are from India with 81.65 per cent sharing. The study may help those who wish to map the scientometric patterns of journals or institutions or an individual.

9 tables, 10 ref

024941   SHAFIQ H (Government Degree Coll Magam, Budgam- 193401, Email: huma.msgr14@gmail.com) : A step towards designing a model academic search interface. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 246-53.

The study makes an endeavor to assess the search interfaces of leading academic databases, viz Cambridge Journals, JSTOR, Sage Journals, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley Online Library. The purpose of the study is to identify various search features and subsequently determine their relative location, with a view to recommend ideal location of these features based on their utility and users’ ease of mind. Data is harvested by assessing the search interfaces of seven academic databases subscribed by University of Kashmir. The select databases are individually assessed to harvest the required information. The study divulges that uniformity is observed by databases while positioning features like access points, and search box(s). However, no consistent approach is found while positioning other identified features. It is imperative to say that the study is first of its kind where an emphasis is laid on assessing the positioning of search interface features. The study can prove helpful for academic database designers while designing user-friendly academic databases.

1 illus, 6 tables, 37 ref

024940   GUPTA B M, DHAWAN S M (CSIR-NISTADS, Delhi, Email: bmgupta1@gmail.com) : Three dimensional (3D) printing: A scientometric assessment of global publications output during 2007-16. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 238-45.

The papers provides quantitative and qualitative description of three dimensional (3D) printing research based on global publications output (7309 publications) in the field as indexed in Scopus database covering the 10-year period 2007-2016. 3D printing research registered 54.61 per cent growth per annum and averaged 10.59 citations per papers in 10 years, and bulk of global output (93.79 %) in the field emanates from just top 16 countries. The papers further provides an insight into qualitative performance of 3D printing research in terms of relative citation index, citations per papers, highly cited papers, top 25 global organisations and authors in the field, most favoured subjects in the field, and most favoured materials, technologies, and applications used in the field. The study concludes that 3D printing is the next revolution in industrial manufacturing led by USA and China. Asian and Pacific countries should take initiatives to support 3D printing research through appropriate policy and funding mechanisms as well as encourage research teams to collaborate with leading international hubs in 3D printing research.

1 illus, 6 tables, 11 ref

024939   NAGESWARA RAO K, KUMAR S, TRIPATHI M (Dr B.R. Ambedkar Central Library, Delhi, Email: Manoramatripathi2@yahoo.com) : Users' perceptions of e-books at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: A case study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(4), 231-7.

The collection development policies of university libraries are driven by the information seeking behaviour and extent of use of resources by students, researchers and teachers. Libraries have introduced e-books in their collections with rising demand of users for them. However, e-books have not gained the perceived acceptance among users. It is essential to understand the gaps in preferences and experiences of users of e-books in academic libraries so that the collections of e-books can be customised to meet the users’ preferences. The purpose of this study is to understand how students, teachers and research scholars access, browse and use e-books in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. The study has identified factors that encourage or discourage the use of e-books in academic libraries. It highlights preferences for the format (electronic/print) while perusing books as textbooks or reference books for research.

7 tables, 30 ref

024938   AZZEH J A (Computer Engineering Dep, Al Balqa Applied Univ, Jordan, Email: azzehjamil18@gmail.com) : Information technologies for supporting administrative activities of large organisations. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 187-91.

Study describes a specified analytical method and model for the organisational management of a company. The proposed solutions allow for revealing information resources, which can be used to support management decisions adoption and control of plans. Information obtained from programs and information systems of the electronic document flow of organisations were used as data sources. The result of configuration investigation and characteristics of information exchange in information systems can be used as administrative decisions support in the organisation. The conducted research allows for improved approaches to the creation and modernisation of effective information systems of universities. The offered software of administrative activity support allows us to increase the flexibility and adaptability of existing information systems and electronic document flow (program complexes) to increase the efficiency of their operations.

3 illus, 2 tables, 21 ref

024937   UNYIAL N, KAUR B (Uttaranchal Univ, Dehradun- 248 007, Email: ncuniyaluit@gmail.com) : Proposition of media and information literacy curriculum for integration into pedagogy in IITs. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 221-6.

The purpose of the study is to identify the need of Media Information Literacy pedagogy in IITs through model curriculum if, proposed across the programme and courses. In this regard a survey was conducted with a well structured questionnaire for collection of data from targeted population with a sample of 1054 student of selected IITs of Northern India. Findings of the study demonstrate that 25 per cent to 30 per cent students welcome MIL curriculum for regular pedagogy. However, 60 per cent to 70 per cent students were of the opinion that MIL can enhance their critical thinking abilities for evaluating media messages which help the students to survive and thrive better in the digital world and prepares them for global communication and social participation.

6 tables, 12 ref

024936   SINGH A K, MUKHERJEE B (Library & Information Science Dep, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi- 221 005, Email: mukherjee.bhaskar@gmail.com) : Electronic information resource optimisation in academic libraries: A comparative study on licensing provision of commercial publisher. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 213-20.

Electronic information resources are increasingly become an important component of the collection-building activities of libraries. This paper attempts to understand how far the licenses of commercial publishers support resource optimisation in general and what other important issues that are usually ignored by publishers, knowingly or unknowingly, but are essential for better resource optimisation. Five international publishers namely Elsevier, EBSCO, Sage, Springer, and Taylor & Francis were identified and analysed their agreements that are available in public domain with some model agreements like Liblicense model and model license developed by John Cox Associate. Study indicates that core part of the negotiations still remain price, IP access, display, ILL/document supply, etc. while important issues like perpetual access, archiving, self-archiving, copy of individual articles and share the same for non-commercial use by authorised users were minor issues of the contract. Furthermore, most of the obligations of the publishers that are identified as core issues in Liblicense model are also absent in commercial publishers’ license. A greater awareness of this to library managers is essential. They must be acquainted with the clause of the license agreement of commercial publishers and must negotiate to that extent so that the access should be uninterrupted.

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024935   ANSARI N A, RAZA M M (Library & Information Science Dep, Aligarh Muslim Univ, Aligarh - 202 001, Email: nahav.rs@amu.ac.in) : Usage of JSTOR database among research scholars in the Faculty of Social Science, Aligarh Muslim University. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 208-12.

The study set out to examine the researchers’ perception towards the use JSTOR database and to explore the reasons not to use JSTOR database. The present study carried out using simple random sampling technique. The major purpose of researchers to use JSTOR was research work and article title was the most common searching techniques in simple search category. In advanced search technique field search was most common search technique followed by phrase search. Almost, all respondents found satisfied with the service of JSTOR and none was found dissatisfied/partially satisfied. On the basis of findings, it is recommended that the use of JSTOR database can be maximised, if researchers have frequent literacy programs.

9 tables, 12 ref

024934   PETRISOR A I (Ion Mincu Univ of Architecture and Urbanisation, Romania, Email: alexandru.petrisor@uauim.ro) : Predatory publishers using spamming strategies for call for papers and review requests : A case study. J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 199-207.

Spam e-mail and calls from the predatory publishers are very similar in purpose: they are deceptive and produce material losses. Moreover, the predatory publishers show evolving strategies to lure potential victims, as their number increases. In an effort to help researchers defending against their constant menace, this article aims to identify a set of common features of spam e-mail and calls from predatory publishers. The methodology consisted of a comparative analysis of data found on the Internet and e-mails received at several addresses during December 2017 – January 2018. The results indicate that concealed, fake or disguised identity of the sender and/or of the message, mass mailing, missing or useless opt-out option and an obvious commercial character are the most prominent common features. Moreover, the location of predatory publishers is well disguised; the analysis of the real location, found using web-based tools, suggests a joint management or at least a concerted action of several publishers, and raises additional questions related to the reasons of masking the true location. From a theoretical standpoint, the results show, once again, that predatory publishers are a part of the worldwide scam, and should be ‘convicted’ in a similar way, including the means of legal actions. From a practical perspective, distinct recommendations were phrased for researchers, policy makers, libraries, and future research.

2 illus, 40 ref

024933   KAUR A, RATTAN G K (Library and Information Science Dep, Guru Nanak Dev Univ, Amritsar- 143 005, Email: gkr70pbiuni@gmail.com) : Citation analysis of theses in economics submitted to Punjabi university, Patiala during 2000-2014. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 192-198.

The present study is based on 9053 citations appended to 92 doctoral theses submitted to the Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala, during 2000-2014. The main objective of the study is to investigate authorship pattern of the citations, format of literature cited, electronic/print form of citations, chronological distribution of citations, geographical distribution of book and core journal citations. A ranked list of journals in economics is also compiled in order to find out the most referred journal. It is found that journals are the most consulted resources with 49.39 per cent citations in the field of economics. Bradford’s law of scattering is applicable to the present study with Bradford multiplier as 11.327.

9 tables, 14 ref

024932   SINGH S, PANDITA R (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna - 801 507, Email: shiv.mail@gmail.com) : Journal packing density across subject disciplines among BRICS countries : A study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 170-8.

The study attempts to assess the journal packing density (JPD) of the research journals published across Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries during 2013-2015. The JPD of the research journals has been computed on the basis of volume. The study covers 27 main subject disciplines and the JPD has been calculated against each individual subject discipline. 2499 research journals were identified as indexed by the Scopus from the BRICS countries, constituting 6.92 per cent of total research journals indexed by the Scopus all across the world. China is the leading country from the BRICS league to have the maximum 914 (36.57 %) research journals. The average JPD of the research journals published across BRICS nations is 132.77 research article per journal per volume, which is far greater than the average global JPD of 101.84 research article. On average 92.55 research journal are published across BRICS countries in each subject discipline. Physics and astronomy, engineering, and energy are the three leading subject disciplines among BRICS nations having maximum JPD of 209.52, 191.40, and 190.08 research article per journal per volume. Apart from these, there are various other facts which have come to the fore about the prevailing trend of JPD among BRICS nations.

7 tables, 13 ref

024931   KUMBHAR R (Library & Information Science Dep, Savitribai Phule Pune Univ, Pune- 411 007, Email: rajendra_kumbhar@unipune.ac.in) : Trends in E-book research. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 162-9.

In this study, e-book research articles were reviewed which are published in various library science and nonlibrary science journals. Identifies facets and significant results of e-book research. For this review, literature on e-books published in English language, in 2016 was searched from various databases. The review finds that the focus of current research on e-books is on use. Themes such as e-book collection development and management; search and discovery are also paid more attention to. Use of e-books by children is emerging as a prominent area of e-book research. Results of most of the research on e-books are supportive to each other.

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024930   SAJNA K P, MOHAMED HANEEFA K (Library & Information Science Dep, Calicut Univ, Thenjipalam- 673 635, Email: dr.haneefa@gmail.com) : Service quality of libraries of Indian council of agricultural research institutes of Kerala, India. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 156-61.

The purpose of this study is to measure the service quality of the libraries of Indian Council of Agricultural Research institutes in Kerala. Survey method with modified SERVQUAL questionnaire was employed to elicit responses from a representative sample of 180 users of the libraries. It is revealed that the ICAR institute libraries lack service quality. While the libraries compared, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Library has shown quality to an extent and library of Central Tuber Crops Research Institute has shown least service quality. Library collection dimension was found as the most expected dimension whereas library staff dimension was the most perceived dimension. The highest service quality gap was identified with library service dimension and the lowest gap was identified with library staff dimension. Regular user need assessment and feedback mechanism should be done to improve the service quality of the libraries. The study can be utilised for developing quality enhancement practices in special libraries in India.

4 tables, 17 ref

024929   DUTT B, KUMAR S (CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, Delhi- 110 012, Email: bh_arvi@yahoo.com) : Mapping dye-sensitised solar cells research in India : A scientometric study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2018, 38(3), 149-55.

The paper examines 718 dye sensitised solar cell (DSSC) research articles published by Indian scientists during 2011-15, which were indexed in Web of Science. It looked into the entire gamut of research performance by performing sectors, institutions, multifarious collaborative aspects, co-authorship and citations etc. Private universities figure among top performing institutions and nano-related aspects dominated DSSC research. DSSC research by Indian researchers was found to be in tune with the mainstream science in the area as about 90 per cent of the research found place in international journals published from USA, the UK and other advanced countries of Europe with respectable impact factor.

7 illus, 6 tables, 20 ref

024921   NINGSHEN A (Mass Communication & Journalism Dep, Manipur Univ, Manipur) : Growth and development of Tangkhul dialect newspaper in Manipur: ‘The Aja’ (2011- 2018)’’. Int J Multidiscip Res Dev 2018, 5(4), 136-40.

The proper dissemination of information in the society holds the people together. Tribal newspapers in Manipur are facing problems regarding readership and circulation due to lack of interest from the people. Many prefer English paper rather than own dialectical newspaper. But all along there are handful of people who wants to hold in their culture, language and identity. The Aja paper aimed at the unreached section of the society, where people longs to be informed about their neighbor and happenings. The editor and team are striving to bring on new changes and development on the proper flow of information to all the Tangkhul community. This study will help in the better understanding of the growth and development of the Tangkhul paper from 2011 till date.

2 illus, 1 table, 6 ref

024920   KUMARI S, JENA S (ECE Dep, CUTM, Odisha) : A novel steganography process using LSB technique with decoded text and speech output. Int J Multidiscip Res Dev 2018, 5(4), 118-21.

Data and Information safety is an act of shielding records and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, change or destruction. Currently, aside from the army and institutional records safety, man or woman records safety is very essential. If person data safety is neglected, it can reason intangible harm and monetary loss. In this take a look at, a novel technique which include photo primarily based data hiding at the side of textual content to speech conversion gadget application has been evolved and examined to decorate records safety. This software is intended to provide a extra relaxed way of verbal exchange for emails which play an essential function in personal facts switch. Text hiding in Image is the exercise of concealing a report, message, picture, or video within some other report, message, photograph, or video. It benefits from the reality that the incidence of a few neighborhood features within the photo demonstrates terrific patterns for figuring out the payload of the duvet photo sub-regions based on Human Visual System (HVS). In this project we have proposed a novel technique for the secure data transmission for Military use and Police use with the help of steganography and social media or email. We have encoded secret data and sent it through Whatsapp and similar with facebook uploads, while at the remote receiver end we have decoded the image to get the original data. Similarly we have added the text to speech conversion process along with the decoder portion where the decoded message can be converted into speech for ease of access of the data and for emergency notification.

8 illus, 11 ref

024928   SARIKI T P, BHARADWAJA K G (Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Email: tulasiprasad.sariki@vit.ac.in) : A book recommendation system based on named entities. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 77-82.

Recommendation systems are extensively used for suggesting new items to users and play an important role in the discovery of relevant new items, be it books, movies or music. An effective recommendation system should provide heterogeneous results and should not be biased towards only the most popular items. Books are particularly well suited to content based filtering as they are now widely available in digital formats which can allow various text mining approaches to dig out content related information. This paper presents a framework to develop a content based recommendation system for books which can further be integrated with a collaborative filtering model. The proposed content based recommender will use the Named Entities as the basic criteria to rank books and give recommendations

1 illus, 2 tables, 15 ref

024927   MUNIGAL A (Osmania Univ, Hyderabad– 500 007, Email: AchalaMunigalRao@gmail.com) : Suggested code of ethics and professional conduct for library and information science professionals in India. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 70-6.

Library and Information Science (LIS) education started in the year 1911 in India yet there is no code of ethics and professional conduct for LIS professionals till date. This paper suggests and presents a code that is based upon internationally acknowledged ethical standards and principles. In the absence of any government agency to suggest or approve an LIS ethical code, any professional association of national stature or LIS associations in India can meet on a common platform to brainstorm and bring out a final collaborative document to be implemented.

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024926   MUHAMEDYEV R I, ALIGULIYEV R M, SHOKISHALOV Z M, MUSTAKAYEV R R (Kazakh National Research Technical Univ, Kazakhstan, Email: ravil.muhamedyev@gmail.com) : New bibliometric indicators for prospectivity estimation of research fields. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 62-9.

The paper suggests differential metrics for estimation of change dynamics of major ICT fields using the bibliometric indicators (publication and citation count). It refers to research areas such as big data, computational biology, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, embedded systems, information security, internet of things, human-machine systems, mobile computing, machine learning, machine-to-machine, multi-agent systems, neural networks, robotics, visualization, augmented reality, SDN, 5G, e-Governance, smart city and smart grid. As supplements to the known indicators, two kinds of integrated derivative-based indicators are suggested. The calculation of indicators is made and their time curve is given. The suggested indicators allow evidently expressing the changes in the dynamics of bibliometric indicators, which can be useful in prospectivity estimation of areas of research.

3 illus, 4 tables, 24 ref

024925   RAY P P (Institute of Agriculture, West Bengal - 731 236, Email: raypartha1@hotmail.com) : Physical verification as administrative and collection evaluation tool: A study of Institute of Agriculture Library; Visva-Bharati. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 57-61.

This article is the result of an intensive stock verification of more than 50000 documents of an academic library (Institute of Agriculture; Visva-Bharati) established in 1957. The physical verification process includes physical noting of all accession number of books on and out of stack and use of LibSys software to generate reports. The paper highlights that physical verification of collection can help in identifying major areas of loss and thereby can help in framing administrative guideline for collection evaluation and management policy. The paper also urges for review of existing government rules regarding loss of books and weed-out policy.

1 illus, 5 tables, 16 ref

024924   PRADHAN B, RAMESH D B (SOA Univ, Odisha, Email: bnp.iter@gmail.com) : Scientometric analysis of research publications of six Indian Institutes of Technology. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 50-6.

The paper presents the analysis of bibliographic data of 72,940 research papers published by six Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee) and indexed in Scopus database during the period 2006-2015. The analysis indicates that the relative citation impact of IIT Roorkee and IIT Bombay are more than other IITs. Works by authors from IIT Kharagpur are cited more than that of other IITs. Physics of Plasma, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, and RSC Advances are the journals most used by the researchers of the six IITs

5 tables, 11 ref

024923   MEERA B M, HIREMATH V (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore– 560 080, Email: meera@rri.res.in) : Data-intensive research in physics: Challenges and perspectives. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 43-9.

Raman Research Institute (RRI) in recent years has been engaged in data intensive research. The paper aims to understand the challenges faced by graduate students and their perspectives in data-intensive research at RRI regarding data types; collection methods; storage and access; data processing; legal and ethical issues. Questionnaire survey method and information extraction from ETD repository of RRI were used for data collection. Graduate students have expressed their desire for a better technical infrastructure, and need for training courses on different aspects of data related research and acquisition of data processing software. Observations in this study indicate that researchers are not well informed about some of the social issues associated with data and research such as legal aspects, ethical issues, plagiarism, data citation attributions, etc. Study recommends steps to empower research students to handle the challenges in data intensive research.

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024922   GARG K C, TRIPATHI H K (CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi- 110012, Email: gargkc022@gmail.com) : Bibliometrics and scientometrics in India: An overview of studies during 1995-2014 Part II: Contents of the articles in terms of disciplines and their bibliometric aspects. Ann Lib Inf Stu 2018, 65(1), 7-42.

This part of the study highlights the contents of the published articles in terms of various disciplines or sub-disciplines and the bibliometric aspects discussed in these articles. The analysis of 902 papers published by Indian scholars during 1995-2014 indicates that the main focus of bibliometrics/scientometrics is on assessment of science and technology in India in different sub-disciplines including contributions by Indian states and other individual countries followed by bibliometric analysis of individual journals. Papers dealing with bibliometric laws received a low priority as compared to other sub- disciplines of bibliometrics/scientometrics. The analysis of data indicates that the share of theoretical studies using mathematical and statistical techniques which were missing in the earlier period (1970-1994) has increased during 1995- 2014. The field of medicine as a discipline received the highest attention as compared to other disciplines.

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