006259   GARG M, KANJILAL U (Indira Gandhi National Tribal Univ, Amarkantak– 484 887, Email: mohitji@igntu.ac.in) : A framework to process text data of web discussion forums: A study of LIS links. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(6), 315-21.

Nowadays, people use the internet for both seeking and disseminating information in a collaborative way on various social media platforms like Quora, Yahoo Answers, LisLinks Forum, etc. This social interaction on different topics  makes  these  platforms  as  a knowledge  repository.  Evaluation  of  these  repositories  can  help  to  understand various  trends.  However,  this  evaluation  is  a  challenging  task  because  of  unstructured  data  and  the  unavailability of application programming interfaces for the harvesting of a dataset. This study presented a framework to harvest and pre-processing of data available on LisLinks Forum. The proposed framework is implemented using statistical programming language R. The fourteen metadata elements were defined for the discussion forums. The framework automatically harvest  and  pre-process  relevant data  of  posts.

4 illus, 4 tables, 19 ref

006267   MOHAMMED M S, IBRAHIM R (Al Iraqia Univ, Baghdad, Iraq, Email: mahdi.alani@yahoo.com) : Challenges and practices of research data management in selected Iraq universities. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(6), 308-14.

Research  emphasises  the  fundamental  role  of  research  data  management  (RDM)  in  enhancing  academic  and scientific research. This paper intended to examine RDM in Iraqi Universities, identify the current challenges of RDM and propose influential RDM practices. Data collection employed a self-administered questionnaires distributed to 155 postgraduate students and 20 faculty members from five universities in Iraq. Research findings revealed that there is a lack of proper RDM. Postgraduate students and researchers were managing their own research data. Main challenges of maintaining a good RDM involve lack of guidelines on effective RDM practices, insufficient of adequate human resources, technological obsolescence, insecure and inefficient infrastructure, lack of financial resources, absence of research data management policies and lack of support by institutional authorities and researchers negatively influenced on research data management. Postgraduate students and researchers recommend building research  data repositories and  collaboration with  other  universities and  research organisations.

4 tables, 37 ref

006258   FRANCIS D J, DAS A K (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, New Delhi- 110 067, Email: anup_csp@jnu.ac.in) : Open data resources for clean energy and water sectors in India. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(6), 300-7.

With  the  wave  of  digitalisation,  institutions  across  countries  are  pushing  for  the  creation  of  open  data  and their governance. FAIR Data Principles have initiated the publishing of open research data to the key stakeholders and  practitioners  in  the  low-  and  middle-income  countries  to  meet  their  developmental  goals  through  practical usage  in  problem-solving.  Open  Data,  which  is  part  of  the  Open  Science  movement,  has  transformed  the  regime structure  at  a  transnational  level  for  the  governance  of  critical  issues  surrounding  water  and  energy.  This  paper provides  a  baseline  survey  to  look  into  the  various  open  data  initiatives  in  the  areas  of  water  and  clean  energy across countries in general and India in particular. Given the multifaceted challenges around the water-energy nexus existing  in  India,  it  is  critical  to  identifying  the  open  data  initiatives  and  studying  their  governance  at  the  country level. Since governance requires the participation of various institutions and multiple stakeholders, the research aims at highlighting the various initiatives such as participation of institutions and the application of Creative Commons (CC)  licensing terms  in  the  open  data governance for  clean energy  and  water  sectors  in  India.

2 tables, 15 ref

006277   SAEED S, ALI P M N (Library and Information Science Dep, Aligarh Muslim Univ, Aligarh- 202 001, Email: naushadali.ls@amu.ac.in) : Research data management and data sharing among research scholars of life sciences and social sciences. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(6), 290-9.

This  study  investigates  perception  of  research  scholars  towards  research  data  management  and  sharing. A survey was conducted among research scholars from Faculty of Life Sciences and Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). In total, 352 participants filled out the questionnaire. The study shows that research scholars of Faculty of Social Sciences are more willing to share their research data as compared to Research Scholars of Life Sciences. Contributing to scientific progress and increasing research citations and visibility were the key factors that motivated researchers to share data. However, confidentiality and data misuse were the main concerns among those who were unwilling to share. Finally, some recommendations to improve the of data management and sharing practices are  presented.

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006253   BHARDWAJ R K (Delhi Univ, New Delhi- 110 021, Email: raajchd@gmail.com) : Content analysis of Indian research data repositories: Prospects and possibilities. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(6), 280-9.

The study aims to trace the development of Indian research data repositories (RDRs) and explore their content with the view of identifying prospects and possibilities. Further, it analyses the distribution of data repositories on the basis of content coverage, types of content, author identification system followed, software and the application programming interface used, subject wise number of repositories etc. The study is based on data repositories listed on  the  registry  of  data  repositories  accessible  at http://www.re3data.org.The  dataset  was  exported  in  Microsoft Excel  format  for  analysis. A  simple  percentage  method  was  followed  in  data  analyses  and  results  are  presented through  Tables  and  Figures.  The  study  found  a  total  of  2829  data  repositories  in  existence  worldwide.  Further,  it was seen that 1526 (53.9 %) are open and 924 (32.4 %) are restricted data repositories. Also, there are embargoed data  repositories  numbering  225  (8.0  %)  and  closed  ones  numbering  154  (5.4  %). There  are  2829  RDRs  covering 72  countries  in  the  world.  The  study  found  that  out  of  total  45  Indian  RDRs,  only  30  (67  %)  are  open,  followed by restricted 12  (27 %)  and  3  (6 %)  that  are  closed.  Majority  of  Indian  RDRs  (20)  were  developed  in  the  year 2014. The study found that the majority of Indian RDRs (17) are‘disciplinary’. Further, the study also revealed that statistical data formats are available in a maximum of 31 (68.9 %) Indian RDRs. It was also seen that the majority of Indian RDRs (28) has datasets relating to ‘Life Sciences’. It was identified that only 20 % of data repositories have been using metadata standards in metadata;  the  remaining  80 %  do  not  use  any  standards  in  metadata  entry. This study covered only the research data repositories in India registered on the registry of data repositories. RDRs not listed in the registry of  data repositories are left out.

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006255   COLLURA M J, DRESSLER V, HAWKINS M, KAVULIC M (Kent State Univ, Kent- 44242, Email: vdressle@kent.edu) : Served on a silver platter: Working towards an academic research data concierge service. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(6), 271-9.

This article will discuss the development of a research concierge service aimed at supporting the unique data needs  of  researchers  at  each  stage  of  the  research  lifecycle. Although  based  on  work  at  one  institution,  a  North American academic 4-year research university, the presented strategies are transferable to many different types of institutions. The concept behind this service emerged when staff members from the Office of Research, Information Technology, and University Libraries embarked on an endeavour, by way of a newly formed collaborative working group,  to  identify  disparate  research  support  services  around  campus.  Steps  will  be  suggested  to  assess  and  align existing support services as well as uncover gaps in service within an institution. A review of organisational models from other institutions with complementary services will also be included. The article will also examine the challenges faced by  our  institution in  creating this  collaborative group  and  the  new  service approach.

3 illus, 1 table, 15 ref

006273   PRAKASH D, SARANYA S, ABITHA R (Information Technology Dep, Women’s Christian Coll, Chennai- 600 008, Email: abirae2000@yahoo.co.in) : Analysis on pre-processing of heterogeneous dataset for ensemble clustering. Bull Pure Appl Sci Sect E Math Stat 2019, 38E(2), 71-8.

Cluster analysis is an unsupervised learning which reveals underlying structures in data and organizes them in clusters based on similarities. The approach to the both hard and soft clustering involves the concept of partial membership of the instance in the clusters and distance measure in the cluster. Clustering algorithms that have been analyzed are Fuzzy c-means (FCM), K- Means and K-Medoids etc. All these clustering algorithms do have some successful applications in agriculture, medicine, education, finance and business. Pre-processing is one of the key components in the clustering framework. The main objective is to preprocess heterogeneous dataset for different clustering algorithms and the time complexity is analyzed. In this project heterogeneous dataset that contains missing value is obtained from the UCI repository and it is used for preprocessing. The data pre- processing techniques are applied on the target data set to fill the missing value and attribute reduction to increase the effectiveness of algorithm. The key idea of this project is to preprocess the heterogeneous dataset and apply different clustering algorithms thereby to obtain best clustering result based on the time complexity. Finally the resultant clusters is be validated using silhouette plot and time complexity is also analyzed.

4 illus, 4 tables, 18 ref

006260   HEMALATHA R K S, MANI T K T (Bharathiar Univ, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Email: tktmani@gmail.com) : Usage of science electronic resources in the affiliated institutions of Madras University. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 48-52.

This study is aimed to analyze the use of electronic resources and services in the Library System of the Affiliated institutions of University of Madras. Under graduate students, Post graduate students, Research scholars, faculties were selected for this study. Questionnaire method was adopted to collect the data. Out of 1030 questionnaires 935 (90.77%) were received from respondents. There are about 161 Educational Institution affiliated to University of Madras, of which 15 are Government Colleges, 2 University Constituent Colleges, 24 Aided Colleges, 68 Self Finance Colleges and 52 Research Institutes. Out of these 161 Educational Institutions 136 offer Science courses. Apart from this the university itself has 31 departments catering to Science subjects spread over 3 different campuses. Altogether 167 Institutions affiliated to University of Madras are offering courses in science subjects. Out of these, 45 ( 8 Govt. Colleges, 12 Aided Colleges, and 25 Self Finance Colleges), Institutions Affiliated to University of Madras have been selected for the study.

12 tables, 8 ref

006274   RAJENDRAN L (Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences Univ, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Email: rajendranlak@yahoo.com) : Banana study publications: A scientometric evaluation on CAB direct for the period 1978-2018. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 44-7.

The analysis within the field of banana during the period 1978-2018, obtained from the CAB Direct Online database through Scientometric analysis. The analysis revealed that 2,420 papers have been published during the period 1978 to 2018 and the greatest quantity of publications was 244 papers published during 2013. Asian Journal of Horticulture is the most effective ranking journal with 67 papers (2.77%) in the most effective 10 journals are published their research papers. India could be the leading Country in the global world which contributed 399 papers (16.49%) followed by South Africa (10.91%) and Brazil (5.75%). The sorts of archives, most popular journals, ranking authors, rank-wise countries and predominant languages, positioning on nations dependent on their productions yield are displayed.

5 tables, 8 ref

006264   MADU A U, DAWHA E M K (Library and Information Science Dep, Maiduguri Univ, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Email: auspre@yahoo.com) : Analyses of awareness, perception and attitude towards embedded librarianship among librarians in North-Eastern Universities, Nigeria. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 37-43.

Innovations in library services and need for professional development among librarians with growth in research have brought to bear on the concept of embedded librarianship as a new research area in librarianship. It is expected that librarians in Nigeria must do all to move with the current trend in the discipline. This study aims to under the roles of awareness, attitude and perception of academic librarians in North-east Nigeria towards embedded librarianship practice. A survey of 11 university libraries in the region was undertaken with 356 conveniently selected samples. The descriptive result indicates a high level of awareness while attitude and perception recorded significant agreement to answer the research questions. The null hypothesis of non-significant effect of awareness, perception and attitude on embedded librarianship among academic librarians in university libraries in the north-east, Nigeria was rejected at F(3: 352) =2376.807, P<.0005, R² =.953 and was replaced with the alternate hypothesis. The study concludes that academic librarians in the study area have a high awareness level, positive attitude and perception about embedded librarianship. However, the actual practice of the term is still low from the practical assessment.

1 illus, 6 tables, 35 ref

006276   RATNAYAKE R M S N (Colombo Univ, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Email: sujeewaratnayake@gmail.com) : Impact of electronic media on reading habits of teenagers: A pilot study done in two schools in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 31-6.

The study aimed to discover the impact of e-media on reading habits of teenagers aged 13-19 in Colombo district, Sri Lanka. A questionnaire was distributed among two schools to find out the demographic information, the nature and extent of reading habits, the media other than books that they are interested in and the attitudes towards Reading and E-media. Main conclusions of the study are that both groups using e-media as well as books and having positive attitudes towards reading, books and e-media. Using E –media does not affect their studies or social life. Since the majority of teenagers are heavy media users, the researcher suggests using e-media to enhance reading habits among them and to improve the quality of reading.

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006263   JAYASREE V, BABY M D (Bharathiar Univ, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Email: jayasreernair@gmail.com) : A scientometric analysis of Indian research output in marine drugs during 1989-2017. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 25-30.

The study analyzes the Marine drugs research output from the year 1989-2017. The data was downloaded from the Web of Science maintained by Thomson Reuters. The findings of the study revealed that the highest number of TLCS and TGCS witnessed in the year 2010 i.e. 1131 (9.63 %) and 10381 (7.29 %). The study shows that a major source of publication in Marine Drugs research comes in the form of articles and India with 416 records ranked the third position among the country-wise distribution of records.

8 tables, 13 ref

006278   SREEKALA P K, BABY M D (Bharathiar Univ, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Email: sreesudeepk@gmail.com) : Digital archiving and access to print media resources: A study among leading Malayalam newspaper libraries in Kerala. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 19-24.

A newspaper library is a significant provider of various information sources needed for the media professionals. Librarians working in newspaper libraries have to play an outstanding role to pace with the changing scenario. The transformation of newspaper archives from print to digital is a noteworthy initiative by newspaper libraries. The paper presents a digital archiving initiative by newspaper libraries. It points out the need, purpose, and advantages of digital news archives. The paper also highlights the IT infrastructure facilities used and shares the challenges faced by librarians in the process of digital archiving.

1 illus, 10 tables, 10 ref

006272   POSIGHA B E, OJOHWOH R, OBERHIRI-ORUMA G (Library and Information Science Dep, Niger Delta Univ Library, Yenagoa Bayelsa, Nigeria, Email: basilpublication@gmail.com) : The challenges and prospects of cataloguing and classification in academic libraries in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 14-8.

The study aimed to investigate the challenges and prospects of cataloguing and classification in academic libraries in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study was made up of 66 practicing librarians who attended the Nigerian Library Association, Bayelsa State chapter 2018 annual conference held in Yenagoa. Questionnaire entitled “Challenges and Prospects of Cataloguing and Classification Questionnaire (CPCCQ)” that contained close-ended items was used to collect data for the study. The findings revealed, inadequate staff, lack of up-to-date tools, difficulties of cataloguing and classifying of backlogged, inadequate motivation, etc. as some challenges militating against the technical sections of the academic libraries studied. The study also reveals, increase advocacy for library automation, available training opportunities outside the State, the introduction of information management system, accelerated movement from manual to computerized method, etc as indication of brighter future or good prospect for the technical sections of the libraries studied. Base on the findings some recommendations were made.

3 tables, 8 ref

006251   ADEKANNBI J O, EGUNYOMI R A (Ibadan Univ, Nigeria, West Africa, Email: janet.adekannbi@gmail.com) : Perceived health implications in the use of mobile devices by undergraduate students of Nigerian universities. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 8-13.

This study investigated responses by undergraduate students to the perceived health implications in the use of mobile devices. The survey research design using the qualitative approach was adopted for the study. Five faculties common to both Lead City University and University of Ibadan, Nigeria, were purposively selected for the study while convenience sampling was used in selecting the respondents. Interview was conducted and responses analyzed on fortyeight respondents using the Nvivo software for analyzing qualitative data. Findings showed that many of the respondents had their perceptions on the health implications arising from mobile devices use. Some sources of information on these perceived health hazards include social media, radio, TV, personal experiences, friends and family members. Many reported taking precautions on their use of mobile devices based on their perceived health implications of mobile devices use. Findings also showed that while few respondents refrained from sharing the information on the perceived health hazards, many of the respondents shared this information with others despite this information not being verified. The study recommends government and other stakeholders implementing policy that mandates manufacturers of mobile devices to inform and sensitize users on the potential health hazards involved in their use, thus reducing the level of unsubstantiated information available on the use of mobile devices.

3 illus, 5 tables, 14 ref

006256   DAS R K (Noakhali Science and Technology Univ, Noakhali, Bangladesh, Email: rajesh@nstu.edu.bd) : Mapping open access publishing trends in Bangladesh: A study with reference to open access journals and repositories. Asian J Inf Technol 2019, 9(3), 1-7.

Open access initiative in Bangladesh dates back to the opening of icddr, b Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research (JDDR) in 1997 by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Since then considerable development of Open Access has occurred. The study also provided some recommendations for improvement of IR and open movement in Bangladesh. The paper analyzes current open access publishing trends in Bangladesh in the light of open access journals and repositories in Bangladesh. The data for the study were collected from BanglaJOL and Open DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) in August 2017.Thefindings of the study indicate that the trends towards the development of open access repositories are increasing among higher education and research institutions in Bangladesh. Through BanglaJOL nearly 97 % of journals in Bangladesh are published open access. There are total 11 IR found in OpenDOAR and ROAR in Bangladesh. It is found in this study that among 11 repositories 8 repositories have specified policy rules with regards to metadata, data, content, submission, and preservation. But the scenario is different in terms of OAIPMH compliance. Presently only 3 repositories are following the OAI-PMH protocols in Bangladesh. Moreover, this trend should be increased to a larger proportion and all toll-access publishing would be turned open in Bangladesh through mass consciousness and initiatives at broader level. This study recommends that present trend should be increased to a larger proportion and all toll-access publishing would be turned open in Bangladesh through mass consciousness and initiatives at broader level.

6 illus, 4 tables, 19 ref

006257   DEHNADA A , ABDEKHODAB M, ATATALAB F F (English Language Dep, Iran Univ of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran) : H-index and promotion decisions. Ann Lib Inf Stud 2019, 66(4), 171-5.

Two disciplines, medicine and health management & information sciences which offer graduate programs were studied. From well known citation databases, it was found that significantly higher number and impact factors of journals of high consensus disciplines indicate a higher chance of publication for the faculty members of these disciplines compared with low consensus disciplines. Due to the shortcomings of current scientometric indexes and movement towards new generation universities, it seems imperative for evaluation and promotion committees to reconsider the criteria which are largely publication-based. It is suggested that potential differences across disciplines as well as individual competencies and differences within disciplines be taken into consideration in decision making about promotion of faculty members.

2 tables, 22 ref

006338   PAL J K (Documentation & Information Science Div, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata- 700 108, West Bengal, Email: jiban@isical.ac.in) : Occupational health hazards of library professionals in India. Ann Lib Inf Stud 2019, 66(4), 163-70.

The paper revisits a wide variety of health hazards in the library workplace. Through an exhaustive review, it explores the underlying causes of occupational risk & injuries to library workers; aiming to raise the awareness of healthy working practices and statutory requirements. It reflects the viewpoints surrounding the health and safety in libraries to illustrate possible health hazards of library workers in an Indian context. The paper informs about a variety of burdens that persist in the library workplace. It also outlines the major causes of occupational risk in terms of physical, chemical, biological, technological, emotional, and psychosocial hazards. It reveals how occupational hazards emanate in the library workplace and how library managers can prevent these hazards by creating health & safety compliance in the workplace. The paper concludes that there is a need for transforming the library profession to improve the level of occupational health practices ensuring standard norms and follow-up actions.

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006262   JANA S (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur- 741 246, Email: siladitya.jana@iiserkol.ac.in) : A history and development of peer-review process. Ann Lib Inf Stud 2019, 66(4), 152-62.

The paper shows the importance of peer review process in the scholarly communication system and discusses both the closed and the newly emerging open peer review models. It also examines the peer review system at the scholarly academies or societies in their nomination systems for prizes, rewards, etc. It also discusses the various facets of the newly developed open peer review models now prevalent in various journals. The paper may help to understand and appreciate the role played by peer review in the scholarly communication system and the efforts being made to make it more transparent.

2 illus, 78 ref

006265   MANDAL S, MUKHOPADHYAY P, DUTTA A (Library and Information Science Dep, Kalyani Univ, Kalyani- 741 235, Nadia, Email: sujatalis20@yahoo.co.in) : Information mashup through application of Web 2.0 tools: Services and procedures. Ann Lib Inf Stud 2019, 66(4), 140-51.

Information mashup allows remixing of data from different sources to create new hybrid services with the help of API. In this study technical knowhow of implementation of the Web 2.0 services in OPAC using Add This, an open source platform, has been discussed. The study has also tried to identify the services that are being provided by the top 10 central libraries of global, national (India), Asian as well as the state (West Bengal) universities using information mashup technology and makes a comparison of the same between the university libraries.

10 illus, 4 tables, 14 ref

006270   PATRA S K (Tshwane Univ of Technology, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Email: skpatra@gmail.com) : How Indian libraries tweet? Word frequency and sentiment analysis of library tweets. Ann Lib Inf Stud 2019, 66(4), 131-9.

The study attempts to map Twitter activity of selected Indian libraries using word frequency and sentiment analysis. Tweets of 18 libraries’ (5 academic libraries, 5 government libraries, 5 school libraries and 3 public libraries) were downloaded during June and July 2019. ‘R’ software was used for the analysis. The study finds that Indian libraries are less active on Twitter. The word cloud based on the most frequently occurring words from the Tweets observed variations in Tweets depend upon the type of libraries. Sentiment analysis of Tweets showed that most of the libraries’ Tweets are positive in nature. The study recommends that Indian libraries should use twitter to promote their collections and services.

5 illus, 1 table, 19 ref

006269   PANDA S, DEVI Y L, DAS L, MONDAL S, PRADHAN K, PAL P K (Agricultural Extension Dep, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Coochbehar- 736 165, West Bengal, Email: subhrajyotip1992@gmail.com) : Socio-Personal determinants of farmers’ attitude towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Agric Sci Dig 2019, 39(4), 328-31.

The economy of the developing country like India predominantly depends on agriculture and development of it emphasizes on the need of related information to be transferred to the farmers. Now-a-days Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a vital role in every sector of development. The country like India is increasingly integrating ICT into its national development plan and adopting strategies for its wide spread promotion for transforming the nation into a knowledge vibrant e-learning society. The farmers are also showing interest towards ICT. A positive attitude towards ICT will surely enhance this interest towards harnessing benefits out of it on a sustained basis. As attitude depends upon the socio-personal disposition of an individual, the present study tried to tress out those factors in relation to use of ICT. The study was conducted in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. An attitude scale was used to generate data. From the study, it has been found that family education, asset possession, management orientation and communication behaviour are significantly associated with the development of favourable attitude towards use of ICT tools.

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005020   SENSUSE D I, GANDHI A, SUCAHYO Y G (Indonesia Univ, Depok- 16424, Email: arfive.gandhi81@ui.ac.id) : Exploring the soft system methodology in development of knowledge management conceptual model: A sytematic literature review. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 259-66.

Soft System Methodology (SSM) is common guidance to conceptualise Knowledge Management (KM) model since its benefit to handle complex situations. This study highlights SSM implementation on KM conceptual model using Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to produce insights about current implementation and promising chances in the future. This study also concerns on KM conceptual models as created without certain features in many case studies. Many various interpretation can arise to understand how system should work. This situation affected more spending time to validate KM conceptual model with stakeholders. Using SLR, this study criticises the importance of features as provided in eligible articles. Out of 144 articles from 2009 until 2019 as delivered from Scopus query, this study selected 12 articles about SSM on KM. It classified them into several criteria: published year, sector, and related  KM  life  cycle.  By  mapping  them  to  solve  research  questions,  this  study  promoted  actors,  activities,  and sequential order of activities as recommended features. By implementing them, KM conceptual model creation can be  faster  and  accepted by  stakeholders.

3 illus, 6 tables, 34 ref

005008   GUPTA B M, DHAWAN S M (CSIR –NISTADS, New Delhi- 110 012, Email: bmgupta1@gmail.com) : Electronic books: A scientometric assessment of global literature during 1993-2018. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 251-8.

A quantitative and qualitative description of global research on  the topic of the ‘electronic books’ published during 1993-18 on select bibliometric indicator is provided. The study finds that ‘E-books’ is a fast growing topic of research within the domain of library and information science. Just 10 top most productive countries in the subject account for bulk of (73.25 %) the global research output in the literature. The USA leads the subject with 38.42 per cent global publications share whereas the rest of the 9 of top 10 top countries are distant cousins contributing 1.61 per cent to 8.74 per cent global publications share. United Kingdom registered the highest citation impact per paper and relative citation index (12.08 and 1.61). Bar-Ilan University, Israel was the most productive organisation and H. Falk was the most productive author. Publishing Research Quarterly is the most popular journal in e-books. 

3 illus, 7 tables, 12 ref

005014   MONDAL D, CHAKRABARTI B, MAITY A (Ananda Mohan Coll, Kolkata– 700 009, Email: dhiman.bon@gmail.com) : Publications output of the Indian association for the cultivation of science during 2008-2017: A scientometric assessment. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 244-50.

The present scientometric study assesses the publication output of the scientists of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) during 2008 to 2017 as reflected in the Web of Science database to figure out the research performance, scholarly communication behaviour and its citation impact. The scientists of IACS contribute total  4,304 research  articles  including  22.58  percent  international  collaborated  articles.  Further,  the  publications have  been  evaluated in  terms of year,  types  of collaboration, authorship pattern, source journals, impact  factor, collaborating  institutions, collaborating countries and citations. It is found that majority of the published  articles are  produced  by  three  authored  and  the international  collaborated  articles which  receive  wider citation  impact. The developed countries like USA, Japan, Germany and England are found as the most favoured countries by the scientists  of  IACS  for  research  collaboration and the Journal of Physical Chemistry C shares maximum research articles. Further, Pareto’s  80/20 principle has also been applied to examine the scattering  of  journals  as  well  as articles and  the VOS viewer software has been used for mapping the network of collaborating countries.  

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005016   NG C Y, MUSTAFFA Z, JOHN K V (Teknologi Petronas Univ, Seri Iskandar- 2610, Email: chengyee.ng@utp.edu.my) : Impact of international co-authorships to a young Malaysian University specialising in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 238-43.

Internationalisation  for a  higher education institution  is  defined as  a  process  of  integrating  an  international, intercultural, or global dimension into the teaching and learning, as well research activities. International co-authorship in research article is one of the means of collaboration towards internationalisation. Henceforth, this paper investigates the  impact  of  international  co-authorship  of  the  research  articles  in  the  field  of  science,  technology,  engineering and  mathematics  (STEM)  for  a  specialised  young university  (<50  years  old)  in  Malaysia. The  study  focused  on approximately 9450 article and the citations ranging from 2012-2017. The impact due to annual article publication, annual citation count, most cited article, annual citation per article and the correlation between the publication and citation were analysed. The finding shows that faculty members of the university have been collaborated with authors from  86  countries  since  1997,  which  dominated  by Asian  institutions.  From  the  results,  annual  citation  per article (Cpp) showed that collaborations with European countries brought highest impact for the mean Cpp. Meanwhile, the analysis on the cumulative citation trend illustrated that the citation count is proportional to the number of articles, which  proves  that international co-authorship does  impacts STEM  specialised young  university. 

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005004   DAS P, RAMESH D B (Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar- 751 030, Email: priyambadadas@soa.ac.in) : Trends in pharmaceutical scholarly communications from India, China and United States: A comparative study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 230-7.

The present study throws light on the scholarly communication of three leading countries in the field of pharmaceutical research as reflected in SCOPUS database during 1998-2017. In terms of publication output, United States with two leading Asian countries, China and India leads with 40.54 per cent share of the global research publication share in pharmaceutical sciences. The global outcome of scholarly communication in the field of  pharmaceutical  research  is  1395221.  The  study  mainly  focuses  both  on  qualitative  and  quantitative  research growth of United States, China and India in terms of output of scholarly communication, citation impact, relative research effort, common sources used for publications and research collaboration. The growth pattern of three leading countries is highly chaotic. The relative research effort of India and China increased during 2008-2017 while in United States, it was decreased. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Tetrahedron Letters and Tetrahedron are the  common  source  of  communication  in  these  three  countries. All  the  three  countries  show  the  positive  shift  in international collaboration during  1998-2002  to  2012-2017  in  pharmaceutical research

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005010   KABA A, RAMAIAH C K (Al Ain Univ, Al Ain- 641 41, Email: chennupati_kramaiah@yahoo.com) : Bibliometric analysis of research output on the internet of things in the Arab world. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 222-9.

Arab countries understand the importance of the Internet of things for the development of society. This entails many efforts to conduct research related to the Internet of things in the Arab countries. Analysing contributions of researchers to the Internet of things research could be useful to go further in this filed. In this study, bibliometric techniques are used to investigate publications indexed in the Scopus database with the affiliation to the Arab countries. The paper used research outputs of Arab nations as quantitative measure, while it also used citation rates and  citation scores for qualitative measure. Data analysis focuses on the growth in the Internet of things research, types of publication, core journals, subject and keyword analysis, top productive authors, top productive institutes and countries, and collaborative countries with the Arab countries. Findings of the study highlighted the differences among the Arab group countries with regard to IoT research. In addition, the Arab nations appeared performing better in  IoT research than  the environmental and medical research.

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005005   DURODOLU O O, ADELEKE A A, OJO J O (South Africa Univ, Pretoria, South Africa, Email: woledurodolu@gmail.com) : Infometrics growth analysis of medical science researchers in Nigeria during 2007 to 2016. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 215-21.

This article accounts for the trend and pattern of medical research in Nigerian Universities within the span of ten years. The study aims to evaluate the research productivity of Nigerian Medical Science Researchers, appraise the preferred research communication outlets, analysing the growth rate of Nigerian medical science research publications, productivity, and visibility of both author and institution. Also, the trends of collaboration with colleagues within the continent and intercontinental were reviewed. The documents included in this research were retrieved from Scopus database; the results revealed incremental research output in medical science between 2007 and 2016 with 2016 having the highest number. It also showed that the Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice is the most widely patronised by Nigeria Medical researchers and that the growth rate of research productivity is 9.5 per cent as indicated by the T value of 0.094768. Moreover, the researcher with the highest output was credited with 103 publication, while the trend of inter-continental research collaboration of Nigerian medical sciences researchers with scholars from another part of the world was more with the United States researchers.

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005022   SHAJITHA C, ABDUL MAJEED K C (Cochin Univ of Science and Technology, Kochi- 682 022, Email: shajitha.c@gmail.com) : Faculty perceptions towards institutional repository at Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2019, 39(5), 207-14.

Explores the perceptions of faculty members towards Institutional Repository (named  as Dyuthi) of Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. It also discussed  the  content  recruitment nature of  faculty members in an institutional repository (IR). In order to carry out the study, a voluntary survey was conducted among faculty members. They showed high awareness and satisfaction about IR, and the highly significant relationship was observed between awareness and satisfaction. However, their self-archiving practice in Dyuthi was low, and they were not at all unfamiliar with the self-archiving practice outside Dyuthi. Faculty members tended to adopt a traditional preservation strategy to store their works, and they have supported the framing of a policy to deposit their scientific works in IR. This study concludes that to achieve the content growth, self-archiving must be encouraged, and faculty members  are  capable  of  self-archiving  in  IR. Dyuthi could elevate itself as a social medium by implementing  the facilities  such  as  commenting  add-ons,  request  full-text  copy  add-ons,  controlled  vocabulary  add-ons,  the  web  of communication  add-ons,  restricted  access,  and  storage  facility  similar  to  Google  drive. Dyuthi’s workflow should also  be  altered by  giving  more  importance to  preservation.

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005017   PANDEY M K, MISHRA P (Clinical Psychology Dep, Post Graduate Institute of Behavioural & Medical Sciences, Raipur- 492 001, Email: manojpandey813@gmail.com) : Relevance of patterns of use and preferred contents in problematic internet use among undergraduate students. Delhi Psychiatry J 2019, 22(2), 244-9.

Problematic internet use (PIU) has diverse adverse impact on different spheres of life of undergraduate students, who are in process of identity exploration through finding direction in world views, work and love. Internet use is a widely studied phenomenon worldwide. In Indian set-up, there are fewer attempts to study the impact of patterns of internet use on PIU, and variations in preferred contents and purposes of internet use among problematic and normal internet users. The current study was aimed to explore whether the patterns of use of internet, preferred contents in internet and purposes of internet use lay their impact on problematic internet use. This study was conducted in a sample of 480 undergraduate students (equal male and female participants) aged between 18 to 25 years. They were selected in equal numbers (f=120) from medical, engineering, management and non-professional streams of education with convenient sampling. Semi-structured data sheet was used to obtain information about demographics, patterns of use, preferred contents and purposes of use of internet. Online cognition scale was used to assess PIU. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, ANOVA and t-test. In current study, it was found that more than two years of use and higher than two hours daily use of internet has significant impact on the severity of PIU. Further, it was observed that individuals with PIU are more inclined to contents and purposes related to entertainment, gaming, social networking, pornography, and romance than normal internet users.

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005013   MASHROOFA M M, JOSUH M, CHINNA K (South Eastern Univ of Sri Lanka, Oluvil, Sri Lanka, Email: mashroof@seu.ac.lk) : Research trend on the application of “E-learning adoption theory” : A scientometric study during 2000-2019, based on Web of Science and SCOPUS. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 387-408.

Bibliometric study of the research trend on e-learning adoption theory is essential to investigate the existing literature to identify a suitable theory for new research. Objective of this study is to explore the research trend in scientific literature on e-learning adoption theory. Search of Web of Science and SCOPUS were carried out to find papers dealing with the contours of e-learning adoption theory. This study retrieved 84 research papers from Web of Science and 324 from SCOPUS on the “e-learning adoption theory.” USA and Taiwan accounted for the highest number of publications with 39 papers (12.03 %) and 19 papers (22.62 %) in SCOPUS and Web of Science respectively. Computer Science has the highest number of papers in SCOPUS whilst Education and Educational Research is the top in Web of Science. China Agricultural University and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia have the highest number of publications four and seven in Web of Science and SCOPUS respectively. National Central University and China Agricultural University are the most productive organization as they have received 321 and 69 citations on e-learning adoption theory in Web of Science and SCOPUS respectively. Among the authors, Tarhini Ali of Brunel University, London has published the highest number of papers (five) on e-learning adoption theory in Web of Science and received 124 citations. Despites, Giannakos, M.N. and Pappas, I.O. have published the same quantity of papers (five) in SCOPUS, they have received only 47 and 22 citations respectively. Journal namely Computers and Education have published the highest number of papers in both databases at 13 (16.05 %) and 14 (4.32 %) received the highest number of citations at 996 (53.04 %) and 1487 (39.37 %) for those papers in Web of Science and SCOPUS respectively. Among the technology adoption theories, the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour is more suitable to study e-learning behavior of individuals.

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005001   ADIGOZALOVA N A (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan, Email: narmin66@gmail.com) : Quartile weighted impact factor. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 365-86.

Evaluation of the journals has always been one of the important issues. In this regard, several indicators that take into account different factors are proposed. Currently, Impact Factor (IF) is one of the main indicators for the evaluation of journals. Although, IF is frequently used among scientometric indicators; one of its most criticized characteristics is that the prestige of the citing source is not considered. For this reason, many modified versions of IF have been proposed by several researchers. IF that considers both individual and group (quartile) weights of the citing sources are proposed in the article. Prestige stands for the quartile where the citing source is indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. For comparison of the proposed weighted IF with the original IF, experiments are conducted on 20 journals randomly picked from WoS which are also indexed in Scopus. Pearson rank correlation coefficient was used as the comparison criterion. The results of the experiment demonstrate that consideration of the quartile weights of the citing source lead to the decrease of correlation between the original IF and the proposed weighted IF. Decreasing of the correlation will be felt more evidently when experiments are conducted on more journals.

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005002   AHMAD S, SOHAIL M, WARIS A, ABDEL-MAGID I M, PATTUKUTHU A, AZAD M S (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ, Dammam- 34212, Email: shahmad@iau.edu.sa) : Evaluating journal quality : A review of journal citation indicators and ranking in library and information science core journals. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 345-63.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the influence and quality of library and Information Science journals. Currently used bibliometric indicators include: Journal Impact Factor (JIF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR), Cite Score (CS), and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) indicator rank. Specific library and Information Science journals were collected from their class within Web of Science. JIFs and ESs were composed of Journal Citation Report and the SJR, Cite Score and SNIP from the SCOPUS, SCImago Journal, and country rank website respectively. The researchers randomly selected and examined eighty-nine Library and Information Science journals detailed with necessary data derived from the principal and original sites as related to JIF, ES, SJR, CS and SNIP quality ranking indexes. Correlations amid meters were explained by Pearson’s and Spearman’s statistical correlations employing SPSS 23.0 package. Concerning Spearman’s rho statistical correlation, a high correlation was observed between JIF and ES rank (coefficient value of 0.843) for Information Science journals and a lesser value between JIF and SJR rank (coefficient value of 0.759) and a rather low correlation between both JIF and SNIP rank (coefficient value = 0.618). An overall Journal Quality Index is proposed to utilise the potentiality of all various indicators used for measuring journal quality.

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005027   ZIAHTIC G, KOKOL P, ZIAHTIC B (Maribor Univ, Maribor- 2000, Email: peter.kokol@um.si) : Discrepancies in identifying sleeping papers in SCOPUS and Web of Science: The case of “Software engineering”. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 339-44.

The growing importance of information and enormous amounts of produced data put a big emphasis on data analysis tools. Data analysis off enormous amounts of data uses a lot of processing power and time even if the data contains a small amount of information. That is why it is important to identify the best source of data to minimize its amount and maximize the amount of information that it contains. The article focuses on information anomalies in citation behaviour of articles called sleeping papers, which according to recent research might present important scientific discoveries (Van Raan, 2017). While bibliographic databases cover different sets of source titles, it is possible that also the citation histories of indexed papers differ, thus resulting in different sets of Sleeping papers. To determine the discrepancies between Scopus and Web of science in this regard, the same methods of search in Scopus and Web of Science were used, supported by the software developed specifically for this purpose using the corpora of papers related to the dynamic research area of software engineering. The analysis showed that discrepancies between above two bibliographic databases exist and that each contains different sleeping papers.

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005007   ELANGO B (IEFT Coll of Engineering, Villupuram- 605 108, Email: elangokb@yahoo.com) : Calculation errors in bibliometrics : The case of CAGR. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 331-7.

In this short communication, growth rate calculation errors in bibliometric studies are discussed and demonstrate how to avoid such errors and cross verify the calculated CAGR value with the data. Results show that all the seventeen articles studied project the CAGR value either with positive or negative. With this background, a demonstration is given with two samples to avoid such errors. Based on the results, it is concluded that the errors occurred mainly due to misunderstandings of the formula.

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005025   SUK F-M, WANG M-H, HO Y-S (Asia Univ, Taiwan, ROC, Email: ysho@asia.edu.tw) : A historical review of classic Helicobacter pylori publications in science citation index expanded. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 313-30.

Which Helicobacter pylori publications in the Web of Science are classic? This study identified classic papers by referring to the Science Citation Index Expanded, which covers 59,904 documents related Helicobacter pylori publications in the Web of Science from 1900 to 2016. The present paper lists classic Helicobacter pylori papers published between 1991 and 2007. Classic documents that have been cited at least 1,000 times from the Web of Science Core Collection were assessed regarding language of publication, document type publication outputs, distribution of outputs in journals and Web of Science categories, publications of authors, institutions, countries as well as citation life cycles of classic documents. An article published by Parsonnet et al. in 1991 obtained the highest number of citations from the Web of Science Core Collection during the period from its initial publication to the end of 2016. The most impactful article in 2016 was published by Uemura et al. in 2001 with 163 citations in 2016. In addition, results showed that three main research focuses in H. pylori study were gastric cancer, low-grade gastric lymphoma, and the CagA gene.

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005026   YUAN B-Z (Huazhong Agricultural Univ, Wuhan- 430 070, Email: yuanbzsj@163.com) : Bibliometric and mapping of top papers in the subject category of green and sustainable science and technology based on ESI. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 269-89.

Based on the Essential Science Indicators database, this study analyzed 2,138 top papers in the subject category of Green & Sustainable Sci- ence & Technology database from 2008 to 2018, including 2,130 highly cited papers and 61 hot papers. Results showed there are total 19 Web of Science subject categories, all paper written in English, were from 6,228 authors, 2,019 organizations and 94 countries/territories, listed in 30 journals in the field. Top 4 core journals with higher impact factor ranked as Renewable sustainable energy reviews, Journal of cleaner production, Renewable energy, Green chemistry. Based on the analysis of network map of VOSviewer, there is cooperation for authors, organizations and countries or regions. The analysis of keywords showed that the researches were separated into nine clusters. Therefore, authors can choose their ideal journal with a high impact factor to publish papers in the English language related to this research field.

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005019   RIYANTO S, SUBAGYO H, MARLINA E, YANIASIH Y, RODIAH R (Research Center for Informatics, Jawa nimur, Indonesia, Email: slamet.riyanto@lipi.go.id) : Development of collaboration matrix using co-occurrence and combinatoric system as scientometrics analysis. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 247-67.

The purpose of this study is to propose a new method for revealing the collaboration frequencies among the author’s name and the author’s affiliation through various analysis and visualization methods. This study takes metadata of the author’s name, author’s affiliate, and keyword from National Scientific Repository (RIN). Each article will be extracted accord to the entity, the author’s name is separated into first author, second author, third author, etc. The affiliation is also separated according to the author’s affiliation using machine learning algorithms. The implementation of the collaboration matrix form of visualization can be used effectively in looking at the number of collaborative frequencies of scientific works among author’s names and author’s affiliations. Presentations and calculations of keywords that often appear in each scientific paper resulting from collaboration between name pairs can be used to identify the contents of the study of scientific articles as a whole, see the topics discussed and find out the trends and interests of research. This study applied collaboration matrix using cooccurrence and combinatoric methods. The result of the analysis is the number of collaboration among the authors and the highest number of collaborations will be placed on the top rank.

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005015   MONDAL D, RAYCHOUDHURY N (Ananda Mohan Coll, Kolkata- 700 009, Email: dhiman.bon@gmail.com) : Contribution of Indian authors in scientometrics– An international journal during 1990-2017. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 231-45.

Scientometrics, an international journal focuses on quantitative aspects of the Science of Science, Communication in Science and Science Policy. Indian authors’ contributions in the Scientometrics journal have been mapped to identify the authorship pattern and their scholarly communication behavior. During 1990 to 2017, Indian authors have published 208 articles including 29 international collaborative articles having avg. citations of 12.86 per article. The results have been critically studied on various aspects, namely, year wise, collaboration, authorship, productive institutions, leading authors, collaborating countries, popular keywords and citation. Further, different indices like h-index, A-index, i10-index and g-index have also been applied to determine the scholarly impact of publications. The highest numbers of articles are two-authored and the avg. authors per paper are 2.27. In addition, B.M. Gupta, the notable information scientist is the most prolific author and Belgium is the most productive foreign collaborating nation. The study proposes that the leading institutes like NISTADS, NISCAIR should start short-term courses in this area for enhancing capacity building and research performance of the Indian bibliometricians so that more quality papers may be produced in the thrust area.

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005012   KUMAR A, TIWARI S, CHAUHAN A K, AHIRWAR R (Information and Library Network Center, Gandhinagar- 382 421, Email: abhishek@inflibnet.ac.in) : Impact of NIRF on research publications: A study on top 20 (ranked) Indian Universities. Collnet- J Scientometrics Inf Manag 2019, 13(2), 219-29.

Intuitively knowledge of any person or society shows the order of its progress similarly good content deserves the good ranking. The India Rankings (IR), known as National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), is the first most popular ranking system in India initiated by Government of India for benchmarking of Indian Institutions on the basis of different parameters. One of the core / major parameters of this ranking system is research outcomes. This paper focused impact of NIRF on research outcomes. Moreover, it also evaluates trends of publications by the Indian Universities. The study investigates the growth of publication in the different subject category as well as impact of growth before and after NIRF. The sample data is considered for 20 universities from the top 25 top universities ranked last three years in NIRF. The data for this study have been collected from the Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic database for the last six years. Basically, three year (2016, 2015, 2014) before the India Rankings and three year (last three years i.e. IR19, IR18, IR17) during the NIRF exercise.

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005018   RAI N, SIJARIYA R (LNCT Coll, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Email: neel.rai94@gmail.com) : Use of social media for women entrepreneurship (with special reference to Bhopal). Asian J Manag 2019, 10(3), 203-7.

The present era is a technical age. Everyday technology is being invented and more technical proved to be very helpful in making human life easier and accessible. Today, through social media, people connect with their friends, family, acquaintances and interact with them as well as share new media information too. It is also used for propaganda and this is used by women in the best way in their entrepreneurs. Keeping this in mind, this research has been studied in the utility of social media in the women entrepreneurs. Using a grounded theory approach to data analysis, the finding shows that social media has an overall positive impact on the lives of women entrepreneurs.

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005021   SHAFI S M, ALI S (Library and Information Sciences Dep, Kashmir Univ, Jammu and Kashmir, Email: smshafi@kashmiruniversity.ac.in) : Retrieval performance of select search engines in the field of physical sciences. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2019, 66(3), 117-22.

The study aims to provide a systematic evaluation of the search engines on the basis of two information retrieval parameters (precision and relative recall) with reference to physical sciences. It employed ‘Web of Science’ to identify data (one to three word queries) of highly ranked authors who have contributed to the discipline of physical sciences. The three English language search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) were selected on the basis of ranking of ‘Alexa’ (Actionable Analytics for the Web). The study reveals that in all (one, two and three word) queries ‘Google’ obtained highest precision and relative recall followed by ‘Yahoo’ and ‘Bing’. It further shows that ‘Google’ and ‘Yahoo’ achieve the highest ‘precision’ and ‘relative recall’ due to their wide coverage. Bing once prominent one, however lags behind in retrieval effectiveness.

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005011   KUMAR A, KUMAR N, GUPTA R (CSIR, New Delhi- 110 001, Email: abhishek_kumar@csir.res.in) : Document clustering for knowledge synthesis and project portfolio funding decision in R&D organizations. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2019, 66(3), 110-6.

The paper discusses a method of using document clustering for information/knowledge synthesis and decision facilitation in R&D organisations. The emerging methodologies of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data science in conjunction with fuzzy mathematics can be optimally exploited to catalyse development of information bank for research organisations. This knowledge ecosystem can be utilized by the proposed mechanism to accelerate and reinforce interdisciplinary research for R&D organisations and empower them to make efficacious information-driven decisions related to project portfolio selection and proposal funding.

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005003   ARAUJU C A A (Federal Univ of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Email: carlosaraujoufmg@gmail.com) : Information practices: The relevance of the concept to information user studies. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2019, 66(3), 101-9.

The concept of information practices and the recent perspective of studies on information users are discussed. A framework of the human and social sciences from where the concept originated is presented. The history of the studies of information users with the notions of "use studies" and "information behavior", show that the approach of information practices differs. Finally, some recent studies in informational practices are described and discussed.

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005023   SHIVARAM B S, BIRADAR B S (CSIR- National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru- 560 017, Email: bsbiradar53@rediffmail.com) : Assessing grey literature use by researchers of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2019, 66(3), 94-100.

The present study on the use of both external and internal grey literature by CSIR researchers shows that technical reports are most used followed by doctoral theses. It was found that engineering and physical sciences laboratories use more internal grey literature than chemical and biological sciences laboratories. These and other findings help is framing content development policy for technical grey literature, framing policies for internal grey literature archiving, designing digital repository framework to archive internally generated grey literature and improve access and devise ways to enhance their visibility and use.

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005024   SUDARSANA D, BABA M S (Library and Information Sciences Dep, Khallikhote Univ, Berhampur, Email: dsudharsana@khallikhoteuniversity.ac.in) : Global nuclear fuel research during 2000 to 2017: A scientometric analysis. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2019, 66(3), 85-93.

A scientometric analysis of global nuclear fuel research has been carried out for the years from 2000 to 2017 based on various scientometric indicators such as: publication output, prolific authors, collaboration networks of authors, productive institutions involved, the hot research topics and the citation pattern. A total of 7,402 bibliographic records from the Web of Science core collection database were taken as a data source and analyzed using CiteSpace and VOSviewer software. The analysis indicated that half of the publications (4166; 56 %) were published in during 2011 to 2017 and the year 2017 had the highest number of publications (679; 9 %) and the most significant developments in nuclear fuel research is from USA, France, South Korea and Germany. A significant contribution has been made from Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. Keywords analysis indicated that, spent nuclear fuel, uranium, spent fuel and plutonium are commonly used.

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005009   JAHANBIN K, RAHMANIAN F, RAHMANIAN V, SHAKERI M, SHAKERI H, RAHMANIAN Z, JAHROMI A S (Jahrom Univ of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran) : A perspective on text classification, clustering, and named-entity recognition in social media. Ambient Sci 2019, 6(1), 1-4.

Nowadays, the use of social media is increasing continuously and these media have become a signif icant source for unstructured data, including business, governments, and public health. The growing conf idence in social networks calls for data mining techniques that are likely to assist reforming the unstructured data and place them within an organized pattern. We are presenting here a brief review on text mining in social networks; focusing on text classif ication, text clustering, and Named-entity recognition (NER). Firstly, discussed on knowledge discovery in texts and big data, later explained big data in social media and describe its important aspects and finally, reviewed several articles that show the different perspective of using this knowledge in another science.

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005006   EKEPU D, KARUBANGA G, AGEA J G, OKIROR J J (Extension and Innovation Studies Dep, Makerere Univ, Kampala, Uganda, Email: dekepu@gmail.com) : A review of social learning as a function of student-centered outreach in African universities. Agric Rev 2019, 40(3), 216-22.

There are attempts in African universities to strengthen their engagement with communities through student-centered outreach (S-C-O). Although the concept of social learning has been introduced in S-C-O, there is still limited theoretical understanding of how the mechanism of social learning in the S-C-O model works due to inadequate availability of indicators for empirical assessment of social learning in S-C-O programmes. This review paper explores possible indicators for measuring social learning in S-C-O. A desk review was conducted to obtain literature about the key concepts of the university outreach and social learning. A thematic-content analysis was employed to obtain indicators for measuring social learning. Our review has revealed that communities of practice theory (CPT) of social learning provides a conceptual framework for analysis of social learning in S-C-O. The key tenets of CPT include practice, community, identity and meaning. This implies that social learning occurs through collaborative learning processes as a result of social participation. Thus, efforts to investigate social learning in the S-C-O model should focus on farmers in order to assess their interactions in the prevailing social setting and/or institutional context.

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003753   INDU P V, VIDHUKUMAR K (Government Medical Coll, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Email: kumarv68@gmail.com) : Research designs—An overview. Kerala J Psychiatry 2019, 32(1), 64-7.

A research design is a systematic plan to study a scientific problem. The research problem determines the type of design. Research designs can be qualitative or quantitative; the latter can be experimental (interventional) and non-experimental (observational). Observational studies are further classified into descriptive (such as case reports, case series and cross-sectional studies) and analytical studies (like case-control and cohort studies). Experimental studies compare experimental groups exposed to different treatments or interventions. All these are briefly discussed along with systematic reviews, meta-analysis, qualitative research, basic sciences research, translational and implementation research.

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