018912   Parmar S;Pateria R K (Nehru Library, CCS Haryana Agricultural Univ, Hisar) : Vital role of consortia in the success of E-journals in India: with special reference to Indian agricultural libraries. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(2), 19-24.

Due to the impact of ICT (Information and communication technology) print resources have also been transformed into electronic resources. E-journals keep the prominent place among e-resources and a researcher usually feels the need of latest research in the form of e-articles published in e-journals all around the globe. Sharing of this e-literature has become essential among libraries at state, national and international level to fulfil its clientele need. This activity is now being done by consortia based activities. Thus, various types of consortia have been developed with their sole features. In India various prominent consortia like UGC-Infonet, CSIR, INDEST, CeRA, DAE, ISRO, IIM consortium and such other types of consortia are playing major role in enhancing the use and success of e-journals. In Agricultural Universities CeRA is promoting the use of e-journals among scholar community due to its special features.

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018911   Mehta P (Business Management Dep, Dr. Y.S. Parmar Horticulture & Forestry Univ, Solan-173 230, Email: piyush_uhf@yahoo.com) : Users perception of E-learning facilities at agricultural university library. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(2), 12-18.

This research paper has highlighted a key operational area of e-learning components being used at University libraries at Sate Agriculture University. This paper has tried to observe the perceptions of distinctive users about the e-learning facilities at library and has also taken an insight view into the efforts undertaken by the university library to enhance the usage and sensitization of e-learning facilities available. It seeks suggestions and recommendations from various sections of library users in context to improvise the existing E-learning facilities at University library.

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018910   Mahapatra R K (Central Library, Odisha Agriculture & Technology Univ, Bhubaneswar-751 003, Email: rkmahapatra60@gmail.com) : User satisfaction on the central library of Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT). Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(2), 1-11.

Paper surveys the level of satisfaction of post graduate students of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology and discusses in detail the level of satisfaction derived by those students community on the use of different types of information resources. The particular reference can be cited on the use of the books, journals, report literature, databases, e-resources, digital resources and physical infrastructure such as, Internet facility, availability of computer systems for their use, and contribution of the library for their personal academic success.

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018909   Gidda Reddy P;Punna Rao P;Mallika M;Arunasri L (NO, ANGRAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030) : Information needs of farmers. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(2), 24-30.

Study was conducted to find out the information needs of Indian farmers with a sample of 180 farmers covering A.P., Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh states. Quality inputs availability, pests and disease management, updated weather and market information, farm mechanization and government schemes were the major information needs expressed by the respondents.

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017899   Verma N C (NO, Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, ICAR, Rehmankhera, P.O. Kakori, Lucknow-227 107, Email: ncverma14786@gmail.com) : Marketing of information services and products in university libraries of Uttarakhand: an exploratory study. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 79-93.

Study has been undertaken to assess the attitude of users towards the marketing of information services and products of university libraries of Uttarakhand. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the library users of nine universities of Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Hardwar, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Pauri Garhwal, Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust University, Dehradun, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis of India (ICFAI), Dehradun, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Kumaun University, Nainital aand Uttaranchal Open University, Haldwani. The responses were gathered from 900 users (277 teachers, 241 research scholars and 382 postgraduate students). The findings of the survey reveal useful facts about marketing of information products and services. 61% of the respondents are willing to pay for developed information services and 58% for developed information products. On the basis of the findings, some suggestions have been made to improve information services and products of the libraries.

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017898   Tyagi S (Library & Information Centre, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Government of India, Mininstry of Health & Family Welfare, CIPL Campus, Sector-23, Rajnagar, Ghaziabad-201 002, Email: suniltyagi1979@gmail.com) : Interaction and impact of electronic information resources in agriculture: a survey of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel university of agriculture & technology, Meerut. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 31-41.

Present study sought to determine the availability, use of different types of Electronic Information Resources and to assess current user characteristics associated with use of online resources and databases at the Central Library, SVBP University of Agriculture & Technology. The study is based on questionnaire method. A questionnaire was distributed among the faculty, PhD Scholars, Research Associates, Post Graduate and Under Graduate Students to collect desired data. A total of 125 questionnaires were distributed to the selected sample for the session 2010-11; 108 valid samples were collected. The result showed a growing interest in electronic information resources among the users at SVBP university of Agriculture & Technology Library. The survey found that the majority of the respondents of SVBP university of Agriculture & Technology showed key interest in use of various databases like AGRIS, AGR1COLA, and Biotechnology Abstract. Awareness among the users about the availability of EIS was found satisfactory. Electronic information resources were mostly used for research needs. User's perception of e-resources as a-replacement for print in meeting their information needs to a very high extent: e-resources have bepome a substitute for printed materials.

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017897   Suseela V J (IGM Library, Hyderabad Univ, Hyderabad-500 046, Email: vjslib@uohyd.ernet.in) : Agriculture science literature in India: an analytical study of pattern of publicatiuons and their use. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 7-18.

Describes the publication patterns and their use of literature in 'agriculture science in India' by obtaining the quantitative data of published documents and citations from Sciverse SCOPUS database. The findings are discussed in the light of latest developments in publishing scholarly literature that are influencing their publication and usage by several kinds of users in agriculture sector. It was emphasized that there is need for dynamic involvement of academic, research people in the sector to contribute more to Indian economy by focusing greatly since there is consistent need for refining the existing conventional systems all over the world to meet the basic need of human kind as per growing earth population.

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017896   Sharma S (NO, G.B. Pant Agriculture and Technology Univ, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, Email: sueprnasharma@yahoo.com) : Information search pattern of veterinary scientists: library services and computerised services. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 42-7.

Information is power and providing the right information to the right user at the right time is an integral part of information management and quality information services. The use of library services and e-mail service by the veterinarians of different universities and institutions of Haryana, Uttarakhand and UttarPradesh is studied. There are 87.17% Veterinary Scientists who use computerized service. 52.76% Veterinary Scientists search the information within the library, 41.11% search information through local network, 33.22% search information through national network. 52.96% search information through international network.

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017895   Punna Rao P Gidda Reddy P;Aruna Sri I; Mallika M (NO, ANGRAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-30) : Effectiveness of ICT initiatives in agriculture. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 63-70.

About seventy two per cent of the beneficiaries of the six initiatives viz., aAQUA, e-choupal, V-Agri, V-Aqua, e-Sagu and FCC were well aware of the initiatives operating in their area and the kind of services provided. Majority(71.00%) of the beneficiaries of all the initiatives perceived that the initiatives are moderately useful for the agriculture. By becoming member of the ICT initiatives majority of the beneficiaries are being respected by the villagers and consult them for the agricultural information. Majority of the beneficiaries adopted the information provided to them.

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017894   Mohan V;Visakhi P;Ravi S (NO, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin-682 014, Email: cmfrimohan@gmail.com) : Coral reef research India: a bibliometric analysis (part I). Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 48-60.

Part-I of this paper attempts to evaluate the coral reef research in India using Bibliometric tools for the period 1900-2000. The data has been extracted from "Bibliography on Indian coral reefs". It highlights research productivity by subjects, domains, institutions (Research and Academic) etc. The study examines authorship pattern, productivity on individual scientists and also identified the various countries participation. It analyzes the forms of communication, journals productivity and identified criteria for selection of the core journals for library. Suggested to create a database on coral reefs and to develop marine science at national level that would facilitate easy use of all categories of people.

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017893   Hasan N;Visakhi P (NO, IIT, Delhi, Email: hasan@library.iitd.ac.in) : E-reading devicesm products and services: current scenario and future trends. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 70-8.

Paper covers the current scenario in new generation eReading devices especially touching eBooks and eReaders. The formats and technology of the eBooks and eBook readers have been narrated. The comparison of eBooks Vs Print books Vs eReaders has been elaborated and a new intermediary- Print on Demand has been explained. Next Generation eReading Devices and the new utilities in reading through the machines have been explained. It further covers the transition from B2B to B2C model. Cloud Computing applications and digital content delivery for eBooks have been explored. Five Laws of the library science in view of developments in the eReading environment have been re-interpreted. The authors see that the issue of new generation eReading devices is gaining momentum and the coming years seem to be interesting in exploring this interesting digital world.

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017892   Edwin Joseph V;Mohan V (Library & Documentation, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin-682 018) : Evolution of institutional repository at CMFRI. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 1-6.

Paper traces the evolution of IR at CMFRI which is an initiative to implement IR at other SCAR Institutes. Discusses the lessons learned and best practices for implementing IRs and will pave way for other ICAR Institutions and State Agricultural Universities in India the examine the feasibility of IRs in the Indian context. CMFRI first introduced the Green Stone Digital Library (GSDL) software for uploading the scanned scientific papers and experienced some Hurdles. Realizing the difficulty in this software, selected Eprints software Version 3.1.3 which is freely available at www. eprints. org developed by University of Southampton, UK. The Eprints software produces the necessary Dublin Core metadata for harvesting by service providers. The repository configures a new archive with a set of metadata fields aims at an archive of research papers. The CMFRI institutional repository is titled as Eprints@CMFRI. The steps in implementing the IR are summarized and lessons articulated.

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017891   Devaraj (Agricultural Sciences University, GKVK, Bengaluru-560 065) : Role of agricultural libraries and information centres in transfer of technology. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 61-2.

Success of a nation in all spheres depends basically on the qualities and the output of the agricultural sector. But it would be wrong to think that everything can be grown anywhere at any time. The changing weather pattern, soil, ideal crops in the right place, post-harvest storage, good market outlets gluts and scarcity, pests and diseases are only a few of the several problems which would mean the difference between success and failure. Indian agriculture witnessed a depressing condition during the 1950's and 1960's. The scientific method of cultivation was not familiar to the farmers and they largely depended on old and obsolete methods of cultivation. Agriculture had to take new directions in the quest for greater agricultural production and the scene of Indian agriculture moved gradually to the threshold of technological breakthrough. These technical advancements showed a remarkable efficiency in agriculture and made it possible to raise the production of labour and capital making a superior production function.

017890   Bankar C V;Varghese L (National Research Center for Citrus, ICAR, Nagpur) : Productometric study of scientists of ICAR'S National Research Centre for Citrus (NRCC). Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2011, 27(1), 19-30.

Productometric analysis of contributions of National Research Centre for Citrus, Nagpur was carried out for the period of 1988 to 2008 in terms of number of research papers published by the scientists of Centre. The study concentrated on chronological documentation of list prepared for the purpose along with authorship pattern and subject indexes in addition to analysis on average number of papers published per year, type of documents publishing the papers along with the names of the journal, subject, language distribution and authorship pattern.

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016852   Gupta B M;Adarsh Bala (NO, National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies, New Delhi-110 012, Email: bmguptal@gmail.com) : Bibliometric analysis of malaria research in India during 1998-2009. J Vector Borne Dis 2011, 48(3), 163-70.

This study analyses the research output of India in malaria research in national and global context, as reflected in its publications output during 1998-2009. SCOPUS Citation database has been used to retrieve the publication data, which has been further analysed on several parameters including its growth, rank and global publications share, citation impact, overall share of international collaborative papers and share of major collaborative partners and patterns of research communication in most productive journals. The publications output, impact and collaborative publication share of India is also compared with South Africa, Brazil and China. Indian scientists together have published 2786 papers in malaria research during 1998-2009 and registered an average citation per paper of 3.49. The country ranks 4th among the top 20 most productive countries in malaria research with its global publications share of 6.47% during 1998-2009. Quantum of Indian research output in malaria research is high but its citations per paper is low compared to select developing countries, which can be improved by investing more funds in international and national collaborative research projects, as well as increasing the participation of researchers in such projects

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016851   Chauhan K (NO, KITM, Karnal, Haryana, Email: chauhan_khushi@rediffmail.com) : Evaluation of open access E-journals in information science. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2013, 3(1), 1-6.

Today E-Journals are registering significant changes everywhere and have been playing substantial role in every field. Now a day's many advanced E-Resources have increased the importance of Libraries. There are lots of Open Access E-Journals in Information Science, hosted in their own websites so it is very necessary to analyse the usefulness of these E-Journals. The present study has been undertaken with a view to know the actual state about the open access E-Journals in Information Science. This study highlights the facilities and features of online open access E-Journals in Information Science.

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014874   Raghupathikumar D;Bommanna Raja K (Computer Science and Engineering Dep, K.L.N. College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Email: draghuannamalai@yahoo.co.in) : Survey of queuing and scheduling mechanism of input-queued switches. J Comput Technol Applic 2012, 3(2), 30-4.

High-speed routers play an important role in the Internet. A main hindrance to high-speed router design is itsswitch architecture. It concerns with how packets are moved from switch input ports to output ports. The switcharchitecture can be classified as Output-Queued and Input-Queued switches. It is well known that Output-Queued switches can achieve optimal delay-throughput performance. Output-queued switches are generallyimpractical for high-speed implementation because of high speed needed for both switch fabric and output portbuffers. Input-queued switch architecture becomes the alternative since it needs no (or little) speedup. Inputqueuing is becoming increasingly used for high bandwidth switches and routers. In an input-queued switch,each input port can send at most one packet and each output port can at most receive one packet in each timeslot. In VOQ each input port maintains a separate queue for each output port. It has been shown that VOQ canachieve 100% throughput performance with an effective scheduling algorithm. It addresses a common problemknown as Head-Of-Line (HOL) blocking. The scheduling problem is equivalent to the matching problem in abipartite graph.

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014873   Kaushal C (NO, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Orissa, Email: chauhan_khushi@rediffmail.com) : Online open acess e-journlas in LIS: an analytical study. J Comput Technol Applic 2012, 3(3), 28-35.

E-resources are part of information technology. The last one decade has seen a great boom in scholarly e-resources. The revolution in information and e-resources is bringing about significant changes everywhere. E-journals have been playing substantial role in information systems. The development of e-journals during recent years has given libraries a powerful platform to support learning and research with availability of both forms of journals in the library. It has become necessary to evaluate importance of e-journals. Many e-journals have hosted their own websites across the World Wide Web. This study has analyzed the importance of online open access e-journals.

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014872   Chauhan K;Mahapatra R K (NO, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Orissa, Email: chauhan_khushi@rediffmail.com) : Open e-journals in library and information science: an analysis of its facilities and features. J Comput Technol Applic 2012, 3(2), 30-4.

Development in information technology has made drastic changes in the way the information is collected, stored, retrieved, and distributed. E-Resources are one of the products of information and communication technologies. The revolution in information and E-Resources is registering significant changes everywhere and have been playing substantial role in library and information systems ever since its inception. The advancement of E-Resources during recent years has given libraries apowerful new resource to support learning and research with availability of both forms of journals in the library. Thus it has become necessary to evaluate effectiveness of E-Resources. Many E-Resources have hosted their own websites across the World Wide Web. The study highlights the importance ofonline Free E-Journals with their facilities and features. Last one decade has witnessed a great boom in scholarly E-Resources, which in addition to making great impact, have generated enormous debateamong researchers and information professionals.

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013792   Vimal Kumar V;Jasimudeen S (NO, Mahatma Gandhi Library Univ, Kerala-686 560, Email: vimal0212@gmail.com) : Adoption and user perceptions of Koha library management system in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 223-30.

Adoption and use of open source library management systems in Indian libraries is gaining momentum. Koha is the first free and open source library automation package. Its excellent features have made it popular among the user community within a short span of time. This paper provides a brief picture of Koha software adoption and the users' perceptions about it in the Indian library scenario and evaluates the satisfaction level of Indian library professionals with Koha. It is found that the software is popular among the southern states of India and the number of Koha users in India is growing.

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013791   Tripathi A (Library & Information Science Dep, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: adeethtripaathi@gmail.com) : Problems and prospects of Hindi language search and text processing. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 219-22.

Hindi has evolved to its' present form almost a thousand years before. Today it has become a major language of the world and requires representation over Web as an expressive language for literary people and those who love to communicate in Hindi. Unicode has enabled to read and write over the Web but Hindi text processing and retrieval are some major issues which should be given considerable attention. The present paper draws attention of researchers to undertake the challenging areas of Hindi language processing and invites them to undertake research projects.

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013790   Sen B K (NO, Malaya Univ, Malaysia) : Freak phenomenon in the realm of impact factor. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 289-90.

Impact factor of Acta Crystallographica Section A jumped from 2.051 in 2008 to 49.926 in 2009. It may be noted that in 2009 this journal had the highest impact factor among all the journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports. Even in 2010, the journal ranked second with impact factor 54.333^1,2. The rise in the impact factor of the journal was attributed to a single article entitled 'A short history of SHELX' by George Sheldrick.

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013789   Sarkar T D (NO, Calcutta Central Library Univ, Calcutta, Email: tdesarkar@caluniv.ac.in) : Impact of online interactivity dimensions on library website quality. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 231-9.

Paper seeks to investigate how far the interactivity dimensions - as proposed by Ha and James (1998) and empirically validated by Chen and Yen (2004) using business websites - are applicable to library website. It also attempts to frame an online interactivity model, depicting the effect of interactivity dimensions on library website quality. The analysis revealed the way interactivity dimensions affects quality of website and the study suggests that the four interactivity dimensions - reciprocal communication, connectedness, information collection, and playfulness - have considerable impact on the quality of library website. The online interactivity model deduced from the study will help librarians to determine the relationships of four independent variables (dimensions of interactivity) with the dependent variable (website quality). The findings will help researchers, librarians and web developers alike to measure qualitatively the effect of interactivity dimensions on library website quality which will guide them in developing an interactive library website to attract users towards the library.

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013788   Maidabino A A (Library and Information Science Dep, Faculty of Education, Bayero Univ, PMB 3011 Kano, Nigeria, Email: maidabino@gmail.com) : Theft and mutilation of print collection in university libraries: a critical review of literature and proposed framework for action. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 240-6.

University libraries strive to provide information resources in both print and non-print formats. Library managers and administrators need to strike a balance between access and security of the resources. This paper examines a number of published literatures on library security, in particular, the different incidences of theft and mutilation as they relate to print collections in university libraries. Major forms of theft and mutilation identified from the literature includes theft by patrons and insider theft, tearing of book pages, writing on the pages of the books and marking of books content, all of which could temper with the actual subject matter of the book materials. The strategic and managerial measures for effective collection protection of library collections are also identified, evaluated and reported. The paper recommends the implementation of collection security management plan as a viable way of protection against theft and mutilation of materials in university libraries. The plan should include policy formulation and implementation, user awareness campaign, education and training of staff on the protection of collections. The paper concludes by proposing 'a framework for action which could serve as a guide for university librarians and stakeholders to ensure the protection of their library collection. In addition, it is hoped that it will serve as means of reawakening and reinforcing the awareness of university management aboutcollection security breaches.

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013787   Gupta B M;Har Kaur;Kshitig A (NO, National Institute of Science Technology & Development Studies, New Delhi-110 012, Email: bmgupta1@gmail.com) : Dementia research in India: a scientometric analysis of research output during 2002-11. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 280-8.

Study analyses the dementia research output from India during 2002-11 on different parameters including the growth, global publications share, citation impact, share of international collaborative papers, contribution of major collaborative partner countries, contribution of various subject fields and by type of dementia, productivity and impact of most productive institutions and authors and patterns of research communication in most productive journals. SCOPUS Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-11) by searching different relevant keywords in its combined title, abstract and keywords fields. Among the top 20 most productive countries in dementia research, India ranks 16th (with 1109 papers) with a global publication share of 1.24% and an annual average publication growth rate of 25.58% during 2002-11. Its global publication share has increased over the years, rising from 0.54% in 2002 to 2.20% during 2011. Its citation impact per paper was 5.11 during 2002-11, which decreased from 7.29 during 2002-06 to 4.33 during 2007-11. Its international collaborative publications share was 24.54% during 2002-11, which decreased from 28.57% during 2002-06 to 23.07% during 2007-11. India's publications efforts are quiet low considering that to 3.7 million people suffering from dementia in India. It, therefore, needs to increase its output and bring about improvement in the quality of its research efforts. Indian medical and social research funding agencies must establish a more ambitious funding program into the causes, prevention, cure and care of dementia. At the national level, there is a need to have a consultation for evolving research strategies and for delineating specific directions to investigate the etiology, treatment and care provisions for persons involved in dementia.

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013786   Giri R;Chand P;Sen B K (Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, GGS Indraprastha Univ, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110 006, Email: rsgiri11@gmail.com) : Indian S&T journals in international indexing and abstracting databases: a study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(4), 247-79.

Coverage of Indian science and technology (S&T) periodicals in major international indexing and abstracting (I&A) services has been studied. It is found that about 1200 Indian S&T journals are being covered by at least one of the international I&A services and over 300 S&T journals are openly accessible. However, coverage of Indian S&T journals by major citation databases, Web of Science (WoS) & Scopus is relatively poor. The newly launched Indian Citation Index (ICI) promises to cover more Indian journals.

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010790   Zahedi Z;Shirazi M S (LIS Dep, Persian Gulf Univ, P.O. Box 7516913817, Bushehr, Iran, Email: zahedi@pgu.ac.ir) : An investigation of citations pattern to Iranian's english journals using google scholar & ISI: do they differ?. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2012, 6(1), 87-96.

This study examines the differences between Web of Science and Google Scholar in the citation counting, citation ranking of 7 Iranian's English Journals indexed in JCR, and investigates whether there is any relationship between their impact factors, number of articles and the rate of citations they get. Furthermore, their visibility in international level is determined. According to the findings, there is not any significant difference between the citations rate in GS and ISI. Among these journals JISC received the most citations in ISI WOS and IJER received the most citations in GS. In both GS and WOS databases, the majority of citations to the articles came from Asia, Europe, and America respectively and the minimum rate of citations related to Africa and Australia in GS and WOS orderly. In country level, in both databases the most rate of citations were journal self citations and related to Iran, in GS it followed by US and UK but in WOS it followed by India and china. In GS there is a negative relationship between the number of Citations and the number of articles. Unlike in Google Scholar database, the correlation between citations and journal impact factor is significant in ISI database. It means that the more the impact factor a journal had the more citations it received in ISI database; but this fact is not true in GS database.

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010789   Yashoda Rani;Sharma A K (Library & Information Science, Mewar Univ, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, Email: yrdhiman@rediffmail.com) : N-list: a boon for the colleges in accessing E-resources online. Libr Prog 2011, 32(1), 21-7.

With the cutting down of the cost in the production of information online, various initiatives have been undertaken. Library consortia have emerged as the most powerful media for accessing information online in university environment, where computer infrastructure is very high. But Library consortia may not be feasible for the colleges, where a low number of e-resources is required and computer infrastructure is comparatively poor. Hence, a new initiative N-List is started to give online access to them. This paper provides an overview on the N-List programme of the lNFLJBNET.

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010788   Vithal K S R (Library & Information, N.T.R college of Veterinary Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary Univ, Gannavaram-521 102, Email: vithal59@yahoo.com) : Information generation and transfer pattern of faculty members of agricultural sciences working in Andhra Pradesh. Pearl 2012, 6(2), 89-94.

Purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of individual factors and work load on information generation and transfer pattern of faculty members of agricultural sciences. The research population comprises of 235 faculty members working in Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, AP. To collect data, questionnaires were employed. Findings revealed that there is a positive correlation between publication productivity and gender, age, designation, educational qualification, experience and work load of faculty members.

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010787   Vaughan L (Faculty of Information and Media studies, Western Univ, Ontario, Canada, Email: lvaughan@uwo.ca) : An alternative data source for web hyperlink analysis: ''sites linking in'' at alexa internet. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2012, 6(1), 31-42.

Web hyperlink analysis has been a growing area of research since it started over a decade ago. However, data source for link analysis from commercial search engines has been limited to Yahoo! alone in recent years and even this data source is likely to disappear in the near future. We need to find alternative sources for link analysis. This paper explorers an alternative data source, "Sites Linking In" at Alexa Internet. The paper discussed the nature and the characteristics of this data source and reported a study that compared this inlink data with that from Yahoo! Site Explorer. The study found that the inlink data from Alexa and Yahoo! are highly correlated and that Alexa data can potentially replace Yahoo! data for inlink analysis. Based on these findings, "Sites Linking In" is proposed as an alternative inlink data source if Yahoo! inlink data become unavailable in future.

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010786   Umut Al;Umut S;Irem S;Zehra T;Guleda D (Information Management Dep, Hacettepe Univ, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey, Email: umutal@hacettepe.edu.tr) : Collaboration of turkish schloars: local or global?. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2012, 6(1), 145-59.

Collaboration patterns of scholars have been the subject of many studies. This paper investigates the collaboration patterns of the Turkish scholars' publications within the citation indexes. Turkey's contribution to the world's scientific literature has increased significantly during the recent years. It is important to understand the collaboration types in scholarly communication in order to derive a legitimate scientific publication policy in Turkey. In this context, the following research questions have been addressed: 1. Is the multiple authorship prevalent in the Turkish publications? 2. Does the collaboration rate change by year? 3. What is the distribution of collaboration types (intranational/inter-national) authored by Turkish scholars? 4. Does the rate and type of collaboration differ across the disciplines? 5. Which countries are the most important collaborative partners of Turkish scholars? Based on the analysis of findings, we found that Turkish scholars generally collaborate intranationally.

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010785   Thirumagal A;Devi S;Niruba Sethukumari S (NO, Manomaniam Sundaranar Univ, Tirunelveli-627 012, Email: athirumagala@yahoo.co.in) : Authorship pattern and global research productivity in heart disease. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(2), 13-21.

Bibliometrics has now become a standard tool of science policy and research management In the last decades. All significant compilations of science Indicators heavily rely on publication and citation statistics and other sophisticated bibliometric techniques. Many extensive bibliometric studies in science fields appeared during the last two decades particularly. The aim of the study is to measure the international and national research output in heart disease. Ten years data had been collected concerning heart disease to find out how many scientists are doing research in their areas of research. In this study it is revealed that multiple authors are doing more research than single author. It is found that Indian contribution to the topic on heart disease is less.

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010784   Thavamani K;Pushparaj A (Regional Medical Library, The Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical Univ, Anna Salai, Guindy, Chennai-600 032, Email: kottihavam@gmail.com) : Research output in library and information science in India: an analysis of doctoral dissertations from universities in the western states. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(2), 48-55.

Study traces the growth and development of Ph.D. programmes in LIS education in India and highlights the initiative and efforts of contemporary LIS professionals in this direction in the western part of India. A clear trend can be identified in the doctoral research conducted over the past five years in the Department of Library & Information Science in the Western States of India. Analysis of doctoral researches conducted by universities clearly indicates the direction in which, LIS subject field is progressing. This study also helped to reveal the thrust or dearth areas of research that call for attention from researchers. The present analysis also necessitates the need for a Library and Information Science repository. Out of the 42 doctoral dissertations, around half are brought out in 2011. Eighteen research supervisors were identified in these universities and among them, Dr.Shidanbhal M. Charan has guided more. Among the western states studied, Maharashtra has more research output and among the subjects, academic libraries (33.33%) are most preferred by the candidates than any other.

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010783   Tanwar S S (Vivekananda Library, M.D. Univ, Rohtak, Haryana-124 001) : Digital preservation-why and how?. Pearl 2012, 6(2), 83-8.

It is seen that the preservationists are battling to preserve some analogue media, such as acid papers, thermo fax and other fragile media, for a long time. But, the digital storage media and hardware on which digital contents are stored also need to be preserved because of numerous internal and external forces, such as material instability, improper storage environment, natural disaster, hardware malfunction, sabotage and overuse that can damage or destroy their readability. This paper states about the need for digital preservation with its objectives in library environment. Extended benefits of digitisation over traditional approach are also discussed in the paper.

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010782   Swain C;Swain D K (NO, Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, Email: ckswain@iimraipur.ac.in) : Towards user centric information services via library 2.0. Pearl 2012, 6(1), 40-6.

With the great proliferation of information communication technologies during the last decade, the traditional library services have been considerable renovated, redesigned, and refurnished in a manner that the users' community can no longer rely on the consultation of physical documents at a certain place and time. Therefore, information scientists have been constantly making all the permutations and combinations as to how the foundations of library systems and services can extensively satisfy the user centric approach. Library 2.0 is the utter alternative to this effect. This paper discusses library 2.0, web 2.0, library 2.0 ripples, elements of library 2.0, and emerging facets of library 2.0, which are of great interest to the teachers, students, research scholars and professionals of LlS.

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010781   Suseela V J (Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, Hyderabad Univ, Hyderabad-500 046, Email: vjslib@uohyd.ernet.in) : E-RAMS: the emerging systems and services for the effective management of E-resources. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(1), 1-10.

Discusses the need for active participation of library in the effective management of acquisitions, access, and the bibliographical control of Innumerable electronic journals and also the application of smart tools or devices to overcome the issues that are cropping up from time to time. In the context of academic/research, organizations In the country are getting access to huge number of e-resources in the form of collections through their library subscriptions as well as consortla. The features, functions and applications of ERM tools are explained in this paper highlighting their significance for the effective management of the electronic resources taking the case of University of Hyderabad library as backdrop, to cite the issues that are coming up in managing collections of resources from few hundreds to many thousands in electronic format, in spite of creating exclusive facilities for their access and the speedy retrieval of information to the users.

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010780   Sunil M V;Harinarayana N S (NO, SDM Institute for Managment Development, No.1, Chamundi Hill Road, Mysore-570 011, Email: sunilmv@sdmimd.ac.in) : Open source software and libraries: a literature review. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(1), 56-80.

This paper reviews the literature on the concept and development of Open Source Software; Open Source Software and Libraries; integrated library systems- concept, growth, implementation and evaluation; OSILS - concept, growth, case studies and evaluation; and, the evaluation methodologies available for OSS products in general and OSILS in particular. It is observed that there is a study Increase in literature on the topic on Open Source Software and its implication in libraries for the past 10 years.

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010779   Sudhambika S R;Mary S L (NO, Sree Ayyappa College for Women, Chunkankadai, Nagercoli) : IT skills of women library professionals in Kanyakumari district. J Libr Inf Technol 2012, 8(1), 37-42.

This study is intended to study the ways to develop the IT skills for the Library Professionals. 20 Librarians were considered and carried out this study to arrive important findings.

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010778   Srivastava N (NO, U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open Univ, Allahabad) : Use and awareness of the social networking sites among students: a study in Lucknow university, Lucknow. J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 7(2), 27-40.

The developments in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have changed the world information scenario. Earlier, the Internet used to provide a limited set of services such as searching, browsing, emailing, chatting, etc. but now it has expanded enough to become an integral part of our routine. Social Networking is a common phenomenon among the students, used to interact with their family and friends rather study in the Libraries. The present study is an attempt to know the use and awareness among the students. Since the Librarians are worried about the misuse of the Internet in the Libraries, this study may provide a solution for this problem.

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010777   Sirohi A;Sharma A K (Lib. & Inf. Science, Mewar Univ, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, Email: ajaykumarsharma1955@yahoo.com) : Job satisfaction among librarians: a study of self-financed engineering colleges in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh. Libr Prog 2011, 32(1), 81-93.

Researchers across disciplines have written several papers concerning the job satisfaction of their fields. Authors have borrowed from psychology business administration, human resources management and the wide umbrella of organizational science to define measure and interpret the significance of job satisfaction in their discipline. Job satisfaction is one of the criteria for achieving the target in an organization. Every organization or library operates in terms of a set of policies and norms. To render an effective services at the libraries depends on the human sources. Job satisfaction of the librarians, who have an important role & place in a library will effect the quality of the services they render.

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010776   Sinha M K (Library and Information Science Dep, Assam A Central Univ, Silchar-788 011, Email: dr_mk_sinha@yahoo.com ) : Status of ICT infrastructure for computerisation of college library services in the state of Assam: an evaluative study of college libraries of Barak valley, South Assam. Libr Prog 2011, 32(1), 29-59.

The present paper is based on the preliminary survey of selected college libraries of Barak Valley of South Assam which have been Affiliated/Permitted to Assam University (A Central University), Silchar. The first part of the paper describes about a brief account of background information pertaining to college libraries located in Barak Valley of South Assam. The second part of the paper highlights the survey results of college libraries affiliated with Assam University, Silchar pertaining to the background status of college libraries, initiative taken by the college libraries for developing information infrastructure for ICT application in library and information activities, Internet facilities, collection development of printed as well as electronic resources, on-line databases and access to the e-journals available under UGC-INFONET Digital Library consortium and DELCON Programme by the library end users. Besides that the role of INFLIBNET for making available the State -of-the-Art Information Communication Technology expertise and extending manpower training to the College Librarians and other library professionals of the selected colleges affiliated under Assam University, Silchar for modernisation of library activities and services have also been discussed in brief. At the end some constraints for automation programme, suggestions and recommendation for automation and networking of college libraries of Assam in general and college libraries available under Assam University in particular. The paper concluded with the role of INFLIBNET and other corporate sectors for helping college libraries for developing adequate ICT infrastructure of the college libraries of Barak Valley for accessing to electronic resources available under N-LIST Programme of AICTE-INFLIBNET and providing effective and efficient computerized library services to the faculty members and students.

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010775   Singh P (Central Library, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET), Longowal, Punjab) : Impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on library environment. J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 7(2), 41-6.

ICT has affected every activity of today's environment. lt is playing a vital role in the development of library services, resources, structure, and information seeking behaviour of library users. Discusses the impact of ICT on library affairs. It also highlights the reasons for applying ICT in libraries.

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010774   Singh K;Goyal S (NO, Women's Institute of Technology, Bathinda) : Role of knowledge professionals in library and information centres. J Libr Inf Sci 2011, 7(2), 1-11.

The emerging trends in digital technologies and their applicability to information handling activities added new challenges to knowledge professionals in the way of providing qualitative services to its users the paper Analyses the characteristics of contemporary knowledge society and identified the factors affecting next generation libraries. Examined some of the significant issues in the present day Library and Information System.

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010773   Shaji B;Jalaja V (Library and Information Sciences Dep, Calicut Univ, Malappuram-673 635, Email: shajib44@gmail.com ) : Perception and usage of electronic information resources among the faculty members of university of Calicut. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(2), 63-71.

This study is an attempt to Investigate the use and user perceptions of electronic Information resources among the academic community especially among the faculty members. University of Calicut, Kerala by survey method. Questionnaire and personal Interview were used as tool to collect the required information. A total of 45 faculty members from various disciplines were selected as sample employing stratified random sampling method. Based on the study, the following suggestions were put forward to improve the use of electronic resources among the faculty members. The library must conduct training programmes for faculty members regarding how to use the electronic) resources effectively. Awareness of the use of e-resources to obtain current information should be created. More e-Journals should be included for the benefit of the faculty members. It is seen from the study that the speed of availability and the ease of accessibility of information made the faculty members for more frequent use of electronic resources.

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010772   Senapati S K;Singh J (Knowledge Resource Centre, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee-247 667, Email: senapati@cbri.res.in) : Ethical concerns in librarianship: basic issues. Pearl 2012, 6(2), 65-9.

Various ethical concerns to be faced by the library professionals are presented in this paper. The library and information science research programmes and their applications, as conducted by the academic departments of universities in India, are overviewed. Besides, the different aspects of digital and online publications are enumerated. The paper also discusses the effects of services towards the open access movement.

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010771   Satpathy S K;Maharana R K (Central Library, National Institute of Technology, GE Road, Raipur-492 010, Email: drksatpathy@gmail.com) : Web impact factor and webometric study of National Institute of Technology (NITs) of India. Pearl 2012, 6(1), 47-55.

This paper attempts to study websites of National Institute of Technology of India using web impact factors. Altavista search engine was used for collecting the required data. The simple web impact factor, self link web impact factor, external web impact factor and revised web impact factor of the NITs under the scope of study have been calculated. The study was made during August-September 2010. The study revealed that some NITs have higher number of web pages but their link pages are very small in numbers and websites fall behind in their simple, self link and external link web impact factor. This paper could cover only 21 NITs out of 30 due to the absence of their official website. The websites of any institutions are regarded as the prime gateway of information. The paper gives a dear insight into the websites of Indian NITs and their impact factors. It can be useful for evaluation of the websites of other institutions.

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010770   Sanjay Kumar;Shukla P (NO, , DLIS, BHU, Varanasi) : Information seeking pattern in electronic environment of science and arts researchers: a comparative study. J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 7(2), 20-6.

The purpose of this paper is to examine information seeking pattern of science and art research scholars and for this the data was gathered using questionnaire survey of 139 randomly selected, PhD scholars of science and arts departments of Asia's largest residential university Banaras Hindu University, India. It has been found that both the groups of researchers have some similarities and some dissimilarity in information seeking. Even in this electronic era some research scholars of art discipline depend on print form of publications for their information needs.

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010769   Rousseau R (Antwerp Univ, IBW, Venusstraat 35, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium) : Festschrifts in the information sciences, with special attention to Eugene garfield's festschrift ''the web of knowledge''. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2012, 6(1), 7-16.

Festschrift is a book, usually edited by some colleagues, to honour an academic. It contains contributions by colleagues and (former) students. In this paper we give special attention to "The Web of Knowledge", a festschrift edited by Blaise Cronin and Helen Atkins, in honour of Eugene Garfield's seventy-fifth birthday. We study its contents and citation history. Also ISSI's festschrift series, honouring Tibor Braun, Olle Persson, Peter Ingwersen and Manfred Bonitz is discussed. It is observed that generally contributions to festschrifts are not highly cited, yet it is not true that they are virtually uncited. In particular, "The Web of Knowledge" is cited on the same level as the better journals in library and information science.

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010768   Renganathan R (NO, Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College, Pollachi) : Need for competency development among the academic librarians. J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 7(2), 47-8.

Information Professional strategically uses information in their job to advance the mission of the organization. The Information Professionals accomplishes this through the development, deployment, and management of information resources and services. The Information Professional harnesses technology as a critical tool to accomplish goals. In this digital age, technology has changed library services dramatically. In particular, the use of the Internet has made a significant difference in the way that traditional services are provided. Reference service is a critical service that has been changed by technology. Digital or virtual reference has developed as a way of helping patrons "not only on the desk, but in cyperspace". The article deals the developments practices adopted by the librarians of Arts and Science Colleges.

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010767   Ravichandra Rao I K (Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore-560 059, Email: ikrrao@hotmail.com) : Relations among the number of citations, references and authors: revisited. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2012, 6(1), 17-30.

Relations among references, citations and authors are studied based on the data collected from two journals - Annals of Mathematics and Econometrica. The distribution of citations in the field of mathematics and econometrics was also identified - the lognormal distribution fits the empirical data on citations. It has also been observed that the linear relation between references and citations, authors and citations, references and citation per year and authors and citation per year is very weak.

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