005225   Hans Raj;Kaushik V S (Agricultural Researh Information Centre and National Input Centre for, Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, Indian Council of, New Delhi-12) : International information system for agricultural sciences and technology and Indian participation. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2012, 32(1), 15-23.

Paper briefly describes the history and development of agricultural research information system (AGRIS), its network, documentation tools, products/services, HRD and capacity building programme. An attempt has been made to showcase the contribution of India in AGRIS development. Limitations and problems faced during AGRIS input preparation have been discussed in detail and an action plan is suggested for further progress and success of AGRIS programme in India.

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005224   Francis A T (NO, Kerala Agricultural Univ, Thrissur-680 656, Email: francisaloor@yahoo.com) : Evaluation of use of consortium of e-resources in agriculture in context of Kerala agricultural university. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2012, 32(1), 38-44.

As digital information resources available online are increasing at an exponential rate, several practices have evolved for the economic and effective delivery of such information to the end users. In this context, consortia-based information services have gathered momentum world over during the last few years. Though, there are several library consortia in India, UGC Infonet is mainly meant for universities controlled by UGC and CeRA is meant for agricultural universities. This paper discusses utilisation of consortia-based digital information resources by the post graduate and doctoral students of the Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur. Results show that cent percent of the students were familiar with the use of digital information resources available online and 87.14 per cent of them used CeRA. Eighty two per cent students were acquainted with CeRA and learned the required skills for the access and use of digital information resources through curriculum-based courses like 'library and information services', 'research methodology', etc. The students in general would like to strengthen the CeRA services by adding more resources and facilities.

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004093   Praveen Kumar;Singh V (Transportation Engineering Group, Civil Engineering Dep, IIT, Roorkee-247 667) : Implementation of data tier in advanced traveller information system. Indian Highw 2010, 38(12), 33-46.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have emerged as a worldwide solution to handle these problems. Advanced Traveller Information Systems, one of the user services of ITS, offer the promise of better ( informed travel decisions and more efficient use of transportation j infrastructure. A geographic information system (CIS) is a digital computer application designed for the capture, storage, manipulation, analysis and display of geographic information. Among the various applications of ITS, Advanced Traveller Information System is the most useful application for the developing countries like India. It may include pre-trip or post trip information depending upon the funds and resources available. Implementation of Data Tier is the major challenge in implementation of the ATIS. In this paper, Web Based Dynamic Computerised Traveller Information and Decision Support System (CTIDSS) developed at IIT Roorkee with more emphasis on Data Tier has been discussed.

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004092   Nakkeeran N (Indian Institute of Public Health, Sardar Patel Institute Campus, Drive-in Road, Thaltej, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Email: nnakkeeran@gmail.com) : Knowledge, truth, and social reality: an introductory note on qualitative research. Indian J community Med 2010, 35(3), 179-81.

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003094   Zhang Y;Zhang Y (Key Lab. of Integrated Automation of Process Industry, Ministry of Edu, Northeastern Univ, Shenyang, Liaoning 110 004, People's Republic of China) : Process monitoring, fault diagnosis and quality prediction methods based on the multivariate statistical techniques. IETE Tech Rev 2010, 27(5), 406-20.

Process safety and product quality is the goal which people unremittingly pursuit. In this paper, the hot issues of the process statistical modeling, online monitoring, fault diagnosis, and quality prediction and the solution methods based on the multivariate statistical techniques for each issue are discussed fully and deeply. The origin and development of each method are reviewed, their advantage and disadvantage are analyzed, the nature and the problem of the multivariate statistical techniques are investigated through their course of development and research, their value and significance are revealed, and their potential problems and prospects for future research and development space are explored. The multivariate statistical techniques is the research that has the high value in both theoretical and practical application, and will certainly be conducive to process monitoring, fault diagnosis, and quality improvement.

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003093   Thanuskodi S (Library & Information Science Wing, Directorate Distance Education Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar-608 002, Email: thanuskodi_s@yahoo.com) : Usage of electronic resources at Dr T.P.M. library, Madurai Kamaraj University: a case study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 437-45.

Information technology (IT) has thrown a new challenge to the libraries. The technology has shown a great impact on the services of the libraries. Libraries use IT for better services and satisfying diverse user needs. Libraries have transformed into digital and virtual libraries where books, journals, and magazines have changed into e-books, e-journals, and e-zines. This has increased the global dissemination of information. Electronic resources (e-resources) are easily accessible in the remote areas. The e-resources solve storage problems and control the flood of information. Print sources are being digitised. There is a great need to study the use of e-resources and investigate the factors that are a hindrance to their use. The present study is an attempt to examine the usage of electronic resources at Dr T.P.M. Library, Madurai Kamaraj University. Study revealed that MPhil students respondents took the first position in their overall methods of searching e-resources, postgraduate student respondents the second position, PhD Scholar respondents the last position. The study confirmed that respondents were aware of the e-resources and various types of e-resources, e-database, and e-journals. The study recommended the improvement in the access facilities with high internet speed and subscription to more e-resources at Dr T.P.M. Library, Madurai Kamaraj University.

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003092   Singh K P;Singh N (Library and Information Science Dep, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: singhkp_1972@yahoo.co.in) : Depth schedule for common auxiliaries of place in universal decimal classification for rendering Indian states and districts. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 415-30.

Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) by defecto became a knowledge organisation tool, particularly in S&T libraries all over the world. Like DDC updations and revisions, the UDC has also been revised from time to time and incorporates many new classes and changes in the changing context. The third revised edition of UDC in 2005 has many changes. But unfortunately, the common auxiliaries of places, particularly India and its states, are very inadequate even in the recent published edition of UDC. Hence, classifiers and LIS schools all over the country are facing sever problem in assigning the numbers of newly formed states and districts of India. Therefore, this study is an attempt to provide a solution to the above problem by giving a depth schedule for common auxiliaries of places for Indian states, districts, and historically significant entities.

003091   Manhas R;Sapna Rani (NO, Library Univ, BFUHS, Faridkot and Coordinator, HSLIBNET, BFUHS, Faridkot) : Use of health sciences library network (HSLIBNET) to access wealth of dental information resources. Baba Farid Univ dent J 2011, 2(2: Suppl), 129-31.

The present article is an effort to highlights the working of Health Sciences Library Network of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab. The paper a/so exhibits the meaning of network, aims, services, need and objectives of setting up of this network. The authors also tried to demonstrate how to access e-journals and other e-resources from the resource bank of this network, so that maximum benefits from this service be taken by teachers and students of the University and its affiliated colleges.

003090   Loan F A (Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir Univ, Srinagar (J&K)-190 006, Email: fayazlib@yahoo.co.in) : Internet use by rural and urban college students: a comparative study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 431-6.

Internet has become the backbone of the modern education system. The academic community uses internet to satisfy its diverse needs; be it information, education, communication, or research. The students, who were born during full bloom of internet revolution, extensively use internet to satisfy their various needs. Therefore, the present study was conducted to compare the use of internet by the rural and urban college students and identify the problems faced while searching the internet. The stratified random sampling technique was employed to select students and data collected through a questionnaire. The results reveal that majority of the students are frequent users of the internet using internet from daily to weekly basis in which use by urban students is more than their rural counterparts. The findings further reveal that rural students mainly use internet at home whereas urban students highly use internet at commercial cyber cafes. Majority of the urban students use internet primarily for a specific information whereas rural students mostly use internet for education. Majority of students, irrespective of regional differences, don't use internet sources like e-magazines, e-journals, e-books, wikis and blogs up to their expected usage. The findings also indicate that both the rural and urban students face the same problems with slight variations like information overload (too many hits) followed by internet illiteracy (lack of internet operating/searching skills), financial barrier (paid information), and information pollution (too many irrelevant hits).

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003089   Islam A;Tsuji K (Information Science & Library Management Dep, Dhaka Univ, Bangladesh-1000) : Evaluation of usage of university websites in Bangladesh. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 469-78.

The study evaluates some selected university websites in Bangladesh from the usability perspectives. Two online automated tools, namely, html toolbox and web page analyser were used along with a questionnaire directed towards users of these websites. Tools were used to measure the websites' internal attributes which can not be perceived by the users such as html code errors, download time, and size of the html pages. The questionnaire was developed and designed based on the 23 usability criteria divided into five categories. Each category deals with one usability aspect. The study showed that users are not satisfied by overall usability level of these websites and few of them are satisfied with the available features. However, there are some weaknesses in some aspects of the design, interface, and performances. Websites' internal features are identified and suggestions are provided in the study to enhance the usability of these websites.

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003088   Gupta B M;Adarsh Bala;Sharma N (NO, National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies, New Delhi-110 012, Email: bmgupta1@gmail.com) : Ranking of Indian institutions contributing to computer science research, 1999-2008. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 460-8.

The present study undertakes the ranking of the most productive Indian institutions, viz., institutes of national importance, universities/ deemed universities, industrial enterprises, research institutes, Indian Institute(s) of Information Technology (IIIT(s)), select top engineering colleges, and regional engineering colleges (RECs)/National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in computer science research for their research output published during 1999-2008. The publications output of these productive institutions is judged on the basis of various quantitative indicators, such as the total number of raw papers and international collaborative papers and qualitative indicators, such as the average number of citations per paper and h-index value, and also in terms of a new composite indicator, which combines quantitative and qualitative aspects.

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003087   Dhiman A K (NO, Gurukul Kangri Univ, Haridwar-249 404, Email: akvishvakarma@rediffmail.com) : Knowledge discovery in databases and libraries. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 446-51.

The advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has outpaced our abilities to analyse, summarise, and extract knowledge from the data. Today, database technology has provided us with the basic tools for the efficient storage and lookup of large data sets, but the issue of how to help human beings to understand and analyse large bodies of data remains a difficult and unsolved problem. So, intelligent tools for automated data mining and knowledge discovery are needed to deal with enormous data. As library and information centres are considered the backbone of knowledge organisation, knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) is also getting attention of library and information scientists. This paper highlights the basics of KDD process and its importance in digital libraries.

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003086   Bhatt H (NO, Islamia College of Science & Communication, Srinagar, J&K-190 002, Email: mhanief30@yahoo.co.in) : Students' perception of charging fines for overdue books: case of Islamia College of Science and Technology library. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 407-13.

The study explores the students' perception of fines charged by libraries for overdue books, etc., borrowing privileges, and lending periods in an Indian academic library. The study seeks to discover the extent to which borrowers are satisfied towards borrowing privileges, lending periods, and fine amount. The study also seeks to examine to what extent fines are perceived by the borrowers to be a deterrent to overdue library materials, how borrowers feel when asked to pay fine, whether the fines should be scrapped in future or not, and whether or not the level of fine is sufficiently high to compel the users to return the library materials on time. The research method for this study was the survey method using a questionnaire to collect data. The findings of the study reveal that majority of the borrowers are satisfied with the borrowing privileges, lending periods, and the fine amounts. The majority of the respondents feel that library fines encourage users to return the borrowed items on time. Most of the students favoured discontinuation of fines in future, besides consulting them about the amount to be fixed as fine. Majority of students prefer keeping books beyond due date and paying fine later. No significant differences were found between genders and faculties (Science, Commerce, Management) wrt their perception of library fines. The recommendations can help libraries to devise policies regarding library fines.

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003085   Bhatia J K (NO, Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45B, Chandigarh-160 047, Email: jaspalbhatia179@yahoo.com) : Use of electronic resources in degree college libraries in Chandigarh. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 479-83.

The electronic resources (e-resources) available in a library play a prominent role in facilitating access to required information to the users in an easy and expeditious manner. The e-resources, like CD-ROM databases, online journals, online books, OPACs, and the internet, are slowly replacing the importance and usage of print media. A study of 11 degree colleges in Chandigarh, which have students and teachers strength of over 30000, was conducted. For the purpose of the study, a sample selected was 770 which included 60 students and 10 teachers from each of the colleges, respectively. The objectives of this study was to know the usage of e-resources and services by the users of degree college libraries in Chandigarh; find out the impediments encountered by the users while accessing and using the e-resources; and suggest measures to take full advantage of IT to make degree college libraries more digitally resourceful and for providing information services data from the users-teachers and students-to know the impact of e-resources. The data collected was analysed using simple percentage technique.

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003084   Anuradha V;Baradol A K (BITS, Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa-403 726, Email: 12.anuradhav@gmail.com) : Technology impact in theological libraries: a myth or reality?. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(6), 484-8.

Advent of computers and developments in information communication technologies have changed the face of libraries. A significant change is seen the way information is generated, accessed, stored, and used. However, the theological libraries have a long way to go. Automation in theological libraries is still at a formative stage. The status of automation in theological libraries and the constraints for automating them have been explained. The theological libraries studied are form the Goa and coastal Karnataka.

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000941   Satish Kumar H T;Gautam J N;Vijayaraghvan R (Technical Information Resource Centre Div, Defence R & D Establishment, , Jhansi Road, Gwalior-474 002, Email: htsatishk@gmail.com) : Approaches to information seeking by life scientists of defence research and development organization, India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 17-23.

Analyzes the information needs and information seeking behavior of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) scientists working in nine life science laboratories in India. Data collected from 443 scientists employing structured questionnaires were analyzed using the latest version of ∑-PLOT. Results revealed that DRDO life science scientists depend greatly on their respective library/information centers. Scientific journals have been ranked at the top for obtaining specific information and keeping up-to-date. Concludes that the working culture of the individual requiring information, the importance placed on getting it, the facilities available for seeking it, the knowledge about these facilities,-the judgment of their value and the probability of getting what is wanted affects information seeking behavior.

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000940   Rodrigues G;Gowda P (NO, St. Aloysius Csollege, Mangalore-575 003, Email: georgerodrigues54@gmail.com) : Organizational climate in professional college libraries and information centres in Mangalore city. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 24-33.

Attempts to find the significant difference among the types of professional college libraries with regard to organizational climate and to identify the factors of organizational climate which are responsible for better organizational climate and employee satisfaction. Survey of 72 library professionals working in professional college libraries in Mangalore shows that job security, performance evaluation and guidance, appointments and promotions playa positive role in the level of satisfaction, while responsibility and decision making aspects playa negative role. Concludes that by providing better physical facilities, strengthening the reward system, maintaining better interpersonal relations, job security, and promotion facilities provide for increased level of satisfaction that leads to better organizational climate.

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000939   Panda K C;Swain D K (PG Library and Information Science Dep, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla-768 019, Email: krushna52@yahoo.co.in) : E-newspapers and e-news services in the electronic age: an appraisal. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 55-62.

Attempts to make the user community aware of e-news and e-news services offered by different e-news channels all around the world. Provides a brief discussion of history and developments of e-news services, newspaper websites and latent advantages of e-news in the electronic era. Employs literature survey method to unfold the latest trends of e-news industry and finds that, though e-news services provide immense opportunity to the readers and simultaneous access at infinite points and reading at ones convenience, still a few key technical challenges like, navigational support, hyper linking, and designing of e-newspapers needs to be properly taken care of and tackled with. Concludes with the recommendation that information professionals should take steps to increase the usage of e-newspapers by their intended audience.

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000938   Pal J K (Library, Documentation & Information Science Div, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata-700 108, Email: jiban@isical.ac.in) : Usefulness and applications of data mining in extracting information from different perspectives. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 7-16.

Discusses the concept of data mining that has emerged as a technique of discovering new meaning in data implicit in a large data warehouse, in order to facilitate better strategies and smart decisions. The standard tasks involved in data mining process are explained. Such pattern-seeking techniques usually performed with a wide range of related areas (viz. statistics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge-based systems, etc.) are described. Draws attention to useful applications of data mining in varying degrees and illustrates the benefit of this powerful technology with several instances of providing solutions to challenging problems. Also focuses on bibliomining opportunities to be useful to information retrieval, semantic analysis of unstructured texts, web-usage mining and to make proactive as well as knowledge-driven decision across library services; that help researchers in linking information for novel discovery and insight. The discussion illuminates the wrong things that happen with data mining applications and cautionary tales for avoiding serious consequences. Suggests use of data mining in combination with other techniques of evaluation, exploiting large data warehouses by skilled specialists, and advises for ethical uses without privacy invasion.

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000937   Munnolli S S;Pujar S M;Kademani B S (Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC, , Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410 210) : Scientometric portrait of nobel laureate Harald zur hausen. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 71-8.

Highlights quantitatively the publication productivity of Harald zur Hausen a renowned scientist: and Nobel Laureate in Physiology who was honoured with Nobel Prize for the discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer. He had 285 publications during 1964 - 2009 in four domains: Adenoviruses (14), Epstein Barr and Herpesviruses (72), Papillomaviruses (122) and other associated disciplines (77). The average number of publications per year was 6.19. Highest Collaboration Rate (I) of Harald zur Hausen was found 13 times of his 46 years of career. Most prolific authors associated with him were: L. Gissman (39), E. -M de Villiers (25), F. Rosl (20), J. R. Schledhofer (19), E. Schawarz (13), R. Heilbronn (12), N. Yamamoto (II) and K. 0. Fresen (10). He has reported his research output through 74 different channels include 61 journals (82.43%), 12 Book chapters (16.22%) and 1 Report (1.35%). His most preferred journals for publishing papers were International Journal of Cancer (48), Virology (39), Journal of Virology (33), Cancer Research (14) and Medical Microbiology and Immunology (13). Co-Authorship Index for mega authored papers for domain 'Papillomavirus' (154) is more than average indicates this domain involves more of collaborative research. His publication density was 3.60 and publication concentration was 3.49. Harald zur Hausen's productivity coefficient was 0.50 indicates that he had steady publications record in his scientific career.

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000936   MamdapurG M N;Govanakoppa R A;Rajgoli I U (Mind Tree Ltd., , Globalvillage, Mysore Road, Bangalore-560 059, Email: ghouse.mamdapur@gmail.com) : Baltic astronomy (2000-2008) - a bibliometric study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 34-40.

Analyses articles in Baltic Astronomy published during the years 2000 to 2008 with regard to distribution of contributions, authorship pattern of contributions, distribution of references, analysis of length of papers, etc. Out of 8489 references appended, 1521 (17.92 percent) appeared in the year 2004. The degree of collaboration for the period 2000-2008 was 0.89. Authors have primarily relied on journals followed by books, conference proceedings and reports. Authors from USA have contributed maximum number of papers compared to other countries and India stood 21^st in the ranked list. Astrophysical Journal topped the ranked list of journals cited by the authors followed by Astronomy and Astrophysics. It can be concluded that top 20 journals cited by the authors cover almost 87.60 percent of references and also indicates that collaborative research is prevalent in astronomy research.

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000935   Gupta B M (Emeritus Scientist, National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies, New Delhi-110 012, Email: bmguptal@gmail.com) : Ranking of Indian institutions in agriculture & allied sciences for their research output during 1999-2008. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 63-70.

Analyses the ranking of the India's productive institutions in agricultural sciences, based on the basis of various quantitative indicators, such as the total number of papers and international collaborative papers and qualitative indicators, such as the average number of citations per paper and h-index value, and also in tenns of a new composite indicator, which combines quantitative and qualitative aspects. Many institutions changed their ranking positions, when their ranking based on mean citation rate and h-index was compared with their ranking based on the composite indicator. Concludes that the ranking based on composite indicator gives much better results than other indicators as it combines both quantity and quality aspects.

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000934   Giri R;Sengar D S (NO, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, GGS Indraprasth University, New Delhi-110 006, Email: girirs_75@yahoo.co.in) : Use of open source software in the learning resource centre of Indira Gandhi institute of technology. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 41-8.

Provides an insight into the practical implementation aspects of selection and implementation of Open Source Software (OSS) for managing the activities and services of a library or an information centre. Identifies that a main pre-requisite for OSS use in libraries is for the librarian to be able to harness the potential capabilities of its, staff by motivating them effectively. Finds that OSS is more future oriented and more easily amenable for customization and can be an effective low-cost alternative to their proprietary counterpart.

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000933   Dutta B;Sen B K (St. Xavier's College, , 30, Park Street, Kolkata-700 016, Email: bidyarthi.bhaswati@gmail.com) : Analytical model to interpret continuous expansion of universe of subjects. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(1), 49-54.

Tries to find the pattern of change of keywords of an arbitrary science subject with its age. The mode of temporal evolution of a subject is formulated on the basis of some fundamental assumptions. It has been mathematically derived that the number of keywords of a subject will always tend to attain a saturation value with the age of the subject. When a subject gets overloaded with keywords, then it tries to share thesame with some peripheral subject areas and consequently new subjects are formed.

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000003   Park S;Cha B R;An D U (Advanced Graduate Education Center of Jeonbuk for Electronics and Info, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, Email: duan@jbnu.ac.kr) : Automatic multi-document summarization based on clustering and nonnegative matrix factorization. IETE Tech Rev 2010, 27(2), 167-78.

In this paper, a novel summarization method that uses nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) and the clustering method is introduced to extract meaningful sentences relevant to a given query. The proposed method decomposes a sentence into the linear combination of sparse nonnegative semantic features so that it can represent a sentence as the sum of a few semantic features that are comprehensible intuitively. It can improve the quality of document summaries because it can avoid extracting those sentences whose similarities with the query are high but that are meaningless by using the similarity between the query and the semantic features. In addition, the proposed approach uses the clustering method to remove noise and avoid the biased inherent semantics of the documents being reflected in summaries. The method can ensure the coherence of summaries by using the rank score of sentences with respect to semantic features. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method has better performance than other methods that use the thesaurus, the latent semantic analysis (LSA), the K-means, and the NMF.

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000002   Gangan Prathap (NO, National Institute of Science, Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi-110 012, Email: gp@niscair.res.in) : How much should a nation spend on academic research?. Curr Sci 2010, 98(9), 1182-4.

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000001   Bornmann L (Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education, Humanities Dep, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zahringerstr. 24, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland) : Does the journal peer review select the "Best" from the work submitted? The state of empirical research. IETE Tech Rev 2010, 27(2), 93-6.

The goal for the peer review of manuscripts is usually to select the "best" from the work submitted. In the investigation of the predictive validity of the peer review process, the question of whether this goal will actually be achieved arises, that is, whether indeed the "best" manuscripts are published. This review of the studies published on the predictive validity of peer review describes the state of empirical research on this topic. All studies confirmed that the editorial decisions (acceptance or rejection) for the various journals appear to reflect a rather high degree of predictive validity, if citation counts are employed as validity criteria. The studies confirm that peer review represents a quality filter and works as an instrument for the self-regulation of science.

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024787   Saikia D J (NO, , ) : Highlights from the observatories. Bull Astr Soc India 2010, 38(1), 53-73.

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024786   Sagar R;Maharana B;Sharma J (NO, Manav Rachan College of Engg, Faridabad, Email: sagar_ramveer@rediffmail.com) : Impact of E-book technology on modern libraries. Dronacharya Res J 2011, 3(1), 23-6.

This paper deals with the evolution of e book, electronic paradigm, e book opportunities, future of e book usage, and latest and future trends in book technology. As great number of electronic resources becomes available, retrieving relevant and authoritative information has become progressively more challenging and time consuming. Locating relevant inf5ormation in a timely manner is critical for the researcher and the information professional. E- Books are one way to enhance the digital library with global 24-hours -a day and 7- days- a- week access to authoritative information, and they enable users to quickly retrieve and access specific research materials easily, quickly, and effectively.

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023776   Tatavarti R;Sridevi N;Kothari D P (NO, VIT Univ, Vellore-632 014, Email: tatavarti@vit.ac.in) : Assessing the quality of university research - RT factor. Curr Sci 2010, 98(8), 1015-19.

Discusses here the mechanisms to quantify the quality of research output of a university and highlight the pros and cons of evaluating and quantifying research quality. The concerns arising due to indiscriminate use of impact factors for assessing quality of research are pointed out. Nevertheless, the necessity of having metrics for determination of the research quality is acknowledged and we propose a new metric, Research Turnover (RT), which would aid in arriving at an assessment - by the university research administrators to provide incentives; by the academies of science and engineering to award fellowships; and by the funding agencies to award research grants. Typical examples are also elucidated which help in assessing individual researchers and award them accordingly, in consonance with performance-based incentive schemes.

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023775   Shantharam S (NO, Biologistics International, 9800 Old Willow Way, Ellicott City, MD 21042, USA, Email: sshanthu@princeton.edu) : Setback to Bt brinjal will have long-term effect on Indian science and technology. Curr Sci 2010, 98(8), 996-7.

022769   Ye F Y (Information Resource Management and Centre for Interdisciplinary Studi, Zhejiang University, China, Email: yye@zju.edu.cn) : Two engines that drive science in China. Curr Sci 2010, 98(3), 291.

022768   Vasishta S;Dhanda M K (NO, Punjab Engineering College (DU), Chandigarh-160 012, Email: seema313@gmail.com) : Transforming a traditional library to modern library using barcode technology: an experience of Central Library, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(1), 44-8.

The article appraises the transformation of central Library of PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh into a modern library using barcode technology. Appraisal has been made by comparing the prerequisites and practices of the method used earlier with the prerequisites and practices being followed these days. The benefits incurred by adapting the barcode technology have also been discussed along with the future plans for the Central Library, PEC University of Technology.

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022767   Varaprasad S J D;Madhusudhan S (NO, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad-500 007, Email: varaprasad@iict.res.in) : E-journal consortium: is it a success story always?. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(2), 92-6.

Libraries have experienced many transformations along with time. Scenario has further changed with the information explosion and advent of Internet and telecommunications technologies. Information seeking has become much more complex due to ever increasing amount of data, in both printed and electronic forms, and no single library is self-sufficient to purchase all the books/E-books, journals/E-journals and other library documents within their library budgets. Library consortium is one of the solutions to overcome this problem. However, due to ever increasing prices of journals, vendor dominated market, lack of competition, and for other reasons, question of whether consortium approach, some of the experiences in accessing e-journals through this approach, a viable alternative for journal's price hike or not? This paper is a case study of CSIR e-journal Consortium and discusses need for consortia, types, advantages and disadvantages of a consortium, problems faced by the consortiums and possible solutions for some of these problems.

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022766   Thanuskodi S (Library & Information Science Wing, Directorate of Distance Education Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar-608 002, Email: thanuskodi_s@yahoo.com) : Information needs and use pattern of district court lawyers of Salem and Erode in Tamil Nadu. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(2), 59-69.

The paper describes ongoing work which involves examining the information use pattern of the legal professionals of District Court. The findings indicate that practicing lawyers were using a variety of information sources to satisfy their information needs. Respondents preferred to first consult their personal library before resorting to other information providing sources and agencies This group of district court lawyers often found it difficult to find the information they were looking for when using digital law libraries. The present study observed that majority of respondents were not aware of e-resources. On the whole, respondents perceived district Bar library collections, services and facilities as adequate to meet their information needs effectively.

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022765   Taneja C (Directorate of Management Information Systems and Technology, Defence, , New Delhi-110 105, Email: chaynika@hqr.drdo.in) : Semantic web model for design and operation of network control centre. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 234-41.

The Semantic Web, which represents the next generation of the Web, will be characterised by machine-interpretable content, intelligent semantic agents, advanced searches and improved Web services. The underlying languages and technologies for Semantic Web are fast evolving. The paper discusses model of a network control centre created using OWL, a Semantic Web language.

9 illus, 11 ref

022764   Surendra Babu K;Sarada B;Ramaiah C K (NO, S.V. University, Tirupati-517 502, Email: kongara.surendra@rediffmail.com ) : Use of internet resources in the S.V. university digital library. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(1), 26-31.

The introduction of digital information resources on Internet has revolutionised the academic world. The Internet is paving way for a great leap in the field of higher education and research. This paper is an attempt to investigate the use of Internet resources by the academic community of the Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati. For this purpose a survey was carried out using questionnaire tool. The results show that users from all branches of science are making use of Internet resources better than social sciences and humanities. Providing training to its users at the beginning of each semester will improve its use and reduce the problems faced by the library users. The paper highlighted the various problems and issues involved in handling digital library and has given suggestions to improve the library services to meet the demands of the users.

1 illus, 4 tables, 10 ref

022763   Sudhier K G (Library & Information Science Dep, Kerala Univ, Thiruvananthapuram-695 034, Email: kgsudhier@gmail.com ) : Aging and obsolescence studies in library and information science: a review of literature. ILA Bull 2010, 4(1-2), 28-36.

The study is a comprehensive review of literature scanned in the area of Library and Information Science and gives a summary of selected papers on obsolescence and aging studies with special emphasis on India. Attempted to review various studies already done in the field and highlighted many useful findings and observations. The facets covered include the theoretical studies, models, obsolescence studies in India and general studies. The study concludes that the obsolescence and aging are one of the important areas in LIS field and showed there is a scarcity of literature in the Indian context.

69 ref

022762   Sudhier K G (Library & Information Science Dep, Kerala Univ, University Library Building Thiruvananthapuram-695 034, Email: kgsudhier@gmail.com) : Application of bradford's law of scattering to the physics literature: A study of doctoral theses citations at the indian institute of science. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(2), 3-14.

One of the areas in bibliometric research concerns the application of most commonly used bibliometric laws such as Bradford's Law of Scattering. The paper gives a review of the scholarly contribution on the various facets of Bradford's Law. In addition to the theoretical aspects of the law, review covers papers dealing with the application of the law in the various subject fields. A study on five-year data of journals (2004-2008) cited by the physicists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangaluru was carried out to examine the applicability of Bradford's Law of Scattering, which include 690 periodicals containing 11,319 references collected from 79 doctoral theses during the period 2004-08. Ranked list of journals was prepared, and Physical Review-B with 9.53 per cent citation, followed by Physical Review-A with 7.69 per cent, and Astrophysical Journal with 5.47 per cent citations were the most preferred journals. Applicability of Bradford's Law in various methods was tested. The journal distribution pattern of the HSc doctoral theses does not fit the Bradford's distribution pattern. The Bradford multipliers were calculated, and the law found to be applicable with the value of k as 1.2. The distribution of the journals in three zones was made and the number of references in each zone was then estimated. The applicability of Leimkuhler model was also tested with the present data.

1 illus, 4 tables, 45 ref

022761   Srinivasa Rao Y;Choudhury B K (NO, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa, Email: ysraoo@gmail.com) : Computer infrastructure facilities and services at National Institutes of Technology Libraries in India. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(1), 32-7.

Computer infrastructure plays a critical role in the academic system for meeting teaching, learning and research needs. Libraries are an integral part of academic system. Adequate infrastructure facilities support academic libraries share their resources and services in an effective way. National Institute of Technology, erstwhile regional engineering college, are prime institutions and benchmark for technical education in India in the field of engineering, science and technology. This paper discusses the computer infrastructure facilities available at National Institutes of Technology across India and current status of computer-based library services offered by these institutions.

1 illus, 3 tables, 8 ref

022760   Sikos L F (NO, , Adelaide, Australia, Email: lesliesikos@gmail.com) : Advanced (X) HTML5 metadata and semantics for web 3.0 videos. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 247-52.

Searching for videos online is inefficient if the search relies exclusively on relevant keywords in the text surrounding the object. HTML5 introduced advanced semantic annotation in the form of a new metadata format called microdata. Along with the video element which provides semantics to embedded video contents, media metadata can also be used to add additional features to be searched, archived, or automatically processed. Certain metadata formats provide a high level of flexibility adequate to combine them with other vocabularies, making it possible to write truly sophisticated, machine-readable metadata for video components of the Social Semantic Web.

32 ref

022759   Shiv Kumar;Vohra R (Library and Information Science Dep, Panjab Unv, Chandigarh-160 014, Email: shiv1977@gmail.com) : Online public access catalogue usage at Panjab University Library, Chandigarh. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 302-10.

This paper examines Online Public Access Catalogue usage by the students and faculty of Panjab University Library, Chandigarh. OPAC, an information retrieval system, has revolutionised access to bibliographic information through search capabilities such as keyword searching, Boolean searching, truncation, proximity searching, and item identity number searching. A questionnaire-based survey on use of OPAC was conducted forA.C. Joshi Library on various categories of users such as faculty members, research scholars and postgraduate students, covering different disciplines such as basic sciences, applied sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The paper discusses various aspects of OPAC such as frequency of use, purpose, ease of use, satisfaction level, etc. An attempt is also made to explore the reasons for the least used search options of OPAC. The results of the study reveal that a significant number of users search information regarding the library material through OPAC despite encountering problems. Lack of basic skills among users was found to be the major reason for not utilising full features of OPAC. It is suggested that University library should organise quality instruction programmes to improve knowledge and skills of the users.

18 tables, 12 ref

022758   Shibu Ray S;Balsy M D (School of Management Studies, Cochin Univ of Science and Technology, Cochi, Kerala) : Information seeking behaviour of the academics of university library environment. IASLIC Bull 2010, 55(4), 244-56.

Information is a vital source for success, and those who possess right information at right time will only succeed. Information communication technology (ICT) has influenced the way in which users approach for information. This paper tries to investigate the information seeking behaviour of the academics of University of Kerala in the changed library scenario.

14 illus, 20 ref

022757   Shailendra K;Rai N (NO, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: shail3@yahoo.com) : Web interface in library management software systems. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 262-74.

Though a variety of softwares are available in software market, but only few of these are fully compatible with Web. This is a review of the research on library automation software and their compatibility with the recent advancement of Web as an interface used for accessing the software in www environment. It also focuses on the growth and development of library automation software way back to their origin. It also discussed standards, both in terms of library and Web technology. Finally, the topic on Web interface used in library management software system (LMSs) is covered including the technological implication, Web-based technical services, security issue, database used and evaluation of LMSs.

68 ref

022756   Shabna T P;Vasudevan T M (NO, Library and Information Science Univ, Calicut) : Webometric analysis of websites of library associations in India. ILA Bull 2010, 4(1-2), 23-7.

1 illus, 7 ref

022755   Selvam M;Natarajan A M (Information Technology Dep, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode-638 052, Email: amm_selvam@yahoo.co.in) : Language model adaptation in Tamil language using cross-lingual latent semantic analysis with document aligned corpora. Curr Sci 2010, 98(7), 922-9.

Unlike English, Tamil does not have sufficient volume of text corpus to build a reliable language model. In this work, domain independent language model has been built with 500 Tamil documents. To improve the language model, adaptation with translation lexicons in Tamil generated from English using cross-lingual latent semantic analysis (CLSA) has been employed. Since Tamil is an agglutinative language, usage of surface word forms in CLSA will not yield better translation accuracy. Lexical gap between English and Tamil words has been reduced by the proposed partial morphological analysis in Tamil. This has improved the translation accuracy. Experiments have been conducted with direct and topic-specific model adaptations to improve the domain independent model. Significant improvements have been obtained in terms of perplexity and word error rate.

4 tables, 18 ref

022754   Sanjeev Kumar;Sharma Y (Mohinder Singh Randhawa Library, Punjab Agricultural Univ, Ludhiana, Punjab) : Use of electronic resources at Punjab agricultural university library : a study. IASLIC Bull 2010, 55(4), 230-43.

This article evaluates the use of electronic resources (e-resources) by the users of Mohinder Singh Randhawa Library, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. A study was conducted on post-graduate students, teachers and research fellows. The data was collected using questionnaire. Internet was found to be most extensively used e-resource. Of CDROM and online databases, majority of the users use CABCD (an abstracting database in CD format). This study also examines the problems faced by the users in accessing the e-resources and finally paves the way for librarians to plan and provide their services in a better way.

6 illus, 3 tables, 5 ref

022753   Roy P;Arora D (NO, Shaheed Rajguru College, Jhilmil Colony, Vivek Vihar, Delhi-110 095, Email: dipti30arora@gmail.com) : Social semantic digital library: the future. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 226-33.

Conversion of classic and digital libraries into digital libraries is now passe. With evolution of technologies, classic libraries have upgraded themselves and have emerged as library and information centres. This paper discusses the integration of computer technologies with library and information science, and how semantics can be customised for library operations, and what can be the measures for converting routine tasks to semantic tasks. The paper concludes that making social semantic digital library is not at and the only thing required is to reduce the gap between library and Semantic Web communities.

5 illus, 2 tables, 12 ref

022752   Prasath R (NO, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721 302, Email: rajendra@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in) : Implicit semantic relations identification through distributed representations for effective text retrieval. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 242-6.

The modern commercial search methods have proved the efficiency of information retrieval (IR) technologies and made knowledge dissemination simpler where as finding the relevant text documents, given a query, is becoming much more complex day after day. Almost all information retrieval systems struggle to retrieve relevant entries on the top of ranked list of documents. Users are interested to retrieve the content satisfying their information needs rather than just retrieving the documents having the query terms supplied by them. For this task, traditional information retrieval methods hardly yield the results having higher-order relations between the given query and the documents in the collection. So, it becomes necessary to find and encode the higher-order feature associations present in text documents. This paper discusses the use of a distributed representation, namely random indexing for an effective retrieval of relevant text documents. This type of distributed representation would be scalable with modern computing facilities and flexible to develop knowledge-based applications, which may require the process of identifying implicit semantic relations though higher-order term associations.

1 table, 15 ref

022751   Nageswara Rao K;Talwar V G (Defence Research & Development Lab, , Hyderabad-500 058, Email: nageswararao@drdl.drdo.in) : Content-based document recommender system for aerospace grey literature: experimental testing and user opinion survey. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2011, 31(4), 275-94.

The study aims to test content-based document recommender system (CODORS) with sample data to retrieve most relevant technical documents without necessarily matching title terms and closely related to particular search term(s). The CODORS system was put open for users to search and obtain recommendations with weighted relevance ranking and also allowed to compare the results obtained through general OPAC search engine for the same keywords. Based on the findings of the experimental testing and evaluation, some conclusions have been drawn:The results exhibited that the CODORS search provided many more relevant documents and increased the recall value as compared to general OPAC search and also revealed documents that were retrieved for a given query through OPAC search appeared at different places-top, middle or end of the ranked list of documents -generated through the CODORS search for the same query.

15 tables, 7 ref