023529   Kretschmer H (Dpepartment of Lib and Inf Sci, Humboldt-University of Ber, Dorotheenstr. 26, D-10099 Berlin, GERMANY, Email: kretschmer.h@onlinehome.de) : Web indicators of evaluation and collaboration tested in Europe and India. J Inf Mgmt Scientometrics 2005, 2(2), 7-13.

Development of information and library sciences together with science studies will, among other things, be fashioned by the development of the traditional quantitative studies conducted in this field called bibliometrics, scientometrics or informetrics. However, the Internet has forever changed the landscape of higher education. Thus, about ten years ago a new research field called "webometrics" has emerged. There are similarities between methods of webometrics and scientometrics or informetrics. Scientometric or informetric indicators are split into two types: evaluative or relative. Are there similarities between scientometric indicators of evaluation (or collaboration) and web indicators of evaluation (or collaboration) for possible use and technology policy making? Both hyperlinks and Web citations are tested for use as Web indicators of evaluation or collaboration. Empirical studies have shown it is not valid to use counts of links to university web sites to assess the online impact of their work but it is valid to generate benchmarking figures for universities based upon their research productivity and national inlinking averages. Hyperlink structures also don't reflect collaboration structures collected by co-authorship data. However Web citations are different from hyperlinks. Web citations have been proposed as comparable to, even replacements for, bibliographic citations. Additionally, a modified form of Web citations called "Web visibility rates of collaboration" can be successfully used as Web indicators of collaboration. Empirical studies have shown:- Web visibility of collaboration between Indian and German institutions - Web visibility of collaboration between individual scientists of a global interdisciplinary research network "COLLNET" under the title "Collaboration in Science and in Technology" (COLLNET with members from 20 countries is founded by Indian, German and Chinese scientists in 2000 in Berlin.

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023528   Kannappanavar B U;Chidananda Swamy, H.M.; Vijaya Kumar P (NO, Kuvempu Univ, Jnana Sahyadri-577 451, Email: Kannappanavar@rediffmail.com) : Application of information technology in engineering college librairies in Karnataka with special reference to Kuvempu university jurisdiction. Indian J Inf Libr Soc 2005, 18(1-2), 45-53.

Highlights the Hardware and Software facilities in Engineering College Libraries. It is evident from the study that only two colleges are having computer facilities and one has developed their own library software and another college is having LIBRIS Software. It also highlights access of networks, information services, and barriers to information technology applications. The impact of information Technology is also assessed in the study. None of the college libraries under the study is having data base facilities.

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023527   Jose A;Raina R L (NO, MDI, Gurgaon, Haryana) : Networked digital libraries (NDLS) for IIMS - a conceptual model. Herald Lib Sci 2005, 44(1-2), 44-8.

States the formation of IIM Library Consortia which is now a part of INDEST. Discusses the issue of digital preservation at each of IIM libraries ana the steps taken in development of networked digital libraries and the areas in promoting IIM Library system equipped with the state-of-art computing infrastructure adopting also the standards and protocols formulated so far.

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023526   Jose A;Chand B B;Nagender Rao M (Indian Inst of Mgmt, Pigdamber, Rau, Indore-453 331, Email: ajose@iimidr.ac.in) : RFID applications in libraries. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(4), 427-36.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems have been used in libraries for multiple purposes. Basically developed for military applications in the 1940s, it had found its application in many other areas including the libraries. The origins of this technology and its applications in various sectors has been briefly traced. The system components, standards and protocols for RFID based systems with special reference to library application are discussed in detail. Also discussed are the advantages and disadvantages of RFID application in libraries.

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023525   Ibohal Singh;Giridhari Singh N (Dep of Lib and Inf Sci, Manipur Univ, Imphal) : Public library service in Sikkim. Herald Lib Sci 2005, 44(1-2), 48-53.

Traces the development of Public Library system in Sikkim. Emphasises on various issues of its State Central Library high-lighting its processing work, services, facilities available, behaviour of its users, automation status, etc. Points out the problem being faced by the State in the overall managerial and organisational aspects of the library. Concludes suggesting certain points for the overall improvement of public library service in the state.

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023524   Gopinath M A (NO, , 7604, Sandy Lake C1, Raleigh NC 27613 1531, USA) : Reading habits and information management. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(4), 357-60.

023523   Franklin David Jebaraj V. (NO, , ) : HTML: library. Indian J Inf Libr Soc 2005, 18(1-2), 38-41.

Rapid advances in the field of computers for communication in varied fields and creating Worldwide Web documents in Hypertext makeup language have resulted in many applications. Hypertext and how it can be utilized by the Information centres for dissemination of information has been discussed.

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023522   Dominic J;Nirmala P J (NO, Karunya Inst of Technol and Sci (Deemed University), Coimbatore-641 114) : Utilization of Pooluvapatti public library, Coimbatore. Indian J Inf Libr Soc 2005, 18(3-4), 157-69.

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023521   Dodiya N;Khode S (NO, , Smriti College of Pharmaceutical Education) : Purchasing principles for the academic libraries. Indian J Inf Libr Soc 2005, 18(1-2), 59-61.

The library is the important part of every educational institution which fulfills the information needs of their teachers and students for teaching and research purpose. Purchasing is one of the basic function of any organization, therefore purchasing is one of the most important function in the libraries too. No libraries can able to provide their services without proper purchasing of reading and other materials.

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023520   Dhiman A K;Rani Y (Inf Sci, Gurukul Knagri Univ, Hardwar-249 404) : Indian botanists' contribution : a bibliometric study based on Journal of Indian Botanical Society, 1997 - 2001. Indian J Inf Libr Soc 2005, 18(3-4), 108-15.

The Indian Botanical Society publishes the Journal of Indian Botanical Society,since its formation in 1920 and it is playing a good role in dissemination of botanical information throughout the country. This is one of the oldest journals that is devoted to all fields of botanical sciences. Journal published during 1997-2001 and it examines year wise, and institution wise distribution of the articles published in the journal beside the authorship pattern range of reference cited and the length of the articles to ascertain some conclusion.

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023519   Chudamani K S;Nagarathna H C (JRD Tata Memorial Lib, IIsc, Bangalore-560 012, Email: ksc@library.iisc.ernet.in) : Cost effectiveness of infrastructure in digitisation of traditional format library materials: a case study of Indian Institute of Science. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(4), 515-22.

Indian Institute of Science Library, digitizes some of the specific documents which are presently in print format. The cost effectiveness of the infrastructure for converting such print documents into digital documents.

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023518   Aparajita (Virtual Inf Cent, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh, Email: aparajita@yahoo.co.in) : Virtual information center: how close to reality. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(4), 419-26.

Describes the functions of ICICI Knowledge Bank in Hyderabad, India as a virtual information center. The working of virtual information center has been described.

023517   Anilkumar N;Surati D (NO, Phys Res Lab, Ahmedabad, Gujarat) : Copyright law in developed countries. IASLIC Bull 2005, 50(4), 249-53.

Due to the new technologies available, use of information from various sources and various formats has become extremely easy. Scientists/researchers are at a loss of what can be used without permission and what needs permission from the copyright owner. It has become imperative that one has proper guidelines as to what can be used without permission and what would need a written permission from the owner of the copyrighted work. Compared the important features of copyright law in developed countries wherein it has become internalized and is part of research community. Each country is trying to cope with the new technological developments viz-a-viz copyright protection.

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023516   Aguillo I F;Kretschmer H (NO, CINDOC, Calle Joaquin Costa, 2228002 Madrid, SPAIN, Email: isidro@cindoc.csic.es) : Creation and identification of personal and institutional web-page. J Inf Mgmt Scientometrics 2005, 2(2), 1-5.

On the one hand the number of personal and institutional Web-pages is increasing enormously during the last two decades but on the other knowledge about the background is low. Comments about creation of personal Web-pages in academia and research as well as about linking between these pages has been presented. In this connection, different methods of sampling personal and institutional web-pages as also link analysis vis-a-vis manual analysis has been discussed.

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023515   Adhikary M;De S K (NO, Burdwan Univ, West Bengal) : Hidden roots of library classification with special reference to the philosophy of word and meaning. IASLIC Bull 2005, 50(4), 201-6.

The hidden roots of Library Classification theory of Ranganathan and to establish the impact of the principles of ancient grammarians of India to the out-come of his theory has been included. The oriental philosophical grammarians here rouse the interest of modern studies of Library & Information Science Ranganathan's categorisation of different concepts of words, name them in a particular category to solve the problem of facet analysis and the rules of facet sequence are purely plunged to the linguistic philosophy of ancient India. It has been traced there in all the approaches of the oriental grammarians like Bharrihari, Patanjali, Kumarila etc. Promalgation of seven categories by Ranganathan are to be congruent with the seven categories of Vaisesika Philosophy. Jati, dravya, guna, kriya is a syntactical sequence as stated in the oriental scripts. Ranganathan also postulated some sequences for absolute syntax, they are wall-picture sequence, cow-calf sequence, act and-action-actor-tool sequence etc. However these ideas are in the Indian philosophy, they are adhar-adheya, tadatma, karya-karan etc. Therefore there are the basic similarities. A sufficient unification of both the ideas would yield better result in the evergrowing universe of knowledge.

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021474   Zala L N;Patel N R (Knowledge Exchange and Inf Cent (KEIC), Mudra Inst of Communs Ahmedabad (MICA), Shela Village, Ahmedabad-380 058) : Application of WINISIS/GENISIS software in newspapers clippings. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2006, 26(1), 17-26.

Knowledge Exchange and Information Centre (KEIC) of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad makes the newspaper clippings accessible for its target audiences (users). The bibliographic information (title, author, newspaper's name, date, product category, brand name, and company name, etc.) as well as full text (down-loading from website of concerned newspaper) of the article in the newspaper module. The whole procedure is done in WINISIS software and the data is converted/up-loaded in GENISIS software to make accessible the web-catalogue of newspaper clippings for its end-users. Over the period of time using CDS/ISIS software (DOS, windows, GENISIS versions) types of problems faced and resolved, merits and demerits of each version, etc., have been discussed. In the age of information technology, the IT professionals and different organisations are designing effective but very costly software. The small libraries don't have capacity to carry too much financial burden by purchasing these types of software. However, they wish to get their libraries automated and make the resources available to their users by applying very cost-effective software. Now the CDS/ISIS software will become a boon for these types of information providers (libraries/information centres) and information receiver (users/clients) has been described. Every stage of evolution of CDS/ISIS and it's successful implication in KEIC has been focused.

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021473   Patra S K;Bhattacharya P;Verma N (Biochem Engng and Biotechnol Dep, Indian Inst of Technol Delhi, New Delhi-110 016, Email: skpatra@gmail.com) : Bibliometric study of literature on bibliometrics. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2006, 26(1), 27-32.

Growth pattern, core journals and authors' distribution in the field of bibliometrics using data from Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) has been analysed. Growth of literature does not show any definite pattern. Bradford's law of scattering is used to identify core journals and found `Scientometrics' as the core journals in this field. Lotka's law was used to identify authors' productivity patterns. It is observed that authors' distributions do not follow original Lotka's law. Study also identified 12 most productive authors with more than 20 publications in this field.

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021472   Goswami S;Agrawal H;Ashok Kumar;Saxena S C; Mohinder Singh (NO, Def Scientific Inf and Documn Cent (DESIDOC), Metcalfe House, Delhi-110 054) : Virtual walkthrough system for library. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2006, 26(1), 3-16.

The world wide web infrastructure has brought a revolutionary change in the organisation and presentation of information. Such a change resulted in the concept of virtual libraaries. Of the numerous virtual library applications, it envision a virtual walkthrough application. Here, a user, with access to the internet or intranet, can explore a specific place of interest without having to travel physically. The place of interest is modelled as a virtual world, containing a vast numebr of virtual objects. Two modules of proejct `virual walkthrough for Defence Science Library has been described. Module 1 - General Browsing, provides the user with the interface to view the virtual tour of the DSL that allows users to visit the library and its services virtually through the web and Module - 2 Guided Tour, complements the text-based search of the user for the books with an extended multimedia interface for retrieval of books in the library.

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020443   Rakesh Kumar;Suri P K;Chauhan R K (Dep of Computer Sci and Applics, Kurukshetra Univ, Kurukshetra, Email: rsagwal@rediffmail.com) : Search engines evalution. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(2), 3-10.

The volume of world wide web (WWW) is increasing enormously due to a world wide move to migrate information to online sources. To search some information on WWW, search engines are used, which when presented with queries, return a list of web pages ranked on the basis of estimation of relevance. Generally, the search engines due to the abundance of information available on the web return million of pages. But, user studies indicate that a common user browses through top 10 or 20 documents only. So it's all-important to get into those top 10 document. To achieve this web authors are increasingly beginning to rely on underhand techniques to ensure their sites get seen, in turn affecting the performance of search engines. The existing measures to evaluate these systems' performance are not adaquate in the current world of highly interactive end-user systems. In this study a metric `Ranked Precision' is proposed to evaluate the performance of search engines.

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020442   Rajasekharan K;Nafala K M (Lib and Inf Divison, Inst of Local Adm, Lavu - 680 581, Email: librariankila@hotmail.com) : Creation of a searchable repository of full text documents on CD using WINISIS and GenlsisCD. Inf Stud 2006, 12(2), 85-114.

Presents guidelines and describes a procedure for the creation of a full text respository of documents on CD usign WINISIS (Window version of CDS/ISI) and GenIsisCD. Keyword searching and retrieval of texts are provided for.

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020441   Patra S K;Bhattacharya P (Dep of Biochem Engng & Biotechnol, Indian Inst of Technol Delhi, New Delhi-110 016, Email: parthab@fitt.iitd.ernet.in) : Bibliometric study of cancer research in India. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(2), 11-18.

Bibliometric analysis of oncology research in India has been described. The data for the study has been downloaded from National Centre for Biotechnology (NCBI)pub med. The study analyses literature growth trends. It also examines research activities in different countries worldwide. Bradford law of scattering was employed to identify the core journal, which published Indian cancer research literature. Lotka's law was empolyed to study the authors' productivity pattern. The study also identifies the active institution in India, which published the cancer literature the most.

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020440   Neelameghan A;Raghavan K S (NO, , 216, 4th Main Road, 16th Cross Road, Malleswaram West, Bangalore 560 055, Email: anm2002@vsnl.net.) : Semantics of relationships in knowledge organisation - lateral relationships: update 1. Inf Stud 2006, 12(2), 115-22.

Several lateral relationships (non-hierarchic associative relationships) of the category Transformation/Emergence/Metamorphosis has been presented with examples. These are modifications and additions to the earlier list of 54 types of lateral relationships grouped into 9 categories.

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020439   Neelameghan A (NO, , 216, 4th Main Road, 16th Cross Road, Malleswaram West, Bangalore 560 055, Email: anm2002@vsnl.net) : E-communities, social networks and knowledge management. Inf Stud 2006, 12(2), 123-30.

Agains the background of global connectivity and formation of e-communities, paper examines some intra- and inter-community communications and exchanges, other than scholarly and business communications and the impact of information and communicaiton technologies (ITCs) in this context. Considers some positive aspects of ITC applications, such as, accelerationof empowerment, creation of a more level playing field, facilitation of expression of and greater visibility to the needs and aspirations of the community, and utilization of the tacit `community knowledge' for the welfare of the larger society. Suggests that knowledge management ideas can be applied to a communities taking into consideration some additional parameters.

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020438   Moed H F (Cent for Sci and Technol Stud, Leiden Univ Leiden, The Netherlands, Email: moed@cwts.leidenuniv.nl) : Citation analysis of scientific journals and journal impact measures. Curr Sci 2005, 89(12), 1990-6.

Eugene Garfield's creative work on Journal impact measures served more than one function. These measures were originally designed and applied to monitor the journal coverage of the Science Citation Index (SCI). They constituted a tool to identify on a permanent basis, the most important journals in the scientific communication system, and to highlight candidates to be included or dropped in view of the need to establish a cost-effective Citation Index.

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020437   Mathur Mira (Unit for Sci Dissemination, Coun of Scientific and Industrial Res, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110 001, Email: miraavinash@yahoo.com) : Advent of digital Libraries and measuring their performance: A review. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(2), 19-25.

Developments in the field of information technology, like increased capacities of digital storage media, growth of the world wide web and access to internet, sophisticated search engines, fast processing power and reduced computer costs have clinched the case for digital libraries. On the basis of a literature survey, the paper attempts to define a digital library; lists the advantages offered by digital libraries; gives the importance of measuring the performance of libraries against their objectives; gives the progress in developing performance indicators for digital libraries; and lists the difficulties that may be faced in implementing a system of performance indicators.

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020436   Kush A;Sawtantar singh (Dep of Computer Sci, Kurukshetra Univ, Kurukshetra) : Model curriculum for security aspects in IT education. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(5-6), 11-16.

Security has become a primary concern in order to provide protected data transfer in all networking environments. An internetwork security-teaching laboratory course, which includes both defensive security laboratory experimentation, has been proposed. The proposed laboratory will be oriented towards an introductory internetworking security class and is intended to complement more theoretical network security classes while motivating student interests and industry needs. The laboratory will be unique in that it uses an isolated laboratory network that attempts to represent the internet as closely as possible to typical educational laboratories which use only a few physical computers with virtual machines. It is also suggested that all of the laboratory assignments should be made available on internet for general community use and modification. General community expects solution from trained IT-professionals with respect to planning, configuration, implementation and maintenance of secure system for data transmission. Study is an attempt in that direction.

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020435   Krishnamurthy M (NO, Indian Statistical Inst, Mysore Road, 8th Mile, R.V. Cllege Post, Bangalore - 560 059, Email: mkrishna murthy@hotmail.com) : Library portals: Ontological representation of knowledge on the web. Inf Stud 2006, 12(2), 75-84.

Global networks, such as the Internet is transforming the information environment of distributed information resources and distributed computing. Distributed computing has pushed the trend towards higher levelof abstraction and more formalized ontological support for information system. The importance of ontology and metadata on the web, a common need for high quality information in and from the Internet has been discussed.

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020434   Koneru I (Dep of Lib Sci, ICFAI Univ, 25 Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad-500 082) : Integrated library system: selection and design. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(5-6), 3-9.

The wide use of computer and communicating systems in the recent past facilitated the design and development of 'integrated library (information) systems'. Dr Ralph Halsted Parker, pioneer in library mechnization coined the term 'Library Information Systems (LIS) around 1968, envisioned LIS as not only 'automating' existing library procedures, such as circulation, cataloguing, etc., but also providing access to materials held electronically even by other libraries and information centers across the globe. Currently, the systems librarians have been endeavouring to develop 'integrated Library Systems' (LIS), by creating the technologic landscape for supporting and enhancing end-user access to digitally recorded document surrogates and content. Analysing and designing an LIS aims at enhancing patron satisfaction by providing just-in-time access to appropriate information. Survey finding across North America and Europe reveal that the rationale for migrating from one system to another is for increased functionality of library's information system for the benefit of end-user, sidelining the cost issues. System selection processes and procedures, and other planning and decision-making issue and factors associated with the design and development of an ILS has been described.

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019440   Neelameghan A;Raghavan K S (NO, , 216, 4th Main Road, 16th Cross Road, Malleswaram, Bangalore-560 055, Email: anm2002@vsnl.net) : Seminal mnemonics in knowledge organization: ancient traditions and modern practices. Inf Stud 2006, 12(1), 5-26.

The use of seminal mnemonics implies the identification, at the near-seminal level, of similar subsets or groups of concepts (ideas) is subject domains and deriving a similar pattern of organization of the subsets in different domains. More specifically it consists in having the same digit or digit group to denote seminally equivalent ideas in whatever subject they many occure, even though different terms may be used to denote the ideas in the different subject fields. Seminal mnemonics are helpful in the organization of concepts - in the presentation of ideas in technical writing and in discourses, in designing schemes for subject classification, taxonomy etc. Sequence of steps in the thinking process in different contexts, such as, systems analysis, systems design, knowledge management, problem solving, decision making, and the process of classifying subjects has been examined. Two main categories of concepts are identified, namely, concepts denoting actions taken at each step in designing the system. The steps and their sequence are similar and parallel in the contexts examined. To facilitate remembering these systematic steps numerals and their ordinal values are used to organize or `fix' the sequence. Also indicated the similarity in the association of concepts with numbers in some ancient traditions.

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019439   Neelameghan A (NO, , 216, 4th Main Road, 16th Cross Road, Malleshwaram, Banglore-560 055) : Patterns of interdisciplinary interactions and formations in web-communities. Inf Stud 2006, 12(1), 61-8.

Some patterns in the formation of an interdisciplinary communications e.g. fusion, fission, clustering/convergence, distillation, agglomeration, and multiple patterns has been described. The usefulness of study of patterns interdisciplinary formations has been indicated.

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019438   John Paul Anbu K (NO, Periodicals Univ of Swaziland, Swaziland, Sourthern Africa)) : Circulation statistics: deriving information from numbers using CDS/ISIS criculation prototypes. Inf Stud 2006, 12(1), 55-9.

Emphasizes the usefulness of collecting and statistical analaysis of circulation data to assist library managers. Briefly describes a library circulation technique, based on Unesco's CDS/ISIS software which can also provide data on document circulation for statistical analysis by applying Unesco's IDAMS software package.

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019437   Johan Paul Anbu K (Periodicals Univ of Swaziland, , Swaziland, Southern Africa) : Towards a vertical portal for open access scholarly publications. Inf Stud 2006, 12(1), 27-34.

Discusses the inadequacies of existig sacholarly publication model, and elaborates on the advantages of Open Access model with particular reference to vertical portal. Mentions the progress of the open access initiative.

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019436   Bhatnagar A (Computer Aided-Reference Services PK Kelkar Lib, IIT, Kanpur-208 016, Email: anjana@iitk.ac.in) : Digitzation in academic libraries. Inf Stud 2006, 12(1), 35-54.

Digitization is the conversion of any analog (printed) material such as books, journals, photos, maps, etc. into electronic forms through the application of various technologies and techniques. Data compression technique can be used to increase both space and time efficiency. Transmission by digital mode gives higher speed and accuracy. Analog and digital data signals are inter-convertible. Therefore, it is possible to switch from electronic form to the printed form and vice versa. A digital library is designed to enable users access the required information electronically from anywhere. In a digital library most of the functions of the traditional library are carried out online. Additionally it offers more services not possible until a few years ago. The advantages of digitization include increased accessibility, flexibility of operation, lower production cost, preservation of original source materials and fast retrieval of information. The initial cost of building a digital collection in a library may appear prohibitive but it has proved more cost effective in the long run. The digitization process has been briefly discussed. Advantages and disadvantages and the future of digitization are mentioned. The creation of the Web page of IIT Kanpur library and what has been gained and what is lost are summarized.

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018373   Tigga U P;Lihitkar S R;Rajyalakshmi D (NO, , ) : (NULL). DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(4), 5-18.

Outcome of the content analysis of 33 issues of DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology (DBIT) published during January 1997 to July 2002 has been discussed. The DBIT gives more emphasis on IT related areas. DBIT is a peer-reviewed journal and publishes thematic issues on different areas of IT, library management and information marketing and the contents of journal are analysed in this study. DBIT is a useful tool for library professionals, information managers, information scientist, and information specialists, computer personnels and researchers with a vision for development in IT.

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018372   Surendra Kumar;Kumar S (NO, Natn Res Cent for Soybean (ICAR), Indore-452 017) : Bibliometric study of the journal of oilseeds research, since 1993-2001. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 305-34.

Analyses 743 papers comprising 435 main articles and 308 short communications published (Total 743) in nine volumes 10 to 18, (1993-2001) in Journal of Oilseed Research (JOR), based on earlier study covering Vol. 1-9 (1984 to 1992) comprising 241 Main Articles and 257 Short communications (Total 498 papers). The study gives status of oilseed research and importance of oilseeds in India. Also gives account of JOR, objectives and methodology of this study. Analyses papers into year wise distribution, length of articles, use of tables, graphs daigrams. Finds authorship pattern and calculates collaboration coefficients. Also finds out profile contributors, location of papers, subject wise distribution and crop wise distribution. Analyses in details citations given in these articles in various tables viz. number of citations per article and types of documents used for citations. Also ranks periodicals and apply Brodford Law.

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018371   Sunil Kumar (NO, St Coun of Educ Res and Training, Varun Marg, Defence Colony, New Delhi-110 024) : Rural library and community resource centres (RLCRCS) in India with special reference to States having library legislation : problems and prospects. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 275-80.

Research project undertaken to study the information needs of rural communities vis-a-vis the current situation of rural (community) libraries. It identifies the sources of information required for rural community and assesses the impact of Government programmes and policies. It tries to assess the role of NGOs working for providing information services in rural areas. The study aims at developing a model for a Rural Library and Community Resource Centre.

018370   Sarvanan T (Lib and Inf Sci Dep, Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu) : Cyber laws in India : a case of the information technology. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 281-4.

Need for cyber laws and the legal issues involved. Concludes by stating that international law and global standards should be formulated and enforced.

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018369   Prasad A R D;Panigrahi P (NO, Documn Res and Training Cent Indian Statistical Inst, R V College P.O., Bangalore-560 059, Email: ard@drtc.isibang.ac.in) : Knowledge representation model for time isolates of Colon Classification (7th Edition). SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 221-44.

Elaborately discusses the treatment of the time isolates of Colon Classification (CC), 7th edition in the automatic environment. From the very beginning CC has separately specified isolate numbers for time, which is one of the five fundamental categories. As the time isoaltes can appear with anyone of the Main Classes enlisted in the schedule of basic subects, the schedule for time isoaltes is mentioned as a common schedule. Describes the importance of time (i.e. Meteorological time, Civil time, etc.) in classifying the thought content of any document. It also discusses the structure of the schedule of the Common Time Isolates including all divisions and subdivisions. Discusses the rules of expert systems developed using Prolog to handle the procedure of picking up numbers from other schedules and forming the special components to build compound time isoaltes. Some special techniques of defining lexical knowledge regarding time isolates are also discussed. Working procedure of different program segment of inference engine is illustrated. Includes the scope of forming compound time isolates according to CC7. Illustrates the specific techniques used for different groups to follow the instruction of the schedule.

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018368   Lohar M S;Kumbar M (NO, Univ BDT Coll of Engng, Davanagere, Karnataka) : College libraries in Shimoga district. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 335-53.

Evaluates the present situation of College Libraries in Shimoga District (Karnataka). A survey of 30-degree colleges is conducted through a questionnaire. The analysis of the collected data covers the organizational set-up of the library, library facilities, library resoures, and services and physical facilities etc. Concludes that the present situation of the college libraries in Shimoga District do not meet the prescribed norms.

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018367   Krishnamurthy M (NO, Indian Statistical Inst, 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore-560 059, Email: krish@isibang.ac.in) : Digital library of mathematics using Dspace : a practical experience. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 245-56.

Discusses the implementation of Dspace at the Indian Statistical Institute and challenges facing implementing digital library. The practical issues and key stages involved in digitising, based on work undertaken as part of the developing digital library with a teaching and research context. Explaines the importance of open source software, developing a digital library at the Indian Statistical Institute, and its features are discussed.

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018366   Kaliammal A;Sarasvady S (NO, Bharathidasan Univ, Tiruchirappalli-620 124) : On size, growth and impact of life science journals. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 285-304.

Measuring the growth fields and subfields has been carried out using publication output in different fields. However, not all published literature contribute to the growth of a discipline and thus the publications with impact alone are being used in many recent studies. In measuring subfield growth, general impact is not considered as a suitable parameter. Scientometricians have resorted for subfield impact to study the subfields for observing growth, impact etc. Both general impact of journals in a field (impact factor) and subfield impact (subfield corrected impact factor) are used to measure the growth, size and impact of subfields in life sciences.

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018365   Chudamani K S;Tejaswini T (JRD Tata Memorial Lib, IISc, Bangalore-560 012, Email: ksc@library.iisc.ernet.in) : Terminological citation analysis as a tool for decision making and problem solving. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 269-74.

Citation drawn from articles published in "The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences" for the period 2000-2001 has been analysed. It also presents terminological citation analysis for problem solving and decision making processes. The for steps of decision making enunciated by Carter McNamara have been used.

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018364   Bhatia K (NO, Natn Inst of Occup Hlth, Meghaninagar, Ahmedabad-380 016) : E-publishing and its role in the development of information technology. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2005, 42(3), 257-67.

Rapid development of information technologies - and specifically electronic publishing capabilities - leads many in the library community. There may be ways to ease the pressure. The (presumably) reduced cost associated with editing, producing, storing and disributing electronic content has led to the hope in some quarters that journals might actually decline, orthat an alternate, less expensive publishing model might emerge. Electronic publishing provides for an unregulated access to reliable information for academicians, researchers, practioners and policy makers alike from all parts of the world. Some of the issues related to e-publishing has been discussed and highlights the nature and scope of the electronic publications.

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018363   Bansal A;Vinod Kumari;Ashok Kumar;Mohinder Singh (NO, Def Scientific Inf and Documn Cent (DESIDOC), Metcalfe House, Delhi-110 054) : DESIDOC bulletin of information technology: success story with content coverage during 2000-2004. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(4), 19-30.

Publishers reflect a high-level commitment to their readers by providing high quality scientific, technical, social, and educational content to billions of readers all over the world and in a way bring them together. they provide effortless access to that content, continuously improving their service levels, and enable worldwide distribution for contributors. The DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology (DBIT) is a bi-monthly Indian bulletin that endeavours to bring recent developments in information technology, as applicable to library and information centres, to the notice of librarians, documentation and information professionals, students and others interested in the field. It is being published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Cebtre (DESIDOC) since 1980. A small study has been carried out regarding its content during last five years i.e., 2000-2004.

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018362   Natarajan M (NO, , ) : Role of text mining in information extraction and information management. DESIDOC Bull Inf Technol 2005, 25(4), 31-8.

Definitions of text mining and the need for it has been discussed. The components of text mining are explained as information retrieval, information processing and information integration. The powerful technique that helps to identify the relevant S&T literature is enumerated with five primary conditions for information extraction. The three stages of knowledge discovery in data and data mining (KDD) process is given with the applications of text mining. Applications of text mining vary from Information retrieval, bioinformatics, patent analysis, sorting gene expression, mining hospital records and multilingual approach to cross-lingual text retrieval (CLTR), analysis of e-mails, etc. Also the current status like new methods for text analysis in biology and medicine, the software viz. TextAnalyst meant for semantic analysis, navigation and search of unstructured texts with the `Linking Information for novel Discovery and insight' (LINDI) project at Berkeley for helping the researchers have been explained. The internationally leading consortium for text mining viz. National Centre for Text Mining at UMIST with four UK partner institutions has been given. The limitations and benefits of text mining are given and concluded that library and information science professionals should implement the same for providing the relevant information from the vast amount of information.

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017357   Thakur D S;Thakur K S (NO, Natn Inst of Educ Plan and Adm (NIEPA), 17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi-110 016, Email: dsthakur@hotmail.com) : Approaches to knowledge management in higher education. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(4), 115-18.

Different approaches of knowledge management through knowledge sharing that can be followed in educational institutions has been highligted.

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017356   Sharma A K;Singh S P (NO, Indian Inst of Mgmt, Pigdamber, Rau, Indore-453 331, Email: arun_2929@rediffmail.com) : Reading habits of faculty members in natural sciences: a case study of University of Delhi. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(4), 119-23.

Factors affecting the reading habits, average time spent in library, sources used in library, etc. were studied.

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017355   Panigrahi P;Prasad A R D (Lib and Inf Sci Dep, Univ of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street, Kolkata-700 073, Email: panigrahipk@yahoo.com) : Inference engine for devices of Colon Classification in AI based automated classification system. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(4), 124-34.

Presents the use of various devices enunciated in Colon Classification (CC) to sharpen any isolate idea, especially when a new subject enters into the universe of subjects. Discusses their helpfulness in the automatic classification system, the Viswamitra, designed using Artificial Intelligence techniques with the help of PROLOG language. Discusses the procedure of building numbers for compound isolates using superimposition devices, alphabetical devices, geographic devices etc. Some suggestions are also made to rethink about the rule for alphabetical devices. For example, the system suggests to pickup the first three letters of a single worded term, first two letters from each word of a binomial term and the first letter from each word of a multinomial term to build isolate number using alphabetical device. Suggests some modifications in Colon Classification so that the concept of Analytico Synthetic Classification is used elaborately for information retrieval in the age of ontology.

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017354   Natarajan M (NO, Natn Inst of Sci Commun and Inf Resour (NISCAIR), 14, Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi-110 067, Email: m_natarajan@hotmail.com) : Cyberinfrastructure: an opportunity for education and implications for research libraries. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(4), 147-53.

Deals with the role of research libraries and the concept of Cyberinfrastructure with its definitions. The digital library (DL) movement with few examples in Indian Scenario has been explained. The need for human infrastructure due to the advancement of Cyberinfrastructure has been envisaged. The goals and visions are enumerated with building a successful Cyberinfrastructure. Some of the existing examples are given at International level. The activities and uses of Cyberinfrastructure are given for college level educators; undergraduate and graduate students with the motivation for the database developers are highlighted with the future trend in research libraries. Concluded that Cyberinfrastructure has to be taken as a research challenge and advanced Cyberinfrastructure activity must be brought in for better electronic access.

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017353   Mittal R;Ahmad M;Gian Singh (NO, Natn Inst of Sci Commun and Inf Resour, 14, Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi-110 067, Email: rekha@niscair.res.in) : Citation mapping of published literature on Embelia ribes. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(4), 154-9.

Vidang, a well known drug in ayurvedic system of medicine, is obtained from the medicinal plant, Embelia ribes. Through citation mapping, a comprehensive bibliography has been compiled to study the research work done on this plant in India. Citation maps allow browsing through titles, and provides the users with some directions into the information available. It may be useful for researchers to identify areas where there could be more scientific study.

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