004377   Pandey M (NO, Indira Gandhi Agricultural Univ, Raipur-492 006) : Perspective and potential of automation in agricultural libraries of Chhattisgarh. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 66-72.

Deals with the automation of libraries of the Universities and Agricultural College Libraries in the State of Chhattisgarh. There are 9 libraries dealing with agriculture and allied subjects. The Nehru Library of the Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur is he Central node for acquisition, storing and disseminating information through a statewide.

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004376   Padmaja M;Kumbar M (NO, NIRD, Hyderabad, Email: slib@nird.gov.in) : ICTs for dissemination of development information: an analysis of selected cases. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 92-102.

Discusses how ICT is put in practice in different locations for the benefit of rural people as they do not know what all they need. Their needs are to be identified and the essential projects are to be initiated to meet their requirements which lead them towards development of villages. The paper shows the significance of ICT for rural development, ICT infrastructure identifying information need through ICT. It also shows the problems faced by ICT projects, and a few recommendations are made, based on the conflicts prevailing in the current scenario.

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004375   Narendra Kumar A M;Nageswara Rao P;Ramesh Babu B (NO, Hexaware Technologies Ltd, Ambattur, Chennai-600 058, Email: narendrakumar_am@yahoo.co.in) : Web credibility of state agricultural universities web sites in India: a study. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 1-15.

The influence of ICT in developing countries makes more demand for web based and accurate information. Application of ICT and web hosting in academic environment has increased gradually in the recent decades. Both Academic Institutes and users facing the problem of determining the hallmarks of well-designed, useful web site which increases perception of credibility. This paper aims to study and analyze the various aspects of the credibility of State Agricultural Universities (SA U) web sites in India. The analysis of the data represents the extent and the level of credibility possessed by the state agricultural universities in India.

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004374   Nabi Hasan;Singh M (NO, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural Univ, Palampur-176 062, Email: nabihasan@rediffmail.com) : Agricultural publications on Himachal Pradesh: a bibliometric study. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 39-54.

The paper analyses and quantifies the contributions on Himachal Pradesh agriculture and allied fields, based on publications, indexed in AGfUCOLA, AGRIS, CAB Abstracts and FSTA CD-ROM databases. This macroscopic study as undertaken with the following objectives: to identify and categorize the literature; source-type, subject/field, authorship-pattern and language; to make comparative study among different categories of publications; to find out the quantitative growth of literature, contributed by the concerned scientists and agencies; and to identify the highly productive authors, journals, institutions and so on. The paper maps the field under the following heads: quantum of production, form-wise distribution, authorship pattern, institutions, ranking of periodicals, subject dispersion, citation study, length of publications, languages of publications, languages of summaries, country-wise productivity, state-wise productivity and classification by journal impact factor.

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004373   Murthy L (NO, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad) : Innovations in agricultural information services: new tools transforming agricultural information management. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 23-9.

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004372   Murali Krishna C (Potti Sreeramulu Telugu Library Univ, Telugu Bhavanam, O.U. Campus, Hyderabad) : Impact of digitization in university libraries. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 115-17.

This paper attempts to highlight the need and importance of the digitization in the University Libraries. Which are established to preserve and provide the right information to the scholars about the culture and literature. This paper also presents the benefits and problems of digitization in University Libraries.

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004371   Mundhe B T (University Library, MAU, Parbhani) : Use of library for effective instruction. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 118-22.

The information about the sources available and services offered by University Library, Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani is included. The use of internet services, Intranet services and digital library services is also discussed.

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004370   Maraddi K S;Hadimani M B (Agriculture College, Bheemarayanagudi UAS, Dharwad) : Analysis of PH.D. theses distribution in the faculty of agricultural sciences in university of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 55-65.

A study was carried out to analyse the distribution of theses in the faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. A five year period of distribution was taken from 2003-04 to 2007-08. Fifteen disciplines were taken for the purpose. The study revealed that maximum numbers of theses were submitted during 2006-07 with Genetics and Plant Breeding discipline having highest number of theses. Genderwise also it was found that Genetics and Plant Breeding had highest number of girls who submitted theses.

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004369   Ezra M;Ravinder D (Directorate of Rice Research, (ICAR), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad) : Institutional repository initiatives in India: a study. Indian J agric Libr Inf Serv 2008, 24, 108-14.

Information and communication technologies have changed the landscape of information handling activates. The Institutional Repository (IR) is a contemporary concept that captures and makes available through Intranet and Internet, the institutional research output and other relevant documents to the users by way of digitizing the output. The IR has already started emerging in India. This study highlights the importance of IR, to indicate the scope and methodology. Most of the repositories are using open source information repository software like DSpace, Green stone, Digital Library software and GNU E-prints. Design I methodology I approach -Details of the hardware and software requirements are provided. The steps involved in uploading and submitting material in the IR are described. From a variety of open source software's, DSpace was chosen by many institutions I universities due to its suitability, functionality, interoperability and sustainability.

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023084   Uganneya S;Akor P (NO, , ) : Networking among agricultural libraries in Benue state. Int Libr Movement 2007, 29(1), 25-36.

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023083   Sandhu K S;Kulvir Kaur (NO, , ) : Library automation: need of the hour. Int Libr Movement 2007, 29(1), 15-24.

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023082   Ramesh L S R C V (NO, , ) : Revamping scientific excellence through bibliometric studies. an appraisal. Int Libr Movement 2007, 29(1), 53-60.

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023081   Rajeev Kumar;Amritpal Kaur (NO, , ) : Use of internet by the teachers and students of Himachal Pradesh Engineering Colleges: an analysis. Int Libr Movement 2007, 29(1), 37-52.

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023080   Akporhonor B A (NO, , ) : Deterioration of microforms in some libraries and archives. Int Libr Movement 2007, 29(1), 1-14.

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021143   Sujatha H R;Mudhol M V (NO, Sri Venkataramana Swamy College, Bantwal-574 211, Email: hrsujatha@yahoo.com) : Use of electronic information sources at the College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 234-45.

Examines the use of electronic information sources (EIS) by the teachers/scientists, research scholars and postgraduate students in the College of Fisheries, Mangalore. A survey was administered among the academic community along with observations and informal interviews at the College of Fisheries, Mangalore. Demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects of EIS use such as frequency and purpose of EIS use, frequently used EIS, methods of learning to use EIS, benefits of EIS use, constraints faced in the use of EIS and the satisfaction level of users in the use of EIS. Suggestions have been given to strengthen the existing electronic information sources and services and to maximize the use of EIS among the fisheries institution academic community.

021142   Satija M P (NO, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143 005, Email: satija_mp@yahoo.com) : Mapping of social sciences in the Colon Classification. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 204-11.

Defines knowledge as sum total of ideas, emotions, beliefs, and experiences conserved by the society. Enumerates its properties as being social, ever growing, multidimensional and fragmentary. Explains in brief social epistemology. Lists the growth of knowledge by specialization, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary modes. Views classifications as impermanent maps of knowledge which change with society and time. Explains the four principles of the mapping of knowledge as given by D W Langridge, namely, ideological, social purpose, taxonomic, and disciplinary. Defines the field and scope of social sciences and briefly introduces the Colon Classification, its method, structure and kind of subjects therein. Further outlines and critically evaluates the order of basic subjects as divided in to major disciplines of sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Lastly it dwells minutely on the order of social sciences main classes, namely, education, geography, history, political science, economics, sociology and law. Ranganathan claimed this order to be of increasing artificiality of their laws. Refutes Ranganathan's concept of artificiality of social laws. Argues the order of CC-6(1960) main classes to be of serial dependency as given by August Comte and already practiced by the Library of Congress Classification.

021141   Paul D (Library and Information Science Dep, University of Kalyani, Kalyani-741 235, Email: dibyendu.kly@gmail.com) : Press and Registration of Books Act and the bibliographic control of Bengali publications. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 176-84.

Deals with the role of legal deposit law particularly the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 and its resultant current bibliographies in bibliographic control of Bengali publications. Issues of comprehensiveness of coverage and currency of inclusion of titles and the publishers' participation in terms of compliance of the provisions of the Act under study are dealt with by means of quantitative analysis of bibliographic records of latest available five annual volumes of the said bibliographies. The results of a survey of regional publishers, exposing their perceptions about the Act and the bibliographies are also reported. Concludes that the resultant bibliography of the said Act should be able to serve the business interest of the publishers in terms of promotion of their titles to sustain the direct flow of bibliographic information into the system of bibliographic control of any level.

021140   Mukherjee B (Library & Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Email: mukherjee.bhaskar@gmail.com ) : Open access scholarly publishing in library and information science. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 212-23.

Investigates the trend of open access journals publishing in the field of library and information science in terms of language, top-level-domain, country and time. Using authoritative print as well as online directories, the study identifies 124 e-journals in the field of LIS that are accessible freely, either partially or fully, on the Web. Of these, 12 titles have ceased their publication and remaining 112 titles are presently accessible freely on the Web. Analysis of the 112 e-journals shows that English is the most widely used language of LIS scholarly publishing. Most of these OA journals are originating either from academic or organizational domain and developed countries like USA and UK are publishing most of the OA journals. Concludes that there is a need for taking initiatives to publish qualitative open access journals from the less-developed countries.

021139   Mallik S;Sen B K (Law Library, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110 006, Email: soumen_insdoc@rediffmail.com) : Information sources in academic law libraries in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 196-203.

Deals with basic role played by libraries of Indian academic law institutes and available basic information sources for resource building. Printed resources have been found to be specialized whereas online information resources are dynamic as they cover wide range of legal information. A webpage based study of the libraries of top twenty Indian academic legal institutes shows that more than half of the Indian premier academic legal institutes do not provide any information regarding their online information resources and thus this may be assumed that they hardly have any online information resource. Eight of the India's top twenty academic legal institutes have well described libraries on the web with a variety of online resources which may be considered as shift change of libraries from printed information resource building to digital information dependency.

021138   Kumbar M;Gupta B M;Dhawan S M (Library & Information Science Dep, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore-570 006, Email: smdhawan@yahoo.com) : Growth and impact of research output of University of Mysore, 1996-2006: a case study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 185-95.

Describes the growth, contribution and impact of research carried out by the scientists of University of Mysore in science and technology. Indicate the patterns of communications of university scientists and studies the extent of concentration and scattering of their research output in different journals. Analyses the strong and weak areas of university research, their growth rate and impact in terms of average citations received. Also studies the output and impact of research under different existing subject departments of the university. Analyses the international collaborative share of research output at the overall level as well as across various subjects, indicating also the major countries involved in international collaboration. Describes the share and characteristics of select highly cited papers and the top productive authors.

021137   Jeevan V K J (NO, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068, Email: vkjj@rediffmail.com) : Science awareness through public libraries in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 224-33.

Identifies the important activities public libraries must initiate to sustain the science communication initiatives. Some of the problems in spreading science awareness in the country are also identified. Concludes that in addition to the science awareness initiatives from government institutions, NGOs, science clubs, by involving public libraries in the people's science information dissemination network will enhance the science awareness activities.

021136   Iembo R;Lin C M (Mathematics Dep, Faculty of Engineering, Calabria Univ, Cosenza, 87036 (Italy)) : Knowledge management: of strategy & numbers. Ultra Scient phys Sci 2007, 19(2), 259-66.

Francis Bacon's famous aphorism said, Knowledge is Power. Benjamin Franklin said, Time is Money. Given limited lifetime, how to manage knowledge is becoming a more important matter in this knowledge explosion era. The so-called "Knowledge" is mostly found or developed by human beings. Different civilizations look at knowledge from different way. Given different opinion about knowledge, but people all starting to agree, that knowledge is a "soft power" and also a "real property". We all know how to pursue money, and find financial experts help to manage our properties. But few of us realize that knowledge should be managed like property, with much more complexity than tangible assets and head-counting. Authors like to propose two new ways to study the art and the math of managing knowledge, by using existing strategy like Sunzi's "Art of War" and by borrowing the knowledge of handling numbers, In number systems, there are positive, negative, fractional, irrational, real and imaginary numbers. For similar reasons, we like to treat knowledge with similar characteristics. By using the existing wisdom of strategy and deep understand of mathematical numbers, we think that if we use our understand of strategy and number to understand different types of knowledge, then we will have better understanding of knowledge types and more systematical ways to manage knowledge as we manage different types of numbers and battlefield situations as analyzed by Sunzi in his classical book, "Art of War'.

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021135   Giri B (Establishment Section, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Email: biswanath_giri@yahoo.co.in) : Information awareness through effective information support system to stop superstitious practices. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 169-75.

Explores newspaper reports regarding crimes developed out of superstitions and the motives behind those crimes. Newspaper reports were analysed to draw quantitative statistics of collected data. Shows that untested presuppositions not only challenge the development of society but also raise serious debate regarding the prevailing callousness in eradicating unwanted criminal activities under the shadow of superstition. Suggestions have been made to check unwanted deaths and other crimes over innocents with the spreading of scientific temperament and rationality among semiliterate. A model of effective information support system has also been incorporated in this paper, which can gradually eradicate the untested preconceptions.

021134   Dehuri S;Ghosh A;Mall R (Information Dep & Communication Technology, Fakir Mohan Univ, Vyasa Vihar, Balasore-756 019, Email: satchi.lapa@gmail.com) : Parallel multi-objective genetic algorithm for classification rule mining. IETE J Res 2007, 53(5), 475-83.

Multi-objective genetic algorithms (MOGAs) are finding increasing popularity as researchers realize their potential for obtaining good solutions to mining problems in large databases. Parallel multi-objective genetic algorithms (pMOGAs) attempts to reduce the processing time needed for computing the fitness functions and to reach an acceptable solution. We propose two different master slave models of pMOGA. Our proposed models exploit both data parallelism by distributing the data being mined across various processors, and control parallelism by distributing the population of individuals across all available processors. These models are implemented through a cluster computing environment and we measure the speed up of pMOGA over its sequential counterpart.

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021133   Asha B (NO, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Email: cskimg@yahoo.com) : Electronic access of individual papers in economics. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(3), 246-58.

Examines the electronic access (read) of individual research papers in economics selected randomly from the Repec data base. Finds similarities and differences in the measure of central tendency and dispersion of two type of reads viz abstract read and full text read of papers by calculating the rate of read, standard deviation and coefficient of variation. Results indicate topic-wise difference both in the number of abstract read and full text read. Finds a very high positive correlation between the monthly abstract read and full text read, also obtains the regression equation. Derives a ratio connecting the per month abstract read, full text read and citation. Indicate that full text read is a subset of abstract read. Finds that a more read paper is not correspondingly well cited. Searches for a best-fit relationship between the full text read and citations, and obtains a tenth degree polynomial but with coefficient of determination being 0.42 only. Concludes that citation is not parameterized by read. Suggests the need of a social network analysis to identify the parameters of citations.

020076   Vasantha Raju N;Harinarayana N S (Library and Information Science Dep, University of Mysore, Mysore, Email: vasanthrz@gmail.com) : Analysis of usability features of library web sites. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 111-22.

Studies thirty websites of top science universities around the world for their design features with special reference to usability. The guidelines suggested by National Cancer Institute have been applied to measure the usability features of the selected web sites. The parameters like optimizing the user experience; link back to home; colour link behaviour; navigability; and multimedia features have been studied for the websites. The results showed that only 53.33% of library web sites provides, frequently asked questions (FAQs). The time out option has been neglected by all the web sites except one. It is noticed that only 39.99% of the web sites have provision for explicit home link as well as through logos. Persistent navigation feature is observed only on 50% of the web sites. Only 8% of the web sites use the de facto link color coding. Library web sites are yet to exploit the advantages of multimedia (interactivity features). It is found from the survey that only 30% of the web sites contain video contents and none of the web sites contained exclusive audio files.

020075   Surwase G;Kademani B S;Vijai Kumar (Scientific Information Resource Div, Knowledge Management Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai-400 085, Email: ganeshbarc@yahoo.co.in) : Scientometric dimensions of pulsed laser deposition research: a global perspective. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 101-110.

Attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of world literature in the field of pulsed laser deposition in terms of publication output as per Science Citation Index (1982-2006). During 1982-2006 a total of 8534 papers were published by the scientists in the field pulsed laser deposition. The average number of publications published per year was 341.36. The highest number of papers 1074 were published in 2005. There were 84 countries involved in the research in this field. USA is the top producing country with 2014 publications (19.35%) followed by Japan with 1553 publications (14.92%), Peoples-R-China with 1106 publications (10.63%), Germany with 763 publications (7.33%) South Korea with 694 publications (6.67%) and France with 615 publications (5.91%). India ranked 9th among other countries with 291 publications during 1985-2006. Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. There were 8338 (97.70%) multi-authored publications and 196 (2.30%) single authored publications. Chinese Academy of Sciences (Peoples-R-China) topped the list with 304 publications followed by Nanjing University (Peoples-R-China) with 244 publications, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) with 233 publications and CNRS (France) with 217 publications. The most productive Indian institutions were: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai with 52 publications and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with 49 publications. The most prolific Indian authors were: R. Pinto (Indian-Inst-Technol-Bomaby, Mumbai) with 38 publications, M.S. Hegde (Indian-Inst-Sci, Bangalore) with 31 publications, S.B. Ogale (Univ Pune, Pune) with 29 publications, L.M. Kukreja (Raja Ramanna Ctr-Adv-Technol, Indore) with 21 publications, P. Misra (Raja Ramanna Ctr-Adv-Technol, Indore) with 16 publications, R.K. Thareja (Indian-Inst-Technol-Kanpur) with 15 publications. The most preferred journals by the scientists were: Applied Physics Letters with 962 publications, Journal of Applied Physics with 714 publications, Applied Surface Science with 614 publications and Thin Solid Films with 541 publications.

020074   Surendra Kumar;Kumar S (NO, National Research Centre for Soybean, Khandwa Road,Indore - 452017, Email: skumar9861@rediffmail.com ) : Citation analysis of Journal of Oilseeds Research 1993 - 2004. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 35-44.

Analyses 8093 citations given in the Journal of Oilseeds Research (JOR) published during 1993 to 2004). Out of 8093 citations, 5642 are given in main articles and 2551 in short communications of the JOR. It also analyses types of documents cited and identifies core journals. Also covers the analysis of authorship patterns of citations alongwith calculation of collaboration coefficient. Geographical distribution of cited references has also been analysed. Concludes that 20 core periodicals cover more than 50% references and also indicates that collaborative research is prevalent in oil seeds research.

020073   Sen B K (NO, , 80 Shivalik Apartments, Alaknanda, New Delhi-110 019, Email: bksen@airtelbroadband.in) : Ranganathan's five laws. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 87-90.

Five laws of library science formulated by Ranganathan have with time and environment been changing the form. A number of forms advanced by learned scholars are presented in the article. Considering the fact that the Laws are finding application beyond the confine of library science, a generalized form has been suggested with five examples basing which any other form can be created as per the need.

020072   Raut T K;Sahu S B;Ganguly S (NO, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, Email: tkr@iiml.ac.in) : Strategic Management Journal: a citations study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 69-75.

Highlights the distribution of various forms of publication, authorship trends, most frequently cited periodicals and geographical distribution of the literature in the area of strategic management. It is found that researchers use journals more frequently than other from of documents and authorship pattern concentrated mainly on single and joint authors in books where as in journals. The top ranking journals in the field of strategic management are Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly that represent 32% of the literature coverage. The results reveal the geographical distribution of core journals of this literature, which are mainly concentrated in the USA & UK. The methodology is based on the bibliometrics techniques of citation analysis, which are applied in all the articles published in the Strategic Management Journal for two consecutive years 2005 and 2006.

020071   Prakash Chand;Nishy P (NO, National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, 14, Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi, India-110067, Email: prakashc@niscair.res.in) : Strengthening R&D information systems through library consortium: a case of CSIR laboratories. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 45-51.

Examines the changing face of libraries particularly with regard to the journal subscription from print to electronic form through formation of consortia. The benefits accrued to the library and information system of CSIR laboratories owing to formation of a consortium to access e-resources is discussed. Concludes that the CSIR laboratories library and information systems have been strengthened following the widening of the journals base after the formation of the consortium.

020070   Parvathamma N;Gobbur D S (Library & Information Science Dep, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga-585 106, Email: parvathi_glb@yahoo.co.in) : T.M. Aminabhavi: a biobibliometric study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 127-34.

Reveals that in his 36 years of teaching and 28 years of research experience in various fields of polymer science, T M Aminabhavi has published 521 research articles, 57 popular articles and 94 conference papers in eight domains of polymer science. He has three US patents to his credit and has completed research projects worth Rs.Six crores. He has one book to his credit, published by John Wiley. Collaboration coefficient is between 0.9 and 1.0 indicating the interdisciplinary nature of his research. The year 2006 has been the most productive year in his research career wherein he has published 96 research papers. The period of international collaboration is significant with W.E. Rudzinski (22 years), Patrick E. Cassidy (15 years), J.D. Ortego (12 years) and T.H.S. Phayde (05 years). Indian collaborators with more than 15 years of association are Manjeshwar (21 years), S.B. Halligudi (19 years) and M.I. Aralaguppi (16 years) in the above mentioned domains of research. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, published in USA has been the most preferred journal for publishing his research findings (102 research articles). 70.81% of his research articles are published in the journals originating from USA (326 articles - 59.11%) and India (61 articles- 11.70%).

020069   Neelameghan A;Chester G (DRTC/ISI, , Bangalore-560 059, Email: anm2002@vsnl.net) : Knowledge management relation to indigenous and marginalized communities in the digital era. Inf Stud 2007, 13(2), 73-106.

Discusses: a) Some features of the emerging knowledge society including the convergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enabling seamless access, to a vast and varied information and knowledge sources from anywhere at any time, in the expanding digital space and concomitant globalization; b) a sizeable part of the rural population, especially in developing countries and the indigenous communities even in developed countries, do not appear to be fully benefiting by the developments mentioned above; c) However, there are attempts to use ICTs to reach out to indigenous and marginalized rural communities with a view to empowering them - e-governance, providing access to a variety of government documents, village kiosks, extending cell-phone facilities, wireless technology, land-sat imaging and remote sensing, geographical information systems etc. d) Knowledge management (KM) at present largely relates to enterprise/institutional management, but its scope can be widened taking into account new parameters (e.g. culture, language etc.) and applied to community knowledge management - empowering rural and indigenous communities and enabling the sharing of the tacit community knowledge, as implied by equity and justice in governance; e) the wealth of knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, acquired by indigenous communities needs to be shared and used for the benefit of the nation as a hole and the global community of nations and nation states.

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020068   Nazim M;Devi M (Central Library, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Email: nazim@sify.com) : Open access journals and institutional repositories: practical need and present trends in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 27-34.

Trends in open access publishing in India are discussed. Data was collected from directories of open access journals and institutional repositories. The URL of each institutional repository and open access journals was visited to collect relevant data and information including from earlier studies. Case study method was used to know the trends of open access publishing in India. Data is analyzed based on certain parameters, such as number of institutional repositories and open access journals, number of documents, software used, types of documents, etc. Among the top 25 open access publishing countries, India ranks 12th for the overall number of journals, but drops to 18th for journals with online content. However, its position in the list of open access journals is fifth. At present India ranks 12th in the list of countries with registered interoperable archives in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).

020067   Mathew R M;Vijayakumar A (Calicut University, , Calicut, Kerala, Email: www.ifkt.net) : It use in academic environment in Kerala: a survey. Inf Stud 2007, 13(2), 107-24.

Goal of the series of studies is to examine through a survey the need a theoretical foundation and potentialities of Knowmatics and knowledge technology. The objectives of the present study are: 1) to examine the effectiveness of Information Technology (IT) in knowledge processing; and 2) to examine the need and possibility of developing a new technology for knowledge processing. Based on the findings of the survey suggests the following: to give training and provide experience in advanced web technologies like data mining/XML/Semantic web, etc.; to establish a new data mining/knowledge management technology considered as helpful in processing information into knowledge; conduct awareness programmes about the need to develop new algorithms or software for knowledge processing different from those used for data processing; and to include the subject "Structure and development of knowledge:, "Information economy" and "Information society" in the educational courses for information professionals.

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020066   Majhi S K (Fisheries Div, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umroi Road, Barapani-793 103, Email: sullipkm@rediffmail.com) : Indigenous technical knowledge for control of insect pest and livestock disorders. Indian J Tradl Knowledge 2008, 7(3), 463-5.

Outlines the salient feature of traditional belief in relation to agricultural practices as well as for livestock management. The study carried out in VR Palem village of Ponnuru mandal, Andhra Pradesh revealed that the villagers use indigenous knowledge, including treatment of some of the human disease. So far as, technical knowledge in agricultural practice in the village is concerned, the insect and pest control in some of the commercially important plant like coconut tree is found to be important one. Beside, it has been also found that there exists some of the important traditional knowledge for healing the fractured bones and ligaments in livestock as well as remedies for various stomach related problems.

020065   Maheswaran S;Sathish Kumar R D;Sridharan K R (Scientist, Information Div, Structural Engineering Research Centre, CSIR Campus, Taramani, Chennai -600 113, Email: smahes@sercm.org) : Research publication trends in structural engineering based on Journal of Structural Engineering. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 17-26.

Provides a historical perspective on structural engineering research as reflected in the Journal of Structural Engineering (JoSE). Reports the result of a twelve year (1993 - 2005) analysis of the journal from 1993 through 2005. The JoSE is intended to be of interest to researchers, professionals and students in all civil / mechanical engineering disciplines.

020064   Kumbar S S;Mallaiah T Y (NO, Mangalore University Library, Mangalagangothri-574 199, , Email: sksiddalingappa@yahoo.com) : Changing pattern of user expectations regarding the library catalogue as an information retrieval tool: a case study of Mangalore University. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 7-16.

Describes the efforts of Mangalore University Library in developing an Online Public Access Catalogue with the aim of increasing the information retrieval efficiency and providing easy access to the users. The changing pattern of user expectations about the catalogue has also been examined. In the survey conducted prior to the introduction of on-line public access catalogue, usefulness of the library catalogue, frequency of use, users approaches, user opinions about the adequacy of bibliographical details, sources of guidance in the use of catalogue and need for user education programmes have been assessed. Based on the findings, the steps initiated for updating the card catalogue have been described. Results indicate the necessity for the joint effort of library professionals and software development experts to find out solutions to meet the user expectations effectively. It was suggested that cataloguing of all the e-resources such as CD-ROMs, DVDs available in the library was the immediate need.

020063   Joteen Singh R K (NO, Manipur University, Imphal-795 003, Email: joteenrk@yahoo.com) : Robust information retrieval technique for a bibliographical database. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 135-40.

Most of the information retrieval systems are based on keywords. A keyword-based retrieval is a simple model that can encounter two major difficulties such as synonymy and polysemy problems. Introduces the application of vector based information retrieval technique in bibliographical database for effective retrieval.

020062   Harinarayana N S;Raghavan K S (Library and Information Science Dep, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore, Email: ns.harinarayana@gmail.com) : Retrieval capabilities of CDS/ISIS and LibSys: a comparison. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 91-100.

Examines the comparative retrieval effectiveness of the two packages, viz., CDS/ISIS and LibSys. A set of eight well defined parameters have been employed to compare the two packages. The result shows that neither of the two packages provide support for all the features that may be expected of ideal retrieval software. There appears to be some significant difference between CDS/ISIS and LibSys in terms of their ability to provide desirable features. There is a difference of 9.34% in the levels of performance of the two packages.

020061   Garg K C;Sharma P;Suresh Kumar (NO, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NI, Pusa Gate, Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110 012, Email: gargkc@nistads.res.in) : Scientometric profile of the journal Mausam. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 76-80.

Analysis of 369 items published in Mausam during 2003-2006 indicates that 72% items were papers, 23% letters to the editor, 4% report on "Weather in India" and the rest 1% as articles. Indian researchers belonging to India Meteorological Department contributed most of the items. Climatology, agricultural and environmental meteorology, synoptic meteorology, hydrometeorology, numerical weather forecasting and physical meteorology constituted about 56 % of the total output. Time lag between receipt and acceptance of the manuscript is about 11 months, while the time lag between acceptance and publication of the manuscript is about 9. Editorial board members belonged to domestic institutions. The references cited by the journal are mostly international like other journals in the field. However, majority of the citations are older than 10 years. Based on the pattern of citations the journal received in the international literature its impact factor for 2005 and 2006 is almost the same (0.19). However, of the 49 Indian journals indexed by SCI-E in 2005, 18 have impact factor less than or equal to Mausam.

020060   Fatima N;Ahmad N (Library & Information Science Dep, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202 002, Email: navedlis@yahoo.co.in) : Information seeking behaviour of the students at Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, Aligarh Muslim University: a survey. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 141-4.

Study of data collected from 60 students by administering questionnaires on their information seeking behaviour at Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, AMU, indicates that guidance in the use of library resources and services is necessary to help students meet their information requirements. Finds that textbooks and journals are the most popular sources of information for the students' course work.

020059   Debbarman S (Intellectual Property Library, The Patent Office, Bauddhik Sampada Bhawan, CP-2, Sector-V, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700 091, Email: susovandb@yahoo.com) : Bibliometric study of Indian patent applications from 1995 to 2005. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 153-63.

Analysis of data on Indian patent applications obtained from the annual reports of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks show that there is increased patent filing activity in India. Maharahtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu are the leading states in patent filing in India whereas USA, Japan and Germany and the leading countries in patent filing in India. Increased patent filing activity is seen the areas of biotechnology, computer and electronics.

020058   Biradar B S;Sampath Kumar B T (Library and Information Science Dep, Kuvempu University, Jnana Sahyadri, Shimoga, Email: bs_biradar@yahoo.com) : Use of search engines by research scholars and faculty members of physics departments in the universities of Karnataka State. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 62-8.

Studies the use of various search engines, frequency of use of search engines, factors that influence use of the search engines, use of search strategy by Physics research scholars and faculty members in the universities of Karnataka State. Shows that majority of respondents (84.33%) used search engines to retrieve information on the Internet and most frequently used search engines are Google (72.85%) and Yahoo (53.57%).

020057   Bhat V R;Sampath Kumar B T (NO, Indian School of Business, Gachibowli, Hyderabad-500 032, Email: veenarbhat@rediffmail.com) : Use of web based sources in scholarly electronic journals in the field of library and information science: a citation analysis. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 145-52.

Citation analysis of research articles from scholarly electronic journals in the field of library and information science published during the years 2000 to 2006 shows that 81.49% of articles published during the period have web references. Out of 25,730 references, 56.54 % of references are print journal references and 43.52% of them are web references.

020056   Bansode S Y;Pujar S M (Library & Information Science Dep, Shivaji University, Kolhapur-07, Email: syb_lib@unishivaji.ac.in) : Use of internet by research scholars at Shivaji University, Kolhapu. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(2), 123-6.

Highlights the purpose of use, methods of locating information and search techniques used in retrieving the information by the research scholars of Shivaji University, Kolhapur. Finds that the research scholars use the internet for their research and communication purposes. Concludes that more awareness about internet resources and training in use of the same needs to be provided by library professionals.

020055   Anil Kumar;Prakasan E R;Kalyane V L;Vijai Kumar (Scientific Information Resource Div, Knowledge Management Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai-400 085, Email: anil72@barc.gov.in) : Pramana - Journal of Physics: a scientometric analysis. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2008, 55(1), 52-61.

Focuses on publishing trend; impact factor; authorship pattern; types of articles; institutional collaboration of authors; affiliated institutions of authors; countries of contributing authors; keyword analysis; and referencing pattern. The number of articles being published in Pramana and its ISI impact factor are increasing. There is an upward trend in number of collaborated papers. Authors from University of Delhi, Delhi; Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai; Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad; Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbaietc. contributed most number of articles. One fourth of the total articles published in Pramana are from out side India, the host country of the journal and the number of articles submitting from other countries is also increasing. Cosmology; supersymmetry; chaos; quantum chromodynamics; phase transition; and quark-gluon plasma are the leading micro-fields of physics to which maximum number of articles published in Pramana. The average number of references per article is found as 21.85 and it is 104.4 when the average is taken only for review articles.

019084   Verma R;Chauhan R K (Computer Science Dep, Guru Nanak Khalsa Insitute of Technology and Management Studies, Yamuna Nagar) : Approach for detection and correction of design defects in databade reengineering. Ultra Scient phys Sci 2007, 19(3)M, 647-52.

Modernizing the information systems having design defects is a central software engineering problem in current IT industry. Often, existing legacy database systems cannot simply be replaced by new systems, because they maintain important legacy data pertaining to the company's mission. Thus, reverse engineering of the design documentation of such legacy database systems is often a necessity.' proposed a number of design patterns that offer good solutions for recurring design situations. Several interactive CASE tools have been developed to solve this problem but the practical experience indicates that their applicability is limited because they do not consider defective knowledge about legacy systems. Reverse Engineering is the process through which one tries to recover the specifications of a software component. Database Reverse Engineering addresses the problem of rebuilding the logical and conceptual schemas of a set of files or of a database". It is possible to recognize all locations in all schemas that can be changed to improve quality. It is possible to recognize some locations in some schema that can be changed to improve the internal product quality. Our work tries to overcome the problem of detecting occurrences of poor design patterns in legacy database systems and replacing the poor code/design by a good design pattern by reverse engineering process.

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019083   Sarbrinder Kaur;Satija M P (Dr. B R Ambedkar National Inst of Technol, Deemed Univ, , Jalandhar-144 011) : Collection development in digital environment: trends and problems. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2007, 44(2), 139-55.

Describes various trends in collection development in digital environment. The changes that have occurred in acquisition, retrieval and storage of information due to technological developments have been discussed. Limitations, restrictions and problems being faced by librarians and readers due to the same have also been discussed. The way these developments have affected the academic environment and changed the role of librarian has also been portrayed.

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019082   Sarasvathy P;Giddaiah D (NO, , ) : Internet-a wealth of information. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2007, 44(2), 207-12.

Describes Internet as a reference tool for the academic community. It describes the different services offered by the Internet. The internet access tools are also discussed.

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