017393   Sohail M;Ahmad S (Library Services Dep, Fiji National Univ, Nasinu, Fiji-24800, Email: md.sohail@fnu.ac.fj) : Use of electronic resources and services by faculty members and students of fiji national university. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 165-71.

The effectiveness of electronic resources and services in select campuses of Fiji National University Library on the basis of users' satisfaction is evaluated. A survey method was employed to conduct this research. Out of sixteen campus libraries of FNU, the researcher selects eight libraries from different division of Fiji in the user's survey. 150 well-structured questionnaires were distributed to gather information related to uses of electronic resources and services. The 140 filled questionnaireswere collected from students and faculty members and analysed, classified and tabulated by employing simple statistical methods. The study reveals that majority of the users of FNU libraries keep themselves abreast of developments in electronic resources, services and their proper utilisation in the field of academic and research. The result showed a growing interest in e-resources among the users and also found that - 10 - slow downloading and blockage of website is the hurdle in proper utilisation of electronic resources. The survey further reveals that the majority of respondents are aware of the usage of e-resources and services.

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017392   Santosh S (NO, Indira Gandhi National Open Univ (IGNOU), Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068, Email: sujata.santosh@ignou.ac.in) : Adoption of web 2.0 applications in academic libraries in India. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 192-8.

The adoption of Web 2.0 tools in academic libraries in India, the barriers and motivating factor to its use is investigated. The study involved an exploratory survey of the contents of the academic library websites in India. The websites of 28 Central Universities, 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) were identified for the study. A structured questionnaire was mailed to library professionals from selected Universities and Institutes in India. The findings suggest that the library professionals are favourably inclined towards the use of Web 2.0 applications in libraries. The major barriers perceived include accessibility of the internet by users, lack of incentives, institutional support, technical support, training, and resources. Personal interest in using technology proper training and technical support were found to be the major motivating factors.

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017391   Sandal N;Gupta P C;Sharma R K;Sepat N K; Avinash Kumar (NO, , ER&IPR, DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi-110 011) : Patent search tools for competitive intelligence for product design and development of CBRN decon device. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 135-43.

Product design and development needs a lot of relevant and background information at the initial stage itself and literature review is one of the initial and important process in the new product design (NPD) process. In NPD, patent analysis is an important part of literature review, since the patent documents represent a huge reservoir of most systematic and updated information about any particular technology and product. A systematic search on a trusted global patent database with proper analytical tools could be used as powerful R&D tool to not only identify the state-of-art but also to extract leads to solution for critical R&D problems. Therefore, a focused search on professional patent database was performed to extract most relevant patent documents for R&D work related to the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) decontamination device. Semantic keyword search and IPC based search followed by a thorough screening and analysis of the searched documents resulted in useful patent documents. These patent documents disclosed various aspects related to CBRN decontamination device which helped in the design & development of a novel CBRN Decon device.

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017390   Sachin Y;Divyananda K (Library & Information Centre, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru-560 029, Email: kdivyananda@gmail.com) : Usage of library for accessing clinical information by the students of health science universities in Karnataka. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 125-34.

Medicine aims at promoting 'Health for all' and to produce 'Physicians of first contact' which depends on quality medical education and the outcome of which is to deliver quality of health care. Health Science University libraries took various enhancements with the use of innovative information delivery methods while providing clinical information resources and services. The study aims to investigate the attitude towards the use of library for accessing clinical information needs by the medical students from 10 Health Science Universities/Deemed Universities located across Karnataka, Survey method was adopted and questionnaires method was used as a data collection tool. A total of 1000 questionnaires were distributed to students and 782 medical students were ultimately returned giving a 78.20% response rate. The result of the study reflect on usage of library, purpose of use resources, using web-resources for clinical information needs, difficulties in obtaining required information and problems faced while accessing the clinical information resources in the library have been discussed.

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017389   Rajaram K;Jeyachitra S;Swaroop Rani B S (NO, , ) : Evaluation of system study in library and information science. J Commun Engng Syst 2016, 6(2), 1-4.

The word 'system' has become a common term, often applied to things which seem large or complex. It is so frequently encountered, that it can become quite difficult to decide what it means even within a defined context. When a manufacturer of washing powder, computer programmers, doctors, economists, astronomers and ecologists use the same word, 'system', in describing their interests, can anyone be sure what they mean'.' What is the connection between the solar system and the monetary system? Do the skeletal system and a computer system have anything in common? Can we sensibly compare the ecological system of ourplant and a brand-new washing system' of the detergent manufacturer?

017388   Rajaram K;Jeyachitra S;Lavanya D (NO, , ) : Performance evaluation of library and information centers. J Commun Engng Syst 2016, 6(2), 5-8.

Traditionally, libraries have been evaluated in terms of input or available resources, such as number of volumes, number of staff members, size of facilities, and so on. More recently, there has been a vigorous movement toward evaluating libraries according to their output of performance. This latter evaluation focuses on what was accomplished with the library's resources. Many of the performance measures developed thus far have concentrated on such factors as library effectiveness, the library's impact on the community, and user satisfaction.

017387   Pradhan B;Ramesh D B (NO, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) Univ, Jagmohan Nagar, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751 030, Email: bnp.iter@gmail.com) : Scientometrics of engineering research at indian institutes of technology madras and bombay during 2006-2015. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 213-20.

Makes an assessment of 5378 papers published by Indian Institute of Technology Madras and 4430 papers published by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay respectively indexed by the Scopus database in the field of Engineering Sciences and its sub-field during 2006-2015. The study indicates that the number of papers grew during the period of study. The findings indicate that the researchers of both the IITs in the field of engineering sciences published their papers in global journals published from USA, UK and Germany and other countries of the West. Around 19.66% papers published by IITM scientists and 26.54% papers published by IITB scientists in engineering sciences during 2006-2015 remained uncited. More authors from IITB were highly cited as compared to IITM.

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017386   Naushad Ali P M;Khan D (Library and Information Science Dep, AMU, Aligarh-202 002, Email: nasuhadali.ls@amu.ac.in) : Investigating knowledge management strategies in central University libraries in India. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 73-8.

The aim of this research paper is to investigate the knowledge management strategies adopted by the libraries of central universities in India. Review of literature, reveals that codification and personalisation have been considered knowledge management strategies for sharing explicit and tacit knowledge within the library system. To determine the most used knowledge management strategies in libraries, 14 tools (seven each for codification and personalisation) were recognised from the literature review and taken for examination. A total of 116 library and information science professionals of 23 central universities spread across India were surveyed through a web-based questionnaire to explore the knowledge management strategies followed and data analyses were conducted by using SPSS version 22.0. The findings of the research show that both codification and personalisation have been used in libraries, though the balance of codification and personalisation was not in 80-20 ratio. Between codification and personalisation, codification was found to be the most useful strategy with collective mean difference, i.e., 0.312. This study has practical implications for those who are not fully aware of the prominence of knowledge management and how knowledge management strategies can be used to gain a competitive advantage.

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017385   Nabi S;Shafi S M (Allama Iqbal Library, Kashmir Univ, Srinagar, Kashmir-190 006, Email: sumairanabi@yahoo.co.in) : Evaluation of precision and recall of five web OPACs of the select universities. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 79-83.

The paper presents the results of a study about the five Web OPACs of Northern Indian Universities namely, Aligarh Muslim University, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, - 7 - University of Kashmir, and Punjab University after administering thirty three standard search terms in the field of Economics to the selected Web OPACs for discovering and retrieving information about the knowledge resources held by the respective universities. These Web OPACs were evaluated by taking into account the first twenty results pertaining to each 'search query' for estimation of relative recall and precision. The study reveals that 'Mean Relative Recall' falls in a low range in relation to precision.

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017384   Martin S;Davidsen D;Kulkarni S (NO, World Resources Institute, Washington D.C, USA) : How open data can help electrify India-and the world. Indian J Pwr River Valley Dev 2016, 66(7-8), 111-2.

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017383   Mallya J;Lakshminarayanan S (Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, WGSHA, Manipal Univ, Manipal, Karnataka-576 104, Email: jyothi.mallya@manipal.edu) : Factors influencing usage of internet for academic purposes using technology acceptance model. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 119-24.

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors influencing the usage of the internet by the university students for academic purposes. This study adopted Technology acceptance model (TAM) as a research framework. The study tests the research framework using structural equation modeling. Three hundred and seventy-eight students from a private Universites in India participated in this study. The findings of this study suggest that the attitude and perceived usefulness of the Internet significantly influence the behavioral intention of the students on using the internet for the academic purposes. The study revealed that the perceived usefulness of the Internet is significantly influenced by the perceived ease of using the Internet. Findings also demonstrate satisfactory model fit between the model and observed data. The results of this study will be useful for the university authority to enhance the internet sources and services within the campus for its effective and efficient use for academic purposes by the students.

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017382   Madhusudhan M;Dar S A (Library and Information Science Dep, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: madhumargam@gmail.com) : Mobile information services and initiatives in university libraries: New way of delivering information. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 109-18.

Students these days are seen in campuses and other study environments bowing their heads to mobile devices to seek information. Studies show that students are heavy users of their hardware, spending an average of 19.6 hours per week using an electronic device. The purpose of this paper is to explore the mobile library services initiated and adopted by some prominent academic libraries for the easy mobilisation of their existing services and also to assess how such services can be helpful to the user community. Moreover, the study raises awareness of the important mobile library services, some of them that are already in use in different Academic libraries and how the other services could help libraries to mobilise their information in fast and time bound manner that too without the constraints of space and time. The value of the study is to helping academic libraries to identify and embrace the mobile initiatives. With these mobile initiatives, libraries can provide a wide array of mobile services to the interested users.

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017381   Kumar K (Library and Information Science Dep, College of Veterinary Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary Univ, Proddatur-516 360, Email: kumarkkutty@gmail.com) : Web impact factor analysis for deemed universities in Andhra Pradesh. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 98-103.

Extensive studies have been conducted on Webometric, particularly on the websites and the web impact factor. The present study analysed the websites of Deemed universities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It examines 7 Deemed university websites and identifies number of web pages and link pages, and calculates Web Impact Factor (WIF) using Google search engine. The websites were ranked based on these Webometric indicators. The study revealed that websites of Andhra Pradesh Universities have more number of web-pages but Telangana University websites nave high web impact factor in most of the parameters.

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017380   Khanchandani V;Moveen Kumar (Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi-110 016, Email: vanita@library.iitd.ac.in) : Mapping of E-books in science & technology: An analytical study of directory of open access books. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 172-9.

A detailed study of e-books in Science and Technology indexed in Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) till May 15, 2016 is presented. Open access publishers, licenses and language-wise distribution of e-books indexed in DOAB is examined. The data collected only on the subjects listed in DDC-23 under Science and Technology domain. The results depicts that there are 1052 e-books indexed in Science and Technology in DOAB. The collection includes e-books that are both made-digital and born digital. Maximum books are on health sciences and published in English only. Mostly e-books have creative commons license. Moreover, Frontier Media SA is the most active open access e-book publisher. The study shall be helpful to library and information professionals as well as open access publishers.

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017379   Kesavapriya R;Roja R (Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha Univ, Chennai, Tamil Nadu) : Study on the rural local self-government. Int J multidiscipl Res Dev 2017, 4(10), 37-42.

If you want to enhance the participation of the agricultural people in the system in their manipulate of assets, improvement and involvement in choice-making, making plans and imposing directly affecting their existence, the authorities of India has furnished constitutional legitimacy / popularity for the Panchayats beneath the charter (Seventy third amendment) Act, 1992. It envisages to reap decentralised democracy with the aid of making - 5 - rural nearby authorities and community improvement. The Act presenting power to PRIs for instruction of plans for fostering monetary improvement and social justice. The Act in addition goals at reducing political and bureaucratic interference in rural improvement programmes. The nearby level government is the vast instrument for attaining the national dreams thru imposing rural development programmes regionally. PRIs establishes a linkage between neighbourhood people and the government and interprets the guidelines of the authorities into movement. In India the concept of development have become synonymous with the development of rural India. Upliftment of the agricultural areas is critical to the socio-economic improvement of our country. The government of India therefore accorded high priority to rural development and is therefore enforcing a number of programs aimed toward holistic sustainable development of rural regions. Therefore, the more concept of rural improvement lies within the proper implementation of plans and programmes in rural regions on this context it is emerged as a prevalent problem to have a look at the functioning of PRIs to full fill the desires, aspirations and wishes of the human beings. And it additionally need to discuss the problems of PRI in the direction of the implementation of varies rural development programmes.

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017378   Kesavapriya R;Roja R (Saveetha School of law, Saveetha Univ, Chennai, Tamil Nadu) : Study on the media and politics. Int J multidiscipl Res Dev 2017, 4(10), 33-6.

The connection between social media and political lifestyles is the issue of a good deal academic studies and debate. After a discussion of contextual issues, this entry makes a speciality of three areas: the connection between conventional political institutions and social media; the position performed by means of social media in present day activism and in social motion politics; and research on social media effects on citizens' political conduct and understanding. It concludes with a dialogue of skeptical perspectives approximately the capacity of social media to alternate politics, as well as figuring out research demanding situations for the destiny.

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017377   Imran S M;Malik B A (Allama Iqbal Library, Kashmir Univ, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir-190 006, Email: smimran@kashmiruniversity.ac.in) : Evaluation of E-learning web-portals. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 205-12.

Provides a comparative evaluation of the websites/web portals of four universities namely Amity University, Mumbai University, Delhi University & Don Bosco University. In this study, the researchers have drafted 32 evaluation criteria out of the select criteria that have been developed and designed by some top Universities of the world. It is an amalgamation of various excellent evaluation criteria from the select Universities mentioned in this research article. The study revealed that private universities are far ahead in providing learning through online mode than Central Universities as the private universities mainly focus on learning and training of students only due to the stiff competition among the peers.

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017376   Hussain A;Nisha F (NO, King Saud Univ, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Email: akhtar.a47@gmail.com) : Awareness and use of library makerspaces among library professionals in India: A study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 84-90.

The paper examines the awareness and use of library makerspaces. A well-structured questionnaire was used for collection of data. Around 700 questionnaires were distributed among the Indian library professionals. A total of 500 filled in questionnaires were received, out of which, only 470 questionnaires were selected for analysis of the data. The overall response rate was 67.14 %. The result of the study demonstrates that among all users, 70% male - 4 - and 30% female are aware of library's makerspaces. Majority of users utilising library makerspaces are pursuing master's degree. It has been found that nearly all of the academic libraries employees are using makerspaces facilities. Maximum number of respondents' (68.09%) using makerspaces facilities for academic and research purposes and reported them as a tool to educate students for the local and global economy (42.55%). When asked respondents about the state-of-the-art tools, technologies or forms for creating makerspaces, 44.68% of respondents claimed that their makerspaces have computer workstations. Approximately, 51.06% respondents indicated that their library's makerspaces offer students workshops/seminars/conferences. Furthermore, the study reflects that maximum number of respondents, i.e., 36% understand the significance of library makerspaces and evaluated them as "valuable".

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017375   Hajam M A (Allama Iqbal Library, Kashmir Univ, Hazratbal, Srinagar-190 006, Email: manzoorha@gmail.com) : Users' information literacy competencies: A study with reference to scholarly community of Kashmir university. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 153-7.

Information literacy refers to the abilities of an individual in identifying, retrieving and utilising appropriate and required information. It is the process of implementing a accurate information behaviour through proper medium or channel to obtain the requisite information judiciously. The present study has been carried out to assess the information literacy skills of the scholarly community of University of Kashmir. For this study, a well structured questionnaire was administered among 100 research scholars of the University comprising of 55 male and 45 female respondents. Out of 100 questionnaires, 99 were received back from 55 male and 44 female respondents respectively. These 99 questionnaires were used for the present study. The result of the study reveals that information literacy skills form an important role in the retrieval of relevant, timely and up-to-date information. After the analysis of data some suggestions have also been given on the basis of results for the effective and proper information literacy among users.

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017374   Geetha P;Cherukulath W K;Sivakumar R (NO, Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), DRDO, Kochi-682 021, Email: geethap64@gmail.com) : Facilitating e-learning through national knowledge network. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 91-7.

Learning is very important in the current knowledge based society. The economy of a country depends on the education level attained by the population of that country. Traditional learning cannot satisfy the various demands of the people. Due to the rapid growth in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) more and more innovative methods for accessing and sharing knowledge develop as the days pass. Government is keen on the integration of technology in educational programmes which are cost effective as well as time saving. E-learning or electronic learning is one such idea which is gaining momentum at a very fast pace. The new digital technologies used in e-learning are capable of meeting the user requirements at a high level. For all these a high bandwidth Internet connection is required. The National Knowledge Network (NKN) established by the government of India is mainly for sharing knowledge between research institutions. The e-learning facility has been started in Technical Information Resource centre (TIRC) of Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) in 2014. This paper presents the different e-learning platforms which have been used through National Knowledge Network (NKN) to access e-learning programmes in NPOL. It also points out the increasing user demands for e-learning facility and the importance of librarians in the e-learning environment.

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017373   Garg K C;Sharma C (NO, CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110 012, Email: gargkc022@gmail.com) : Bibliometrics of library and information science research in India during 2004-2015. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 221-7.

An analysis of 2428 papers indexed by Indian citation Index during 2004-2015 indicate that the pattern of growth of Indian library and information science literature has been highly inconsistent with highest number of papers published in 2010. Academic institutions contributed about 86% of papers. Prolific institutions contributed about 44% of the output, with Mysore University topping the list closely followed by University of Delhi. However, highest impact as reflected by citation per paper was made by CSIR-NISTADS and CSIR-NISCAIR. B.M. Gupta of CSIR-NISTADS topped the list, but highest CPP was for K.C.Garg of the same institute. SRELS Journal of Information Management published the highest number of papers and the area of bibliometrics and scientometrics was the area of priority of LIS professionals in India.

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017372   Dwivedi S (Library and Information Science Dep, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: sandhpandey79@gmail.com ) : Dengue research: Three dimensional bibliometric study of the global research output during 1989-2015. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 180-5.

Dengue fever is undoubtedly one of the most rapidly spread mosquito borne re-emerging infection that poses significant threat to about half of the world's population. People working in this field have taken dengue seriously it is reflected from the continuous increasing number of publications during 1989-2015. This study is an attempt to make a 3D bibliometric portfolio of research on dengue. This 3D bibliometric analysis portray the dengue research through various measures qualify, quantity, consistency and two secondary indicators h index and z index. The data retrieved from the Web of Science. Number of publications increases 70 folds in given time span during 1989-2015. Vietnam has the highest impact (quality) while India has the lowest impact among the leading countries. Taiwan has a higher variability 0.41 (consistency η), whereas Germany has a lower consistency. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research WRAIR of USA has the highest impact (quality) while Universidade DE Sao Paulo of Brazil has the lowest impact among the organisations in the list. University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston (USA) has a highest consistency 0.33, whereas University of Massachusetts System (USA) has a lowest consistency (0.03).

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017371   Cuinas A A F;Moreno G d V (NO, UADE Fundation of Marketing research and Product Management, Buenos Aires, Argentina-1601, Email: afuentescuinas@uade.edu.ar) : Ebook vs. printed books in buenos aires: The traditional book continues to resist. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 199-204.

Explores the features of the Argentinian book readers in both formats: traditional and digital. A qualitative and quantitative research was conducted at UADE Fundation, in order to understand the new trends of digital reading in comparision to the traditional ones. At the first part of the research, 28 individuals were consulted in-depth interview. Then a survey was conducted, with a sample size of 585 individuals living, studying or working in AMBA (Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires). The results shows differences on habits based on age: the younger readers prefer digital formats while people older than 50 years preferred traditional reading contexts. About the needs - 2 - of information at the moment of working, reading for pleasure or studying, the use of both formats reached the highest level of mentions, as well as the smart phone as a device of reading. Also, a low use and level of spending in digital formats was evident. As Morales & Espinoza¹ said, also in AMBA the co-existence of print and digital reading books seems to be future of the reading trend in AMBA.

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017370   Aroma P H;Varghese P T (NO, , ) : Survey paper on light fidelity. J Commun Engng Syst 2016, 6(2), 21-7.

Nowadays internet has the most important priority in our society, since it had made many changes in our today's world. Using wireless communication in any public place or deciphering authentication in order to connect internet may lead to aggravation because of stumpy speed. A solution for this concern is LI-FI. This technology was sham by physicist Harald Haas. This technology allows transferring "data in the course of illumination "taking the fiber beyond fiber optics by distributing data through an LED conn that vary strength quicker than creature ogle can tag on. Li-Fi is part of the VLC system. We adopt three types of wireless communication technologies that are; Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Wi-Max in order to compare with Li-Fi. The intention of this paper is to cram the fundamentals and developments of Li-Fi by evaluating their main features, behaviors and communication standards in terms of various matrices including transmission time, frequency, nominal range, data coding efficiency, complexity and power consumption. The valuation offered in this paper would help application engineers in selecting an appropriate etiquette.

017369   Anasuya V (NO, Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560 066, Email: anasuya.bangalore@gmail.com) : Usage of electronic resources by the medical, dental and pharamedical science professionals in Karnataka. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(3), 158-64.

Electronic resources are becoming an integral part of the modern life and of the educational prospect, especially the higher education prospect. Students of all age group, house wife's, technician and professionals of all community like academicians, business, medical professionals, lawyers, technicians are highly dependent on e-resources. Govt. of India is also playing key role in support of e-resources, with its special scheme of subsidised rates for subscribing e-resources and internet usage. Accessibility and use of e-resources by the medical, dental and paramedical science professionals in the state of Karnataka is studied. It includes use of e-resources, use of various types of e-resources, Frequency of access to internet, Information searching pattern, Use of e-databases subscribed by the library, Purpose of use, Problem faced while accessing information resources through online search mode.

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017368   Alrohaimi A H;Ansari M S;AlShehri Z S;Alam M S (Pharmacy Practice Dep, College of Pharmacy Al-Dawadmi, Shaqra Univ, Saudi Arabia, Email: msdpharma@gmail.com) : Knowledge towards digital library and innovation in pharmacy practice. Int J pharm Sci Res 2017, 8(3), 1188-93.

Pharmacy profession has responsibility for ensuring the safe, effective and rational use of medicines. Effective pharmacy practice requires an understanding of the social context which is practiced, innovative and informative. The aim of the study was to find out the Knowledge towards digital library and innovation in pharmacy practice by Questionnaire based Prospective study on pharmacy-medical professionals. The participant subjects to enrolled in study and asks self prepared 30 questions. The information's were obtained on special form and data was analyzed by SPSS software. The result were found that 66.6% of participants were agrees that digital library makes treatment better where as 33.34% were not able to say about digital library role in better treatment outcomes. 53.33% thought that through 40% slightly agreed. 56.66% study population positive to say the importance of electronic application of digital library minimize adverse drug reaction, 6.66% were not thought so and contents is increasing day by day in health care profession, 43.33% had negative thinking on the same. 73.33% said and agree to say that this digital library were great innovation of digital library and 66.66% agree to say this digital library is one of the best media for drug information. Our conclusion that more awareness required for application of digital library and in better innovation of pharmacy practice so, society will take more benefit in health care managements, minimizing adverse drug reaction, choose the better choice of drug and in minimizing cost of treatment.

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017367   Abdelrahman O H (Library and Information Science Dep, Khartoum Univ, Sudan-111 15, Email: omhass@hotmail.com) : Use of the university of khartoum institutional repository by graduate students. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(2), 104-8.

This paper attempted to investigate the use of the University of Khartoum Institutional Repository (Khartoumspace) by graduate students and to explore their attitudes towards the repository and its contents. The study adopted a descriptive survey approach. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 150 students who formed the study sample from a study population of about 1800 graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines at the University. Data collected was analysed in simple statistics and presented in tables consisting of frequencies and percentages. The study revealed that electronic theses and dissertations and eBooks are the most frequently used items of the repository's collection. The study also showed that there is low usage rate of the repository by the respondents but they have positive attitudes towards the repository, and that the majority of the respondents learnt about the existence of the repository from a colleague rather than from a librarian. The findings indicated that, in order to enhance the usage of the repository by graduate students, there is a need for more awareness raising and advocacy programmes to be carried out by the library about the repository and its benefits to the academic community of the university.

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016397   Wijetunge P (Librarian, Colombo Univ, P.O. Box 1698, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Email: librarian@lib.cmb.ac.lk) : Usage of electronic resources by librarians of sri lankan universities. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 21-7.

The study investigates the usage of the e-resources available through CONSAL (Consortium of Sri Lankan Academic Libraries) and other means for the LIS professionals of the Sri Lankan public universities. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data from 99 librarians working in the Sri Lankan public universities. Findings revealed that 65% frequently use open access material for their research, and the majority (33%) use them for their research, 60% believed that the available e-resources fulfilled their needs. Inability to access the databases from home, absence of some full text articles, lack of relevant material and lack of access to archival material were identified as common barriers to use the e-resources. The study recommends improving access from homes, adding more LIS material and increase training to cover as many LIS professionals to increase the usage. The study is limited to the usage of the e-resources by the Librarians during 2014 and 2015 after the formulation CONSAL.

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016396   Subramanyam N;Krishnamurthy M;Asundi A Y (NO, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore-560 054, Email: subs_saha@yahoo.co.in) : Developmental features of biomedical bibliographic databases. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 16-20.

The genesis of bibliographic databases can be - 5 - traced to the abstracting and indexing (A&I) periodicals. The Journal Des Scavans published in 1665 did contain abstracts of articles, but the formal abstracting journal began in 1820 (English) and in 1830 (German). The growth of primary periodicals required libraries to subscribe to A&I services to search for papers scattered in different journals as it was not possible to acquire all the primary periodical titles. The electronic versions of A&I periodicals started appearing in 1960s with emergence of database concept. The Chemical Titles and the MEDLARS are considered to be the earliest bibliographic databases. The Silver Platter is believed publish first biomedical CD-ROM database the MEDLINE with search facility - SPIRS. The growth and development of bibliographic databases has continued since then and enters the digital era to serve the users. The present paper theoretically examines EMBASE, PubMed and IndMed databases.

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016395   Sinha A K (NO, Palli Samgathana Vibhaga Library, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Email: atanu_sinha77@yahoo.com) : Scientometric study of books authored by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 9-15.

The paper presents the scientometric portrait of Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen, also a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, based on the books published by him. During the period 1960-2015, Sen produced 43 books either singly or collaboratively. Jean Dreze is Sen's most prominent collaborator. The highest number of books (27.92%) was published during 2000-2009. Although most of his books were published in English, a number of his books have been translated into several Indian and foreign languages. Most of his books (20.94%) are on social problems, followed by politics and government (13.95%) and financial economics (11.63%).

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016394   Singh P;Tripathi A (Library and Information Science Dep, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: pratibhasinghbhu@gmail.com) : Hindi language text search: A literature review. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 37-43.

The literature review focuses on the major problems of Hindi text searching over the web. The review reveals the availability of a number of techniques and search engines that have been developed to facilitate Hindi text searching. Among many problems, a dominant one is when a text formed by combinatorial characters or words is searched.

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016393   Porkizhi M (NO, Rathinam College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu) : Brief study and analysis of data mining techniques. Int J multidiscipl Res Dev 2017, 4(5), 3-6.

Data mining, the extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases, is a powerful new technology with great potential to help companies focus on the most important information in their data warehouses. It plays a significant role on human activities and has become an essential component in various fields of human life. Data mining is greatly inspired by advancements in Statistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Computation capabilities. It is the knowledge discovery process which analyzes the large volumes of data from various perspectives and summarizes it into useful information. This paper focuses the major study of data mining, its scopes, its tools and techniques, its applications and advantages/disadvantages.

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016392   Naheem K T;Nagalingam U;Ramesha B (Central Library, Pondicherry Univ, Puducherry-605 014, Email: naheemkt@gmail.com ) : Chronic liver disease (CLD) research in SAARC countries: A scientometric analysis of research output during 1996-2015. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 59-68.

The study focuses on the pattern of literature growth, global publication share and ranking, authorship pattern, collaborative coefficient, productivity and impact of most productive institutions and authors, sources and highly cited articles based on data obtained on chronic liver disease research from Scopus. It is found that SAARC countries together contributed 2312 documents during 1996-2015, which - 4 - is only about 3.49 % of the global CLD output of 66200 publications. The study further revealed that the amount of literature related to CLD research has considerably increased over the last five years. India is leading among SAARC member countries in terms of publication share, leading institutions and authors. The results of study call for more collaboration among the member countries of SAARC as well as with other leading countries, which will increase both quantity and quality of research in CLD.

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016391   Jiang L;Yang Y (Library and College of History and Society, Chongqing Normal Univ, Chongqing 401331, China, Email: yangyqcq@126.com) : Visualization of international environmental DNA research. Curr Sci 2017, 112(8), 1659-64.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is increasingly being used in research fields of archaeology, biology and environmental science. In this study, scientomet-ric methods have been used to quantitatively assess the current global research status in the eDNA field based on SCI-EXPANDED and Social Sciences Cita-tion Index databases during the period 1992-2016. CiteSpace software was used to visualize the eDNA knowledge domains. The most productive category and journal are microbiology and Applied and Envi-ronmental Microbiology respectively. USA is the lead-ing country, Rockefeller University is the prominent institution and Brady, S. F. is the most productive au-thor. Document co-citation analysis demonstrated that the most recent domain is focusing on using eDNA as a tool to detect species in aquatic environments. These findings may help researchers better understand the current progress as well as identify the latest frontiers in the field of eDNA.

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016390   Harinarayana N S;Meenakshi S;Vasantha Raju N (Studies in Library and Information Science Dep, Mysore Univ, Manasagngotri, Mysuru-570 006, Email: ns.harinarayana@gmail.com) : Wikipedia and LIS: A study of coverage of concepts for UGC-NET. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 69-75.

UGC-NET is an eligibility examination for those who are aspiring for the academic jobs in the universities and colleges in India. There are multiple sources, mainly printed publications, available for preparation of UGC-NET exams. The present study examines the suitability of Wikipedia as a source for preparation. The 396 topics culled from the UGC-NET syllabus in LIS was compared for their coverage in Wikipedia. It was found that 55.55% of the topics are available on Wikipedia. The answers to the previous years' questions were also searched. The study found that 35.48% of answers could be traced in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia was also examined from other parameters such as up-to-datedness, comprehensiveness, illustrations, and references and external links. The analyses show that Wikipedia could be a source for preparation for UGC-NET. The study has an implication for those who are seeking the eligibility for the jobs through UGC-NET.

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016389   Hangaragi K;Narasanaikar K I (NO, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Autonomous, Bagalkot, Karnataka) : Academic library services in digital environment. Int J multidiscipl Res Dev 2017, 4(5), 26-8.

Academic Libraries are critical in the advancement of understudies and instructors. For country building, scholastic libraries assume noteworthy part. Utilization of ICT has changed the framework in the libraries. Be that as it may, there are difficulties in the field of library data administrations of managing the regularly expanding many-sided quality of data and selecting valuable data. The exploration paper highlights the innovative open doors that can be valuable in tending to different Challenges. The data in this paper will demonstrate - 3 - valuable to you in perceiving that it is more proper to view library administration from the point of view of the client as opposed to the mediator, i.e. the curator. That there is a nearby linkage between these two additionally should be stressed.

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016388   Gupta D K;Vijendra Kumar;Kabra N (Library and Information Science Dep, Vardhman Mahaveer Open Univ, Kota-324 021, Email: dineshkg.in@gmail.com) : Library and information science journals on the UGC API list: A study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 76-92.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has brought out API linked selection and promotion of teachers and other academic staff through the UGC Regulations 2010. It is also applied to the library staff at the level of Assistant librarian cadre and above and also college librarian. The UGC had made four amendments in the Regulations as quality measures in the past. The UGC recently identified and issued a list of 38652 journals for counting of API in the category of Research Publication - Journals for selection/promotion of teachers and other academic staff in the universities and colleges. The present study analyzes this list and identifies some issues with respect to the LIS journals.

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016387   Garg K C;Tripathi H K (NO, CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS), Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110 012, Email: gargkc022@gmail.com) : Bibliometrics and scientometrics in India: An overview of studies during 1995-2014 Part I: Indian publication output and its citation impact. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 28-36.

An analysis of 801 papers published in the area of bibliometrics and scientometrics during 1995-2014 indicates a steep increase in the number of papers published by Indian researchers as compared to the number of papers published during 1970-1994. This indicates a growing interest of Indian scholars in scientometrics and bibliometrics. The paper provides several reasons for this steep increase. The main focus of research is on bibliometric assessment of India and other countries followed by cross national assessment and bibliometric analysis of individual journals. CSIR-NISTADS is the top producing institute contributing about one-third (31.4%) of the total output followed by the output of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and CSIR-NISCAIR. The distribution of citation data indicates that about one-fifth (21.7%) papers remained uncited. The paper identifies journals in which these uncited papers were published. Only 15% papers were cited more than 20 times. Most of the prolific authors as well as highly cited authors were from the institutions belonging to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Among all authors B.M. Gupta (CSIR-NISTADS) produced the highest number of papers, but the impact as seen in terms of citation per paper and relative citation impact, S. Arunachalam (MSSRF) topped the list.

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016386   Elango B;Ho Y S (NO, IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram-605 108, Email: ysho@asia.edu.tw) : Bibliometric analysis of highly cited papers from India in science citation index expanded. Curr Sci 2017, 112(8), 1653-8.

The aim of the present study is to analyse the highly cited papers from India. The Science Citation Index Expanded database was used to retrieve the related bibliographic records. Grouping and reclassification of institutions with misspellings and variants have been done. The most productive institutions, collaborating partners and Y-index of the contributing authors were examined. Results revealed that all the highly cited papers from India did not receive citations in the early years after publication. Co-authored (or international collaboration) papers received more citation impact than single-authored ones. USA was the preferred collaborative partner for international collabo-ration. The Indian Institutes of Technology, CSIR organizations, and Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru were the leading Indian institutions.

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016385   Dwivedi S;Garg K C;Prasad H N (Library and Information Sciences Dep, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: sandhpandey79@gmail.com) : Scientometric profile of global male breast cancer research. Curr Sci 2017, 112(9), 1814-21.

An analysis of 4165 papers published during 2005-2014 on male breast cancer and indexed by Sci-ence Citation Index-Expanded indicates that the publication output in this nascent field is increas-ing steadily. The output is scattered among 91 countries, and USA ranks first in the publication output as well as impact in terms of citations per paper (CPP) and relative citation impact (RCI). The global compound annual growth rate during the period of study is 6.2. Change in transforma-tive activity index is highest for the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, impact of re-search output is low for PRC. The research output is highly scattered in terms of prolific institutions, authors and journals publishing research results. Most of the prolific institutions are located in USA. Among the prolific institutions, the highest value of CPP and RCI was for Massa-chusetts General Hospital (USA), and among authors the highest value of CPP and RCI was for Thompson D. from the University of Cambridge (England).

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016384   Choubey J;Choudhari J K;Patel A;Verma M K (Sub-Distributed Informatics Centre of Bioinformatics, National Institute of Technology, Raipur-492 010, Email: joys.choubey@gmail.com) : GICDB: an oncogenomic database of gastrointestinal cancer. Curr Sci 2017, 112(9), 1822-5.

Gastrointestinal Cancer Database (GICDB) is a repository of genetic association studies on gas-trointestinal cancer which allows researchers to interpret the risk factors of the disease accurately and provide new insights towards further work. GICDB has been developed to provide a platform to clinicians and researchers for the easy retrieval of appropriate information. All data are stored and managed in MySQL and web interface has been developed in ASP. Currently, the database in-tegrates information of 463 genes and 713 - 1 - miRNA; these genes are implicated in the diverse phases of various gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. GICDB is distinct from other databases in that: (i) it con-sists of information on genes and miRNAs involved in various GI cancers; (ii) data in GICDB are linked to other on-line resources such as Entrez, Ensemble, UniGene, Swiss-Prot and On-Line Mendelian Inheritance in Man; (iii) there is information on GI cancer-associated drugs retrieved from DrugBank, and (iv) it also integrates the information related to medicinal plants and their use in the treatment of different GI cancers with the structure of their chemical constituents. Unambi-guously this database would provide a platform to retrieve genuine information for researchers working on GI cancer. GICDB can be freely accessed at http://gidb.subdic-bioinformatics-nitrr.in/

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016383   Chakraborty S (Library and Information Science Dep, Calcutta Univ, Kolkatta, Email: sarthakchakraborty2012@gmail.com) : Analysing the effects of cultural dimensions on the quality of library websites. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 50-8.

The study attempts to assess the effect of the cultural dimensions on library website designing and also tries to establish its connection with library website quality. Content analysis method was adopted to accumulate the data from 85 university libraries. Further, statistical tools were employed to analyse the data. The study has revealed that there is a significant association between cultural dimensions and web site design. The study also established that all the culturally effected web designs [Power Distance Index (PDI), Uncertainty Avoidance (UA), Individualism (IDV), Masculinity (MAS), Long Term Orientation (LTO)] are strongly correlated with the website quality. Subsequently, a regression model has been projected to calculate the level of impact of cultural dimensions on website quality. In addition, the checkpoints used in the study can act as guidelines in any similar kind of research.

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016382   Abdelrahman O H (Library & Information Science Dep, Faculty of Arts, Khartoum Univ, Khartoum, Sudan, Email: omhass@hotmail.com) : Status of the university of khartoum institutional respository. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(1), 44-9.

The paper explored the current status of the University of Khartoum institutional repository (Khartoumspace) and attempted to answer questions pertaining to the contents of the repository and how they are organized, its staff and workflow, and how data is managed within the repository in addition to deposit and access policies adopted, and copyright and support issues. The study adopted a descriptive approach and used the case study method. Data collection tools included a semi-structured interview, document analysis, and observation. The study found that graduate theses and dissertations constitute the largest collection in the repository and that there is a high degree of institutional support for the repository. The paper also revealed that a mandatory deposit policy has been introduced by the University of Khartoum administration to enrich the repository with staff publications, but there is a need for more advocacy and awareness raising programmes targeting the University academic community, and like other institutional repositories in Africa, the Khartoumspace faces a number of challenges that might hinder its development which need to be addressed by the University administration.

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015454   Yu H;Zhi Z;Zhang C;Yang H (Biophysics Dep, School of Fundamental Sciences, China Medical Univ, Shenyang-110 001, China, Email: hzyang@mail.cmu.edu.cn) : Research on literature involving zirconia-based on pubmed database: A bibliometric analysis. Curr Sci 2017, 112(6), 1134-7.

Zirconia is an important material for both medical science and chemical industry, and numerous studies on zirconia have been published. It is of great importance to summarize the study trend of zirconia for further studies. In the present paper, articles published during five years, i.e. from April 2009 to April 2014, were collected from the Pubmed database for statistical analysis, and the current situation and research advances of zirconia are summarized and analysed. It is found that an increasing number of articles concerning zirconia have been published every year especially in zirconia as dental materials. Authors are mainly from developed countries and regions, and a developing country such as China is playing an increasing role in this field.

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015453   Yeung A W K;Goto T K;Leung W K (Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences Dep, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Email: ndyeung@hku.hk) : Bibliometric review of research trends in neuroimaging. Curr Sci 2017, 112(4), 725-34.

Neuroimaging is one of the important medical imaging domains that help diagnose and manage diseases. This study describes the neuroimaging publication outputs sorted by journals, countries, authors and institutions, and evaluates journal performance using metrics based on publication data from 2003 to 2014 indexed in the Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. There has been a significant growth in the neuroimaging literature with North America and Europe being the main contributors. Magnetic resonance imaging is the most popular imaging modality, and brain connectivity is one of the hotspots. Top journals within the field have improved performances over the study period.

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015452   Visakh P;Gupta B M;Gupta R;Garg A K (NO, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali-140 306, Email: bmgupta1@gmail.com) : Health tourism research: A - 7 - scientometric assessment of global publications output during 2007-16. Int J Med Publ Hlth 2017, 7(2), 73-9.

The paper examines 1422 global publications on health tourism research, as covered in Scopus database during 2007-16, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 7.26% and qualitative impact averaged to 8.78 citations per paper. The top 10 most productive countries individually contributed global share from 2.91% to 22.41%, with largest global publication share coming from USA (24.12%), followed by U.K. (12.59%), Canada and Australia (7.45% and 7.10%), India and Germany (3.45% and 3.38%) etc. Together, the 10 most productive countries accounted for 70.61% share of global publication output during 2007-16. Six of top 10 countries scored relative citation index above the average (1.46): Italy (2.97), Netherlands (1.99), Germany (1.92), Canada (1.66) and France (1.59) during 2007-16. Medicine, among subjects, contributed the largest publication share (66.67%),%), followed by social sciences (20.32%), business, accounting & management (12.38%), environment science (8.65%), biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology (5.70%), nursing (5.49%), arts & humanities (4.57%) and economics, econometrics & finance (3.66%) during 2007-16. The top 15 most productive organizations and authors together contributed 17.02% and 14.77% respectively as their share of global publication output and 27.66% and 32.41% respectively as their share of global citation output during 2007-16. Among the total journal output of 1317 papers, the top 10 journals contributed 17.16% share to the global journal output during 2007-16. Of the total global health tourism research output, the top 19 highly cited publications registered citations from 82 to 178 and they together received 2224 citations, with 117.05 citations per paper. These 19 highly cited papers involved the participation of 26 authors and 27 organizations. Among leading countries contributing to high cited research, the largest number of papers (7) came from USA, followed by U.K (5 papers), Italy (4 papers), Belgium, Netherlands and Canada (3 papers each), Denmark, Australia and Germany (2 papers each), Switzerland, France, New Zealand, Spain, Iran, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Israel and Chile (1 paper each). The 19 highly cited papers involved the participation of 95 authors and 78 organizations. These 19 highly cited papers were published in 16 journals; of which of which 2 papers were published in Emerging Infectious Diseases and Human Reproduction and 1 paper each in other journals.

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015451   Verma M K;Brahma K (Library & Information Science Dep, Mizoram Univ, Aizawl, Email: manojdlis@mzu.edu.in) : Webometric analysis of national libraries' websites in South Asia. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(2), 116-24.

The study analyses the number of web pages, link pages and calculates the Web Impact Factor i.e., Simple Web Impact Factor, Internal Link Web Impact Factor and External Link Web Impact Factor of National Libraries in South Asian countries and ranks the websites as per the WIF. The study used Open Site Explorer optimization tool and search engine for links. The result visualized that National Library of India leads with highest Domain Authority (15.27%) and Page Authority (14.48%), the National Library of Sri Lanka (88.65%) got the highest Internal Equity-Passing Links, National Library of India (84.96%) has the highest External Equity-Passing Links and Total Equity-Passing Links with 83.69%. The National Library of Sri Lanka has the highest (88.65%) Total Internal Links and National Library, India has the highest Total External Links (84.04%) and Total Links (82.80%). The Web Impact Factor of National Library of India is the highest followed by National Library of Sri Lanka and National Library of Bhutan among the other national libraries websites.

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015450   Thomas C;Baby M D (Library and Information Science Dep, Bharatiar Univ, Marudhamalai Road, Coimbatore-641 046) : Use of CeRA consortium by the PG students and faculty of College of veterinary and animal sciences, Thrissur, Kerala. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 87-99.

This is a survey on the use of CeRA consortium by the post graduate students and faculty of College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Thrissur, Kerala. The data was collected using semi-structured questionnaire. The study revealed that the majority of the users were aware about the availability of CeRA Consortium. More than half of the P.G. students and around 2/5th of the faculty are accessing the consortium from the Agriculture Resource Information System cell of the College. CeRA consortium is used only by half of the users. More than half of the P. G. students (57.78%) and more than 3/4th of the faculty use it occasionally. Around 3/5th of them are partially satisfied with the consortium. A great majority of them (79.4596) demanded for training programme and more than half (53.4%) were aware of article request programme. Around 2/5th of them rated the services as good. The study also examined the difficulties faced by the users in accessing CeRA Consortium. Lack of library orientation is the main problem expressed by the faculty members and slow Internet connectivity is the main problem for the students. The study also suggested some recommendations for librarians to plan and provide better services for the users.

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015449   Tella A;Oladeji T I (Information Science Dep, South Africa Univ, South Africa, Email: tellayinkaedu@yahoo.com) : Empirical investigation on impact of Koha on library services in selected academic libraries in Nigeria. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(2), 113-15.

This study examined the impact of Koha on library services in some selected universities in Nigeria. A total of 50 library staff was purposively selected from five universities belonging to south-western and north-central regions of - 6 - the country. A self-designed questionnaire was administered to both professional and para-professional staff of the libraries. Collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistical method. The results of the analysis of the data showed that Koha has favorably impacted their libraries. Some difficulties encountered in implementing Koha were inadequate infrastructure and financial constraints.

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015448   Sudhier K G;Devi Priya C (Library & Knowledge Centre, School of Distance Education, Kerala Univ, Thiruvananthapuram-695 034, Email: kgsudhier@gmail.com) : Use and awareness of school library blogs: a case study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(2), 137-43.

The study investigated the use of blogs and social networking sites especially the school library blogs by the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya(KV), Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The study reviewed the characteristics and evaluated the effectiveness of various blogs maintained by the library- the primary library blog, LibZine, Homework and Assignment online, My dear Book and Library junction. Questionnaire method was employed to collect data from a representative sample of 110 respondents to study the use of library blogs. Most of the students were aware of their school library blog and it was found that 37% of the students learned to use it by trial and error method. It was found that about 32% of the high school and higher secondary students have their own personal blog. More than 74 % of the students used it for interacting with each other. In general, the findings indicated that the school library blogs have an impact on the academic and other activities of the student community.

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