018800   Hazarika T;Sarma D;Sen B K (Central Library, Tezpur University, Napaam, Tezpur-784 028, Email: tilak@tezu.ernet.in) : Scientometric portrait of Nayana Nanda Borthakur: a biometeorologist. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2010, 57(1), 21-32.

Quantitative documentation of the research papers of Nayana Nanda Borthakur published in peer-reviewed journals during 1963-2005 reveals a total of 106 papers to his credit. Collaborative authorship pattern is found to be in the team size of 2-5. Twenty five are single authored papers, 33 two authored, 27 three authored, 17 four authored and four papers are five authored. Two and three authored papers constitute nearly 57% of the total authorship of his papers while single author papers are nearly 10% of the total authorship. Most active researchers in the research group of NN Bortahkur were Arnold NP, Al-Kanani T, Bhartendu S, Donnelly DJ, and Sarjaz-Raeini, M. Collaborative coefficient is 0.76 and productivity coefficient is 0.65 and 54 channels of communication were used to publish his research results of which International Journal of Biometeorology (15) tops the list followed by the Journal of Nuclear Agriculture and Biology (8) and Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (7). His fifty percentile age is found to be 28 years. Publication concentration is 18.5 and publication density is 2. As depicted in the title tomography, the core area of research was related to evaporation, air ions, electrohydrodynamics (EHD), microwave irradiation, beta-ray gauge technique among others.

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018799   Ghani S R (NO, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institu, Bangaluru-560 059, Email: syedraiyan@gmail.com) : Knowledge mangement: tools and techniques. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2009, 29(6), 33-8.

Knowledge management is not one single discipline. Rather it is an integration of numerous endeavours and fields of study. Provides a framework for characterising the various tools and techniques available to knowledge management practitioners. It provides an overview of a number of key terms and concepts, describes the framework, provides examples of how to use it, and explores a variety of potential application areas. The stress of knowledge management tools and techniques has been manoeuvred to share knowledge through communication and collaboration tools which specify the shift from process to practice.

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018798   Edmund L C S;Ramaiah C K;Gulla S P (NO, SBS Transit Ltd (East District), 15, Ang Mo Kio Street 63, Singapore-569 117, Email: limc0003@pmail.ntu.edu.sg) : Electronic medical records management systems. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2009, 29(6), 3-12.

Records document the actions of an organisation's business activities. Nowadays, more and more government agencies, companies and healthcare organisations are moving towards electronic records from records on paper. In healthcare organisations, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system is being used to capture, organize, maintain and retrieve patient's medical records. EMR system consists of a comprehensive database used to store and access patient's healthcare information. The EMR has replaced the existing paper medical records as the primary source of information for healthcare purposes for all clinical, legal, and administrative purposes. Aims to review the existing Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS) and assess the impact of EMR systems on the healthcare industry. Also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of EMR systems and problems encountered while implementing and using the systems by different groups of users.

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017794   Senthilnathan T (Physics Dep, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai-600 066) : Utilization of satellite communication networks for urban ambient air forecasting. Indian J envir Prot 2009, 29(7), 630-33.

An information system is normally a computer-based information system that enables capture, modeling, manipulation, retrieval, analysis and presentation of geographically referenced data. The rise of information technology and its use in a wide range of disciplines provides transportation and air quality modelers with a powerful tool for developing new analysis capability. Data are being used. qualitatively to provide the air quality index values through satellite communications. It also used as a environment quality forecaster for a regional view of pollutants and to help assess the impact of biomass burning or dust transport from remote sources. The amount of satellite data available is going to increase by many orders of magnitude for the future years including an abundance of information about pollutant concentrations not well-measured previously. It is essential to plan now to procure the capability to acquire, display and assimilate these valuable sources of data. A key tool in this effort is the air quality index or AQI, 'a scheme that transforms the weighted values of individual air pollution related parameters into a single number or a set of number' using a portable kit is discussed in this paper. This paper also elucidates the aerospace communication systems that can provide air quality information and some related research (satellite detect air quality) and provides a view of the future generation of National Polar-orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System.

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016792   Verma R K (NO, National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources, C, 14, Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi-110 067, Email: rkverma@niscair.res.in) : Bibliometric study of Indian S&T publications as reflected in Indian science abstracts. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2009, 3(2), 19-28.

There have been a number of bibliometric studies reporting Indian S&T output and analysis of various parameters in the past. The studies were mainly based on International databases viz. SCOPUS and Web of Science. The present study has been taken up using Indian Science Abstracts as the source. Various parameters such as Subjects, Institutions, States representing authors' affiliation, & 'Priority' geographical areas for research work on local/regional issues, and Authorship pattern with Subjects distribution have been analysed. Interestingly, the findings reveal that the trend is almost the same with respect to the 'Productivity' as reported earlier despite the more coverage of entries as Indian papers in non-Indian journals compared to Indian journals. However, for complete and true picture of Indian S&T output, the publications of Indian authors in Indian as well as non-Indian journals are required to be counted together not only quantitatively but also qualitatively taking citation rates in to account. Suggests initiating certain steps to boost up the visibility and Impact Factor of Indian journals in all the subject fields. Concludes that by adopting the suggested Indian S&T information dissemination strategy, the recent upward trend of publications output and citation rate will be maintained and further strengthened.

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016791   Vaughan L (Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Univ of Western Ontario, London, Email: lvaughan@uwo.ca) : New frontier of informetric and webometric research: mining web usage data. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 29-35.

Many Webometric research have been conducted since the early days of the Web. Most have focused on Web hyperlink as data source. Very few used Web usage data, a very rich data source that can be analyzed for various purposes. The objective of this paper is to encourage more research into this new frontier and to advance informetric and Webometric research with new Web data sources. I will first introduce the concept of Web data mining and discuss how Web data mining relates to traditional informetric research. I will then discuss types of Web usage data that are available and provide examples of studies that used these types of data. I will also discuss the limitations of Web usage data.

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016790   Vasanthi J;Ravi S (Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Engineering and Technology (PKIE, Government of Puducherry Institution, Karaikal-609 603) : Generic framework for content-based library portal. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 117-24.

Web Portal or Portal is a Web service that provides information to users. Library portals are subset of Web portals and serve specific content to academic research communities. Library portals typically provide a gateway to institution resources by listing them for users and creating a resource-link to native users. It is necessary to have a centralized database server that has access to public libraries, university libraries, libraries on the web, etc. Creation of Library portal involves large volume of contents and a system must provide easy way to create, access, modify and retrieval of these contents. The main objective of this research paper is to present a framework to create content and store in a common database. The framework transcribes contents into different formats using XML, NLP, etc. concepts. The content includes Graphics, Text, Audio and Video or combination of them. The framework helps an easy way create corpora of digitized information and to provide easy access to the total output of digitized content through structured query. Different stages in creating portal contents are gathering information, extracting content and create database using the framework. The Library portal is of platform independent, high performance, secured and provides accessibility support.

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016789   Thanuskodi S (Library & Information Science Wing, DDE - Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar-608 002, Email: thanuskodi_s@yahoo.com) : Library use and information - seeking behaviour of law faculty members of Central Law College, Salem. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 57-68.

The information needs and seeking behaviour of users is vital for developing library collections, services and facilities to meet their information needs effectively. The purpose of this study is to identify the information channels used by the Central Law College, Salem faculty members, information sources preferred by them, methods employed for getting the needed information and their library use pattern. A questionnaire was distributed to 64 law faculty members and 56 filled in questionnaires were returned, giving an overall response rate of 87.5 percent. It was found that respondents used various sources for acquiring the needed information. Books were ranked as the most important source for teaching and research purposes, followed by law reports and statutes. Respondents preferred to first consult their personal collection before resorting to other information providing sources and agencies. On the whole, respondents perceived the Central Law College library collections, services and facilities as adequate to meet their information needs effectively.

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016788   Sun Y;Kakinuma S;Negishi M;Nisizawa M (NO, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, Email: yuan@nii.ac.jp) : Internationalizing academic research activites in Japan. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 11-19.

Scholarly journals published by Japanese aca-demic societies play important roles in dissemi-nation and sharing of Japanese research results. To promote their international distribution, in-ternationalization of Japanese academic journals in various aspects is required. In recent years, articles submitted from abroad to Japanese jour-nals seem to be increasing. In this study, we look at the situation surrounding academic journals in Japan through a detailed analysis of journals with high percentages of papers from abroad, based on data from the CJP database produced by the National Institute of Informatics. By looking at these papers in terms of the authors' countries of origin and research field, the article aims to find out what has been happening to national academic journals in Japan in recent years and discuss activities related to internationalizing Japanese academic research.

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016787   Saravanan T;Ushadevi P;Gopalakrishnan S; Senthilkumar V (Library & Information Science Dep, Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu) : Research output in artificial intelligence: a performance analysis towards G8 countries. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 247-70.

The aim of this paper is to measure the research output of G8 Countries in Artificial Intelligence (AI) literature and to set it in an international context. The observed samples for the G8 Countries have been analyzed with the advanced data mining tool and explored in the respective tables. India has also been included in the study as the collaboration efforts of this country is more with USA, Canada, Germany and UK which all happen to be members of the G8 countries. The period of coverage is five years spanning between 2002 and 2006.

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016786   Saravanan T;Natarajan N O;Senthilkumar V; Sankaranarayanan D (Library & Information Science Dep, Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, Email: sarlib@indiatimes) : Emerging self learning graphical interface for LIS professionals: a glance. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 21-32.

Designing a package is not an easy job especially graphical oriented packages are really tough one. It requires more years of hard work, skills and experience. Nowadays packages are playing the major role in all the sectors. Every discipline has its own package for the foolproof maintenance of data. Among the packages the self learning interfaces are bridge the gap between information and the learners. Self learning is an essential factor in higher education, which helps to raise the learners' skills in various aspects. The said version was released by me on 2006 and is being utilized by many LIS students & professionals for the examinations. This paper encompasses various features of UGC-JRF/SLET/NET-paper II related graphical interface, which falls in LIS discipline.

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016785   Rohatgi P;Shrivastava N (School of Studies in Statistics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla Univ, Raipur, Chhattisgarh) : Simultaneous decision problem in periodical section of a library. Vidarbha J Sci 2010, 5(2), 66.

A simultaneous decision problem is one having several decision variables that will be set at the same point in time. In this paper, we have discussed a problem related to Periodical-Section of a library of any educational institute which has very limited space and scared budget both together. In every financial year, a part of total fund is allocated to this section and a very limited space is available for research journals (current and back volumes both). Multi-item inventory control and dynamic Programming Technique have been used to solve this optimal resource allocation problem under limited budget and space constraint. Proposed method can be used by purchase-committee of any library during every financial year ending to invest the available budget within limited time. The proposed method will automatically optimize the gain of the library and its users' both.

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016784   Rajput P S;Prashant Kumar;Gautam J N (School of Library & Information Science, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Email: prabhat.t82@gmail.com) : Trends in information storage and retrieval: a survey of users approach. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 185-95.

Study has been undertaken to assess the approaches of the users towards the information storage and retrieval system. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the 120 library users of Devi Ahilya University, Indore. The responses were gathered from 80 users only. The finding of the survey reveals that the maximum number of users i.e. 55.5% search information via title on OP AC. On the basis of the findings some suggestions have been proposed to improve IASR system.

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016783   Pudovkin A I;Garfield E (NO, Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok 690041, Russia, Email: aipud@mail.ru) : Percentile rank and author superiority indexes for evaluating individual journal articles and the aurhor's overall citation performance. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2009, 3(2), 3-10.

The paper proposes two new indexes to quantify the citation status of papers and authors. The Percentile Rank Index (PRI) indicates the citation rank of the author's individual papers among the papers published in the same year and source (journal or multi-authored monograph or book.) PRI is independent of the paper's age, specialty, or source journal size. The Author's Superiority Index (ASI) is determined by the number of the author's papers with a PRI at or above a specified value (99, 95, or 75). ASI allows comparisons across specialties and different time periods. The data necessary to calculate both the PRI and ASI can be obtained from Thomson-Reuters database Web of Science (www.isiknowledge.com) or other comparable databases.

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016782   Praveena K;Kavitha S;Nagarajan M (Library and Information Science Dep, Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu) : E-resource usage among the research scholars in the faculty of science, Annamalai University. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 15-19.

With the rapid development of technology and emergence of Internet, electronic media is gaining a tremendous impetus in the libraries and information centres. Electronic resources are valuable especially for identifying and accessing the published work of other scholars. This paper deals with the brief introduction to e- resources, how e- resources are used among the research scholars and what are the problems encountered while accessing e- resources followed by the suggestions.

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016781   Pang J;Kretschmer H;Liu Z (NO, Dalian Univ of Technology WISELAB, Dalian 116023, China, Email: Pangjie_dut@yahoo.com) : Distribution of Co-author pairs' frequencies in energy science and technology. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2009, 3(2), 11-18.

Compared with Lotka's law, H. Kretschmer has referred to that the distribution of co-author pairs' frequencies could be ideally reflected by a social gestalt. Among the former studies, small data sets from one journal and large data from several journals were investigated to verify these assumptions. In the present study, we will examine the data sets from a certain scientific subject "Energy Science and Technology" and its subfield "Solar Energy", in order to testify that different configurations of social gestalt could reflect the characteristics of the cooperation in social networks, and meanwhile the data size as one of the factor will be proved, which could cause the convex or concave configurations of social gestalt.

016780   Odunlade;Opeyemi R (NO, University of Lagos Library, Akola - Nigeria) : Impacts of research libraries on adult learners: a survey of Gandhi Research and Bibliographic Library, University of Lagos. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 285-99.

This is an interdisciplinary survey that married education with librarianship by evaluating the impacts of Gandhi Research and Bibliographic section of the University of Lagos library on its users who are mainly adults. Questionnaire and observation technique were adopted. The data from the questionnaire were analyzed using figures, tables, percentages, and charts. Chi- Square Test was also applied in data interpretation. Results showed that the library has rich and adequate collections that are relevant to users' academic pursuit. It further revealed the need for current and up-to-date journals in all areas of academic endeavour. Also, the need to extend days and hours of opening to include Saturdays to allow users who have tight schedules in their places of work access to this library after the official closing hour was reiterated. The study further revealed the need for more staff to ensure all round and adequate services. Newspapers and Magazines should be available to users on daily basis. Recommendations on how to further improve the services were given.

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016779   Nourmohammadi H;Noroozichakoli A;Hassanzadeh M (Faculty Member, Shahed Univ, Tehran, Iran, Email: nourmohammadi@gmail.com) : Impact factor in institute for scientific information (ISI): quality and quantity of scientific publications. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2009, 3(2), 45-51.

The article investigates the Impact Factor in Journals and its consequences for scientific considerations. The Impact Factor is a value for Journals listed in the Science Citation Index, which shows the average degree of acquaintance in the scientific community. There is an annual increase in Impact Factor in SCI, in which the annual rate is rising as high as the Impact Factor. The Impact Factor is also determined to a considerable degree based on the availability of the cited sources. Impact factors of Journals and prices for their relations depend only on a weak statistics from each other. Subscription of a Journal depends strongly on the citations. The IF rises with the number of copies of magazines if these already exhibit a higher IF.

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016778   Natarajan R;Suresh B;Sivaraman P (NO, Annamalai Univ, Library, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu) : Use of E-resources by users of Annamalai unversity library: a evaluative study. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 1-13.

Aims to identify the availability of e-resources in Annamalai university library in Tamil Nadu and determine their usage, performance, degree of user's satisfaction, and factors involved in the access of e-resources, etc.. The result of the study shows that out of 750 total respondents, 510 respondents (68 percent) were using e-resources. The frequently used e-resources were e-mail & discussion groups (37.47 %), e-journals (20.80%), e-newspapers (12.40 %), etc.

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016777   Natarajan N O;Ravidhandran P;Aravinthan M (Library and Information Science Wing, DDE, Annamalai Univ, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu, Email: natarajanno@ymail.com) : Advantages and problems of application of ICT in health care profession. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 125-33.

The study aims of evaluating the application of ICT in health care profession by making experiment of five premier institutions in India Viz. All India Institute of Medical Science, Indra Prastha Medical Corporation Hospital, Batra Hospital, Apollo Hospital,New Delhi and Christian Medical College, Tamilnadu. This study aims of analysing the advantages and problems in application of ICT in health care practices from the point of view of the respondents.

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016776   Mrithyumjaya Rao K;Suresh Babu D (Informatics Dep, P.G. Centre, L.B. College, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh) : Online miner: a tool for discovering business intelligence from web data. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 33-55.

Web usage mining attempts to discover useful knowledge from the secondary data obtained from the interactions of the users with the Web. Presents the important concepts of "Web usage mining" and its various practical applications. We further present a frame work approaches "Online Miner "to cover all the activities of Web usage mining effectively. The key idea of the "online Miner" is to collect the required data from the live source of the user behavior on the web with help of Dynamic Configuration of filters and transfers data by applying transformations in to web usage repository for generating reports with no complicated queries and in less processing time. The tool behavior is inherited from cluster model and implements the customized usage-tracking trend. The architectural specifications and mining repository algorithm of Online Miner is so effective to cover all the activities of Web usage mining. The results are graphically illustrated and practical significance is discussed in detail. These results clearly show that the proposed web usage mining framework is so effective and efficient.

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016775   Mayr P (GESIS Social Science, Information Centre (GESIS-IZ), Lennestr. 30, Bonn, Germany, Email: philipp.mayr@gesis.org) : Evaluation of bradfordizing effects. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 21-7.

The purpose of this paper is to apply and evaluate the bibliometric method Brad-fordizing for information retrieval (IR) experiments. Bradfordizing is used for generating core document sets for subject-specific questions and to reord result sets from distributed searches. The method will be applied and tested in a controlled scenario of scientific literature databases from Social and Political Sciences, Economics, Psychology and medical science (SOLIS, SoLit, USB Koln Opac, CSA Sociological Abstracts, World Affairs Online, Psyndex and Medline) and 164 standardized topics. An evaluation of the method and its effects is carried out in two laboratory based information retrieval experiments (CLEF and KoMoHe) using a con-trolled document corpus and human relevance assessments. The results show that Bradfordizing is a very robust method for re-ranking the main document types (journal articles and monographs) in today's digital libraries (DL). The IR tests show that relevance distributions after re-ranking improve at a significant level if articles in the core are compared with articles in the succeeding zones. The items in the core are significantly more often assessed as relevant, than items in zone 2 (z2) or zone 3 (z3). The improvements between the zones are statistically significant based on the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the paired T-Test.

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016774   Marshakova-Shaikevich I;Heinz M (NO, Institute of Philosophy RAN, Moscow, RUSSIA, Adam, Mickiewicz Univ, Poznan, Poland, Email: ishaikev@mail.ru) : Journal ranking of world scientific corpus by normalized impact factor. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 37-45.

The paper is devoted to discussion of results of bibliometric analysis of a large set of scientific journals (more than 6 thousand) and scientific fields of knowledge (more than 170) in JCR:SE DBs in 1998-2002 period. The idea of normalized impact factor (K) for evaluation of journals was to compare the traditional impact factor (Ip) of a journal, as indicated in JCR DB, with the average impact factor of the corresponding field of knowledge (Ig). The results of this study are given in tabular form. The tables reflect dynamics of impact factors of fields of knowledge (Ig) and world scientific journals ranked by K.

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016773   Mal B K;Bajpai R P (Vivekanand Central Library, VBS Purvanchal Univ, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh) : Impact and use of electronic resources by faculty members in VBS Purvanchal University Library. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 175-83.

University libraries are drastically changing their collection in the present IT era only due to increasing interest of its users from print documents to electronic resources. So the electronic resources have become an important part of today's university library for its collection, management and utility. This paper describes the use of electronic resources by the faculty members of VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur. The analysis of the collected data covers the use of electronic resources, how the electronic resources are improving the academic carrier of the faculty member, what types of problems they are facing to access the electronic resources. Finally it highlights the suggestions to develop the electronic resource section to fulfil the requirements of faculty members.

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016772   Lithitkar S R;Lithitkar R S;Agashe A T (DLISC, RTM Nagpur Univ, Nagpur, Maharashtra, Email: shanwaghmare@yahoo.com) : Selection of open source software for institutional repositories. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 85-103.

Information and communication Technology has created immense methods for creating, storing, maintaining, accessing and preserving the traditional printed documents in digital form. It offers great opportunities to fast, effective and efficient electronic communication. National institutions and organizations are developing their institutional repositories. Therefore Librarians should take initiatives to develop the institutional repositories for providing faster scholarly communication to their users. The paper consolidates the information of nineteen open source software and also highlights the selection criteria to choose the open source software for building an institutional repositories.

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016771   Larsen P O;Maye I;Ins M V (NO, , Marievej 10A, 2, DK-2900, Helerup, Denmark, Email: pol@webspeed.dk) : Scientific output and impact: relative positions of China, Europe, India, Japan and the USA. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 1-10.

Publication outputs and word shares of scientific publication are presented for 1981-2004 for China, Europe, India, Japan and the USA. Our results are compared with those available in the literature. The current situation whereby the main producers of scientific output statistics use different counting methods - thus, producing major differences in scientific output values - is unsatisfactory. The share in the total number of publications has been stagnating or gradually decreasing in recent years for Europe, the USA, India and Japan although there is no absolute decline in publication activities. The most dramatic trend has been the fast growth in China. The USA is still maintaining a lead in publication impact. The impact from EU, Japan, China and India increases but is still far behind as compared to USA. In the conclusion the question is raised whether publications and citations are the real output of science or constitute the discourse of science. There is a risk that we concentrate our discussion on what can be easily measured, i.e. publications and citations, instead of what really matters.

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016770   Krishnamorthy G;Amudhavalli A (NO, Libraian Univ, Anna Univ, Guindy, Chennai-600 025, Email: amudha75@yahoo.com) : Health sciences in India: a scientometric study. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 79-85.

This paper attempts to assess the R&D activity and its output in Health Sciences in India for about three decades, 1970 to 2000. Statistical analysis has been carried out using SPSS and other relevant measures. The subjects like General Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biochemistry were identified to be the top ranked 3 sub-disciplines. Objectives have been examined by using the Activity Index (AI). AI for cross comparison has been computed as suggested by Frame, as it characterizes the relative research effort a country devotes to a specific subject field. India's R&D emphasis is found to be on Biochemistry among the top three sub-disciplines as its AI is found to be 136 compared to General Medicine and Pharmacology with 109 and 87 as AI respectively. However, India's published literature is quantitatively larger in General Medicine (6016) than in Biochemistry (1091). With the AI found to be more than 100 in General Medicine and Biochemistry, these two subfields seem to reflect higher activities than the world's average efforts. Pharmacology's AI is found to be lower than the world's average efforts to this subfield.

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016769   Kaur R (Bhai Gurdas Library, Guru Nanak Dev Univ, Amritsar, Punjab) : Social and professional status of women from past to present: with special reference to librarians. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 197-213.

Makes a brief survey of social status of women in different periods of human civilization. States the condition of Indian women in pre-Independent era. Explains the role of Mahatma Gandhi in women emancipation. Explains the nature and characteristics of Library Profession as suitable for women. Explains the role of Melvil Dewey in promoting women in the profession.

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016768   Ivancheva L (Centre for Science Studies and History of Science, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences4, Serdika St. 1000, Sofia, Bulgaria, Email: 1_ivancheva@dir.bg) : Scientometrics today: a methodological overview. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 47-56.

The paper considers the current state of scientometrics, in methodological context, as a branch of the discipline "science of science". Discusses its fields of study; the wider thematic scope of scientometrics; the specific research instruments, objects and indicators, related to them - "input" and "output" ones, the empirical basis, and explanatory abilities of scientometrics. Some classifications of scientometric methods are also introduced. Further, the methodological peculiarities, limitations, and problems of scientometric research are presented, such as multi-factorial dependence, permanent rearrangements of the factors, subjectivity of the measuring results, non-additivity of the empirical data, availability of two types of variables - indicators and latent variables, theoretical importance of the empirical indicators, etc. The interrelations and interactions between scientometrics and other research disciplines as sociology of science, information sciences, philosophy of science, economics, linguistics, etc./ are also considered in the paper. Some modern tendencies in scientometric studies are also highlighted, too. Concludes that the scientometrics becomes an especially perspective part of the general "science of science", and a powerful tool of the research and innovation policy.

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016767   Herubel J P V M (NO, Purdue Univ, Purdue Univ Libraries, HSSE, 504 W. State Street, West Lafayette, 479072058, Indiana, U.S.A., Email: jpvmh@purdue.edu) : French dissertations in a period of transition, 1971-1990:historical and general observations for information and communication sciences (SIC), philosophy, and Art and archaeology. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 71-7.

This introductory discussion attempts to situate French doctoral dissertations within a historical and contextual framework for librarians and researchers who require a working knowledge of French doctoral grey literature. As French doctoral research for this historical period presents a terra incognita, a cursory exploration of this research offers the uninitiated an instructive example of how French doctoral production produced uneven distribution among three disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Examining general contours of French dissertation production in Information and Communication Sciences (SIC), philosophy, and art and archaeology, an evolution of what is available in French dissertation research reveals the nature of this grey literature.

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016766   Hassanzadeh M;Nourmohammadi H;Noroozichakoli A (NO, Faculty Member of Tarbiat Modares Univ, Tehran, Iran, Email: asnzadeh@modares.ac.ir) : Organization of science in Iran. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2009, 3(2), 53-9.

Science as a dynamic social phenomenon has its own institutional structure and organization. Organization of Sciencein developed countries seems to be in its maturity phase but in developing countries this is not the case. Iran as a developing country, from ancient ages by now, has witnessed formal and non-formal Sciencestructures throughout the territory. In recent years, this country has started to flourish in international Sciencecommunity through its scientific publications and developing technological products. Based on statistics published by Institute for Scientific information (ISI) in 2007, Iran gained 34.28 percent growth rate in comparision with previous year. Achieving a proper place in the region has been emphasized in the national development plans of the country as well. Reaching the promised rate of development needs more sophisticated organization of Sciencein which, Scienceis nurtured, scientists are supported and related functions are evaluated. This article is intended to discuss and introduce the components of organization of Science in the Islamic republic of Iran and its challenges toward improving the current situation. For that purpose, the interaction of three main working components of Scienceorganizations i.e. "government", "firms and institutions" and "scientists" have been addressed. The indicators used are given in the next part of the article. It is concluded that the government has a crucial and determinant role in the structure of Sciencein Iran.

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016765   Ghosh T K;Panda K C (Central Library, IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal, Email: tkg1967@yahoo.com) : Growth of serials publications: a genesis. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 151-166.

With the growing trend of higher study and research, the generation of knowledge resulted a rapid growth of publication of serials which were based on traditional printing methods subsequently upgraded to modern printing technology. In the meantime, adoption of Electronic Communication Technology was considered as the suitable alternative to boost up the growth of serials publication. The study encompasses country, language, format and subject-wise trend of growth in the number of serials titles as listed in ISSN Register as well as different Serials Directories. The increasing trend of the growth of serials publication as evident from the compound annual growth rate of serials opened an avenue to the libraries not only to achieve the access on the vast resources of knowledge but also to provide best service to satisfy their users.

9 illus, 10 tables, 17 ref

016764   Fadehan;Olukemi A (Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos Campus Univ, Akola - Yaba, Lagos) : Indexing of publications : an introduction for legal practitioners and law academics. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 271-83.

To this end, the main objective of this paper is to present a general introduction to the subject of Indexing of Publications to an audience of non-information professionals but rather to information users and prospective authors; and in this instance, legal practitioners and law academics.

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016763   Boell S K;Wilson C S;Cole F T H (New South Wales Univ, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, SISTM, Sydney, Australia, Email: sebastian.boell@unsw.edu.au) : Usage of different web impact factors for ranking Austrialian universities. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2008, 2(2), 57-70.

This study describes how search engines (SE) can be employed for automated, efficient data gathering for Webometric studies using well defined query specfic URLs in SE (predictable URLs). It then compares the usage of staff-related Web Impact Factors (WIFs) to web impact factors for a ranking of Australian universities, showing that rankings based on staff-related WIFs correlate much better with an established ranking from the Melbourne Institute than commonly used WIFs. In fact WIFs do not correlate with the Melbourne ranking at all. It also compares WIF data for Australian Universities provided by Smith [1] for a longitudinal comparison of the WIF of Australian Universities over the last decade. It shows that size-dependent WIF values declined for most Australian universities over the last ten years, while staff-dependent WIFs shows a riding trend.

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016762   Balasubramanian P;Gunasingh N;Bagavathi Senthilvel Murugan N (NO, Infant Jesus College of Engineering, Keelavallanadu, Thoothukkudi, Email: bala_phd2000@yahoo.co.in) : Role of E-journals in research. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 167-74.

Journals that are published exclusively in electronic format, present an innovation in the way that scientific information is communicated to the research community. Significant concerns remain regarding the impernianence of materials in electronic formats and the use of innovative features of electronically formatted material. It has taken some time for the e-only journals to become integrated into scientific information system, indexed by major services, appear in library catalogs, or cited by other researchers. This article surveys the current place of the e-only journals within the information system and some of the techniques used in publishing the only e-journals.

1 illus, 4 tables, 7 ref

016761   Bala A;Gupta B M (Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, Email: adarshanjeev@yahoo.co.in) : S&T contribution of Chandigarh during 1998-2007. Collnet J Scientomet Inf Mgmt 2009, 3(2), 29-43.

This study analyzes the S&T contribution of Chandigarh in India's cumulative research output and its rank among the top scientific cities of India during 1998-2007. It discusses the annual publication growth rate of Chandigarh in national context, subject priorities of Chandigarh among the top cities of India, research output, publication growth rate, the most dominant subject areas and impact of the leading S&T institutions of Chandigarh. The characteristics of most productive authors and highly cited papers of Chandigarh are described. The most productive foreign and Indian journals where Chandigarh authors have contributed have also been indicated.

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016760   Bachalaur M M;Kumbar B D;Hadagali G S (Librarian (Sl Gr), Kalpataru Institute of Technology, Tiptur-572 202, Email: Bachalapur@yahoo.com) : Network model for engineering college libraries affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU): a proposed plan. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 69-83.

The developments in Information Technology (IT) have greatly changed the scenario of the libraries and their operations and services and this change will continue to do so in future. Libraries, particularly technical college libraries have to re-examine their traditional functioning adopted for years, should now identify new solutions to their problems to achieve better results and later better services to the students/learners. They should attempt to come together to share their resources and services by using IT gadgets, so as to facilitate users until easy access to information at low cost and in short time. It is possible only through Networking. Network is essential partner in this exercise as it facilitates access to vast information and services. Networks have potential to improve library to reduce cost of information sources & services, thus creating new opportunities for the technical libraries to play their role more effectively and efficiently in a changed environment. In this paper an attempt has been made to give a network model for Engineering College Libraries affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU).

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016759   Amsaveni N;Sadik Batcha M (Lib & Information Science Dep, Annamalai Univ, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu) : Bibliometric dimension of gender stuides in informatics from developed countries. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 215-24.

The study reveals research performance of Asian countries in the field on gender studies in informatics. The study period was from 1991 to 2005. A total of 4534 records were obtained and analyzed the number of publications covered in Engineering village (Compendex and Inspec) database were taken for the study. The study covers the measure of types of publications preferred by relative growth rate and doubling times of the productivity; authorship pattern and activity index or specialization index. Research productivity relative growth rate analysis shows a declining trend and doubling time have increased. Research collaboration helped to publish more publication.

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016758   Aldi K;Tadasad P G (Assistant Librarian (SGL), Gulbarga Univ, Gulbarga-585 106, Email: khemannaaldi@rediffmail.com) : Scientific serial's subscription in a university environment : a case study of Gulbarga University Library. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 225-34.

An attempt has been made in this article to explore the developments of Scientific Serial management in Gulbarga University Library subscribed from 2004 - 2008 by knowing budget allocation, discipline-wise subscription, subject of the serials collection and year-wise growth of scientific serials. The results reveal that, there has been increase in subscription of Indian journals in particular from 2004 and reduced almost subscription of foreign journals due to impact of UGC Infonet e-journal access in the Library. Besides, Science discipline based journals are subscribed more in the library than other subject areas.

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016757   Ajayi N A;Akinniyi A R (Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo Univ, Ile - Ife, Nigeria, Email: nathajayi@yahoo.co.uk) : Impact of the internet usage on book loan at Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University: students' perception. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 235-45.

There is the notion that familiarity and usage of internet is likely to relegate library usage. Thus, this study set out to find out whether or not the students of Obafemi Awolowo University are users of internets services and if this has positive or negative effect on loaning of books from the institution's library. Our major source of data was through a questionnaire designed and administered to 2000 students in the library within a period of four weeks which corresponds to peak period of the semester when library patronage was high. 73% of the administered questionnaire was returned usable and it is on this that the analysis was based. It was found out that students though now adopt the internet usage, however, the patronage and loaning of books from the library has also increased tremendously. Both science and non-science based students enjoy both the internet and library and there is no gender differences as well. The study recommends provision of conducive library study environment and integration of internet education into the curriculum of Library Instruction Program (LIB 001), and charges for the use of internet facilities in the Libraiy must be minimal.

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016756   Ajayi N A;AAkinniyi A R (Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Email: nathajayi@yahoo.co.uk) : Impact of the internet usage on book loan at Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife: students' perception. Libr Prog 2009, 29(1), 105-15.

There is the notion that familiarity and usage of internet is likely to relegate library usage. Thus, this study set out to find out whether or not the students of Obafemi Awolowo University are users of internets services and if this has positive or negative effect on loaning of books from the institution's library. Our major source of data was through a questionnaire designed and administered to 2000 students in the library within a period of four weeks which corresponds to peak period of the semester when library patronage was high. 73% of the administered questionnaire was returned usable and it is on this that the analysis was based. It was found out that students though now adopt the internet usage, however, the patronage and loaning of books from the library has also increased tremendously. Both science and non-science based students enjoy both the internet and library and there is no gender differences as well. The study recommends provision of conducive library study environment and integration of internet education into the curriculum of Library Instruction Program (LIB 001), and charges for the use of internet facilities in the Library must be minimal.

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016755   Aboyade W A;Ogunsola L A;Akinniyi A R (Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo Univ, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Email: abowakan@yahoo.com) : Use of ICT in library & information science profession in Nigeria: challenges ahead. Libr Prog 2009, 29(2), 135-50.

The paper takes a cursory look at the development of information and telecommunications technology (ICT) in the information science professions in Nigeria, and also brings to focus that both librarianship and information science are like twin brothers or sisters with very little difference. Furthermore, the core position of librarianship which is central to information literacy is examined. Equally touched is the historical development of satellite technology in Nigeria from the five domestic satellite systems (DOMSAT) in 1975 to the launching of NigSat-1 and NigcomSat-1. Various challenges that lay ahead the library and information science professions in Nigeria ranging from power to capacity building and their consequent effect on the computerization projects of the Nigerian libraries are also highlighted. Of note is the fact that six Nigerian university libraries under the grants of Carnegie Corporation of New York and McArthur Foundation are at various stages of computerization of their services. Finally, the paper, as part of recommendations, emphasizes the need for concerted efforts by all the stake holders in making Nigerian libraries and information science profession ICT driven.

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015571   Tella A;Adu E O (Library and Information Studies Dep, University of Botswana, Botswana, Email: tellayinkaedu@yahoo.com) : Information communication technology (ICT) and curriculum development: the challenges for education for sustainable development. Indian J Sci Technol 2009, 2(3), 55-9.

Technological change has become a most stable factor and ICT has intertwined with knowledge, making it dependent upon the technology. Through this alliance abstract knowledge has become the centre of the world's political economy replacing traditional concrete products. ICTs provide a means for overcoming historically intractable problems of isolation and lack of access to information and knowledge, crucial impediments to educational and socioeconomic development. Despite these awesome impact of ICT on education particularly, many teachers still adopt a `teacher-centred' approach and do not know how to apply IT into their subjects. If this is the case; the question is how can these teachers impart knowledge of contemporary issues that can assist in the attainment of education for sustainable development? It is noted that in the process of building and developing curriculum through the use ICT there are bound to be challenges. What are these challenges? Can these challenges hinder sustainable development? How can the challenges be dealt with in order to put in place education for sustainable development which the whole world is struggling to achieve. The study sought to provide answer to all these pertinent questions. It is expected that some of the ideas provided in the study will be contributing factors towards the attainment of education for sustainable development in Africa and beyond.

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015570   Siddamallaiah H S (NO, NIMHANS, Bangalore-560 029, Email: sidda@nimhans.kar.nic.in) : Content-to-context: a built-in culture of librarianship. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(3), 3-6.

Collecting and connecting ideas is the basic mantra in all walks of information landscape including Content Management (CM), Knowledge Management (KM) and librarianship (traditional or digital). The spectrum of content on web, due to its read-write capabilities, varies from "least authenticated to most authenticated content" such as no-reviewed, peer-reviewed, open-reviewed and systematic reviews including meta-analysis (evidence-based) literature, both text-based and multimedia. This keynote covers various aspects of CM in `science of traditional librarianship', `digital librarianship' and `web-based librarianship'. The keynote also discusses the integration (within and among) of technology, content, and users.

015569   Shri Ram (NO, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan-173 215, Email: shriram2576@gmail.com) : Information literacy through Web 2.0 integrated WebOPAC: an experiment at Jaypee group of institutions. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(3), 43-50.

Application of Web 2.0, `The Second Generation of the Internet', has become one of the fastest growing communication technology and being adopted by corporate and service sector. The same is the case of library and information science service centres. Increasing opularity of Web 2.0 technology provides a prime opportunity to engage patrons in the virtual environment. It attracts users to communicate with similar interest people through networking and present myriad of resources and information in the form of multimedia, blogging, tagging, bookmarking, messaging, and social networking. Discusses some of the implication of the Web 2.0 application as an information awareness tool about the resources available in library and connecting to the other Jaypee Group of Educational Institutions.

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015568   Mulla K R;Chandrashekara M;Talawar V G (NO, HKBK College of Engineering, Bangalore-560 045, Email: krmulla@gmail.com) : Usage and performance of various library software modules in engineering colleges of Karnataka. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(3), 13-22.

In India library automation began in the late 1970s in a few special libraries and has now reached most of the university libraries. It has yet to take off in college libraries in Karnataka owing to various problems. Many studies on library automation have been undertaken in the developed countries, but few have been undertaken in India. The study is a survey of engineering college libraries that have computerised their operations and services in Karnataka. The study is limited to the automated libraries of engineering college libraries in Karnataka. It gives a status on the software packages used by the various libraries, and opinions of the librarians about the performance of the different modules of the software they have used.

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015567   Joteen Singh R K (NO, Manipur University Library, Canchipur, Imphal-795 003, Email: joteenrk@yahoo.com) : Library software model in 21st century network environment. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(3), 51-5.

Rapid technological changes have brought a drastic change in the resource sharing activities, especially Open Archives Initiatives (OAI) model, enabled the dissemination of research output at international, national and regional levels, thus removing the restrictions placed by the traditional scientific model. Z39.50 protocol has provided a common platform which helps to develop a Union catalogue. These new developments have made resource sharing more practical. Technological changes and development of various systems have created compatibility issues in different hardware and software platforms. In such a scenario, the best approach is to focus on how software will make it possible for the libraries to utilise networked resources for the maximum benefit of their users. Presents design of a library software, which is interoperable in nature and supports networking and exploitation of web resources apart from automating library operations.

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015566   Das P S;Kholia B S (NO, Botanical Survey of India, Sikkim Himalayan Regional Centre, Gangtok-737 103, Email: parthabsi@yahoo.co.in) : Indian integrated plant taxonomic information system. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(3), 35-42.

Taxonomic is one of the oldest and basic scientific work on living organisms. This basic research is the foundation for all modern fields of research. Taxonomic research has generated huge amount of knowledge in India which unfortunately is scattered and unorganised largely due to lack of coordination between different scientific government and non-government organisations. Highlights the value of taxonomic information, problems faced in accessing the information and proposes the need for the development of an Integrated Plant Taxonomic Information System (IPTIS) at national level to meet the growing needs of taxonomic information.

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015565   Chong P F;Lim Y P;Ling S W (Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia) : Design preference for ebooks. IETE Tech Rev 2009, 26(3), 213-22.

While many academic libraries are increasingly providing ebook services, a barrier to the adoption of ebooks, however, is their unsatisfactory design. Reports on a study that investigates the students' preferences for the ebook designs, in an attempt to review what appeals to them in an ideal ebook. Comparison was made between three ebooks in portable document format, all of which were nonªfiction, but differed in contents and their styles of presentation. Based on the preliminary findings, some general guidelines were suggested for the improved design of ebooks.

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015564   Adarsh Bala;Gupta B M (Central Library, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh-160 030, Email: adarshsanjeev@yahoo.co.in) : Perceptions of health professionals regarding use and provision of LIS through mobile technologies. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2010, 30(3), 7-12.

Attempts to study the perceptions, knowledge and awareness among the health professionals (doctors and MBBS tudents only) working in government hospitals of Chandigarh regarding the use of mobile communication technologies and devices for dissemination of various library and information services on the basis of a survey. The survey finds out the commonly used mobile devices among health professionals, their purpose of use and the methods and type of communication channel used in mobile devices for exchanging information among the doctors and students. Also seeks their opinion about library and information services, if provided through mobile technologies, and kinds of services, which could be provided, their feasibility, benefits and drawbacks along with the awareness among the users about such services. The findings of this survey show the positive attitude of the medical respondents towards the provision of library and information services on mobile devices.

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