015447   Sudha S;Kavitha E S (Library and Information Science Dep, Periyar Univ, Salem-636 011) : Bibliometric analysis of International Journal of information dissemination and Technology. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 67-74.

The study examines bibliometrically the articles published in the Journal 'International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology' for a period of four years from 2011-2014. The author looks into the authorship pattern. Degree of Collaboration, Average author per paper, average paper per author, average citation per paper, country wise distribution of articles, Relative Growth Rate, Doubling Time etc.

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015446   Subrahmanyan R (NO, Raman Research Institute, C V Raman Avenue, Sadahivnagar, Bengaluru-560 080, Email: rsubrahm@irr.res.in) : Mind the gap: reflections on the art of science. Curr Sci 2017, 112(4), 699-702.

Scientific research in India has for too long been conducted at a distance from the public, within gated communities of select and chosen few. Fundamental research in basic science, which is the essential groundwork that eventuates in all of the advancements in technology and medicine as well as empowering economic development, goes uncommunicated outside the peer group and is often considered uncommunicable. The translations that approach the lay public also often continue at a distance and, consequently, the outreach that places the product in the public domain is restrained. This article attempts to explore many of the issues around the communication gap, questioning perceptions and convictions in the science-society landscape.

015445   Shri Ram (Deputy Librarian, Central Library, Thapar Univ, Patiala-146 004, Email: shriram2576@gmail.com) : Indian contribution to breast cancer research: A bibliometric analysis. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(2), 99-105.

Based on breast cancer research data obtained from Scopus multidisciplinary database, it is seen that with 6696 (1.82% global share) articles from India on breast cancer during 1975-2014, India ranks 12th in the world in terms of research paper output. About 80% of the Indian publications appeared during the period 2004-14. Hospitals are more productive with Tata Memorial Hospital publishing the highest number of papers during the period. About 30.35% Indian publications are a result of international collaboration with 94 countries.

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015444   Renjith V R;Devarajan G (Library and Information Science Dep, Kerala Univ, Thiruvanathapuram-695 034) : Research productivity and publishing habits of scientist of Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai: A scientometric analysis. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 53-66.

The study is based on publications of the scientists of Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG),Mumbai. The study attempts to analyze quantitatively 444 publications published by the IIG scientists during 2O1O-201S collected from the annual reports of the Institute. The results Indicate that 96.696 of all forms of publications are multi authored. 98.4% of journal articles are authored by multiple authors and 87.9% of papers in proceedings/technical reports are multiple authored. Most prolific authors are Lakhina, G.S (68), Basavaiah. N (56). Gurubaran (45). Singh, S. V (34). Veenadhari, B (29), Ghodpage. R.N (26). Patil. P.T (25). The most preferred journals by the IIG scientists are 'Journal of Geophysical Research' 'Journal of Atmospheric Solar- Terrestrial Physics' and 'Advances Space Research' Publication Density observed in the present study is 3.76.

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015443   Rajan J S;Vijayakumar K P (Library and Information Science Dep, Univ of Kerala, Trivandrum-695 034, Email: sjinurajan@gmail.com) : Publication trends of library and information science faculty members in South India. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 30-41.

This paper alms to give an idea about factors connected with publication productivity of faculty members in Library and Information Science (LIS). The survey was - 4 - conducted on fifty Library and Information Science faculty members from South Indian Universities. This study was carried out to examine a) major forms of publications; b) aim of publication; c) major publishing channels used; d) sources used to discover research topics; e) criteria adopted in the selection of printed Journals for publication; f) support and resources received from parent body; g) problems faced during publication process; and h) to suggest ways to Improve the quantity and quality of publications. Data collection was done by means of a structured questionnaire distributed to faculty members through e-mail and ordinary mall. The analysis showed that a)Majority of the publications by the faculty is in the form of conference/seminar papers and Journal articles; b) the main aim of producing publications is knowledge dissemination and professional development; c) printed Journals and e-Journals are the main channels of publication; d) Impact factor and circulation were the main considerations in selection of printed Journal for publication; e) Organizing seminars/ conferences and supply of sufficient information resources were the major forms of support received from the parent body; f) shortage of time and unavailability of Information resources were the major hindrances in publication activity; g) Interaction with subject experts and giving classes about technical writing will Increase the quantity and quality of publications.

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015442   Prathap G (NO, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological Univ, Thiruvananthapuram-695 016, Email: gangan_prathap@hotmail.com) : Making scientometric sense out of NIRF scores. Curr Sci 2017, 112(6), 1240-2.

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2016 rankings have released a wealth of bibliometric data that is otherwise difficult to collect. We have closely examined the top 20 engineering institutions in engineering from the NIRF list from the point of view of research excellence alone, as is done in most international university ranking exercises. Unlike the NIRF score, which is one single number, we now decompose performance into a size-dependent exergy term and a size-independent productivity term. The IITs at Bombay and Kharagpur stand out in terms of research excellence. Another insight is the excellent promise shown by the new IITs at Ropar-Rupnagar and Indore.

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015441   Prasad M R M;Vala K K (NO, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Begumpet, Hyderabad-500 016, Email: mrmp2k8@yahoo.com) : Bibliometric analysis of the journal world developement. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 42-52.

The purpose of the study is to analyze the published articles in the peer reviewed and indexed Journal titled 'World Development' an International journal published by Elsevier. The present study quantitatively analyzed 922 peer reviewed articles which were contributed by 2184 authors from more than 8O countries during the period 2O1O-2O14. The findings of this study based on different variables like authorship pattern, number of references, prolific authors, geographic contribution, length of article, author self-citation and Journal self-citation. The paper provides different bibliometric tools to strengthen the library collection, and to find the trends in authorship pattern, references sources, etc. in the Subject of developmental studies.

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015440   Pata S K;Muchie M (NO, Tshwane Univ of Technology, South Africa, Email: skpatra@gmail.com) : Science in pre-independent India: A scientometric perspectice. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(2), 125-36.

Scientific publications and different types of collaboration pattern in pre-independent India are mapped using scientometrics and social network analysis tools. Publication data of Indian authors published before 1947 are downloaded from the Scopus database of Elsevier - 3 - science. The study traces the literature growth patterns, core journals, productive authors, authorship collaboration patterns, productive institutions and their collaboration patterns. The result shows that maximum literature was published in the year 1936. The growth of publications during the mid-1930s was evident as many scientific institutions were established by that time. The subject-wise maximum activity was observed in chemistry followed by agricultural and biological science. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences was the most preferred journals. Universities played the prominent role in scientific research. Some private institutions with 'nationalistic' enthusiasm, for example, Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institute for Cultivation of Science were very productive institutions and also prominent in institutional collaboration. These institutions started in the colonial period continue to be the pillars of modern science in India.

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015439   Nagarkar S;Kengar M (Library & Information Science Dep, Savitribai Phule Pune Univ, Pune-411 007, Email: shubha@unipune.ac.in) : Analysis of physics research output of SP Pune university during the period 1990-2014. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2017, 64(2), 106-12.

The paper analyzes the research contributions by the faculty members of the Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune, Maharashtra, India for the period 1990-2014. Bibliographic and citation data were retrieved from Scopus database. Query statements covering all variations in the name of SPPU were used to search the database. Scopus indexed 1629 publications with 22618 citations for the period. Author keywords in Scopus database indicate that faculty members are working in core areas of physics as well as interdisciplinary subjects like chemistry, instrumentation sciences, engineering, etc. The year-wise analysis shows that research productivity of faculty member increased over the period. Faculty members published their research in core physics journals among which Journal of Applied Physics (72 papers) is the most preferred journal. The faculty members of the University have collaborated with scientists from USA, UK, Germany and Japan. At the national level, the University physicists have collaborated most with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

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015438   MohamedHaneefa K;Deepulal V M;Madhu E S (Library and Information Science Dep, Univ of Calicut, Malappuram-673 635, Email: dr.haneefa@gmail.com) : Information security practices of library professionals in University of Calicut. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 17-29.

The purpose of this study is to Investigate the information security practices of the library professionals in the Calicut University. Structured questionnaires were employed to collect data from a representative sample of 1OO library professionals from the University campus and its affiliated colleges. The analysis shows that half of the library professionals have 5-1O years of experience in computer, nearly half of them have 5-10 years of experience in the internet, all of them are aware of computer virus, majority of them indicated that their network use firewall for internet security, majority use remote back up as physical precaution for information security, and 3/4th of them have virus on their computer during the last two years. Lion's share of them have antivirus software, a little more than half of them update their anti-virus software automatically, two third of them use firewall, more than half of them rarely use same pass word for different on line accounts and two-fifths of them revealed that their back up frequency is last week.

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015437   Mohamed Haneefa K;Seenath T;Sajna K P (Library and Information Science Dep, Calicut Univ, Malappuram-673 635) : Measuring the quality of UGC-Infonet digital library consortium service of Calicut University library. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 75-86.

The aim of this study is to measure the quality of UGC-Infonet services of the Calicut University library. The study explored both item wise and dimension wise analysis of the expectations and perceptions of a representative sample of 225 students of the Calicut University campus. A modified SERVQUAL questionnaire was employed to collect the expectations and perceptions of the students. The analysis shows that the overall mean score of the students' perceptions is 4.572 and that of expectations is 4.932, the gap being -0.36O. It indicates that the students' perceptions are lower than that of their expectations. The - 2 - study revealed that UGC Infonet services provided by the Calicut University Library are not meeting the quality expectations of the students.

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015436   Madhan M;Kimidi S S;Gunasekaran S; Arunachalam S (Archives and Publication Cell, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560 012, Email: mu.madhan@gmail.com) : Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?. Curr Sci 2017, 112(4), 703-13.

Paying to publish is an ethical issue. During 2010-14, Indian researchers have used 488 open access (OA) journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from US$ 7.5 to 5,000, to publish about 15,400 papers. Use of OA journals levying APC has increased from 242 journals and 2,557 papers in 2010 to 328 journals and 3,634 papers in 2014. We estimate that India is potentially spending about US$ 2.4 million annually on APCs paid to OA journals and the amount would be much more if we add APCs paid to make papers published in hybrid journals open access. It would be prudent for Indian authors to make their work freely available through interoperable repositories, a trend that is growing in Latin America and China, especially when funding is scarce. Scientists are ready to pay APC as long as institutions pay for it and funding agencies are not ready to insist that grants provided for research should not be used for paying APC.

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015435   Jaya Sankar V S (NO, , Sankaramangalam, Chellamcode, Poovathoor P.O, Trivandrum, Email: vsjayasankar133@gmail.com) : Authorship pattern and collaborative trends in journal of intellctual property rights. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 100-10.

The purpose of this study is to Identify authorship pattern and collaborative trends of Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) for the past 20 years of its publication. Through bibliometric analysis the data was collected and analysed using LibreOfficeCalc. Findings of the study revealed that the degree of collaboration of JIPR is 0.32. More than 80% of the papers were contributed by single Institution and 67.2896 papers are purely Indian origin. So it is clear that the collaborative contribution in JIPR is less and fluctuating but increasing gradually. The Journal has a bias over its mother country and city in geographical distribution of papers.

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015434   Gupta R;Mueen Ahmed K K;Gupta B M;Bansal M (NO, , 1K/A Arjun Nagar, Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi-110 029, Email: ritu7648@gmail.com) : Lung cancer in India: A scientometric study of publications during 2005-14. Int J Med Publ Hlth 2016, 6(4), 200-08.

Paper examines 3,653 Indian publications on lung cancer research, as covered in Scopus database during 2005-14, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 18.81% and citation impact of 4.20. The world lung cancer output (169,352 publications) came from several countries, of which the top 15 most productive countries (United States, China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Canada, and South Korea) accounted for 93.17% share of the global output during 2005-14. India's global publication share was 2.16% and holds 12th rank in the global output during 2005-14. India's share of international collaborative publications on lung cancer was 17.79% during 2005-14, which decreased from 19.89 to 17.06% from 2005-09 to 2010-14. Breast cancer in the field of medicine accounted for the largest share (63.62%) of output, followed by biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (28.77%); pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmaceutics (23.87%); chemistry (9.31%); agricultural and biological sciences (3.26%); and immunology and microbiology (2.23%) during 2005-14. Diagnosis, chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy among treatments methods together accounted for a share of 61.20% publications in Indian lung cancer research during 2005-14. Among the different states, Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Chandigarh, and Telangana together account for 53.41% share during 2005-14. In India's cumulative lung cancer publications output during 2005-14, the most productive 14 Indian organizations, 15 authors, and 15 journals together contributed to 33.71, 11.27, and 20.23% share, respectively. The 31 high-cited papers in lung cancer research registered an average citation per paper of 294.74. Of the 31 high-cited papers (19 articles and 12 reviews), 7 were single institution, 3 national collaborative, and 21 international collaborative papers. The 31 high-cited papers have appeared in 23 - 1 - journals. In light of this, the authors suggest the need to develop a National Cancer Prevention Policy, which should make specific recommendations for national action by governments and non-government organizations, including programs and strategies, to reduce the incidence of specific preventable cancer types.

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015433   Akter T;Nowrin S (Information Science Dep, Library Management, Univ of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Email: s.afrin2012@gmail.com) : Marketing strategies of library services of some selected private university libraries in Bangladesh. Kelpro Bull 2016, 20(1), 1-16.

This paper aims to examine the present status of private university libraries and the attitudes of library professionals towards marketing library services in Bangladesh. Survey method was adopted for the study and random sampling technique was used and collected data from select 15 private university libraries in Bangladesh. For collection of data a structured questionnaire was employed supplemented by Interview technique. The findings revealed that the current status of libraries is not up to the mark though it should be Improved yet and the librarians have a positive attitude towards different aspects of marketing library services. Almost 3/4th of the libraries provide training programs for library professionals, 87% of libraries employ various types of marketing strategies and among them web 2.O based services are prominent. Almost cent percent libraries are computerized. Lion's share of libraries use library website strategy to promote their services. It is surprising to note that Manarat and State University library do not provide any library 2.0 based services. Insufficient personnel is an obstacle reported by 30% of the libraries.

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014487   Subbarao E C (NO, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, 54B Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune-411 013, Email: essubbarao@gmail.com) : IBM fellows - Indian presence. Curr Sci 0000, 112(11), 2208-11.

Bright researchers with impressive output on a sustained basis need to be identified by clear criteria, encouraged and rewarded with freedom to pursue their interest. How IBM does this is described and naming them IBM Fellows. A remarkable number of IBM fellows is of Indian origin. A road map for progressive Indian industry to encourage innovative research by bright Indians working in India is elaborated as an urgent, worthwhile pursuit to put India and Indian industry on the global innovation map.

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014486   Rajaram K;Jeyachitra S;Subha S (NO, , ) : LIS Education research in India. J Commun Engng Syst 2016, 6(3), 17-22.

Libraries and Information Centres (LICs) play a vital role in the socio-economic development of a nation. The accelerated growth in research and developmental activities in sciences and technology and also in the fields of social sciences and humanities contributed to a phenomenal growth in the universe of subjects resulting in information explosion and interdisciplinary approach to research during the second half of the 20th century. These developments generated new demands and pressures on the services offered by the libraries and information centres in our country and elsewhere.

014485   Prathap G (NO, A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technological Univ, Thiruvanthapuram-695 016, Email: gangan_prathap@hotmail.com) : F-score map of excellence and diversity of research performance in India. Curr Sci 2017, 112(2), 224-7.

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014484   Prathap G (NO, Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technologi, Thrissur-680 501) : Excellance and diversity mapping of research in IISc, IITs, NUS and NTU. Curr Sci 2017, 112(5), 1012-15.

A three-dimensional evaluation approach is used to decompose the research performance of the two leading research clusters from India and Singapore into three components - size, excellence, and balance or evenness. Data are retrieved from the Excellence Mapping web application. The NUS + NTU cluster from Singapore outperforms the IISc + 7IITs cluster from India on all three counts.

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014483   Marisha;Banshal S K;Singh V K (DST-Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: vivekks12@gmail.com) : Research performance of Central Unversities in India. Curr Sci 2017, 112(11), 2198-2207.

This article presents the research performance of the 39 central universities in India. The research publication data, indexed in the Web of Science, for the 39 central universities for a 25-year period (1990-2014) are used for analysis. The data are computationally analysed to identify productivity, productivity per capita, productivity per crore rupees grant, rate of growth of research output, authorship and collaboration pattern, citation impact and discipline-wise research strength of these institutions. Research performance of the central universities is measured and compared with two top-ranking world universities, namely University of Cambridge and Stanford University. While older well-established big universities such as University of Delhi and Banaras Hindu University perform better than newer universities, some relatively smaller universities, such as the university of Hyderabad have impressive research performance. What is disturbing is that combined research output of all central universities taken together is less than that of either of University of Cambridge or Stanford University alone. The results also provide discipline-wise research strengths of all the universities.

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014482   Lakhotia S C (Laboratory Laboratory, Zoology Dep, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: lakhotia@bhu.ac.in) : Fraud of open access publishing. Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad 2017, 83(1), 33-6.

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014481   Hamid K O;Yousif Y O (NO, Univ of Khartoum, Radio FM 93.3 U of K, Sudan) : New media and its social implications in Arab society (Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia). Int J multidiscipl Res Dev 2017, 4(7), 14-17.

New media (interactive media) defined as everything related to the Internet such as social networking sites, and other forms that carry the contact between individuals, groups or communities over the Internet. The researcher noticed that the usage of smart phones and social media by family members has negative effects on socialization. The main important objective of the current study is to determine the negative and positive reflections of the new media on the Arab community. The researcher used descriptive analytical approach, the samples that has been chosen were 150 samples; 50 samples from Republic of Sudan, 50 from Saudi Arabia and 50 from Egypt. The researcher used Statistical Package for Social (SPSS) software version 16, graphic formats, multimedia distribution for answers, percentages and KIE square test. the important results of the study included was that, the internet is isolated people from their community environment, also the community nets provide a really positive effect on a person social relations, so that they stimulated the communication skills with other persons. when parents used a lot of internet for much time the socialization would be weaken and affected the follow-up of sons in late years of socialization, the researcher deducted that there must be a complementary communication between the families and the formal socialization institutions.

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012392   Shekhar C;Raina A A;Kumar A (Mathematics Dep, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan-333 031) : Brief review on retrial quene: Progress in 2010-2015. Int J appl Sci Engng Res 2016, 5(4), 324-36.

The present survey is based on the principle of retrials in queueing theory i.e. the customers who repeatedly try to avail the services from the server, on finding dejection, because of the inactivity of the server to provide service at an instant of selection from the queue. A bunch of work has previously been done on this front from past since it is realistic phenomena of many service system. The current investigation aims to present a brief review of the major works done on retrial queueing systems in recent years. The bibliography consists of research articles which were published in journals of repute during the period 2010-2015. In addition to the above references, an exhaustive list of books and survey papers on retrial queueing systems is also prepared so as to provide a detailed - 1 - enough catalog for further understanding and research in retrial queueing domain. We have classified the journal papers according to the year of publishing. The aim of the present study is to turn up at a broad enough for a collection of important results in the theory of retrial queueing systems and their applications in solving several realistic problems. The main contribution is the bibliography of recent papers and books collected from different databases and private sources. At last, we have arranged some of the references according to the classification based on analysis and solution technique. The author(s) hope that this survey paper could be of help to learners contemplating research on retrial queues.

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012391   Mukhopadhyay A K (Laboratory Medicine Dep, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) : Emerging patterns in the complexity; Their organisation within systems science. Int J appl Sci Engng Res 2016, 5(3), 208-34.

This innovative essay covering frontier areas of science crystallizes research ideas with translational potentials. It begins with a motivation to simplify the complexity by identification of emerging patterns within it. Overarching the properties of self-organization, organization by life and organization of consciousness, the article unfolds what could be the future of science of information leading from signal to information, knowledge and wisdom, and vice versa and also delineates the principles of sensor development for robotics. An emerging new psychology has been identified where the psyche could be considered a five-piece structure and process with relevance in cell biology where it is dynamically supported by signal networks of downstream informational molecules. The overall map thus constructed is non-reductive, holistic and falls within the ambits of systems science. The model is testable at micro level of systems cell and macro level of systems brain. It is applicable also at mega level of self-conscious mindful live universe.

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012390   Karanth S;Castelino J;Nireeksha;Nazareth F; Anvitha K (Computer Science Dep, SMVITM, Udupi) : Advanced library management system using android device. Int J latest Technol Engng Mgmt appl Sci 2017, 6(4), 39-41.

Android platform is gaining popularity and holds more users than other platforms. Earlier Librarian needed to keep track of books in a vast room. But evolution of the computers, smart phones and internet have made the work much easier. LIBKART application helps the users to access their required information and queries without the help of computers or the librarians but through their android devices which saves their time and energy. In this paper we provide an efficient access over library system using a Smartphone application named as LIBKART. The main purpose of this paper is to provide an easy access to library and to provide details of library books, issue of books and notify the user due dates of book being issued. The paper also aims at providing a reference section of books where the books can be downloaded through permission from admin. The user can access the newspapers on daily basis and can also download university question papers.

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011401   Tyagi U;Yanthan Z (NO, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: tyagiuma@yahoo.com) : Contextual analysis of ICT contents in LIS postgraduate degree curriculum: a study. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 14-23.

The content of Library and Information Science (LIS) curriculum has drastically evolved in the recent decades. With the penetration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), technological components have becomes the main focus of the discipline. The present paper analyses the ICT contents of postgraduate degree courses in select universities across India. It also analyses the expectation of the professionals with regard to course content and relevancy of the curriculum in the contemporary times. The present study system suggests that maintaining homogeneity and standardised curriculum will help in keeping Indian syllabi at par with international standards.

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011400   Roy L;Simons R N (NO, The Univ of Texas, Austin-78712, Email: toriene@ischool.utexas.edu) : Tradition and transition: the journey of an iSchool Deep in the heart of texas. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 1-8.

The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin (iSchool at UT-Austin) has evolved to be a unique program within the larger discipline of Library and Information Studies by incorporating traditional educational delivery while expanding the interdisciplinary nature of its faculty and curriculum. This article places our iSchool's experiences within the narrative of the iSchool movement and points to various aspects of change, loss, and opportunity within the school's history. The past and present status of both the graduate and undergraduate curricula at the iSchool at UT-Austin is described. We offer this story of the UT-Austin iSchool's development as an example that helps deepen an understanding of the impact of such programs and their transformations on their students and faculty, as well as on the field of Library and Information Science (LIS).

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011399   Karno V;Roth A D (NO, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Rhode Island, Email: vkarno@uri.edu) : LIS education in an interdisciplinary frame: integrating digital media into the ethics of digital personhood. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 38-41.

This article explores the ways in which the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island integrates digital media into its curricula and research as part of its ongoing interdisciplinary framework. Suggesting it is incumbent on LIS educators to both teach technological skills and examine digital media tools as objects of intellectual inquiry, this article contends that LIS education must consider core epistemological questions which inform the field and address significant philosophical and cultural questions regarding our digital selves. The article considers how we can attend to issues of equity for diverse populations, and work towards understanding the assumptions inherent in digital spaces and technological tools which are guiding the creation of our digital borders.

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011398   Jain P;Jorosi B N (Library & Information Studies Dep, Botswana Univ, Goborone, Botswana, Email: jainp@mopipi.ub.bw ) : LIS education at university of botswana: evulution, opportunities and challenges. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 42-50.

In Africa, the first library and Information Science (LIS) education programs started in South Africa in 1938 as the "Department of Librarianship" at the University of Pretoria and today LIS education is considered a sophisticated programme "ike any other academic programs in all African countries. This paper discusses the major changes, opportunities and challenges at the DLIS. LIS education in Botswana boasts an admirable history of roughly 37 years, during which the Department of Library and Information Studies has made a significant contribution in human resource training, research and service. Today, DLIS offers both Bachelors and Masters Degree programmes in Library and information studies, Information systems, and Archives and Records management and it also offers M.Phil and PhD programmes. To equip future information professionals with the right skills and competencies for the current job market and to prepare them for the emerging global society, DLIS keeps reviewing its teaching curricula to introduce new programmes. Some of the development includes winter programme; Bachelor of Information Systems (BIS 210) progreimme for the curricula harmonisation; and forthcoming 'Bachelor of Information and Knowledge Management' (BIKM) programme. This paper is based on in-depth and latest literature review mainly from developing countries and the authors' experience as LIS practitioners and educators at DLIS.

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011397   Gupta P;Madhusudhan M (Library and Information Science Dep, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: mmadhusudhan@libinfosci.du.ac.in) : RFID technology in libraries: a review of literature of Indian perspective. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 58-63.

Implementation of Radio Frequency IDentification technology in libraries in a developing country like India has brought remarkable improvements in the services such as shelf charging-discharging, automated handling of materials, security, high-Speed inventory and moved beyond security to become tracking systems that combine security with more efficient tracking of materials throughout the library, reduced the data entry errors, enhanced customer service, and records updates. This article is an attempt to assess the potential of these aspects after the implementation of RFID technology and factors responsible for the slow influx of the technology, as revealed in the reported literature covering the concerned libraries of India. It is hoped that the present study will help Librarians and Library professionals in improving the return on investment and proving the long-term security of the library.

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011396   Gaikwad M N (NO, Rayat Shikshan Sanstha's Arts and Commerce College, Madha, Dist-Solapur-401 604, Email: maheshgaikwad786@gmail.com) : Library and information science education in Maharashtra: current status. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 9-13.

Maharashtra is the third largest state, in India, known for its outstanding educational quality and facilities at all levels in almost all the major disciplines of study. There are 35 districts in the state with best colleges and higher education institutions. As we are moving ahead in all areas of developments and making massive investments in education to convert our younger population into globally competent human resources. LIS education in India is completing a century of its existence during the period progress have been achieved in developing LIS education to tune with current practices. This paper traces the current scenario of LIS education in Maharashtra. It provides an overview of the universities providing present LIS courses at various levels through regular courses. From the Maharashtra, nine universities are imparting regular LIS education were selected for the present study. The eligibility and admission criteria and syllabus of LIS education is discussed. It was seen that major universities in Maharashtra have to provide an integrated two-year postgraduate course in LIS, which is being widely accepted all over the country. It has been used to analyse the research programs offered by various universities in Maharashtra.

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011395   Chaturvedi K (Institute of Medical Sciences , Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi-221 005, Email: kiranbhu96@gmail.com) : Evidence-based library and information practice & educational needs of health librarians: national and international trends. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 24-9.

The health care knowledge base, documented in the healthcare literature is vast and ever increasing and changing. Changes in medical information and technology are revolutionising health care. The clinicians today are trying to incorporate research into practice and are increasingly depend on technology to bring evidence to the bedside to improve quality and patient outcomes. Today, given the significance of evidence-based practice, health librarianship is given higher priority in many centers. Responses vary, but there seems to be a more towards 'clinical information scientists' - 'informationists' who might be educated in both clinical and information disciplines. But adaptation to change is not enough. Even as we have increased our roles in health environment as value-added educators and information providers, there is need to continue education and training in different facets: conferences, short courses, seminars etc should be conducted. Conferences are required to be organised at national level in order to improve health care services and recognition of health librarianship.

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011394   Bhardwaj R K (St Stephen's College, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: raajchd@gmail.com) : Research activities of library and information science professionals in Indian higher educational institutions: competencies, support and engagements. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2017, 37(1), 30-7.

The present study is an attempt to understand the research attitude, engagement and competencies of LIS professionals in higher Educational institutions in India. It was found that out of 170 respondents, 145 (85.3%) respondents read research literature regularly and 75 (44.1) expressed that reading research based articles is their regular activity. But 95 (55.9) do not read journal articles. 155 (91.2) respondents revealed that they have conducted research after obtaining the formal degree. Majority of respondents 47 (27.6) revealed that their preferred mode of dissemination of research has been publishing paper in conference proceedings, followed by publishing a paper in refereed journals 35 (20.6). Maximum respondents 72 (40.0) followed a theoretical approach in conducting research, followed by survey method 55 (30.6). 'E-resources' (160) and 'Bibliometric Study' (120) has been the most preferred areas of research publishing. 'Lack of funding support' (160), 'time constraints' (155) and 'Problems in data collection' (150), have been identified as major constraints in carrying out research. The main purpose for conducting research is to find the academic performance indicators (APIs) 150, followed by personal growth (102). The study suggests that finding agencies and universities need to come forward to encourage LIS professionals to pursue research and publishing. This will add value in delivering the best library services to academic community and also improve research activities in academic institutions.

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010376   Tolstaya A M;Suslina I V;Tolstaya P M (National Research Nuclear Univ, MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Kashirskoe highway 31, 115409, Moscow, Russian Federation, Email: tolstaya.a@inbox.ru) : Information provision of patent research. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2016, 13(3), 1479-91.

This research deals with the information provision of patent research of scientific and technical achievements. The study focuses on the concert of patent research, It purposes; the concept of patent information sources, their characteristics. The paper provides the analysis of several patent and non-patent databases, reveals their main features and assess the completeness of the information provided by various information retrieval resource. Recommendations on the choice of the search databases are given. A thematic search on wireless capsule endoscopy using patent and non-patent databases available on the Internet was carried out. It was concluded that to obtain the most complete picture, the patent research should be conducted using both patent and non-patent information retrieval resource. The results of the research can be useful to carry out a patent research in order to increase the efficiency of commercialization process of the intellectual activity results in bringing goods into the international market.

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010375   Siamian H;Hassanzadeh M;Nooshinfard F;Hariri N (Health Sciences Research Center, Health Information technology department, school of Allied Medical Sci, Kilometer 17 Khazar Abasd, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran) : Information seeking behavior in blind people of Iran: a survey based on various experiences faced by them. Ambient Sci 2016, 3(2), 5-9.

Access to information and its dissemination for the planning of health and social care is essential. While information is not always available as per the needs of the blind people, thus the public libraries and information centers led for meeting the information needs culture and proper knowledge. The study was based on a Descriptive-analytic method in which we included 384 blind people of both the sex selected by the multi-clustering method from 10 provincesof Iran. Health information of the subjects was collect through a researcher-based questionnaire. Results showed that religion, occupations, and access to healthy living, were the first top priority of blind people for meeting information "needs in three cultural; social in addition, health forms. The blind people try to look for information on a daily basis and seeking up-to-date technologies. They are most used to audio media rather than any other media to access, utilise information, and rarely used new technologies. Unlike normal people, blind people have high expectations from the library. An attempt has also been taken to - 4 - present a new model.

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010374   Sahu M K (GIMS, Gandhi Group of Institutions, Gunupur, Odisha-751001, Email: sahumahendrak9@gmail.com) : Best practices of social media in academic libraries: A case study of selected engineering college libraries of Odisha. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 302-8.

The way the social media tools are strengthened with the impact of proliferating portable computing, wireless technologies, and other web application, have re-designed how information is generated, communicated and consumed in an academic library. The paper examines the extent to which social media tools impact the most on libraries of engineering colleges of Odisha, An online survey has been conducted by sending online questionnaires librarians affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha.

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010373   Omeluzor S U;Oyovwe G O;Abayomi I (Library Dep, Federal University of Petroleum Resource Effurum, Delta State, Nigeria, Email: someluzor@yahoo.com) : Social networking tools in library service delivery: the case of academic libraries in south-east zone of Nigeria. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 269-77.

A lot of literature exists concerning acceptance and utilisation of 'social networking' (SN) tools in academic libraries - 3 - from different parts of the world. However, only a handful of work has been done on librarians' use of SN in academic libraries in South-East, Nigeria. Therefore, this study tends to investigate librarians' use of SN in academic libraries in South-East, Nigeria. This study adopted a survey design using 173 librarians from the zone. Finding showed that some librarians used SN in libraries for delivery of library services. It also revealed that SN will be beneficial and cost effective for academic libraries to adopt. Some challenges identified in this study inhibiting use of SN in academic libraries are erratic power supply, inadequate skill to manipulate SN and other ICT tools, technophobia, lack of awareness, insufficient bandwidth, apathy in using modern technologies and lack of internet connection. The study suggested that SN can be adopted in academic libraries for library service delivery. It recommended that academic libraries should prioritise training and retraining of librarians in the use of emerging and current internet resources, provision of power supply, ICT facilities and internet connection to enhance delivery of library services.

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010372   Nigam K;singh M P (Library & Information Science Dep, BBAU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Email: ansh30.lis@gmail.com) : Impact of social networking sites in scholarly communication by state universities of Uttarakhand. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 291-301.

This study finds out usage pattern of social networking sites (SNS) of academicians in scholarly communication in the Central Himalayan region of Uttarakhand state universities of India. The results revealed that 93 % faculty members of State universities of Uttarakhand were using SNS and sharing of information was the highest amongst them. 44 % were using SNS several times a day, 48 % faculty members thought that SNS information were reliable. 33 % faculty members believed that there was a possibility of fraud through SNS and 41.64 % faculty members believed that SNS had a little impact on their lives. 28.75% were using Facebook, which was highest in all SNS. The result indicated that the percentage usage by the faculty members in terms of the latest knowledge was 38.0%. Mostly faculty members were using the SNS from their homes. One very important factor responsible for this could be the lack of Wi-Fi facility available to them in all the campuses of the universities. Therefore the study recommends that Wi-Fi should be made available in all the universities, so that the faculties can use them in their academic pursuit, during their working hour in the campus, and this will further lead to an in depth use of SNS for academic excellence.

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010371   Moosad K P B;Letha M M;Anantha Narayanan S (a, Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory, Thrikkakara (PO), Kochin-682 021, Email: ravimoosad@gmail.com) : Relevance of in-house publications in knowledge management: A case study from naval physical and oceanographic laboratory. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 309-15.

Several aspects of knowledge management in R&D institutions have been studied and reported by researchers in the past. However, studies on the relevance of in-house publications have not been reported so far. In-house publications have a significant role to play in effective knowledge management, especially in large R&D institutions. Such institutions generally have a compartmentalised structure, wherein each compartment delves deeper and deeper into areas of their own interest and expertise. As the depth and detail of the subject under study increases communication between the compartments becomes weaker. Dialogues within the compartments become jargon-ridden and incomprehensible to those belonging to the other compartments. In organisations with thousands of employees, distributed in several branches, situated in geographically distributed locations, communication of the knowledge generated at one place to another pose lots of problems. In-house publications are one of instruments that seek to correct this situation to a significant extent. To communicate the right information to the right people needs careful handling of the subject at corporate level. Subsequently, the number of in-house publications may become quite large. This article presents the case of Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory at Kochi, India, which resorts to several in-house publications for effective knowledge management within the organisation.

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010370   Kaushik A (Central Library, University of Kota, Rajasthan, Email: drkaushikanna@gmail.com) : Use of social networking sites tool and service by LIS professional for libraries: A survey. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 284-90.

Social networking sites (SNS) are widely used by the library information science professionals for libraries for various purposes due to their characteristics, facilities and connectivity. This study provides views of library and information science professionals regarding usages of SNS tools and services for their libraries. It was discovered from the study that maximum number of library and information science professionals who responded in this survey were associated with academic libraries have known about SNS tools and services since more than four years from internet/search engines, use SNS several times in daily, for interacting with the users and getting feedback from the users, used SNS namely 'Facebook', for marketing of library services and products but did not have policy for using SNS into their libraries and lack of credibility of SNS tools and services emerged as major barrier to use SNS for libraries. Apart from this, maximum number of respondents said that SNS tools and services will be used for libraries in full extend in future.

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010369   Kaul H K (DELNET-Developing Library Network, Chief Librarian of India International Centre, New Delhi) : Libraries and social media networks. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 257-60.

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010368   Joshi N M;Bansode S Y (NO, Ghanshyamadas Saraf College of Arts and Commerce, S V Road, Malad (West), Mumbai-400 064, Email: nehamjoshi78@gmail.com) : Awareness and use of social networking sites by librarians of management institutions in Mumbai: A state-of the-art. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 278-83.

With the rising demand of the new users about technological assistance, the libraries need to change their traditional way of functioning. The present generation is very much attracted towards social networking sites (SNS). It is obvious for the libraries and information centres to tap the opportunity and provide services to the users by using SNS. Since these sites provide quick and free access, the libraries can make good use of it. The present study attempts to find out the awareness of the librarians of management institutions towards SNS and explores how much they are using it. The study highlights that the librarians are much aware of SNS and are using them for their personal and professional purpose, but on the same hand fails to use the SNS in their libraries.

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010367   Dhawan S M;Gupta B M;Ashok Kumar;Bansal J (NO, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, Email: smdhawan@yahwoo.com) : Quantitative assessment of global literature on 'web 2.0 and libraries' during 2006-15. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 261-8.

The present study examines global publications output on 'Web 2.0 and Libraries' published during the period 2006-15. The data for the study was sourced from Scopus database. The total global research output on 'Web 2.0 and libraries' comprising 482 publications, registered 14.02 % CAGR growth, cumulated 3234 citations with an average of 6.71 citations per paper. The global contributions on 'Web 2.0 and libraries' originated from 77 countries, 179 organizations, and 159 authors. Top 10 countries accounted for 75.10 % global publications share, 90.75 % global citations share during 2006-15. Top 15 organisations contributed 13.69 %, cumulated 15.18 % citations share. Top 21 authors contributed 14.94 % publications share, cumulated 14.81 % citations share of the global output during 2006-15. 'Web 2.0 and libraries' as a subject, interacts highly with other disciplines. Social sciences accounted for the largest share (72.61 %), followed by computer science (52.28 %), and 6 other disciplines. Of the total 482 global publications - 1 - on the subject, 351 appeared in 94 journals, with top 19 journals accounting for 39.21 % share. The top 30 highly cited papers registered 20 to 475 citations each, cumulated 1776 citations, averaging to 59.2 citations per paper.

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010366   Bhushan G;Madhusudan M (NO, DESIDOC, Metcalfe House, Delhi-110054, Email: mmadhusudhan@libinfosci.du.ac.in) : Acess versus ownership of information and DESIDOC's balancing act. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 320-4.

Under Open Data policy of the Government of India, the Indian research organisations playing a vital role in making unrestricted data sharable in the open domain. Organisations are facilitating the access to data by civil sectors for its potential reuse, repurposing and empowerment of the society. In this endeavour, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of the Ministry of Defence of India, is contributing immensely by making research data available for the economic and social value to the society. The paper is an attempt to discuss opportunities and challenges of the data revolution, from ownership to access and the role of DRDO's scientific community in making unrestricted data available for sharing, reuse and re-purposing by the civil sector; and, how data revolution can be exploited to improve own knowledge and benefit to society through data-driven research and innovation.

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010365   Amandeep Kaur;Jagjit singh (NO, DAV Univ, Jalandhar, Punjab-144 008, Email: aman-aldav@rediffmail.com) : Investing for impact: A case Study of academic instituton of district Jalandhar (Punjab). DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2016, 36(5), 316-19.

The present article focuses on the impact of new technology on the library services. The basic theme is based on the use of technology in the academic institutes. The article also highlights the major points like impact of automation/technology on print sources, staff, infrastructure, space, etc. The data collected shows the impact on services like reference and xeroxing. As the change demands lots of funds, so the data is collected to know the impact of technology on various sections of the library. The article also highlights the role of authority/management to generate sources and Services. The article concluded that the change should be accepted due to the positive updates shown in the library.

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009287   Ravandi S N;Hariri N;Farzandipour M (Knowledge & Information Sciences Dep, School of Humanity and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, I, Tehran, Iran, Email: snadi2006@gmail.com) : Best, useful and objective precisions for information retrieval of three search methods in PubMed and iPubMed. Ambient Sci 2016, 3(2), 30-6.

MEDLINE is one of the valuable sources of medical information on the Internet. Among the different open accesssites of MEDLINE, PubMed is the best-knownsite. In 2010, iPubMed was established with an interaction-fuzzy search method for MEDLINE access. In the present work, we aimed to compare the precision of the retrieved sources (Best, Useful and Objective precision) in the PubMed and iPubMed using two search methods (simple and MeSH search) in PubMed and interaction-fuzzy method in iPubmed. During our semi-empirical study period, we held training workshops for 61 students of higher education to teach them Simple Search, MeSH Search, and Fuzzy-Interaction Search methods. Then, the precision of 305 searches for each method prepared by the students was calculated on the basis of Best precision, Useful precision, and Objective precision formulas. Analyses were done in SPSS version 11.5 using the Friedman and Wilcoxon Test, and three precisions obtained with the three precision formulas were studied for the three search methods. The mean precision of the interaction-fuzzy Search method was higher than that of the simple search and MeSH search for all three types of precision, i.e., Best precision, Useful precision, and Objective precision, and the Simple search method was in the next rank, and their mean precisions were significantly different (P <60> 0.001). The precision of the interaction-fuzzy search method in iPubmed was investigated for the first time. Also for the first time, three types of precision were evaluated in PubMed and iPubmed. The results showed that the Interaction-Fuzzy search method is more precise than using the natural language search (simple search) and MeSH search, and users of this method found papers that were more related to their queries; even though search in Pubmed is useful, it is important that users apply new search methods to obtain the best results.

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008266   Khalil S;Mishra D;Mishra R;Gupta S (Pediatrics Dep, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, Email: mishraruchi11@gmail.com) : Factors affecting subsequent full-text publication of papers presented at the annual confernence of the annual conference of the Indian academy of pediatrics. Indian Pediat 2017, 54(2), 128-31.

Objective is to study the factors associated with the subsequent (over next 9 years) full-text publication of papers presented at the 44th National Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (PEDICON), 2007. All papers presented at PEDICON 2007 were searched for subsequent full-text publication over the next 9 years in English-language journals by an internet-based search. The published papers were compared with the conference-abstracts. 74 (16%) of the 450 abstracts presented were subsequently published; 61 (82.4%) in Medline-indexed journals. Majority (50, 67.6%) of the papers was published within the first 36 mo in journals with mean (SD) impact factor of 2.62 (1.63). The factors significantly associated with subsequent publication were papers presented as award papers (P<60>0.001), those reporting on Interventional trials (P<60>0.001), and those from medical colleges (P<60>0.05). On comparison of the conference abstracts with the subsequently published full-papers, 55% had a change in title; authors were changed in 65%, and participants' numbers were dissimilar in 8.6%. There is a need to identify the factors responsible for this low rate of subsequent publication, and interventions to improve it both at institutional and researchers' level.

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008265   Chaddah P (NO, , , Email: chaddah.praveen@gmail.com) : On the need for a national preprint repository. Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad 2016, 82(4), 1167-70.

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007243   Umamaheswari K;Priya V (Information Technology Dep, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Email: uma@ity.psgtech.ac.in) : Aspect ranking based on author specific information aggregation. J scient ind Res 2016, 75(9), 534-9.

In the present huge volumes of reviews about entities are available in the websites. Hence the necessity to summarize the opinions and to understand about the polarity of the features (aspects) in the review has become very essential. Opinion summarization helps in summarizing the overall opinions of all the aspects in the review. However, extracting the aspects from the review is critical because the writing style of the authors changes from person to person and it is also a challenging task. The existing system specifies that the aspects exist in the review in the form of explicit aspect expressions. Aspect expressions occur frequently as noun and noun phrases in the review. Aspects are extracted by the use of feature dependency parsing algorithm in the domain specific ontology. Opinion summarization deals with the polarity aggregation (positive or negative) on each of these aspects. The proposed approach summarizes the importance of aspects using the author specific preference aggregation model. This approach considers the preferences of authors for each aspect in addition to various measures like frequency, weighted score along with the polarity. These preferences are aggregated in the ontology using the method of pair wise comparison. This paper aims at integrating all the scores which will help to extract the aspects specific to the domain and summarizes the aspects based on its rank in an efficient manner.

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007242   Thaker K;Vaghela P S (NO, S. R. Luthra Institute of Management, Surat, Gujarat, Email: kinnery.thaker@srlimba.org ) : Digital library and user's experience: a literature review. Int J Libr Inf Netwk Knowledge 2017, 2(1), (NULL).

Internet and Distributed Network System created scope for research in the area of information system and its related fields. Digital Library, one of the most recent development in Library and Information Science, which help its user to seek information through web browser. Digital Library is organized assortment of information, with its supported services and a place where the information is kept in digital format and can be retrieved over a networks. Since last one decade researchers are focusing on the users of Digital Library to develop more efficient and effective system to provide quality service to users. The aim of this paper is to provide literature on Digital Library with respect to its users that may be helpful for future research. The paper discusses about the users centric approach in the context of Digital Library. Researchers are working on the system upgradation by using wireless technology to connect with end users directly with libraries. Further, other areas such as user's Perception, Attitude, Adoption and Satisfaction with respect to digital library are also discussed.

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