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Information Needs and Expectations in Digital Era: A Study of Select Agricultural Institutes in Northern India
No full textThe paper highlights the information needs and expectations of users of select agricultural institutes in Northern India. It describes the information sources used, services & facilities preferred and satisfaction of the services offered to them
Open Access Research Output of the University of Kashmir
No full textPurpose: Open Access has come up with a promising future of making the scholarly content free of cost available to everyone. It has widened the information exchange market and is becoming a worldwide effort to provide free online access to scientific and scholarly research literature in diverse formats including open access journals. The present study attempts to provide an overview of open access publishing in the University of Kashmir.Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is based on the data extracted from SCOPUS, leading Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) citation database of world leading publisher, Elsevier.Findings: The study reveals that OA publishing is gaining popularity in the whole university with substantial amount of research publication already available through OA journals.Keywords: Open Access (OA); Open Access Publishing; University of KashmirPaper Type: Surve
Richard Jones, Theo Andrew and John !McColl. The Institutional Repository. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006.ISBN 1 843341387 (Paperback) 1 84334 1832 (hardback) 39.95 pages xvii+247
No full textRegional Disparities, Inclusive Growth and Educational Development in Karnataka
No full textInclusive growth policy is an attempt to bring the backward sectors, classes, castes, tribes, women, and marginal people into main stream economy. It is necessary to understand the problem of exclusion to have better inclusive policy. The paper is an effort to analyze the regional disparities in educational development of Karnataka as a back drop to inclusive growth policy. It is revealed that out of four regions selected for study Gulbarga is the backward region in field of education. In comparison to other regions, the literacy rate is quite low and drop-out rate is quite high. However, educational programmes introduced by the government have increased the enrolments in the region but students are not able to complete their education fully with high drop-out rate
Changing Designer-Function in Open Source
No full textPurpose: Open source, since its arrival in 1990’s has been instrumental in challenging the copyright owned by traditional texts and narratives. Dissolving of author-function heralded by post-modern philosophers like Roland Barthes has been materialized by open source technology completely. However, along with textual narratives, similar dissolution can be seen for pictorial representations as well like the designing of a web-site for instance. Open source makes available technologies which along with, the content, the presentation, for instance, of the website in equal dissolution stage. This paper seeks to explore this trend for presentation part and argues how, like author-function, designer-function, is in jeopardyDesign/Methodology/Approach: For this purpose, the two open-source tools AddArt and ShiftSpace, the Mozilla Firefox extensions have been used to bring home the impact of these in terms of altering the presentation of various websites.Findings: The tools have been found to be significantly impressive in modifying the way the content is presented on the website without the owner’s permission. The modifications effected by these tools are presented at the end of the paper in the form of various snap-shots.Research Implications: The implications of these tools can range from purely web-ethical to political. The tools are not only found to raise ethical concerns of privacy and ownership of the way information is to be presented by the owners, but politically also present a trespassing avenue through which capitalist ideas of ownership of information through copyright can be effected.Originality/Value: The paper has attempted to bring to the forefront the ethico-political concerns associated with naively appearing open-source browser extensions like AddArt and ShiftSpace. The considering of concerns can provide a further criteria for evaluating such extensions apart from purely technical which is a norm at present.Keywords: Designer-Function, AddArt, ShiftSpace, Web Aesthetics, Open SourcePaperType: Researc
Measurement of Processes in Open Source Software Development
No full textPurpose: This paper attempts to present a set of basic metrics which can be used to measure basic development processes in an OSS environment.Design/Methodology/Approach: Reviewing the earlier literature helped in exploring the metrics for measuring the development processes in OSS environment.Results: The OSSD is different from traditional software development because of its open development environment. The development processes are different and the measures required to assess them have to be different.Keywords: Open Source Software (OSS); Free Software; Version Control; Open Source Software Metrics; Open Source Software DevelopmentPaper Type: Conceptua
Who Uses What? Report on a National Survey of Information Users in Colleges and Universities
No full textTime was when ambitious scholars began their research by consulting the paper card catalogs and finding aids of their campus libraries, corresponding by mail with professors, librarians, and archivists elsewhere about available resources, and checking the bibliographies of already published, printed works. Then they holed up in carrels in library stacks to study printed works available there and from others by interlibrary loan, hoping all the time for financial aid to travel to other repositories that contained needed books, journals, and paper documents. In the meantime, yesteryear's professors also put printed course materials physically on reserve in campus libraries for their students, who laboriously scribbled notes to take back to their dorms, where they penned or typed their course papers (making corrections with White-Out), and stayed up late reading expensive, bulky textbooks to prepare for exams.The advent of Web-accessible, digital information has made all that seem, if not yet obsolete, at least quaintly inefficient. Today's professor may sit in the comfort of a home or office to do research, employing a computer to search electronic card catalogs, e-journals, and huge databases of digitized scholarly information. Also said professor may prepare "distance-education" courses and PowerPoint presentations, post class assignments and reading materials electronically through "courseware," and send e-mail answers to questions from students, who use computers both to find information and to write their "papers." At least this is the expectation of colleges and universities that are investing heavily in computer infrastructure and digital resources for research, teaching, and study.But to what degree is the supposed transformation really happening? How extensively are professors and students using the new digital resources? How comfortable are they with electronic information technology? How radically is itchanging how they teach, study, and undertake research? And what are the implications of these changes for higher-education administration
Information access in the Information Age: Challenge and Opportunities
No full textPinpoints the use of information from times immemorial. Traces the heralding of the Information Age. Discusses new challenges that have surfaced in the wake of ICT — digital divide, information overload, information anxiety and information literacy. summarises the role of libraries in preICT era as a linking mechanism between information sources and patrons. Identifies areas libraries should address in the new ICT environment. Stresses the need for change in information managements concluding that i fthis change is delayed both libraries and society are bound to suffer
Citation Analysis of Ph.D Theses A study of doctoral theses submitted to Kashmir University during 1980-2000 in Natural Sciences
No full textReports a study of one hundred doctoral dissertations submitted to Kashmir University during the period 1980-2000 in the field of Natural sciences. A total of 11,862 citations were analysed for identifying bibliographic form, citation potential, journal ranking and obscelecence rate
