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Institutional Repositories: An Evaluative Study
No full textPurpose: The paper examines five web based open access repositories for the purpose of identifying their strength and limitations, using pre-defined standard parameters.Design/Methodology/Approach: The study used Directory of Open Access Repositories (Open DOAR) as a base for the collection of data.Findings: The analysis found that the repositories are credible and are equipped with rich sets of functionalities to facilitate depositing, accessing and retrieving scholarly materials.Originality/Value: The paper highlights the credibility related issues of institutional repositories in the present web based information retrieval environment.Keywords: Institutional Repositories (IR); Evaluation; Open Access RepositoriesPaper Type: Researc
REVUES.ORG. UNE PLATEFORME D'EDITION ELECTRONIQUE COMPLETE (Revues.org. A Complete Platform for Electronic Publishing)
No full textThe paper intends to provide the open access publishing market in France highlighting the oldest portal Reveus.orgthat represents open scholarly content in Humanities and Social Sciences
Use of Knowledge Resources in the Azam Campus (Pune): A Study
No full textThe paper is based on a study carried out on ten college libraries of Azam Campus (Pune) which investigates utilization of knowledge resources by the students, their level of satisfaction, use and the assistance received. The study was conducted through a questionnaire based survey and supplemented with observations and informal interviews of the sample determined through a calculator available on the Internet. Questions are based on the various aspects of knowledge resources and services and an assessment of Internet based services; its purpose, difficulties, user satisfaction and help in using Internet/OPAL, rating of the staff satisfaction of the facilities and library collection. An overall assessment of the resources and their utilization infers that most of the users are satisfied with theAcilities and services.PAPER TYPE: Research PaperKEYWORDS: User Satisfaction, Knowledge Resources, Internet Services, User Behaviour, Survey
Open Source Software (OSS): Realistic Implementation of OSS in School Education
No full textPurpose: Freedom to think for the generation of new ideas and act to conceptualize them, are the concepts which are revolutionizing today’s world. The software world is also not left untouched. Open Source Software (OSS) has brought the idea of sharing of ideas for the betterment of Computer Science to the forefront. With the passage of time, open source software has not only gained prominence in the server software segment, but is also penetrating the desktop segment. Open source softwares are attracting attention all over the world; especially governments of developing nations are working on the promotion and spread of OSS. The advantages of localization, freedom to modify the software, and easy availability are factors that are attracting people towards OSS. The impact of OSS is felt in many arenas. Education is one of them; in India itself, Kerala and Goa have pioneered the use of OSS in school education.Design/Methodology/Approach: In this research paper, the authors focus on OSS in education and its realistic implementation in school education. The authors conducted an empirical study on school students to study the effect of OSS on their learning curve.Findings: The authors propose a curriculum for the school that is based on OSS.Research Implications: The apt usage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has the potential to improve the quality of education. However, educational institutions face many constraints, like financial, equipped staff, resources, etc. The high cost of software along with the hardware poses major challenge. OSS with its unique features proves to be of great help by lowering the cost factor of the software. OSS not only provides financial benefits, but also there are many other advantages of OSS which prove to be a boon for the education sector.Value: This research paper will aide policy-makers and decision-makers, to understand the potential use of OSS in education—how and where it can be used, why it should be used, and what issues are involved in its implementation. In particular, officials in ministries of education, school and university administrators and academic staff should find this research useful.Keywords: Open Source Software; Education; School Education; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Realistic Implementation- OSS.Paper Type: Empirica
Quality Practices in Open Source Software Development Affecting Quality Dimensions
No full textPurpose: The quality of open source software has been a matter of debate for a long time now since there is a little concrete evidence to justify it. The main concern is that many quality attributes such as reliability, efficiency, maintainability and security need to be carefully checked, and that fixing software defects pertaining to such quality attributes in OSDM (Open Source Development Model) can never be guaranteed fully. In order to diminish such concerns, we need to look at the practices which affect these quality characteristics in OSS (Open Source Software) negatively. This paper presents an exploratory study of the quality dimensions and quality practices and problems in OSDM. An insight of these problems can serve as a start point for improvements in quality assurance of open source software.Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey was administered based on existing literature. On the basis of this survey those practices in OSDM are described which affect quality attributes negatively in OSS.Findings: The quality characteristics which should be taken into consideration to select or evaluate OSS are presented. Furthermore, quality practices in OSDM which affect the quality of OSS in a negative manner have also been highlighted.Research Implications: Further research is suggested to identify other quality problems not found in this paper and to evaluate the impact of different practices on project quality.Originality/Value: As a first step in the development of practices and processes to assure and further improve quality in open software projects, in addition to quality attributes, existing quality practices and quality problems have to be clearly identified. This paper can serve as a start point for improvements in quality assurance of open source software’s.Keywords: Open Source Software; Software Quality; Quality Practices; Quality Problems.Paper Type: Survey Pape
Reading Habits among College Students of Kashmir across Genders
No full textReading has increasingly been the object of empirical and theoretical investigation since decades being studied from different dimension by subject specialists particularly Psychology, Sociology, Education, Media Studies and Library & Information Science. The present study aims to investigate the reading habits of the college students and their gender variability