13 research outputs found
Open Access Repositories: A Review
Full text linkThis article reviews recent literature on open access (OA) repositories and explores issues such as author attitudes, publisher participation, government and university initiatives, and barriers to OA
Effect of Peer Review on Citations in the Open Access Environment
Full text linkThe study measures the effect of peer review on the research impact of publications. The citation analysis of publication output of Information Research, an open access journal in information science, which publishes working papers side by side with refereed articles is carried out using the Scopus database. It is found that peer review process increases the research impact of articles considerably
Missing Web References — A Case Study of Five Scholarly Journals
Full text linkThe present study attempts to ascertain the proportion of missing web references of 5-10 year-old research papers of the five leading open access (OA) journals in library and information science. The results suggest that the number of web citations has increased from 41.60% of all citations in 1998 to 53.32% in 2002. But a substantial quantity of web citations (32.09%) was found to be missing. The percentage of missing web citations goes on increasing with each passing year – ten-year-old publications having the highest number of missing citations, i.e., 39.96% and five-year-old publications having the lowest number of missing citations (25.89%). 0.92% of citations had moved to a new URL address and 74.14% of missing citations resulted in an HTTP 404 (page not found) error
Students’ perception of library fines: the case of Islamia College of Science & Commerce Library
No full text219-227Explores the students’ perception of library fines, borrowing privileges and lending periods in an Indian academic library and seeks to discover the extent to which borrowers are satisfied towards these aspects. The questionnaire method was used to collect data from 290 respondents. The findings of the study reveal that majority of the borrowers are satisfied with the borrowing privileges, lending periods and the fine amounts. The majority of the respondents feel that library fines encourage users to return the borrowed items on time. Most of the students favoured discontinuation of fines, besides consulting them about the amount to be fixed as fine. Majority of students prefer keeping books beyond due date and paying fine later. No significant differences were found between genders and faculties (Science and Commerce & Management)with respect to their perception of library fines. The paper makes recommendations which can help libraries to devise policies regarding library fines
Impact Of Open Access Research Contributions Across Select Disciplines
Full text linkThe study is based on 4,413 papers identified from Elsevier's Scopus for various fields from 2000 to 2004 to assess the research impact of OA journal articles, from DOAJ based journals, using sampling techniques following 'R' software. It focuses to test the hypothesis "OA articles in hard, urban and convergent fields receive more citations (hence higher research impact) than those in soft, rural and divergent subjects, besides a comparative study of research impact across disciplines, supported with experimental method and literature review
Taxonomies in knowledge organisation — Need, description and benefits
No full text102-111This paper is an expression about historical
background, current trends and applications of taxonomies. It is based on the
published literature discussing various aspects of taxonomies. The survey is
based on free text search for the terms: Taxonomy, Knowledge organisation,
Knowledge organisation systems, and Knowledge organisation tools in various
online databases (Emerald, Taylor & Francis,
Wilson web,
Science Direct, Wiley online), and Google. Besides online databases some
articles were identified from conventional journals and books. A number of
periodicals across disciplines cover the subject. After analysis the relevant
articles coinciding with the scope of the paper are presented under three
categories: need, description, and benefits. The review reveals that the use of
taxonomies is being highly advocated by the scholars for the efficient
knowledge organization and retrieval of information in the digital environment
due to the expeditious and compounded growth of information on the web and the
failure of search engines to retrieve the relevant information. The ability of
the taxonomies to retrieve the digital information with high precision and
recall is unanimously accepted and established beyond doubt. It is also
revealed that taxonomies are being implemented in various organizations/web
portals across the globe
Konsep Fikih Ikhtilaf Yusuf al-Qaradhawi
No full textThis article describes the jurisprudence concept of Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The author tries to solve the problems related to the division of the ummah due to the misunderstanding of the various ikhtilâf of fqh that occurred among Moslem scholars. A full and correct understanding will not cause this people divided. On the contrary, Moslems will maintain tolerance and unity in diversity. Therefore, Yusuf al-Qaradawi offers his concept of jurisprudence which is described in detail by the authors in this article. Yusuf al-Qaradawi offers the implementation of the concept of Jurisprudence in ten ways. First, accepting the difference in furu’ as necessity, grace, and discretion. Second, working on the great problems that people face todays. Yusuf al-Qaradawi reveals, the great problems facing Muslims today include the backwardness of science, technology and civilization, socio-economic imbalances, dictatorship and arbitrariness of politics, westernization and ghazw al-fkr, hostility and occupation of Zionism, disunity and dispute in the Arab and Islamic world, as well as moral decadence. Third, examine the opinions of the Moslem scholars. Fourth, following the middle manhaj and leaving the attitude excessive in religion. Fifth, prioritizing muh}kamât, not mutasyâbihât. Sixth, not confrming and refusing ijtihâdiyyah matters. Seventh, defning the terms and meanings. Eighth, cooperating on an agreed issue. Ninth, having tolerance in disputed matters. And tenth, refraining from those who admit lâ ilâha illallâh
OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING IN J& K STATE AN ASSESSMENT
No full textThe present study provides an overview of OA publishing in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (India). The study reveals that OA publishing is gaining popularity in the state with substantial amount of research publications already available through online OA journals
IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS SELECT DISCIPLINES
No full textThe study is based on 4,413 papers identified from Elsevier's Scopus for various fields from 2000 to 2004 to assess the research impact of OA journal articles, from DOAJ based journals, using sampling techniques following 'R' software. It focuses to test the hypothesis "OA articles in hard, urban and convergent fields receive more citations (hence higher research impact) than those in soft, rural and divergent subjects, besides a comparative study of research impact across disciplines, supported with experimental method and literature review
