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Apathy of Present Age Library & Information Science Education and Professionals
Get PDFLibrary & Information Science Education has completed its 100 years in India. It has witnessed golden years of development, growth and recognition as a subject due to Father of Library Science in India Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC) etc. The traditional librarianship witnessed a major makeover at the onset of 21st Century due to the technological revolution which paved the challenges not only in library and information science education but also in the working style of the library professionals. The present article is an attempt to overview the depressing situations through which the discipline is going in this age due to variety of reasons
ETD Contributions in Shodhganga: A Status Report of Universities of Maharashtra (India)
No full textTheses and dissertations have always been one of the most important types of grey literature for the scholarly world. However, there has always been a debate on their accessibility issues. In majority of cases, the usage of these documents is limited only to the University Level. The submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format has increased the opportunity for the user community to have access to the knowledge embedded in these works through various national and international e-theses & dissertations repositories. In India, UGC Regulations 2009, made it mandatory for every doctoral researcher to submit his/ her thesis in electronic format to the university concerned which are then deposited in INFLIBNET’s Shodhganga: a reservoir
of Indian theses. The present study reports the status of ETD contributions of Universities of Maharashtra
Open Access Repositories:The Asian Scenario with Special Reference to Library & Information Science
Get PDFHigher education institutions all over the world are experiencing the necessity of managing their education, research and resources in a more effective way. Open Access Institutional Repositories(IR) are the best way through which the institutional outputs will open up to the world, IR helps in maximising the visibility and impact of these outputs as a result enabling and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to research. Due to various benefits of institutional repositories, various institutions are developing their own repositories. Various Asian countries have contributed to the development of institutional repositories. The present study gives an overview of the growth and development of institutional repositories in Asia in the field of Library & Information Science with the data from the OpenDOAR database
Status of E-Theses Repositories with Special Reference to India
Get PDFIntroduction
In the past, researchers were not able to access all the scholarly literature published across the world due to lack of proper communication technologies. With the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), this problem is solved to a major extent and the results of the research going throughout the world is made available to the public without any restriction. The researchers adopted Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) in 2002 and with the help of Open Access (OA) made the research literature available to the world wide user community. The Open Access Movement
In the last few years, the Open Access movement has gained a lot of importance and popularity among the academic and scientific institutions.
The Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) defines Open Access as \u27free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute and/or print, with the possibility to search or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Institutional Repositories (IR) Purpose
Higher education institutions all over the world are experiencing the necessity of managing their education, research and resources in a more effective way. Alma Swan lists the following benefits that repositories bring to institutions-
1. Opens up the outputs of the university to the world
2. Maximises the visibility and impact of these outputs as a result
3. Showcases the university to interested constituencies – prospective staff, prospective students and other stakeholders
4. Collects and curates digital outputs
5. Manages and measures research and teaching activities
6. Provides a workspace for work-in-progress, and for collaborative or large-scale projects
7. Enables and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to research
8. Facilitates the development and sharing of digital teaching materials and aids
9. Supports student endeavours, providing access to theses and dissertations and a location for the development of e-portfolio
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT & PLAGIARISM: ARE THEY REALLY TWO SIDES OF A COIN?
Get PDFThe copyright issue has gained lots of importance in the information society. Using digital technology to record, make available, store, archive and transfer works triggered the change in methods and scope of their exploitation. The ease of availability of scholarly material in digital environment can be considered as one of the main reasons of rise in plagiarism issues. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics. Plagiarism and copyright both have a great deal in common. There is a great confusion regarding the differences between copyright infringement and plagiarism. But there are differences between plagiarism and copyright infringement. The present review paper attempts to differentiate the concepts with the help of examples
INTERNET OF THINGS: APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION SECTOR
Get PDFToday the objects around us are getting connected with each other in ‘Smart’ ways. Our home, office, industries etc. are connected with each other with the help of latest technologies. Internet of Things is one such technology which is connecting our surroundings very easily. In spite of the successful intervention of IoT in our home automation, office automation, industrial automation etc., the education sector is somewhere laid behind. The educational institutions are very slowly starting understanding the importance and effectiveness of IoT. Use of IoT in daily teaching can completely revolutionize the ways of teaching and learning. The present article emphasizes upon the concept of IoT and how it can very efficiently restructure our traditional education and learning methods
NAAC Accreditation and Responsibility of College Libraries in India
Get PDFThe paper provides an overview of NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) established by University Grants Commission (UGC) in India to evaluate academic, administrative, co-curricular, extra-curricular activities of Universities, Colleges, and other recognized Institutes in India to rank them. Further it explains about Library as a Learning Resource Centre, being one of the key indicators in the NAAC assessment process. The researcher list out some of the major points to be remembered by the libraries for the preparation of NAAC assessment and the significant role of librarians in the whole process of preparation
MAPPING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ETDs TO SHODHGANGA BY STATE UNIVERSITIES IN MAHARASHTRA IN LIS RESEARCH
Get PDFThe present paper evaluates the contribution of ETDs by State Universities in Maharashtra in India‟s ETD Database Shodhganga. Shodhganga is the flagship project of INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad which provides open access to theses
and dissertations through the repository. As per the present study there are 12 State Universities in Maharashtra providing degrees in non-technical fields in Arts & Humanities, Science and Commerce. Out of these 12 universities, 11 have signed MoU for Shodhganga and only 08 universities shave contributed 181 ETDs in Library & Information Science in Shodhganga. SavitribaiPhule Pune University (Pune), Dr.BabasahebAmbedkarMarathwada University(Aurangabad) and SNDT University (Mumbai) have contributed highest number of ETDs in the repository. The top five Research Guides are also from the universities of Pune and Auranagabad. English was found to be most preferred language for theses and dissertations and Impact of ICT (21), Information Seeking Behaviour (11) and Library Management (9) were found to be the highly preferred areas of Ph.D research. The researcher has also identified certain discrepancies in the List of ETDs in Shodhganga
Big Data: The Next Big Opportunity for Librarians
Get PDFBig data includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a specific time period. Due to its widespread presence in recent times, librarians need to know the basics of Big Data and how it
can impact academic research. The implications of big data are not only limited to research but to daily working of library professionals. The present paper details the concept of big data and how it can be beneficial in the field of librarianship
Applications of Data Mining in Library & Information Centres: An Overview
Get PDFThe 21st Century is witnessing a massive flow of information in library. The increasing amount of information can be related to the extensive application of Information & Communication Technology. Today, one of the biggest challenges that libraries face is the enormous amount of data generation and to use this data to improve the quality of managerial decisions. Data mining techniques are analytical tools that can be used to extract meaningful knowledge from large data sets. To do this extraction, data mining combines artificial intelligence, statistical analysis and database management systems to attempt to pull knowledge form stored data. The present paper addresses the applications of data mining in library in an effective and efficient manner
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