Reading is primarily an intellectual activity and reading habit is a sort of attribute of a human... more Reading is primarily an intellectual activity and reading habit is a sort of attribute of a human being. Reading habit like other habits is developed in an individual during a period of time and is subject to change with age and maturity. Psychologically, habit is a course of learning. Readers first begin to develop pre-reading skills and then learn the print-to-speech code and practice it to a point of fluency when it can be used as a tool for learning from the text. Gradually readers learn to make inferences from what they read, become more critical of ideas in the printed text, and are able to take a broader perspective in reasoning and thinking about what is written. Lin quotes this change as "Reading in one's youth is like looking at moon through crevice; reading in the middle age is like looking at a moon in one's courtyard; and reading in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace". The meaning of reading has undergone through many changes. In the past, reading simply meant to extract visual information from any given codes or systems and thereafter, it became much more complex. In modern times, reading is defined as "the interaction of what is in the head with what is on the page within a particular context that causes readers to comprehend what they read". Thus, reading is the ability to recognize, and examine words or sentences and understand the information within. It is not only a cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message but to examine and grasp the meaning from it. The importance of reading is observed and discussed by the great thinkers of all times and is considered as the most outstanding habit of all ages. Even the Supreme Authority didn't ignore the importance of reading. The first message from the Almighty ALLAH to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was "IQRA" means "READ". From a long past, reading is an embedded activity in our culture, we read for pleasure, we read for information, and we read for insight. Reading fosters personal, moral and intellectual growth; it is a principal source of inspiration, information and entertainment. Reading influences the extent and accuracy of information as well as attitudes, morals,
The main purpose of the study was to analyse various aspects of open access journals in the field... more The main purpose of the study was to analyse various aspects of open access journals in the field of health and medicine registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data were collected from the DOAJ and websites (homepages) of the health and medicine journals, in the month of December 2017. The quantitative method was applied for data analysis to reveal the findings. The results reveal that open access journals in the field of health and medicine are increasing at an exponential rate and currently, 636 health and medicine journals are registered in the DOAJ. These journals are published from the seventy five (75) countries by more than two hundred (200) publishers in the twenty six (26) languages of the world. The maximum number of journals is published from the United Kingdom (81, 12.74%), by the BioMed Central (44, 6.92%), and in the English language (565, 88.83%). The results also reveal that the majority of the health and medicine journals (396, 62.26%) does ...
Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 2017
Background. In the modern competitive age, reading is the cornerstone for success in all academic... more Background. In the modern competitive age, reading is the cornerstone for success in all academic disciplines. Objectives. The study sought to find out the literature reading habits and preferences of adolescent students, and the promotional tactics of authors to attract these students towards reading. Methods. The data was collected in the Delhi Public School, Srinagar in India, from students of 11th and 12th classes (grades), aged between 14-16 years. A questionnaire survey was administered to 150 students who were systematically sampled. Results. The study found that adolescents of both genders like reading (69% of girls; 65% of boys) on electronic media. Adolescents have varied tastes in reading. Fiction is the most preferred genre of literature read by respondents, followed by non-fiction. However, girls have a greater preference for fiction compared to boys. Similarly boys have a greater preference for non-fiction compared to girls. Among the various genres of fiction, crime/detective is the most read genre, followed by realistic teen fiction. Romance and poetry are more popular among girls, whereas crime/detective, horror, and realistic teen fiction are more popular among boys. For non-fiction, the respondents generally read selfhelp/personality development books, followed by personalities and historical literature. Boys prefer to read about personalities whereas self-help/personality development is the first preference of girls. To attract adolescents, authors include aggression and violence, romantic language, explicit content (sexuality), and slang/crude language amongst other tactics in their writings (literature).
Desidoc Journal of Library Information Technology, Nov 1, 2011
Internet has become the backbone of the modern education system. The academic community uses inte... more Internet has become the backbone of the modern education system. The academic community uses internet to satisfy its diverse needs; be it information, education, communication, or research. The students, who were born during full bloom of internet revolution, extensively use internet to satisfy their various needs. Therefore, the present study was conducted to compare the use of internet by the rural and urban college students and identify the problems faced while searching the internet. The stratified random sampling technique was employed to select students and data collected through a questionnaire. The results reveal that majority of the students are frequent users of the internet using internet from daily to weekly basis in which use by urban students is more than their rural counterparts. The findings further reveal that rural students mainly use internet at home whereas urban students highly use internet at commercial cyber cafes. Majority of the urban students use internet primarily for a specific information whereas rural students mostly use internet for education. Majority of students, irrespective of regional differences, dont use internet sources like emagazines, e-journals, e-books, wikis and blogs up to their expected usage. The findings also indicate that both the rural and urban students face the same problems with slight variations like information overload (too many hits) followed by internet illiteracy (lack of internet operating/searching skills), financial barrier (paid information), and information pollution (too many irrelevant hits).
Purpose: The present paper study the research output of the Government Medical College Srinagar (... more Purpose: The present paper study the research output of the Government Medical College Srinagar (GMC Srinagar), Jammu & Kashmir in terms of overall scholarly contributions, through departmental and disciplinary approaches; content type and period wise information; authorship patterns and citations received. Design/Methodology/Approach Data was harvested from SCOPUS, one of the largest Indexing and Abstracting database by the Elsevier, from 1970 to 2011 (May). The affiliation search strategy was applied to obtain precise results. The Boolean operator “OR” was used to locate all variants of the Government Medical College Srinagar (i.e., Govt. Medical College Srinagar, Government Medical College Srinagar and GMC Srinagar) Findings The study revealed that the Government Medical College Srinagar made considerable research contribution with 596 publications. The departmental analysis reveals that the Department of General Medicine is leading with an output of 87 (14.6%) followed by the Department of Surgery with 85 (14.26%) and the Department of Dermatology including STD, Venereology, Leprosy with 60 (10.07%) respectively. The content analysis shows that articles are highest in number (443, 86.19%) followed by letters (31, 6.03%), reviews (27, 5.25%) and notes (22, 4.28%) respectively. The period wise results depict that the highest number of publications (202, 33.89%) are published from 2006-2011 (May), followed by 2001-2005 (185, 31.04%) and the minimum numbers between 1991-95 (11, 1.85%). The maximum number of the publications are contributed by multi-authors 541 (90.77%) and deal with the single discipline (390, 65.44%). The institution received 764 citations; the highest number of citations was received by publications from the Department of General Medicine followed by the Department of Surgery and Pediatrics.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, 2015
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It prov... more The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed e-books published under an open access business model, with links to the full text of the publications at the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Library, publisher's website or repositories. The present study aims to assess the current trends of the open access e-books in the field of science and technology available through DOAB. The data was collected online regarding the science and technology e-books in March 2014 for analysis. The results reveal that 307 e-books are available on science and technology through DOAB falling in three categories-monographs (209, 68.08 %), book series (93, 30.29 %) and conference proceedings (5,1.63 %). These e-books deal with eight major subject areas of Science and Technology having 36 sub-fields. The maximum number of e-books is available on General Science (95), Technology & Engineering (54), Earth & Environmental Sciences (50) & Health & Medical Sciences (47). In sub-fields most of the e-books cover Computer Sciences (24), Information Theory (24), General Medicine (20), Mathematics (17), Biology (13) & Geography (11). The authorship trends show that the maximum contribution is by single author (51.14 %) followed by two authors (74, 24.10 %) and three authors (36, 11.73 %). The linguistic assessment shows that 57.98 % (178) of these e-books have been published in English followed in German (88, 28.66%) and Italian (18, 5.86 %) respectively. The publishing trends reveal that 59.93 % (184) e-books have contributed by university presses whereas 40.07 % (123) by other publishing houses around the world. The maximum number of e-books (245, 79.80 %) is available through the Creative Commons (CC) license, whereas 20.20 % (62) e-books are available through comparable institutional licenses.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It prov... more The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed e-books published under an open access business model. The present study aims to assess the scientometric trends of the open access e-books in the field of the Health Sciences available through the Directory of Open Access Books. In order to fulfil the set objectives, the relevant details of the Health Sciences e-books were collected. The results reveal that 916 e-books are available in the field of the Health Sciences through the Directory of Open Access. The highest number of e-books is contributed in General Medicine (40.61%, 372) and in the English language (83.84%, 768). These e-books also contain current information as the majority (88.32%, 809) of these are published from 2011 onwards by the reputed publishers like Frontiers Media, SciELO, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Oxford University Press etc. The Directory of Open Access Books was ...
Purpose The present study aims to measure the global research landscape on coronavirus indexed in... more Purpose The present study aims to measure the global research landscape on coronavirus indexed in the Web of Science from 1989 to 2020. The study examines growth rates, authorship trends, institutional productivity, collaborative networks and prominent authors, institutions and countries. Design/methodology/approach The research literature on coronavirus published globally and indexed in the Web of Science core collection was retrieved using the term “Coronavirus” and its related and synonymous terms (e.g. COVID-19, SARS-COV, SARS-COV-2 and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) as per the Medical List of Subject Headings. A total of 5,625 publications were retrieved; however, the study was restricted to articles only (i.e. 4,471), and other document types were excluded. Quantitative and visualization techniques were used for data analysis and interpretation. VOSViewer software was employed to map collaborative networks of authors, institutions and countries. Findings A tota...
International journal of information science and management, 2014
The present study attempts to identify the contribution of Asian countries in the Directory of Op... more The present study attempts to identify the contribution of Asian countries in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). The OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories, listed 2,299 repositories in the month of June 2013 when the data were collected. Data were later presented in tabular forms and analysed using quantitative techniques to reveal findings in accordance with desired objectives. The results reveal that Asia is the third largest region in terms of number of open access repositories in the world after Europe and North America contributing 400 (17.40%) repositories out of 2299 in all. The highest number of repositories in Asia is contributed by Japan (138, 34.50%) followed by both India and Taiwan (58, 14.50%). The linguistic assessment shows that most of Asian repositories (305, 76.25%) accept contents written in English language followed respectively by Japanese (137, 34.25%) and Chinese (91, 22.75%). The majority of the reposi...
Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine how far search engines have succeeded in retrievin... more Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine how far search engines have succeeded in retrieving electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) using different search techniques and approaches. This study also compared the search results of search engines to identify the most suitable search engine for searching and retrieving the ETDs. Design/methodology/approach Fifty ETDs have been selected using systematic random sampling techniques from Shodhganga (a reservoir of Indian theses). These ETDs have been searched through prominent search engines such as Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo and Open Access Theses and Dissertation (OATD) using different search approaches and techniques. Findings The overall performance of the search engines revealed that Google retrieved most of the ETDs (89%) followed by OATD (88.5%), Yahoo (78%) and Google Scholar (76%), respectively. Originality/value The results have brought into light interesting findings regarding search engines in retrieving grey litera...
Purpose: Reading has increasingly been the object of empirical and theoretical investigation sinc... more Purpose: Reading 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. Design/Methodology/Approach: The survey method is employed with a questionnaire for data collection following stratified random sampling. The data is analysed using different statistical and quantitative techniques. The findings obtained are correlated with earlier studies. Besides Z-statistic test is applied for the testing of hypothesis. Findings: The results reveal that the college students have positive attitude towards reading with females being more dominant. The students, irrespective of gender acquire reading habits mostly of their own and prefer to read in morning, at home and in English language. The res...
The present study aims to identify the preferences of the net generation college students in prin... more The present study aims to identify the preferences of the net generation college students in print and electronic media activities and to investigate how these students allocate their time across these activities. The survey method of research was applied to conduct the study and questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The stratified random sampling technique was employed for selection of students. The results reveal that there is a strong competition between print and electronic media in attracting students’ time and attention. Comparing students’ preferences between reading and electronic media activities, reading proved to be one of the top most activities only defeated by watching television and listening music. The results also depict that the electronic media is competing with traditional media on different fronts as activities like Internet surfing, online chatting and electronic games are also preferred by a good number of the net generation students over reading. ...
Introduction: The World Digital Library, one of the hallmark digital preservation initiatives wit... more Introduction: The World Digital Library, one of the hallmark digital preservation initiatives with a global perspective was launched by the UNESCO and the U.S. Library of Congress in collaboration with 32 partner institutions on April 21, 2009. The World Digital Library archives and provides access to unique cultural materials from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from 193 countries around the world. It aims at promoting international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to narrow the information divide within and among countries by capacity building in partner institutions. Objectives: The World Digital Library provides unprecedented, free of charge access to significant primary historic materials including; manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. The aim of...
Purpose The main purpose of the present study is to identify the fulltext e-books in Google Books... more Purpose The main purpose of the present study is to identify the fulltext e-books in Google Books on Terrorism in general and 9/11 in particular. Design/methodology/approach The Google Book archive was searched using two search terms- Terrorism and 9/11 in advanced search mode. All the hits (results) were retrieved and their bibliographical details were recorded to complete the present study. Findings The results reveal that the total number of fulltext books available in Google Books was 130 mostly written after 9/11 and dealing with political, business, economical, technological and religious aspects of terrorism. The findings also depict that the majority of the books are published by the DIANE Publishing, Darby USA and the prominent authors are corporate bodies of the United States like the US Government Accountability Office and the US House of Representatives. Research limitations/implications The study included only Google Book archive and the other archives/repositories shou...
From last century, many researchers have devoted efforts to examine reading habits of students. T... more From last century, many researchers have devoted efforts to examine reading habits of students. The present study is a step forward in the process which aims to identify the reading preferences and tastes of the college students across disciplines. The scope of the study is limited to the degree college students of Kashmir covering the faculties of General Science, Business/ Commerce, Computer Science, Social Sciences and Humanities. The sample was selected through statistical sampling formula and stratified random sampling technique was used to select students. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The results reveal that students of all faculties have positive attitudes towards reading in which General Science students enjoy the most and Social Sciences & Humanities students the least. The General Science students also rank first on spending time on reading. The college students, irrespective of subject differences, mostly prefer to read in English. In comparison, ...
Reading is primarily an intellectual activity and reading habit is a sort of attribute of a human... more Reading is primarily an intellectual activity and reading habit is a sort of attribute of a human being. Reading habit like other habits is developed in an individual during a period of time and is subject to change with age and maturity. Psychologically, habit is a course of learning. Readers first begin to develop pre-reading skills and then learn the print-to-speech code and practice it to a point of fluency when it can be used as a tool for learning from the text. Gradually readers learn to make inferences from what they read, become more critical of ideas in the printed text, and are able to take a broader perspective in reasoning and thinking about what is written. Lin quotes this change as "Reading in one's youth is like looking at moon through crevice; reading in the middle age is like looking at a moon in one's courtyard; and reading in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace". The meaning of reading has undergone through many changes. In the past, reading simply meant to extract visual information from any given codes or systems and thereafter, it became much more complex. In modern times, reading is defined as "the interaction of what is in the head with what is on the page within a particular context that causes readers to comprehend what they read". Thus, reading is the ability to recognize, and examine words or sentences and understand the information within. It is not only a cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message but to examine and grasp the meaning from it. The importance of reading is observed and discussed by the great thinkers of all times and is considered as the most outstanding habit of all ages. Even the Supreme Authority didn't ignore the importance of reading. The first message from the Almighty ALLAH to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was "IQRA" means "READ". From a long past, reading is an embedded activity in our culture, we read for pleasure, we read for information, and we read for insight. Reading fosters personal, moral and intellectual growth; it is a principal source of inspiration, information and entertainment. Reading influences the extent and accuracy of information as well as attitudes, morals,
The main purpose of the study was to analyse various aspects of open access journals in the field... more The main purpose of the study was to analyse various aspects of open access journals in the field of health and medicine registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data were collected from the DOAJ and websites (homepages) of the health and medicine journals, in the month of December 2017. The quantitative method was applied for data analysis to reveal the findings. The results reveal that open access journals in the field of health and medicine are increasing at an exponential rate and currently, 636 health and medicine journals are registered in the DOAJ. These journals are published from the seventy five (75) countries by more than two hundred (200) publishers in the twenty six (26) languages of the world. The maximum number of journals is published from the United Kingdom (81, 12.74%), by the BioMed Central (44, 6.92%), and in the English language (565, 88.83%). The results also reveal that the majority of the health and medicine journals (396, 62.26%) does ...
Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 2017
Background. In the modern competitive age, reading is the cornerstone for success in all academic... more Background. In the modern competitive age, reading is the cornerstone for success in all academic disciplines. Objectives. The study sought to find out the literature reading habits and preferences of adolescent students, and the promotional tactics of authors to attract these students towards reading. Methods. The data was collected in the Delhi Public School, Srinagar in India, from students of 11th and 12th classes (grades), aged between 14-16 years. A questionnaire survey was administered to 150 students who were systematically sampled. Results. The study found that adolescents of both genders like reading (69% of girls; 65% of boys) on electronic media. Adolescents have varied tastes in reading. Fiction is the most preferred genre of literature read by respondents, followed by non-fiction. However, girls have a greater preference for fiction compared to boys. Similarly boys have a greater preference for non-fiction compared to girls. Among the various genres of fiction, crime/detective is the most read genre, followed by realistic teen fiction. Romance and poetry are more popular among girls, whereas crime/detective, horror, and realistic teen fiction are more popular among boys. For non-fiction, the respondents generally read selfhelp/personality development books, followed by personalities and historical literature. Boys prefer to read about personalities whereas self-help/personality development is the first preference of girls. To attract adolescents, authors include aggression and violence, romantic language, explicit content (sexuality), and slang/crude language amongst other tactics in their writings (literature).
Desidoc Journal of Library Information Technology, Nov 1, 2011
Internet has become the backbone of the modern education system. The academic community uses inte... more Internet has become the backbone of the modern education system. The academic community uses internet to satisfy its diverse needs; be it information, education, communication, or research. The students, who were born during full bloom of internet revolution, extensively use internet to satisfy their various needs. Therefore, the present study was conducted to compare the use of internet by the rural and urban college students and identify the problems faced while searching the internet. The stratified random sampling technique was employed to select students and data collected through a questionnaire. The results reveal that majority of the students are frequent users of the internet using internet from daily to weekly basis in which use by urban students is more than their rural counterparts. The findings further reveal that rural students mainly use internet at home whereas urban students highly use internet at commercial cyber cafes. Majority of the urban students use internet primarily for a specific information whereas rural students mostly use internet for education. Majority of students, irrespective of regional differences, dont use internet sources like emagazines, e-journals, e-books, wikis and blogs up to their expected usage. The findings also indicate that both the rural and urban students face the same problems with slight variations like information overload (too many hits) followed by internet illiteracy (lack of internet operating/searching skills), financial barrier (paid information), and information pollution (too many irrelevant hits).
Purpose: The present paper study the research output of the Government Medical College Srinagar (... more Purpose: The present paper study the research output of the Government Medical College Srinagar (GMC Srinagar), Jammu & Kashmir in terms of overall scholarly contributions, through departmental and disciplinary approaches; content type and period wise information; authorship patterns and citations received. Design/Methodology/Approach Data was harvested from SCOPUS, one of the largest Indexing and Abstracting database by the Elsevier, from 1970 to 2011 (May). The affiliation search strategy was applied to obtain precise results. The Boolean operator “OR” was used to locate all variants of the Government Medical College Srinagar (i.e., Govt. Medical College Srinagar, Government Medical College Srinagar and GMC Srinagar) Findings The study revealed that the Government Medical College Srinagar made considerable research contribution with 596 publications. The departmental analysis reveals that the Department of General Medicine is leading with an output of 87 (14.6%) followed by the Department of Surgery with 85 (14.26%) and the Department of Dermatology including STD, Venereology, Leprosy with 60 (10.07%) respectively. The content analysis shows that articles are highest in number (443, 86.19%) followed by letters (31, 6.03%), reviews (27, 5.25%) and notes (22, 4.28%) respectively. The period wise results depict that the highest number of publications (202, 33.89%) are published from 2006-2011 (May), followed by 2001-2005 (185, 31.04%) and the minimum numbers between 1991-95 (11, 1.85%). The maximum number of the publications are contributed by multi-authors 541 (90.77%) and deal with the single discipline (390, 65.44%). The institution received 764 citations; the highest number of citations was received by publications from the Department of General Medicine followed by the Department of Surgery and Pediatrics.
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, 2015
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It prov... more The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed e-books published under an open access business model, with links to the full text of the publications at the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Library, publisher's website or repositories. The present study aims to assess the current trends of the open access e-books in the field of science and technology available through DOAB. The data was collected online regarding the science and technology e-books in March 2014 for analysis. The results reveal that 307 e-books are available on science and technology through DOAB falling in three categories-monographs (209, 68.08 %), book series (93, 30.29 %) and conference proceedings (5,1.63 %). These e-books deal with eight major subject areas of Science and Technology having 36 sub-fields. The maximum number of e-books is available on General Science (95), Technology & Engineering (54), Earth & Environmental Sciences (50) & Health & Medical Sciences (47). In sub-fields most of the e-books cover Computer Sciences (24), Information Theory (24), General Medicine (20), Mathematics (17), Biology (13) & Geography (11). The authorship trends show that the maximum contribution is by single author (51.14 %) followed by two authors (74, 24.10 %) and three authors (36, 11.73 %). The linguistic assessment shows that 57.98 % (178) of these e-books have been published in English followed in German (88, 28.66%) and Italian (18, 5.86 %) respectively. The publishing trends reveal that 59.93 % (184) e-books have contributed by university presses whereas 40.07 % (123) by other publishing houses around the world. The maximum number of e-books (245, 79.80 %) is available through the Creative Commons (CC) license, whereas 20.20 % (62) e-books are available through comparable institutional licenses.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It prov... more The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed e-books published under an open access business model. The present study aims to assess the scientometric trends of the open access e-books in the field of the Health Sciences available through the Directory of Open Access Books. In order to fulfil the set objectives, the relevant details of the Health Sciences e-books were collected. The results reveal that 916 e-books are available in the field of the Health Sciences through the Directory of Open Access. The highest number of e-books is contributed in General Medicine (40.61%, 372) and in the English language (83.84%, 768). These e-books also contain current information as the majority (88.32%, 809) of these are published from 2011 onwards by the reputed publishers like Frontiers Media, SciELO, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Oxford University Press etc. The Directory of Open Access Books was ...
Purpose The present study aims to measure the global research landscape on coronavirus indexed in... more Purpose The present study aims to measure the global research landscape on coronavirus indexed in the Web of Science from 1989 to 2020. The study examines growth rates, authorship trends, institutional productivity, collaborative networks and prominent authors, institutions and countries. Design/methodology/approach The research literature on coronavirus published globally and indexed in the Web of Science core collection was retrieved using the term “Coronavirus” and its related and synonymous terms (e.g. COVID-19, SARS-COV, SARS-COV-2 and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) as per the Medical List of Subject Headings. A total of 5,625 publications were retrieved; however, the study was restricted to articles only (i.e. 4,471), and other document types were excluded. Quantitative and visualization techniques were used for data analysis and interpretation. VOSViewer software was employed to map collaborative networks of authors, institutions and countries. Findings A tota...
International journal of information science and management, 2014
The present study attempts to identify the contribution of Asian countries in the Directory of Op... more The present study attempts to identify the contribution of Asian countries in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). The OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories, listed 2,299 repositories in the month of June 2013 when the data were collected. Data were later presented in tabular forms and analysed using quantitative techniques to reveal findings in accordance with desired objectives. The results reveal that Asia is the third largest region in terms of number of open access repositories in the world after Europe and North America contributing 400 (17.40%) repositories out of 2299 in all. The highest number of repositories in Asia is contributed by Japan (138, 34.50%) followed by both India and Taiwan (58, 14.50%). The linguistic assessment shows that most of Asian repositories (305, 76.25%) accept contents written in English language followed respectively by Japanese (137, 34.25%) and Chinese (91, 22.75%). The majority of the reposi...
Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine how far search engines have succeeded in retrievin... more Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine how far search engines have succeeded in retrieving electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) using different search techniques and approaches. This study also compared the search results of search engines to identify the most suitable search engine for searching and retrieving the ETDs. Design/methodology/approach Fifty ETDs have been selected using systematic random sampling techniques from Shodhganga (a reservoir of Indian theses). These ETDs have been searched through prominent search engines such as Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo and Open Access Theses and Dissertation (OATD) using different search approaches and techniques. Findings The overall performance of the search engines revealed that Google retrieved most of the ETDs (89%) followed by OATD (88.5%), Yahoo (78%) and Google Scholar (76%), respectively. Originality/value The results have brought into light interesting findings regarding search engines in retrieving grey litera...
Purpose: Reading has increasingly been the object of empirical and theoretical investigation sinc... more Purpose: Reading 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. Design/Methodology/Approach: The survey method is employed with a questionnaire for data collection following stratified random sampling. The data is analysed using different statistical and quantitative techniques. The findings obtained are correlated with earlier studies. Besides Z-statistic test is applied for the testing of hypothesis. Findings: The results reveal that the college students have positive attitude towards reading with females being more dominant. The students, irrespective of gender acquire reading habits mostly of their own and prefer to read in morning, at home and in English language. The res...
The present study aims to identify the preferences of the net generation college students in prin... more The present study aims to identify the preferences of the net generation college students in print and electronic media activities and to investigate how these students allocate their time across these activities. The survey method of research was applied to conduct the study and questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The stratified random sampling technique was employed for selection of students. The results reveal that there is a strong competition between print and electronic media in attracting students’ time and attention. Comparing students’ preferences between reading and electronic media activities, reading proved to be one of the top most activities only defeated by watching television and listening music. The results also depict that the electronic media is competing with traditional media on different fronts as activities like Internet surfing, online chatting and electronic games are also preferred by a good number of the net generation students over reading. ...
Introduction: The World Digital Library, one of the hallmark digital preservation initiatives wit... more Introduction: The World Digital Library, one of the hallmark digital preservation initiatives with a global perspective was launched by the UNESCO and the U.S. Library of Congress in collaboration with 32 partner institutions on April 21, 2009. The World Digital Library archives and provides access to unique cultural materials from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from 193 countries around the world. It aims at promoting international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to narrow the information divide within and among countries by capacity building in partner institutions. Objectives: The World Digital Library provides unprecedented, free of charge access to significant primary historic materials including; manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. The aim of...
Purpose The main purpose of the present study is to identify the fulltext e-books in Google Books... more Purpose The main purpose of the present study is to identify the fulltext e-books in Google Books on Terrorism in general and 9/11 in particular. Design/methodology/approach The Google Book archive was searched using two search terms- Terrorism and 9/11 in advanced search mode. All the hits (results) were retrieved and their bibliographical details were recorded to complete the present study. Findings The results reveal that the total number of fulltext books available in Google Books was 130 mostly written after 9/11 and dealing with political, business, economical, technological and religious aspects of terrorism. The findings also depict that the majority of the books are published by the DIANE Publishing, Darby USA and the prominent authors are corporate bodies of the United States like the US Government Accountability Office and the US House of Representatives. Research limitations/implications The study included only Google Book archive and the other archives/repositories shou...
From last century, many researchers have devoted efforts to examine reading habits of students. T... more From last century, many researchers have devoted efforts to examine reading habits of students. The present study is a step forward in the process which aims to identify the reading preferences and tastes of the college students across disciplines. The scope of the study is limited to the degree college students of Kashmir covering the faculties of General Science, Business/ Commerce, Computer Science, Social Sciences and Humanities. The sample was selected through statistical sampling formula and stratified random sampling technique was used to select students. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The results reveal that students of all faculties have positive attitudes towards reading in which General Science students enjoy the most and Social Sciences & Humanities students the least. The General Science students also rank first on spending time on reading. The college students, irrespective of subject differences, mostly prefer to read in English. In comparison, ...
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