Papers by Ramdas Lihitkar
Journal of advancements in library sciences, Mar 5, 2019
The Purpose of this study is to find out research productivity of Social Scientists in Internatio... more The Purpose of this study is to find out research productivity of Social Scientists in International Journals of Eurasia Social Science through scientometric analysis. The paper gives a summary and provides a developmental perspective on social science research as reflected in the International journal of Eurasia social science. Present result of six year analysis of the journal from 2011 to 2016. International journal of Eurasia social science is intended to be of interest to researchers, professionals and students in all social science disciplines. Keywords: Research Productivity, scientometric study, Eurasia social science Journal, Author Productivity, Degree of collaborations. Cite this Article Sheela K Godbole, Dr. Ramdas S. Lihitkar. Scientometric Analysis of International Journal of Eurasia Social Sciences. Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences. 2019; 6(Special Issue 1): 260s–264s.
Journal of advancements in library sciences, Mar 5, 2019
Active teaching and learning activities is one of the important aspect in higher education. Techn... more Active teaching and learning activities is one of the important aspect in higher education. Technology has gained immense importance in all stages of education but faculties have not been able to find out which of the many available technological tools useful for their classroom activities. On the other hand, Students should able to see concept dealt in action and relate theory more closely to reality. However, the students’ reaction is often negative and this may reflect a student perception that there is lack of clear purpose. The main objective of this study is to assess faculties and students view about the effectiveness of Google Classroom’s active learning activities. The study is carried out through a qualitative research design. A set of questionnaire has been distributed to a sample of 20 faculties and 150 students who are using Google classroom. Out of these 11 questionnaires from faculties and 100 questionnaires from students were returned. The faculties and Students who are using Google Classroom for at least one semester in their classroom are selected in the sample of the study. Various statistical tools such as descriptive statistics and cronabachalfais used for analysis. The results prove that majority of the faculties and students satisfy with the Google Classroom’s tool. Analysis also revealed that teachers use Google classroom tools for information delivery which may not have significant impact on teaching methodologies. Further studies can be conducted by taking the students’ perspective into account. Keywords: Google, Google Apps, Google Drive, Google Sites, Google Classroom, Web 2.0 Tools,TLMS, Information Delivery, Cite this Article Abhay Khamborkar, Ramdas Lihitkar. Google Classroom As A Tool For Effective Teaching, Learning And Information Delivery Systems. Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences . 2019; 6(Special Issue 1): 400s–405s.
The main objective of any library is to accumulate, organize, preserve and disseminate informatio... more The main objective of any library is to accumulate, organize, preserve and disseminate information resources. Since, library science is an interdisciplinary field that combines the principles and practices of library administration, it is necessary that focused programmes should be developed that cater the information management and delivery demands of different fields. In view of this, the evaluation of technology used by different Library and Information Science (LIS) related educational courses offered through e-learning platform were examined.
An attempt has been made to study and represent the status of Library automation in Agricultural ... more An attempt has been made to study and represent the status of Library automation in Agricultural university libraries in Western India with the help of data collection tool i.e. questionnaire. Develop a model of consortia of E-resources among agricultural university libraries in India. Also given some suggestions to improve the ICT applications in providing better information services to their users with the help of ICT tools.
SRELS Journal of Information Management, 2010
The Directory of Open Access Journals or DOAJ, lists open access journals, scientific and scholar... more The Directory of Open Access Journals or DOAJ, lists open access journals, scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer-review or editorial quality control and are free to all from the time of publication based on the Budapest Open Access Initiative . Totally 48 Business and Management E-journals were analyzed based on Country, Languages, Subject Headings and Accessibility of Archives of E-journals.
The paper describes Web 2.0 tools and its applications in teaching and learning. The focus has be... more The paper describes Web 2.0 tools and its applications in teaching and learning. The focus has been given on Weblog and how it can be used as a tool for teaching. Also describes the steps of developing a Weblog.
Advances in Library and Information Science, 2021
We all know that data has become a new fuel to the fast paced technology-driven world. And the ac... more We all know that data has become a new fuel to the fast paced technology-driven world. And the academicians and researchers are doing their best for getting better into moulding the data-driven society to keeping it updated every day. Indian academicians and researchers are also doing their best in field of big data research studies. This chapter will focus the research landscape of big data research in India. This scientometric evaluation will let us know how India is going forward in this research area with some specific statistics in scientific community.
Library Herald, 2020
A scientometric analysis is conducted to study the historical and current status of Plant Science... more A scientometric analysis is conducted to study the historical and current status of Plant Science research in Maharashtra State during 1989-2018. It is observed that rapid growth is seen in the field of plant science research in the last two decades in Maharashtra State. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India, National Chemical Laboratory, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and Savitribai Phule Pune University were the top institutions in research in Plant Science. Most papers were published in Indian Journals with low impact factors. The article highlights different patterns of evaluation of Plant Science Research in Maharashtra State such as year-wise growth trend of documents, prolific authors and their rankings, highly cited publications, highly productive journals, and international collaboration in Plant Science.
In this era of transition from information age to knowledge society, the libraries have much grea... more In this era of transition from information age to knowledge society, the libraries have much greater challenges to face. The whole insight of library has now changed from collection of books to a single window knowledge bank. This paper discusses the definition and features of open source library management software, criteria of selection of best open source library management software, their, advantages and limitations. Open source library management software is a solution to reducing that cost. The paper describes in brief about the feature of some of the open source library management software like Greenstone Digital Library, DSpace, KOHA, E-Prints, NewGenlib, PhpMyLibrary, OpenBiblio, Avanti, etc., which are useful for developing digital library and institutional repositories.
Virtual learning environment (VLE) provides students a common platform where they can get the sub... more Virtual learning environment (VLE) provides students a common platform where they can get the subject-wise tutorial, course content, assignments, worksheets, notes, lectures, etc., anywhere, anytime. The slated features, unique characteristics, and availability of basic required features, consorting VLEs as the need of the today in academic sector. Besidesmaking, learning and teaching virtually real, VLEs are also equipped with tremendous, unique and never ending exhaustive features. Present paper is an endeavor to evaluate, compare, and assess the most widely used five open source VLE software tools. The VLE software studied are Chamilo, ILIAS, Forma.LMS, OpenSIS, and Opigno. It compares the features, prerequisites , basic requirements for any organizational needs, uniqueness, and unison, etc. for each of the VLE. Based on the evaluation, observation, and comparison, the ranking in terms of excellent, very good, good, average was given to each of the five VLEs. The paper also sums up main comparisons among all the five VLEs especially in terms of the variety of the features available in them.
Active teaching and learning activities is one of the important aspect in higher education. Techn... more Active teaching and learning activities is one of the important aspect in higher education. Technology has gained immense importance in all stages of education but faculties have not been able to find out which of the many available technological tools useful for their classroom activities. On the other hand, Students should able to see concept dealt in action and relate theory more closely to reality. However, the students’ reaction is often negative and this may reflect a student perception that there is lack of clear purpose. The main objective of this study is to assess faculties and students view about the effectiveness of Google Classroom’s active learning activities. The study is carried out through a qualitative research design. A set of questionnaire has been distributed to a sample of 20 faculties and 150 students who are using Google classroom. Out of these 11 questionnaires from faculties and 100 questionnaires from students were returned. The faculties and Students ...
Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science, 2019
In this study, the authors have studied 109 top university libraries spread all over the world an... more In this study, the authors have studied 109 top university libraries spread all over the world and India and shortlisted important web-based patron educational services offered by these libraries to cope up with the changing demands of students and distance/online/flipped Classroom-based education. The author thoroughly went through the websites, blogs of traditional university libraries in the world as well as using the Google platform and searched the services offered by these libraries by going through their accounts on various platforms of online service providers. The overview of these services will be useful to the university as well as academic libraries to initiate new services. The comparative data analysis gives information about the current status of Indian and top World university libraries offering these services.
International Journal of Library and Information Services, 2017
Bibliographical services are services related to the library collection and access to those colle... more Bibliographical services are services related to the library collection and access to those collections, whether print or online. In modern libraries, these services are provided online through website. Many studies have been carried out to study application of web 2.0 tools and web-based services offered by the libraries. There is need to study the basic fundamental library services offered via the web or websites in modern libraries. In this paper author studied tops world and Indian libraries and prepared inventory of web-based bibliographic services offered by these libraries and analyzed the data in a quantitative way.
E-Discovery Tools and Applications in Modern Libraries
A library portal is single-user interface for accessing a wide variety of electronic resources, b... more A library portal is single-user interface for accessing a wide variety of electronic resources, both within and outside the library. A few federated search engines like EBSCO Discovery service, Summon (web scale discovery service), Knimbus, Mendeley, FedGate, ABCD open source software, Google CSE etc. are being used by libraries to give access to all subscribed or free online e-resources as well as library catalogues, archives' and other reading materials in the library to save the time of readers and give easy access to multiple databases and resources through federated search tool. In distance learning and online education environment libraries need to provide the right information on a single platform to its users from all resources or databases available in the library in a minimum of time. In this chapter the author discusses about the selected commercial as well as open source discovery tools used in Indian Libraries.
ABCD – Automation of Libraries and Centers of Documentations is a relatively new Free Open Source... more ABCD – Automation of Libraries and Centers of Documentations is a relatively new Free Open Source Software available to all libraries. It caters almost all present needs of three dimensional libraries of all sizes. This software is boon to all types of libraries those are still under automation and cannot afford to purchase commercial library software. It gives excellent content management solution and Interactive library website as part of the ABCD integrated library automation suite. It has excellent indexing and retrieval features with integrated meta-search and content management system to manage online, offline digital as well as physical resources. Librarians can create their library website without knowledge of HTML programming. Many libraries in the South, esp. Latin America, and Africa are using it very effectively. This paper gives short introduction to the ABCD software and its digital library features along with illustrations.
Library Management, 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give technical information about the application of ABC... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give technical information about the application of ABCD open source software for managing institutional repository of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at various levels with illustrations. Design/methodology/approach – Practical method and programming in the ABCD software for building ETD repository and its management Findings – ABCD software is an excellent tool for creating institutional repository (IR) and manages it at various levels and to create ETD portal. Practical implications – The paper describes using ABCD software how one can create database of ETDs, how to submit ETDs in full text or abstract, how to search, how to implement it in open archive environment and simplicity of making union catalogue of ETD repositories on one platform of ABCD portal. Social implications – The process of ETD management and IR building using ABCD open source software will be useful to all the new institutions, colleges, universities, natio...
International Journal of Library Science, 2018
This paper presents a study of web-based best practices followed in modern libraries from all ove... more This paper presents a study of web-based best practices followed in modern libraries from all over the world and compares them to Indian libraries. First of all a lot of examples of such 'best practices' are shown as illustrations and inspiration to Indian university libraries. Secondly, based on some statistical analysis of the differences found in the number of offered best-practice services in between top-ranked Indian and world-universities, it can be concluded that Indian university libraries lag behind a lot and therefore fail to have real impact on their institution's ranking as is the case with the world-top universities.
In distance learning and online education environment libraries needs to provide the right inform... more In distance learning and online education environment libraries needs to provide the right information on a single platformto its users from all resources or databases available in the library in aminimum of time. A library portal is single-user interface for accessing a wide variety of electronic resources, both within and outside the library. A few federated search engines like EBSCO Discovery service, Summon (web scale discovery service), Knimbus, Mendeley, FedGate, ABCD open source software, Google CSE etc are being used by libraries to give access to all subscribed or free online e-resources as well as library catalogues, archives’ and other reading materials in the library to save the time of readers and give easy access to multiple databases and resources through federated search tool. In this article the author discussed about the selected commercial as well as open source discovery tools used in Indian Libraries and a case study of Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind for using Google CSE for their library portal resources
Desidoc Journal of Library Information Technology, Sep 1, 2012
In the modern techno-savvy era, exponential growth in knowledge increased load on libraries. To c... more In the modern techno-savvy era, exponential growth in knowledge increased load on libraries. To cope up with the dwindling budget and vendors' closed-access attitude in dealing with proprietary software made libraries to look for open source software as an alternative. This paper focuses on the general and specific features of some of the popular software packages of integrated library management software, content management system and digital library.
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