Showing papers in "Annals of Library and Information Studies in 2013"

Digital literacy among student community in management institutes in Davanagere District, Karnataka State, India

Abstract: Institutions of higher education are responsible for preparing well-informed, skilled and globally competent workforce. They have adopted information and communication technologies (ICT) to impart digital literacy skills to their students. An understanding of the use of ICT by the students helps in framing curriculum for the digital literacy course. A study of the use of various ICT tools and web based services by 135 students, registered for 3rd Administration course in six institutions of higher education in Davanagere district, Karnataka State was undertaken during August 2012. Questionnaire was used as the data collection tool. The findings reveal that all the respondents own personal computer, and 73.33% of them have their own Internet connectivity. Laptop, smart phone, digital camera and I-pod are the most widely used tools. Computer and laptop are used for class work, study and research through internet, while smart phone, digital camera and I-pod are used mainly for personal purpose. Web portals are considered as major source of information about companies. Open access journals and institutional repositories are used to the least extent. E-mail and Facebook are the most widely used web-based services. Only 22.96% and 02.96% of the respondents are aware of the online databases in ‘Capitaline’ and ‘IndiaStat’ respectively. There is need to sensitize them to use web resources and web based services for research and academic purposes. Majority of them agree that information is easily available on internet, but, it needs to be evaluated before use. A model curriculum is proposed to impart digital literacy skills (basic and cognitive) to the students of Master of Business Administration.

A scientometric profile of Prof. Lalji Singh as seen through Web of Science and Scopus

Abstract: The paper presents the bibliometric characteristics including authorship pattern, citations received and relative performance of Prof. Lalji Singh an eminent Indian scientist in the field of genome analysis, DNA finger printing, etc..The study is based on the publication data indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. Results show that 222 unique articles have been indexed in the two databases with an average of 7-8 articles per year. Of the 222 articles only 18 articles appeared in Indian journals. Most of the articles were published when he served at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad during 1987-2011. Authorship pattern of Prof. Singh indicates that he is serving as a leader of his research term and K Thangaraj is the fellow scientist with whom he wrote most. Almost all his articles appear in high-impact journals. The h-index of Prof. Singh is 30 in both the databases. He has received fellowships of all major national science academies as also third world academy. The study concludes with a remark that Prof. Singh can be a ‘role model’ for younger research to follow.

Doctoral dissertations of CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram: A study

Abstract: Analysis of 137 Ph. D theses submitted during 2001-2010 found that majority of the theses (107) were in chemistry. The study analysed the number of references included in the theses and found an average of 242.79 references to a thesis. Out of the 35 approved research guides, the maximum number of 21 theses were submitted under the guidance of Dr. G. Vijay Nair followed by 11 theses under the supervision of Dr. Suresh Das and 10 under Dr. A. Ajayaghosh. One thousand five hundred and twenty one papers of NIIST were included in the 124 theses out a total of 137 dissertations studied.