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Present age is called knowledge age, because information is growing day by day so the assumption is that knowledge should be growing in the same manner. Traditional libraries have changed to paperless library due to the growth of Internet and the World Wide Web. Since advent of ICT, the information explosion have been taken place which force to library to collect, organise and provide right information...
This paper describes the impact of emerging trends and technology in western higher education on academic libraries. These trends present several challenges, as well as opportunities for them. The paper discusses some useful approaches and strategies to overcome these challenges and exploit the opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about emerging trends and technologies among...
At present, developing and managing a collection of e-resources is an essential responsibility of any university library in Sri Lanka, especially in order to go in parallel with their counterparts in developed world. However, these electronic resources are expensive and inevitable at the same time. This paper sheds light on the importance and utilization of e-resources, and discusses about the current...
Indian National Agricultural Research System (INARS) is one of the largest agricultural systems. In 2007, Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) was established for providing access of e-Resources to INARS. Access of about 3000 e-journals has been provided to the 143 agricultural institutions/universities of INARS on IP (Internet Protocol) authentication basis through CeRA. Access of e-resources...
Every region in Indonesia has different potentials and need to be analyzed for national development considerations. This analyzed can be accomplished with clustering Indonesian regional potential data, which is collected from PODES enumeration. This data consist of both numeric and categorical attributes. However, most of clustering algorithm can be applied on either numeric or categorical data. K-prototypes...
Building digital library applications is often a search for an applicable and adequate data or document model as well as for software tools which meets the requirements. Especially in digital archives, there are several data and document models to be considered. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all document model or system. For each application, the requirements and properties of a project...
Plagiarism — using someone else's ideas, writings or results, and presenting them as one's own without giving proper credit to the actual author. In today's competitive world plagiarism is spreading at a tenacious rate. Scientific writing requires good expertise for it demands both features: vividness and terseness, which are generally hard to accomplish together. Any scientific work should be characterized...
Online Information Resources (OIR) are getting popularity amongst academicians, particularly research students. This study is an attempt to investigate the use and purview of online information resources by postgraduate students of public and private sector universities of Lahore — Pakistan. Through questionnaires, data was collected from 570 research students with the response rate of 463 (81.22%)...
Institutional Repositories (IR) are developed primarily for collecting, preserving and disseminating the intellectual output of an institution. This knowledge assists in sharing and learning of an institution. For the successful set up of an Institutional Repository, strategic planning is required with a predetermined goal and scope as well. This paper is a case study of setting up a digital Institutional...
The purpose of this study is to investigate barriers that would hinder collection development in Scientific and Research Institute (SRI) libraries in Iran. The populations of this study are the research scholars, faculty members and experts belonging to five disciplines from ten institutes in Iran. For the purpose of data collection, a well-structured questionnaire was designed and administrated randomly...
In the present digital era, e-journals have become preferred source of information among the scientists/ researchers/ academics worldwide because of various reasons. To provide e-journals service to the users, most of the libraries have either formed libraries consortia or joined some e-journals consortia. In many foreign countries like USA, UK the e-journals services are very common. Now, many libraries...
This study is an attempt to comparatively assess the research productivity, performance and impact of SAARC nations with the aid of InCites, an innovative research analytical tool developed by Thomson Reuter. For the period of 32 years (1981 through 2013), India has outnumbered other SAARC nations in terms of research productivity and count of citations received. However, Nepal has the highest no...
This research paper aimed at analyzing 1) the concept of information literacy in the 2008 Basic Education Core Curriculum of Thailand; 2) the teaching and learning of information literacy in basic education; and 3) the roles of teacher-librarians in the development of information literacy in basic education. Documentary research mainly the 2008 Basic Education Core Curriculum and related research...
In the United States, public technology funding is distributed differently across state lines. This impacts service and access to information particularly as it pertains to critical broadband access. Funding and service trends have changed, especially as it relates to public libraries, with some modifications working to their advantage and some to their detriment. As information is increasingly moving...
This study investigated media use behavior of nursing students enrolled in Nursing Colleges under Thailand Ministry of Public Health. Participants consisted of 3,574 undergraduate nursing students, 1st–4th year, from 19 colleges randomly selected across regions. Data collection was conducted through online survey in April — May 2014. Female participants were 91.9% with mean age 20.40 (S.D.= 1.18)...
Cultural heritage is being recognized throughout the world as an important aspect for exploring and understanding the socio-economic background of any nation. Many steps have been undertaken throughout the world at different levels for carrying research in this area. Preservation of cultural heritage is deemed of utmost importance for tracing the evolution of different civilizations and preserving...
„IMIC" (Innovative Movement Therapy in Childhood) is a translational research and development project that is specialized in creating a motivating locomotion rehabilitation setting for children with neurological disorders and cognitive limitations in an interdisciplinary context. "IMIC" was founded in 2010 by an interdisciplinary cooperation of movement scientists, neurologists and...
For a nanoscale low-k dielectric wafer, Inter-Layer Dielectric and metal layers peelings, cracks, chipping, and delamination are the most common dicing defects by traditional blade sawing process. This paper demonstrates an investigation on uv laser grooving on low-k dielectric 65-, 45-, and 28-nm wafers. A series of parametric study on input laser power, frequency, grooving feed speed, defocus amount...
Studies to rank e-Government were already performed by various organizations, aimed at measuring the level of success in e-government implementation within a country. A successful implementation in one country may not be directly applicable for adoption by other countries. There is no consensus of factors that significantly influence the success of e-government implementation. On the other hand, investment...
One of the shortcomings of e-learning is user's involvement, one possible solution provided by the researchers is gamification. Evidence of the gamification's success can be seen in a web-based business to increase user engagement. This paper studies, analyzes and designs learning applications on smart phones with the inclusion of gamification. The design of learning application was made to support...
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