Three commercially available Management/Business related online full text databases i.e EBSCO BSC, ABI-Inform Complete from Proquest and Infotrac Management Collection from Gale-Cengage have been analysed in terms of coverage of... more
Three commercially available Management/Business related online full text databases i.e EBSCO BSC, ABI-Inform Complete from Proquest and Infotrac Management Collection from Gale-Cengage have been analysed in terms of coverage of information sources. The various parameters analysed among the 10 parameters include common periodicals (duplicate) between the databases, coverage in type of information sources indexed i.e Journals, Magazines, Theses & Dissertations, Case Studies, etc. The analysis gives a ‘inside view’ of the databases so that any institution wishing to subscribe to Business and Management related online full text databases will get useful information for decision making.
Commercially available Online databases in Management/Business related online full text databases i.e EBSCO BSC, ABI-Inform Complete from Proquest and Infotrac Management Collection from Gale-Cengage have been analysed in terms of... more
Commercially available Online databases in Management/Business related online full text databases i.e EBSCO BSC, ABI-Inform Complete from Proquest and Infotrac Management Collection from Gale-Cengage have been analysed in terms of coverage of information sources. The various parameters analysed among the 10 parameters include periodicals with Open source, embargo and in terms of coverage like case studies, conference proceedings, trade publications, etc. The analysis gives a ‘inside view’ of the databases so that any institution wishing to subscribe to Business and Management related online full text databases will get useful information for decision making
Traces the history of Press clippings service over the years and migration from manual to Digitisation using Drupal Content Management system. The advantages of digitisation over manual methods are discussed. The Bibliographic fields... more
Traces the history of Press clippings service over the years and migration from manual to Digitisation using Drupal Content Management system. The advantages of digitisation over manual methods are discussed. The Bibliographic fields indexed and Screen shots of the software show the various options, facilities and display formats available in the system
The article traces the development of Intranet website at Central Library, Services provided and usage. Usage statistics have been obtained from Webserver log files. The analysis of the statistics reveals how the users have increased over... more
The article traces the development of Intranet website at Central Library, Services provided and usage. Usage statistics have been obtained from Webserver log files. The analysis of the statistics reveals how the users have increased over the time and what are the main services they use on the website
The paper discusses free online websites which help researchers and librarians to download research publications like Journals articles, conference proceedings etc uploaded by authors. It consists of two parts; Part A lists the Websites... more
The paper discusses free online websites which help researchers and librarians to download research publications like Journals articles, conference proceedings etc uploaded by authors. It consists of two parts; Part A lists the Websites with brief description and links which include major websites in Research Networking, e-print servers and Open Source Resource search engine/gateways. Part B includes user study conducted on awareness and usage of Research Networking websites by Research Scholars of Alliance University. The results reveal that only three websites i.e. researchgate.net, academia.edu and ssrn.com are very popular and mostly used by them
The paper presents some low-cost innovations that can be experimented to provide better services to the users. This includes low cost computing using Raspberry Pi board, developing Green Libraries, ideas to generate more revenue and... more
The paper presents some low-cost innovations that can be experimented to provide better services to the users. This includes low cost computing using Raspberry Pi board, developing Green Libraries, ideas to generate more revenue and attract users by viewing Library as a mall/Marketplace. It also includes ideas on facilities for persons with disability and library working environment like MediaWiki. Many of the ideas have been tested and used in the library and were successful in achieving the desired goals.
The paper attempts to analyse the research contribution of Professor Dipankar Das Sarma, formerly J.N. Tata Chair Professor, SSCU, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru as obtained from Scopus & Web of Science (WoS) database. In total of... more
The paper attempts to analyse the research contribution of Professor Dipankar Das Sarma, formerly J.N. Tata Chair Professor, SSCU, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru as obtained from Scopus & Web of Science (WoS) database. In total of 42 productive years, he has 482 publications and 10 patents (up to September 2020) and highest number of articles were published in the year 2016 with 20 articles at the age of 61. He has h-index of 70 as per Scopus. His publications during 1979-2020 were analyzed by publication productivity, authorship pattern, scattering of publications and the keywords used in the titles of his papers.
Three commercially available Management/Business related online full text databases i.e EBSCO BSC, ABI-Inform Complete from Proquest and Infotrac Management Collection from Gale-Cengage have been analysed in terms of coverage of... more
Three commercially available Management/Business related online full text databases i.e EBSCO BSC, ABI-Inform Complete from Proquest and Infotrac Management Collection from Gale-Cengage have been analysed in terms of coverage of information sources. The various parameters analysed among the 10 parameters include common periodicals (duplicate) between the databases, coverage in type of information sources indexed i.e Journals, Magazines, Theses & Dissertations, Case Studies, etc. The analysis gives a ‘inside view’ of the databases so that any institution wishing to subscribe to Business and Management related online full text databases will get useful information for decision making.
