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    Awareness on Online Learning Management among Students and Scholarly Professionals
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kumar, K.
    Due to the extensive utilization of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) in deliveringlearning and instruction, learning is no longer bounded by designated time and space as it was previouslyperceived. In addition, continuous lifelong learning has been regarded as a pivotal belief to ensure the profitableaccomplishment of individuals, organizations, and countries. As a result, the notion of lifelong learning has again foundthe slot in the contemporaryinformation and knowledge-based era. Accordingly, driven by the demands forlearning opportunities to fulfill the needs of resurgent lifelong learning, the practitioners in the fields of trainingand education are striving for a more flexible and adaptive learning approach. Online Learning, subsequently, haswitnessed an exponential growth throughout the world in recent years. The primary goal of this study was to understand students and scholarly perceptions of online learning value.Quality online programs and global partnerships enable best practices institutions to develop professional adult educators and invest in faculty development of scholar-practitioners. This paper reported that the findings of a small-scale study that documented the awareness of online learning among students and scholarly professionals.
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    Veterinary Science Research Productivity through PubMed Database: A Scientometric Study.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Kumar, K.; Bondge, M.B.
    This paper aims to observe and associate the journal research output on ‘Veterinary Science’ field by the researchers worldwide. The chosen study period is 10 years (2007-2016) and PubMed is the source database for this study. During the study period a total of 32,488 publications were made in the Veterinary science discipline and United States (USA) is the top producing country with 12,211articles followed by England with 11,214 papers and Netherlands with 4,561 publications respectively. Most research papers were published in English language (32,305) followed by Chinese (139).Wang J (400), Wang Y (357) and Zhang Y (352) were the authors with more numbers of publications in this discipline. (number of publications indicated in parenthesis).Focusing onto publication type Journal Articles (12,675) Research articles (9,826) and Review articles (3,230) were the most predominantly published in the study field. This study also provides an inventory and scientometrics dimensions of publications using Bibexcel Software tool, and analyzed author’s ranking through Zipf’s Law.