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Design and Development of Digital Repository of Biodiversity for Bharathidasan University
(Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2023) Jaya Suriya, Dheva R.S.; Gayathri, S.; Srinivasaragavan, S.
Organizing the information resources into different studies in physical form as well as in a digital form in a library is very much necessary to bring posterity of the knowledge which is available in the public domain. It is very relevant to carry out the collection and organization of specific resources which belong to a particular region and also exhibit the same to make aware of the importance of the resources pertinent to the particular region. It may be of social, it may be of cultural, it may be of historical, or it may be of lingual. In that context, heritage documentation is very relevant. The processes used to make sure that digital materials remain accessible are referred to as "digital preservation." All the procedures designed to maintain the availability of digital biodiversity resources for as long as they are required can be grouped under the umbrella term of digital preservation.
Research Collaboration in Indian Universities: A Bibliometric Analysis of Universities in Tamilnadu State
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Srinivasaragavan, S.; Dorairajan, M.
This study examines the growth of Publications, Citation ranking, and h-index of Universities in Tamilnadu. Web of Science provides significantly more coverage of University publications and generate the Citations, Self Citations. During 1989-2016 Tamilnadu Universities have contributed 39336 Publications and received 3, 73,843 Citations. 288 papers are cited more than 100 times. The range of Self Citations is 5 Percent to 20 Percentage. An average citation per Article 9.50 was observed among Universities that are engaged in active research. The bibliometric/Scientometric studies are frequently used to assess the research publicationsand to analyze the growth of contributions and collaborations. The analysis reviews that “Anna University” has highest publications (9376) stake and secures first rank with highest citations (87426) and h-index (91), it is followed by “University of Madras” with 7962 publications and having citations of 75621 and h-index of 81. It is also found that “Mother Terasa University” at last position with a meager contribution of just 27 publications with h-index of 3 during the study period. Among the second phase universities funded by UGC, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli at top position with 3471 publications having 36621 citations and h-index of 70. It is also revealed that Bharathidasan University secured second position (6525) publications with a share of self-citations (17.82 %) while “Annamalai University” at top with 10,703 (19.05 %). This study also reveals that Gandhigram Rural University (16.54%) and Bharathidasan University (10.55%) are in first and second position in terms of highest average citation per article respectively. The highest individual citation for a research paper is 671, which belongs to “Anna University”, followed by Bharathiar University and Tamilnadu Agriculture University with 643 and 563 citations respectively for a single paper. It is also found that the collaboration between the conventional Universities is established. There is no collaboration between the professional Universities except “Anna University”. Bharathidasan University has highest collaboration with “Anna University” and “Madurai Kamaraj University”. This analysis also reveals that Anna University has highest citation of 8841 publications with 2389 research institutions from 63 countries and received research funding from 1533 from national and international agencies. It is followed by Bharathidasan University having collaboration with 1164 research organizations from 55 countries and received funding from 734 agencies. It is also known that all the surveyed Universities are having collaboration with hundreds of research institutes and received research funding except M.G.R Medical University.
Research on Himalayas: A Scientometric Analysis
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kambaraman, B.; Srinivasaragavan, S.
Himalayas is one of the largest mountain ranges which spread across many countries in South and South East Asia having highest peaks in the world. It is aimed at identifying the range of research activities taking place on the Zoological, Botanical, Social, Natural and Geological aspects of the Himalayas, particularly documented in high impact journals and reputed publications across the world. To ensure the assessment of qualitative research documented on Himalayas, the researcher chosen the prominent and highly acclaimed indexing source of scientific research that is Web of Science, which is indexing 13,975 journals globally. The data downloaded for the years 1989-2016, a period of 28 years would reveal that there is a gradual growth with slight variations on the research output for the study period, particularly the current decade registered exponential growth in a consistent manner and the year 2015 recorded highest amount of research output. It is also found that citation trend correlated with the growth of the literature. As there is a gradual growth on the citations received by the publications on Himalayas research output, the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 registered large number of citations. There are 4,696 publications as the outcome; they received 81,994 Global Citation Score which include 48,478 citing articles with a high h-index of 116. The analysis shows that the research on Himalayas carried out in 115 areas by 10,229 researchers affiliated to 2845 research institutions spread across 94 countries. Of the total of 4696 publciations; 2151 articles are as the outcome of research funding from various agencies across the world. It is revealed from the study that the top countries alone contributed more than 50 % of the research, while India (40.2 %), USA (17.2 %) and People R China (14.9 %) were in top three positions. With regard to funding on Himalayas research, China (17.76 %) contributed a major stake which followed by USA (5.67 %), next holds India (2.70 %). With regard to research areas Geology (20.87 %), Environmental Sciences Ecology (14.16 %), Plant Science (9.73 %) are the top major areas in which the Himalayas research outcome is documented.