1st ICLIM - 2016
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Item 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.Item Electronic Information Resources Utilization by Medical Students in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Library, Faculty of Medicine(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rajapaksha, M.P.This study evaluated the utilization of electronic information resources in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Library by Medical students by addressing four objectives namely; identifying the awareness of e-resources by Medical students in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, determining the level of use and the relevance of e-resources in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Medical library, identifying the problems in accessing e-resources and lastly proposing strategies to promote the usage of e-resources by Medical students. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to elicit data from undergraduate students from Medical faculty of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. One hundred and eighty respondents participated in the study. Data was collected by use of questionnaires personally circulated among the students and various documents analysis. The study found that majority of medical students, i.e. 80 (69.6%) did not aware about the available e-resources at the library. Further it was revealed that majority of the participants (67%) prefer to access both electronic and print version of information but whereas a few of the respondents 10 (8.7%) prefer to access print version of information. The main problem associated with accessing e-resources was poor internet connection. In addition, the utilization of e-resources was affected by lack of computer skills by the respondents. Results shows that more than half of the respondents (76%) had computer skills in intermediate level. Only 3.5% rated their computer skills as experienced. It is quite interesting, that the majority of the respondents (53%) use e-resourcesweekly. The above findings suggest limited use of electronic resources by Medical students, mainly due to unawareness of available e-resources at the library. In order to exploit the full potential of e-resources, the library should undertake a more active role in informing, promoting, and educating the members of the academic community in the university.