2nd ICLIM - 2017

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    New Dimensions of Users Needs in Academic Libraries: Indian Perspectives.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Muthumari, P.; Chinnasamy, K.; Aravind, S.
    This paper mainly focused on identifying the demand of the library user’s in several aspects. Particularly, gathering information from various types of sources such as print, electronic and digital resources is diverse from individual user. At present scope of academic institutions introduce new courses for demands of the society. In this scenario library users of the institutions are also eager to enrich the knowledge in subject as well as apart from curriculum for their survival. Therefore, they expect more from libraries especially in the part of resource for update their knowledge. Even though the responsibility of the library professionals is help to access information from different type of resources like print or electronic.
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    Highly Cited Papers from India and Sri Lanka: An Altmetric Perspective.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Balasubramani, R.; Abu, K.S.
    t Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are corresponding to conventional, citation-based metrics (Altmetric.com, 2015) .It contains the citations received in wikipedia, bookmarks in mendely, citeulike and other reference management systems and also tracks the sharing of scholarly publications through social media channels such as twitter. This study aims to analyze the complete altmetric activities such as mendely readership, twitter attention etcof the top ten highly cited papers in India and Sri Lanka. Web of science will act as the source for collecting highly cited papers from India and Sri Lanka, The papers with the highest citations along with digital object identifier DOI number from both the countries as on date will be considered for the study. To analyze the altmetric details of the highly cited papers in both the countries, altmerticbookmarklet (a free tool) will be used to collect the altmetric details of these scholarly articles. The findings of the study will highlight the altmetric status of the top ten highly cited articles in India and Sri Lanka, further altmetrics allows tracking the visibility and impact of these articles through social media platforms and reference managers
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    The Expansion of Publication of Newspapers and Periodicals: A Study Based on Newspapers and Periodicals Published in India from 2001-2013.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Abu, K.S.; Jayasekara, P.K.
    Newspapers and periodicals are one of the main sources of information utilized by individuals to keep them up-to-date regarding current happenings in the world and also to know about other information related to entertainment and leisure. The readers of a newspaper or periodical vary with its periodicity and the language. Publishers are mainly focused on the publishing publications with highest demand to achieve maximum profits. Hence, the identification of existing publication trend is important to become a successful publisher and to achieve huge reader population. Thus, the main objective of this study is to identify the most popular periodicity and language of newspapers and periodicals. The data for this study were extracted from the database namely Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India (data.gov.in). To identify the expansion of publication of newspapers and periodicals, data were extracted from OGD secondary database from 2001 to 2013 period. The findings revealed that the periodicals which published on weekly basis followed by monthly basis periodicals were the most popular throughout the considered period. In terms of language of the publication from 2001-2013 Hindi language periodicals had the highest number of publications which is followed by English language publications. Consequently, publishers must focus on publishing Hindi and English language periodicals published weekly and monthly basis to achieve vast reader population and to generate enormous profit.