...Neena Sondhi; Himanshu Joshi Purpose This study aims to segment and profile young internet addicts in India and examine their state of well-being. Design/methodology/approach Young’s Internet Addiction Test was adapted to identify and profile cohorts among the internet addicts. Diener’s...

... are the major grey document types archived. In India, a significant contributor to the BASE index with 146 open-access sources, reviewed literature is the largest archived document types, and grey literature is above world average due to the presence of theses and dissertations at repositories of academic...

... was conducted in Nagpur, Maharashtra (India). Data collected from 150 management students through purposive sampling were analyzed through descriptive statistics, and the responses were presented in tabular form. Findings The investigation reveals that students are well aware of e-resources and consider...

.... At present, it is hosted and managed by Informatics India Ltd. (2016) , while earlier this function was served by Nucsoft Ltd. (2014) . Koha was initially mainly used for cataloging, circulation and suggestions management but, since 2015, attempts have been made to also automate acquisition activities...

...Nihar Kanta Patra Purpose This paper aims to examine and analyse the status and differences in different components of e-resources management of business/management school libraries in India. It also examines the factors responsible for criteria/methods used in the life cycle of e-resources and e...

... in-house operations of the library. NETLIB consists of modules on acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, serials, article indexing and online public access catalogue (OPAC). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 India Library automation Aligarh Management Institute...

... to conduct further studies in this area. The present study was planned to identify whether user demographic characteristics, computer skills, user education, user assistance and user-friendly OPACs had any influence on user satisfaction. No study has been undertaken to date in university libraries of India...

...Preedip Balaji Babu; M. Krishnamurthy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the paradigm shift of library automation to resource discovery by exploring the applications of resource discovery. The present status of India on adapting resource discovery applications is discussed. Design...

... of the present study then is to analyze the content of library websites of the technical university libraries in North India in order to ascertain how effectively the libraries are utilizing their respective websites to provide easy access to electronic journals subscribed by the library and other open source...

...Surendran Cherukodan; G. Santhosh Kumar; S. Humayoon Kabir Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of a digital library at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India, using DSpace open source software. The study covers the structure, contents...

...Shiv Kumar; Ranjana Vohra Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the manner and purposes for which users search the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) in the University Libraries of India. The study is a comparative analysis of the use of OPAC in three universities located...

...M. Madhusudhan; V. Nagabhushanam Purpose This purpose of this paper is to present the current state and use of the web by university libraries in India and to examine the web‐based library services offered by some university libraries in different sections via their websites with the help of web...

... for the geoscience community and educational users in India. Design/methodology/approach The system is based on open source software (GSDL, Apache, PERL, JRE). GeoTheses can be used both in offline mode (i.e. self‐installable CD‐ROM) and online through the web. Findings The findings of this study suggest...

... and information science. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Web citation Persistence LIS literature India Web sites Information management In India the internet has emerged as one technology that is influencing every sphere of human activity. The internet started in India in 1994...

... University, India. Design/methodology/approach In this qualitative study data were gathered through questionnaire and interviews from Distance Learners of IGNOU to access the actual requirement of Distance Learners for various m‐library services in the present scenario. The study is guided conceptually...

... for all management modules. The paper also seeks to compare services and facilities and technologies incorporated in library automation packages. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports on a survey of software vendors in Delhi, India, aimed at knowing about the different features of the six...

...H.R. Sujatha; H. Shivananda Murthy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of electronic information sources (EIS) and the need for end‐user training in the Fisheries Sciences institutions of South India. Design/methodology/approach This paper was conducted using...

.... Since open access journals have no restrictions of copyright and licensing they have been successful in removing the barriers for serious scientific research (Suber, 2009). Open systems Electronic publishing Worldwide web Information science Economics India There has been a sea...

...Dillip K. Swain Purpose This study aims to focus on the keenness of students of business schools of Orissa (India) on the use of electronic resources and attempts to evaluate the level of electronic information services offered by the primary information reserves of the respective business schools...

...Margam Madhusudhan Purpose This paper focuses on the use of e‐resources by research scholars of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (India). The main aim is to determine the use of e‐resources, users' skills in handling e‐resources, and the purpose of their use. Further, the paper aims...