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Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi eBooks, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that will support the internationa... more The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that will support the international development community in its efforts to establish web-based knowledge management platforms that maximise the opportunities offered by the recent surge of web 2.0 technologies. In order to develop such a framework, the paper reviews the key concepts that define knowledge management practices, and attempts to understand the constraints that currently limit the application of these practices in the development sector, as well as the emerging opportunities offered by the growth of web 2.0 technologies. The result of this effort has been the establishment of the Triangle of Dichotomies. By moulding the strengths of web 2.0 technologies to the uniqueness of the development sector, the Triangle of Dichotomies offers development practitioners a lens to assess strengths, weaknesses and latent opportunities of web-based knowledge management structures according to specific user needs and contextual particularities. You can't manage knowledge-nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied. (Collins and Parcell 2007, pp. 24-25
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2008
Indian journal of malariology, 1990
All the major world organizations have recognized the vital role that a woman plays in educating ... more All the major world organizations have recognized the vital role that a woman plays in educating the entire family & also in maintaining its health in a developing country. Indian women have excelled in almost all fields they are storming Information and Technology field , the number of women in computing and internet industries has registered a sharp rise. While presenting the hardcore figures about the women’s enrollment in higher education system in different faculties; relative presence of women as scientific and technical staff in various institutions; recognition by various reputed national agencies; motivation and constraints to opt for science are also focused in this study. As an output Indicator, Publication analysis of Women scientist has also been presented.
Annals of library science and documentation, 1987
A partir des demandes de documents transmises a l'Indian National Scientific Documentation Ce... more A partir des demandes de documents transmises a l'Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC) entre 1980 et 1985, une etude a permis d'identifier les 113 revues, sur les 2093 periodiques de physique revues, qui constituent la litterature cœur du domaine. Cette enquete permet d'etablir les disponibilites de cette litterature cœur sur le territoire indien
Library Herald, 2009
Precisely, this is what Professor P N Kaula a Kashmiri Pandit dreamt, realized and did before lea... more Precisely, this is what Professor P N Kaula a Kashmiri Pandit dreamt, realized and did before leaving for heavenly abode. A man with a roaring voice who could influence everyone with his charismatic discourses and in depth knowledge on any conceivable topic. A stalwart whose persona was larger than life, indeed a living legend and example for many not only in the profession but outside of it too.
Current Science, 2002
Science and technology (S&T) is being practised today in a collaborative manner with participatio... more Science and technology (S&T) is being practised today in a collaborative manner with participation of scientists from different disciplines, institutions and countries. To combat the problems of pollution, environment, energy, biodiversity, health and nutrition, many countries in the world, particularly the developing countries, need cooperation and support from other developed countries. Thus, collaboration in S&T is fast emerging as the keyword in the scientific world. India had recognized the importance of international scientific collaboration quite early and considers it an important instrument for the development of S&T in India. As a result, India has signed a number of collaboration agreements on S&T with many countries, including South Asian countries. In this article, a study on the outputs of S&T collaborations is presented through the analysis of co-authored research papers published during the period 1992-99 in the journals covered by the Science Citation Index. The stu...
Global business challenges and expeditious growth of Internet services especially in the last dec... more Global business challenges and expeditious growth of Internet services especially in the last decade have driven business organizations to seek an emerging technology for doing business.
The proliferation of scholarly materials is acknowledged by all stakeholders. The tremendous grow... more The proliferation of scholarly materials is acknowledged by all stakeholders. The tremendous growth in the size is coupled with cost escalation of the primary journal literature. The rise in size and price has subsequently resulted in the current scholarly communication system becoming more and more unaffordable and has forced academic libraries over the last several decades to cancel existing serial titles and buy fewer books. The situation attributes that the crisis in the scholarly communication system not only intimidates the welfare of libraries, but also it perils the academic community’s aptitude to do world-class research.
The big data phenomenon is continuously evolving, so is its entire ecosystem. In the recent past ... more The big data phenomenon is continuously evolving, so is its entire ecosystem. In the recent past due to the advancing technologies/resources cropping up on all fronts, we have moved from data deficit to data deluge . The real challenge is in deriving benefits from the data tsunami for public good. Thus, it is imperative to build infrastructure to store and process humongous data. It is equally important to evolve innovative mechanisms for data analytics to draw inferences that can facilitate smart research and good decision making landscape. The paper dwells on some of the core elements of the big data ecosystem and endeavors to present the current scenario by identifying and portraying various initiatives to address big data boom.
A research workers usually consults the available literature in his subject to keep himself abrea... more A research workers usually consults the available literature in his subject to keep himself abreast of the latest developments. The relevant literature scanned by him gets subsequently reflected in his papers . This being the usual practice, it can be assured that the references cited by an author indicate the availability of literature to him - recent or otherwise. Again, it has been generally found that the older scientific literature is used to a lesser extent than the recent ones - this phenomenon has been demonstrated in the "time distribution of the scientific literature references" [1], in the "received citations of journal articles" [2] and in the "library use data" [3]. In other words, generally the decrease in the number of citations is connected with the decrease of scientific value, barring a few exceptional cases. Investigating the "citedness of science literature" from the past 100 years, De Solla Price came to the conclusion tha...
The Information and Knowledge Society theme is emerging from strategic problems occurring in the ... more The Information and Knowledge Society theme is emerging from strategic problems occurring in the real world such as, massive intergenerational knowledge transfers, serious risks of knowledge loss with massive retirements, development of competitiveness based on innovation, knowledge based economy, political and social problems due to cognitive divide, massive intrusion in the social community of ICT, and so on. The present paper is based on the deliberations of an international brainstorming seminar on Mobilising the Information and Knowledge Society (IKS), with Indo-French crossed perspectives as the initial funnelling concepts relating to the core issue of IKS. Endeavours have been made in this paper to highlight the critical issues that would eventually form basis for conducting research and addressing some of the challenges rising during the seminar and have been included in this paper. The paper also projects the possible risks associated with the knowledge crash. Finally attem...
Annals of library science and documentation, 1992
Though SCI includes about 3000 & T journals in its database every year, it does not show a good c... more Though SCI includes about 3000 & T journals in its database every year, it does not show a good coverage of journals from the developing countries. In 1988 only 11 Indian journals were covered in SCI. This figure varies from year to year. The present study shows that the impact factors of Indian journals obtained from JCR are probably not true reflections of the quality of Indian journals
The holy river Ganga passing through five states, is one of the most polluted rivers. Over exploi... more The holy river Ganga passing through five states, is one of the most polluted rivers. Over exploitation and Abstraction of water for various purposes coupled with direct discharge of untreated wastewater has completely deteriorated the quality of water. In comparison to other pollutants, industrial effluents are the most dangerous threat to the natural ecosystem of the Holy river. The paper focuses on Tannery industry which is categorized as red-category industry. These tanneries no longer use environment-friendly vegetable dyes for tanning leather they instead use highly toxic chromium which is discharged directly into the river untreated. The paper has also tried to explain the effects of the pollutants on the environment and the natural ecosystem of the river and suggested to adopt some innovative measures like generation of biogas from the waste, adopting phyto-remediation technology and development of integrated plan for waste water disposal and treatment.
High demand core journals in chemistry and chemical technology were identified through the analys... more High demand core journals in chemistry and chemical technology were identified through the analysis of document copy requests received by Insdoc during 1980-1985. It was found that only 131 identified journals out of 759 chemistry journals could satisfy a majority of document demand in chemistry and chemical technolgy. The list of 131 COre journals is also compared favourably with the rank list of the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) and also with that of the Science Citation Index (fCR 1984).
Le facteur d'impact, indicateur bibliometrique mesurant l'influence d'un periodique t... more Le facteur d'impact, indicateur bibliometrique mesurant l'influence d'un periodique traite dans la base SCI (Science Citation Index) (par une methode d'analyse de citations) est applicable aux journaux non-SCI. Proposition de la methode appliquee, au periodique «Indian Journal of Malariology». Enjeu de cette mesure d'influence pour cette categorie de periodiques
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi eBooks, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that will support the internationa... more The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that will support the international development community in its efforts to establish web-based knowledge management platforms that maximise the opportunities offered by the recent surge of web 2.0 technologies. In order to develop such a framework, the paper reviews the key concepts that define knowledge management practices, and attempts to understand the constraints that currently limit the application of these practices in the development sector, as well as the emerging opportunities offered by the growth of web 2.0 technologies. The result of this effort has been the establishment of the Triangle of Dichotomies. By moulding the strengths of web 2.0 technologies to the uniqueness of the development sector, the Triangle of Dichotomies offers development practitioners a lens to assess strengths, weaknesses and latent opportunities of web-based knowledge management structures according to specific user needs and contextual particularities. You can't manage knowledge-nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied. (Collins and Parcell 2007, pp. 24-25
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2008
Indian journal of malariology, 1990
All the major world organizations have recognized the vital role that a woman plays in educating ... more All the major world organizations have recognized the vital role that a woman plays in educating the entire family & also in maintaining its health in a developing country. Indian women have excelled in almost all fields they are storming Information and Technology field , the number of women in computing and internet industries has registered a sharp rise. While presenting the hardcore figures about the women’s enrollment in higher education system in different faculties; relative presence of women as scientific and technical staff in various institutions; recognition by various reputed national agencies; motivation and constraints to opt for science are also focused in this study. As an output Indicator, Publication analysis of Women scientist has also been presented.
Annals of library science and documentation, 1987
A partir des demandes de documents transmises a l'Indian National Scientific Documentation Ce... more A partir des demandes de documents transmises a l'Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC) entre 1980 et 1985, une etude a permis d'identifier les 113 revues, sur les 2093 periodiques de physique revues, qui constituent la litterature cœur du domaine. Cette enquete permet d'etablir les disponibilites de cette litterature cœur sur le territoire indien
Library Herald, 2009
Precisely, this is what Professor P N Kaula a Kashmiri Pandit dreamt, realized and did before lea... more Precisely, this is what Professor P N Kaula a Kashmiri Pandit dreamt, realized and did before leaving for heavenly abode. A man with a roaring voice who could influence everyone with his charismatic discourses and in depth knowledge on any conceivable topic. A stalwart whose persona was larger than life, indeed a living legend and example for many not only in the profession but outside of it too.
Current Science, 2002
Science and technology (S&T) is being practised today in a collaborative manner with participatio... more Science and technology (S&T) is being practised today in a collaborative manner with participation of scientists from different disciplines, institutions and countries. To combat the problems of pollution, environment, energy, biodiversity, health and nutrition, many countries in the world, particularly the developing countries, need cooperation and support from other developed countries. Thus, collaboration in S&T is fast emerging as the keyword in the scientific world. India had recognized the importance of international scientific collaboration quite early and considers it an important instrument for the development of S&T in India. As a result, India has signed a number of collaboration agreements on S&T with many countries, including South Asian countries. In this article, a study on the outputs of S&T collaborations is presented through the analysis of co-authored research papers published during the period 1992-99 in the journals covered by the Science Citation Index. The stu...
Global business challenges and expeditious growth of Internet services especially in the last dec... more Global business challenges and expeditious growth of Internet services especially in the last decade have driven business organizations to seek an emerging technology for doing business.
The proliferation of scholarly materials is acknowledged by all stakeholders. The tremendous grow... more The proliferation of scholarly materials is acknowledged by all stakeholders. The tremendous growth in the size is coupled with cost escalation of the primary journal literature. The rise in size and price has subsequently resulted in the current scholarly communication system becoming more and more unaffordable and has forced academic libraries over the last several decades to cancel existing serial titles and buy fewer books. The situation attributes that the crisis in the scholarly communication system not only intimidates the welfare of libraries, but also it perils the academic community’s aptitude to do world-class research.
The big data phenomenon is continuously evolving, so is its entire ecosystem. In the recent past ... more The big data phenomenon is continuously evolving, so is its entire ecosystem. In the recent past due to the advancing technologies/resources cropping up on all fronts, we have moved from data deficit to data deluge . The real challenge is in deriving benefits from the data tsunami for public good. Thus, it is imperative to build infrastructure to store and process humongous data. It is equally important to evolve innovative mechanisms for data analytics to draw inferences that can facilitate smart research and good decision making landscape. The paper dwells on some of the core elements of the big data ecosystem and endeavors to present the current scenario by identifying and portraying various initiatives to address big data boom.
A research workers usually consults the available literature in his subject to keep himself abrea... more A research workers usually consults the available literature in his subject to keep himself abreast of the latest developments. The relevant literature scanned by him gets subsequently reflected in his papers . This being the usual practice, it can be assured that the references cited by an author indicate the availability of literature to him - recent or otherwise. Again, it has been generally found that the older scientific literature is used to a lesser extent than the recent ones - this phenomenon has been demonstrated in the "time distribution of the scientific literature references" [1], in the "received citations of journal articles" [2] and in the "library use data" [3]. In other words, generally the decrease in the number of citations is connected with the decrease of scientific value, barring a few exceptional cases. Investigating the "citedness of science literature" from the past 100 years, De Solla Price came to the conclusion tha...
The Information and Knowledge Society theme is emerging from strategic problems occurring in the ... more The Information and Knowledge Society theme is emerging from strategic problems occurring in the real world such as, massive intergenerational knowledge transfers, serious risks of knowledge loss with massive retirements, development of competitiveness based on innovation, knowledge based economy, political and social problems due to cognitive divide, massive intrusion in the social community of ICT, and so on. The present paper is based on the deliberations of an international brainstorming seminar on Mobilising the Information and Knowledge Society (IKS), with Indo-French crossed perspectives as the initial funnelling concepts relating to the core issue of IKS. Endeavours have been made in this paper to highlight the critical issues that would eventually form basis for conducting research and addressing some of the challenges rising during the seminar and have been included in this paper. The paper also projects the possible risks associated with the knowledge crash. Finally attem...
Annals of library science and documentation, 1992
Though SCI includes about 3000 & T journals in its database every year, it does not show a good c... more Though SCI includes about 3000 & T journals in its database every year, it does not show a good coverage of journals from the developing countries. In 1988 only 11 Indian journals were covered in SCI. This figure varies from year to year. The present study shows that the impact factors of Indian journals obtained from JCR are probably not true reflections of the quality of Indian journals
The holy river Ganga passing through five states, is one of the most polluted rivers. Over exploi... more The holy river Ganga passing through five states, is one of the most polluted rivers. Over exploitation and Abstraction of water for various purposes coupled with direct discharge of untreated wastewater has completely deteriorated the quality of water. In comparison to other pollutants, industrial effluents are the most dangerous threat to the natural ecosystem of the Holy river. The paper focuses on Tannery industry which is categorized as red-category industry. These tanneries no longer use environment-friendly vegetable dyes for tanning leather they instead use highly toxic chromium which is discharged directly into the river untreated. The paper has also tried to explain the effects of the pollutants on the environment and the natural ecosystem of the river and suggested to adopt some innovative measures like generation of biogas from the waste, adopting phyto-remediation technology and development of integrated plan for waste water disposal and treatment.
High demand core journals in chemistry and chemical technology were identified through the analys... more High demand core journals in chemistry and chemical technology were identified through the analysis of document copy requests received by Insdoc during 1980-1985. It was found that only 131 identified journals out of 759 chemistry journals could satisfy a majority of document demand in chemistry and chemical technolgy. The list of 131 COre journals is also compared favourably with the rank list of the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) and also with that of the Science Citation Index (fCR 1984).
Le facteur d'impact, indicateur bibliometrique mesurant l'influence d'un periodique t... more Le facteur d'impact, indicateur bibliometrique mesurant l'influence d'un periodique traite dans la base SCI (Science Citation Index) (par une methode d'analyse de citations) est applicable aux journaux non-SCI. Proposition de la methode appliquee, au periodique «Indian Journal of Malariology». Enjeu de cette mesure d'influence pour cette categorie de periodiques