Bhaskar Mukherjee

• Ph.D., MLIS, B.Sc.
• Professor at Banaras Hindu University

This study is designed to assess the disciplinary difference of cited-citing references of Indic origin open access journals namely Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics (IJPAP), Journal of Chemical Science (JCS) and Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IJPAM) in terms of source, authorship, subject diversity, accessibility, citatio...

Electronic information resources are increasingly become an important component of the collection-building activities of libraries. This paper attempts to understand how far the licenses of commercial publishers support resource optimisation in general and what other important issues that are usually ignored by publishers, knowingly or unknowingly,...

Qualitative scientific journals play a vital role in scholarly communication processes. However, during the last few years, there is a mushroom growth of journals in every discipline in India. There has been no single source of systematic advice on how to measure the scientific value of Indian journals. The present study is an attempt to minimize t...

Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) is an increasingly popular composite altmetric measure, which is being criticized for an inappropriate and arbitrary aggregation of different altmetric sources into a single measure. We examined this issue empirically, by testing unidimensionality and the component structure congruence of the five ‘key’ AAS component...

India is perhaps unique amongst developing countries in having established a distinct science identity since last few centuries. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is an autonomous body established in 1942 with the aim of providing strong S&T base for the industry, strategic sectors and advancement of fundamental knowledge. Th...

There is an increasing recognition of the value of knowledge and information to individuals, organizations and communities. Individuals are more adept at identifying, locating, interpreting and using knowledge. As knowledge has become a central productive and strategic asset, the success of all types of organizations is increasingly depend on their...

This chapter provides an overview of different types of organizational knowledge along with the strategy for managing each type of knowledge in libraries. Knowledge is categorized as tacit explicit, procedural, and cultural. Knowledge management (KM) strategies are broadly classified as codification and personalization. KM strategy has three critic...

This chapter outlines the importance of knowledge management (KM) in libraries. The concept of KM, its potential implications, benefits for libraries, and major challenges for librarians are examined from the viewpoint of library practitioners.

The Chhattisgarh State was formed in 2001 carved out from the then Madhya Pradesh. Ever since its establishment as a fully fledged state, a considerable number of academic institutions have sprungup. To promote education a Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have been established along with unive...

The purpose of this paper was to identify the existing criteria of various conventional databases that are considered in evaluating journals in the scholarship of library & information science (LIS) journals and accordingly developed a tool box to evaluate some selected journals of LIS in South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) coun...

The aim of this study was to conduct a unified investigation of various, previously mostly individually studied scientific article title characteristics, like: title length, type, amusement and pleasantness, and specific title 'markers' (e.g. colons, attention-grabbing words etc.) in relation to subsequent article citation and download rates. Based...

This paper examines the characteristics of 462 open access (OA) journals being published in India under the green, gold and hybrid models. The sample of journals was selected from DOAJ, IndianJournal.com and Open J-Gate. Journal characteristics were measured in terms of growth, subjects, publishers, and citations under each model. While characteris...

New technological innovations have made the publishing of ideas easy, while maintaining protection of the published content has become a concerning issue. Plagiarism is an emerging issue in the digital era. The intention of writing this chapter is to explore various tools and projects that enable an author to know:1) that their work is original; 2)...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and validate the competencies perceived to be essential for library and information science (LIS) professionals keeping in view the needs of knowledge management (KM) applications in Indian academic libraries. Design/methodology/approach After reviewing relevant literature on the topic, a list of 25...

The purpose of this paper is to examine librarians' perceptions of knowledge management, including its concept, potential applications, benefits and major challenges of its applications in Indian academic libraries. A structured questionnaire, containing both open and close-ended questions, was sent by postal mail to 30 librarians of academic libra...

The paper presents the bibliometric characteristics including authorship pattern, citations received and relative performance of Prof. Lalji Singh an eminent Indian scientist in the field of genome analysis, DNA finger printing, etc. The study is based on the publication data indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. Results show that 222 unique articl...

The purpose of this paper is to examine librarians' perceptions of knowledge management, including its concept, potential applications, benefits and major challenges of its applications in Indian academic libraries. A structured questionnaire, containing both open and close-ended questions, was sent by postal mail to 30 librarians of academic libra...

This paper aims to understand the knowledge strategies followed by libraries of the central universities and Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) in India. For the purpose of identifying the most used KM strategies in academic libraries, 14 indicator variables were identified from the review of literature and retained for analysis. A total of 45 e...

For a long time, India has been generating a great deal of scholarly resources in all disciplines. After independence, there was a lot of investment in science and technology, and S&T were used to leverage development efforts and to improve the standard of living. However, one in four Indians still lives below the poverty line. There is a considera...

With the development of information communication technologies, a number of alternative strategies to the traditional scholarly publishing system have been evolved. Among these, Open Access (OA) model which promise to be extremely advantageous to peers everywhere, especially to those who have acute shortage of resources for purchasing scholarly lit...

Using various web analyzer tools like Google Trends, Yahoo Site Explorer, Alexa and Smartviper, the present study assesses the usability and accessibility of three popular Indian commercial websites, rediff.com, indiatimes.com and sify.com. It was found that rediff.com is more used among the three. It was also found that for the three websites, que...

The purpose of this paper is to explore library professionals’ perceptions of knowledge management concepts, its applications and their perceived challenges to incorporate it into academic library practices. The study is based on the review of literature and the results of web-based survey of sixty-four library professionals of thirty academic libr...

Open access publishing is growing in importance, and, in parallel, the role of institutional archives has come to the forefront of discussion within the library community. The present study is an attempt to analyse the present trend of institutional archives worldwide. The factual data of each individual repository was collected from various Direct...

Scientific discoveries, new techniques and improved approaches have rapidly expanded every field of science including environmental science. Like all other discipline, the field environmental science too has matured through number of major phases. The subject which earlier was largely discipline oriented are now changed to system-oriented phenomena...

Attempts to identify the users’ requirement of online journals in general and to know the use of onlin e journals that are available through UGC-Infonet e-journals consortium in particular. A questionnaire survey was conducted amongst 100 research scholars of various departments like history, political science, sociology, psychology and economics a...

This paper highlights the quantitative performance of scholarly LIS research in Asian countries based on articles published during 2001–2007 in journals indexed by the Social Science Citation Index of Web of Knowledge. The quantitative performance of Asian countries has been judged and compared on the basis of various quantitative indicators: (a) s...

The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) has been playing a vital role in the dissemination of scholarly articles in library and information science since 1950. This paper presents the results of a bibliometric study of articles published in the JASIST from 2000 to 2007. It examines the distribution of pap...

Applying webometric techniques to national political party's web sites, the present study is an attempt to judge the popularity of internet and to measure whether internet can be used as a tool in Indian political context. Using Google, Yahoo and Alexa as a tool of measurement, the study measures the popularity of political party's web sites by ana...

The history of scholarly communication is traced, with emphasis on the rise of electronic journals and models of open access publishing.

Using 17 fully open access electronic journals published uninterruptedly during 2000–2004 in the field of Library and Information Science the present study investigated the trend of LIS Open Access e-journals’ literature by analysing articles, authors, institutions, countries, subjects, & references. Quantitative content analysis was carried out on...

Using 17 open-access journals published without interruption between 2000 and 2004 in the field of library and information science, this study compares the pattern of cited/citing hyperlinked references of Web-based scholarly electronic articles under various citation ranges in terms of language, file format, source and top-level domain. While the...

Using 17 fully open-access journals published uninterruptedly during 2000 to 2004 in the field of library and information science, the present study investigates the impact of these open-access journals in terms of quantity of articles published, subject distribution of the articles, synchronous and diachronous impact factor, immediacy index, and j...

Investigates the trend of open access journals publishing in the field of library and information science in terms of language, top-level-domain, country and time. Using authoritative print as well as online directories, the study identifies 124 e-journals in the field of LIS that are accessible freely, either partially or fully, on the Web. Of the...

This study presents the publications output of the four most productive Indian academic institutions in the mainstream scientific literature for the eight-year-period 2000-2007. This paper discusses the distribution of publications by institution, type of publication, pattern of co-authorship, and citations. The results show that among the four uni...

Discusses historical background of Internet and pointed out how threats to digitization has increased with the development of Internet. The paper mentioned common symptoms of virus infection and suggests some measures towards protecting computers from virus as recommended by Microsoft and Symantec Corporation. Also lists some authorized anti-virus...