Manu T R

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Librarian at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-assistive tools have become more prevalent in research writings, manuscript preparation, and publishing in current scholarly communication systems. The introduction of AI technology is poised to bring disruptive changes to academic publishing. Since the research community is widely using AI, it is impo...

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are a relatively new mode of research and scholarly communication. ETDs contain the results of at least three years of scientific work, accomplished within a laboratory, a research team or an institute, university or school. These are considered the most invisible form of useful literature and the most use...

Research data is the recorded information generated while conducting research, writing an article, theses and dissertations, and other research processes. Providing access to research data is a challenge for all stakeholders in the research community. Metadata schemas contain metadata properties describing a research data repository, such as genera...

RDM services in India is at the nascent level. Most of the libraries are still exploring opportunities and gaining knowledge in this emerging area to implement RDM services in the future fully. RDR is one of the essential RDM services offered by libraries. In India, there are over 50 RDRs are covered in re3data.org. But the maximum of them are gene...

Games or gamification is an application of the digital humanities that impacts learning and education in the digital era. It has been playing significant roles in user education and promoting the user services of libraries. Libraries conduct several activities to promote library services and educate users on their digital resources and services. Th...

Workshop Report: Mapping of Scholarly Output and its Impact Using Open-Source Software

The Resource Guide is a unified platform curated and administered by subject specialists, librarians, and liaisons, offering users access to a wide array of resources. Traditionally known by various names such as Pathfinder, bibliography, virtual reference collection, online guide, online tutorial, toolkit, or web guide, it serves as a comprehensiv...

The case study provides the current scenario of preprint repositories in India. Preprint repositories are platforms to facilitate researchers to deposit manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published and to receive early feedback and attract the attention to their research at an early stage. In India, preprint repositories are at the nas...

In recent times, Plagiarism Detection Software (hereafter PDS) have emerged as a popular tool for identifying unethical research work. The popular PDS are Turnitin, Ouriginal, iThenticate, DrillBit, etc. Every PDS has its unique features and follows the undisclosed methodology to match the similarity of the published documents. These software have...

The present paper identifies and presents a visual analysis of Research Data Management (RDM) literature published by Indian researchers and indexed in Scopus – the bibliographic and citation database. The researchers have used standard bibliometric methods of measurements to conduct the study such as Bradford’s law, Lotka’s law and Zipf’s Law amon...

Research Data Management (RDM) services in Indian libraries is at a nascent stage. Librarians have started exploring the importance of RDM, researcher perceptions and their own roles and responsibilities for the successful implementation of RDM services in their institutes. The primary objective of this research was to study the prevailing practice...

Although, the massive amount of research data is being generated through modern-day research activities, lack of awareness regarding the documentation, metadata rendering, versioning, file format selection, data cleaning, secure storage options, data deposit templates and making research data easily accessible through research data repositories has...

Research Data Management (RDM) is an essential part of work for researchers. Managing proper researcher data is the key responsibility of any researcher. The appropriate research data management helps in easy access, share and enhance the visibility of research data. Research data is data that observed created and collected for producing the result...

Research information management systems (RIMS) are the emerging new service in academic and research libraries. RIMS support universities and libraries in managing their institute, faculty, and researcher information through a single interface. They also allow the researcher to deposit and share their research with the public and enable the reuse o...

Recent days’ research data is vital sources to demonstrate research integrity & facilitate research data sharing & reuse for future research, which needs to be systematically organized, preserved & made easily accessible through an appropriate pathway. It will full-fill the requirements of publishers, funding agencies, government bodies & more impo...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of the library in enhancing institutional NIRF ranking and focuses on the main role of the libraries and information center practices and services in support of NIRF ranking. This paper points out the impact of various library services including Management of Library and Information Services, Collectio...

An Open Access Week (OAW) celebration provides an opportunity for academic and research community to understand the significance of Open Access (OA) and their involvement in helping to make Open Access a new form of research. In this digital environment, there are new challenges in sharing research result to the public. Open access is free, unrestr...

Distance learning is one of the most important higher educational invocation of the 21 st century and it known by using various e-learning platforms. While the traditional learning system is failing to keep the advanced technologies and tools in learning system E-Learning platforms are emerging as replacement and it provides an opportunity to learn...

Advancement of Technology has more impact on library user services from time to time. The emergence of technology has given many solutions for libraries and the last decade is evidence for introducing latest technologies in libraries. Library 1.0-> Library 2.0-> Library 3.0 has radically shifted the libraries from traditional to modern library serv...

In modern infrastructure environment, the cloud computing is one of the exciting developments although the use of the cloud in the corporate environment has already changed the concept of data storage and resource management, its use in the field of information centers and libraries is somewhat less extensive. Over the year technology has been chan...

Referencing is formal methods to give acknowledge to used sources in the academic research. It is responsible for authors, faculties, researchers and students must give attribution to the original concepts which they used to write research papers, articles, assignments etc. They need to understand the general principles of referencing sources and f...

The research data repositories are platforms for depositing, sharing, persevering and accessing support for research data in a single place. It's being implemented at various levels including, institutional, national, international, project specific, subject specific and multidisciplinary etc. These are allows researcher to deposit their research s...

A repository is an online database service which manages storage and preservation of long-term digital resources. It provides platform for subject discovery and access. Data repositories are digital archives which collects, preserve and make available research data and its metadata. It enables long-term preservation, curation of Knowledge Organisat...

Information literacy is a set of ability for selecting, discovering, accessing, evaluating quality information and effective use information available over web. Information literacy competency standards and models provides guidelines for describing information literate and developing information program in higher education. The standards and models...

The core competencies have been used within many academic processional groups to help them to manage their careers. It acts as a guide for practicing LIS professionals to define their vision, mission, goals and objectives in working place. These are national level standards and statement of the word of honor of any processional worker across the in...

Academic networking is necessary for young researcher for the growth and development of their career. Over past few years, scholarly social networks sites played major role in changing the ways early career researcher interact online. It allows communication, collaboration, and building online communities and syndicate, share, reuse and interaction...

Experimented visualization software tools are integral components for implementation of information visualization in libraries. Successful information visualization tools articulate a powerful story with charts. Since a decade many libraries have started using the information visualization software tools for showcasing their library data or informa...

The digital assets are the memory of any organization. To create, organize and manage the digital assets of any organization there should be a platform, where all digital assets can be stored, organized and retrieved as and when required. This is an attempt to create Digital Asset Management System (DAM) to collect, organize and manage digital coll...

A startup is a new platform formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. It has usually a combination of two things: an interesting problem or need, and an approach for solving that problem. The present study is the assessment of growth and development of startup research which describes the publication growth, contribution and th...

Library service startups help in innovation, social engagement, knowledge creation and empower community voices in the libraries. Like other organizations, association, and corporates, libraries also have taken several initiatives on startup, small and medium business enterprise which can help to enhance the library services and user reading habits...

Libraries are vital assets in supporting startups, entrepreneurship, and small businesses. Library professionals have extensive experience helping users articulate their learning needs, and facilitate access to necessary information. Libraries traditionally have been places of self-guided, continuing education. The culture of collaboration and lear...

Professional qualification and training are required to manage and run the libraries and information centers effectively and efficiently. The LIS schools are podiums for developing the professional qualifications, skills, knowledge and training through various educational programs with appropriate curriculum. The curriculum not only covers library-...

An Effective Research data management (RDM) practices associated with more benefits particularly in increasing research impact, enabling the data reuse, data preservation and archive for future use. To maintain research integrity, researcher hold the responsivity to practice the effective research data management with data which they have been gene...

Research Information Management Systems (RIMs) are the platforms and online database of institution research information, it allows the researcher to deposit and share their research data for public access. An Implementation of RIMs ensure the storage and archival of long-term preservation of research data for future generation. RIMs will assists i...

Open archive repositories have been assisting the researcher in getting the access to past research through archival repositories. Accesses to the open archive repositories are available freely on the Internet. The E-LIS open archive repository formulates LIS research more visible and accessible and increases its status and value. Here the research...

Research data management is an essential part of the modern scholarly debate in research life-cycle. Gathering, preserving and sharing research data through using proper research data management tools and techniques is the fulcrum of the responsible research. Sharing research data enhances the visibility of work, allows mutual data exchange. and ma...

Open Source Software offers straightforward solutions to many libraries, which haveso for tied up with the commercial softwares. Software under the commercial platforms comes with a financial burden, security issue and locked source codes. Instead of customising the application to make it user-friendly, libraries alter their services/deliveries acc...

In state-of-the-art scholarly communication system academic research enhancement and accessibility have been taken high significance in maximizing the research impact for researchers. Enhancement of research and accessibility can be increased through creating research accounts in various institutional accounts & social and scholarly academic networ...