Shashikumara Aavarti

• Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Development and growth of technology has resulted in the designing of various data visualization software tools which can analyze, interpret and visualize the data. They play a significant role in presenting abstract data and turning it into visuals. These tools help in cleaning, structuring, analysis of data, designing and development of static an...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

At present era, browsers widely using the HTML tags for better readability of web pages for humans. The new specifications of HTML, HTML5 provides a very good mechanism to define a structure in web pages. The mechanism popularly known as microdata is easier to implement than the other formats such as microformats and RDFa. These structures are mach...

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...

Libraries generate and collect an enormous amount of data regarding usage statistics, circulation, visitor counts, budget, resource sharing data, Inter-Library Loan transactions, Document delivery statistics, etc. This collected data is interpreted for making policy decisions over library development and for the improvement of existing library serv...

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...