Shyam Narayan Singh

The study presents an analysis of the doctoral theses and dissertations in Library and Information Science of central universities of NorthEast India uploaded on Shodhganga portal. A total 67 Ph.D. theses submitted by the universities to the portal were analysed from the point of view of year-wise distribution of theses uploaded, year-wise distribu...

The present study examined the use of e-resources by the teachers of arts faculty in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. The study based on the responses obtained from the faculty members. The aspects in respect of the use of e-resources constitute the level of awareness, frequency of access, purpose, motivation, and constraints a...

Indian Citation Index is a major web-based citation database that provides access to the Indian publications across all disciplines published in journals/serials or other documents. The current study evaluated the research productivity of Mizoram University based on the data collected from Indian Citation Index for fourteen years from 2004-2017. Th...

This paper is a scientometric study focus on the publications on the title of e-resources based on Scopus database during the period of 1993-2018. A total 167 research articles were published on the title e-resources during the study period. The maximum numbers of publications 24 were published in 2013 followed by 21 in the year 2012. A fluctuation...

The present study is an evaluation of authorship and collaboration pattern in SRELS Journal of Information Management during 2008-2017. Total 578 articles published during the study period out of which 196 articles are published by single author and rest 386 articles are published by two or more than two authors. It is clear from the study that mul...

The present paper examines the proportion of self-citations in the SRELS Journal of Information Management during the period of 2008-2017. A total of 554 articles were published during the period with 7675 citations out of which 148 (26.71%) articles contain self-citations. There are total 387(5.04%) self-citations by the authors. The three categor...

The present paper will evaluate the LIS research contribution by central universities of India to Shodhganga in form of electronic thesis and dissertation. Shodhganga is digital archive of e-theses for Indian Universities, setup by UGC under INFLIBNET center. At present, there are 46 central universities listed in UGC website out of which 27 singed...

The present study intends to analyse the publication pattern of papers in Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) during 2008 to 2017. During these period, total 1478 scholarly papers has been published by LIS researchers around the world. The publication pattern was analysed by different bibliometric aspect like year wise contribution of paper...

959 full text articles has been studied to explore the intellectual structure of scientometrics in the period 2005–2010 using text mining and co-word analysis. The trends and patterns of scientometrics in the journal Scientometrics were revealed by measuring the association strength of selected keywords which represent the produced concept and idea...

959 full text articles has been studied to explore the intellectual structure of scientometrics in the period 2005–2010 using text mining and co-word analysis. The trends and patterns of scientometrics in the journal Scientometrics were revealed by measuring the association strength of selected keywords which represent the produced concept and idea...

Describes details of the research design, data collection methods, sampling procedures, scope and coverage, population and data analysis involved in this questionnaire based survey research study regarding required employability skills to gain employment in LIS profession. There were two groups to be considered when analysing the employability skil...

This study is based on data collected through questionnaires given to social scientists of Mizoram University, a central university in India. Goals of the research were to investigate the use of formal and informal sources of information by social scientists; to discover the degree to which they make use of various types of information; methods use...

Education has been a major concern of the Government, which has since independent appointed different commission and committees to make recommendation for the reorganization of the Library science education system of the country. The UGC being the single most important statutory, advisory and executive body deliberately established to assist the Go...

To investigates the use of formal and informal sources of information by social scientists; degree to which make the use of various types of information; methods used to keep in touch and availability of information sources and services in Mizoram University.