S.K. Sonkar

• BSc., MLIS, PGDCA. NET PhD.(Lib. & Info. Science)
• Professor at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University

A Public Library serves the information needs of the people (Patrons) by the people (Library Professionals or Staff), it acts as an educational center where distinguished patrons avail library services. The recent development of notices advanced information technologies not only tempered the way of information dissemination but also affected patron...

Libraries always serve as information providers, advancement of Information & Communication Technology transforms the Knowledge Generation, Storage, and Dissemination of Information. There is rising interest noticed among young learners in using social media and social networking for information seeking and learning. Conversely, libraries have an o...

Abstract Background: The online paraphrasing tool aids in the online rewriting of articles and essays. Users may avoid plagiarism by rephrasing sentences. Scope: In this study focus on the awareness and use of paraphrasing tools by the Research scholars of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, situated in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and the Central Un...

In the age of information technology Libraries are using all modern technologies to manage the library. One of the technologies which is extensively used for library management is RFID. Its applications are beneficial for staff as well as users of library. Therefore, the present paper aims to know the perception of users among the central library o...

With the advent of advanced technology, ICT has revolutionised the way academics perform their work, helping them to deal with larger datasets and improve the outcomes of their investigations. The main objective of this study article is to obtain a better understanding of how ICT can be used in LIS education and research. For the study, a survey de...

Academic Libraries plays an important role in the growth and development of their parent institution. It provides various services and resources to the students, research scholars and teachers to fulfill their needs, so it is the responsibility of the users that they must be honest towards the library resources, and they must follow ethics and rule...

Crypto currency as emerging issues to assign the currencies to other similar currencies of the world or adopted an asset likewise Gold, share, commodity etc. Due to rapidly increasing the value of the Bit coin and other coin such as Etherium, Ripple, Dog coin etc. most of the human beings are interested to invest amount in the crypto currencies. Th...

The purpose of this study is to explore the status of the e-PG Pathshala of online content modules in the LIS subject. It consists of all the uploaded modules, subject coordinator, paper coordinators, contributors and reviewers in the LIS field. For the completion of this study, a counting and frequency-based method of data collection and analysis...

The development of innovative improvements has changed the way of life of the general public. It tends to be seen in numerous ways that incorporate the manner in which people communicate with others in the general public. For a long time, the technology has advanced, people have moved to using cell phones, email, text messages, audio and video and...

The convergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will assist teachers in attaining organizational necessity to replace traditional teaching techniques with technology-based methods of instruction and services. Communication Technologies for Libraries. The goal of this research is to evaluate the current state of the e-PG Pathshala...

A blockchain is a ground-breaking technique for connecting computer networks in a decentralised and distributed manner. It is a relatively new technology with many applications that could eventually affect the entire economy and be acknowledged as the most up-to-date general-purpose technology. This study aims to look at the growth and trends of bl...

As online courseware continues to grow in the country, learners are getting help from educational programmes in their studies. This work provides a systematic literature review of online courseware across several fields. The goal is to investigate the current status of online courses in the UK, the USA and India. This paper present the systematic c...

Libraries are establishing websites to deliver information to their patrons. The purpose of this paper is to assess the top ten medical institute library websites, as determined by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), for the year 2020. The checklist-based observation method has been adopted for the study. The checklist is categoriz...

The study aimed to analyse the websites of national importance libraries and archives, comes in group namely Knowledge Resources Heritage, under Ministry of Culture, India, which includes 16 websites. The websites were analysed based on languages, rich files, social media presence and network diagrams. Tools used to collect required data were Googl...

The paper highlights the research contributions of nine central universities of India, University of Delhi (DU); Aligarh Muslim University (AMU); University of Hyderabad (UoH); University of Allahabad (UoA); Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU); Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI), University of Pondicherry (UoP), Babsaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University(BBAU) and...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic has wreaked havoc across the globe. In the realm of education, this pandemic has resulted in the widespread suspension of face-to-face operations at educational institutions in over 190 countries in order to limit the virus's spread and reduce its effects. According to the United Nations Educational, Scie...

As online courseware continues to grow in the country, learners are getting help from educational programmes in their studies. This work provides a systematic literature review of online courseware across several fields. The goal is to investigate the current status of online courses in the UK, the USA and India. This paper present the systematic c...

Higher education and career planning are often conflated in India. Education and careers play an important role in our lives, and deciding on a career path is one of the most important decisions we can make. It decides our way of life and forms our future. Because of the current need for changed competencies of trained librarians and information sc...

With the use of technology, online courseware is an instructional material proposed as units for teachers and learners. The emphasis of online teaching is on dynamic learning and learner interaction. Based on the studies, online pedagogy continuously tracked and updated their teaching methods. The purpose of this paper is to discuss successful onli...

With the rapid advancement of society, online learning has become more popular in the entire world due to Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic offered almost a total paradigm shift to online teaching and learning across various educational platforms. This paper was aimed at reviewing the teaching and learning changes in higher education during COVID-19...

Web Impact Factor (WIF) is one of the extensively used indicators in webometric studies. This paper examines Web Impact Factor of 16 websites of Knowledge Resources Heritage of India under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It attempts to calculate the simple web impact factor, self-link web impact factor, external web impact factor and revi...

The study covers 28 Ph.D. theses submitted during 1995-2018. The study identified that 2016 was the most productive year and the contribution of male research scholars is more as compared to female research scholars. Prof. K. L. Mahawar has supervised the maximum number of theses i.e. 14 corresponding to 50% of all. Majority of references are singl...

The aim of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric study to investigate the research output of library and information science in India. The SCOPUS database was selected to collect data from 2011 to 2020. Collected data was analysed on various parameters such as authorship pattern, year wise contribution of articles, most cited articles, top journa...

This study aims to determine the scientometric analysis of recent research output in the emerging field of Big Data Analytics from 2011 to 2020. The study of Big Data Analytics began in the last few years and has gained tremendous traction in a short period of time. It is now widely regarded as one of the most important developing study areas in co...

This paper explores the technology implementation to prevent plagiarism and to promote research integrity in the higher education and research institutions of India. Recently, The University Grants Commission passed the UGC Regulation 2018 for the promotion of academic integrity and prevention of plagiarism in higher educational institutions. This...

This paper aims to investigate the present status of open access (OA) scholarly communication from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries from 2011 to 2020 and compare their performance in terms of scholarly communication. Articles contributed by the scholars of BRICS countries, the data collected from Scopus database. The...

This study has been conducted for literature review on Impact of ICT on learning activities of users by Academic library services. The study focuses on the technology utilized in Academic libraries and impact on discovering how ICT keeps on advancing, and as it does it is turning out to be increasingly more incorporated with students and researcher...

With the development of electronic technologies students need current and updated information as on moment. Using electronic technologies e-learning is an online based educational tool or system that enables learning anytime and anywhere. It is an instructive educational program outside of a conventional homeroom. In sight of more e-resources reque...

This paper presents the webometric analysis of 16 websites of Knowledge Resources Heritage of India comes under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. This study categories the domains or top-level domains of the websites. Domain and page authority, discovered and lost link, internal and external links, global traffic ranking and Google PageRank...

With the ‘digital library’emerging as a trend in the present era, the information society of today suffers not from the lack but from a surplus of information. Distinguishing relevant from non-relevant information is therefore, one of the main tasks of librarians. The development of information technology in the field of digital libraries has attra...

Author concerns the bibliometric study of the journal entitle "Annals of Library and Information studies" from the period 2003 to 2014. Bibliometric is a branch of Information science which contributed quantitative evaluation of publication patterns of all macro and micro communication along with their authorships by mathematical and statistical ca...

The present study based on the research productivity of the University of Calcutta published between 2014 to 2018. A total number of 4489 articles have been published during the period. The study analyzed the documents based on several Bibliometric aspects such as year wise contributions of the articles, authorship pattern, gender-wise contribution...

The paper explored the productivity of Indian authors output in the field of library and information science research, a total 1275 publications have been downloaded from the web of science from the period of 2014-18. The research output were assessed in the year wise, author wise, gender wise, document wise, state wise and international collaborat...

Technology is an ever-changing phenomenon that makes services easy, effective and expedite. The library is such a service providing organization that adapts emerging technologies such as Mobile Technology, computer technology etc. In the current technology-driven era library cannot lags behind in using mobile technology which helps the library to r...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the awareness and use of open access resources among faculty members and students of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. Among the 160 respondents, 125 were the students and the rest 35 were the faculty of the university. A well-designed questionnaire was used to gather the data from the faculty members and...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the awareness and use of open access resources among faculty members and students of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. Among the 160 respondents, 125 were the students and the rest 35 were the faculty of the university. A well-designed questionnaire was used to gather the data from the faculty members and...

The study reveals the research productivity of the Presidency University published from the period 2014 to 2018. A total number of 514 articles have been published during the period. The study analyzed the documents which are based on several Bibliometric aspects such as year wise contributions of the articles, authorship pattern, gender-wise contr...

The advancement of Web is changed to be as a whole improvement in the present world. As far back as the creation of Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee it Web as a voyage, began with Web 1.0, where it chipped away at the premise of inquiry and read, prompting less client association and substance appropriation. This paper is discussed about the journey...

Along with the development of computer technology, telecommunications and virtual storage, smart library began in India with these technologies. This paper also states that the library will provides better services to the library users. In India, smart libraries are the combination of both hardware and the software with a broad assortment of opport...

This paper aims to analyse the solutions of the problems of university libraries of Lucknow which have been adopted by them. Using a questionnaire as a research tool for data collection, this study explores the several aspects of solutions to the problems faced by the targeted group. The study reveals that appointment of trained LIS professionals,...

The paper contains an explanation of ethical behavior regarding concerns in the Ethical Aspects of ICT (Information and Telecommunication Technology) and Libraries: An Overview. A wide variety of ethical problems with cyberspace and global networks will certainly generate a new world of information society. In this age library is changing from trad...

Retraction is the withdrawal of published article after it is found that the authors did not ensure integrity in conducting and reporting their research activities. The bibliometric information of 4716 document categorised as retractions in Science Citation Index, Web of Science was downloaded and analysed to understand trend, pattern and reasons o...

This paper presents the semantic web, web writing content, web technology, goals of semantic and obligation for the expansion of web 3.0. This paper also shows the different components of semantic web and such as HTTP, HTML, XML, XML Schema, URI, RDF, Taxonomy and OWL. To provide valuable information services semantic web execute the benefits of li...

Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a progressing field of research in content mining field. SA is the computational treatment of feelings, conclusions and subjectivity of content. This paper handles an exhaustive diagram of the last refresh in this field. Numerous as of late proposed calculations' upgrades and different SA applications are researched and e...

Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in India have established new records in the agriculture sector. In 2016-17 food grain production was estimated at record 275.68 million tonnes. In comparison to 2013-14, it was 4% higher. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has played a pivotal role in technological development and its demonstration in t...

In this topic begins by reviewing the many terms of the open access resources and focuses on the significant developments in the area of open access. Open access play a vital role in education. It refers to the online research outputs that are free access. Open access resource refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholar research and free...

In this topic begins by reviewing the many terms of the open access resources and focuses on the significant developments in the area of open access. Open access play a vital role in education. It refers to the online research outputs that are free access. Open access resource refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholar research and free...

In this topic begins by reviewing the many terms of the open access resources and focuses on the significant developments in the area of open access. Open access play a vital role in education. It refers to the online research outputs that are free access. Open access resource refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholar research and free...

The main purpose of this study was to discover the perceptions and expectations of users towards public libraries. Public libraries are meant for the public and run by the public money and provide services to all the members of the society without any discrimination. To achieve the objectives of the study a survey has been conducted in selected pub...

This paper examines Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) usage by the students, research scholars and members of faculty of Banaras Hindu University Library. A questionnaire-based survey of various categories of users such as faculty members, research scholars, graduate and postgraduate students, covering different disciplines such as Arts, Scienc...

Keywords are important words and phrases of a research paper, expressing its essence. The longitudinal study of occurrence of keywords in specific discipline expresses trends of research. The present paper attempts to highlight trends of research in Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines in India, published during the time period, 2005 to 2014,...

Research data is the data which is generated when the researchers undertake or execute any research activity or project. The data may be textual, quantitative, qualitative, images, recordings, musical compositions, verbal communication, experimental readings, simulations, codes and so on. It needs to be preserved for future use.In this context, the...

It is an attempt to evaluate students learning through mobile technology. The analysis has been done on the basis of framework proposed by Ng (2013) and was primarily divided into three themes namely: (a) concept of mobile Learning and student awareness to it; (b) An underdeveloped mobile Learn literacy; and (c) mobile Learn campus :student expecta...

The open access movement provides ample opportunities for study and learning to the students, faculty members, and the general public. It involved different kinds of persons in the communities which are working in the various institutions, organizations, universities, and industries. The present study explores the awareness and use of E-PG Pathshal...

The present paper dwells upon the importance of raw data for the development of science and research. The study includes an interview of 40 researchers and faculty members to understand their perception towards the raw data. It has suggested that the libraries can play a pivotal role in extending support to the researchers for organizing, archiving...

The present study is based on the citation pattern of the articles published for the period 2005–2014 of the Library Philosophy and Practice, E-Journal. 1180 articles are published in the journal during 2005-2014. Highest numbers (198) of articles were published in 2011. The E-Journal contained 20978 references for the study period of which 15518 a...

Information technology and internet have created lot of opportunities and challenges for the library professions. Due to information technology most of the libraries are involved in the sharing of the resources by many ways. Library users are widely depend on the electronic resources which are subscribed by libraries in the world. Electronic resour...

The present study reveals the bibliometric study of the E-Journal, Library Philosophy and Practice from 2005 to 2014. The study covers the growth of literature and authorship patterns of the journal. Further, it analyzes various other bibliometrics aspects such as authors’ degree of collaboration, geographical productivity in scholarly publications...

People are using cloud computing in every field like business, industries and corporate sectors. Due to the cloud computing one can access hardware and software sharply through internet. Applications and use of cloud computing in libraries is a new areas as compared to its applications and use in business and corporate sector. The main purpose of t...

Web 2.0 technology offering opportunities for library to reach its users. These technologies have been changed the mode of delivery or sharing of information. Many academic, national as well as public libraries are using web 2.0 technology for betterment and promotion of library services. To explore the use of web 2.0 technology by the national lib...

The main purpose of this chapter is to study and explore the impact of digital media and Internet on reading habits. Traditional reading habits of library users have now changed with the changing environment and working culture. People are now looking for an opportunity to read content in electronic mode via Internet, mail, etc. It reduces the burd...

A very large part of the content in our country is in various local languages. Language is a barrier to get the full advantage of this knowledge. In order to remove the language barrier, computer and IT solutions can play a major role. It is needed to create a system of multilingual content knowledge base so that it can serve all-regional community...

Digital libraries are being built and operated by a wide variety of institutions for a wide variety of reasons. They are meant for storage, access, and retrieval repositories of digital objects (HTML, XML, PDF, Audio, Video, multimedia etc.) usually accessed via Internet or intranet. The purpose of this article is to introduce this technology devel...