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| Title: | Library and information science research trends in India |
| Authors: | Mittal, Rekha |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The study attempts to trace the research
trends in library and information science in India during the period Jan 1990 –
June 2010 as reflected through scholarly journals. Co-word analysis is used to
identify the core research areas by quantifying the frequency of occurrence and
the analysis of co-occurrence of 4735 descriptors assigned to 1408 journal
articles of Indian authors indexed in Library and Information Science Abstracts
(LISA) database. The Kamada-Kawai algorithm is used for constructing the
network of relations between descriptors and making spatial distribution of
these. The
result shows a research
trend focusing on library practice, user services, cataloguing, user studies,
university libraries, public libraries, information retrieval, library
education, citation analysis, bibliometrics; and moving towards copyright,
library technology, digital libraries, institutional repository, CD-ROM
databases, and electronic periodicals. The findings indicate that open access,
Web 2.0, World Wide Web, Internet, access to information, etc are some of the
new areas of that LIS researchers are interested in. |
| Page(s): | 319-325 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print) |
| Source: | ALIS Vol.58(4) [December 2011]
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