DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

Massive Open Online Courses in Social Sciences and Their Implementation at Universities in Delhi

Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Vimal Saxena — Wed, 08 May 2024 09:54:38 +0530

Universities around the world have successfully incorporated Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) into
their curricula and have facilitated credit transfers. The present study examines the integration of MOOCs in
seven Indian universities. Moreover, the study focuses on the level of amalgamation of MOOCs, perceptions of
institutions regarding the provision of online courses, and transition of MOOCs from informal to formal education. Furthermore, the study investigates the hindrances faced by higher educational institutions in providing services to MOOC learners. Purposive sampling technique was employed to facilitate selection of institutions. The responses were collected using a structured questionnaire. The study found moderate level, low level and very low-level integration of MOOCs in all seven universities. Six out of seven institutions namely, JNU, JMI, DU, GGSIPU, DBRAUD and NLU, adopted “Explain the perceived usefulness” as a strategy to influence the affordability uptake of MOOCs. Five out of seven institutions educate users about different MOOC platforms in the information literacy events. Surprisingly, two institution libraries out of seven revealed that their library services align with MOOCs. Surprisingly, majority of libraries of the seven institutions have not formulated any noteworthy strategy to foster the uptake of MOOCs among the academic community. Therefore, LIS professionals ought to grasp the nuances of various MOOC platforms. Also, library strategies should include MOOCs so that users can benefit.

Awareness and Usage of E books Among Students of Panjab University, Chandigarh

Seema Sood, Neeraj Kumar Singh, Suman Sumi, Deepika Tewari — Wed, 08 May 2024 09:58:49 +0530

The advancement of digital technologies has an impact on how information is disseminated and made accessible in the academic world. The use of digital resources has grown significantly, with e-books becoming a valuablemeducational resource. Panjab University library is spending a huge amount of money in terms of subscribing to a number of e resources to fulfill the information demand of faculty and students. PU library started subscribing to e-books from the year 2008 and presently a diverse collection of e-books from reputed publishers are available for the users. Since no such study has been conducted to examine the use and awareness of e-books, to determine level of relevance of e-books, subscribed by Panjab University, it is therefore imperative to investigate how Panjab University students use and are aware of their subscription to e-books. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed using a simple random sampling method and 202 responses were received. This paper also explores the usage, relevance and the difficulties encountered while accessing e-books. For this purpose, an online survey was conducted amongst post graduate students and research scholars of Panjab University. Majority of the respondents73 (66.4 %) are accessing e-books through University Library website. 72 (62.6 %) of respondents express thatfriends and teachers helped them to know about availability of e-books in the library. Respondents encountere problems i.e. difficulties to login the sites, low speed of internet and restrictions in downloading etc. while accessing e-books. This study offers some useful and practical suggestions that can help libraries to enrich their e-book collections. The findings of the study will be helpful in developing e-book collection while keeping user needs in mind to enhance overall digital learning experience.

Generative AI Tools for Collaborative Content Creation

Prafull Malakar, M Leeladharan — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:05 +0530

ICT applications streamlined processes across multiple industries and improved efficiency at a lower cost.
Although everyone is generally in favor of this, many people view the development of artificial intelligence as both a blessing and a threat. It is unquestionably widely utilized in academic settings for experimentation and concept articulation, but with so many possibilities available, students and researchers find it difficult to select the best one. This study attempts to evaluate seven generative AI content creation tools—Writesonic, Jasper, Grammarly Business, ProWritingAid, Scalenut, Rytr, and TextCortex AI-using data from the GetApp website. Employing content analysis, the seven selected tools were compared on the basis of qualitative data converted to binary format. Grammarly Business led with a score of (76), followed by Scalenut (75), Writesonic (53), ProWritingAid (51), Jasper (48), TextCortex AI (38), and Rytr (36). This study highlights the pivotal role of collaboration in generative AI, showcasing diverse features, from grammar checks to creative content generation. The significance of this study lies in aiding academia and professionals in strategic tool selection, emphasising the need for informed decision-making in collaborative efforts. Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing enhances scholarly endeavours, underlining the necessity for efficient content creation during digital evolution.

Controlled Terms Versus Uncontrolled Terms in Resource Description

Kalyan Sundar Samanta, Durga Sankar Rath — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:01:32 +0530

The paper comparatively investigates the relation between controlled vocabularies assigned by the experts
in Library of Congress and tags assigned by users in Library Thing database in three subjects, Economics,
History and Sociology under Social Science domain. Based on Term matching (S= 14.80 %, E= 12.77 % and
H= 8.06 %) and Jaccard similarity coefficient (E= 0.15, S= 0.15 and H= 0.11), we found little matching between
both vocabularies. We also found that experts mostly use double-word and multi-word specific topical terms
(S= 73.14 %, E= 72.89 % and H= 61.05 %), whereas social taggers mostly use single-word general non-topical
terms (E= 54.88 %, H= 54.21 % and S= 48.55%) and little topical and few personal terms. While comparison
with LCSH subfield, we found that experts prefer topical terms for all subjects, whereas, taggers only prefer it for Economics and geographic subdivision terms for History and Sociology, but they don’t prefer chronological terms for tagging. Even, experts prefer little title-based terms (H= 196 terms, S= 195 terms and E= 175 terms) but taggers mostly prefer title-based terms (H= 673 terms, S= 564 terms and E= 444 terms) in three subjects. However, the study concludes that both vocabularies are different, but libraries can exploit those uncontrolled vocabularies and can introduce ‘hybrid metadata ecology’ which combines controlled vocabularies, classification and folksonomies for better subject access and retrieval of social science documents.

QR Codes Making Smart and Effective Library Services

Sarwesh Pareek — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:02:42 +0530

Using QR codes in school libraries can indeed be a valuable and innovative approach to enhance the utilisation
of library resources and services. Implementing these strategies can create an interactive and engaging library
experience, motivating students to visit the library more frequently and make the most of available resources. The study explains the various uses of QR codes in promoting school library resources and its services, with all possible implementations to maximize their use. It encourages freely available tools to generate QR codes. It also tries to show, how the school library at B.V.B. Vidyashram Pratapnagar uses QR codes to create an experience that makes students want to go there more often.

Scientiometric Study on Authorship Pattern in Knowledge Management

Salma M S, Prakasan P M — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:03:52 +0530

The Present study focuses on authorship patterns in Knowledge Management using scientometrics. The
study found Del Giudice M as the most productive author with an h-Index of 20. The study found that Del Giudice M. is the most locally cited author with 25 articles with a fractionalised value of 7.05. The study identified Del Giudice M, Lee S, Bontis N, Ferraris A, and Serenko A as the most prolific authors from 2010 to 2023 The most striking observation is the presence of an Indian author, whose paper published in the Journal of Service Research was cited 738 times with a TCpY of 52.71. The study also reveals that more documents were collaborative, which accounts for the prevalence of publications with multiple authors with the USA leading the scene. This study deliberates mostly on authorship patterns in Scientometric research connected to Knowledge Management to cultivate a fairer, more varied, and influential research environment that accurately represents the depth and complexity of Knowledge Management practices and issues. This paper analysis Lotka’s Law, Most Local Cited Authors in KM, the authorship pattern, most locally cited authors, the productivity of authors over time, and most globally cited publications in Knowledge Management.

How Many Videos are Cited in Academic Research

Arpan Kumar Pakira, Amit Nath, Jhantu Mazumder — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:05:00 +0530

This research aims to measure the occurrence of videos cited in the research publications by Indian researchers. More specifically, we investigated the videos associated with scholarly publications and analysed the usefulness of those videos using computational methods. The bibliographic metadata was gathered from Scopus using advanced search techniques. A total of 2,121 publications cited 3,191 online videos during 2008-2022, but 2,736 videos were considered for further analysis due to discrepancies in video IDs. The free Google API for YouTube was used to extract video metadata from YouTube, and the raw data was edited and extracted using OpenRefine, an opensource data carpentry tool. The diagrams have been made using R Studio. The result indicates a linear growth of cited videos from 2008-2018; an exponential increase is observed from 2019 onwards. Most videos are cited from the Computer Science and Social Science disciplines, and journal articles are the most preferred document types that mention videos. The Education category videos are cited the most, and the channel TEDx Talks produced the maximum number of cited videos in research publications. The overall study shows that YouTube is emerging as a significant source of information for research and educational purposes.

Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Scientific Writing

Muammer Maral — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:08:54 +0530

Scientific knowledge has been growing continuously and rapidly in recent years. Scientific writing plays an
important role in the process of scientific knowledge. In recent years, there has been an increasing research effort on scientific writing. This research aims to reveal the growth trend of global research on scientific writing, the contributions to the field, the trending topics of the field, the main themes of the field, and the social interaction of the countries contributing to the field. For this purpose, 968 publications covering the period between 1959-2023 obtained from the Web of Science database were analysed by bibliometric analysis. According to the results of the study, scientific writing literature has shown a significant growth trend since 2010. The most productive journals in the field come from science journals such as chemistry and biology. The most productive countries are USA and UK has the highest publication impact. The countries with the highest collaboration are USA and UK respectively. The trending topic of the SW area is on the use of Chat GPT in scientific writing. The SW area is divided into four themes: scientific literacy and communication, scientific writing in medical research, scientific writing in higher education, and ethics of scientific writing. This research provided a comprehensive review of the accumulated knowledge in the field of SW and provided a holistic perspective on the field. Furthermore, some possible directions for future research are shown. This research has shown that in addition to traditional studies that provide scientific writing guidelines, SW will be shaped more by artificial intelligence developments in the coming years.