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Web Log Analysis of E-Journal usage and Scholarly Communication:A Case Study of E-Journal (Full-Text) Download Patterns of NAL Scientists and Engineers


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1 Knowledge and Technology Management Division, National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR), PB No.1779, Airport Road. Rangivlor, India
2 Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006., India
3 College of Agriculture, Dept. of Statistics, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India
4 Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Division, National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR), NWTC, Belur Campus, NAL, Bangalore, India
     

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At present most scientists have access to full-text e-joumals. In most cases, this facility is provided right at the desktop. In this paper, we present a case study of full-text e-journal use patterns among the scientists and engineers at the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The faciUty at NAL is provided right at the desktop through the NAL-CSIR-NISCAIR e-conglomerate. National Institute of Science Communication and Information Research (NISCAIR) provides e-access to more than 4040 world-class e-journals to all science and technology personnel of the CSIR fraternity. This CSIRNISCAIR initiative allows any scientist in any CSIR Laboratory to access this electronic information to keep abreast of the technological developments in his / her area of specialization. The analysis of data of the full-text ejoumal use patterns covers the period 2005 to 2007. The major findings highlighted are: (a) the mean number (per-month) of full-text downloads for the above three years was found to be different through Kruskal Wallis test of 'One Way Analysis of Variance' at 1% level of significance and (b) when the Chi-Square test was applied to test whether there is independence between the years and the publishers, the calculated value of Chi-Square was 845, which is highly significant. Hence we conclude that for the full-text downloads data, the years and the publishers are not independent. This Chi- Square test was carried out for only those publishers (8 in number) for which the data was available for all the three years (2005-2007).

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Scholarly communication, Electronic Information Usage Patterns. Scientists, Scientific Communication. Electronic Journals, NAL, CSIR, NISCAIR, Full-Text e-Joumal Download Statistics.
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Authors

R. Guruprasad
Knowledge and Technology Management Division, National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR), PB No.1779, Airport Road. Rangivlor, India
Khaiser Nikam
Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006., India
M. Gopinath Rao
College of Agriculture, Dept. of Statistics, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India
Vidyadhar Y. Mudkavi
Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Division, National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR), NWTC, Belur Campus, NAL, Bangalore, India

Abstract


At present most scientists have access to full-text e-joumals. In most cases, this facility is provided right at the desktop. In this paper, we present a case study of full-text e-journal use patterns among the scientists and engineers at the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The faciUty at NAL is provided right at the desktop through the NAL-CSIR-NISCAIR e-conglomerate. National Institute of Science Communication and Information Research (NISCAIR) provides e-access to more than 4040 world-class e-journals to all science and technology personnel of the CSIR fraternity. This CSIRNISCAIR initiative allows any scientist in any CSIR Laboratory to access this electronic information to keep abreast of the technological developments in his / her area of specialization. The analysis of data of the full-text ejoumal use patterns covers the period 2005 to 2007. The major findings highlighted are: (a) the mean number (per-month) of full-text downloads for the above three years was found to be different through Kruskal Wallis test of 'One Way Analysis of Variance' at 1% level of significance and (b) when the Chi-Square test was applied to test whether there is independence between the years and the publishers, the calculated value of Chi-Square was 845, which is highly significant. Hence we conclude that for the full-text downloads data, the years and the publishers are not independent. This Chi- Square test was carried out for only those publishers (8 in number) for which the data was available for all the three years (2005-2007).

Keywords


Scholarly communication, Electronic Information Usage Patterns. Scientists, Scientific Communication. Electronic Journals, NAL, CSIR, NISCAIR, Full-Text e-Joumal Download Statistics.

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