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Wani, Zahid Ashraf
- Open Courseware Repositories:An Analysis of Content Diversity and Visibility
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1 Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir, IN
1 Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir, IN
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World Digital Libraries, Vol 7, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 43-56Abstract
Purpose
Open Courseware (ocw) is one of the www's indispensable tools which are highly useful for stakeholders. But the utility and visibility of such resources can increase manifolds if they are highly index-able and visible through search engines. This paper is an endeavour to assess format diversity, web traffic, and visibility of select OCW repositories. The work sheds light on retrieval efficiency of different search engines vis-à-vis OCW. Open Courseware repositories that were enlisted under science and Technological Subjects in 'Catalogue of Open Courseware Consortium' were sifted and selected after thorough review of their OA policies. Out of 20 repositories indentified only 18 proved to be AO. A total of four repositories were short listed by way of random sampling for in-depth study in terms of their content diversity and visibility by prominent and special search engines (07). Among various formats, pdf is the most common format (52.31 percent) archived by OCW repositories. OCW visibility differs from search engine. 'Google' turned to be most reliable tool by retrieving 73.58 percent OCWs while 'incywincy' retrieved none. General search engines (73.58 percent − 52.44 percent) have shown very good performance compared to special search engines (42.68 percent − 0 percent). Among the repositories 'Open Michigan' is most visible Open Courseware repository with 70 percent average visibility whereas 'NJIT' is least visible (29.82 percent.)
Keywords
Open Courseware—Visibility, Open Courseware—Repositories, Open Educational Resources, Search Engines.Full Text
- Digital Library of Kashmiri Willow Wicker Items:A Small Step towards Preservation of Culture
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1 Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K–190006, IN
2 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K–190006, IN
1 Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K–190006, IN
2 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K–190006, IN
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World Digital Libraries, Vol 7, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 95-106Abstract
The handicrafts of Kashmir are famous throughout the world. Kashmiri willow wicker items are losing market due to the negligence from the stakeholders of the state. This craft needs to be revamped in order to preserve our cultural heritage. The present study is a small effort in this regard and attempts to show how the culture can be preserved in this modern age with the help of electronic media. A detailed survey was conducted to find out the products made by willow wicker. All the product-related information to these products was accumulated in the form of a digital library. In this study, Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) software was used to gather the documents containing information related to each item of willow wicker for easy retrieval using various access points.Keywords
Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) Software, Kashmiri Art, Culture-Electronic Media, Digital Library.Full Text
- Citation Analysis in Open Access World:A Case Study of Health Science Open Access Repositories
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1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN
2 J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, Lalmandi, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN
1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN
2 J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, Lalmandi, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN
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World Digital Libraries, Vol 8, No 1 (2015), Pagination: 49–58Abstract
The study made an attempt to carry out the citation analysis of primary literature archived in select Open Access Institutional repositories in the field of Health Science listed by Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). A total of 99 articles harvested from three select Health Science repositories were tested in two primary literature indexing databases, viz., Web of Science and Google Scholar for citation analysis. Among these, Google Scholar could not retrieve three (10.34 per cent) articles while for Web of Science this number goes to 26 (89.66 per cent). The number of citations received by the deposited contents is higher in Google Scholar (59.57 per cent) as compared to Web of Science (40.42 per cent). However, the average citation per article is higher in Web of Science (3.24) in comparison to Google Scholar (2.53). There are 27 articles in the resource corpus which have not received any citation. Number of such articles in Google Scholar and Web of Sciences are 20 (20.83 per cent) and 7 (9.59 per cent), respectively.Keywords
Citation Analysis, Open Access, Open Access Repositories, Health Science.Full Text
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