This study focused on exploring COVID 19 information seeking behavior of IDPs Nigerian using IDPs in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria as a case study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Four objectives were laid down for the study and a structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents. The findings revealed that the COVID 19 information needs of IDPs are information on symptoms of COVID 19, how it spreads, preventive measures against COVID 19, the causes of COVID 19 and how to get medical attention should anyone be confirmed infected at the IPD camp among others. The study also found that the sources of COVID 19 information available to IDPs include friends and family at the camp;social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp;radio;Internet and health workers i.e. doctors and nurses. The study revealed that the major use COVID 19 information were to know the symptoms of the virus;know to prevent themselves from being infected with the virus;know how to reach out to health workers in case of suspected COVID 19 patients and knowing the drugs combination for self treatment in case of infection. Lack of frequent visitation to the camps by health official, lack of access to television at the camp, distorted information from friends and family, too many information on COVID 19, among others were revealed as the barriers to COVID 19 information seeking and access among the IDPs. The study recommends that efforts should be made by the Federal government of Nigeria to pay special attention to the information needs of the IDPs and devise necessary means of getting timely and accurate information across to them as this will help to keep them up to date about information on COVID 19 among others. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
The Coronavirus pandemic is a global problem that came with its attendant economic shock that is higher than the one brought by World War 1 and 2 put together The attendant consequences expectedly landed Nigeria economy to recession Nigeria over the years has been grappling with the problem of diversification of her economy to forestall the ugly impact of monolithic economy This paper investigated the effect of using technology in fighting intellectual copyright piracy which will encourage the citizens to harness their creative endowment to eke out a living with its resultant effect on the reduction of unemployment The study developed 400 self-structured questionnaires which were administered to respondents using responsive sampling technique and the data were analysed using simple frequency table The outcome revealed that technology can help in a great deal to fight intellectual copyright piracy which was established by the research to be on the increase in Nigeria
This paper focuses on the strategies the Academic libraries can employ to help curb the spread of covid-19 and remain relevant in post Covid-19 pandemic with specific focus on State libraries in South Eastern Nigeria. The study reviewed Strategies Academic Libraries in Nigeria can adopt to remain relevant in post Covid-19 pandemic. The study seeks to find out the strategies Academic libraries can adopt to help curb the spread of Covid-19 virus in order to remain relevant and also to identify the challenges that may affect the adoption of these strategies by academic libraries in South East. The population of the study is three hundred and sixty six (366) which is the sample size as the study adopted the census method. Based on the findings, strategies such as Creation of Functional Library Websites, Use of Social media networks, social distancing, Managing remote working, Limiting numbers in the library, Promoting hygiene were identified as ways in which Academic libraries can adopt to help curb the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.The study also identified challenges such as Inadequate funding, Poor technological infrastructure, Lack of skilled personnel, Lack of Technological Gadget, Lack of internet Data as things that may affect the effective implementation of the strategies. Consequently, it was suggested that librarians in Nigeria should, as a matter of urgency, develop new skill sets tailored towards providing and redirecting library service delivery in support of learning in a virtual environment. Also, academic libraries in Nigeria should be given their self-importance as academic heart, through proper funding to be able to meet up with global best practices. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to impact the business environment in different ways. The current paper presents how the university and research library websites in Tanzania responded to the changes in the working environment and style following the outbreak of COVID-19. This study employed a content analysis method to collect and analyse data from academic and research library websites in Tanzania. This study focuses on how library websites in Tanzania were used to update and connect library users with relevant information resources and services during the outbreak of the COVID-19. The findings show that 12 of the 24 library websites had the opening and closing hours, two university library websites had information related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 and 12 had no information related to the outbreak of the COVID-19. This study has an important practical implication for the academic and research librarians on the effective use of library websites for information sharing and communication.
Advances around the field of deep learning and cognitive computing have allowed mankind to look and solve the problems of the world in a completely new way. Deep learning has been making huge advancements in the field of healthcare, which most importantly focuses upon disease detection and disease prediction. Techniques such as these have been conceptualized the idea of early detection and economical ways of treating the predicted disease in particular. Still, it has been observed that there seems to be no change in the way diagnosis of a particular disease takes place even in the 21st generation of medical health care. The highlight of the reasons happens to be lack of trust, lack of awareness and lack of infrastructure. In this paper we will discuss three disease prediction models and the impact their adoption will provide to millions of lives. The diseases are brain tumour, pancreatic cancer and covid-19. This paper focuses upon the impact of how the adoption of deep learning and artificial intelligence will have a huge positive impact and conceptualize a new way of medical imaging. here we have talked about the adoption of deep learning in models in today's healthcare scenario and also the crucial role of delivering such applications to the user. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
The published article receives the number of Citations are measure of its impact in the scientific community. This study identifies the Highly cited articles on Animal Cell Diseases. Publications are identified using the Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics. A search was performed using Animal Cell Diseases with topic field. The 526 top-cited articles were selected, analyzed and Visualized. The most cited manuscripts appeared 208 journals, 3340 authors, 729 Institutions from 39 Countries. The citation counts for these articles ranged from 500-6157. 95 % of articles are were published between 1992-2012 and highest number of citations registered between 2000-2008. The most cited articles are: The most cited one is Apel K, Hirt H Reactive oxygen species: Metabolism, oxid,ative stress, and signal transduction ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY. 2004;55: 373-399 with 6157 citations and authors are from Switzerland and Austria followed by Xu HY, Barnes GT, Yang Q, Tan Q, Yang DS, et al.Chronic inflammation in fat plays a crucial role in the development of obesity-related insulin resistance JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION. 2003 DEC;112 (12): 1821-1830 with 4398 Citations authors from USA, Donehower La, Harvey M, Slagle Bl, Mcarthur Mj, Montgomery Ca, Et Al.Mice Deficient For P53 Are Developmentally Normal But Susceptible To Spontaneous Tumors Nature. 1992 Mar 19;356 (6366): 215-221 with 3926 Citations from USA. The time of publication, field of study, nature of the work, and the journal in which the work appears are possible determinants of the likelihood of citation and impact.
Objectives: This is an exploratory study that focused on identifying the contemporary health related information needs of librarians in Osun State;types of mobile technology used for accessing health related information as well as identifying challenges experienced in using mobile technology for accessing health related information. Methodology: This study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 133 librarians in Osun State. Total enumeration of all the population was adopted. From the total 133 questionnaire that were administered, 126 (representing 94.74%) were duly completed and used for analysis. Frequency counts and percentage calculation were used to analyse the quantitative data, while thematic description was used in analyzing the qualitative data collected. Findings: The study discovered that information on COVID-19 (77.8%);nutrition (66.7%);and physical fitness (66.7%) were the most sought information by the respondents. Majority (94.4%) of the respondents accessed health-related information using their smart phones. Also, majority of the respondents mostly seek for health related information through Whatsapp (83.3%) and Facebook (61.1%). Poor internet service and difficulty in trusting the credibility of the online sources (83.3% each) were the two major barriers faced by the librarians in using mobile technology for accessing health related information. Recommendations: Librarians need to explore other electronic health information sources rather than concentrating on social media;there is the need for increased knowledge of librarians on online information searching strategies and also, there is need for improved internet services provision by the operators. Originality: This study identified contemporary health related information needs of librarians in Osun Stat, Nigeria and electronic information sources frequently used and preferred. These findings will be instrumental in meeting the health information needs of the librarians by the concerned and relevant stakeholders. This study is also an additional contribution to existing literature in the area of health related information seeking among librarians. © 2021,Library Philosophy and Practice.All Rights Reserved.
For the last more than a year, Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating influence and impact on the entire world phenomenal impact on all aspects of role in shifting people to the virtual world. The main aim of the study was to explore the perceptions of Postgraduate Research Scholars about adapting Digital Libraries. Using a quantitative research design, 100 male and female postgraduate research scholars were selected through simple random sampling from two universities. A 5-point Likert scale with closed ended questionnaire was used for gathering data from the participants. SPSS version 23 was used to analyze the collected data. Technology Adoption Model and t-test were used for evaluating differences between group data. Main findings of the study show that there is a significant impact of system quality on ease of use, library assistance on ease of use accessibility on ease of use and complexity on ease of use. Moreover, the findings also show that there is significant influence of Navigation on Ease of Use, and Self-Computer Efficiency has a significant influence on Usefulness, Knowledge and Search Domain and Material Availability has a significant effect on Usefulness. Furthermore, the result of Usefulness of HEC digital Library has effect on Ease of Use;similarly, ease of use has a significant effect on adaptation and usefulness of HEC digital Library on adaptation of Digital Library. As for Gender-based users using HEC Digital Library, the findings show that there is difference found in usage of digital library among male and female scholars. There is a need for conducting research throughout Pakistan, using mixed-methods and qualitative research designs on both undergraduate and postgraduate students. © 2021,Library Philosophy and Practice. All rights reserved.
A bibliometric analysis based on 160 highly cited papers extracted from the Scopus international database was carried out to provide insights into literature characteristics and publication performances of various participating actors on “Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health”. Quantitative and qualitative Indicators were applied to measure the productivity and citation impact of most productive participating countries, organizations, authors, journals and significant keywords and to visualise and measure collaborative interaction among them using VOSviewer software. Results obtained from this study can provide valuable information for researchers and policy-makers to identify present and future hotspots in research on “Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health” subfield. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
The 21st century has witnessed that Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are one of the most dynamic online exercises to impact the advanced world. SNSs and their applications act as a powerful tool to link the gap between the library and its patrons. The COVID-19 Pandemic has proved that SNSs help in providing library services with the click of a mouse, thus expanding the services the library renders to their clients. The study highlights the use of various SNSs in promoting library services, reasons for using SNSs, to know the most preferred SNS, and frequency of SNSs used by the libraries, and the obstacles faced by the libraries. The data was collected from one hundred and thirty-eight Arts and Science college librarians all over India through an online questionnaire. The majority of the respondents used various SNSs applications in promoting the library services;WhatsApp and library websites are the most preferred SNSs and MySpace was the least preferred SNSs, the respondents agreed that they used SNSs to communicate with their users, to provide quick access, to uplift the library usage and market the library resources, most of the libraries once a week updated the SNSs, a few problems faced such as lack of security, media access, and internet connectivity and none of the respondents responded that they have low skill in using the SNSs for marketing the library resources. The study suggested that library professionals should update the SNSs regularly because of the advanced technologies these sites are the mirror to the library users and they can do further study with innovative technologies adopted by the libraries for the marketing library and information products and services. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Libraries are considered the heart of academic and research institutions. Without a library, academics will have no progress. Though the digital library is a frequent buzzword for libraries and information centres in the present era, traditional services, especially in public and academic libraries, still exist. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all types of libraries have been equally affected. The paper discusses the impact of the COIVID-19 pandemic on the continuity of library services and access in the Indian academic and research libraries. It describes how the libraries safeguard the resources and staff and examine the difficulties and challenges faced by the libraries during the COVID-19 outbreak. It details the adoption of services for the benefit of the communities that support the educational mission. The study is carried out by administering an online questionnaire to about 58 libraries and analyzed. In conclusion, the paper proposes firm ideas and recommendations to deal with the pandemic situation like COVID-19 and continue the library support to users. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Good Library User service is like an analog clock where all the gears work seamlessly in a coordinated manner The mechanism is reliable and effective but malfunctioning of just one gear can bring the whole clock to a standstill Although the performance of library user service might not be dependent on just one factor, tracking key live chat metrics can help avoid common issues like long waiting queues, missed chats, bad user experience, and ultimately frustrated Library Users WhatsApp is the third most used social media app in the world As the user base continues to grow, so does the number of messages sent on a daily basis This is a text and sentiment analysis of a WhatsApp group chat of Li(fe)brary at the Home WhatsApp Forum with User Satisfaction of NIELIT - Itanagar Library, Arunachal Pradesh For the purpose of librarian service to the library users during lockdown created to this group and found Impact of 178 days and 193 library users with 1088 messages, shared 323 Media messages and found the most active day in this Forum is October 24th, 2020 93 8 percentage of Nielit Library Users in this li(fe)brary at Home stated for Forum activity like library at home
Work-life balance has always been a challenge for all the working class but during the COVID-19 pandemic,it has added to the already existing challenges because the work life too has shifted to home through online mode. COVID-19 and the consequent lockdown throughout the worldhave diminished the boundary between the workplace and the home place.The work life and family life are to be lived and managed under the same space at the home.In a patriarchal society like India, within the working classthe work-life balance of the working women has been a constant challenge. This is because of the gendered roles at the home which are principally considered to be the responsibility of the women of the family.Whether it is the house maintenance, childcare or the elderly care, these responsibilities have been associated with the women of the house only. Since after the lockdown in India, the work was shifted to online mode working women have faced numerous problems while delivering the dual duties of office and home simultaneously at the same time and same place. The paper aims to gain in-depth understanding of the experiences of women academicians regarding their work-life balance during COVID-19 pandemic. We have used the qualitative research approach to explore and analyze the challenges faced by the women working in higher education department to balance work and life during COVID-19 pandemic. Female academicians having at least one kid below the age of 15 years were taken into the study. The study used interview method for data collection. Both face to face and telephonic interviews were conducted with the participants keeping in view the social distancing rules andother lockdown measures. They study used inductive thematic analysis for the generation of the results. Three main themes emerged from the study. The themes along with the respective sub themes are : 1. Work related issues ( need to learn the online teaching tools for digital classes,erratic work schedule, stretched working hours,screen fatigue, cameraconsciousness, interrupted classes due to internet and connectivity problems) 2. Family Issues (elderly care issues, role conflict and guilt, children's educational issues, maintenance of social relations, house help problems) 3.Personal Issues (burnout, lack of downtime, feelings of isolation).
Bibliometric research is statistical analysis of publications to identify the most influencing sources of research pertaining to a spe�cific area of research. This paper presents an overview research on rice straw/husk (RS/RH) reinforced polymer composites by using the biblio�metric indicators to establish the research framework and to identify the essential research. The relevant journals, authors, institutions and coun�tries which have significantly contributed to research on RS/RH based composite is focused. The bibliometric data is generated through Scopus database. It is observed that the number of publications on characteriza�tion of RS/RH based composites are consistently increasing over the last few years along with their citations. The major focus of the researchers is to determine the mechanical (tensile and flextural) and thermal proper�ties of these composites. The countries which are supporting the research of this nature through funding are Malaysia, Europe and USA. The num�ber of publications on material characterization of RS/RH composites has increased almost linearly in the recent years. About 88.90 % of the articles which are published in the journals are related to engineering, material science and agricultural domain
The study examines India’s performance based on its publication output in Covid-19 during 2020-2021, based on several parameters, including the, publications share and rank, institutional profile of selected institutions, international collaboration profile and major collaborative partners, patterns of communication in national and international journals, Highly cited papers and most productive authors. The study uses 2 years publications data in Covid-19 drawn from Web of Science international multidisciplinary bibliographical database. It is interesting to note that the prolific authors belong to All India Institute of Medical Science with 489 Publications (1266 Citations), Post Grad Inst Med Educational & Res with 171 (666 Citations), Dr DY Patil University with 85 (382 Citations), Indian Institute of Technology with 54 (349 Citations), Manipal Academy of Higher Education with 59 (279 Citations), and Banaras Hindu University with 56 (171 Citations). The most productive authors are Kumar A from Armed Forces Med College, Dept Ophthalmology, Pune (Maharashtra state) with 115 Publications and registered 372 Citations (H-Index: 10), Wiwanitkit from Dr DY Patil Univ, Pune (Maharashtra state) with 91 Publications (411 Citations) (H-Index: 11), Kumar S from Jai Narayan Vyas Univ, Jodhpur(Rajasthan state) with 85 (421 Citations) (H-Index: 10), Gupta S with 57 (209 Citations) (H-Index: 7), Singh with 53 (175 Citations) and Sharma S with 52 (359 Citations). The most preferred journals by the scientists were: INDIAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY with 143 papers (443 Citations), JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS with 113(1066 Citations), ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY with 100 (1419 Citations), INDIAN PEDIATRICS (61), DERMATOLOGIC THERAPY (57), INDIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH (52), and INDIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS (50). The most cited one is: Singhal T A Review of CoronavirusDisease-2019 (COVID-19), INDIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS. 2020 APR;87 (4): 281-286 with 604 Citations. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Purpose - The study's main objective was to find out the possibility of a paperless library and society with particular reference to Top 60 Universities from QS world University ranking 2021 and their library professionals. ICT knowledge and skills of these LIS professionals and evaluated their digital literacy skills was another aim of this study. Design/methodology/approach - The researchers used the survey method for this study using a structured questionnaire, distributed through the google form to library professionals of world-famous universities, ranked as top 60 in QS World University Ranking. 206 responses were received. The information collected from the respondents has been analyzed using an Excel sheet and SPSS software. Findings - Most professionals are interested in digital learning and adopting paperless learning to contribute to a paperless society. They go for online ways to answer reference queries of users and work in a refined atmosphere. They are learning from digital resources and have support from online platforms if they suffer. Also, they are actively engaging with the digital environment and promoting it too.
This study analyses Covid-19 and Emergency Medicine research output during 2020-2021 on different parameters including global publications share, citation impact, contribution of authors and patterns of research communication in most productive and preferred journals. Web of Science Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 2 years (2020-2021) with 991 publications using the combined search of Covid-19 with topic field and Emergency Medicine with using Web of Science Subject Categories. The USA tops the list, with a publications share of 38.6%(383) followed far by Italy and UK ranks second with 7.7%(76), Canada with 7.6% and India ranks 14th positions with global publications share of 1.7 %(17)). The most productive Institutions are: Harvard Medical University lead with 34 Publications and received 134 Citations followed by University Toronto with 29 (96 Citations), Massachusetts Gen Hospital with 26 (86 Citations), Monash University with 22 (92 Citations), Columbia University and University Ottawa with 18 publications. The top most 5 preferred Journals are: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IF: 1.70 with 141 publication followed far by ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IF: 5.35) with 97 publications, RESUSCITATION (IF: 4.57) with 77, WESTERN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IF: 1.80) with 71 and EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL (IF: 2.04) with 64. But its average annual publication growth rate and global publication share is high and Citation quality as reflected in Average Citations Per Paper is less. Concludes that the research needs to increase its output and bring about improvement in the quality of its research efforts. This can be done by investing much more international collaboration and by modernizing and strengthening its research infrastructure in the field of Medicines. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
The library plays a central role in facilitating access to knowledge and being a center in what is currently known as knowledge management. Libraries that are culturally subject to rigid rules and identic with a bureaucratic atmosphere face a high challenge in innovating. The purpose of this paper is to explore the publication development on innovation management in the library. The method used is a bibliometric analysis of publications on innovation in a library context, which is then analyzed using the innovation management perspective. The analysis results identified five clusters: innovation culture, technological innovation, innovative human resources, knowledge management, and e-learning. These clusters are a representation of some of the elements of innovation management. This study contributes to the systematic mapping of innovation management in the library context that has not been closely studied before.
The purpose of this study was to examine and visualize lecturers' writings submitted to the Mataram State Islamic University's institutional repository during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used bibliometric analysis with the total number of publications was 166 documents in various types. The results indicated that journal articles accounted for 42.16 percent (n=70) of all publications and more than half (65.66%) of total publications were authored in Indonesian language. Additionally, it was discovered that the terms pendidikan (education) and pembelajaran (learning) were the two most frequent terms in all type of publications, appearing 10,714 and 9,834 times respectively. Furthermore, this study discovered that Abdul Wahid was the most prolific author, while Abdul Quddus was the most collaborative one. This research also found that the terms covid-19 and pendidikan (education) were the most frequently occurring words combined in a single document with at least three co-occurrences. This study was expected to encourage lecturers to have publications and deposited into the institutional repository. It will benefit both lecturers and university in national and international scale © 2021. Library Philosophy and Practice. All Rights Reserved.
