African Journal of Library and Information Science

African Journal of Library and Information Science ISSN 2756-3383, Vol. 9 (1), pp. 001-010, January, 2023. © International Scholars Journals

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Growth and impact of research output of Bangalore University, 1971-2010: A scientometric study

Kiran Savanur¹ and P. V. Konnur²*

¹Rani Channamma University, Vidyasangama, Belagavi – 561 159, India.

²Bangalore University, Gyanabharati, Bangalore – 560 056, India.

Accepted 24 August, 2022

Abstract

In this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight quantitative growth and development of the Bangalore University (BU) in Science and Technology in terms of publication output as per Science Citation Index from 1970 to 2010. During the period of the study, a total of 2,188 publications were published with 9,401 citations in their credit. The average number of publications per year was 54.7. The highest numbers of papers (152) were published in 2008. BU has collaborated with 27 countries and USA is the top collaborating country with 74(31.09%) of papers followed by France with 20(8.4%). Authorship and collaboration trend were towards multi-authored paper. There were 1940(88.66%) multi-authored/collaborative papers and only 248(11.33%) single authored publications. The prolific authors were: S. M. Mayanna with 113 papers, and N. Rudraiah with 101 papers. P. V. Kamath with 98 papers with the highest h and p values 21 and 26.52, respectively. The most preferred journals for publication by the scientists were: Current Science with 168 publications, Indian Journal of Chemistry-B with 81 publications and Indian Journal of Chemistry-C with 39 publications.

Key words: Publication productivity, citation analysis, authorship pattern, Bradford's law of scattering.

African Journal of Library and Information Science ISSN 2756-3383, Vol. 8 (12), pp. 001-011, December, 2022. © International Scholars Journals

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Use of information technology in library service: A study of some selected libraries in northern part of Bangladesh

Md. Jamal Uddin¹* and Md. Nazmul Hasan²

¹Department of Archives and Libraries, National Library of Bangladesh, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.

²Department of Information science and Library Management, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6500, Bangladesh.

Accepted 12 July, 2022

Abstract

Bangladesh is one of the least developing countries, which have been facing a lot of obstacles in introducing information technology in all information-related sectors, especially in its libraries and information centers. This current work is centered on the northern part of Bangladesh, perceived to be worse hit in terms of inadequacy of the application of information technology (IT) in library and information centers, when compared with the capital city of Bangladesh. Therefore, this research work, made with a full study plan and procedures seeks to investigate the environment, identify barriers and explore possibilities of improving IT application in libraries. The study took into account the various systems, services, problems and prospects of these selected libraries. Besides this, the study also showed how to improve the entire condition and services of these libraries by adopting modern technology such as information technology (computer, fax, e-mail,) including provision of phone, photocopier, television, microfiche, microfilm etc. This investigation will reveal the entire condition of these libraries including the problems encountered by them in applying information technology and put forward necessary recommendation, which may be helpful in improving their services in information dissemination process.

Key words: Information technology (IT), library service, library and information science, information centers.

African Journal of Library and Information Science ISSN 2756-3383, Vol. 8 (11), pp. 001-006, November, 2022. © International Scholars Journals

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Data Mining Roles in Extracting the Knowledge                                                                                                      

Eissa Mohammed Ali Qhal^l & Mohammed Saleh Altowairqi²                                                                                                            

¹Jazan University - Applied College - Saudi Arabia.

²Information science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.

Accepted 12 December, 2022

Abstract

The data is everything, the data mining is the process of acquiring data from a huge dataset or a database, it can be any source. The knowledge extraction is part of data mining, after acquiring data, the knowledge is acquired through successive completion of other steps like cleaning and integration of data, selection, transformation, pattern evaluation and knowledge extraction. The motive of the research is to summarize the existing researches and studies on the role of data mining in the process of knowledge extraction. To identify the research papers, the author conducted a rigorous data collection from all the resources. The researcher accessed many research papers from various publishers, and found some relevant studies such as data mining and analytics in the process industry, the role of machine learning, combining web data extraction and data mining techniques to discover knowledge, role of data mining techniques, a review on knowledge extraction for business operations using data mining, applying data mining techniques for descriptive phrase extraction in digital document collections and data mining techniques and application. The study reveals the motive, algorithms and their uses, findings, scope of the studies of the recent studies and how these studies are used.

Keywords: Data mining, Knowledge extraction, algorithms, analysis, extraction, data mining techniques.