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This article investigates the role of social networking sites (SNS) in enhancing the student engagement of the degree college students in the Srinagar district of Kashmir, J&K, (India). Data was collected with the aid of a well-designed and structured questionnaire using Google forms. Responses from 770 students were analysed. The results provided empirical evidence which shows that students perceive social networking sites as an effective tool for enhancing student engagement.

The present study makes an attempt to explore and analyze the current trends in the publication of e�books in the field of Social Sciences available through the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). In order to fulfill the set objectives, the relevant details of the Social Sciences e-books were collected in the month of June 2017. Later, the data were analyzed using simple quantitative techniques to reveal findings. The findings revealed that the highest number of books in the DOAB are related to Social Sciences (1954, 22.417%), contributed by the authors (72.72%, 1421) and in the English language(69.14%, 1351). The time-series analysis shows that the number of e-books is increasing very fast up to the growth rate of 400%. These books are mostly contributed by academic institutions, commercial publishers and non-profit organizations.

The study aims to provide an insight into the global research productivity in prostate cancer with an in-depth analysis of the growth & development of India and Iran. The study focuses on the authorship collaborative patterns among Indian and Iranian medical scientists as well. The study was commenced with the selection of terms on “Prostate cancer”. Three terms�Prostate Cancer, Prostate Neoplasm, and Prostatic Neoplasm were selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to retrieve the data from the Web of Science (WoS). The Boolean Operator “OR” was executed to retrieve the records. The data related to prostate cancer research from 1989-2017 was retrieved and downloaded in the excel file. Later, Microsoft Excel software was used to analyze the data. Three important means- annual growth rate (AGR), relative growth rate (RGR), and Doubling Time (DT) have been used to trace the development of literature from 1989 to 2017. Further, authorship patterns were analyzed using the authorship collaboration and collaborative coefficient methods. The annual growth rate is slow in the onset as compared to the later years, which is a positive sign of the improvement in the research productivity of India and Iran while as relative growth rate shows a decrease, doubling time shows an increasing trend in both nations towards the end of 2017. Authors prefer to work in collaboration rather than individually as is evident from the values of Collaboration Coefficient and Degree of Collaboration.

The main objective of the study was to investigate how social networking sites(SNS) have shaped the reading habits of the degree college students in the Srinagar district of Kashmir, J&K, (India). Data were collected with the aid of a well�designed and structured questionnaire using Google forms. The results reveal that students use social networking sites for both academic and non-academic purposes. It was revealed that the majority of the students in all disciplines used social networking sites for exchanging reading material, communicating with teachers and classmates, obtaining information, and reading newspapers and magazines. The majority of the students also agree or strongly agree that social networking sites help in improving reading skills, understanding text, and developing book reading, newspaper reading, and critical reading. However, students have been cautioned to make judicial use of social networking sites.

The adolescent age group is one of the most vulnerable periods of life span. It is the period that develops identity and integrity among individuals. The environmental influx to this group includes the SNS’s as one of the major components, having a direct impact on the transition of adolescents to adults. It is in this backdrop, the need is to critically study the impact of SNS’s on adolescent’s life and identifying the key consequences that are emerging out of either using or misusing of same. Ranging from initial exposure of SNS’s to disturbed social life a detailed assessment has been made to know how school-going adolescents are influenced. The mental health status and related illness due to misuse of SNS’s has due assessment. The study is also identifying the core areas of intervention like monitoring and participation for effective response to adolescent problems arising out of excessive usage of same.

Purpose: The web is used to gather information through Search tools globally. These search tools display results as HITS (Hyper-Text Induced Theme Search). This study aims to explore how accurate search tools are when search hits are counted and displayed. Methodology: The paper began with search tools and search terms recognition. Academic search tools Google Scholar, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), CORE (Connecting Repositories) were identified. Using the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), the subject areas were selected from the fields of Economics and Political Science. Search terms were selected from the Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH). The searches were conducted in the simple search mode of the search engines. The total number of hits shown by search tools was recorded, and the hits were then manually counted while navigating from one page to the next to identifythe true number of search hits. Findings: The findings reveal that there is a large difference in the number of hits claimed by the BASE, CORE, and Google Scholar and actual hits displayed. However, the actual hits don’t vary significantly between and among search engines.

The primary objective of this study is to identify the global research output on Taliban during the period of 25 years spanning from 1996-2020. Specific objectives are to analyze the distribution of literature, publication trends, authorship patterns, institutional productivity, collaboration networks, and prolific funding agencies. The data was harvested from the Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 614 records were retrieved on Taliban having 4416 total citations. The highest output was recorded in 2002, with a share of 7.83% to overall literature. The citation pattern depicted a fluctuating, the highest share being received in the year 2002 (14.47%), followed by the years 2010, 2004, and 2007 with the citation share of 11.03%, 10.67%, and 6.82% respectively. The results depict that among all the countries, the USA is topping the list, contributing almost 47.1% of the total research output followed by the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Australia, and Canada with the publication share of 16.78%, 6.19%, 6.03%, and 4.4% respectively.

The study aims to provide an insight into the global research productivity in stomach cancer with an in-depth analysis of the growth & development of India and Iran. The study focuses on the authorship collaborative patterns among Indian and Iranian medical scientists as well. The study was conceived with the selection of terms on “Stomach cancer”. The terms- “Stomach Cancer, Stomach Neoplasm, Gastric Cancer, and Gastric Neoplasm” were selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to retrieve the data from the Web of Science (WoS). The Boolean Operator “OR” was executed to retrieve the records. The data was retrieved from 1989-2017 and downloaded in the excel file after restricting the country to India and Iran. Later, Microsoft Excel and STATA software were used to analyze the data. Three important means- annual growth rate (AGR), relative growth rate (RGR), and Doubling Time (DT) have been used to trace the development of literature. Further, authorship patterns were analyzed using the authorship collaboration and collaborative coefficient methods. The findings of the study show that Japan has the highest contribution (16,616; 19.89%) followed by the USA (16,195; 19.38%) and China (15,683; 18.768%) respectively in the field of Stomach Cancer research. India stands at 15th position and Iran at 22thposition with 1104 (1.32%) and 718 (0.86%) publications respectively. The annual growth rate of India and Iran is slow in the onset as compared to the later years, which is a positive sign of the improvement in the research productivity. The collaborative patterns show that medical scientists prefer to work in collaboration.

This paper provides global research productivity on lung cancer with an in-depth analysis of the growth & development of India and Iran focusing on the authorship collaborative patterns among Indian and Iranian medical scientists as well. The findings of the study show that there is a strong and considerable relationship between the Gross Domestic Production (GDP) of nations and publication productivity. The annual growth rate is slow in the onset as compared to the later years, which is a positive sign of the improvement in the research productivity of India and Iran while as relative growth rate shows a decrease, doubling time shows an increasing trend in both nations towards the end of 2017.

Reading has played the best role in the transformation of societies from nomadic to agriculture; agriculture to industrial; industrial to information and knowledge-based societies. However, with the technological advances, many new hobbies have taken a greater time slice of human lives, which ultimately affects their reading habits as well. Therefore, the authors have suggested “The Five Laws of Reading” in the present study to keep the reading habits active among humans in times to come.

This article discovers the collection diversity of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) repositories based on key parameters such as regional distribution, subject classification, language diversity, etc. and identifies the critical management issues of the ETD repositories related to collection management, software management, content management and metadata policies. The ETD repositories were identified in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). The required data were manually collected from the OpenDOAR and websites of repositories to achieve the prescribed objectives of the study. The data were later tabulated, analysed and interpreted using simple arithmetic techniques. The study was limited to the ETD repositories available in the OpenDOAR, and findings cannot be generalized across repositories and directories. It provides insights about ETD repositories worldwide, highlights their critical management issues and suggests mechanisms for their sustainable growth and development. This article is purely based on research and its findings are valid for scholars, faculty members, institutions – as well as administrators and managers of the ETD repositories.

This study identifies the bibliometric facets of Free Google Books like collection size, authorship patterns, time-series, and publishing bodies on ‘Peace’ and ‘War’. The search was executed on free Google books during the month of January 2019. The study found that the majority of books published during the 19th century are archived by the Google as these were free from the copyright restrictions. Large numbers of Google Books are written by single authors on War (153, 79.24) as well as on Peace (116, 67.05). A good number of books on Peace (171) and War (174) aren’t reviewed by users and till date, only 21 books have been reviewed by users.

This study deals with the scientometric aspect of Nuclear Waste Management. The data has been collected from the Web of Science database over the period 1989-2019. The results reveal that a total of 1824 publications have been published on Nuclear Waste Management and the highest number has been contributed by the USA (23.7%) of the total global output.

The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a National Mission Project initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on education to engage, facilitate and inspire all learners across the country regardless of the age, demographics and ability. The NDLI is a melting pot of knowledge and information that holds an extensive variety of lectures, courses, archives in various media forms curated, collected and created by the best institutions of the country. The present study is an attempt to provide an overview of the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) to understand its advantages, features and collection in the global digital space.

The World Digital Library, one of the hallmark digital preservation initiatives with a global perspective was launched by the UNESCO and the U.S. Library of Congress in collaboration with 32 partner institutions on April 21, 2009. The World Digital Library archives and provides access to unique cultural materials from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from 193 countries around the world. It aims at promoting international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to narrow the information divide within and among countries by capacity building in partner institutions. The World Digital Library provides unprecedented, free of charge access to significant primary historic materials including; manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. The aim of the present study is to analyze such resources on the basis of the regional attributes, lingual patterns, time periods, subject coverage and institutional contribution. The World Digital Library website is being explored to retrieve the information to examine its collection on various facets. Results: The maximum number of resources in the World Digital Library is available on Europe (7276), dealing with History and Geography (16,135), contributed by the Library of Congress (8537) and available in the Arabic language (2830).

In this paper the author emphasis the need for framing the five laws of library science for an association, institution, organization, society, etc. to carry out its work efficiently and effectively. An attempt has been made to devise five laws of library science using logical thinking. Author suggested that these laws can serve the guiding force for all the associations in general and Library & Information Science in particular.

The present study aims to study the status of open access e-book repositories in the OpenDOAR. Relevant data were extracted from the OpenDOAR and was organized in tabular forms based on certain parameters viz: Geographical distribution, Software usage, Language diversity, Subject coverage, Operational status, Repository type and Growth of Repositories. The findings reveal that repositories containing books were 1329 in number, out of which Europe was seen to be the most dominating continent contributing 55.2% of the repositories. Almost 96% of the repositories were seen to be functional.

The main purpose of the paper is to study the publishing trends of the open access religious journals available in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data were collected online from the Directory of Open Access Journals and quantitative method was applied for data analysis. The data were collected in December 2017 and later presented in tabular forms to reveal the findings. The findings show that 119 religious journals are registered in the DOAJ, published from the 27 countries by 114 publishing agencies in 14 languages. The maximum number of journals (21, 17.65%) is published from Indonesia in the English language (79, 66.39%) during the 2nd decade (2010-2017) of the 21st century.

Emphasis that reading has increasingly been the object of empirical and theoretical investigations for a long past. It has been studied from every possible dimension by researchers of different disciplines like Psychology, Sociology, Education, Media Studies and Library & Information Science. The study aims to investigate the reading and library usage habits of the college students in Kashmir Valley. The stratified random sampling technique was applied to select the students and questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The results reveal that the college students have positive attitude towards reading and majority of them spend almost two hours on academic and nonacademic reading daily. The students developed reading habits mostly through their self efforts followed up with the help of parents and teachers respectively. The college students prefer to read in morning, at home and in English. The results also depict that students mostly read for education followed by information. The preferred subject interest of students is Religion followed by Science & Technology and Literature respectively. The results further reveal that majority of the students exploit their personal collection followed by college library to satisfy their reading needs. The students face many problems in getting reading materials like restriction on borrowing in libraries, inadequate collection, price hike of reading materials and poor organisation of libraries.