Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

The global scenario has witnessed the revolutionary advances of open education, open educational resources, massive open online courses, and academic libraries. The paper aims to create awareness among the users about MOOCs and the stakeholders and academic libraries to understand the problems behind the gap. The current scenario in context with open education and MOOCs for the strengths, opportunities, fragility, and preparedness of trainers relates the potential of academic library contributions and rationality for open education MOOCs. The speculations and responses in the MOOCs training session are shared in the library's situation apart from information services, the library's roles, and trainers' demography, based upon the author's experiences during OE and MOOCs-related training workshop at JNU. The status of the open education movement in a developing country can show a different picture than developed nations.

For several institutions and organizations, plagiarism and intellectual property rights (IPR) abuses have become a serious concern. There are many opportunities for such violations to become much more common through the revolutionary growth of the Web. The possibility of adopting a 'culture of mediocrity' is generated by this situation. This paper explores these problems and suggests ways of solving the issues through the implementation of feasible technical solutions. New media, especially the Internet, are contributing to an explosion in violations of both plagiarism and IPR.

Reading habit can be defined as constant reading by an individual in a critical manner, as a result of his considering this activity as a need to be met and a source of pleasure.The present study is an attempt to find out and to compare the reading habit of library users of two universities i.e., University of Jammu (JU), Jammu and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra. The data were collected with the help of a standard questionnaire distributed to 500 users. The result of the study revealed that in JU, majority of library users are male contributing 55.5% whereas in SMVDU both male and female users are almost represented by nearly similar percentage with 51.9% males and 48.1% females.In JU, maximum library users visit library for studying course material (57.8%) followed by newspaper and magazine reading (42.9%) whereas in SMVDU maximum library users visit library for reading newspaper/ magazines (67.8%) followed by reading of competitive exams books (55.5%) and for studying course material (45.1%).

The present “Innovative services and scope of University Libraries in Telangana during Covid-19 pandemic period” deals with how teaching fraternity is accessing the resources, what are digital platforms they are using, weather open Educational resources are browsing from national or international digital platforms, what purpose they using also explained. And also searching skills of teaching fraternity also explained”.