Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

The principle objective of this article is to examine and investigation the use of electronic resources in Galgotias University, School of Law library, and it is found that on the evident impact of electronic resources on their scholarly viability and on the issues they experience when utilization of electronic resources. Design/ methodology/approach: An online survey was conducted at GUSOL, using Google Forms sharing the links with different social media platforms and official emails id to get the response. The 1108 questionnaire was distributed to all the patrons and received the 1023 respondents revert it is almost, 92.33%. Findings: The finding of this study is the maximum no of respondents are aware with legal databases and e- journals, The results showed adequate use of electronic resources used by the GUSOL patrons. The faculty, researcher and postgraduate students are mostly used the electronic resources for writing research papers and e-databases are used for legal cases and as for under graduate students are concern they are using the e- resources for their assignment purpose Originality/ value: The results and recommendations of this study are expected to be beneficial to Galgotias University School of Law Libraries Administration, specifically, in terms of knowing what the patrons are used and prefer, seeking behavior towards electronic resources and the problems they are facing, when searching electronic resources. Keywords: Electronic Resources; Legal Databases; e-learning and e- journals.

Blockchain that is known as the distributed database of records
or public ledgers of all transactions or digital events conducted
and shared by participants/nodes is a relatively young technology.
However, cryptocurrency was first to adopt this technology. Since
then, it is being used in many of the fields. The notion of blockchain
technology and its applications in library services are discussed in
this article.
Keywords: Blockchain; Distributed Database; Libraries.
 

Intellectual Property (IP) has increasingly assumed a vital role with the rapid pace of scientific, technological, business and medical innovations witnessing in the entire world today. The present study was conducted to examine the perception and awareness on Copyright and Plagiarism issues among the LIS professionals working in selected Research and Development (R & D) organisations in Bengaluru city. This study was conducted through a self-administered survey. A questionnaire was designed using both open-ended as well as closed-ended questions and some questions are based on the five-point Likert scale. A total of 57 LIS professionals were personally met, discussed with them, and
responses are collected and recorded on various issued related to
copyright and plagiarism. The major findings of the study reveals that, all the respondents 100% (N=57) are having basic awareness and knowledge on various aspects of Intellectual Property  Rights(IPR). The large majority of the respondents are N=52 (91.2%) are helping their users in handling IPR issues in their respective R & D Organisations.
Keywords: IPR; Copyright; Plagiarism; LIS Professionals; R & D
Organizations.
 

Academic Libraries have first role to foresee support services to
their users by providing books, diurnal and other physical resources
and services necessary for learning and researches, They can only do
this completely in the instant sparing difficulties by foresee current
materials and services relevant to use necessarily, Failure to do this
may create problems to users. The study search into such problems
users meet in workmanship energetic application of available
library resources. Literatures imply that such problems may include
insufficient furnish of materials expedient and services inadequate
manpower and kindred reading environmental conditions.
Keywords: Academic Libraries; Library resources; user problems;
Kolar District
 

The outbreak of CIOVID-19 is an unprecedented and most disastrous phenomenon for the human society. In a very short span of time it became irrepressible across the globe, reaching almost every geographical location on the earth. Although, the scientific community was well aware about the existence of the corona virus mutations through previous researches conducted, and literature available regarding other traits of the same virus, it was indeed horrifying to encounter the infection caused by the deadly virus. The present study explores research on corona virus prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 to find out the dynamics of research in terms of different bibliometric parameters of publications. This study analyses different dimensions of research on Corona virus quantitatively and makes an observation of global contributions using Scientometrics indicators and other statistical tools. Keywords: Bibliometrics; Corona Virus; COVID-19; Research publications.