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The 21 authors of this study, 19 of whom are non-native English speakers, reflect on the barriers to publishing academic journal articles in top international journals. Each author responded to the same set of questions pertaining to educational (PhD) opportunities for emerging scholars, financial conditions for researchers, and challenges in publishing their work. Limited English language skills, lack of research funding, and different research topics were identified as the most significant barriers to publish in the journals. Recruiting volunteers or using electronic translations for accepted articles for journals, reducing software and subscription to academic journals costs, expanding journal scope, and providing guidance and collaboration across borders are possible measures to reduce the negative impact of the barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facebook is an online social networking site. It allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. It is a very popular social networking site. Librarians use it for official and personal communication purpose. The present study examines the participation of librarians in Facebook by testing whether it follows the pattern given by Lotka's law. The result shows that it does not The paper analyses the reasons and also provides the methods of collecting data for bibliometric study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to examine the accuracy of references in five psychology theses submitted to the University of Mysore. Nine hundred and twenty three references were verified for their accuracy. Seventy seven percent of the references had citation errors. The errors were classified as major and minor errors. The major errors included incorrect journal names, articles titles, author and citations such as wrong volumes, issues, years and page numbers. Minor errors included: punctuations, incomplete article titles, and incomplete author names. The study found that 39.54 percent of the references contained major errors. Misspelling author(s) name (21.77%), misspelling of titles (37.93%), mistakes in volume (5.76%) and issue numbers (1.15%), mistakes in year (37.66%) and page numbers (62.33%) were kinds of major errors found in the study. Lack of awareness about referencing techniques and lack of diligence in compilation of bibliography are the reasons for such errors. This study suggest for imparting training for young researcher to follow appropriate reference styles and maintain the accuracy of the references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a study of Indian authors' contribution in foreign journals in library and information science during 1970-2005. The data were collected from 18 foreign journals. It is found from the study that 303 articles were published in various foreign journals in the field of library and information science. Scientometrics found to be the preferred foreign journal for Indian authors. Almost 44% of the articles published by them were reported in Scientometrics. While going through the Indian contribution in 18 international journals during the span of 36 years, it was found that only three authors have contributed more than 20 articles. This situation calls more attention from Indian authors to increase their level of productivity in foreign periodicals. The sigh of relief is that during present decade 131 articles (43.23%) have already been published showing that the trend of publishing in foreign journals is increasing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies thirty websites of top science universities around the world for their design features with special reference to usability. The guidelines suggested by National Cancer Institute have been applied to measure the usability features of the selected web sites. The parameters like optimizing the user experience; link back to home; colour link behaviour; navigability; and multimedia features have been studied for the websites. The results showed that only 53.33% of library web sites provides, frequently asked questions (FAQs). The time out option has been neglected by all the web sites except one. It is noticed that only 39.99% of the web sites have provision for explicit home link as well as through logos. Persistent navigation feature is observed only on 50% of the web sites. Only 8% of the web sites use the de facto link color coding. Library web sites are yet to exploit the advantages of multimedia (interactivity features). It is found from the survey that only 30% of the web sites contain video contents and none of the web sites contained exclusive audio files. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]