Suresh Jange

Scientometric Portrait of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994), the renowned crystallographer and the Nobel prize winner in Chemistry (1964) was responsible for developing the X-ray diffraction method of finding the exact structure of large and complicated molecules, such as Penicillin, Vitamin B-12, Insulin, etc. Her 180 publications during 1932–1988 were analyzed by domains, authorship pattern, publication productivity, scattering of publications and the keywords used in the titles of her papers.

Technical education and e-resources in India: Prospects and developments

An attempt has been made to highlight the current developments of technical and engineering education in India with respect to plans, strategies and budget outlays to provide competitive technical education prevailing in the country and efforts made to promote quality of education to the society at large. The paper reviews the existing literature pertaining to technical education and use of Internet services in India. Explores how Internet based resources and e-resources could be utilized has been discussed providing useful resources-subject gateways and newsgroups. The national consortia e-resources covering electronic journals and databases in India have been explored. Further attempts were made to reveal the initiatives undertaken by Government of India for e-learning and courseware repositories in the country.

Towards Quality Culture in the Digital Environ: Management and Optimization of Services in Research Libraries of India

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has been established in India for ensuring quality and excellence in higher education and has developed a set of objective indicators for the library, as it is the fulcrum of support for the community of academic and research pursuits. This resulted in a general consensus for rising demands of evaluation and accountability of academic and research libraries to develop performance evaluation and measure service quality and thereby build a culture of quality. Advancements in information and communication technology, transforming the world into the global village, contributed significant scope for development of electronic information resources and Internet resources in the library for continuous quality improvement. Library and information centers need to map the information needs of the customers into quality information services by making use of various information technology-based information retrieval tools. The quality gurus especially Parasuraman, Barry, and Zeithaml have developed the SERVQUAL to measure the quality dimension in the academic and research environment.