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The purpose of this study is to explore students' perceived information security and privacy (IS&P) threats and to classify them in a way that helps in analyzing the problem, creating awareness measures and further improving students' IS&P education. Using a qualitative research approach, a group of forty two Master's degree IT students identified seventy five IS&P threats related to them...
Plagiarism is a serious problem identified amongst research community. Plagiarism has been around for centuries, but with the use of Internet and easy access to material in electronic format has made it easier to plagiarize materials of others. On the other hand plagiarism detection is now as easy as plagiarizing a document. There are a number of anti-plagiarism software available either freely or...
The reach of information is now much easier and effective in the age of information technology. Electronic documents and resources have changed the entire paradigm of education and research. Students, teachers, professionals, academicians and researchers may get their information on their desktop/laptop/Smartphone through electronic platform. The availability of Information and Communication Technology...
Indian National Agricultural Research System (INARS) is one of the largest agricultural systems. In 2007, Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) was established for providing access of e-Resources to INARS. Access of about 3000 e-journals has been provided to the 143 agricultural institutions/universities of INARS on IP (Internet Protocol) authentication basis through CeRA. Access of e-resources...
Plagiarism — using someone else's ideas, writings or results, and presenting them as one's own without giving proper credit to the actual author. In today's competitive world plagiarism is spreading at a tenacious rate. Scientific writing requires good expertise for it demands both features: vividness and terseness, which are generally hard to accomplish together. Any scientific work should be characterized...
Online Information Resources (OIR) are getting popularity amongst academicians, particularly research students. This study is an attempt to investigate the use and purview of online information resources by postgraduate students of public and private sector universities of Lahore — Pakistan. Through questionnaires, data was collected from 570 research students with the response rate of 463 (81.22%)...
The purpose of this study is to investigate barriers that would hinder collection development in Scientific and Research Institute (SRI) libraries in Iran. The populations of this study are the research scholars, faculty members and experts belonging to five disciplines from ten institutes in Iran. For the purpose of data collection, a well-structured questionnaire was designed and administrated randomly...
In the United States, public technology funding is distributed differently across state lines. This impacts service and access to information particularly as it pertains to critical broadband access. Funding and service trends have changed, especially as it relates to public libraries, with some modifications working to their advantage and some to their detriment. As information is increasingly moving...
This study investigated media use behavior of nursing students enrolled in Nursing Colleges under Thailand Ministry of Public Health. Participants consisted of 3,574 undergraduate nursing students, 1st–4th year, from 19 colleges randomly selected across regions. Data collection was conducted through online survey in April — May 2014. Female participants were 91.9% with mean age 20.40 (S.D.= 1.18)...
Advancements in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have changed the way of providing library services. The present developments of mobile technology, EDGE, 3G and wifi are the catalyst in the use of mobile internet to ensure the access of information anywhere anytime. The mobile computing is growing day by day while the smart phones are the leading gadget used frequently...
The information revolution particularly e-resources has changed the shape of libraries and role of librarians. The present study has been undertaken to compare the level of awareness and utilization of electronic journals (e-journals) among faculty members and research scholars (RS) of Banasthali University (BU), Rajasthan, India Further, the data is collected through a structured questionnaire distributed...
With the advent of Internet and new technologies variety of information sources are coming up. The thirst of information in R&D activities has become ever growing and ever demanding. The information is becoming more digital and people are getting easy access to abundant information which leads to the temptation of using and copying it and stealing other ideas without knowing the implications and...
The author played a role of the leader in a research project by the National Diet Library of Japan in 2012/2013, whose title is "Issues and Perspectives on Reference Services in Libraries of Japan." In that paper, he discussed the characteristics and "emerging trends" of reference services in the current context of public, academic, special, and national libraries, using the results...
This present study has been conceived to study the status of usage of E-Resources available under INDEST-AICTE Consortium by the Library Users of NIT, Silchar. Descriptive Research Method (Case Study of NIT Library Users) was adopted using self designed questionnaire incorporating some modification from the previous study conducted on usage of e-resources available under UGC-INFONET Digital Library...
The introduction of IPv6 has opened up several questions with reference to its adaption and transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and is one of the crucial issues being frequently discussed in networking community today. IPv6 provides many seamless features that makes it far better protocol as compared to its predecessor IPv4. It is a well-known fact that IPv4 is a defacto standard at present and is currently...
Today, search engines play a vital role in accessing the online content. However, the data in the webpages are not clearly perceived by search engines. As a result, it provides a lot of irrelevant data with little desired information. In addition, it takes a lot of time in searching the appropriate result. By studying the online educational needs of Indian school children, we aim to retrieve appropriate...
It is extremely important that the semantic relation between the information resources for organizing and hunting for information. Many semantic connections are lost between online information resources and off-line information resources. Topic map is a discipline-specific form of concept map, which is generally a representation of concepts about the information and relationship rather than of knowledge...
Session hijacking attacks of social network websites are one of the commonly experienced cyber threats in today's Internet especially with the unprecedented proliferation of wireless networks and mobile applications. To address this problem, we propose a cache supported hybrid two-dimensional one-way hash construction to handle social networks' user sessions authentication in collaborative applications...
An online web application called Student-Trade has been developed. It is a state-of-the-art platform for direct consumer-to-consumer trading in the Internet. The platform is targeted for direct consumer-to-consumer trading among university students. The items for trading include books, household items, electronics, housing rental, sports equipment and tutoring services. This paper is on the design...
Extracting ranking from pairwise comparison data has been very popular these days especially due to the huge source of comparison data available in the Internet. One of the many ways to collect a large amount of data from ordinary users is crowd sourcing. One example is reCaptcha, which converts scanned text images into text by using human recognition capability of a huge number of people.With the...
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