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Thursday, 27th July 2006

New Papers: Survey of Library and Information Science Faculty in Japan & Open Access in India

Two new papers that caught our eye via dLIST at the University of Arizona.

1) Survey on Faculty of Library and Information Science Education in Japan
by Keita Tsuji, Yuko Yoshida, Makiko Miwa, and Hiroya Takeuchi, Tomohide Muranushi, and Masami Shibata (2006)
In Proceedings The Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice 2006 (A-LIEP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

From the abstract:

As a part of LIPER research, a questionnaire survey was performed on Library & Information Science instructors in Japanese universities. In quantitative terms, this research revealed the characteristics and teaching goals of LIS instructors, the similarities of librarian certification courses, and the overlap with instructors of those courses. Also, an analysis of freeform question responses about LIS education revealed the instructor’s varied thoughts on LIS education and also revealed awareness of problems related to profession and curriculum issues and education goals.

2) Open access - current developments in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam, (2006) In Proceedings Berlin 4 Open Access: From Promise to Practice, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Potsdam-Golm. From the abstract:

Despite a long history of science, scholarship and philosophical inquiry dating back to millennia before the emergence of modern European civilization, India is struggling to keep pace with the West in science and technology. Although there are about 300 universities, and about the same number of government funded research laboratories under agencies such as the Departments of Atomic Energy and Space and the 1 Ministries of Defence, Agriculture, Science & Technology, and Ocean Development, India’s research output in science and technology, as seen from the Web of Science, is barely 2.5% of the world’s journal literature. What is more, in none of the subjects Indian papers on the whole are cited as often as the world average. It will not be wrong to conclude that India is contributing to growth of knowledge in the sciences sub-optimally. There is a crying need for strengthening higher education (and, indeed, education at all levels) and promoting excellence and innovation in research. India is investing millions of dollars to set up three institutions of excellence in science on the lines of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and six world class medical colleges and hospitals of the quality of the All India Institute of Medical sciences in underserved regions.

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