This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Over the last three hundred years scholarly journals have been the prime mode of transport in communicating the scholarly research process. However in the last few decades, a changing scenario has been witnessed in their form and format. OA is an innovative idea that attracts a fair amount of support and opposition around the world because it bridges the gap between digitally divided scholars by solving the pricing and permission crises that have imbalanced the scholarly communication process. Some scholars are of the opinion that OA has led to a chaotic environment where anyone can publish anything. Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services records, in detail, the impact by accessing the journals web site qualitatively and quantitatively in measuring the important elements such as articles, authors, countries, subjects and cited references. Finally, the book calculates the impact factor using synchronous and asynchronous approaches.
First ever study to extensively evaluate LIS Journals Web site qualitatively by using a newly developed set of criteriaLIS OA journals are also evaluated quantitativelyCounts citations of LIS OA articles in terms of formal citations by using Google Scholar"

Knowledge Management in Libraries: Concepts, Tools and Approaches brings to the forefront the increasing recognition of the value of knowledge and information to individuals, organizations, and communities, providing an analysis of the concepts of Knowledge Management (KM) that prevails among the Library and Information Science (LIS) community. Thus, the book explores knowledge management from the perspective of LIS professionals. Furthermore, unlike most books on the topic, which address it almost exclusively in the context of a firm or an organization to help gain a competitive advantage, this book looks at knowledge management in the context of not for profit organizations such as libraries.

Free and open source development models have made tremendous contributions to computing, research, commercial projects etc. and making it easier for large groups of people, who may not even be acquainted. While this growing activity has a promising future, there is a need of specialized knowledge to install or handle Open Source Software (OSS) in any type of library environment. Once you have decided to migrate to OSS you will need to do some basic installing. The present book "Open Source Software for Libraries: A hands-on tool" is an attempt to explain how to install various OSS easily and why the success of Open Source Software is broadly significance. We aren't trying to explain every open-source for every activity of libraries, instead we want to explain best, most important, and easiest to use OSS. We believe, this book can be used as a supplementary tool for handling OSS like Fedora, Ubantu, Mozila, Google Chrome, NewGenLib, Koha, Evergreen, Open Journal System, Diva, Joomla , Drupal, Wordpress and Apache HTTP Server.