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Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning in Vellalar College for Women PG Students: A Case Study
Dr. S. Muthuvennila
Pages: 1-10 | First Published: 05 May 2023
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Abstract

This Lifelong learning has turn out to be important to each Students in today`s Knowledge society as a result of easy and free access to facts. In education, lifelong studying has been related to curriculum and approaches of teaching. It should be emphasized to college students that studying is never finished with inside the classroom, as soon as they're in society will face several challenges and life long learning is a should to resolve such conditions by obtaining right knowledge. this paper show that the Libraries in lifelong learning process, and objective of the study included the important of the lifelong learning, skills and benefits of the information literacy for vellalar college for women PG students learning lifelong. The representative sample from each class changed into cautiously selected in Simple Random sampling. Data collection methods included surveys and questionnaires. Therefore the Questionnaire Distributed 180,to the questionnaire received 156, the remaining 24
questionnaires has incomplete and missing data.  The response rate is 86.6% Percentages. Data analysis used in the Cross tabulation, percentage analysis, ANOVAs. The investigation is only Post Graduate students in the scientific department in Vellalar College for Women, Erode. The end result confirmed that the respondents are conscious and informed approximately the function and techniques of PG Students in information literacy competencies and acknowledgment of lifelong learning.

Key Words: Information literacy, lifelong learning, PG Students, Science Department, College.

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Use of Social Media for Scholarly Research Communication among Social Science Scholars in towards research excellence: A Cross- Sectional Study
Pitchaipandi Pandi
Pages: 11-19 | First Published: 05 May 2023
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This study investigated a descriptive crosssectional study conducted among Social Science scholars on academic social media for network communication study at Selected Universities in Tamil Nadu, social science researchers provide information about their work via social media platforms. The data were collected from an online questionnaire, and a link to the online survey was shared through Gmail and Whatsapp. The study participants were 302 scholars from social science areas at the Selected University of Tamil Nadu. Data were analyzed using the Software for statistical analysis, SPSS 23 version. The normality test and nonparametric analyses (basic percentage, mean and standard deviation, and Mann-Whitney U test) were used to check the received data to produce the study's findings.
Key Words: Social Media, Scholarly Research Communication, Academic Social Media, Research performance, Selected Universities and Purpose

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Priority Index and Activity Index of Wind Power Research Literature Output in India (2018 to 2022): A Scientometric Analysis
Dr. S.Rani
Pages: 20-27 | First Published: 05 May 2023
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Abstract 
The study is a Scientometric analysis of research productivity in priority and activity index of Wind Power Research Literature output in India and a sum total of 1270 publications were obtained from the Web of Science for five calendar years spanning from 2018 to 2022 with the citations of 12206. This chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of data collected for the identified period, for all five years 11.25 average per item cited and 51 H-Indexes.

Keywords: Priority Index, Activity Index, Wind Power Research, Scientometric
 

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