Previous studies have shown that it is possible to detect macroscopic patterns of cultural change over periods of centuries by analyzing large textual time series, specifically digitized books. This method promises to empower scholars with a quantitative and data-driven tool to study culture and society, but its power has been limited by the use of data from books and simple analytics based ess...

Publishing in scholarly peer-reviewed journals causes long delays from submission to its subsequent publication. This may be due to the long peer-review process or backlog of manuscripts waiting in line in the journals. The present study examines the publication delay in 13 journals published by CSIR-NISCAIR at three different stages. These were delays between receipt of manuscript and its revi...

Acquisitioning periodicals online is a new mode for libraries. It has five procedures, namely information retrieving by net, choosing and booking, document delivery, confirming orders, and electric payment. Comparing with traditional acquisition of periodicals, the online acquisition of periodicals has many advantages, such as the tremendous information, the straightness, the high efficiency, a...