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Accuracy of references in the doctoral theses in library and information science submitted to Banasthali Vidyapith

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Title Accuracy of references in the doctoral theses in library and information science submitted to Banasthali Vidyapith
 
Creator Gupta, Vishnu Kumar
 
Subject Reference Accuracy
Citation Errors
Reference Lists
Doctoral Theses
LIS Theses
 
Description 183-196
The study was carried out to investigate the accuracy of references in the fourteen Ph.D. theses in Library and Information Science (LIS) submitted to Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. One thousand seven hundred and twenty one (1721) journal references were checked thoroughly dividing them into seven bibliographic elements, i.e. name of author(s), article title, journal title, year, volume number, issue number, and pages (both first and last page). These components were
checked from the original journal articles. Results show that 22.08% (380) references in LIS theses had no errors, while 77.92% (1341) references contained errors. In 1341 faulty references, a sum of 2869 errors were observed, out of which 1231 were major and 1638 were minor errors. The reference accuracy rate for LIS theses ranged from 0% to 42.77%. The average number of errors in references was 1.67. The research findings indicate that citation instruction in Pre Ph.D. Programme is strongly required to promote better citation behaviour.
 
Date 2020-10-16T07:31:44Z
2020-10-16T07:31:44Z
2020-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/55499
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.67(3) [September 2020]