Record Details

Subject mapping of Punjabi language books: a bibliometric study

Online Publishing @ NISCAIR

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Authentication Code dc
 
Title Statement Subject mapping of Punjabi language books: a bibliometric study
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Chander, Harish ; Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab
Singh, K P ; Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, Delhi
 
Uncontrolled Index Term Library Science; Information Science
Punjabi publications; Subject trends; Bibliometrics; Decadal growth; Punjabi language
 
Summary, etc. The study presents the subject analysis of Punjabi language books written in <em>‘Gurmukhi’ </em>script from 2004-2013 covering different fields of arts and humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, and technology. The distribution of major subjects and their subdivisions were based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 22<sup>nd</sup> edition. The information centres, and academic institutions such as universities from the different parts of Northern India, having a good collection of Punjabi language books were the focus for data collection. The Punjabi language books publishers and several websites/resources were also consulted to get the required information. A total number of 7997 Punjabi books on different subjects published during the period 2004-2013 have been studied. The largest number of books in Punjabi [5587 (69.9%)] is published in the field of literature.<p>Subject analysis, decadal growth, analysis of books translations from different Indic and foreign languages to the Punjabi language are also included in the study. A growth rate of 29.37% in the publication of Punjabi books is seen during the decade.</p>
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS)
2021-01-08 22:11:31
 
Electronic Location and Access application/pdf
http://op.niscair.res.in/index.php/ALIS/article/view/34755
 
Data Source Entry Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS); ##issue.vol## 67, ##issue.no## 4 (2020): Annals of Library and Information Studies
 
Language Note en
 
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note Authors who publish with ALIS agree that once published copyright of the article will be transferred to the publisher, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License.. that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Except where otherwise noted, the Articles on this site are licensed under Creative Commons License: CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India