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    Nameless Recognition Rabindranath Tagore and other Indian literatures
    (National Library Kolkata, 2011-05-23) Chakravorty, Swapan
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    The role of national libraries in promoting digital resources
    (DELNET, 2011-11-15) Chakravorty, Swapan
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    Being Staged: Unconcealment through Reading and Performance in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Bharata’s Nātyaśāstra
    (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016-01-01) Chakravorty, Swapan
    In exploring the ethical significance of the performative, if blasphemous, dimensions of the momentous events in Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus, this essay deploys insights from an ancient Sanskrit manual on drama, Bharata’s Nātyaśāstra, and its early eleventh-century commentary by Abhinavagupta. Bharata states that the aesthetic ‘essence’ (rasa) of theater emerges out of the functioning of vibhāva (the stimulus, the determinant device that produces affect in the audience), anubhāva (the enacted response and bodily expressions of emotion), and vyabhiċāri bhāva (the minor, passing, and mixed bhāvas produced by the major sentiments). Is there a simultaneous bid for the performative as constituting ethical identity? If so, whose identity are we talking about — the portrayed character’s, the performer’s, or the viewer’s? Such are the questions that link this discussion of Marlowe and Shakespeare with Abhinavagupta’s gloss on the relevant passage in Bharata. Perhaps the early modern English stage had an intuition that was beyond the range of the discursive apparatus of Bharata or Abhinavagupta. It was the intuition that a performed moment of choice was more than fictive. It was constitutive of the ethical selfhood that accounts for Doctor Faustus being still such a disturbing play for viewers.
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    Collection Development in Indian Academic Libraries: An Empirical Approach to Determine the Number of Copies for Acquisition
    (2016-05-15) Giri, Rabishankar; Sen, B. K.; Mahesh, G
    Collection development in academic libraries has many challenges and one of them concerns determining the number of copies of some books that are required in multiple copies in the library. In the present study, five major academic libraries in New Delhi were surveyed to understand the prevalent policies and practices on determining the number of copies of books that are required in multiple copies. It was found that there was no consistency in the approach to deciding the number of copies in the libraries studied. Further it was noted that all the libraries arbitrarily decided on the number of copies to be purchased. The paper discusses a method that has been evolved to determine the number of copies. The method has been applied in one of the academic libraries under study which when combined with other measures have been found to be more effective in determining the number of copies required.
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    Polyion–counterion interactions in sodium carboxymethylcellulose–ethylene glycol–water ternary solutions
    (Elsevier) Sharma, Ramesh; Das, Chanchal; Dahal, Sanjay; Das, Bijan
    Polyion–counterion interactions in sodium nitrocellulose–ethylene glycol–water ternary system have been investigated with special reference to their variations with the poly electrolyte concentration, the medium relative permitting and the temperature using electrical conductance measurements. The experimental data have been analyzed on the basis of a model for semi dilute poly electrolyte conductivity which takes into account the scaling arguments proposed by Dobrynin et al. Concentration-dependent moderate counterion condensation (24–33%) was observed. Counterion condensation is found to be spontaneous which depends upon the EG-content of the medium and the temperature. A major proportion of the current is transported by the carboxymethylcellulose polyions. The results further demonstrated that the monomer units experience more frictional resistance in solution as the EG-content increases or as the temperature decreases.
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    Influence of selected factors in journals’ citations
    (Emerald) Giri, Rabishankar
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of selected factors in journal citations. Various factors can affect citation distribution of journals. Among them, skewness of citations distribution, author self-citation, journal self-citation and recitations (RCs) have been studied. Design/methodology/approach The present study based on 16 systematically selected journals indexed in Scopus under the subject category “Library and Information Science.” The study was confined to original research and review articles that were published in the selected journals in the year 2011. The temporal citation window from 2011 to 2014 was taken for analysis. Tools like Scopus author ID, ORCID and author profiles from Google Scholar were used to minimize the error due to homonyms, spelling variances and misspelling in authors’ names. Findings It is found that citation distribution in the majority of the journals under the study is highly skewed and more likely to follow a log-normal distribution. The nature of authorship in papers was found to have a positive effect on citation counts. Self-citing data show that higher-ranked journals have rather less direct impact on total citation counts than their lower counterparts. RCs are also found to be more in top-tier journals. Though the influence of self-citations and RCs were relatively less at an individual level on total citations of journals but combined, they can play a dominant role and can affect total citation counts of journals at significant level. Research limitations/implications The present study is based on the Scopus database only. Therefore, citation data can be affected by the inherent limitation of Scopus. Readers are encouraged to further the study by taking into account large sample and tracing citations from an array of citation indexes, such as Web of Science, Google citations, Indian Citation Index, etc. Originality/value This paper reinforces that the citations received by journals can be affected by the factors selected in this study. Therefore, the study provides a better understanding of the role of these selected factors in journal citations.