Proceeding Articles
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2024-03-29T15:15:03ZEmpowering Education in Challenging Times: Unveiling the Virtual Reading Room Initiative at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Library through Open Access Resources
http://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/7287
Empowering Education in Challenging Times: Unveiling the Virtual Reading Room Initiative at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Library through Open Access Resources
Seneviratne, W.; Rajapaksha, M.P.; Kanchana, U.D.H.; Ranawella, T.C.
2023-11-01T00:00:00ZThe role of the Academic Librarians in combating plagiarism: A study based on the University Libraries in Sri Lanka
http://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/7286
The role of the Academic Librarians in combating plagiarism: A study based on the University Libraries in Sri Lanka
Rajapaksha, M.P.
2020-12-01T00:00:00ZDeveloping an Academic Institutional Repository: A Case at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
http://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/7285
Developing an Academic Institutional Repository: A Case at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
Rajapaksha, M.P.
An institutional repository is defined as an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating
the intellectual output of an institution in digital form, particularly a research institution (New World
Encyclopedia, 2018). Generally it includes materials such as journal articles, conference papers, peer
reviews, electronic versions of theses and dissertations from an academic institution. The main purpose
of this study is to share the experiences of setting up an institutional repository (IR) at General Sir John
Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) and make suggestions to overcome the challenges for
sustainability of the repository. Empirical method is used with the participatory approach in this study.
Furthermore, the study focuses on some key issues to be considered when developing the repository.
The institutional repository of KDU library network has developed by using D-Space software and
running with a separate internal server. Formulating repository policy framework, authority control,
copyright issues and persuading the academic staff to deposit their publications were considered as
major challenges in this study. In order to encourage research scholars to deposit their publication,
librarians should follow the marketing strategies to emphasize the impotence of the institutional
repository.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZResearch visualization of post – COVID publications: Bibliometric analysis of PubMed database
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Research visualization of post – COVID publications: Bibliometric analysis of PubMed database
Rajapaksha, M.P.
COVID-19 is a communicable disease that impacted worldwide in December 2019 and has
taken more attention from researchers. Since then, a considerable amount of medical literature
on COVID-19 has been generated. However, there is insufficient information on the
bibliometric direction of research output associated with Post-COVID. Therefore, this study
aims to explore the published research in the PubMed database on Post-COVID using
bibliometric analysis techniques from 2020 to 2021. The search was conducted using “Post
COVID"[All Fields]) from 2020/1/1 to 2021/12/31. Bibexcel version 2016, Microsoft Excel
2010, and VOSviewer version 1.6.18 were used to analyze different aspects such as source
type, top journals, authorship pattern, most prolific authors, language productivity, contributing
countries and major keywords. Out of 2,766 research publications, the majority (n=1,374,
49.67%) of research output has been published as journal articles. Cureus, International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Journal of Clinical Medicine were
leading journals regarding publications count. Results indicated that the majority (n=2,650,
95.81%) of publications were written in English by single authors. The most prolific authors
were Fernández-de-Las from King Juan Carlos University (Spain), Zhang Y from Biotherapy
Center, Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (China), and Hernández-Barrera V from
the Department of Public Health, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). The United States with
31.91% (n=165) and England with 21.66% (n=112) were two key contributors to the field.
Humans, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and Pandemics were the primary MeSH keywords in the
related literature on Post-COVID.
2022-10-01T00:00:00Z