Bibliometrics is an emerging thrust area of research in the field of Library and Information Science. Journal literature is an important source of information. To disseminate new ideas for recent developments in any area of research and development work, study of the papers published in a particular journal reveals the status and trends of research in the subject in which the journal is published. Bibliometrics studies have been used to identify the pattern of publication, authorship, and citation analysis. This study has been carried out the Bibliometric analysis of the journal “Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences” from 2000-2004. The trend of publication such as authorship productivity, year-wise contribution, category-wise publications and distribution of authorship pattern in category-wise has been studied.

This paper described that students visit the libraries for collecting information from different faculties. The researchers have attempted to find out the perceptions and outlook of the academic acumen library users, with high response to utilize the facilities are available. In this study it is found that female respondents are higher than male respondents and show much interest in utilizing the library resources. Most of the students visit the library once in a week and they prefer reading the books. This study shows the quality of collection with respect to books, journals and e-resources. Google is most popular search engine among the user for browsing the net. Book lending service is the most preferred by the students.

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