Scholarly Electronic Communication amongst the Aerospace Engineering Community and the Impact of Electronic Journals: A Review Study
IR@NAL: CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
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Scholarly Electronic Communication amongst the Aerospace Engineering Community and the Impact of Electronic Journals:
A Review Study
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Guruprasad, R
Khaiser Nikam, KN Mudkavi, Vidyadhar Y |
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Documentation and Information Science
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| Description |
This review paper highlights the very special „niche segment‟ to which the
aerospace scientists and engineers belonging to different countries right across the globe
occupy. Highlighting Aviation as one of the most significant technological marvels of our
times, the paper discusses in detail the various significant aspects related to what aerospace
engineering is all about and how the electronic media has come in a big way to support
scholarly communication within this „niche‟ aerospace engineering community. The paper
also reviews the impact of Internet, the availability of high-speed networks which has enabled
these scientists and engineers have access to electronic journals right at their desktops and also
keep track of the global R&D happenings in their respective field of specialization. Various
studies conducted (as indicated in this paper) illustrate how „electronic journals‟ are highly
important to the aerospace scientists and engineers. Important studies in this connection have
also proved that scientists are willing to pay a high price in their time to spend many hours
reading electronic scientific literature. Many relevant studies also have revealed that the
information that a scientist or engineer gets from refereed journals has greatly resulted in their
improved performance. The review paper also touches upon key aspects like (a)
Distinguishing Engineers from Scientists, (b) Their differences in knowledge diffusion, (c)
Their Communication Behaviours, (d) Their Information Seeking Behaviour, (e) The
Aerospace Engineering Community in particular and the (g) the Importance of Scientific
Communication for advances in Aerospace Engineering and the need for Electronic
Information Resources.
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NAL
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Proj.Doc/Technical Report
NonPeerReviewed |
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application/pdf
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http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/9075/1/AEROSPACE%2DENGG%2DCOMMY%2Dreview.pdf
Guruprasad, R and Khaiser Nikam, KN and Mudkavi, Vidyadhar Y Scholarly Electronic Communication amongst the Aerospace Engineering Community and the Impact of Electronic Journals: A Review Study. Technical Report. NAL, Bangalore. |
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http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/9075/
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