Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2023.2275059
Jeanine M. Williamson, Maggie Albro, Steven D. Milewski, Brianne Dosch, Niki Cobb, Melanie A. Dixson
AbstractThis study seeks to develop and test the recall of two search hedges for One Health articles. CAB Abstracts was searched, and the first 100 relevance-ranked results were downloaded. The most frequent co-occurrences of CAB descriptors were used to develop a hedge. A second hedge was developed using the descriptors and related natural language keywords. The natural language hedge had better recall (100% and 95%, respectively) than the co-occurrence hedge (24% and 86%, respectively). When searching a broad-based topic area like One Health, there is a need for expansive language to incorporate multiple expressions of a concept.Keywords: CAB abstracts descriptorsOne Healthsearch filterssearch hedges Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2023.2255730
Amy Campbell, Megan Versteegh, Hannah McGraw, Sharan Riar, Jane Morgan, Sierra Steele, Lisa Mardlin-Vandewalle, June Matthews
AbstractThe university faculties that offer agriculture-related courses and how agricultural information is provided on course outlines are unknown. From June 2020 through April 2022, Canadian university websites were searched using the terms agri*, food*, farm*, crop*, plant*, animal*, and sustain*, retrieving 417 course outlines in 23 social science and 12 science faculties. Through descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis, the authors identified six themes: industrial agriculture and biotechnology; sustainability; alternatives and organic agriculture; food sovereignty, Indigenous, and gender; food security and food safety; and animal ethics and welfare. Instructors are encouraged to broaden the agricultural topics presented and provide balanced information.KEYTERMS: Agriculturepostsecondary educationsciencesocial science Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data underlying this study are openly available in Figshare, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6791019.v1 (SSHA) and https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6794955.v1 (STEM).
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2022.2127736
Jennifer J. Horton
Abstract This study analyzes online library research guides covering wine research, enology, and viticulture in order to determine those resources librarians promote and recommend to users. The analysis, conducted in April 2022, includes the number and specific titles of databases, periodicals, books, websites, organizations and associations, and multimedia content found in the guides. Librarians involved in collection development can use these suggested resources when acquiring new materials. In addition, reference and instruction librarians can use the data to assist library users and recommend possible resources.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2022.2148863
Eliaza Mkuna
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2023.2190899
N. Mwinami, F. Dulle, W. P. Mtega
Abstract This paper reports a study that investigated how agricultural researchers use and reuse other researchers’ data in Tanzania. This research used a survey method to investigate the factors influencing researchers in this use/reuse. Findings indicated that more than 80% of researchers use and reuse data accessed from different sources. Several factors influence the majority of researchers (more than 70%) to use and reuse data. The results of this study may attract the attention of agricultural researchers elsewhere to agricultural data use and reuse practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2022.2114818
A. Kay
{"title":"Review of The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice","authors":"A. Kay","doi":"10.1080/10496505.2022.2114818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10496505.2022.2114818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Food Information","volume":"23 1","pages":"97 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47038482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2022.2114819
Eliaza Mkuna
{"title":"Review of Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Eliaza Mkuna","doi":"10.1080/10496505.2022.2114819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10496505.2022.2114819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Food Information","volume":"23 1","pages":"95 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48936473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}