Pub Date : 2013-04-10DOI: 10.1108/00012531311297186
Shahram Sedghi, M. Sanderson, Paul D. Clough
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how healthcare professionals search for and select the medical images they need within medical settings.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 29 healthcare professionals participated in the study. Using a think‐aloud technique and face‐to‐face interviews, the authors asked participants to explain how they looked for medical images and how they judged the relevancy of retrieved images.Findings – A total of 15 criteria were applied by participants when determining the relevance of medical images in relation to their information needs. Topicality was found to be the primary and most important criterion used by participants.Originality/value – This study compares the relevance criteria used for medical images with those identified in the literature and highlights six additional criteria that have not been suggested in previous work.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-10DOI: 10.1108/00012531311297195
Dave Thornton, E. Kaya
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative project organised by Bilkent University Library, Turkey, to produce a series of instructional videos that are both informative and entertaining and also serve to market the library.Design/methodology/approach – The paper will outline the theoretical basis for the use of videos for library instruction, especially with reference to the habits and preferences of so‐called Generation Y students and to the potential value of video for facilitating memory and learning.Findings – The use of humorous and interesting content, in a dramatised style, were found to improve Generation Y students' learning and enjoyment of instructional videos.Practical implications – The development of the project demonstrates the practical and marketing benefits of collaboration by academic librarians with students and faculty. However, it proved more difficult to evaluate the efficiency of the final product in terms of influencing the attitude of students toward th...
{"title":"All the world wide web's a stage: Improving students' information skills with dramatic video tutorials","authors":"Dave Thornton, E. Kaya","doi":"10.1108/00012531311297195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531311297195","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative project organised by Bilkent University Library, Turkey, to produce a series of instructional videos that are both informative and entertaining and also serve to market the library.Design/methodology/approach – The paper will outline the theoretical basis for the use of videos for library instruction, especially with reference to the habits and preferences of so‐called Generation Y students and to the potential value of video for facilitating memory and learning.Findings – The use of humorous and interesting content, in a dramatised style, were found to improve Generation Y students' learning and enjoyment of instructional videos.Practical implications – The development of the project demonstrates the practical and marketing benefits of collaboration by academic librarians with students and faculty. However, it proved more difficult to evaluate the efficiency of the final product in terms of influencing the attitude of students toward th...","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":"47 1","pages":"73-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77586246","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 : 2012-11-23DOI: 10.1108/00012531211281788
L. Vaughan, Rongbin Yang, Juan Tang
Purpose – The study seeks to apply Web co‐word analysis to the Chinese business environment to test the feasibility of the method there.Design/methodology/approach – The authors selected a group of companies in two Chinese industries, collected co‐word data for the companies, analyzed the data with multidimensional scaling (MDS), and then compared the MDS maps generated from the co‐word data with business situations to find out if the co‐word method works.Findings – The study found that the Web co‐word method could potentially be applied to the Chinese environment. The study also found the advantages and disadvantages of the Web co‐word method vs the Web co‐link method.Originality/value – Knowing the applicability of the Web co‐word method to the Chinese environment contributes to the knowledge of this new Webometrics method. Mining business information from the Web is more valuable when applied to a foreign country where language and culture barriers exist. To use the co‐word method, one does not have to...
目的:本研究旨在将网络共词分析应用于中国商业环境，以检验该方法在中国的可行性。设计/方法论/方法——作者选择了中国两个行业的一组公司，收集了这些公司的共词数据，用多维标度(MDS)对数据进行分析，然后将共词数据生成的MDS图与业务情况进行比较，以确定共词方法是否有效。研究发现，网络共词方法有可能应用于中国环境。研究还发现了网络协同词法与网络协同链接法的优缺点。原创性/价值-了解Web co - word方法在中国环境中的适用性有助于了解这种新的网络计量学方法。当应用于存在语言和文化障碍的外国时，从Web中挖掘商业信息更有价值。要使用co - word方法，人们不必……
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Pub Date : 2012-11-23DOI: 10.1108/00012531211281715
Daqing He, Dan Wu, Zhen Yue, Anna Fu, K. T. Vo
Purpose – This paper aims to identify the opinions of undergraduate students on the importance of internet‐based information sources when they undertake academic tasks.Design/methodology/approach – Based on a set of identified typical academic tasks for undergraduate students, three research questions were designed around the students' usage and views of information resources for completing these tasks. Web‐accessible questionnaires were used to collect data from participants in two universities in the USA and China, and the data were analyzed using quantitative methods, which included several statistic methods.Findings – The results confirm that undergraduate students use different information resources for various academic tasks. In their tasks, online electronic resources including search engines are the most commonly used resources, particularly for complex academic tasks. Social networking sites are not used for the students' individual academic tasks, and traditional resources still play equal or mo...
{"title":"Undergraduate students' interaction with online information resources in their academic tasks: A comparative study","authors":"Daqing He, Dan Wu, Zhen Yue, Anna Fu, K. T. Vo","doi":"10.1108/00012531211281715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211281715","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This paper aims to identify the opinions of undergraduate students on the importance of internet‐based information sources when they undertake academic tasks.Design/methodology/approach – Based on a set of identified typical academic tasks for undergraduate students, three research questions were designed around the students' usage and views of information resources for completing these tasks. Web‐accessible questionnaires were used to collect data from participants in two universities in the USA and China, and the data were analyzed using quantitative methods, which included several statistic methods.Findings – The results confirm that undergraduate students use different information resources for various academic tasks. In their tasks, online electronic resources including search engines are the most commonly used resources, particularly for complex academic tasks. Social networking sites are not used for the students' individual academic tasks, and traditional resources still play equal or mo...","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":"10 1","pages":"615-640"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90738814","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 : 2012-11-23DOI: 10.1108/00012531211281779
Ming-der Wu, Shih-chuan Chen
Purpose – This study aims to investigate graduate student perceptions of electronic resources, their search behaviour, and their usage patterns.Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were conducted in a research‐oriented university, and participants included 18 graduate students from three disciplines: humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.Findings – Graduate students are frequent users of electronic resources, particularly during the thesis‐writing period. Graduate students of science and technology perceive electronic resources to be considerably more important to their research and studies than students of other disciplines do. Few students use the metasearch tool to retrieve heterogeneous electronic resources in the library. Very few students use alert services to obtain updated information.Originality/value – The findings of the study could help university librarians acquire an enhanced understanding of the usage behaviour of graduate students on electronic resources.
{"title":"How graduate students perceive, use, and manage electronic resources","authors":"Ming-der Wu, Shih-chuan Chen","doi":"10.1108/00012531211281779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211281779","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This study aims to investigate graduate student perceptions of electronic resources, their search behaviour, and their usage patterns.Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were conducted in a research‐oriented university, and participants included 18 graduate students from three disciplines: humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.Findings – Graduate students are frequent users of electronic resources, particularly during the thesis‐writing period. Graduate students of science and technology perceive electronic resources to be considerably more important to their research and studies than students of other disciplines do. Few students use the metasearch tool to retrieve heterogeneous electronic resources in the library. Very few students use alert services to obtain updated information.Originality/value – The findings of the study could help university librarians acquire an enhanced understanding of the usage behaviour of graduate students on electronic resources.","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":"70 1","pages":"641-652"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83769025","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 : 2012-11-23DOI: 10.1108/00012531211281698
Gisela Cantos-Mateos, Benjamín Vargas-Quesada, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, M. A. Zulueta
Purpose – Research with stem cells is a biomedical venture with great scientific impact, and whose development flows over into many other areas. This article aims to present a dual analysis of Spain's scientific output in this field during the period 1997‐2007.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used bibliometric indicators of a basic nature as well as techniques for the visualization and analysis of networks of scientific information based on a study of KeyWords Plus.Findings – The output is mainly concentrated in Cataluna and Madrid, and hospitals are the most productive centres (followed by health institutes), where the main authors are affiliated. Main categories are hematology, oncology and biophysics. The outstanding areas of study revolve around the therapeutic use of transplant of hematopoietic progenitors, the processes of generation, proliferation and differentiation of lines of cells, and the study of neurosciences.Originality/value – This study provides an overview of Spanish research in...
{"title":"Stem cell research: bibliometric analysis of main research areas through KeyWords Plus","authors":"Gisela Cantos-Mateos, Benjamín Vargas-Quesada, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, M. A. Zulueta","doi":"10.1108/00012531211281698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211281698","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – Research with stem cells is a biomedical venture with great scientific impact, and whose development flows over into many other areas. This article aims to present a dual analysis of Spain's scientific output in this field during the period 1997‐2007.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used bibliometric indicators of a basic nature as well as techniques for the visualization and analysis of networks of scientific information based on a study of KeyWords Plus.Findings – The output is mainly concentrated in Cataluna and Madrid, and hospitals are the most productive centres (followed by health institutes), where the main authors are affiliated. Main categories are hematology, oncology and biophysics. The outstanding areas of study revolve around the therapeutic use of transplant of hematopoietic progenitors, the processes of generation, proliferation and differentiation of lines of cells, and the study of neurosciences.Originality/value – This study provides an overview of Spanish research in...","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":"7 1","pages":"561-590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76039213","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 : 2012-11-23DOI: 10.1108/00012531211281706
Chuanfu Chen, Ping-Hsuan Wang, Dan Wu, Yaqi Liu, Gang Wu, Haoqin Ma
Purpose – The goal of this paper is to identify the attitudes of the chairs of library and information science (LIS) programs in Chinese universities toward the iSchools movement.Design/methodology/approach – The authors collected data from 36 deans or other chairs of LIS by using open‐ended questionnaire and utilized grounded theory to analyze the results.Findings – The result shows that most chairpersons approve the iSchools values of relationship between people, information and technology, nevertheless, they expressed uncertainty regarding the future of iSchools. For the process of adopting the values of iSchools and joining the iSchools movement, the main risks to progress come from within the LIS schools or departments. The consensus among the chairpersons is that the LIS education should reserve its traditional core values, as well as adopt iSchools' values and widely expand in the information profession area.Originality/value – This study unveiled the attitudes of LIS chairs toward the iSchools mov...
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Pub Date : 2012-09-14DOI: 10.1108/00012531211263094
J. Britz, S. Ponelis
Purpose – In the globalized world the movement of scholars facilitates the global flow of knowledge and supports the pillars of the knowledge economy as defined by the World Bank. But not all academics are born equal: African scholars face significant barriers with regard to freedom of movement. The purpose of this paper is to describe the processes that African scholars typically have to undertake to participate in the global academic community, to identify some of the potential difficulties in these processes and to articulate the moral concerns that arise from these processes.Design/methodology/approach – Both secondary data analysis to illustrate and support the arguments as well as anecdotal evidence to provide specific examples of African scholars' experiences are used.Findings – Justice is viewed as one of the most important virtues regulating the movement of people in the global knowledge society. It is used as a normative instrument to argue that the international community has a moral and legal ...
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Pub Date : 2012-09-14DOI: 10.1108/00012531211263111
Sailas Nyareza, A. Dick
Purpose – This paper aims to report an investigation into the benefits and limitations of radio to communicate agricultural information to peasant farmers, and how it can be successfully incorporated into agricultural extension service programs in Zimbabwe.Design/methodology/approach – Quantitative and qualitative research techniques were applied to gather, analyze and interpret data. A total of 25 semi‐structured interviews were conducted with peasant farmers in Ward 16 of the Buhera South Constituency, and four in‐depth interviews were conducted with key informants in agricultural extension and radio services.Findings – Extension service programs do not satisfy the agricultural information needs of peasant farmers because: there are not enough extension workers; they do not have the means of transport to reach all households; they lack the communication skills to interact effectively with the peasant farmers; and they lack the motivation to carry out their work. A community radio service was the most pr...
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Pub Date : 2012-09-14DOI: 10.1108/00012531211263157
K. Moahi
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore why Africa's indigenous knowledge is not playing a more active and visible role in the knowledge economy and to the roles that academia and librarians must play for it to be so.Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is to combine a literature review and discussion of the issues.Findings – The importance of indigenous knowledge to development has been established over the years. Calls have been made for African universities to take indigenous knowledge into account in their teaching and research, and to view indigenous knowledge as valuable and as a way of addressing the view of Africa as a consumer of knowledge rather than a generator and contributor of knowledge. However, whilst there have been some initiatives in academia and in libraries to integrate indigenous knowledge into their activities, it has not been enough. The reasons are many and varied and stem largely from the globalizing and unifying nature of the world education system. Howev...
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