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Searchers\u27 Perception of Access Regulations in Nigerian National Archives
Get PDFAccess is a fundamental issue in archives administration and information management. This study investigated the perception of searchers to access regulations in National Archives of Nigeria. A descriptive survey was adopted for the study with questionnaire and interview as the research instruments. One hundred copies of the questionnaire were administered on searchers who were students of tertiary institutions, scholars, legal practitioners, litigants, government officials and politicians, and seventy-two copies were returned and analyzed. Interviews were also conducted with some of the searchers who were randomly selected. The study revealed that searchers, with varying level of education, used records in the National Archives of Nigeria for research, informational, litigation and administrative purposes. They were familiar with the access regulations of the institution some of which they considered repugnant and a hindrance to research work and, therefore, due for review. Based on the findings, the study recommended a review of some of the regulations to improve access and to eliminate incessant conflicts between the staff of the institution and its patrons
AN EXPOSITION OF THE LEGAL ISSUES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH RECORDS IN NIGERIA
Get PDFLike personnel, equipment and facilities, records constitute a crucial factor in healthcare delivery. Timely availability of records and the proper capturing of data relating to patients depend on the efficiency of the records management system of a health institution. Besides, pertinent legal issues arise in the management of health records which health records managers must be abreast of so as not to run foul of the law and/or involve their healthcare institutions in legal liability. This paper, therefore, focuses on legal issues associated with various aspects of health records management like access, patient’s confidentiality and records retention with a view to bringing them to the attention of those involved in health records management in healthcare institutions in Nigeria. It examines the general principles of law governing health records management and also makes reference to the provisions of relevant laws in Nigeria and elsewhere. It concludes that the law relating to some of these aspects is still evolving in Nigeria as specific legislations on them are absent compared to what obtains in some developed countries. Finally, it calls on stakeholders in the field of health records management to forge a common front to help develop the law in the field as a basis for providing guidelines for healthcare institutions in the management of their health records.
 
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Putting Data Policies "First" in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
No full textGood data policies form the bedrock of any society that has positive development as its priority. The implementation of sustainable data policies makes information flow, research for development and access to much needed data feasible. Data policies resulting in breaches, create unhealthy situations that hamper national development. This paper examines the challenges and prospects of putting data “first” in Nigeria. It specifically identifies the areas of application and implementation of data policies in the country and the implication for national development. A descriptive survey method will be adopted for the study, using qualitative and quantitative methods to gather data. Interviews will be conducted with Heads of institutions that deal with data policies namely, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the National Population Commission (NPC). Copies of the questionnaire designed will be administered to other management staff of the institutions to determine the challenges and prospects of putting data policies first. Data collected with the questionnaire will be analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences while content analysis of the interviews will be undertaken. Based on the findings, solutions will be proffered to the challenges of data policy management and implementation in Nigeria.</p
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Influence of Demographic Factors on Information-Seeking Behaviour of Medical Doctors in Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria
Get PDFInformation-seeking Behaviour (IB) of medical doctors is crucial to satisfying information needs relating to patients’ treatment and improvement of healthcare service delivery. Previous studies on doctors’ IB have focused largely on information sources and utilisation without consideration for factors predicting their IB; particularly Doctors’ Demographic Factors (DDF). This study, therefore, was designed to determine DDF (age, gender, marital status, specialty and medical job experience) as predictors of medical doctors’ IB in teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
The survey design of correlational type was adopted and multi-stage procedure was used. Six teaching hospitals across five geo-political zones in Nigeria were randomly selected, excluding the North-east zone for safety reasons, while 13 medical specialties common to the hospitals were purposively selected. Five out of the 13 specialties were randomly selected and 20% of medical doctors in each of the selected specialties from each of the six hospitals were selected using the proportionate sampling technique, making a total of 668 medical doctors. The instruments used were DDF (α=0.73) and IB (α=0.69) scales and a structured interview was held with six highly experienced medical doctors, one representing each hospital. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product moment correlation and regression at 0.05 level of significance, while the qualitative data were content-analysed.
Medical doctors’ age was 34.30 ± 3.60 years, and 61.6% were male. They were mostly married (66.3%) with 51.0% having 5-14 years of medical job experience. Their specialties were obstetrics and gynecology (24.6%), ophthalmology (23.4%), otolaryngology (21.1%), medicine (19.5%) and surgery (11.4%). The doctors’ specialty (r=-0.10), age (r=-0.10), gender (r=-0.11), job experience (r=0.06) had significant relationships with IB, while marital status did not. Specialty (β=0.15), age (β=0.06), job experience (β=0.04), gender (β=0.01) and marital status (β=0.01) relatively contributed to IB.
Doctors’ specialty, age, gender and job experience influenced their information-seeking behaviour in teaching hospitals in Nigeria. These factors should be considered for improved information-seeking behaviour among medical doctors in teaching hospitals
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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