1,721,111 research outputs found
Open Access and the Struggle for Justice: The Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Collection
Full text linkThis book chapter explores how open access publishing can help promote justice and equality worldwide and particularly in the Global South
Developing student information literacy to support project and problem-based learning
Full text linkThis chapter highlights the importance of information literacy to the successful implementation of project and Problem-based Learning. Students today are faced with a multiplicity of information resources and are continuously challenged in their efforts to effectively identify and\ud
access quality information in support of their studies. Too much information - "information overload" or "information anxiety" can present a significant challenge for students.\ud
Librarians, working together with their academic colleagues, play a key role in helping students develop the necessary skills to navigate an increasingly complex and diverse information environment. This involves creating the appropriate learning opportunities and contexts in which students can develop skills that allow them to effectively find, evaluate and use information.\ud
This chapter stresses the importance of information literacy and encourages academics to integrate information literacy skills into problem and project-based learning curricula
The librarian as academic author: a reflection
Full text linkWriting is storytelling. In this article I share my story on how I began (and continue) to write for academic publication. Hopefully, you, the reader, will get some ideas from my experiences and suggestions and will feel motivated and enthused to write yourself. I have included some writing exercises that those new to writing may find helpful
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Refuge in a Cold Climate: the Zanzibari author, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Full text linkThis review article explores the life and writing of Zanzibari novelist Abdulrazak Gurna
This is My Country: the Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Full text linkThis review article explores the life and writing of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
- …
