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Autoethnography for librarians and information scientists
No full textPart I: Introduction to autoethnography as research method for librarians -- What is autoethnography? / Ina Fourie -- Using autoethnography as a tool for critical reflection on library practice: making the case / Anne-Marie Deitering -- Part II: Different types of autoethnography -- Evocative autoethnography -- evoking is as evoking does / Lisa P. Spinazola, Carolyn Ellis & Arthur Bochner -- Analytic autoethnography / Ina Fourie -- Collaborative autoethnography as method and praxis: understanding self and others in practice / Kathy-Ann Hernandez -- Part III: Challenges of autoethnography -- "How does this move us forward?": A question of rigour in autoethnography / Tim Gorichanaz -- Ethical challenges and protection of privacy / Anika Meyer & Ina Fourie -- Supplementary and alternative methods: Dervin's sense-making methodology / Christine Urquhart & Louisa Lam -- Part IV: Authoethnography in contexts -- Moments of illumination: a personal experience narrative of cultural competence / Fiona Blackburn -- Autoethnography, law enforcement and an opportunity for libraries / Naailah Parbhoo-Ebrahim & Ina Fourie -- Caregiving and autoethnography -- a librarian perspective reinforced by experience as an academic and researcher / Olívia Pestana -- Part V: The way forward -- Taking on social challenges, personal growth and keeping momentum as autoethnographic reader and writer / Ina Fourie -- Reflection and concluding remarks / All contributing authors -- Appendix A: Bibliography of autoethnography in library and information science -- Appendix B: List of website addresses -- Appendix C: Further reading from related field
How LIS professionals can use alerting services
No full textThis book focuses on the usefulnessof alerting services for LIS professionals. It is a valuable and useful resource as it draws attention to the new and existing current awareness services which can be easily retrieved for updating ones information data banks.The availability of these services does not alwaysmean that they are exploited for advancement of knowledge either by individuals or groups. This book provides a variety of definitions of current awarenessservices by severalauthors. The book is divided into seven chapters, a detailed bibliogr~phy and an alphabetical index at the end. In the introductory chapter, the author explains about the need for alerting services and reasonswhy professionals must use these services. Shedescribes how the challengesaffect the professionals in their practice and how they can monitor such challenges through alerting services. For example, she says that there is a need for information professionals to understand their own information behaviour in order for them to make use of the alerting services to improve their knowledge generation. In Chapter Two, the author explains the concepts of alerting servicesand the early development of current awareness services (CAS), and the rationale for offering these services. Chapter Three explains the relationship between the environment and the LISprofessionals in practice, aswell as LISeducators. The variety of alerting servicesavailablefor the benefit of LISprofessionalsare dealt with in the next chapter. The we
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Librarians alert : how can we exploit what is happening with personal information management (PIM), reference management and related issues?
No full textThis column aims to explore the potential of personal information management (PIM) and reference management. It seeks to focus on how librarians can stay alert on new developments regarding PIM and related issues such as plagiarism, reference techniques, information literacy and information behaviour. It also tries to stimulate interest in looking for hidden gems that can be of value in their careers as well as those of library users by considering the innovative and creative use of PIM, e.g. by also monitoring the potential of mind maps and concept maps. The column is written against the background of research from information behaviour, PIM, information curation, alerts on software development and related issues, and also social bookmarking. There are many ways in which librarians can stay abreast of what is happening with PIM, reference management and related issues. There are also many things to note such as improvement of the software, uses of PIM and reference management, teaching skills in PIM and reference management, ways of sharing information, linking to innovation and creativity, and linking to information literacy and information behaviour. Although much has been published on developments in PIM and reference management, the author is not aware of other attempts to link alerting services on PIM and reference management to go beyond developments in software.http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0737-8831.htmdm201
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