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Effective approaches for improving the uptake of institutional repositories content in the higher education institutions in Zambia.
Get PDFThesis of Master of Library and Information Science.Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are essential for academic research in Zambia. Despite the active research conducted by students and academic staff within these HEIs, the resulting output faces challenges in terms of visibility and uptake. Therefore, this study aimed to identify effective
approaches for improving the uptake of IR content in HEIs in Zambia, and the specific objectives were; to determine the uptake of scholarly resource output in IRs, to identify effective techniques for depositing legacy content and to determine techniques that will ensure the effective use of selfarchiving approaches.There are 11 HEIs in Zambia (six public and five private) with functional Institutional Repositories (IRs) that conduct a lot of research; however, a substantial disparity exists between the content in these IRs and academic staff's Google Scholar profiles. Additionally,
the annual trend and uptake in the IRs are very low as compared to the publications indexed on Google Scholar profiles of the academic staff of these HEIs. The expectation is that when you deploy the IR, it will result in a gradual increase in uptake because more and more people are going to be using it. The study identified academic staff with Google Scholar profiles from the HEIs, and the Publish or Perish software was employed to extract author publications from these profiles alongside Octoparse in cases where OAI-PMH was not activated. The study further employed a descriptive survey research design to collect and analyse the data for objectives two and three by conducting interviews. The study found a significant disparity between the content available in IRs and on Google Scholar profiles across HEIs, with 90% of available publications on Google Scholar profiles missing on the IRs. The study also revealed that IR uptake rates are generally low, with fluctuating trends over the years. At UNZA, the average IR uptake rate is very low: 11%, ZCAS is 37%, UNILUS is 0.8%, CU is 6%, ICU is 20%, CHAU is 7%, MU is 4%, and LAMU is 28%, respectively. The research revealed that academic staff were not aware of the IRs and their responsibility to submit publications. However, upon becoming aware, they expressed their willingness to submit the missing publications to the librarians through emails, submitting their Google Scholar profile IDs. The findings suggest that providing academic staff members with training and support about the IRs and their benefits, implementing clear IR deposit policies, and automating the deposit process would be effective strategies for ensuring that missing content or publications are uploaded to the IR. The study recommends that IRs should focus on training and supporting academic staff members, implementing clear policies, automating the deposit process, and collaborating with departments and research units to streamline the self-archiving process and improve the uptake of IR content. The research also recommends that HEIs should establish clear guidelines, responsibilities, communication channels, and support mechanisms to foster
collaboration, compliance, and contributions from academic staff, departments, librarians, and other stakeholders. The study concludes that by implementing these recommendations, HEIs can improve the uptake of IRs, increase the visibility and uptake of scholarly research output, and
enhance the reputation and success of academic work in HEIs
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
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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