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Factors associated with the information-seeking behavior of Filipino scientists , researchers and research staff at SEAFDEC/AQD
Get PDFAbstract onlyThe study was undertaken to determine the information-seeking behavior of aquaculture scientists, researchers and research staff at Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) through factors which includes: personal, work or role related, environmental, and psychological.
Frequency counts, percentage analyses, mean and cross tabulation were utilized to describe the information-seeking behavior of the respondents. Results suggested that regardless of the factors, majority of the respondents, on average has visited the library once in every month. The main purposes were to ask assistance from the librarian and to browse current acquisitions. Infrequent library visits may be attributed to the delegation of library research to subordinates and to the frequent utilization of remote services (e.g. email, chat messaging, phone and text messaging) provided by the library.
When searching for information, majority of the respondents preferred using online sources than the library and its databases. However, when given an option, the respondents would prefer to use the combination of print and electronic formats in searching. The respondents who visited the library more frequently were males, belonging to the age bracket 40 years old and below, non-researcher staff, individual with lesser experience in research, with no other research interest, individuals who were more than 200 meters from the physical library and those who have limited Internet connectivity.
Furthermore, respondents who utilized the library online public access catalog (OPAC) and databases were confident to find the information that they need compared to other individuals who used the Internet. In a work week (5 days), respondents have spent at least four hours per day in reading. The Internet was the most preferred source of information, while the combination of print and electronic was the most preferred format when reading. Information on print formats was preferred by greater proportion of the respondents who were males, belonging to the age bracket 40 years old and below, with master’s degree and specializing on fish health or nutrition. Moreover, significant numbers of respondents who preferred to source the information through the Internet were females, belonging to the age bracket above 40 years old, with bachelor’s and doctoral degrees, and other specializations.
In conclusion, it is recommended that SEAFDEC/AQD Library should continue to enhance its resources and services to better reach its clienteles. The library should subscribe to quality resources (print and electronic formats and databases), strengthen networks and linkages to other libraries (local and international), and to conduct training on information and Internet literacy.Includes bibliographical referencesMaster in Library and Information Scienc
Standards required for the digitization of documents or other objects for file upload to digital repositories.
No full textThe digitization process will go through the following phases:
> scanning documents and converting them to a format a word processor can read;
> proofreading and reformatting them so they conform to your requirements; and
> adding metadata (information used to catalogue the documents)
> At the end of this process the hardcopy documents will have been transformed into electronic documents that can be included in a digital libraryPrepared for the ASFA Trust Fund Board Meeting 2015Publishe
Typhoon Yolanda: Its impacts to the libraries in Northern Panay, Western Visayas, Philippines
Get PDFConference paperThe paper documents the impacts of typhoon Yolanda to the academic libraries in Northern Panay, Western Visayas, Philippines. It also discusses the level of knowledge of the library staff on disaster management and their disaster preparedness and recovery efforts. The factors that contributed to the extent of damage to libraries and their collections and the lessons which the librarians have learned in the disaster were also discussed
How the ASFA Partnership contributes to professional development
No full textIn this article, Daryl L. Superio explains how participation in ASFA has advanced his professional career and development. Daryl has participated in ASFA for over six years, during which time he has provided invaluable training and expertise to the Partnership
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
How the ASFA Partnership contributes to professional development
Get PDFIn this article, Daryl L. Superio explains how participation in ASFA has advanced his professional career and development. Daryl has participated in ASFA for over six years, during which time he has provided invaluable training and expertise to the Partnership
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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