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Information and Analytical Support in Ensuring the Eff ectiveness of the Functioning of Political Leadership: the Role of Libraries
No full textThe article is devoted to the analysis of political and communicative practices of political leadership on the basis of present information and analytical resources, in particular, libraries. The scientific substantiation of the need for information and analytical services as a special library units, for creation of information and analytical product called to facilitate the deepening of democratic transformations has been carried out
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
Library and Information Resource as a Component of the System of Making Management Decisions by Political Leaders
No full textThe article considers specific features of making managerial decisions based on the usage of library-information resource. Main attention is paid to studies of quality requirements to such information. The practical aspects of information collection, storage and processing optimization which are necessary for political leaders to take effective management decisions are revealed. The article deals with the most important theoretical and practical issues of information-analytical activity, principles, methods, methods of application of information-analytical technologies for making an effective management decision. Special attention is paid to the development of new means of intellectualization of library and information activities, the information revolution and the threats it has arised, and modern concepts of the information society development
Ways of Intellectualization of Library Activity on Information and Analytical Service to Users
No full textThe article considers the most important theoretical and practical issues of library and information activity. The main emphasis is on developing new means of intellectualizing library and information activities. New approaches to the organization of the information and library environment are considered, and attention is also paid to the changes that take place in the organization of the work of libraries, conditioned by the global processes of information renewal. The innovative model of the library is capable of implementing its evolutionary transition from forming, preservation, description, structuring of documentary information and providing an access to it for readers to the new level of awareness of library as a social institute responsible for selection and analysis of knowledge flows around the user. At the same time, several information space of library corresponds to users’ needs, and it could be served as a marker of success of institution work. It is precisely from the clear structure of the information space of the library that the creation of a set of tools necessary for the library depends. This set is called to provide each user with prompt access to materials and documents of the library fund, and to make easy for librarians to implement new forms of users’ service. The reliability of the service process in the library is determined not by the number of services but by degree they meet users’ information needs. In recent years, the modernization of the content of libraries has been gained the form of analytical kinds of communication activity, creating of analytical products and services. Therefore whatever the purpose of innovation activity is it should be aimed at the final result an improving of users’ service
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
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