Tag Archives for Research
Researchers’ participation in and motivations for engaging with research information management systems
This article examined how researchers participated in research information management systems (RIMSs), their motivations for participation, and their priorities for those motivations. Profile maintenance, question-answering, and endorsement activities were used to define three cumulatively increasing levels of participation: Readers, Record … Continue reading
How Can the University Library Better Meet the Information Needs of Research Students? Experiences From Ulster University
This article investigates academic library needs of doctoral students. The study identifies PhD students’ information literacy training needs and explores current levels of library engagement, barriers to use, and gaps in existing services. First-year PhD students at Ulster University (UU) … Continue reading
Virtual reality content for higher education curriculum
Virtual Reality content has quickly become embedded into popular culture and everyday purposes. Interaction within a virtual environment has enormous possibilities for a number of different industries such as business, healthcare, entertainment, architecture, engineering and all levels of education. This … Continue reading
Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs
This qualitative research study examines librarians’ research data management (RDM) experiences, specifically the factors that influence their ability to support researchers’ needs. Findings from interviews with 36 academic library professionals in the United States identify 5 factors of influence: 1) … Continue reading
Bibliotaxonomy: Definition, Scope and Implication for LIS Scholarship
The paper introduces bibliotaxonomy as a generic name for those aspects of Library and Information Science (LIS) scholarship that deal with the processing and organization of books, documents and other information materials. It traces the origin of, and inspiration for … Continue reading
Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity
A new paper published in Nature today describes how the artificially intelligent system that defeated Go grandmaster Lee Sedol in 2016 got its digital ass kicked by a new-and-improved version of itself. Read More
Mapping the Territory for a Knowledge-Based System
“While today we have many powerful applications for locating vast amounts of digital information, we lack effective tools for selecting, structuring, personalizing, and making sense of the digital resources available to us” [44], a shortcoming of recent developments in ICT … Continue reading
The Scholarly Commons – principles and practices to guide research communication (preprint)
In this paper, we outline the backgrounds of the idea of the scholarly commons and the various considerations that play a role in defining it. We share the principles of the scholarly commons and the degrees of freedom interpreting those … Continue reading
Bibliographic Classification in the Digital Age: Current Trends & Future Directions
Bibliographic classification is among the core activities of Library & Information Science that brings order and proper management to the holdings of a library. Compared to printed media, digital collections present numerous challenges regarding their preservation, curation, organization and their … Continue reading
Pew Research Center Publishes Survey Findings on “How People Approach Facts and Information” and Role For Libraries/Librarians
A new Pew Research Center survey explores these five broad dimensions of people’s engagement with information and finds that a couple of elements particularly stand out when it comes to their enthusiasm: their level of trust in information sources and … Continue reading