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Lutes, Barbara. "Using online databases for terminology searching." Terminology 2, no. 2 (January 1, 1995): 187–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.2.2.02lut.
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Online bibliographic databases would seem to be a promising source of multilingual terminology for translators, terminologists, and other language professionals, although not designed for this purpose. This paper will explore this hypothesis, discussing the types and degree of multilingualism in representative databases, the different information-seeking needs of language professionals, and describing search strategies which can be used for term look-up. Results of extensive trial searching and some in-depth examples will be used to assess the practical feasibility of this use of databases, with special attention paid to reliability. Results of trial searching were generally positive, although cost might prove prohibitive. Using bibliographic databases may be particularly useful in solving difficult terminological problems for which context information is essential. Annex 1 provides information on a selection of useful multilingual online databases; annex 2 lists addresses of selected online database providers.
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Garson, G. David. "Online Bibliographic Searching: A Brief Tutorial Using DIALOG." Social Science Microcomputer Review 4, no. 1 (April 1986): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089443938600400105.
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Yee, Martha M. "FRBRization: A Method for Turning Online Public Findings Lists into Online Public Catalogs." Information Technology and Libraries 24, no. 2 (June 1, 2005): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ital.v24i2.3368.
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In this article, problems users are having searching for known works in current online public access catalogs (OPACs) are summarized. A better understanding of AACR2R/MARC 21 authority, bibliographic, and holdings records would allow us to implement the approaches outlined in the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records to enhance, or “FRBRize,” our current OPACs using existing records. The presence of work and expression identifiers in bibliographic and authority records is analyzed. Recommendations are made concerning better indexing and display of works and expressions/manifestations. Questions are raised about the appropriateness for the creation of true catalogs of client-server technology that deliver records over the Internet.
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Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Debra Wilcox Johnson, and Susan E. Searing. "Online Catalogs from the Users’ Perspective: The Use of Focus Group Interviews." College & Research Libraries 58, no. 5 (September 1, 1997): 403–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.58.5.403.
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In an attempt to elicit information from the users of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s online catalog, Network Library System (NLS), the General Library System (GLS), conducted focus group interviews with undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. Undergraduate students tend to utilize subject searching capabilities. Graduate students and faculty utilize subject searching only as a last resort; they typically search by known author or title. A significant number of the participants reported experience with library online catalogs other than NLS, although the majority of faculty reported very little experience with other online catalogs. All the focus group participants, but particularly the undergraduate students, evidenced confusion between keyword searching and searching using controlled vocabulary. Inclusion of circulation status in the bibliographic record was identified as an important feature of the catalog.
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Mi, Jia, and Cathy Weng. "Revitalizing the Library OPAC: Interface, Searching, and Display Challenges." Information Technology and Libraries 27, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ital.v27i1.3259.
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The behavior of academic library users has drastically changed in recent years. Internet search engines have become the preferred tool over the library online public access catalog (OPAC) for finding information. Libraries are losing ground to online search engines. In this paper, two aspects of OPAC use are studied: (1) the current OPAC interface and searching capabilities, and (2) the OPAC bibliographic display. The purpose of the study is to find answers to the following questions: Why is the current OPAC ineffective? What can libraries and librarians do to deliver an OPAC that is as good as search engines to better serve our users? Revitalizing the library OPAC is one of the pressing issues that has to be accomplished.
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Boyles, James C. "The end-user and the art librarian." Art Libraries Journal 13, no. 2 (1988): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200005666.
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New technology is giving researchers greater independence in their use of bibliographic databases. Art librarians should promote ‘end-user services’ which provide library users with direct access to online databases, although there are a number of problems which are liable to detract from the efficiency and thoroughness associated with computer-assisted searching.
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Morehead, David R., and William B. Rouse. "Computer-aided searching of bibliographic data bases: Online estimation of the value of information." Information Processing & Management 21, no. 5 (1985): 387–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(85)90085-8.
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Perry, D. J., E. M. Sloane, S. M. Hubbard, D. E. Tingley, and V. T. DeVita. "Keeping up with the cancer literature--PDQ ACCESS." Journal of Clinical Oncology 6, no. 10 (October 1988): 1649–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.1988.6.10.1649.
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Physician Data Query (PDQ) (National Cancer Institute [NCI], Bethesda, MD) and CANCERLIT (NCI, Bethesda, MD) are two online cancer information databases. PDQ summarizes current cancer therapy literature into specific treatment recommendations. CANCERLIT is a bibliographic system similar to MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine [NLM], Bethesda, MD) that provides a comprehensive source of literature citations for the field of cancer. In this report, we discuss linking PDQ and CANCERLIT with PDQ ACCESS (NCI, Bethesda, MD)--a custom software package that makes searching the cancer literature easy for the practicing physician unfamiliar with database searching.
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Seeley, Janet. "The use of bibliographic databases in African studies." African Research & Documentation 41, no. 1 (1986): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x0000813x.
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The online searching of databases to retrieve bibliographical information is increasingly becoming common research practice in a wide range of disciplines. For the scholar of African studies there is as yet no single comprehensive database covering the literature from the continent on a multi-disciplinary basis; however there are a number of existing databases which serve as a useful and up-to-date bibliographical tool. The aim of this paper is briefly to outline those currently available databases which are of relevance to African studies and to offer some suggestions as to how this valuable service may best be utilised.Online information retrieval services first became readily available to the public in the early 1970s, chiefly in the area of science and technology.
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Golub, Koraljka, Xu Tan, Ying-Hsang Liu, and Jukka Tyrkkö. "Online subject searching of humanities PhD students at a Swedish university." Journal of Documentation 79, no. 7 (October 30, 2023): 308–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-03-2023-0044.
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PurposeThis exploratory study aims to help contribute to the understanding of online information search behaviour of PhD students from different humanities fields, with a focus on subject searching.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology is based on a semi-structured interview within which the participants are asked to conduct both a controlled search task and a free search task. The sample comprises eight PhD students in several humanities disciplines at Linnaeus University, a medium-sized Swedish university from 2020.FindingsMost humanities PhD students in the study have received training in information searching, but it has been too basic. Most rely on web search engines like Google and Google Scholar for publications' search, and university's discovery system for known-item searching. As these systems do not rely on controlled vocabularies, the participants often struggle with too many retrieved documents that are not relevant. Most only rarely or never use disciplinary bibliographic databases. The controlled search task has shown some benefits of using controlled vocabularies in the disciplinary databases, but incomplete synonym or concept coverage as well as user unfriendly search interface present hindrances.Originality/valueThe paper illuminates an often-forgotten but pervasive challenge of subject searching, especially for humanities researchers. It demonstrates difficulties and shows how most PhD students have missed finding an important resource in their research. It calls for the need to reconsider training in information searching and the need to make use of controlled vocabularies implemented in various search systems with usable search and browse user interfaces.
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Piotrowski, Chris, and Bob Perdue. "Psychology of Computer Use: III. Accessing the Biosis Previews Database in Clinical Psychology." Psychological Reports 62, no. 3 (June 1988): 997–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1988.62.3.997.
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This study investigated the efficacy of using the database BIOSIS PREVIEWS as an online retrieval tool in clinical psychology. Considering the vast information store (53 million records) of this underutilized database, the authors demonstrated the productivity of BIOSIS versus PsycINFO citation output. Several illustrated examples were offered, and the implications of the results attest to the usefulness of accessing BIOSIS as an adjunct bibliographic retrieval strategy when searching the professional literature.
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Buurma, Rachel Sagner, and Jon Shaw. "Slow Metadata." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 1 (January 2020): 188–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.188.
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The Bibliographic Records in Libraries' Searchable Online Public Access Catalogs (Opac) Have Recently Taken on a New Role as a source of bibliographic data that can be aggregated, shared, circulated, manipulated, transformed, studied, and interpreted. Scholars' new awareness of library catalogs not just as aids to locating books and other materials but as sources of bibliographic information that researchers can manipulate and transform has inspired new scholarship on the history of the catalog and a new focus on how the catalog, in both its analog and digital forms, shapes bibliographic knowledge. Our Early Novels Dataset (END) project, for example, uses methods from book history, library science, and literary studies to think about the shape and history of the bibliographic metadata in the library catalog. Our research group's collective experiments with bibliographic metadata ask what happens when we look at the library catalog record not just as a utilitarian aid for searching or as an object of critique, but also as a work in progress with a literary character of its own. We ask what we can learn from the shape given to bibliographic information by the earlier catalogers whose records our project inherited and on whose expertise we draw. We also ask how the familiar languages of the library catalog record and the controlled bibliographic description might help make new forms of knowledge about books. And we press on the inevitable and generative tension between the particular perspective of the library catalogers who transform specific copies of physical books into bibliographic data and the informational fields dictated by machine-readable cataloging (MARC) descriptive standards.
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Mokhnacheva, Yuliya, and Valentina Tsvetkova. "Possible Ways to Search for Scientific Information in New Realities." Science Management: Theory and Practice 5, no. 3 (September 25, 2023): 117–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/smtp.2023.5.3.9.
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The paper reviewed the opportunities of various online products and services for searching for scientific information in the changed modern reality caused by the sanctions policy of a number of countries to Russia. Proprietary systems that stay on in Russia are characterized, as well as open access resources that allow receiving scientific, bibliometric, bibliographic and factual information. In addition, a list of Russian information products and scientific information search systems is presented. The resource data is supported by real examples describing the results obtained. All system and product names supported by URLs. The article is informational and does not aim to present the full radius of open and proprietary systems currently present online. The article shows various ways of information search by both ordinary users and specialists in the scientific and technical information sphere.
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Salbach, Nancy M., Sara J. T. Guilcher, Susan B. Jaglal, and David A. Davis. "Factors Influencing Information Seeking by Physical Therapists Providing Stroke Management." Physical Therapy 89, no. 10 (October 1, 2009): 1039–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20090081.
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BackgroundSearching and reading the research literature are essential activities for enhancing the use of research and optimizing the quality of physical therapist practice.ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were to identify practitioner, organization, and research characteristics that are associated with searching or reading the research literature among physical therapists involved in stroke management.DesignA cross-sectional study design was used.MethodsA survey questionnaire was mailed to 1,155 physical therapists in neurological practice in Ontario, Canada. Therapists who treated people with stroke were eligible to participate.ResultsOf the 334 eligible respondents, 270 (80.8%) completed a questionnaire. Among participants with complete data, 37.7% of 265 participants conducted online literature searches and 73.3% of 266 participants read the research literature 2 or more times in a typical month. The following factors were associated with conducting online literature searches 2 or more times in a typical month: participation in research, self-efficacy for implementing evidence-based practice (EBP), being male, perceived facility support of research use, and Internet access to bibliographic databases at work. The following factors were associated with reading the literature 2 or more times in a typical month: participation in research, EBP self-efficacy, membership in a professional organization, perceived facility support of research use, and positive perceptions about the usefulness of the research literature and the relevance of walking interventions evaluated in the stroke rehabilitation research literature. A positive association between searching and reading was observed (odds ratio=16.5, 95% confidence interval=5.8–47.1).LimitationsThe cross-sectional design limited inferences of causality.ConclusionDespite a low frequency of searching, the majority of the participating therapists acquired and read the research literature on a monthly basis. Online searching and reading are closely linked behaviors. Modifiable practitioner characteristics, including self-efficacy for implementing EBP and participation in research, appear to be key determinants of EBP.
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Valadares, Josiel Lopes, Suélem Viana Macedo, and James Rocha Rodrigues de Melo. "SEARCHING FOR MEANINGS: A CRITICAL-REFLEXIVE ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP APPROPRIATION IN BRAZILIAN TOWNS." REAd. Revista Eletrônica de Administração (Porto Alegre) 28, no. 2 (August 2022): 292–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-2311.348.109516.
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ABSTRACT This research aims to develop a critical-reflexive analysis of entrepreneurship in public administration based on two significant works of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos: ‘The sociological reduction’ and ‘The new science of organizations.’ The research is qualitative, based on bibliographic, documentary data, in-depth interviews, online questionnaires, and direct observation. The results show that the challenges present in the context of study indicate that small municipalities can present fertile ground for the development of entrepreneurial practices. The analyses have also shown that the main deficiencies of the small towns are the managers’ lack of training, the lack of effective articulation with the federal level, the lack of an environment capable of fostering proactivity and participation, the financial crisis, and the necessary behaviors and arrangements. A huge gap for the development of effective businesss practice is the loose coordination of the Union, states and cities, which is a historical feature of the country.
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Yurchenko, Artem, Anzhela Rozumenko, Anatolii Rozumenko, Roman Momot, and Olena Semenikhina. "CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION: THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW." Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska 13, no. 4 (December 20, 2023): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/iapgos.4421.
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The paper considers the use of cloud technologies in education through the prism of bibliographic analysis. The article characterizes the current state of cloud technologies in education, summarizes the trends, and forecasts the directions of recent scientific research. The leading research methods were bibliographic (visual and quantitative) analysis of keyword networks and qualitative discussion. The bibliographic analysis is based on publications indexed by the scientometric database Web Of Science over the past 20 years. The sample for analysis was formed by searching for the words cloud technology, education, learning, and teaching. The results of the study showed: a significant increase in the popularity of cloud technologies in education in recent years; an increase in the number of studies related to various aspects of educational activities under the influence of Industry 4.0; a gradual increase in the number of studies on the virtualization of the educational process and the use of artificial intelligence in education; dissemination of research on the effectiveness of various types of training using cloud services and teaching methods based on artificial intelligence; the relevance of the trend of visualization of educational material and visual analysis in education. The qualitative discussion provided grounds to identify general trends regarding future research directions.: development of mass online courses and learning technologies (immersive, the use of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, gaming learning technologies, BYOD approach); further virtualization of universities; development of inclusive education, educational analytics, and assessment (formative and adaptive computer assessment); early training of teachers to use cloud technologies and specialized services in subject learning; research related to visualization (big data, design, simulation, simulation of various processes, etc.) and the designing of relevant new academic disciplines; research of STEM and STEAM education.
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Matthew, David, and Zeitlyn David. "‘What are they Doing? Dilemmas in Analyzing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life’." Sociological Research Online 1, no. 4 (December 1996): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.60.
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This paper presents provisional results from research into the uses and usefulness of electronic bibliographic databases in academic contexts. The research has been carried out as part of a British Library funded research project using ethnographic, focus group and conversation analytic techniques. Here we address the question: What can different varieties of ethnography and discourse analysis contribute to our understanding of organizational and institutional settings? Online and distributed bibliographic services (such as BIDS - Bath Information Data Services- and locally networked CD-ROMs) have now been available for some years in most universities and are thought to be a positive development. Many questions arise; some of which we hope may be answered by our results: What are they being used for? How are they being used? Are they as useful as central and local providers believe? Why do some researchers not use them? The research discussed here is based upon ethnographic interviews with 93 academics, researchers and postgraduates, ongoing observation as well as four focus group interviews with members of three departments (from different faculties) and with library staff at the University of Kent. We shall examine the cultural construction and negotiation of order and self-evidence. It is by the construction of cultural networks in which routine modes of questioning and criteria of relevance achieve the status of self-evidence that normal academic research communities establish themselves. Nevertheless the failure of this self-evidence to sustain itself sheds light on what ethnomethodologists find most interesting in any institutionalized discourse; its contingent dependence upon negotiations over interpretation and meaning.
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He, Peter Wei, and Sara D. Knapp. "Electronic Reserve with WWW: A Promising Way to Enhance Classroom Instruction." Journal of Educational Technology Systems 24, no. 2 (December 1995): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/08th-4en2-lg2l-bau6.
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In the Summer of 1994, SUNY Albany Libraries began an experiment with electronic reserve using WWW client/server system. A class in Online Bibliographic Searching was chosen for the study. Approximately 10 percent of the reserve readings (non-copyrighted items), as well as some exercises to be completed online, were made available electronically. Although all the students had some familiarity with computers, the good features were more appreciated by people with good computer skills. The apparent ease of access is often influenced by the user's willingness to use more features of the system. Those with home computers particularly appreciated the twenty-four-hour access from any location. Close communication between the instructor and the technical operators is the key to a smooth operation. Copyright issues, additional instruction load, and technical problems remain to be the challenges. It indicates that the technical ease of maintenance gives it great potential to become popular in electronic reserves.
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Masic, Izet, and Asima Ferhatovica. "Review of Most Important Biomedical Databases for Searching of Biomedical Scientific Literature." Donald School Journal of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 6, no. 4 (2012): 343–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10009-1258.
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ABSTRACT We are living in the time of displossion of medical scientific information. Only in PubMed/MedLine, one of the largest host of scientific biomedical literature is indexed in almost 5,000 scientific biomedical journals. Each scientific paper is recorded in data written by rules recommended by several scientific associations and institutions. Databases can contain information about the author(s) and his/their published scientific works or results of research/investigation, including bibliographic data, abstract or full text of the paper. The databases are collecting and processing the best scientific and professional papers, or reviews and case reports published in scientific and professional journals or other publications. The reliability and quality of information guarantees producers of databases. Most important databases are located in famous university/academic centers like Bethesda [National Library Medicine (NLM)], Philadelphia (ISI), Amsterdam (Elsevier), Ipswitch (EBSCO), Geneva (WHO), Moscow (RAS), Shiraz [Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC)], Warsaw [Index Copernicus (IC)]. Author of this review article shortly described most important online databases of biomedical literature today which will be usefull for scientists or other medical professionals. How to cite this article Masic I. Review of Most Important Biomedical Databases for Searching of Biomedical Scientific Literature. Donald School J Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2012;6(4):343-361.
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De Luca, Ernesto William, Francesca Fallucchi, and Roberto Morelato. "Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book." Computers 10, no. 11 (November 18, 2021): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/computers10110155.
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This paper presents a study of a strategy for automated cataloging within an OPAC or for online bibliographic catalogs generally. The aim of the analysis is to offer a set of results, while searching in library catalogs, that goes further than the expected one-to-one term correspondence. The goal is to understand how ontological structures can affect query search results. This analysis can also be applied to search functions other than in the library context, but in this case, cataloging relies on predefined rules and noncontrolled dictionary terms, which means that the results are meaningful in terms of knowledge organization. The approach was tested on an Edisco database, and we measured the system’s ability to detect whether a new incoming record belonged to a specific set of textbooks.
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Oliveira, Amanda Maria Souza de, and Larissa Chaves Pedreira. "Being elderly with functional dependence and their family caregivers." Acta Paulista de Enfermagem 25, spe1 (2012): 143–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0103-21002012000800022.
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OBJECTIVE: To identify the authors` point of discussion on the elderly with functional dependence, correlating it with the ontological time discussed in Heidegger. METHODS: This is a bibliographic, systematic and qualitative study. Data was collected in the Scientific Electronic Library Online database. A total of 123 studies were identified, 15 studies were included considering the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: Based on the semantic analysis of Bardin, the following categories of analysis were established: being caregiver for the elderly with functional dependence, being elderly with functional dependence, family dynamics. CONCLUSION: It was understood that factors related to the worldliness of these people as family relationships, support of formal and informal services, economic and social situation, among others, are part of the history of these people influencing their modes of being. Searching to understand these factors is important to promote the health of these people, thinking of the biological and existential care.
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Haigh, Susan. "Library Catalogue Users Are Influenced by Trends in Web Searching." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 1, no. 3 (September 14, 2006): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8ks33.
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Novotny, Eric. “I Don’t Think I Click: A Protocol Analysis Study of Use of a Library Online Catalog in the Internet Age.” College & Research Libraries, 65.6 (Nov. 2004): 525-37.
Objective – To explore how Web-savvy users think about and search an online catalogue.
Design – Protocol analysis study.
Setting – Academic library (Pennsylvania State University Libraries).
Subjects – Eighteen users (17 students, 1 faculty member) of an online public access catalog, divided into two groups of nine first-time and nine experienced users.
Method – The study team developed five tasks that represented a range of activities commonly performed by library users, such as searching for a specific item, identifying a library location, and requesting a copy. Seventeen students and one faculty member, divided evenly between novice and experienced searchers, were recruited to “think aloud” through the performance of the tasks. Data were gathered through audio recordings, screen capture software, and investigator notes. The time taken for each task was recorded, and investigators rated task completion as “successful,” “partially successful,” “fail,” or “search aborted.” After the searching session, participants were interviewed to clarify their actions and provide further commentary on the catalogue search.
Main results – Participants in both test groups were relatively unsophisticated subject searchers. They made minimal use of Boolean operators, and tended not to repair failed searches by rethinking the search vocabulary and using synonyms. Participants did not have a strong understanding of library catalogue contents or structure and showed little curiosity in developing an understanding of how to utilize the catalogue.
Novice users were impatient both in choosing search options and in evaluating their search results. They assumed search results were sorted by relevance, and thus would not typically browse past the initial screen. They quickly followed links, fearlessly tried different searches and options, and rapidly abandoned false trails.
Experienced users were more effective and efficient searchers than novice users. They used more specific keyword terms and were more persistent to review their search options and results. Through their prior experience, they knew how to interpret call numbers, branch library location codes, and library terminology such as ‘periodicals’.
Participants expected the catalogue to rank results based on relevancy like an Internet search engine. While most were observed to understand intuitively the concept of broadening or narrowing a search, a ‘significant minority’ added a term to an already too-narrow search to improve their search results.
When interviewed, participants suggested several ways to improve the catalog search query, such as adding summaries and contents, ranking results by relevance and degree of exact match to search terms, including an Amazon-like “find more like this” feature, and providing context-sensitive and interactive online help, especially at the point when a search has produced too many or too few hits.
Conclusions – The study concluded that library catalogue users are heavily influenced by trends in Web searching. No matter what type of search a task called for, the participants tended to expect a simple keyword search to lead to optimal results presented in relevancy-ranked order.
Because users do not generally know or care about the structure of a bibliographic record, and many have little concept of what a library catalogue is for or what it contains, Novotny suggests that user instruction needs to address these basics. He also suggests that library professionals and library system vendors must work together to address the clear evidence that library catalogues are failing their users.
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Tonacio Junior, Paulo Cezar, and Nival Nunes de Almeida. "Industry 4.0: blockchain and its Application Possibilities in Maritime trade." International Journal of Scientific Management and Tourism 10, no. 2 (April 23, 2024): e849. http://dx.doi.org/10.55905/ijsmtv10n2-063.
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The objective of the current research is to provide an overview of how blockchain can contribute to maritime logistics operations through an analysis of initiatives already carried out in the sector. This is an exploratory, initially bibliographic research conducted by searching the databases of the online journal platforms Scielo, Google Scholar, and CAPES Journals Portal. In view of the novelty of the topic, there was a need to conduct research on different academic databases, such as business forums and search engines. Prospective monitoring of the application of the technology in maritime logistics was therefore carried out. The results point to the use of blockchain were: 1. in bill of lading management (freight knowledge); 2. in a joint venture between Maersk and IBM in the development of the “Tradelens” platform, to facilitate documentation involving the cargo to be transported; and 3. in the consortium formed by AB InBev, Accenture, APL, Kuehne+Nagel, and the European Customs Organization for Blockchain-based solutions.
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McCabe, Jennifer, and Steven Wise. "It’s All Fun and Games until Someone Learns Something: Assessing the Learning Outcomes of Two Educational Games." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 4, no. 4 (December 17, 2009): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8fc8m.
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Objective – To determine whether educational games can be designed that are both fun and effective in improving information seeking skills.
Methods – Two skills that are known to be particularly difficult for students taking a required information literacy test were identified. These skills are the ability to identify citations and the ability to search databases with keywords. Educational games were designed to address these two skills. The first game, Citation Tic Tac Toe, placed commonly used bibliographic citations into a tick tac toe style grid. Students were required to play the Tic Tac Toe game and subsequently given citation identification exercises. The second game arranged key concepts related to search phrases in a Magnetic Keyword interface. Students were observed searching databases before and after playing the Magnetic Keyword game and their pre- and post-play searches were analyzed.
Results – Students who played the Tic Tac Toe game improved more from pretest to posttest than students who only took an online tutorial. In addition, students who played the Magnetic Keyword game demonstrated quicker database searching for their topics and expressed increased satisfaction with their results.
Conclusions – Games can be created which have measurable educational outcomes and are fun. It is important, however, to establish the educational objective prior to beginning game design.
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Marsalis, Scott. "Study Describes Research Scientists’ Information Seeking Behaviour, but Methodological Issues Make Usefulness as Evidence Debatable." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 5, no. 1 (March 17, 2010): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8qp6f.
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Hemminger, B.M., Lu, D., Vaughan, K.T.L., & Adams, S. J. (2007). Information seeking behavior of academic scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(14), 2205-2225.
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Objective – To quantify the transition to electronic communication in information-seeking behaviour of academic scientists.
Design – Census survey.
Setting – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a large public research university.
Subjects – Nine hundred two faculty, research staff, and graduate students involved in research in basic or medical science departments. Participants self-selected (26%) from 3523 recruited. The sample reflected the larger population in terms of gender, age, university position, and department.
Methods – The authors developed a web-based survey and delivered it via PHP Survey Tool. They developed the questions to parallel similar earlier studies to allow for comparative analysis. The survey included 28 main questions with some questions including further follow-up questions depending on the initial answer. The instrument included three initial questions designed to reveal the participant’s place and role in the university, and further coding classified participants’ department as either basic or medical science. The questions included categorical, continuous, and open-ended types. While most questions focused on the scientists’ information seeking behaviour, the three final open-ended questions asked about their opinions of the library and ideal searching environment. Answers were transferred into a MySQL database, then imported into SAS to generate simple descriptive statistics.
Main Results – Participants reported easy access to online resources, and a strong preference for conducting research online, even when access to a physical library is convenient. Infrequent visits to the library predominantly took place to utilize materials not available online, although the third most common answer for visiting was to take advantage of the library building as a quiet reading space (14%). Additional questions revealed both type and specifics of most popular sources for research, preferred journals, current awareness tools, reasons for choice of journal for publication, and use of bibliographic management tools.
Conclusion – Scientists prefer online tools for conducting library research, although specific contexts influence the preference, and online articles may be printed out for reading or annotation. The participants are taking advantage of the developing online arena, utilizing databases for research, as well as literature searching, access to journals and conference proceedings, and to keep abreast of current research.
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Ingielewicz, Anna, and Robert K. Szymczak. "Intranasal Therapy in Palliative Care." Pharmaceutics 16, no. 4 (April 9, 2024): 519. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics16040519.
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In recent years, the use of the intranasal route has been actively explored as a possible drug delivery method in the palliative patient population. There are reports demonstrating the effectiveness of nasally administered medications that are routinely used in patients at the end of life. The subject of this study is the intranasal drug administration among palliative patients. The aim is to summarize currently used intranasal therapies among palliative patients, determine the benefits and difficulties, and identify potential areas for future research. A review of available medical literature published between 2013 and 2023 was performed using online scientific databases. The following descriptors were used when searching for articles: “palliative”, “intranasal”, “nasal”, “end-of-life care”, “intranasal drug delivery” and “nasal drug delivery”. Out of 774 articles, 55 directly related to the topic were finally selected and thoroughly analyzed. Based on the bibliographic analysis, it was shown that drugs administered intranasally may be a good, effective, and convenient form of treatment for patients receiving palliative care, in both children and adults. This topic requires further, high-quality clinical research.
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Chuire, Vitorina Helena Dias, and Jaime Ernesto Naene. "Bibliotecários da Universidade Licungo de Moçambique na localização e disponibilização de informações pertinentes aos utentes." RCMOS - Revista Científica Multidisciplinar O Saber 3, no. 1 (January 19, 2024): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.51473/ed.al.v3i1.476.
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The purpose of this article is to understand what is at the origin of the diffi culties that the professionals ofthe Licungo University Library, Beira Extension, have in terms of searching for information in the electroniccatalogue, available online, to help users in providing information. Therefore, the bibliographic method wasused to theoretically support the study, and the unstructured interview technique for data collection at the studysite. The research took place at the previously indicated institution and had six librarians as a representativesample. From the qualitative analysis it was possible to conclude that librarians lack training, not only frequently,but also according to the updating of the information location system and computer skills; the qualifi cationsalready off ered by the institution are in a very reduced number, which in a certain way negatively impacts itsactivities; It is also noted that there is a lack of teamwork because it is perceived in part that the librarians’diffi culties are individualized. It is suggested that, in addition to enhancing training, more computer resourcesshould be made available, including the security system, to prevent book theft.
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Пашкевич, Калина Лівіанівна, Ольга Володимирівна Єжова, and Олена Дмитрівна Герасименко. "USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR ORGANIZING SELF-EDUCATION OF PERSONALITY IN THE FIELD OF CLOTHES DESIGN." Information Technologies and Learning Tools 76, no. 2 (April 22, 2020): 58–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v76i2.2800.
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The article considers the following aspects of organization of self-education using the information and communication technologies (ICTs): what information resources can be the basis for self-education; how to organize the education; how to solidify the acquired knowledge and create necessary social connections. The information resources which can be used for self-education and their classification depending on the needs of the individual – for personal enrichment or for scientific search, – are determined; the most significant among them are electronic libraries and bibliographic and abstract databases. The ways of organization of self-education are analyzed, namely: massive online courses, educational applications for PCs and mobile phones, individual classes (webinars), consistent self-development of separate topics, etc. ICTs that promote the creation of social connections and communications with like-minded people and specialists with narrow focus (social networks, scientists’ identification systems, forums and blogs) are considered. The examples of information recourses, aimed at obtaining professionally important information by fashion designers, are provided. Among them are blogs about art, fashion and design, virtual museum sites, resources for fashion industry leaders, sites of exhibitions, contests, popular and scientific journals, designers and brands. The possibilities of assessing the reliability of scientific information using the bibliographic and abstract databases, social networks and individual profiles of scientists in the systems of identification are determined. In order to identify the specifics of ICTs use, a questionnaire survey has been conducted that has outlined the main informational resources used in the search for the necessary information (encyclopedias and databases, social networks, YouTube channels and blogs in Twitter, LifeJournal, etc.), and peculiarities of perception of such information. It is found that ICTs are the main source for searching and receiving information.
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Névéol, A., and P. Zweigenbaum. "Clinical Natural Language Processing in 2014: Foundational Methods Supporting Efficient Healthcare." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 24, no. 01 (August 2015): 194–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.15265/iy-2015-035.
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Summary Objective: To summarize recent research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2014 in the field of clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP).Method: A systematic review of the literature was performed by the two section editors of the IMIA Yearbook NLP section by searching bibliographic databases with a focus on NLP efforts applied to clinical texts or aimed at a clinical outcome. A shortlist of candidate best papers was first selected by the section editors before being peer-reviewed by independent external reviewers. Results: The clinical NLP best paper selection shows that the field is tackling text analysis methods of increasing depth. The full review process highlighted five papers addressing foundational methods in clinical NLP using clinically relevant texts from online forums or encyclopedias, clinical texts from Electronic Health Records, and included studies specifically aiming at a practical clinical outcome. The increased access to clinical data that was made possible with the recent progress of de-identification paved the way for the scientific community to address complex NLP problems such as word sense disambiguation, negation, temporal analysis and specific information nugget extraction. These advances in turn allowed for efficient application of NLP to clinical problems such as cancer patient triage. Another line of research investigates online clinically relevant texts and brings interesting insight on communication strategies to convey health-related information. Conclusions: The field of clinical NLP is thriving through the contributions of both NLP researchers and healthcare professionals interested in applying NLP techniques for concrete healthcare purposes. Clinical NLP is becoming mature for practical applications with a significant clinical impact.
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Castro-Lopez, Adrian, Javier Puente, and Rodolfo Vazquez-Casielles. "e-Service Quality Model for Spanish Textile and Fashion Sector: Positioning Analysis and B2C Ranking by F-Topsis." International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 17, no. 02 (March 2018): 485–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219622017500444.
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This paper proposes and validates an e-service quality (eSQ) evaluation model for B2C websites in the textile-and-fashion (TF) sector in Spain. The research allows to represent the positioning of the main websites of this sector according to different utilitarian and hedonic quality dimensions and to establish the global ranking of these websites by using the F-TOPSIS methodology. After a thorough bibliographic review of the most common attributes used to evaluate eSQ of B2C websites, an expert panel has assisted in both, their precise wording and grouping them into the factors and latent dimensions of the proposed model. Later, model validation was carried out through the psychometric analysis of a survey conducted over a sample of 405 users searching/buying on TF industry online sales platforms. The paper already shows the perceptual maps for the eSQ dimensions analyzed for different TF B2C websites. Finally, in order to be able to process the intrinsic uncertainty inherent to the valuations given by the users, the F-TOPSIS method was used to sort the main TF websites. The study has demonstrated the validity of the proposed model, making it replicable in other countries and allowing to obtain the positioning and ranking of the six main websites analyzed in Spain, where Asos and Zara were the leaders.
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Noviyanti, Angeli Shelya, Evi Nursanti Rukmana, and Asep Saeful Rohman. "KEGIATAN KATALOGISASI DI PERPUSTAKAAN SMAN 12 BANDUNG." Jurnal Pustaka Budaya 9, no. 2 (July 3, 2022): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/pb.v9i2.8820.
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The library is an institution that manages collections in the form of written works, printed works, and recorded works with a professional management system and aims to meet the needs of education, research, preservation, information, and recreation for users or users. One of the most important activities carried out by a library is the management of library materials. This library material management activity is one of the core activities of the library where the organization of library materials is a process of preparing library materials starting from the library materials entered until the library materials are ready to be used by the users systematically with the aim that the process of searching for information on library materials can be carried out more easily. This study aims to find out how the library of SMAN 12 Bandung manage their library materials. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research method where the authors make direct observations to the library of SMAN 12 Bandung to find out the conditions of their library materials processing. After making observations, the authors found that the management of library materials in the library of SMAN 12 Bandung is still not optimal due to several factors, such as not inputting bibliographic data into the online database. Even so, the library materials in the library of SMAN 12 Bandung have been arranged systematically on the bookshelf in accordance with the book classification number.
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Guimarães Rodrigues, Eloísa Helena, Ester Eliane Jeunon, Patrícia Silva Ribeiro, and Frederico César Mafra Pereira. "COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE MATURITY DEGREE:." Revista Economia & Gestão 23, no. 65 (November 21, 2023): 6–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.1984-6606.2023v23n65p6-21.
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Competitive Intelligence is a quite regular topic in organizations that are willing to have a greater position on the market in general, as well as to be ahead of future trends and scenarios, and also to obtain a better assertiveness in processes that require making a decision. Organizations such as startups, known as highly scalable companies which have a forward-looking model of business with a low initial cost, are also constantly searching for a sustainable growth in the long run. The research aims towards identifying how mature is the level of Competitive Intelligence in Startups in the community of San Pedro Valley, headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Applying a Quantitative Method, a descriptive investigation was performed seeing a survey sent online directly to the managers. The bibliographic research allowed to maintain the intelligence cycle’s choice proposed by Mafra, Carvalho and Jordão (2016) in the analysis of each stage. According to the definitions of maturity by Rodrigues and Riccardi (2007) and Zuquetto and Beltrame (2012), a new proposal was developed to measure in a quantitative way the level of excellence of the organizations. From level one (informal) through level four (advanced), it was identified that the maturity of competitive intelligence in the related startups is situated between the level two (basic) and level three (intermediary). These results are expected and common if the context and the structure of these companies (which act with a sense of urgency, lean structure and flexibility) are taken into account.
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Chambers, Duncan, Anna Cantrell, Maxine Johnson, Louise Preston, Susan K. Baxter, Andrew Booth, and Janette Turner. "Digital and online symptom checkers and assessment services for urgent care to inform a new digital platform: a systematic review." Health Services and Delivery Research 7, no. 29 (August 2019): 1–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3310/hsdr07290.
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Background Digital and online symptom checkers and assessment services are used by patients seeking guidance about health problems. NHS England is planning to introduce a digital platform (NHS111 Online) to operate alongside the NHS111 urgent-care telephone service. This review focuses on digital and online symptom checkers for urgent health problems. Objectives This systematic review was commissioned to provide NHS England with an independent review of previous research in this area to inform strategic decision-making and service design. Data sources Focused searches of seven bibliographic databases were performed and supplemented by phrase searching for names of symptom checker systems and citation searches of key included studies. The bibliographic databases searched were MEDLINE, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium), Web of Science and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, from inception up to April 2018. Review methods Brief inclusion criteria were (1) population – general population seeking information online or digitally to address an urgent health problem; (2) intervention – any online or digital service designed to assess symptoms, provide health advice and direct patients to appropriate services; and (3) comparator – telephone or face-to-face assessment, comparative performance in tests or simulations (studies with no comparator were included if they reported relevant outcomes). Outcomes of interest included safety, clinical effectiveness, costs or cost-effectiveness, diagnostic and triage accuracy, use of and contacts with health services, compliance with advice received, patient/carer satisfaction, and equity and inclusion. Inclusion was not restricted by study design. Screening studies for inclusion, data extraction and quality assessment were carried out by one reviewer with a sample checked for accuracy and consistency. Final decisions on study inclusion were taken by consensus of the review team. A narrative synthesis of the included studies was performed and structured around the predefined research questions and key outcomes. The overall strength of evidence for each outcome was classified as ‘stronger’, ‘weaker’, ‘conflicting’ or ‘insufficient’, based on study numbers and design. Results In total, 29 publications describing 27 studies were included. Studies were diverse in their design and methodology. The overall strength of the evidence was weak because it was largely based on observational studies and with a substantial component of non-peer-reviewed grey literature. There was little evidence to suggest that symptom checkers are unsafe, but studies evaluating their safety were generally short term and small scale. Diagnostic accuracy was highly variable between different systems but was generally low. Algorithm-based triage tended to be more risk averse than that of health professionals. Inconsistent evidence was found on effects on service use. There was very limited evidence on patients’ reactions to online triage advice. The studies showed that younger and more highly educated people are more likely to use these services. Study participants generally expressed high levels of satisfaction with digital and online triage services, albeit in uncontrolled studies. Limitations Findings from symptom checker systems for specific conditions may not be applicable to more general systems and vice versa. Studies of symptom checkers as part of electronic consultation systems in general practice were also included, which is a slightly different setting from a general ‘digital 111’ service. Most studies were screened by one reviewer. Conclusions Major uncertainties surround the probable impact of digital 111 services on most outcomes. It will be important to monitor and evaluate the services using all available data sources and by commissioning high-quality research. Future work Priorities for research include comparisons of different systems, rigorous economic evaluations and investigations of patient pathways. Study registration The study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42018093564. Funding The National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.
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Gołda, Agnieszka, and Agnieszka Łakomy-Chłosta. "Datenbank der Landesbibliographien in Deutschland und Regionalenbibliographien in Polen." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 54, no. 1 (July 15, 2022): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.667.
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The article presents basic information on online databases of territorial bibliographies in Poland and Germany. The subject of the analysis are terminological issues and functions of databases, including the possibilities of searching and presenting data, as well as operations and management of the results. Particularly important features of the analysed territorial bibliographies are those which increase the attractiveness of the websites, including access to full texts, graphic interfaces, the possibility of adding visual information, active participation of users in creating sources (reviews, comments), which reflect changes in bibliographies, with features of bibliography 2.0 and full-text systems.
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Milchakov, K. S. "Recommendations on Informational Monitoring of the Safety and Efficacy of Medicinal Products in the Russian Federation as Part of Pharmacovigilance." Safety and Risk of Pharmacotherapy 10, no. 3 (October 4, 2022): 218–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.30895/2312-7821-2022-10-3-218-229.
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Monitoring of information on the safety and efficacy of medicinal products that involves searching for data on benefits and risks of the post-approval use of medicinal products is one of the most important pharmacovigilance processes. The aim of the study was to summarise instruments and recommendations for effective monitoring of information on the safety and efficacy of medicinal products. The article presents the results of the analysis of the regulatory framework and modern tools for scientific literature and Internet information monitoring as part of routine pharmacovigilance. The main resources recommended for information monitoring are open-source scientific and medical bibliographic databases; scientific journals; websites of regulatory authorities and international organisations that monitor the efficacy and safety of medicines; social networks; and online patient communities. Drawing upon current regulatory documents and international good pharmacovigilance practices, the article presents recommendations on the number of resources needed for conducting qualitative monitoring and on the formulation and revision of a search strategy. It describes modern technological solutions in the field of information monitoring, substantiating the suitability of new achievements in such areas as Data Science and natural language processing (NLP) for marketing authorisation holders to collect and analyse data on the safety and efficacy of medicinal products. Regular updates of the search strategy and information channels, the use of software products for the automatic collection and analysis of data from various sources, and the creation of a continuous training system for pharmacovigilance specialists will allow for high-quality monitoring of information on the safety and efficacy of medicines.
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Vanderloo, Leigh M., Leah Taylor, Julia Yates, Rebecca Bassett-Gunter, Meagan Stanley, and Patricia Tucker. "Physical activity among young children with disabilities: a systematic review protocol." BMJ Open 12, no. 8 (August 2022): e060140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060140.
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IntroductionPhysical activity in the early years is necessary for setting the foundation for healthy growth and development in later childhood and adolescence. While most published evidence to date focuses on typically developing children, prevalence rates of physical activity among children with disabilities have been less studied. This protocol paper documents the plan of a systematic review, which aims to synthesise the evidence regarding physical activity levels among young children with disabilities.Methods and analysisSearches are anticipated to commence in May 2022. Empirical quantitative studies will be considered for inclusion if they present intervention or observational data on non-therapeutic (ie, leisure time) physical activity among children <5.99 years with physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments. Data sources will be retrieved via electronic database searches (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EBSCO Sports Medicine Database (SPORTDiscus), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Elsevier Bibliographic Database (Scopus), Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO), Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) and Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE)). Additional strategies to identify relevant studies will include manual searching and citation tracking of included articles. Titles and abstracts of identified studies will be screened for inclusion, followed by full-text reviews. Three independent reviewers will conduct quality appraisal using the Downs and Black checklist. A summary of included studies will describe the study designs, participant and activity characteristics, and outcomes.Ethics and disseminationThis systematic review involves a secondary analysis of previously published data; therefore, this review does not require ethical approval. The proposed paper will summarise the current evidence base on physical activity levels among young children with a diagnosed disability. The findings from this systematic review will identify gaps to be explored by future research studies and inform future investigations among the paediatric disability population.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021266585.
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Ekanayake, Siyaguna Kosgamage Dilum Manthinda, Aletha E. Ward, Diane Heart, Patricia Valery, and Jeffrey Soar. "Improving primary care referral to specialist services: a protocol for a 10-year global systematic review in the Australian context." BMJ Open 13, no. 8 (August 2023): e068927. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068927.
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IntroductionBarriers to accessing specialist services impart a significant burden on patient outcomes and experience as well as a cost and administrative burden on health systems due to healthcare wastage and inefficiencies. This paper outlines the planned protocol for a systematic review relating to how health systems perform with regard to patient access to specialist care, and the efficacy of interventions aimed at improving this.Methods and analysisSystematic review of the literature will be carried out on publications retrieved by searching the following electronic literature databases: EBSCOhost Megafile Ultimate (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Academic Search Ultimate, APA Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO), HealthSource), PubMed (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE)), Elsevier Bibliographic Database (Scopus), Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), Web of Science and The Cochrane Library. Articles published over a 10-year period (2012–2022) will be analysed to determine; current accessibility and availability problems faced by primary care services when referring patients to specialist care, and the effectiveness of interventions to improve primary care access to specialist services. Grey literature publications (ie, government reports, policy statements and issues papers, conference proceedings) will not be analysed in this review. Articles not published in English, Spanish or Portuguese will not be included. Two independent reviewers will conduct the initial screening, disagreements will be resolved by a third independent reviewer, following which data extraction and selection of eligible sources will be carried out. Selected articles will be categorised on study design, setting and participants. Methodological quality and heterogeneity will subsequently be assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. A descriptive approach will be used to review and synthesise the findings.Ethics and disseminationThis study does not require ethics committee review as it solely focuses on analysing published literature. Findings will be published and disseminated through a peer-reviewed journal.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42022354890.
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Zhussupova, A. S., and N. P. Kalashnikova. "Methodology for the Study of Nationalist Discourse in a Multi-Ethnic Environment." EURASIAN INTEGRATION: economics, law, politics 17, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 166–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2073-2929-2023-01-166-177.
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This article reviews the main methodological approaches to the study of the discourse of nationalism in multi-ethnic societies that exist in international research practice.Aim. Purpose is to review the existing approaches to the study of nationalist discourse in modern research, their advantages and disadvantages.Tasks. Objectives are to determine what are the current methods for the study of nationalist discourse in the scientific environment, to examine the limitations of their implementation, to identify the most promising approaches, to specify what are the advantages and disadvantages of the used methodological approaches.Methods. The comparative analysis method was applied to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the methodological approaches to study the discourse of nationalism. The article also used the method of bibliographic data analysis in order to deepen the understanding of the existing methodological approaches to the study of the discourse of nationalism by searching and studying scientific materials and works of scientists.Results. The article deals with the quantitative and qualitative methods to study the nationalist discourse in multi-ethnic environment, the difficulties and limitations of the implementation of these or those methods, as well as their advantages and disadvantages. Special attention was paid to the method of content analysis of social networks and blogosphere, since today the study of sentiments in social networks is gaining importance, due to the increasing breadth of audience coverage in different countries as well as the emergence of new formats of citizen participation, such as online participation.Conclusions. Today, the discourse related to nationalist sentiments is most prevalent in internet, for a number of reasons, including the speed and ease of presenting information and the horizontal connectivity. Therefore, in multi-ethnic societies, great importance should be given to scrutinising content on social media including the use of ‘hate speech’. In this regard, the paper makes recommendations for analysing the information space and strengthening work in this direction.
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Jacimovic, Jelena, Ruzica Petrovic, and Slavoljub Zivkovic. "A citation analysis of Serbian Dental Journal using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar." Serbian Dental Journal 57, no. 4 (2010): 201–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sgs1004201j.
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Introduction. For a long time, The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia, US) citation databases, available online through the Web of Science (WoS), had an unique position among bibliographic databases. The emergence of new citation databases, such as Scopus and Google Scholar (GS), call in question the dominance of WoS and the accuracy of bibliometric and citation studies exclusively based on WoS data. The aim of this study was to determine whether there were significant differences in the received citation counts for Serbian Dental Journal (SDJ) found in WoS and Scopus databases, or whether GS results differed significantly from those obtained by WoS and Scopus, and whether GS could be an adequate qualitative alternative for commercial databases in the impact assessment of this journal. Material and Methods. The data regarding SDJ citation was collected in September 2010 by searching WoS, Scopus and GS databases. For further analysis, all relevant data of both, cited and citing articles, were imported into Microsoft Access? database. Results. One hundred and fifty-eight cited papers from SDJ and 249 received citations were found in the three analyzed databases. 74% of cited articles were found in GS, 46% in Scopus and 44% in WoS. The greatest number of citations (189) was derived from GS, while only 15% of the citations, were found in all three databases. There was a significant difference in the percentage of unique citations found in the databases. 58% originated from GS, while Scopus and WoS gave 6% and 4% unique citations, respectively. The highest percentage of databases overlap was found between WoS and Scopus (70%), while the overlap between Scopus and GS was 18% only. In case of WoS and GS the overlap was 17%. Most of the SDJ citations came from original scientific articles. Conclusion. WoS, Scopus and GS produce quantitatively and qualitatively different citation counts for SDJ articles. None of the examined databases can provide a comprehensive picture and it is necessary to take into account all three available sources.
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Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos, Athina Patelarou, Aggelos Laliotis, Andrew C. Wan, Michail Matalliotakis, Chrysoula Tsiou, and Evridiki Patelarou. "Educational strategies for teaching evidence-based practice to undergraduate health students: systematic review." Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions 13 (September 22, 2016): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.34.
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Purpose: The aim of this systematic review was to find best teaching strategies for teaching evidence-based practice (EBP) to undergraduate health students that have been adopted over the last years in healthcare institutions worldwide. Methods: The authors carried out a systematic, comprehensive bibliographic search using Medline database for the years 2005 to March 2015 (updated in March 2016). Search terms used were chosen from the USNLM Institutes of Health list of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and free text key terms were used as well. Selected articles were measured based on the inclusion criteria of this study and initially compared in terms of titles or abstracts. Finally, articles relevant to the subject of this review were retrieved in full text. Critical appraisal was done to determine the effects of strategy of teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM). Results: Twenty articles were included in the review. The majority of the studies sampled medical students (n=13) and only few conducted among nursing (n=2), pharmacy (n=2), physiotherapy/therapy (n=1), dentistry (n=1), or mixed disciplines (n=1) students. Studies evaluated a variety of educational interventions of varying duration, frequency and format (lectures, tutorials, workshops, conferences, journal clubs, and online sessions), or combination of these to teach EBP. We categorized interventions into single interventions covering a workshop, conference, lecture, journal club, or e-learning and multifaceted interventions where a combination of strategies had been assessed. Seven studies reported an overall increase to all EBP domains indicating a higher EBP competence and two studies focused on the searching databases skill. Conclusion: Followings were deduced from above analysis: multifaceted approach may be best suited when teaching EBM to health students; the use of technology to promote EBP through mobile devices, simulation, and the web is on the rise; and the duration of the interventions varying form some hours to even months was not related to the students’ EBP competence.
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Sharma, Nila, Elizabeth Harris, Jane Lloyd, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, and Mark Harris. "Community health workers involvement in preventative care in primary healthcare: a systematic scoping review." BMJ Open 9, no. 12 (December 2019): e031666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031666.
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ObjectivesTo review effective models of community health worker (CHW) involvement in preventive care for disadvantaged culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients in primary healthcare (PHC) that may be applicable to the Australian context.DesignSystematic scoping review.Data sourcesThe studies were gathered through searching Medline, EMBASE, EMCARE, PsycINFO, CINAHL and online portals of relevant organisations.Eligibility criteriaAll selected studies were original research studies which essentially evaluated preventive intervention undertake by CHWs in PHC. The intervened population were adults with or without diagnosed chronic health disease, culturally and linguistically diverse, or vulnerable due to geographic, economic and/or cultural characteristics that impede or compromise their access to healthcare.Data extraction and synthesisData extraction was undertaken systematically in an excel spreadsheet while the findings were synthesised in a narrative manner. The quality appraisal of the selected studies was performed using effective public health practice project quality assessment tool.ResultsA total of 1066 articles were identified during the initial search of six bibliographic databases. After screening the title, abstract and full text, 37 articles met the selection and methodological criteria and underwent data extraction. A high-quality evidence-base supporting the positive impact of CHWs supporting patients’ access to healthcare and influencing positive behaviour change was found. Positive impacts of CHW interventions included improvements in clinical disease indicators, screening rates and behavioural change. Education-focused interventions were more effective in improving patient behaviour, whereas navigation interventions were most effective in improving access to services. Implementation was enhanced by cultural and linguistic congruence and specific training of CHWs in the intervention but reduced by short duration interventions, dropouts and poor adherence of patients.ConclusionThe evidence generated from this systematic scoping review demonstrates the contribution of CHWs to improving access to preventive care for patients from CALD and disadvantaged backgrounds by providing both education and navigational interventions. More research is needed on CHW training and the incorporation of CHWs into primary health care (PHC) teams.
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Pearce, Daniel. "The Online Africa Bibliography." Africa Bibliography 2012 (October 25, 2013): x—xvii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266673113000044.
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With the publication of this, the 2012 volume, the online Africa Bibliography will hold just over 88,000 entries, dating from between 1990 and 2012. Nearly 55,000 additional archival entries remain in production, which together promise to enrich the online Bibliography's coverage of the period 1990–96 as well as take it back to 1984 and the origins of the print series. The transition of these records from the printed page to the online database involves a painstaking process – with each entry scanned, copyedited and individually tagged to support searching – but this work is providing a multiplicity of opportunities to enhance the intellectual value of the Bibliography and better achieve, in a contemporary context, the principles on which the Bibliography was launched thirty years ago.
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Badia, Giovanna. "Neuroscientists’ Domain Knowledge Does Not Improve Search Performance in PubMed." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 5, no. 2 (June 17, 2010): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8c908.
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Vibert, N., Ros, C., Le Bigot, L., Ramond, M., Gatefin, J., & Rouet, J.-F. (2009). Effects of domain knowledge on reference search with the PubMed database: An experimental study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(7), 1423-1447.
Objective – To determine whether neuroscientists and life scientists’ domain knowledge affects their search performance in PubMed for neuroscience topics.
Design – Cross-sectional experimental study.
Setting – State-funded research laboratories in the cities of Paris, Bordeaux and Poitiers, France.
Subjects – There were 32 participants in the study: 16 neuroscientists and 16 life scientists with no experience in neuroscience. Both groups were similar in terms of age, gender, occupation, and online database search experience.
Methods – All participants were asked to complete the same five tasks in PubMed to assess their search performance with this database. Each task consisted of finding and selecting bibliographic references on a neuroscience topic within 15 minutes. The instructions for these tasks were hidden from view during the search process. Participants performed the tasks on their office computers between May 2005 and June 2006 in the presence of one researcher who prompted them to verbally describe what they were doing and thinking as they searched. Each participant also filled out a questionnaire about their personal characteristics at the beginning of the search session and completed a second questionnaire about their knowledge of PubMed at the end. The entire experimental procedure lasted between 60 and 90 minutes and was recorded. The relevancy of the bibliographic references selected was later scored by two neuroscientists who did not participate in the study. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and qualitative analysis of verbal protocols.
Main Results – The MANOVA analysis did not show any significant differences between the total scores obtained by the neuroscientists and the life scientists. Both groups were able to find relevant PubMed references for each task within the time allotted. Contrary to the researchers’ first main hypothesis, the neuroscientists’ domain knowledge did not result in a superior search performance (i.e., in less time spent searching and more relevant results) compared to that of the life scientists.
However, domain knowledge did affect the method of searching, confirming the researchers’ second hypothesis. The life scientists spent more time reading the instructions for each task, included more keywords in their search queries, and opened more abstracts to select relevant references than the neuroscientists. The life scientists also used keywords that were almost exclusively taken from the instructions for each task when they searched PubMed and made significantly more mistakes than the neuroscientists.
Furthermore, the participants’ knowledge of PubMed was poor as was expected, despite stating they used it very frequently. Half of the participants did not attempt to use limits even when the task called for it. The majority only used PubMed in the most basic way, that is, by typing keywords in the search box.
Conclusion – Domain knowledge affects how end users search PubMed for topics in their specialty, but it does not impact their performance. Both the neuroscientists and the life scientists successfully completed the search tasks on neuroscience topics within the allotted time. Both groups had basic knowledge of PubMed, but were satisfied with their performance and results.
The authors suggest that scientists would only be interested in attending a PubMed training session if they are convinced that they will learn how to search more quickly. Further experiments are needed to verify the effects of domain knowledge on search performance with topics that are more general. The search tasks used in this study were very specific, which may have positively influenced the performance of all participants. A different control group that shares less basic domain knowledge with the neuroscientists, such as mathematicians or chemists, may also be tested.
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Marco, João Vitor Silva De, Henrique Paiva Braga, and Eduardo Robertson de Carvalho. "ELUCIDAÇÃO ACERCA DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE PACIENTES SUBMETIDOS À CIRURGIA BARIÁTRICA." REVISTA FIMCA 10, no. 1 (November 8, 2023): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.37157/fimca.v10i1.538.
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Atualmente, a obesidade configura-se como um grande impasse relacionado com a situação de saúde global e, dessa forma, diante do seu aumento progressivo nas últimas décadas em muitos países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento, essa patologia vem sendo considerada uma epidemia global. Tendo em vista as maneiras de contenção do avanço dessa doença, as manobras terapêuticas mais simples como reeducação alimentar ou vias medicamentosas demonstram-se insuficientes nos estágios mais avançados. Dessa forma, a cirurgia bariátrica, hodiernamente, é considerada o meio mais eficaz para controlar e tratar a obesidade grave e contribui ativamente na melhora da qualidade de vida desse grupo. Assim, essa pesquisa buscou compreender o contexto clínico e social dos pacientes submetidos à cirurgia bariátrica, com foco em verificar as circunstâncias envolvidas que interferem na promoção da qualidade de vida em pacientes que realizaram a cirurgia bariátrica. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica, por meio das principais ferramentas online de busca de artigos científicos em português, como: Scientific Eletronic Library Online (Scielo), MedScape e PubMed, no intervalo de 2011 a 2022. Dessa forma, foi possível identificar os benefícios e danos colaterais associados à cirurgia bariátrica. Nesse sentido, foi possível verificar um quadro de melhora significativa ao se analisar o estado de saúde dos pacientes que possuíam indicação clínica para a realização desse procedimento, ao passo que se identificou uma perda ponderal acentuada, evoluindo o paciente de obesidade grau III para obesidade grau I, melhora do quadro nutricional e, consequentemente, a prevenção de doenças cardiovasculares, menor ocorrência de picos glicêmicos nos pacientes diabéticos bem como diminuição das crises hipertensivas e amenização da pressão sistólica e diastólica, nos pacientes hipertensos. Por outro lado, há ainda a possibilidade do surgimento de outras patologias decorrentes do procedimento cirúrgico, como hérnias incisionais, alopecia, queda de cabelo, anemias e déficits nutricionais, o que gera um desgaste físico e emocional nos pacientes. Currently, obesity is a major impasse related to the global health situation and, therefore, given its progressive increase in recent decades in many developed and developing countries, this disease has been considered a global epidemic. In view of the ways to contain the progression of this disease, the simplest therapeutic maneuvers such as dietary reeducation or drug routes prove to be insufficient in the more advanced stages. Thus, bariatric surgery is currently considered the most effective way to control and treat severe obesity and actively contributes to improving the quality of life of this group. Thus, we seek to understand the clinical and social context of patients undergoing bariatric surgery with a focus on verifying the circumstances involved interfere in the promotion of quality of life in patients who underwent bariatric surgery. Therefore, bibliographic research was carried out, using the main online tools for searching scientific articles in Portuguese, such as Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), Medscape, and PubMed, from 2013 to 2020. In this sense, there is a significant improvement when analyzing the health status of patients who have a clinical indication for this procedure, while a marked weight loss is identified, with the patient evolving from grade III obesity to grade III obesity. I, improvement of the nutritional status and, consequently, the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, lower occurrence of glycemic peaks in diabetic patients, as well as a decrease in hypertensive crises and amelioration of systolic and diastolic pressure in hypertensive patients. On the other hand, there is still the possibility of the emergence of other pathologies resulting from the surgical procedure, such as incisional hernias, alopecia, hair loss, anemia, and nutritional deficits, which generate physical and emotional exhaustion in patients.
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Daniel, Dominique. "Faculty Still Rely on Library Resources and Services for their Research." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 11, no. 3 (September 26, 2016): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8hs6m.
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Borrego, Á., & Anglada, L. (2016). Faculty information behaviour in the electronic environment: Attitudes towards searching, publishing and libraries. New Library World, 117(3/4): 173-185. doi:10.1108/NLW-11-2015-0089
Objective – To determine faculty’s information behaviour and their perception of academic libraries in the current transition between print and electronic scholarly communication.
Design – Online survey.
Setting – A consortium of 12 large universities in Spain.
Subjects – More than 17,380 faculty members.
Methods – The researchers used a questionnaire based on a subset of the questionnaire used for the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey, with 20 closed and 2 open-ended questions. The survey was implemented via Google Forms and sent through mailing lists. The number of recipients was not known, but university statistics for 11 of the 12 universities list 17,380 faculty (statistics were not available for one university, located in a different administrative area). The questions aimed to identify the types of documents used by scholars for teaching and research, the search tools used, the strategies used to keep up-to-date in their disciplines, preferences for print or electronic books, the sources used to access documents, their preferred channels to disseminate their own research, and their views regarding library services.
Main Results – The response rate was 12.7%. Based on the results, scholarly journals were the most used information resource for research across all academic disciplines, with 94% of respondents rating them as important. For teaching, faculty preferred to use textbooks for undergraduates, and journal articles for Master’s students. To search the literature, faculty chose bibliographic databases and Internet search engines over the library catalog and physical collections, although the catalog was the first choice for known-item searches. Respondents favored print to read entire books or chapters but preferred the electronic format for skimming. Of the respondents, 78% rated the library as an important channel to access resources, while 61% also considered free online materials important. If the material was not available at their library, 71% frequently chose to search for a free online version and 42% used the inter-library loan service. For their own research, faculty have published in scholarly journals more often than other channels and have selected the journal based on its impact factor (77.5% ranked it as important) and on its area of coverage (73.4%). When asked to rank library services, faculty placed paying for resources highest, with 86.2% identifying it as important. Next were facilitating teaching and helping students develop information literacy skills. Finally, a majority of faculty considered themselves highly dependent on the library.
Conclusion – Journal articles are the most widely used information resource for research and teaching purposes, regardless of discipline. This includes arts and humanities, which are known for heavy monograph usage. Articles are also scholars’ preferred channel for publishing. With regards to books, faculty have mixed feelings about print and electronic formats. Spanish faculty display information behaviours similar to their British and American counterparts, as documented in the Ithaka S+R 2012 surveys. Blogs and social networks are not widely used in spite of growing attention to such channels for research output and altmetrics. Open access is also relatively unimportant for faculty when they choose where to publish. A majority of respondents still consider library services as important, for collections as well as teaching and learning support, which may present opportunities for librarians.
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Alcock, Lindsay J. "Bibliometric Analysis Identifies Publication Trends and Most Common Research Topics Related to Internet Health Information Seeking Behaviour." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 10, no. 4 (December 13, 2015): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8k896.
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Li, F., Li, M., Guan, P., Ma, S., & Cui, L. (2015). Mapping publication trends and identifying hot spots of research on Internet health information seeking behavior: A quantitative and co-word biclustering analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(3), e81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3326
Objective – To identify research and publication trends related to health-seeking information behaviour on the Internet.
Design – Bibliometric analysis, publication trends, and co-word biclustering analysis.
Setting – Academic journals.
Subjects – Journal articles retrieved from PubMed meeting eligibility criteria, and articles selected through hand-searching of the top three journals publishing in the identified area of research.
Methods – A search for relevant articles was performed in PubMed and supplemented by manual searching of the top three journals in the field, yielding a total of 2,780 articles. Following a high concordance rate on screening agreement, researchers identified a total of 533 articles for inclusion. These articles were considered to be representative of all the articles published on Internet health-seeking behaviour as of September 2014. Data deemed essential to biclustering co-word analysis included article title, author, institution, country, source, publication year, and MeSH terms, and was collected in both XML and MEDLINE formats to ensure information exhaustivity for subsequent analysis. Analysis of the distribution of data, as well as major MeSH frequency ranking, allowed researchers to identify the most active journals in the subject area, while biclustering for highly frequent MeSH terms determined hot spots of research. Researchers used both mountain and matrix visualization to further illustrate semantic relationships of MeSH terms and the framework for the analysis of research hot spots. Co-word analysis facilitated the identification of like-articles based on major MeSH indexing, while cluster analysis utilized a matrix grouping to identify themes. By combining this information and reorganizing the matrix, researchers were able to highlight the most common themes.
Main Results – Researchers identified ten research “hot spots,” the most prolific research topics, thus providing the top subject areas of research published in the literature related to Internet health-seeking behaviour. Top subjects include health information seeking behaviour related to HIV infection or sexually transmitted diseases; information seeking behaviour of students and of patients with cancer; consumer trust in online health information; behaviour of Internet health information seeking through mobile apps; the interaction between physician-patient relations/communications and Internet use; personal preference and computer literacy related to Internet use; and the use of social media by parents.
In terms of publishing rates, the number of papers published on health information seeking behaviour has increased consistently since 1985, when only one paper was published, to 2013, in which 114 papers were published. Authors from 42 countries or regions contributed to the body of relevant literature, with authors from the United States of America accounting for over half of published papers. Just over 96% of articles were published in English. Of the 253 journals identified as publishers of these articles, eight published over one-third of all the identified articles. The Journal of Medical Internet Research published the most articles on this topic.
Conclusion – Bibliographic analysis identified both subject and publication trends related to Internet health information seeking behaviour. Publication rates of research in the area of Internet health information have increased steadily since the first article was published in 1985. The bulk of the research tends to fall within ten identified hot spots, or research topics, according to a bibliometric analysis of indexing.
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Atsawawaranunt, Kamolthip, Clive E. Adams, and Samantha Roberts. "Searching for randomised controlled trials and clinical controlled trials in Thai online bibliographical biomedical databases." Health Information & Libraries Journal 28, no. 1 (November 10, 2010): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00916.x.
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Fehér, András. "The online marketing possibilities and judgment of the domestic food-sector." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 58 (April 8, 2014): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/58/1976.
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The theme of my PhD research is the online marketing possibilities and judgment of the domestic food-sector. This article is based on the important bibliography of my research theme. I show the new categorization of the tools of marketing communication. I examine the recent years’ changes of the social approach and the interactivity. Based on the meeting of the Internet I separate our ages’ generations. Furthermore I examine the transformation of consumers into users in the digital environment. I prove the changes of the Internet’s penetration and the presence of enterprises in the Internet with statistic data. I touch the tendency of information searching in online environment. I present new methods to measure the online marketing activities’ return.
Finally, I define my objectives of research based on my own experience and bibliography overview over and above I draw up my concrete future’s research which I separate seconder and primer section.
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Skaruk, Galina A. "Multiple Use of Linguistic Means of Subject Searching in the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 2 (March 31, 2010): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2010-0-2-34-40.
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Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is the basis of Automated Library and Informational System. Linguistic ware quality of OPAC is prerequisite for information service quality. Discussion on the structure of linguistic ware of OPAC and a role of individual informational search languages in it is far from being finished. Its key points are determined in the article. There is also the description of the experiment for comparison of informational languages functional opportunities of State Rubricator (Systematic headings) on Scientific and Technical Information, Library Bibliographical Classification, subject headings and words from documents titles in OPAC of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was described. Hierarchical classification and subject headings language are analyzed. The conditions of subject headings’ usage in the electronic environment are considered.
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Junaedi, Jusa. "EVALUASI SISTEM ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG PERPUSTAKAAN UMUM DAERAH PROVINSI DKI JAKARTA, CIKINI." Journal of Documentation and Information Science 1, no. 1 (November 21, 2017): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.33505/jodis.v1i1.20.
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This article will try to analyze and to evaluate the Online Public Access Catalog that is available in Perpustakaan Umum Daerah Provinsi DKI Jakarta, Cikini. This research uses qualitative approach with the method of descriptive case study. The data collection is accumulated through participative observations, in-depth interview with selected informants, and analysis on supporting documents. The result of this research shows that the Online Public Access Catalog that is owned by Perpustakaan Umum Daerah Provinsi DKI Jakarta, Cikini has several problems. It can be seen from the limited choices of searching mode, the usage of INDOMARC indicator codes in describing information bibliography of collection that often cannot be comprehended by public, the search results from the local library’s collections that are mixed with other library’s collections, to collection’s status and filter system that is not available