Showing papers in "Brazilian Journal of Information Science: Research Trends in 2015"

Use and adequacy of e-resources by the research scholars and students of the university of kashmir in science & social science faculties: a case study

Abstract: The study was an attempt to determine the use and satisfaction level with respect to the electronic resources provided by the University of Kashmir to its users. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to collect the primary data from full time Research Scholars (M.Phil/ Ph.D) and post graduate Students of Science and Social science faculties, university of Kashmir. The findings reveal that Lack of awareness regarding different types of e-resources and Lack of library assistance are the major cause behind low usage of e-resources. The result shows that users of science faculty use e-resources adeptly than Users of social science faculty. The findings could be helpful to know the different challenges and concerns faced by users while accessing and using e-resources. The study also highlights the current scenario of the Science and Social science faculties in University of Kashmir with reference to the awareness and usage of electronic resources.

Awareness and use of the national archives: evidence from the volta and eastern regional archives, ghana

Abstract: The study examined the awareness and use of the Volta and Eastern regional archives of Ghana. Archives play a pivotal role in documenting the historical memory of humans. Archives as institution and records as documents are generally seen by academics and other users as a passive resource to be exploited for various historical and cultural purposes. The study employed the survey design with data obtained analysed using descriptive statistics. The population of the study included inhabitants of the defined geographical area who where 18years and above with some level of education from secondary to tertiary level. Findings revealed the lack of awareness of the Volta and Eastern regional archives by the inhabitants within that geographical area. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the archives should create more awareness through outreach programmes during festive occasions thus breaking the traditional pattern of waiting for users to come and patronise them to ‘marketing’ their services to the people to achieve better results

Proposal to represent the unesco thesaurus for the semantic web applying iso-25964

Abstract: This paper shows how has been applied ISO-25964 standard to represent the UNESCO thesaurus through semantic web technologies. Based on the works done by the UNESKOS project, has been analyzed the joint use of SKOS and ISO THES ontologies to represent thesauri according to the datamodel of the ISO-25964 standard. The result has been an RDF dataset, accessible as Linked Open Data, using SKOS and ISO-THES with the properties of a vocabulary developed in the context of UNESKOS project. The conclusions point, among other aspects, a review of SKOS and adoption of appropriate technologies that facilitate the development of future works and research lines focused on the alignment of vocabularies

A quantitative analysis of the open access business and economics journals

Abstract: The main purpose of the paper is to study the publishing trends of the open access business and economics journals available in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The online survey was conducted for collection of data and quantitative method was applied for data analysis. The data were collected from the December 10-20, 2013 about more than six hundred business and economic journals and later presented in tabular forms to reveal the findings in accordance with desired objectives. The findings show that 607 business and economics journals are listed in the DOAJ and are published fromthe 67 countries of the world. The maximum number of journals (88, 14.50%) is published from Brazil, and during the first decade (2001-2010) of the 21st century (382, 62.93%). The linguistic assessment shows that the open access business and economics journals are mostly monolingual (405, 66.72%) and the majority of these are published in English language (498, 82.04%). The results also reveal that the majority of the business and economics journals (415, 68.37%) doesn’t charge publication fees to authors whereas almost one-fourth (147, 24.22%) of the journals demand article processing charges. The study does not explore the whole World Wide Web, but only the DOAJ and therefore, figures do not represent the actual number of the open access business and economics journals available online. The study is very beneficial for the business and economics scientists, academicians, researchers, information experts and open access advocates across the globe.

Evolution and structure of "sustainable development" : A bibliometric study

Abstract: Sustainable development is an interdisciplinary subject that has developed dramatically over the last few decades. Bibliometrics offers quantitative analytical techniques with which to study the development and growth of research in this area. The information used for the present study was retrieved from the SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, and A&HCI (Thomson Reuters) databases. The search was made on the topic "Sustainable development", limited to Document Types (Article) and Time Span (1900-2013). The result was a total of 13 093 articles retrieved. During the last 10 years, the annual (exponential) growth rate has been 12%, corresponding to a 6-year doubling time. The productivity of the authors varied widely. The 23 290 occurrences of the articles were distributed among 218 Web of Science categories. "Environmental Sciences" was the top-ranked category, with 3427 occurrences (by itself accounting for more than 26% of the total, and presenting the greatest diversity), followed by "Environmental Studies" (2417), "Ecology" (1046), and "Economics" (933). The methodological approach taken in the present work could be used to describe the structure of any other scientific field and its relationships with other disciplines, and to visualize the relationship between the different WoS categories conforming the subject under study.

Information-seeking behavior of social sciences scholars: a nigerian case study

Abstract: Information-seeking behavior is one of the most important areas of user studies and a concept affected by many factors. Previous researches in these areas indicate that the information-seeking practices of scholars are dependent on their field of research, and vary from one discipline to another. This paper examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in the social sciences, based on the premise that information-seeking behavior follows universally applicable stages and patterns worldwide. The study was conducted at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER). Fifty eight active social sciences scholars were interviewed via a questionnaire about their information sources for research and consultancy purposes, their preference for electronic or printed formats, their use of electronic or Internet resources, and how they meet or satisfy their information needs, among others. Results show that journals and books were the most preferred information sources, and a large majority of scholars “regularly” used electronic information resources for their research and consultancy needs. The findings of the study also demonstrate diverse usage patterns for electronic information resources among users of different academic ranks and age range. Based on the research findings, the author provides suggestions on how current information services and products can be improved to better serve the users. The author also makes recommendations for improving library services and technologies to better meet the information needs of social sciences scholars in general.

Tres enfoques de bias en organización del conocimiento: bias neutro, bias negativo y bias positivo

Abstract: El termino bias es un termino-problema en Organizacion del Conocimiento, principalmente por la falta de una definicion clara del mismo. En la literatura del area se pueden encontrar tres aspectos del mismo, bias con carga neutra o bias neutro, bias con carga positiva o bias positivo y bias con carga negativa o bias negativo. El bias neutro representa una inclinacion o punto de vista y responde a operaciones dentro de la Teoria Facetada de S.R. Ranganathan. En este alcance se estudiaran los terminos auto-bias device y bias relation y la familia de terminos que los incluyen. Por otra parte se encuentran el bias positivo y el bias negativo. Ambos mantienen un fondo semantico comun, reflejan aspectos ideologicos y culturales, pero con enfoques diferentes. Mientras el primero, en su mayoria es creado de forma intencional para representar las necesidades de informacion de un sector cultural o ideologico; el segundo se crea involuntariamente y se manifiesta a traves de visiones ofensivas o inadecuadas. El presente trabajo se propone delimitar estos diferentes alcances.

A interoperabilidade entre os opac e os repositórios institucionais nas universidades públicas portuguesas e espanholas

Abstract: As exigencias das novas estruturas sociais, as alteracoes na producao e no consumo das publicacoes cientificas, os novos e complexos contextos nos quais se desenvolvem o ensino e a investigacao tornam necessaria, nao apenas a disseminacao, mas sobretudo a partilha da informacao atraves de varios recursos. E neste contexto que a interoperabilidade entre OPAC e repositorios institucionais ganha relevo e se efetiva, tornando publico e acessivel o conhecimento produzido nas universidades. Tecnicamente, a interoperabilidade concretiza-se atraves da ligacao destes dois recursos possibilitando que o documento depositado num seja localizado e consultado em ambos. Este estudo propoe-se verificar se existe algum tipo de interoperabilidade entre os OPAC e os repositorios institucionais nas universidades publicas portuguesas e nas espanholas e a forma como a mesma se manifesta. Partiu-se de metodologia qualitativa, na qual foram privilegiadas a observacao direta e a analise comparada. Os resultados apontam para a existencia de interoperabilidade entre os OPAC e os repositorios institucionais numa discreta maioria dos casos estudados (58,73%), sendo a mesma realizada, de acordo com os dados recolhidos, por meio do campo 856 do formato MARC, responsavel pelo enlace entre os dois recursos. Nos casos em que este enlace nao se verifica (41,26%), recomenda-se a sua efetivacao, preservando-se assim os interesses dos utilizadores. Em conclusao, caracteriza-se a interoperabilidade como incompleta, pois o OPAC remete o utilizador via handle diretamente para o repositorio, mas o inverso nao acontece, recomendando-se a aplicacao de politica inversa. Ainda, considerando a visibilidade que os repositorios nacionais tem e o seu papel na divulgacao e no acesso centralizado a producao cientifica dos paises, recomenda-se que os repositorios institucionais das universidades espanholas que ainda nao aderiram a este movimento (9,52%) promovam esta iniciativa.

The growth and development institutional repositories in Brazil

Abstract: This paper discusses number of institutional repositories, software used, what are the content available in IR, which language mostly used in Brazil. Currently the intellectual output of the educators and the organization plays an essential role in the education knowledge process of a Higher Educational Institution. Articles; Theses; Unpublished; Books; Datasets etc are scattered in many places of an institution in print and electronic form. Therefore it is essential to collect, classify, arrange and store these materials digitally in a single platform by establishing Institutional Repository (IR) and to provide easy access to them over intranet/internet to the institute community and others. The 84 repositories are available in Brazil country with consists of total 11, 17,688 number of records and 62 repositories are in a mono-lingual type language which is used Spanish and Portuguese only. It is found that, most of the repositories are also used Portuguese languages but only one repository are generated by using Spanish language only.

La competencia informacional y derechos de autor en las bibliotecas de instituciones de educación superior de brasil

Abstract: La competencia informacional o alfabetizacion informacional(COINFO/ALFIN) es la evolucion natural de la antigua formacion de usuarios en las bibliotecas adaptada a los nuevostiempos, donde la tecnologia juega un importante papel. Porsu parte, el uso etico y legal de la informacion es una de lascompetencias que conforman este tipo de formacion dentrode los estandares internacionales COINFO/ALFIN. Con elobjetivo de conocer la repercusion del uso etico y legal de lainformacion dentro de estos planes formativos de las bibliotecas de educacion superior en Brasil, se diseno un brevecuestionario en linea para averiguar si poseen un plan deCOINFO o de formacion de usuarios, si dentro de los planesse trata el uso etico y legal de la informacion y los derechosde autor, en que consiste esta informacion cuando se produce,y si las bibliotecas disponen de personal preparado para atender dudas sobre estas cuestiones. De los resultados se desprende que las bibliotecas de educacion superior en Brasilaun tienen un largo camino por recorrer en materia de COINFO. No todas tienen planes adecuados para sus usuarios yentre los que si tienen, cuando se habla sobre derechos deautor, el discurso se centra en los aspectos sancionadores delos mismos, sin dar cabida a la formacion que permita saber aautores y usuarios que derechos tienen, como usar las obrasde terceros o como pueden compartir sus obras, entre otros.

Use of polytechnic library by students of rufus giwa polytechnic, owo, nigeria

Abstract: The study determines the extent of use of information resources provided in Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Library, Owo, Nigeria by the students. The research design is descriptive design survey. The study utilises structured questionnaire to obtain data. The population of the students is 6,550 and sample size of 1050 was chosen as the participants. A purposive sampling technique was adopted. A total of 1,020 copies of questionnaire from 1050 administered were returned and correctly filled, which produce returned rate of 97.14%. Data extracted were analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that more than half of the participants always use library. Majority of the participants visit library to use social media (84.02%), 83.91% use it to consult library books, while 83.83% use it to do various assignments. The results revealed that 82.94% of the students preferred using textbooks, followed by 80.39% using social media networked and 72.89% use their lecture notes. It was observed that inadequate current textbooks, poor Internet connectivity and frequent power outages are the leading challenges encounter while using information resources available in the library. The result of this findings show that with the information resources available in RUGIPO library, the library is not fully utilized by the students. Based on the findings, it is recommended that more current and up-to-date journals need to be acquired. There should also be a solid policy and implementation framework by the Executive arms of government towards making poor Internet connectivity become a thing of the past in all tertiary institutions in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.