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The popularity of Health 2.0 technologies has grown exponentially in recent years. They are increasingly being used to inform and support professional practice. This article discusses the use of the health facet of Web 2.0 applications by health…
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Purpose – This paper aims to report on the evaluation of a curriculum development project that took place in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. The project, funded by a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning…
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine the essential features of information literacy; what role it should play in university library user education; and how programs can be best implemented. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers…
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Objectives: To investigate the extent to which junior doctors in their first clinical positions retained information literacy skills taught as part of their undergraduate education. Method: Participants drawn from different training cohorts were…
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Objective: The objective of this study was to assess perceived Internet health literacy of HIV-positive people before and after an Internet health information educational intervention. Methods: We developed a 50-min educational intervention on basic…
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El objetivo de este trabajo fue el investigar por medio de un estudio de comunidad a los Adultos Mayores, el cual por medio de está investigación se logra el conocer cuáles son sus necesidades de información y formacion, con el fin de conocer si los…
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the level of knowledge, among university professors, about copyright problems related to e-learning activities. Design/methodology/approach – An online questionnaire was used to survey professors…
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Introduction: Pharmacists need effective skills in accessing and using Internet-based medicines information (IBMI) for themselves and their consumers. However, there is limited information regarding how pharmacists use the Internet. Objectives: To…
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After receiving a mini-grant for developing integrated information literacy programs, a Geography/Geology Department faculty member worked with the Science Librarian to embed information literacy in a cross-listed geology and geography course,…
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This paper describes classroom activities to help students understand the publication cycle and the characteristics of major publication channels (textbooks, books, encyclopedias, and periodicals) for first-year physics students. When designing…
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Se describe la evolución del papel educativo del bibliotecario desde la aparición del trabajo de referencia hasta el surgimiento del concepto de alfabetización informativa y su asimilación por la biblioteconomía.Y demuestra que la idea de…
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This feature focuses upon information literacy in health courses in Higher Education. The feature looks specifically at a collaborative project conducted at York St John University between the Library and Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. The…
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Purpose – This paper aims to identify what motivates young people to play video games, and the extent to which video games are perceived as facilitating learning and information literacy. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopted a qualitative…
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The primary role of the ISSN Register, the ISSN Network's international database of ISSN records, is to serve as in international authority file of ISSN, key titles, and linking ISSN. This almost 1.5 million-record database also contains descriptive…
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This article highlights the advantages of librarians and libraries establishing a professional or institutional presence on Twitter. This basic introduction to the web service also discusses innovative ways to shape your Twitter account into a…
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Purpose – This paper seeks to identify the changes in cognition associated with becoming information-literate, specifically, in relation to the evaluation of information. Additionally, it puts forward a model for a teaching and learning intervention…
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BioWizard is a web-based platform for communally submitting and evaluating professional biomedical literature and is intended to aid clinicians and researchers in the discovery of recent literature in their disciplines that other users have rated to…
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Purpose – This paper aims to report an empirical study of the information-related behaviour of emerging artists and designers. It also aims to add to understanding of the information behaviour of the group both as practising artists (a little…
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This article discusses the efforts of ChiliFresh to help to open up the online public access catalog developed by SirsiDynix. Scott Johnson, the chief executive of ChiliFresh described products including a review engine that allows library users to…
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Purpose – To date, few studies have been undertaken to make explicit how microblogging technologies are used by and can benefit scholars. This paper aims to investigate the use of Twitter by an academic community in various conference settings, and…