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2. Exploring scientists’ working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime?
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Wang, Xianwen, Xu, Shenmeng, Peng, Lian, Wang, Zhi, Wang, Chuanli, Zhang, Chunbo, and Wang, Xianbing
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SCIENTIFIC discoveries ,TIME perspective ,SCIENTISTS ,WORKING hours ,PAPER ,INFORMATION science ,OVERTIME - Abstract
Abstract: A novel method is proposed to monitor and record scientists’ working timetable. We record the downloads information of scientific papers real-timely from Springer round the clock, and try to explore scientists’ working habits. As our observation demonstrates, many scientists are still engaged in their research after working hours every day. Many of them work far into the night, even till next morning. In addition, research work also intrudes into their weekends. Different working time patterns are revealed. In the US, overnight work is more prevalent among scientists, while Chinese scientists mostly have busy weekends with their scientific research. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2012
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3. The order in the lists of authors in multi-author papers revisited.
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Kosmulski, Marek
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INFORMATION science ,AUTHOR-publisher relations ,PAPER ,SCIENTISTS ,MEMBERSHIP - Abstract
Abstract: The leaders of scientific groups appear in the last place (or in the first place) of the authors’ lists of multi-author papers more often than other scientists (group-members). The preferential position of the group leader depends on the branch of science, geographical location and the time point. New tools to study the order of authors were introduced. The validity of assessment of the contributions of particular authors to the paper solely from their ranks in the authors’ lists was challenged. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2012
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4. DUBROVAČKI KNJIŽARI 16. STOLJEĆA U DRŽAVNOJ SLUŽBI.
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Seferović, Relja
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CIVIL service , *INFORMATION resources , *LIBRARIANS , *ARCHIVES , *OTTOMAN Empire , *INFORMATION science , *INFORMATION services - Abstract
The gradual process in which the medieval commune of Dubrovnik developed into a classical city-state in the first half of the 16th century was related both to the outer and to the inner elements. Among the latter the most important role belonged to the establishment of a firm, reliable and well organised web of clerks. Since their work would have been impossible without a continuous supply of paper and parchment, the Government signed several contracts with various entrepreneurs who were undertaken to fulfil all such needs, including also the book binding. The primary sources always describe them simply as librarii. They were coming from various backgrounds, including native people and Italians, priests and laity, nobles and commoners. Although they had never formed a proper corporation, their profession enjoyed a particular status due to a relatively small, but regular income, their mutual connections (including education of apprentices) and particular professional knowledge they had, especially that of making parchment. The first decades of the 16th century witnessed to a severe restriction imposed to all civil servants, but since 1540s sources are particularly abundant with news concerning the parchment and paper supply. Therefore we traced the roots of paper from Venice and Ancona to Dubrovnik and, occasionally, to the Ottoman Empire afterwards. We are precisely informed about the prices, careers of several librarii who worked in a span of several decades and their mutual relations. Also, as there were various kinds of paper being supplied to the State offices, it is easily possible to perceive their value. Towards the end of the Republic the flourishing days gradually disappeared and 1790s brought just a single request from a local priest to learn the service of bookbinding in Rome. However, thousands of books kept today in the State Archives of Dubrovnik undoubtedly testify about the quality of the late librarii and their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
5. Roles for librarians in systematic reviews: a scoping review
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Angela Spencer and Jonathan D. Eldredge
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Paper ,Evidence-based practice ,Libraries, Medical ,Systematic Reviews ,Abstracting and Indexing ,Scoping Review ,Library science ,lcsh:Medicine ,Health Informatics ,Medical library ,CINAHL ,Library and Information Sciences ,Information science ,03 medical and health sciences ,Professional Competence ,0302 clinical medicine ,Professional Role ,Librarians ,Controlled vocabulary ,Information system ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intersectoral Collaboration ,Evidence-based library and information practice ,Information Services ,Library Science ,05 social sciences ,lcsh:R ,lcsh:Z ,lcsh:Bibliography. Library science. Information resources ,Library Services ,Systematic review ,Professionalism ,Evidence-Based Practice ,Bibliographic Databases ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,Psychology ,Systematic Reviews as Topic - Abstract
Objective: What roles do librarians and information professionals play in conducting systematic reviews? Librarians are increasingly called upon to be involved in systematic reviews, but no study has considered all the roles that librarians can perform. This inventory of existing and emerging roles aids in defining librarians’ systematic reviews services. Methods: For this scoping review, the authors conducted controlled vocabulary and text-word searches in the PubMed; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; and CINAHL databases. We separately searched for articles published in the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, the Journal of the Canadian Heath Libraries Association, and Hypothesis. We also text-word searched Medical Library Association annual meeting poster and paper abstracts. Results: We identified 18 different roles filled by librarians and other information professionals in conducting systematic reviews from 310 different articles, book chapters, and presented papers and posters. Some roles were well known such as searching, source selection, and teaching. Other less documented roles included planning, question formulation, and peer review. We summarize these different roles and provide an accompanying bibliography of references for in-depth descriptions of these roles. Conclusion: Librarians play central roles in systematic review teams, including roles that go beyond searching. This scoping review should encourage librarians who are fulfilling roles that are not captured here to document their roles in journal articles and poster and paper presentations. This article has been approved for the Medical Library Association’s Independent Reading Program .
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- 2018
6. Assessment of knowledge and skills in information literacy instruction for rehabilitation sciences students: a scoping review
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Pamela Harrison and Jill Boruff
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Physical Therapy Specialty ,Paper ,Occupational therapy ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Speech-Language Pathology ,020205 medical informatics ,Physical Therapy ,Information Storage and Retrieval ,lcsh:Medicine ,Health Informatics ,Health literacy ,Communication Sciences and Disorders ,02 engineering and technology ,CINAHL ,Allied Health ,Library and Information Sciences ,Assessment ,Information science ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Occupational Therapy ,Librarians ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Students ,Grading (education) ,Medical education ,Library and Information Science Abstracts ,Information literacy ,lcsh:R ,Rubric ,lcsh:Z ,Health Literacy ,lcsh:Bibliography. Library science. Information resources ,Evidence-Based Practice ,Information Literacy ,Psychology - Abstract
Objective: This scoping review investigates how knowledge and skills are assessed in the information literacy (IL) instruction for students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech-language pathology, regardless of whether the instruction was given by a librarian. The objectives were to discover what assessment measures were used, determine whether these assessment methods were tested for reliability and validity, and provide librarians with guidance on assessment methods to use in their instruction in evidence-based practice contexts.Methods: A scoping review methodology was used. A systematic search strategy was run in Ovid MEDLINE and adapted for CINAHL; EMBASE; Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) (EBSCO); Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA); Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA); and Proquest Theses and Dissertations from 1990 to January 16, 2017. Forty articles were included for data extraction.Results: Three major themes emerged: types of measures used, type and context of librarian involvement, and skills and outcomes described. Thirty-four measures of attitude and thirty-seven measures of performance were identified. Course products were the most commonly used type of performance measure. Librarians were involved in almost half the studies, most frequently as instructor, but also as author or assessor. Information literacy skills such as question formulation and database searching were described in studies that did not involve a librarian.Conclusion: Librarians involved in instructional assessment can use rubrics such as the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) when grading assignments to improve the measurement of knowledge and skills in course-integrated IL instruction. The adapted Fresno test could be modified to better suit the real-life application of IL knowledge and skills.
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- 2018
7. Waging war on paper mountains
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Mitchell, Helen
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- 1999
8. Management of electronic data in business organisations
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Mitchell, Helen
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- 1998
9. Paperless? Clueless?
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Fee, Rod
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- 1997
10. Gibberish in print.
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CYBERNETICS , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *STUDENTS , *INFORMATION science , *PAPER , *SPAM email - Abstract
The article focuses on the prank committed by some of the students in the U.S. in which a computer-generated piece of gibberish was accepted as a genuine scientific paper. Sick of receiving spam emails requesting submissions to the 2005 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, which charges $390 for each attendee, students Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a program to generate a nonsense paper. The conference organizers say that the paper was sent to human reviewers, who never commented on it, so it ended up being automatically accepted.
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- 2005
11. Deciding on data storage
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Palmer, Elizabeth
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- 1989
12. CIM : Pulp and paper CIM
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Barton, Chris
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- 1987
13. The people : PC a god-send for 'paper shuffler'
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Pearson, Chris
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- 1989
14. 4K Video on Display at CES 2014
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GRIFFEY, JASON
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- 2014
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