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  • Finding and Using Health and Medical Information on theby Sue Welsh; Betsy Anagnostelis; Alison Cooke

    Europa Publications 2000; US$ 80.00

    This new guide focuses on the different uses and applications of biomedical information resources available on the Internet. It explains how to find the best information resources and how to customise Internet tools to personal requirements. more...

  • Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertationby James E. Mauch; Namgi Park

    Marcel Dekker Inc 2003; US$ 65.00

    Meeting the challenges of producing and, ultimately, publishing theses and dissertations, the fifth edition of this reference views the addition of references to university research libraries and advanced information on websites, online searches, electronic literature and other computer methods. more...

  • Evidence-based librarianship, Volume 24, Issue 3by Su Cleyle

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00

    Seeks to spread the concept of evidence based practice beyond the health sector. Librarians need to increase their reliance on sound evidence to support their programs and services. They also need to become more active in producing and publishing evidence for their peers and others outside the profession. This collection of articles examines the research base of librarianship; outlines the process of evidence based librarianship; the theory and practice of formulation of answerable research questions; bibliomining-based EBL; qualitative research in evidence-based practice; using critical appraisal to evaluate evidence; and the incorporation of EBL into library education. more...

  • British library and information schools: the research of the Department of Information Studies, University of Wales Aberystwythby Lucy A. Tedd; David Ellis

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00

    This is the second in a series devoted to the research output of British library and information schools. This e-book focusses on the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth which recently celbrated its 40th anniversary. more...

  • Power Laws in the Information Production Processby Leo Egghe

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 120.00

    Explains many informetric regularities, only based on a decreasing power law as size-frequency function, that is Lotka's law. This book revives the historical formulation of Alfred Lotka and shows the power of this power law, both in classical aspects of informetrics as well as in applications such as social networks and others. more...

  • Restructuring LIS educationby Susan Ashworth

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00

    New technologies mean library and information science is currently characterised by fast-paced change, with staff needing to be flexible in adapting and adopting new skills and levels of awareness. New developments need to be marketed and evaluated, and these are additional skills for information professionals to adopt. Findings of a research project carried out at Liverpool John Moores University into the marketing and management of e-journals demonstrate the need for LIS professionals to develop marketing and evaluation skills and strategies for new technologies. Other emerging skills in the electronic information environment are communication, negotiation and collaboration, with information professionals being called upon to teach new skills. more...

  • British library and information schoolsby Rosemary McGuinness

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00

    This is the third in a series devoted to the research output of British library and information schools. This e-book focuses on the School of Information Management at London Metropolitan University. Information and Knowledge Management at London Metropolitan University is well grounded in the Social Sciences and the slant of work by the authors in this special edition of Aslib Proceedings is testament to this. The articles in this e-book show that Information, knowledge, and the effective management of them, are impossible to divorce from the social structure and the global web of networks. more...

  • International library educationby Linda Ashcroft

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00

    This e-book contains papers from the Forum on International Library Education held at the ALA Annual conference June 2006 more...

  • Citation Analysis in Research Evaluationby Henk F. Moed

    Springer 2005; US$ 109.00

    For citation analysis to be effective as a research evaluation tool, it is essential that participants understand its nature, how its indicators are constructed and calculated, what they intend to measure, and their potentialities and limitations. This book deals with the evaluation of scholarly research performance by means of citation analysis. more...

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    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 199.00

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