The second part of a twopart paper reports the preliminary conclusions derived from the pathfinder phase of a study devoted to a reassessment of the information needs of academic researchers. ...Proceeding from the notion that longestablished research information needs may not have remained wholly unaffected by the changing realities of the knowledge society, this exploration of researchers' current information requirements and information seeking practices has been undertaken with a special emphasis on examining the validity of anything and everything we have customarily been holding true as to the information component of academic research work. The groundwork for the investigation has been laid down in a pilot project of seven indepth critical incident methodbased information needs interviews with faculty at the University of Haifa Israel. The qualitative data thus obtained as to researchers' information needs, how they go about meeting these needs, and the barriers they encounter in the process have been analysed within the comprehensive framework proposed by Nicholas for a systematic description of information needs. The ensuing evaluation reported here considers 11 aspects of the presentday academic researcher's information needs. With the first part of the paper focusing on the insights gained into the two major aspects of subject and function, the subsequent discussion of the remaining aspects rounds out this portrayal of research information needs.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Este artículo pretende mostrar algunos resultados de una investigación sobre las características y la diná- mica institucional de ...101 grupos de investigación andaluces considerados de excelencia por el gobierno regional de Andalucía, España.1 El estudio se desarrolló en dos fases. La primera de ellas se basó en un cuestionario contestado por los responsables de 46 de esos 101 grupos de investigación destacados, y la segunda fase consistió en un estudio de casos múltiple. Presentamos los resultados relacionados con las características internas de estos grupos —composición, recursos humanos y materiales, dinámica social, estilo de funcionamiento, etcétera. El análisis y la interpretación de los resultados permiten caracterizar a los grupos de investigación andaluces en términos de su dinámica y del estilo de liderazgo predominante, así como la identificación de factores que condicionan el logro de la excelencia y la visibilidad en el campo académico en que cada uno se inserta. Permite, además, sugerir líneas de indagación que convendría explorar con mayor profundidad.- This article tries to show some of the results of research work about the characteristics and institutional dynamics of 101 Andalusian research groups considered as group of excellence by the regional government of Andalusia, Spain. The study was developed in two stages. The first one was based on a questionnaire answered by thepersons responsible for 46 out of these 101 outstanding research groups, and the second stage consisted of a study of multiple cases. We present the results related to the internal characteristics of said groups: composition, human and material resources, social dynamics, operation style, etc. The analysis and interpretation of the results enabled the characterization of the Andalusian research groups in terms of their dynamics and predominant leadership style, as well as the identification of factors that determine the achievement of excellence and the visibility in each of their academic fields. It also suggests lines of research that should be explored in greater detail.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Purpose This paper describes the novel approach taken in a collaborative research project that aimed to investigate new ways of understanding the customer, for Derbybased fibre manufacturer, Tencel ...Limited. The overall aim of the research described in this paper, was to help identify and establish a significant retail programme with a major UK store group for Tencel limited. Designmethodologyapproach In an iterative process, the target customer for the focus groups was identified, the main aims of the process were discussed, the test garments were identified and the empathic design tools were adapted. The team developed a programme of activities that would capture customer focused information on these critical issues. Findings Using the Grove techniques helped to make the project transparent and inclusive, and enabled the whole team to be involved in the decisionmaking process. Using these techniques have provided Tencel with a nonscientific way of understanding how their end customer perceives their fibre, providing unequivocal evidence of the customer true feelings recorded as raw video based evidence. Practical implications The TencelIF project has also led to a number of additional advantages for the company, such as the development of new relationships within the supply chain, the development of new relationships within Tencel and the enhancement of multidisciplinary team working and concurrent engineering. Originalityvalue This paper has presented the novel approach that the combined TencelIF team took to develop a better understanding of the end customer and illustrates how techniques which were developed for one industry can be successfully adapted and applied to a quite different industry with excellent results.
Kazula 15. stoljeća dio je bogate tekstilne zbirke župne crkve Sv. Stjepana u Motovunu. Istraživački radovi pružili su detaljan uvid u način izrade predmeta, odredili metode i postupke ...konzervatorsko-restauratorskih radova i dokazali da je kazula bila sastavljena od dijelova različitih predmeta iz inventara motovunske župne crkve. Istraživački radovi obuhvatili su: analizu baršuna, analizu lanenih tkanina u podlozi veza, analizu crtačkih predložaka za vez, analizu papira, paleografsku analiza teksta i identifkaciju tinte.
Focuses on an initiative of the Association of Research Library's Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition in giving leadership for providing open access to scholarly information, ...determining this as the most effective means of advancing scholarly research. Addresses some of the reasons for opening up access to library literature, issues and challenges, and gives some examples of library associations that are already providing open access to their publications.
This is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISCfunded RoMEO Project rights metadata for openarchiving, which investigated the intellectual property rights issues relating to ...academic author selfarchiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors, showing the level of protection required for their open access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally, it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAIPMH.
This paper is based on a survey of the literature on integrated library management systems published between 1999 and 2003, with a bias towards the academic market in the UK and North America. It ...describes how new functionality within ILMSs and products complementary to these integrated systems are being offered by software vendors, causing libraries to replace legacy systems with next generation systems and spend more money on add-on products. Recent trends in integrated library management systems are noted and predictions for their future identified in the literature, are described. Open source software is highlighted as being likely to have a growing impact on the ILMS of the future, after an initial resistance to this from vendors. The paper concludes that the growth of Web services may enable a new approach to the procurement of library management systems.
This article is based on a study of the experiences of women chief executives in British local government. Our emphasis will be on our experiences of carrying out the study, and, in particular, on ...encountering and working with the political aspects of our research. Following a brief outline of our main findings, we review some of the dangers of "doing research" on women. We continue by describing our first encounters with the politics of gender research - the voices of discouragement that questioned the need for the research. We then outline our attempts to understand more about how our relations with each other as a pair of researchers enabled us to surface the political properties of our research. The article discusses the role of reflexivity in maintaining awareness of researcher bias, and how this might affect our analysis of the experiences of women in the system being studied. Next, we discuss how action researchers inevitably become part of a political system that is characterised by different actors holding different aspirations for research outcomes, and argue that collaborative forms of research are necessary if one is to listen to the range of voices that stakeholders represent. We tackle the question about how researchers may "let go" of research of this kind given their political attachments to the topic. Finally, we conclude that spelling out the dilemmas inherent in research of this kind is more likely to achieve results that are well grounded in the political and organisational realities of participants' experiences.
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