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Influence Of Information Sources, Needs And Gender On Information Use Of Science Undergraduate Students In University Of Ibadan, Nigeria, Kazeem Adeshina Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims at determining the influence of information needs, sources and gender on information use by faculty of science undergraduate students in universities in southwest Nigeria. In order to sample all important sub-population of the students, data were collected from seven departments which are Computer science, Chemistry, Microbiology, Industrial Chemistry, Physic, Archaeology, and Anthropology. Data was collected using a questionnaire from 500 students while data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and T-test. It was found that a significant relationship between information needs to their major information sources used, there was significant relationship between information needs and the …

Open Access In Kyrgyzstan: Current Developments And Future Directions, Jyldyz Bekbalaeva

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Covered the developments in open access in Kyrgyzstan, including the level of awareness of OA, OER and Creative Commons licenses. Introduced the repositories, KyrlibNet Open Archive and their OA journals on DOAJ.

Open Scholarship Developments In Education And Science, Ngân Chu

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

There were 2 parts to the presentation:

1. Open Educational Resources (OER) in Vietnam: introduce Vietnam OER and conferences to advocate and develop OER in Vietnam.

2. Scientific Resources for Research Activities in VAST (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology): Introduce VAST and the resources of VAST for science and technology services.

Polyu Oer Portal: An Archive Of Institutional Collective Wisdom, Johnny Yuen

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library built an open education resource portal, aligned with the PolyU vision. The content for the portal were collected from students, faculty and librarians. The OER were meta-tagged with domains, keywords, schools, related PolyU course codes, with links to their learning management system.

Use And Importance Of Open Access In Nepal During Covid 19 Pandemic, Jagadish Aryal

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Nepal could not remain unaffected by the Covid 19 pandemic spread all over the world. It not only attacked people’s health but affected every sector in the country. It made long-term effects on the social, economic, political, and educational sectors. The educational sector has been badly affected. Universities and schools remained almost closed. Research and education are limited to online mode. Libraries and resources centers are also closed. Hence researchers need to totally depend upon online resources. As a developing country, Nepal doesn’t have access to many commercial databases so they have to rely on open access content. The importance …

Open Academic Service In The Nsl-Cas: From Notion To Action, Xiwen Liu

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Covered the notion of open academic service and the signing of OA declaration and policy statements. The development of a grid of institutional repositories at CAS for China and supporting SCOAP3. CAS ha also started publishing OA journals. They conducted OA training and organized conferences. In the future they plan to develop more open academic services that meet the needs of CAS researchers and the public.

Open Access Repositories Developed Under National Digitization Project & Open Scholarship Programme, Manuja Karunaratne

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Covered the National Science Foundation role in Sri Lanka's open scholarship programme, open access initiatives, national digitization project, one repository initiative and their challenges.

Open Science Initiative @ Usm, Mohd Kamal Mohd Napiah

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

The first time we heard about Open Science, we felt it was a big challenge but at the same time a golden opportunity for the Library. The biggest challenge is to learn something very new that is not taught while in library courses at university, moreover to convince researchers to also collaborate in this effort. As this initiative is very important to be realized, the Library has taken the initiative to lead this movement at USM by focusing on awareness programs as the first step in ensuring the success of this agenda. So in this presentation, we will share about …

Open Access And Open Science In Singapore, Lian-Ping Ooi

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Developments and update of Open Access and Open Science in Singapore.

Preserving Podcasts In Institutional Repositories, Erik Moore, Valerie Collins

Sandbox Series

In response to the 2020 global pandemic, the University of Minnesota Archives sought to gather digital content documenting the public health crisis and institutional response to COVID-19. Staff identified university-produced podcasts from several departments as information-rich contemporaneous content that was also at high risk of loss. Over the course of this work, we determined that these podcasts should be preserved in our institutional repository, as we came to see University podcasts more broadly as a digital serial publication. Our focus is now on the ongoing maintenance of serial digital publications in a repository and demonstrating the preservation of podcasts as …

Panel Discussion 1 | Investing In Open Infrastructure And Service: The Benefits And Challenges, Ginny Barbour

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Covered the problem, benefits, challenges and opportunities in open infrastructure. Discussed fostering bibliodiversity, how open infrastructure supported good science, the impact of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

Panel Discussion 1 | Investing In Open Infrastructure: The Benefits And Challenges In Japan, Kazu Yamaji

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Addressed some of the issues with tools in the research workflow and how to create a better scholarly communication environment. Covered the research infrastructure for open science at National Institute of Informatics and Japan through the use of OpenDOAR, LocalDOAR, arXiv and open source software.

Panel Discussion 1 | Investing In Open Infrastructure And Service: The Benefits And Challenges At University Of Hong Kong, Jesse Xiao

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Covered the open infrastructure used by University of Hong Kong for Scholar Hub on DSpace, DataHub, DMP Platform on DMPTools, Ejournal service on OJS, Research Intelligence Hub (on-going), new research output system (on-going). Some of the challenges encountered when using open infrastructure.

Welcome Address, Kazu Yamaji

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Welcome address for Asia OA Meeting 2021 and COAR's involvement. Included the history of the Asia OA Meeting which was started in 2016.

Exploring The Role Of Academic Social Networking Sites Amongst Lis Professionals: A Meta-Narrative Review, P.M. Naushad Ali, Sharaf Zehra, Priya Vaidya, Zainab Musheer

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) has revolutionized the concept of knowledge sharing and publication pattern in academia. It offers a new paradigm to interrelate research scientists globally, influencing research communities' structure and crescendos (dynamics). This changing trend has attracted considerable attention in the research domain and the consequent impact on library & information science professionals. Due to the high operationalizing ability of these networking sites, it provides online services of collaboration and knowledge sharing. The present study reviewed 23 studies from the past that highlights the methodologies, usage pattern of ASNs, impact on professionals, different categories of services, and issues …

Community Information Needs Of Agriculturists In Mysore Region Public Libraries, Karnataka, India: A Study, Siddaramu P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Agriculturists need different types of community information in their day to day life. Community information helps the agriculturists to enhancing the productivity, profitability, stability and sustainability of the farming systems. Public library is the democratic institution which can accomplish the community information needs of agriculturists. This study was carried out to investigate the community information needs of agriculturists in Mysore Region. The present paper attempts to ascertain the background of the agriculturists and their community information needs in Mysore Region Public Libraries. The majority of the agriculturists said that they need always information on preparing the land for the cultivation …

Barriers For Library And Information Science Researchers From Developing Countries: What The “Library Philosophy And Practice Phenomenon” Tells Us, Brady Lund

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This short commentary introduces and discusses the “Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP) Phenomenon,” wherein a scholarly journal published in a developed country has an extremely large number of authors from developing countries, relative to the typical journal. Elements of journals that fit the LPP phenomenon are discussed, as well as what this phenomenon says about barriers to scholarly publishing for researchers from developing nations. Implications for journals that lack diverse authorship from developing nations are listed. This phenomenon may be studied in other disciplines to further illuminate divides in the scholarly realm.

Reference Services In Private University Libraries Of Assam: A Study, Shyamanta Boro Mr, Sanjay Kumar Singh Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Objective:

The present study intends to investigate the private university libraries of Assam and their different kinds of library services and reference services, web 2.0 features and its different adopted methodology for the advancement of library services and how these library services are being provided and what are the technical or non-technical measures adopted by the library professional to perceived job performance. It also intends to carry out additional library facilities like an online learning support system and enabling future generations to utilize acquired knowledge from the study libraries.

Methodology:

For this study, both qualitative and quantitative approaches for …

Making Memes: Teaching Visual Literacy In A (Fun) Remote Environment, Jillian M. Ewalt, Bridget Retzloff

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

How can you use humor to relieve pandemic fatigue while teaching visual literacy? At the University of Dayton, librarians developed an asynchronous session on visual literacy and internet memes. The session introduced students to fair use, public domain and Creative Commons images and tools for determining how they could be remixed or reused. The interactive tutorial included an active learning component where students created their own fun and lighthearted memes. Memes were shared with permission via the library’s social media channels and not only showcased student work but built community through humor in spite of pandemic isolation. This poster covers …

A Survey Of Researchers’ Needs And Priorities For Data Sharing, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, James Harney, Lauren Cadwallader

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

One of the ways in which the publisher PLOS supports open science is via a stringent data availability policy established in 2014. Despite this policy, and more data sharing policies being introduced by other organizations, best practices for data sharing are adopted by a minority of researchers in their publications. Problems with effective research data sharing persist and these problems have been quantified by previous research as a lack of time, resources, incentives, and/or skills to share data.

In this study we built on this research by investigating the importance of tasks associated with data sharing, and researchers’ satisfaction with …