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Information Science: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Virtual reality has the potential to simulate a variety of real-world scenarios for training- and entertainment-purposes, as it has the ability to induce a sense of “presence”: the illusion that the user is physically ...
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Reading authors of the Enlightenment at the Cape of Good Hope from the late 1780s to the mid 1830s (Routledge, 2018)With few exceptions, the study of intellectual traditions in South Africa generally ignores their material traces. The embodiment of ideas and languages in books, pamphlets, newspapers and other media does, however, matter. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The main objective of libraries in higher education institutions is to enable access to information that will meet the teaching, learning and research needs of the institutions’ communities (Department of Arts and Culture, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Institutional repositories (IRs) have become an important element in scholarly communication reform. IRs are seen, by higher education institutions, as an adequate response to the serials crisis and a major academic leap ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : Competitive intelligence failures have devastating effects in marketplaces. They are attributed to various factors but seldom explicitly to information behaviour. This paper addresses causes of competitive ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Librarians have to ensure that they are kept abreast of the changes in their discipline and are continuously trained to handle new technologies and systems. The changes in the ICT and the impact on the LIS sector should ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Stellenbosch University in South Africa has an established institutional repository, managed by the Library and Information Service, as well as an institutional policy on the self‐archiving of research output, curated ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In the knowledge economy, organisations rely on knowledge to improve and stay competitive in the industry. Knowledge exists both explicitly and tacitly and the challenge lies in transferring the tacit knowledge from expert ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Academic libraries traditionally support universities in their teaching, learning, and research activities. Their support roles can be broadly defined in terms of the organization and storage of knowledge, as well as its ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)There is a clear imbalance between female- and male-penned fiction and non-fiction within local and international publishing, as shown by high-profile statistics like the VIDA and Stella counts. The aim of this research ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of third-year architecture students’ information behaviour. It focusses on information activities, personal experience, resource usage, preferences ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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(Springer, 2018-10)The world of book publishing has changed drastically with the adoption of XML technologies, by imposing regular structures on authors and allowing production departments to design, alter, and redistribute books in a fraction ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018-06)Maternal and infant mortality rates in African countries can be reduced through provision of reliable health information to pregnant women. This article reports on an exploratory study that investigated the information ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018-06)Idea generation and inspiration are important in creative tasks. This article reports on descriptive quantitative results from an exploratory study conducted in 2016 on the creative tasks and the personal information ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Modern education systems tend to focus on the use of external pressures to motivate students to learn. Intrinsic motivation - motivation to do something because it is enjoyable in and of itself – by contrast, is more ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The paper explores library cooperation in Zimbabwe and gathers views from librarians on the need for a library consortium model to underpin national development. This study aims to investigate the development of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1990)Die studie gaan van die standpunt uit dat akademiese navorsers hul tans in 'n moeilike situasie bevind: enersyds as gevolg van probleme met die persoonlike bestuur en hanteri"ng van inligting tydens die navorsingstaak, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Failures in competitive intelligence are widely reported but are seldom studied through an information behaviour lens or specifically attributed to information activities and factors influencing information behaviour. This ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1994)Afrikaans: Die studie gaan van die standpunt uit dat universiteitsbiblioteke meer kreatief en innoverend moet funksioneer as wat tans die geval is. Universiteitsbiblioteke moet vandag komplekse uitdagings en geleenthede ...
Now showing items 81-100 of 545