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Research Articles (Information Science)
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(Springer, 2025-03)Immersion as an umbrella experience and embodiment are regarded as primary advantages of virtual reality and its capability to lead to other reflective experiences. Beyond the basis of stereoscopic head-mounted displays, ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024-05)The value of community libraries (in various forms and contexts) is well recognized. They align with traditional values of libraries to offer information access and supportive services on all levels of society, while ...
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(Serious Games Society, 2024-09)This action research study examines how meaningful choice design affects the overall meaningful learning experience of a virtual reality educational serious game. An intervention was developed to teach hazard detection in ...
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(University of Borås, 2024-06)INTRODUCTION: Information behaviour in grief, bereavement, death, dying and its influence on the development of information interventions is understudied. Although pragmatic and evidence-based practices work well, ...
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(University of Borås, 2024-06)INTRODUCTION: Music repertoire selection is a process driven by music conductors. They focus on scoring, ensemble composition, acquisition methods (i.e., acquiring the music). Information needs and seeking are core to ...
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(University of Borås, 2024-06)INTRODUCTION: Extensive conceptualisations of context in information behaviour research do not extend to all contexts revealed in the use of electronic (e)- dictionary and similar e-sources. Information behaviour emphasises ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2024)In gedrukte woordeboeke met 'n statiese artikel- en boekstruktuur is die ver-houding tussen die verspreiding van data en die onttrekking van inligting eenvoudig en die meeste woordeboeke volg min of meer dieselfde ...
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(Routledge, 2025)In the era of rapid data generation, researchers at Kenyan universities face challenges in effectively navigating, interpreting, and managing data. This study proposes a collaborative data literacy framework to enhance ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-09)This article is an historical analysis of the changing editorial strategy of Tafelberg, a South African publisher. It aims to shed light on the culture-commerce divide in South African publishing, the changing cultural and ...
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(MIR Labs, 2023-07)As research in Node localization in WSN becomes ubiquitous, there is a dire need to interpret and map the increasing scientific knowledge and evolutionary trends so that a firm foundation can be laid for identifying knowledge ...
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(Emerald, 2023-10)PURPOSE : Many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) allow students or their advisors to restrict access to theses/dissertations (TDs) by applying embargoes. This study aims to identify why Higher Education Institutions ...
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(Sage, 2024-12)The centenary of IFLA is approaching. IFLA’s Library History Special Interest Group has embarked on various projects to prepare for the event, including the compilation of an edited volume of scholarly chapters on IFLA’s ...
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(Sage, 2024-12)In 1922, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation was established to serve as an advisory organ of the League of Nations in respect of science, arts and education. It took an interest in promoting international ...
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(Ubiquity Press, 2023-07-27)Data are vital for and creating knowledge-based solutions to development challenges facing Africa. As a result of gaps in government-funded data collection, and in the interest of promoting community engagement, there ...
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The experience of using virtual reality for interactive spatial visualisation of environmental data (CEUR-WS, 2023)Virtual reality possesses various properties that have the potential to be beneficial for the visualisation of spatial data, including intuitive gestural affordances for looking around and interacting with data and the ...
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(North American Business Press, 2023-02)Over the past decades, reported research have continuously alluded to the impact of “digital natives,” “millennials,” and a range of reported “generations,” and warned about the need to adapt across all spheres, including ...
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(Halmstad University, 2023)The field of competitive intelligence is growing as organisations are looking to increase their competitive advantage in a global society. As this field grows, so does the research and academic literature on this practice. ...
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(Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE : Needs for information literacy, disparities in society, bridging digital divides, richness of information sources in electronic (e-)environments and the value of dictionaries have often been propagated. To improve ...
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(Emerald, 2023-10)PURPOSE : This paper aims to examine the ways becoming information literate relates to the material objects in the Kente-weaving landscape. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : An ethnographic research design was adopted wherein ...