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Research Articles (Information Science): Recent submissions
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2007)In this article the focus is on violence, especially murderous violence, its impact, its origins, factors that facilitate and promote it and possible solutions. Due to its intensity the impact on society and individuals ...
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(Unisa Press, 2007)In a globalised world where current awareness services (CAS) are increasingly being made available on the World Wide Web (WWW), a myriad of electronic services exists to keep users up to date with the latest developments ...
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(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2007)The project of an acritical philosophy of information is nothing but a defense of the necessity for the philosophical in our cognitive, epistemic, and informational endeavours, and simultaneously a manner of refusing the ...
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(South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2003-06)This article originated as a paper prepared for the 2002 conference of the South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT) on the theme “The changing contexts of language teaching : renewal or resistance”. Both ...
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(Unisa Press, 2004-11)This article reports on an investigation into the information needs of Afrikaans L1 language teachers in South Africa. The main data collection methods were focus group discussions, a questionnaire and unstructured interviews. ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-03)There is a worldwide concern growing regarding the increasing potential threats to the personal privacy of individuals caused by technologies and governments. The international response of governments has been to draught ...
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(Emerald, 2004)The intranet has emerged as one of today's most effective tools for knowledge management. This article reports on the extent to which three South African academic libraries, selected by means of the purposive sampling ...
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(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-09)The concept of world-class performance is explored as it applies to the field of knowledge management. The authors propose a framework of elements that can be used to measure world-class performance - each element is ...
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(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)Information economics forms part of the discipline of Economics. Often information science curricula also include Information Economics as a separate course or as a component of an Information Science course. Although ...
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(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)When a new discipline emerges, it usually takes some time and a great deal of academic discussion before concepts and terms become standardized. Text mining is one such new discipline. In a groundbreaking article, Untangling ...
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(Emerald, 2004)The article is a report of an investigation of the current state of knowledge management implementation in three South African financial organisations. Two data collection methods were used, namely a questionnaire and ...
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(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-03)This article covers research conducted on communication, knowledge sharing and computer-mediated knowledge sharing, relating to organizations functioning in the South African environment. Research data was collected using ...
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(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-09)An adapted version of Michael E. Porter's five competitive forces model was used to determine the competitiveness of the water utility consulting industry on the Internet, in South Africa. This was done by analysing the ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-06)This article deals with a proposed initiative to train library managers on the African continent. It is argued that such an education initiative will contribute to the socio-economic development of Africa. Issues addressed ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2005-06)This article focuses on three of the main ethical questions facing the cyber era, namely privacy, information poverty and the relationship between the right of access to information and the right of ownership thereof. The ...
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(In House Publications, 2004-11)Objective: A descriptive study in which the audience profile of patients suffering from schizophrenia, their families and caregivers was determined to establish whether information on schizophrenia is disseminated effectively. ...
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(In House Publications, 2004-11)Objective: The printed medium is a popular method to disseminate health information to the South African public. Reader-focused research indicates, however, that most printed health messages do not transfer information ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2005-06)The controversy about the existence of the world is the point of departure of this article. That there is a world and that this world exists and that many meanings are allocated to this term are all equally true. Their ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2004-11)Women and women's organizations exploited available opportunities and spaces to assert themselves in South African public life in the early-twentieth century. Their educational interventions combined a special concern with ...
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(Emerald, 2005)Purpose – To determine whether repository libraries in developed countries have a role to play in the preservation of the digital resources of developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – Literature-based conceptual ...
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