This paper shares the personal reflections of a postgraduate student and a repository manager on the life cycle of an electronic thesis and dissertation at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The postgraduate ...

Different evaluation methods where discussed, using SciFinder and Scopus databases as examples. The ideal indexing method would be to index for a specific audience.

This paper is all about the impact of an institutional repository on the roles of the subject librarian, the traditional cataloguer, the IT staff, and what can be expected from the research community. All these are important ...

In the changing information environment, it is crucial for us as Information Specialists, to be able to adapt, almost on a day to day basis. Our skills, the technology, even the physical environment, are ever-changing. ...

Information Literacy training is more effective when integrated with the curriculum. The Faculty of Health Sciences is presently using a problem-based method of training, which means that students must use a variety of ...