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How Chemistry Graduate Students and Researchers Are Finding and Using Chemical Information: Findings from Interviews in a Chinese University
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Zhang, Yuening – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2017
Although scholarship has addressed issues around serving international students in U.S. and Canadian libraries, reports on how Chinese graduate students use information in Chinese universities, especially for a particular discipline, are rare. In this study, the author interviewed 15 graduate students and researchers in a top-ranked chemistry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Researchers, Chemistry
A New Methodology for Systematic Exploitation of Technology Databases.
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Bedecarrax, Chantal; Huot, Charles – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Presents the theoretical aspects of a data analysis methodology that can help transform sequential raw data from a database into useful information, using the statistical analysis of patents as an example. Topics discussed include relational analysis and a technology watch approach. (Contains 17 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Databases, Information Utilization, Mathematical Formulas
Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information Dissemination in the United States: Report of an NSF Sponsored Study.
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Presents a synopsis of the results of the first phase of a study project sponsored by the National Science Foundation that examined trends, opportunities, and problems in the dissemination of scientific and technical information in the United States. Findings that are summarized concern the use of information, information technologies, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Engineers, Information Dissemination
Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Establishing Geographic Information Systems Capable of Integrating Natural Resources Data and Socio-Economic Data for Development-Oriented Planning, Monitoring and Research. (Preliminary Version).
de Man, W. H. Erik, Ed. – 1984
This preliminary conceptual framework and the 23 related guidelines have been prepared by specialists drawn from both developed and developing nations as a joint project of the International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC). The project was designed to analyze linkages between natural resource based data and certain types of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Databases, Developing Nations, Geographic Distribution
Abstracts of SIG Sessions.
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Presents abstracts of 15 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Topics include navigation and information utilization in the Internet, natural language processing, automatic indexing, image indexing, classification, users' models of database searching, online public access catalogs, education for information professions, information services,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Conferences
Electronic U.S. Government Information: Policy Issues and Directions.
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Hernon, Peter; McClure, Charles R. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1993
Provides an overview of U.S. federal information policy and its treatment of electronic information resources. Highlights include government publications; electronic government information; main providers of government information, including the Government Printing Office; the Freedom of Information Act; public access and use; information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Copyrights, Databases