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Kundu, Dipak Kumar – Athens Journal of Education, 2015
The nature of the information seeking behaviour of the teachers engaged in General Degree Colleges and Teachers' Training Colleges affiliated to West Bengal State University, India, is critically analysed in the present study. The descriptive analysis is based on well structured, close-ended questionnaires which were distributed among 450…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Teacher Behavior, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval
Angchun, Peemasak – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study assessed students' satisfaction with Ramkhamhaeng University regional library services (RURLs) and the perceived quality of information retrieved from other information sources. In particular, this study investigated factors relating to regional students' selection of information sources to meet their information needs. The researcher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Satisfaction, Library Services
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Tan, Bing; Foo, Schubert; Hui, Siu Cheung – Online Information Review, 2001
Discusses the need for Web information mentoring systems that help users track and monitor Web information based on users' interests. Describes a study that analyzed Web pages, Web site domains and change frequency for a Web monitoring system developed at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Mikhailov, A. I.; Giljarevskij, R. S. – 1970
In 1963, the International Federation for Documentation (FID) promoted the institution of documentation and scientific information chairs at the universities and other institutes of higher learning in all its member countries. A chair of scientific information was set up at the Lomonosov University of Moscow in the 1963/64 academic year. One of…
Descriptors: Documentation, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
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Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Library Trends, 1994
Describes a study that investigated how CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries acquire and use information about the business environment. Topics discussed include environmental scanning; perceived environmental uncertainty; information sources; information use in decision making; and a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Environmental Scanning, Foreign Countries
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Lossouarn, J. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1991
Discussed is the renewed attention given in the education of engineers to documentation and information. A framework for training in the command of specialized or professional information is presented. The objectives that should be pursued in terms of training for the command of specialized information are described. (KR)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer), Documentation, Engineering Education
Tell, Bjorn V.; And Others – 1972
Since February 1971 the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, has been running the ERIC data base mainly for SDI purposes. The implementation of the data base into the generalized search system, ABACUS, is described. One hundred and fifty-eight users received SDI service at present, 99 from governmental and educational institutions, 23 from…
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). Education, Science, and Culture Div. – 1979
Instructions for using the computerized Canadian University Student Information System created by Statistics Canada are presented in this manual. The data base includes information on all students registered in Canadian universities, affiliates, and degree-granting colleges. A complete list of all available data elements and column headings that…
Descriptors: College Students, Computers, Data Processing, Databases
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Keren, C.; And Others – 1969
A system which lists current research in Israel in the natural sciences, medicine, agriculture and technology was inaugurated in 1967. This system now includes 4,000 current research projects on which 3,500 individual researchers are engaged. This represents about 90% of all scientists doing non-defense research in Israel. The system is run on an…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Directories, Foreign Countries, Indexes
Collier, Alex – 1994
This paper argues that as the number of concordance lines presented to researchers increases in line with ever-growing corpus size, the automatic selection of the most central lines will become more important. A method will be presented for selecting the most representative members from a set of concordance lines on the basis of repeated lexical…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cohesion (Written Composition)
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Metoyer-Duran, Cheryl – Library and Information Science Research, 1991
Discusses the concept of gatekeepers in the area of information and culture and presents a model for the information-seeking behavior of ethnolinguistic gatekeepers. Highlights include information needs and use models; information inequity in information and retrieval programs; affective and cognitive domains; and research implications for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Affective Behavior, Change Agents, Cognitive Processes
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Auster, Ethel – Library and Information Science Research, 1983
Study describes actual and ideal linkage roles of four educators trained to link clients with online bibliographic retrieval service, effect of roles on clients' satisfaction with service, conceptualization of role in literature as compared with implementation in field, and implications of findings for educational knowledge dissemination. Twelve…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
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Underwood, Jean; Underwood, Geoffrey – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
Discussion of the use of computer-based information retrieval systems in schools focuses on three paper and pencil experiments conducted in the United Kingdom that were designed to investigate how 9- to 11-year-olds organized and retrieved information from four organizational structures: lists, hierarchies, networks, and tables. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation
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Thomasson, Gunilla; Fjallbrant, Nancy – Education for Information, 1996
Describes the EDUCATE program (End-User Courses in Information Access through Communication Technology), funded by the European Union for the education of information users. The aim is to produce a self-paced user education course in the selection and use of information sources found on the World Wide Web. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
Clausen, Helge – 1996
This paper presents the results of an empirical survey conducted in the winter of 1995-96 among 413 Danish Internet users (business people, higher education/research and students). Data from a recent Danish Mediacenter Internet survey (n=2981) are also included. Findings indicate that women tend to use the Internet to solve well-defined problems,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
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