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Download full textAlyami, Huda Y.; Assiri, Eman A. – International Education Studies, 2018
The present study aims to identify the most significant roles of the invisible web in improving academic research and the main obstacles and challenges facing the use of the invisible web in improving academic research from the perspective of academics in Saudi universities. The descriptive analytical approach was utilized in this study. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Online Searching, Educational Research
Direct linkOsmani, Mohamad; Weerakkody, Vishanth; Hindi, Nitham M.; Al-Esmail, Rajab; Eldabi, Tillal; Kapoor, Kawaljeet; Irani, Zahir – Tertiary Education and Management, 2015
Graduate employability has become an issue since there are broad mismatches between the acquired graduate skills from university and the required skills by employers. While previous researches have outlined the salient skills that need to be embedded in graduate education, to date no studies have attempted to methodically identify and synthesize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Trend Analysis
Crisp, Gloria; Taggart, Amanda; Nora, Amaury – Review of Educational Research, 2015
A systematic review was conducted to produce an up-to-date and comprehensive summary of qualitative and quantitative evidence specific to the factors related to undergraduate Latina/o student academic success outcomes during college. The purpose of the study was to make sense of and provide critique to this rapidly growing body of research, as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement, Qualitative Research
Nikolopoulou, Kleopatra; Gialamas, Vasilis – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2011
This paper investigates undergraduate students' information search practices. The subjects were 250 undergraduate students from two university departments in Greece, and a questionnaire was used to document their search practices. The results showed that the Web was the primary information system searched in order to find information for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Seeking, Questionnaires, Internet
Lamothe, Alain R. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a quantitative analysis exploring the interaction and relationship between the online database and electronic journal collections at the J. N. Desmarais Library of Laurentian University. A very strong relationship exists between the number of searches and the size of the online database…
Descriptors: Interaction, Electronic Journals, Databases, Online Searching
Peer reviewedBernard, H. Russell; Jones, Ray – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1984
Focuses on problems in making machine-readable data files (MRDFs) accessible and in using them: quality of data in MRDFs themselves (social scientists' concern) and accessibility--availability of bibliographic control, quality of documentation, level of user skills (librarians' concern). Skills needed by social scientists and librarians are…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Databases, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedAllan, Ann – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
Describes a study that examined four sources of LC-MARC cataloging records (a CD-ROM version available through Bibliofile, an online version from DIALOG, and two bibliographic utilities, OCLC and the Research Libraries Information Network) to determine the extent to which exact and/or helpful cataloging is present in each. (two references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Bibliographic Utilities, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedKowalski, Kazimierz; Hackett, Timothy P. – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
Demonstrates a means for estimating the number of retrieved items using well-established selective dissemination of information (SDI) profiles in the SCI, INSPEC, ISMEC, CAS, and PASCAL databases. A correlation between individual database size and number of retrieved documents in technical fields is also examined. (17 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedTague-Sutcliffe, Jean – Information Processing and Management, 1992
This overview of the research process for the novice information retrieval (IR) researcher provides guidance on selecting a research question, choosing the type of test, defining variables, developing or using databases, finding and processing queries, assigning treatments to experimental units, collecting and analyzing the data, and presenting…
Descriptors: Databases, Efficiency, Experiments, Information Retrieval
