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The Differences Among Disciplines in Scholarly Communication. A Bibliometric Analysis of Theses

The purpose of this paper is to express the differences and similarities of inter-disciplinary scholarly communications through the citation analysis of theses. For this purpose, a total of 29,289 citations from 391 theses between years 1968–2007 were investigated using citation analysis. Samples were chosen according to layer-sampling techniques from 16 disciplines of four basic subject areas (social sciences, pure science, engineering, and arts and humanities). It has been found out that the characteristics of citations of the theses differ among academic disciplines. The study finds that literature obsolescence, language of resources, journal or monograph use, number of citations and authors are related to the disciplines and vary according to the subject areas.

Technological Convergence and Social Networks in Information Management

In these times, public libraries in many countries have increasingly come under pressure from developments within the information landscape. Thus, not least because of the massive digitization of information resources, the proliferation and popularity of search engines, in particular Google, and the booming technologies of Web 2.0, public libraries find themselves in a very complex situation. In fact, the easy-to-use technologies of Web 2.0 challenge the basic principles of information services provision undertaken by libraries. The new digital information environment and social software tools such as blogs, wikis and social networking sites have fuelled a discussion of the future of public libraries as information providers. After all there seems to be a need for public libraries to reorient their aims and objectives and to redefine their service identity. At the same time search engines, and especially Google, are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Thus, analysis results referred to show that the conception of information and the underlying purpose of Google differ from those of public libraries. Further, an increasing amount of criticism is being directed at collaborative spaces (typically Wikipedia) and social networks (e.g. MySpace) and it is pointed out that these social media are not that innocent and unproblematic. In discussing the survival of public libraries and devising an updated role for libraries in the age of Google and social media, attention should be given to fleshing out a new vision for the public library as a provider of alternative information and as an institution supporting information democracy.

E-Science and Information Management

This presentation will set out the eScience agenda by explaining the current scientific data deluge and the case for a “Fourth Paradigm” for scientific exploration. Examples of data intensive science will be used to illustrate the explosion of data and the associated new challenges for data capture, curation, analysis, and sharing. The role of cloud computing, collaboration services, and research repositories will be discussed. Bio. Before joining Microsoft, Dr. Hey served as director of the U.K.’s eScience Initiative, managing the government’s efforts to provide scientists and researchers with access to key computing technologies. Before leading this initiative, Dr. Hey was head of the school of electronics and computer science, and dean of engineering and applied science at the University of Southampton. As corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, Dr. Tony Hey is responsible for Microsoft’s collaborative research with universities and research community to speed research, improve education and foster innovation. Dr. Hey is a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the U.S. He is also a fellow of the British Computer Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Physics. He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to science in 2005.

Üniversite Kütüphanelerinde Kişisel Verilerin Korunması

Guvenilir bilgiye erisim ve buyuk olcude elektronik ortamda saklanan mevcut bilginin korunmasina yonelik ihtiyaclarin arttigi gunumuzde, korunacak bilgi varliklari icinde kisisel veriler onemli bir yer tutmaktadir. Bu bilgi varliklarinin korunmasi hukuksal, teknik ve idari boyutlarin dikkate alindigi bilgi guvenligi politikalarinin gucu ile mumkun olabilmektedir. Bu calismada, kisisel verilerin korunmasina iliskin temel ilkeler ve hukuksal duzenlemeler cercevesinde universite kutuphanelerindeki mevcut durum degerlendirilerek, eksikliklerin giderilmesine yonelik onerilerde bulunulmus ve bilgi guvenligi kulturunun olusmasina katki saglanmasi hedeflenmistir. Bu amacla Ankara’da bulunan 15 universite kutuphanesini kapsayacak sekilde gorusme yoluyla anket uygulanmis ve alinan bilgi guvenligi onlemleri mevcut hukuksal duzenlemeler cercevesinde degerlendirilmistir. Calisma sonucunda; yasal duzenlemelerin yeterli ve onleyici nitelikte olmadigi, universitelerde kisisel verilerin korunmasina ve verilerin guvenli olarak imha edilmesine iliskin politikalarin bulunmadigi, risk yonetiminin yapilmadigi, universite birimleri arasinda sorumluluklarin paylasilmadigi, kisisel verileri isleyen personele veri korumaya iliskin bilinclendirme egitimi verilmedigi ve kisisel verileri isleyen birimlerin hangi verilerin kisisel veri oldugu konusunda dahi tereddutlerinin bulundugu gorulmektedir.

Bireyselden Ortak Bilgi Davranışına

Information behavior is an important field, which is increasingly studied by different disciplines. It is known that the first studies conducted related with information behavior were system focused, their aim was to resolve problems of the system and the subject was approached in terms of information centers. However after 1980, the topic was tackled in terms of user/ individual. During the last decade, the focus shifted from individual information behavior to collaborative information behavior. The collaborative information behavior assists in taking ideal decisions by generating common sense through collaboration within the teams/communities. Both theoretical as well as technical studies related with this subject are still in the pre-paradigm stage. Limited numbers of models are developed with the increase of theoretical and technical studies. Factors like common platform, context, awareness, triggers, trust and their impact on the behavior are investigated in the collaborative information behavior. The variety of the interaction scenarios between man-machine (for example man-man, man-machine, man-machine-man, etc.), requires that the subject is tackled from social and/or technical perspectives and this leads to challenges in the conceptualization. Why and how the studies on information behavior, which is relatively a new field, evolved from individual information behavior to collaborative information behavior, where we stand now in terms of the studies and the opportunities presented by this field are discussed in the present study.