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Validation of an instrument on information skills

open access: yesApertura, 2020
In order to provide a reliable resource that helps information professionals who provide their service in libraries to take concrete actions in the training and training of their users, an instrument to measure informative skills has been developed and ...
José Luis Girarte Guillén   +1 more
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Strategic watch: a risk management system in exporting SMEs

open access: yesJournal of Information Sciences, 2022
The objective of this paper is to highlight the role that strategic intelligence could play, as a catalyst for anticipatory information, in the management of export risks in SMEs and the skills that leaders and entrepreneurs must have to succeed in their
Ibrahim ASSABANE, Said MSSASSI
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Information literacy education and instruction in academic libraries and LIS schools in institutions of higher education in South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 2010
Information literacy (IL) is increasingly becoming one of the core subjects in many LIS schools’ curricula today. It is universally considered one of the effective means through which one’s information skills are developed, and more especially at Higher ...
Glenrose Velile Jiyane   +1 more
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Identification of Bots and Cyborgs in the #FeesMustFall Campaign

open access: yesInformatics, 2022
Bots (social robots) are computer programs that replicate human behavior in online social networks. They are either fully automated or semi-automated, and their use makes online activism vulnerable to manipulation.
Yaseen Khan   +3 more
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Skill formation under incomplete information [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010
We consider an economic model of child development with multiple stages. Due to incomplete information, parents are not able to tailor their investments to their child’s type when the child is young. We show that incomplete information weakens the importance of early investments in children when inter-stage investments are easily substitutable, but ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Information use among first-year students in health sciences: Is an intervention needed?

open access: yesLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries, 2018
This study investigated what strategies first-year students in health sciences on three university colleges in Norway used when faced with a new written assignment.
Karen Marie Øvern
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Medizinbibliotheken: inter:disziplinär – inter:national –inter:aktiv

open access: yesGMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information, 2017
The focus of the current issue 3/2017 of GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information is the annual conference 2017 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Vienna. The motto of the conference was “Medical Libraries: inter:disciplinary – inter:national –
Bauer, Bruno
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Information Skills of Finnish Basic and Secondary Education Students: The Role of Age, Gender, Education Level, Self-efficacy and Technology Usage

open access: yesNordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 2018
The information skills and technology use of 3,159 Finnish 12–22-year-old students were examined in this study. Data were collected using the combination of a usage habit questionnaire and a performance-based test that measured their skills when choosing
Meri-Tuulia Kaarakainen   +2 more
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Health Professions Students’ Lifelong Learning Orientation: Associations with Information Skills and Self Efficacy

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016
Objective – This study aimed to investigate the relationships among health professions students’ lifelong learning orientation, self-assessed information skills, and information self-efficacy.
Misa Mi, Cheryl Riley-Doucet
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Teaching Library an der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien

open access: yesGMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information, 2014
[english] The “Teaching Library” is a working area in the library of the Medical University Vienna. Teaching Library Lessons provide general information about the library and help users to increase their skills in using the . The paper describes history,
Cepicka, Karin
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