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{"title":"Collaborative information behaviour of butterfly farmers in Eastern Usambara Mountains, Tanzania","authors":"F. Ndumbaro, S. Mutula","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated collaborative information behaviour of butterfly farmers working in the Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP) located in the neighbourhood of Amani Nature Reserve, Tanzania. The study was motivated by the fact that despite extensive studies on collaborative information behavior in such domains as education, medical, and the military there is a knowledge gap in our understanding of farmers’ collaborative information behavior in the context of collaborative farming. The investigation sought to investigate the shared information needs of farmers in the ICDP project; the patterns of collaborative seeking, sharing and exchanging information of farmers in ICDP; and how butterfly farmers, ANR and TFCG officials in ICDP perceive the link between collaborative farming and collaborative information behaviour. The study applied qualitative approach in analysing group information behaviour guide by the social capital theoretical lens. The data were collected through interviews and observation and analysed using thematic categorisation. The findings of the study revealed that collaborative farming practices, formal structure of relationship between farmers and characteristics farmers were the factors which shaped the way farmers sought, shared and exchanged knowledge and information. It was further revealed that the interplay between collaborative information behaviour and collaborative farming practices were strong enough to support effective implementation of ICDP goals. The study has demonstrated the importance of using social capital factors particularly group structure, embedded resources and shared goals to understand human information behaviour. The findings also shed light to policy and decision makers in the sectors of agriculture and natural resources on the importance of understanding the relationships between information, conservation and development. With regard to practice, the findings have implications to stakeholders engaging on different ICDPs in understanding the role of information on promoting integrated and sustainable agricultural practices.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"15-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42275100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge sharing practices in informal scholarly communication amongst academics in Poland","authors":"Marzena Świgoń","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.7","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored knowledge sharing practices in Polish informal scholarly communication. The informal channels of communication include discussion, conversation, information exchange in both forms: face to face and via information and communication technologies. The study was carried out among the Polish academic community using a structured online questionnaire, which contained 88 questions (closed and partly open). Respondents consisted of academics: PhD, PhD with Habilitation, and Professors, employed in several types of universities and academia located throughout the country. A total of 1558 academics responded to the survey, representing all academic disciplines –humanities, social sciences, technical and life sciences. The Polish academic community created rather homogenous networks, generally limited to their own disciplines. The favourite platform to share knowledge was unofficial talks during conferences and seminars. The preferable form of knowledge sharing practices was face to face talks, despite the development of modern information and communication technologies. The biggest barrier to knowledge sharing was the lack of time for free conversations. The most important motivator could be the interest of colleagues. Polish researchers commonly used only electronic mail and rarely used social media and blogs to share knowledge. This is the first national survey about knowledge sharing practices in Polish academic environment.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"101-115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49363182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers","authors":"A. Noorhidawati, M. Y. I. Aspura, M. N. Zahila, A. Abrizah","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for excellence. In this paper, we identify Malaysia’s highly-cited papers and explore the characteristics of these papers. The research question posed is “What characterizes Malaysian highly cited papers?” This study adopts the definition by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicator, i.e. the highly cited papers are papers that received enough citations to be placed in the top 1 percent of the academic field of each 22 subject areas based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. As a small scientific nation, Malaysia has a rather limited number of papers being highly cited, and we observed nine characteristics of highly cited papers based on 708 datasets obtained from the Web of Science. Malaysian highly cited papers are largely represented by articles, but reviews have higher impact. Typically, these papers have a low self-cited index and they are published in the First Quartile of the science discipline publications. The papers are mainly the outcome of national funded research; involve multiple co-authorship and international collaboration; affiliated to Malaysian research universities and Malaysian authors often play a dominant role as first or reprint authors. Partnership with scientists from Iran, Australia and UK may increase markedly the possibility of a Malaysian paper becoming highly cited. This investigation has shown that these are the characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers, but to what extent can these be used as indicators need further investigation and discussions among the scientific community.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"85-99"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47036471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A co-authorship network-based method for understanding the evolution of a research area: A case of information systems research","authors":"Fangfang Wei, Guijie Zhang, Yuqiang Feng, Luning Liu, Zhen Shao","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.1","url":null,"abstract":"A baseline assessment research output is beneficial for policy decision makers to promote research. This paper presents a co-authorship network-based method to quantify and describe the scholarly publishing of a certain research field. To make our analysis more precise, we firstly generalized the measures used in previous literatures into formulas and analyzed the significance of the measures. We then classified our study into overall, individual, institutional and international levels to make our analysis clearer and more reasonable. Finally, we conduct a research of the structure, characteristics and development trend of co-authorship network based on publication output in top three journals in the field of information systems from 1993 to 2012. By synthetical analysis, our research results are helpful to know the productivity patterns, trends of the published research and status of international collaboration in this field.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46411701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google","authors":"D. V. Kumar, B. Kumar","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the vanishing nature of URLs and recovery of vanished URLs through Internet Archive and Google search engine. For that purpose study investigates the URLs cited in the articles of two LIS journals published during 2009-2013. A total of 226 articles published in two open access LIS journals were selected. Of 5197 citations cited in 226 articles, 21.05 percent were URLs (1094). Study found that 38.12 percent (417 out of 5197) URLs were found missing and remaining 61.88 percent of URLs were active at the time of URL check with W3C link checker. The HTTP 404 error message – “page not found” was the overwhelming message encountered and represented 54.2 percent of all HTTP error message. Internet Archive and Google search engine were used to recover vanished URLs. However, the Internet Archive recovered 66.19 percent of the total vanished URLs, whereas, Google manages to recover only 30.70 percent of the total vanished URLs. The recovery of vanishing URLs through Internet Archive and Google increased the active URL’s rate from 61.88 per cent to 87.11 per cent and 73.58 per cent respectively. Study found that Internet Archive is a most efficient tool to recover vanished URLs compared to Google search engine.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"31-43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46185334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of copyright law on the digitization of library collections in academic libraries in Malaysia","authors":"P. S. Tay, Heng Gee Lim, I. Azmi, S. C. Peng, Cheng Peng Sik","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.7","url":null,"abstract":"The advancements made to digital technology have enabled academic libraries today to digitize their collections as a continuing process of improving their services to the academic community. Various factors determine whether a library should embark on a digitization project and the extent of the digitization. These include the policy of the institution, its financial resources, its manpower, its technical capability and the legality of digitization under the copyright law of each country. The objective of this study is to examine how Malaysian copyright law impacts on the digitization of collections in academic libraries in this country. The focus is on materials which are in the form of literary works as these represent the bulk of most academic libraries’ collections. The study discusses the principles of copyright law that have a direct bearing on digitization, the potential liability of libraries for copyright infringement, the circumstances under which digitization is exempted from copyright infringement and the options available to academic libraries to embark on digitization projects without infringing copyright law. The methodology used is the doctrinal research methodology in the discipline of law. The findings of this study serve to expand the current body of knowledge on how digitization of library collections in academic libraries may be carried out within the confines of copyright law. The recommendations are two-fold. First, academic libraries may digitize materials if the purpose is to cater to the needs of those who are visually or hearing impaired. Secondly, in other cases, digitization may only be carried out after obtaining a licence or an assignment of copyright from the copyright owner. It is hoped that the study would provide librarians with a better understanding of the copyright issues that arise from digitization and the principles of copyright law that govern digitization so that libraries can act within the confines of copyright law.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"83-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41663834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bibliometric analysis of art exhibit reviews in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index","authors":"Wei-Ming Wang, Y. Ho","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Art exhibit reviews is one of document types in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). Art exhibit reviews in A&HCI from 1994 to 2013 were analyzed in terms of languages, publication output, authors, Web of Science categories, journals, and art exhibit reviews’ title. Most of the art exhibit reviews were contributed by only one author. Authors prefer to publish their art exhibit reviews in the same journal. The editor of Magazine Antiques, A.E. Ledes, the editors of Art in America and Connaissance des Arts were high productive authors. Art was the leading subject category with a great majority of art exhibit reviews. More than a half of art exhibit reviews were published in Art in America, Artnews, Connaissance des Arts, Artforum International, and Burlington Magazine. Artists, art, new, world, modern, museum, and collection were the most frequently used in art exhibit reviews’ title.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"59-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49408123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The prevalence of synchronous self-citation practices at the institutional level","authors":"Sumeer Gul, Tariq Ahmad Shah, Huma Shafiq","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Self-citation behaviour of authors affiliated to an institution was studied through synchronous self-citation analysis. From 2004 through 2015, Web of Science and SciVerse Scopus databases indexed a total of 1503 articles by authors affiliated to a university in India. Self-citations were prevalent in 62.23 percent of works and significant difference is observed in self-citation pattern with regard to co-authorship, size of reference list, authors’ productivity, citation age, citation over time, and reputation of source publications. Statistically positive correlation is observed between number of co-authors and number of self-citations (p<.01). Inter-institutional collaborative works attract more self-citations than works of intra-institutional efforts (p<.01). Significant positive correlation exists between authors’ productivity and share of self-citations (p<.01). Regarding the currency of self-citations, authors tend to cite more of their recent works than the works of others. Articles published in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) indexed sources have more number of self-citations than articles published in JCR excluded sources (p<.01).","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44009756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indexing of authors according to their domain of expertise","authors":"Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring the impact and productivity of an author is an important, yet a challenging task. Most of the existing methods for ranking or indexing of authors are based on simple parameters such as publication counts, citation counts and their combinations. These methods are topic independent, hence ignoring the intra-field differences. This study introduces a specific method for indexing of researchers to measure their productivity in a given field of interest, believing that an author can be interested in more than one fields and can have different level of expertise in all these fields. This paper proposes Domain Specific Index (DSI), a novel method for indexing of authors with respect to their fields of interest. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is applied to capture the latent topics within text corpora. DSI calculates the standing of an author in all topics of his or her interest by considering topic based citations instead of using overall citations like traditional methods. The citations received by a multi-authored paper are divided among all its co-authors on the basis of their topic probability in that particular field. Results show that instead of giving credit of received citations equally to all co-authors of a paper, if a weight is given with respect to their level of interest in that field, more specific authors in that field will be ranked as top authors.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"69-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44802999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current impact of ceased journals: are they still alive?","authors":"M. Šember, L. Skoric, J. Petrak","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a citation analysis of papers published between 1909 and 1954 by two ceased journals covering the abandoned field of eugenics. The aim of the study was to investigate the visible signs of current scientific impact of these old papers and find out if they are significant for reasons other than historical referencing. Our survey involved a three-stage citation analysis using the Web of Science Core Collection and content analysis of the citing papers. The citation counts were collected and classified by the citing years. Papers that had 25 or more citations from 2000 to 2014 were selected for further analysis and examined for their citations in 2014. This produced 941 papers citing 24 papers published between 1915 and 1954, 23 of which were published by the Annals of Eugenics, and one by the Eugenics Review. Four of the cited articles accounted for 87 percent of all citations received. Due to not all citing papers (941) published in 2014 were available in full text, only 70 percent of them were analysed using content analysis technique to examine and classify the reasons for citing. The findings suggest that these old journals left a strong scientific imprint with papers whose impact has been increased in the last decades. They were less cited because of the scientific problems they addressed at the time of publishing. In contrast, these papers were cited due to their innovative research methodologies that have become valuable instruments in many scientific disciplines that emerged later. This study is significant in giving additional insight in the citation pattern of older papers.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"15-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49293601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}