Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using t...Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using the questionnaire survey method, we conducted an IL assessment study on 114 graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(GUCAS).Findings: The current situation of graduate students' IL competencies and the need to develop them are revealed. An IL course was designed by subject librarians of National Science Library(NSL), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), with three patterns addressing the development of graduate students' IL competencies.Research limitations: It is only about the practice of subject librarians at NSL, CAS, in designing IL courses for graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, GUCAS.Practical implications: The results can provide a lot of useful information for the improvement of IL competencies of graduate students in science and technology disciplines.Originality/value: It is significant for assisting future subject librarians in incorporating IL skills into their course, especially for academic and research librarians to prepare and develop IL courses for science and engineering graduate students.展开更多
The past ten years have witnessed the development of Citizen Science from an emerging concept into a mode of an Internet enabled mass participation and online collaboration.However,due to the diversity of the subjects...The past ten years have witnessed the development of Citizen Science from an emerging concept into a mode of an Internet enabled mass participation and online collaboration.However,due to the diversity of the subjects of citizen science projects,the universality and heterogeneity of the participants,the complexity and dynamics of the implementation process,there are still numerous open issues less addressed in its operation mechanism and management mode.Based on the two dimensions of scientific crowdsourcing type and citizen science development environment,this study asserts that the business model of citizen science projects can be effectively constructed and divided.To drive,manage and maintain the development of citizen science projects with the idea of"institutional view",joining the entity of third-party organization can reconstruct the operation mode of citizen science projects.Based on the Library and Information Science,citizen science projects of digital humanities can be explored in depth,and the follow-up work can be carried out from aspects such as the utilization of special collections,the construction of digital humanities platforms,the management and protection of scientific research data,as well as the user motivation and training.展开更多
文摘Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using the questionnaire survey method, we conducted an IL assessment study on 114 graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(GUCAS).Findings: The current situation of graduate students' IL competencies and the need to develop them are revealed. An IL course was designed by subject librarians of National Science Library(NSL), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), with three patterns addressing the development of graduate students' IL competencies.Research limitations: It is only about the practice of subject librarians at NSL, CAS, in designing IL courses for graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, GUCAS.Practical implications: The results can provide a lot of useful information for the improvement of IL competencies of graduate students in science and technology disciplines.Originality/value: It is significant for assisting future subject librarians in incorporating IL skills into their course, especially for academic and research librarians to prepare and develop IL courses for science and engineering graduate students.
基金the youth project“Design and Management of Crowdsourcing Mode Based on Actor Network Theory Framework”(No.71403119)supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘The past ten years have witnessed the development of Citizen Science from an emerging concept into a mode of an Internet enabled mass participation and online collaboration.However,due to the diversity of the subjects of citizen science projects,the universality and heterogeneity of the participants,the complexity and dynamics of the implementation process,there are still numerous open issues less addressed in its operation mechanism and management mode.Based on the two dimensions of scientific crowdsourcing type and citizen science development environment,this study asserts that the business model of citizen science projects can be effectively constructed and divided.To drive,manage and maintain the development of citizen science projects with the idea of"institutional view",joining the entity of third-party organization can reconstruct the operation mode of citizen science projects.Based on the Library and Information Science,citizen science projects of digital humanities can be explored in depth,and the follow-up work can be carried out from aspects such as the utilization of special collections,the construction of digital humanities platforms,the management and protection of scientific research data,as well as the user motivation and training.
