Virginia Cano

Church of scotland

Introduction. This paper draws on the results of studies undertaken between 2004 and 2007 as part of Project REVISTAS, supported by the European Commission's ALFA Programme. Method. A variety of methods was employed over the life of the project, including analysis of directories, a survey of universities in the region believed to be offering progra...

To determine the extent of Internet connectivity and use by GPs in the Lothian Health Board area and to investigate which Internet medical information resources GPs find most useful for work related purposes. Postal questionnaire. General Practice. Postal questionnaires were sent to all GPs listed in the Lothian Health Primary Care mailing list. In...

This paper presents the development, use and evaluation of a website to supplement face-to-face teaching of research methods at postgraduate level. Diversity as well as disparity in student backgrounds presented challenges in providing appropriate educational support at multiple levels. The site was developed to meet the diverse student needs with...

This paper reviews 17 years of research in Library and Information Science in Spain. The total production of two major Spanish periodical publications in the field were analyzed from 1977–1994 according to productivity variables and thematic content. A total of 354 articles were analyzed using as a framework the conceptual and methodological model...

WWW Homepages are becoming powerful advertising and marketing tools. Business organisations from diverse economic sectors are pursuing an advertising strategy which combines mass media advertisements in traditional paper-based media such as national newspapers, alongside WWW sites. However little research has been done on the minimum levels of desc...

For the Internet to realise its full marketing potential a communication concept may be needed in the design of Web sites and their management by tourism businesses. This is the transposing of the concept of ‘endearment’ from actual to electronic visiting. This paper appraises tourism Web sites in Scotland to see how far such a concept has been dev...

This paper presents research on the managerial reasons for the relatively slow up-take of teleworking. Different definitions for telework are contrasted. It is proposed that an isolationist conception of telework predominates in the early teleworking literature and that this perception, coupled with outdated labour legislation and managerial attitu...

La présente contribution étudie le recours à la technologie de l'information pour développer et maintenir une base de données sur les scientifiques "migrants". Elle concerne plus spécifiquement l'utilisation des services liés à Internet, comme les listes de présentation pour identifier et contacter les scientifiques qui ont migré des pays en voie d...

Bibliometric research can provide science policy makers with indicators of the capacity of a country's national scientific system to produce printed information. The capacity of the local publishing industry to produce scientific and technical periodical publications reflects the availability of outlets for the dissemination of scientific findings....

The present research attempts to evaluate the level of bibliographic control, and the consequent international visibility of the periodical publications of three countries in different stages of development. India, Latin America and Ireland. A search was performed on the December 1990 CD-ROM version of The Serials Directory, a commercially produced...

Not all highly cited papers have the same citation life cycle curves, i.e. curves of frequency of citations received vs. time. The citation life of ten randomly selected Citation Classics, five in medicine and five in biochemistry, are studied longitudinally in time and compared with a random sample of ten non-classics of the same cohort. There are...

This study tested empirically the citation behavior model of Moravcsik and Murugesan and examined the hypothesized relationships between three variables: reported citation type, reported utility level, and citation location. A group of elite scientists constituting an “invisible college” were asked to classify the references they had made in two of...

Analyse par questionnaire du degre d'utilisation de AGRINDEX en tant qu'outil bibliographique. Recommandations en vue de l'amelioration de l'utilisation et de la contribution canadienne a la base de donnee AGRIS. (INTD)

Two models of the mechanism responsible for the distribution of scientific papers in an area over periodicals are given. Empirical distributions following Bradford's law are shown to agree quite closely with a lognormal distribution. This distribution arises, in one model, by taking the probability of a paper being published in a particular journal...