Search for dissertations about: "library and information science theses"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 105 swedish dissertations containing the words library and information science theses.
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1. A time and place for everything? : social visualisation tools and critical literacies
Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse mutual enactments of critical literacies and social visualisation tools as information resources. The central concept of critical literacies as used here extends and redefines prior critical literacy definitions to denote the pluralistic situated enactments of meaning through which study participants identify, question and transform bias, restrictions and power related aspects of access, control and use in relation to the tools. READ MORE
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2. Doing research in primary school : information activities in project-based learning
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3. Subject retrieval in web-based library catalogs
Abstract : This thesis has been motivated by past research, problems and realizations that online library catalog users frequently perform subject searches – using keywords, subject headings and descriptors – and these searches have yielded unsatisfactory results. Web-based catalogs or WebPACs (Web-based Online Public Access Catalogs), belonging to the so-called third generation of online catalogs and providing a wide variety of search options, remain largely underutilized despite the continuous advancement of information retrieval systems. READ MORE
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4. Physicians‟ information practices : a case study of a medical team at a Teaching Hospital
Abstract : This thesis is a user study within library and information science on participatory practices of a professional group in work activity. This has been investigated only to a minor extent in previous library and information science research. READ MORE
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5. Science mapping and research evaluation : a novel methodology for creating normalized citation indicators and estimating their stability
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the methodology at the intersection of relational and evaluative bibliometrics. Experimental investigations are presented that address the question of how we can most successfully produce estimates of the subject similarity between documents. READ MORE