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Accessibility and utilization of electronic information resources for research by academic staff at selected Nigerian universities between 2005 and 2012

Ngulube, Patrick; Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire; Ani, Okon Edet, 1967- (Taylor & Francis, 2014)

This article explored the extent of the accessibility and utilization of electronic resources by academic staff at two Nigerian universities: the University of Calabar and the University of Ibadan. A quantitative research ...
Accessing collective memory: the role of oral history in building an inclusive archives reflecting a people’s archives

Schellnack-Kelly, Isabel (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024)

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss accessing oral history in building an inclusive archives from communities that once dwelled in the Kruger National Park. In March 2022, in the Daily Maverick, the South ...
Adjusted count, complete count, and straight count: does it matter when appraising research performance? : a case study of LIS research in post-apartheid South Africa

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (2013)

Counting of publications and citations is the fundamental yet important technique used in bibliometric/informetric measurements of research performance. Informetricians are however divided on the most appropriate method ...
Africanisation of the South African archival curriculum: A preliminary study of undergraduate courses in an open distance e-learning environment

Saurombe, Nampombe; Ngoepe, Mpho (Education for Information, 2021)

Educators and archivists in Africa have repeatedly raised the need for redeveloping university curricula to reflect local and global best practice. An African education curriculum case study by the InterPARES project ...
Altmetrics of South African Journals: Implications for Scholarly Impact of South African Research

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (2017)

The purpose of the study was to investigate and compare the social media (SM) impact of 273 South Africa Post-Secondary Education accredited journals, which are recognised by the Department of Higher Education and Training ...
An analysis of the throughput rate of doctoral students in LIS schools in South Africa, 2005–2015

Maluleka, Jan; Ngoepe, Mpho (Unisa Press, 2019-09)

South African universities produce fewer graduates than the number specified in the National Development Plan (NDP). According to the NDP, South Africa needs more than 5 000 doctoral graduates annually, against the 1 420 ...
The application of legislative frameworks for the management of medical records in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Marutha, Ngoako Solomon (Information Development, 2018-05-01)

Medical records management needs to be governed using a legal framework to avoid records being lost, modified, altered, misfiled and/or damaged, since that may result in a struggle to locate them and wasting time. Medical ...
Archives in the trenches : repatriation of African National Congress liberation archives in diaspora to South Africa

Ngoepe, Mpho; Netshakhuma, Sydney (Springer, 2018-01-20)

The African National Congress (ANC) liberation archives were created in countries all over the world. These liberation archives form part of the national archival heritage of South Africa as they bridge the gap of undocumented ...
Are Alternative Information Services Compensating for Dysfunctional School Libraries in South Africa? The Case of Limpopo Province

Mojapelo, Samuel Maredi (De Gruyter, 2016-04-18)

Owing to uneven resource-provisioning during the apartheid era, dysfunctional library facilities are a major concern in the majority of South African schools. Since only 7% of state schools have functional school libraries, ...
Assessing researchers’ performance in developing countries : is Google Scholar an alternative?

Ocholla, D. N. (Dennis N.); Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (UNISA, 2009)

This article compares the representation of 10 purposefully selected LIS researchers in South Africa in Google Scholar (GS), Thomson Scientific’s (herein referred to as ISI – Institute for Scientific Information) citation ...
Assessing the extent to which the National Archives ad Records Service of South Africa has fulfilled its mandate of taking the archives to the people

Ngoepe, Mpho; Ngulube, Patrick (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011-05)

The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARS) is sustained by public funds so that the records of enduring value of the nation can be preserved, made accessible and promoted to enhance their use by members ...
Authorship patterns of the literature on HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa : an exposition of the responsible authors, institutions and countries, 1980-2005

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (LIASA, 2008)

Research is commonly evaluated through an analysis of research outputs (i.e. theses and dissertations, papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings, etc.) and research outcomes (i.e. new discoveries, Nobel prize ...
Back to the Beginning — The Journal is Dead, Long Live Science

Nwagwu, Williams Ezinwa; Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (© Elsevier All rights reserved, 2015)

This paper synthesises literature on the evolution of the academic journal, showing that the weaknesses of the journal strategy of science information dissemination are nothing new in the history of science. The paper avers ...
A Bibliometric Analysis of Health and Medical Journals: Issues in Medical Scholarly Communication in Africa

Ezema, Ifeanyi; Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (2016)

The study was conducted to examine the scholarly impact of health and medical journals in Africa. A descriptive informetric research approach was used to analyse 134 health and medical journals hosted in the African Journal ...
Can information ethics be conceptualized by using the core/periphery model?

Ocholla, Dennis; Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire; Britz, Johannes (Journal of Informetrics, 2010)

The term ‘information ethics’ (IE) is rapidly diversifying as new technologies enter the milieu and add to already existing ‘entanglements’. Unsurprisingly, the term lacks a universally accepted definition, although there ...
Capacitating national research: a review of South African natural sciences research projects, theses and dissertations, 1986-2006

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire; Jacobs, Daisy (LIASA, 2009)

The paper examines selected natural sciences research output in South Africa, with special reference to research projects, theses and dissertations in order to determine the trends and nature of capacitation of national ...
Challenges faced by libraries in a democratic South Africa: A case of three community libraries in Limpopo Province

Mojapelo, Samuel Maredi (SAGE, 2017)

Community libraries are crucial for people to have access to information to satisfy their multiple needs. As custodians of information and knowledge in diverse spheres, they play a role in the socio-economic development ...
Challenges in establishing and maintaining functional school libraries: Lessons from Limpopo Province, South Africa

Mojapelo, Samuel Maredi (SAGE, 2016-09-10)

Most governments, particularly in poor and developing African countries, are hesitant to pledge themselves through a legislated school library policy to roll out an active and sustainable library and information service ...
Changing patterns and trends in author co-authorship networks of HIV/AIDS research in Eastern and Southern Africa

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (UNISA, 2008)

Social networks play an important role in the analysis and tracking of relationships between the participating entities (i.e. words, individuals, institutions, and countries, etc). Social networks are likely to play an ...
A citation analysis of Sub-Saharan African LIS journals using Google Scholar

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire (University of Ibadan, 2009)

In bibliomnetrics, the numbers of research articles and citations constitute the main measurement indicators of research output and impact respectively. This study evaluates the library and information scietnce/studies ...

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