DSpace Collection: ICoLIS2010

Making Malaysian modern visual arts visible through MyMAOVA

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Making Malaysian modern visual arts visible through MyMAOVA

Authors: Shahnim Mohd Safian

Abstract: This study was motivated by reports that indicated even though Malaysian art resources are abundant, access to these information are scattered, incomplete and not easily accessible to students, researchers and people who are less skilled in searching for information. The objective of this study are: (a) to explore the opinions of selected persons in the arts industry about their perceived usefulness of an online archive for Malaysian visual arts resources; (b) to use a matrix to compare three sets of art gallery websites; and (c) to compare the performance of the prototype archive in terms of usability and design with the three sets of art gallery websites in order to gauge the performance of the prototype. The methods used to collate data were interviews with selected art personalities and viewing selected art gallery websites to identify best practices. The Interviews confirmed the prevailing ‘disconnection’ between content existence and content provision on the web. Findings indicate positive receptivity towards a web-based repository. In developing the prototype, a set of ‘best practice’ principles was identified. A customized Attributes Evaluation Checklist based on the Olsina Web-QEM steps was used as a tool to compare the designs of several sets of art repository websites. Findings indicate that the prototype (MyMAOVA) performs well against other similar art-related websites and the digital surrogates would be able to complement original resources presently available nationally and regionally. MyMAOVA would thus afford the public, access to Malaysian art resources at both national and international levels

Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

The landscape of open access institutional repositories in the Asian continent: a 2010 census

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Title: The landscape of open access institutional repositories in the Asian continent: a 2010 census

Authors: Abrizah, A; Noorhidawati, A; Kiran, K

Abstract: This paper reports on the 2010 survey of Asian institutional repositories, highlighting the current state of the repositories and describing their characteristics in terms of types, contents, disciplines, language, technical and operational issues, and policy. It also identifies the web performance of Asian institutional repositories as reflected through global visibility and impact of the repositories; as well as the performance of the Asian top-ranked universities in the archiving and sharing their research output through institutional repositories. Data obtained from the Open Directory of Open Access Repository (OpenDOAR) and the Ranking Web of World Repositories (RWWR) were used to analyse the current state and global visibility respectively. Findings indicate that the total number of institutional repositories in Asia is 191 with Japan as the biggest contributor (38%), followed by India (19%) and Taiwan 22 (11%). Out of the 191 Asian institutional repositories identified in this study, 48 (about 23%) are listed in the Top 400 RWWR. This suggests that only 12% (48 out of 400) Asian institutional repositories are visible and incorporate good practices in their web publication as extracted from the quantitative webometrics indicators used by the ranking. Out of these 48 institutions, 29 are among the Asian Top 200 universities. However, only 14 of these 29 universities were ranked top 100 in the RWWR. The paper concludes that if the web performance of a research institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality of their intellectual output / research publications through institutional repositories

Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Open Access repositories and journals for visibility: Implications for libraries

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Open Access repositories and journals for visibility: Implications for libraries

Authors: Zainab, A.N.

Abstract: This paper describes the growth of open access repositories and journals as reported by monitoring initiatives such as ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories), Open DOAR (Open Directory of Open Access Repositories), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Directory of Web Ranking of World Repositories by the Cybermetrics Laboratory in Spain and published literature. The performance of Malaysian OA repositories and journals is highlighted. The strength of OA channels in increasing visibility and citations are evidenced by research findings. It is proposed that libraries can champion OA initiatives by making university or institutional governance aware; encouraging institutional journal publishers to adopt OA platform; collaborating with research groups to jumpstart OA institutional initiatives and to embed OA awareness into user and researcher education programmes. By actively involved, libraries will be free of permission, licensing and archiving barriers usually imposed in traditional publishing situation.

Open Access to scholarly communications: Advantages, policy and advocacy

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Open Access to scholarly communications: Advantages, policy and advocacy

Authors: Furnival, Ariadne Chloe

Abstract: The Open Access (OA) movement regards OA modes of disseminating research as the unequivocal future of scholarly communication. Proponents of the open access movement itself have, over the last ten years, carried out systematic research to show how OA can tangibly benefit researchers, institutions and society at large. Even so, the number of research papers being uploaded to OA institutional repositories remains relatively low, frequently based on concerns which often contradict the facts. Policies for OA have been introduced to encourage author uptake, and these are also discussed here. Briefly delineating aspects of these phenomena, this paper outlines and discusses advocacy for OA in organisations, and whether this should be “downstream”, in the form of informational campaigns, or “upstream”, in the form of top-down change management. This paper seeks to make a contribution to these issues in the OA sphere, by bringing into the debate strands from the literature of the sociology of science and management science that will hopefully elucidate aspects of author reactions to OA, and the perceived changes that its adoption gives rise to.

Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Understanding emotions to empower the Net generation

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Understanding emotions to empower the Net generation

Authors: Kwon, Nahyun

Abstract: In my address, I will be talking about a pivotal need for librarians and information professionals to understand information users’ emotions to truly empower the Net Generation to educate them as informed citizens in the future. For this purpose, various characteristics of the Net generation reported in the literature will be introduced first. Subsequently, I will introduce the environment where higher education and academic libraries are situated currently, and the challenges and opportunities they are meeting now. Educators in higher education see the importance of teaching information literacy to help students prepare for their uncertain futures, and thus teaching critical thinking and critical use of information resources and services have become pivotal in the process. Yet, there are many indications that suggest many barriers for the Net Generation to access needed quality information. Among the many barriers that hamper effective information access, I will draw attention to the barriers caused by irrelevant emotions in particular, library anxiety. I will be sharing the research findings from recent studies, including my mixed-methods study of library anxiety and critical thinking dispositions among college students. These reports will demonstrate how both positive and negative emotions play a vital role throughout the information search and use process. Finally, I will share both theoretical and practical implications drawn from the empirical findings on emotions within the frameworks of affective information behavior and information literacy.

Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia