The Current Conflict of Interest Landscape and the Potential Role of Information Professionals in Supporting Research Integrity

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-203
Author(s):  
Donna S. Gibson ◽  
Robin O’Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Research Integrity ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Role Of Information

The Role of Information Professionals in South Africa in the Provision of Information During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-283
Author(s):  
Nkholedzeni Sidney Netshakhuma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Health Awareness ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Role Of Information

The study sought to assess the role of information professionals in the provision information about the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa with the views of recommending best practices of disseminating public information. The qualitative approach was utilized to collect data from information officers. The researcher found that the majority of the public were not utilizing the information centre because of lack of awareness of information resource centre preserved by an information resource centre. The review found that information resources were not providing access to information centre effectively due to staff who lack appropriate skills and knowledge on public health awareness. It also appears that inadequate budget allocation to conduct public health awareness was lacking. Public awareness should be conducted in the Mpumalanga Provincial government. The research findings shed new lights on the perspective that information professional plays an essential role in promoting public health awareness.

scholarly journals The Role of Information Professionals in Protecting National History and Sovereignty

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Farah Wahieda Azman ◽  
Saiful Farik Mat Ya ◽  
Nur Aliaa Amanina Mohd Aminuddin ◽  
Nurhidayah Ahmad Dzarawi ◽  
Kamarul Azwan Azman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
External Pressure ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
National History ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Neighboring Country ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Role Of Information

Protecting for sovereignty can be an effective tool in order to cope with relations between states, drawing boundaries of acceptable behavior. It’s also a way of judging the actions taken from a state, whose owns ultimate power that always make the principle of sovereignty expendable. Information professional today play critical roles to ensure that state sovereignty would be strengthening and protecting them from external pressure. This paper highlights the need to pay more attention to the aspects of sovereignty that related with information professional roles and issues of Malaysian’s neighboring country. Ignoring these aspects of sovereignty will lead to the issues that can threaten national sovereignty and peace. 

The Role of Information in Business Operations and Success: A Study Based on Ontario Medium-Size Business

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liwen Qiu Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Business Community ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Role Of Information

Information professionals need to know the sources and approaches used by the business community to gather information in order to serve them well. Information professionals also need to demonstrate the role of their services in business success. . . 

scholarly journals Information professionals meet Arthur Prior

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 288-305
Author(s):  
Volkmar Paul Engerer ◽  
Fatima Sabir
Keyword(s):  
Research Projects ◽  
Arthur Prior ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
Digital Research

The paper investigates the supporting role of information professionals in interdisciplinary digital research projects. It identifies three encounter scenarios in which information professionals meet domain researchers (as research librarian, as information specialist, and as iHumanist) and links them to the domain researchers ‘modes of orientation’. We examine these theoretical distinctions by discussing three cases from our own practical engagement in the Prior project. Our discussion shows that the scenarios help to understand information professionals’ supporting work, explain the conflicts that emerge, and explicate information professionals’ shifting conceptions of what they are doing in terms of the shifting encounter scenarios. In short, the paper presents methodological and theoretical insights that can be useful in understanding encounters between information professionals and domain researchers.

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