A Failure to Connect: The Elusive Relationship between Broadband Access and Children’s Information Seeking in American Academic Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 217-263
Author(s):  
Laura I. Spears ◽  
Marcia A. Mardis
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Broadband Access ◽  
American Academic

scholarly journals Comprehensive Field Work Instructions: A Review of Applied Ethnography. Guidelines for Field Research

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Polukhina
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Community Health Nursing ◽  
Education Marketing ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
American Academic

This book provides extended information and concrete guidelines for applied ethnographic research. It is rich in methodological advice, applicable empirical instruments and tools. The work will be helpful for advanced researchers, academic and non- academic people involved in complex international programs, lectures and graduate students planning to conduct ethnographic research for their dissertation. It includes research examples in education, marketing, community health, nursing, geography and more. The empirical fields of Pelto are slightly removed from the focus on Euro-American academic research and include reflections of working in the developing countries such as South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) and more.

scholarly journals Nudging and Other Behaviourally Based Policies as Enablers for Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Santos Silva
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Law Making ◽  
American Academic

Recent years have shown that traditional regulatory techniques alone are not effective in achieving behavior change in important fields such as environmental sustainability. Governments all over the world have been progressively including behaviourally informed considerations in policy and law-making with the aim of improving the acceptance and impact of sustainability-oriented measures. This led to the arrival of alternative regulatory tools, such as nudges. The effectiveness of nudges for environmental sustainability (green nudges) has been largely reported but the practical and ethical implications are still largely neglected by academic research. In this contribution, “nudges” are conceptually distinguished from “boosts” and their ethical briefly explained. The analysis is made at the light of the current mostly European and US American academic literature.

scholarly journals Modeling research universities: Predicting probable futures of public vs. private and large vs. small research universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (50) ◽  
pp. 12582-12589 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Rouse ◽  
John V. Lombardi ◽  
Diane D. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Small Subset ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Competitive Forces ◽  
American Academic

The future of the American academic research enterprise is considered. Data are presented that characterize the resources available for the 160 best-resourced research universities, a small subset of the 2,285 4-year, nonprofit, higher education institutions. A computational model of research universities was extended and used to simulate three strategic scenarios: status quo, steady decline in foreign graduate student enrollments, and downward tuition pressures from high-quality, online professional master’s programs. Four specific universities are modeled: large public and private, and small public and private. The former are at the top of the 160 in terms of resources, while the latter are at the bottom of the 160. The model’s projections suggest how universities might address these competitive forces. In some situations, it would be in the economic interests of these universities to restrict research activities to avoid the inherent subsidies these activities require. The computational projections portend the need for fundamental change of approaches to business for universities without large institutional resources.

Excavations in Iraq: The Ray Jazirah Project, first report

Iraq ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 155-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Altaweel
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
First Report ◽  
Academic Research Institute ◽  
American Academic ◽  
State Board

This article is the first in a series that aims to present the results of Iraqi excavations from the Ray Jazirah Project (RJP) that took place between 1987 and 1994. An Iraqi archaeologist involved in the RJP, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has recently provided all the primary data used in this and future reports. Gratitude to my Iraqi colleague, who continues to work in difficult circumstances, must be given for contributions to, and involvement in, our collaboration. I wish to thank this colleague, and other Iraqi archaeologists involved in the RJP, for granting permission to publish their work in English prior to publication in Arabic journals. Several colleagues from Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage have also made this project possible, and my colleague and I would like to thank them for granting permission for this publication project. We would also like to thank the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) for making this joint project possible through their generous funding. Professor McGuire Gibson (President of TAARII) first suggested this project and gave his encouragement; Dr Stephanie Platz (Executive Director of TAARII) and Dr Hala Fattah (Resident Director of TAARII) made many of the necessary arrangements to facilitate this effort from its inception. Special thanks are also due to Dr Rafi Altaweel for his tireless work in cleaning and improving the image quality of figures in this and forthcoming publications: many of the figures derive from drawings and photographs that were stored in less than ideal circumstances for almost two decades.

scholarly journals Information Seeking in Academic Research: A Study of the Sociology Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Shen
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
System Development ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The University

This study examines how social scientists arrive at and utilize information in the course of their research. Results are drawn about the use of information resources and channels to address information inquiry, the strategies for information seeking, and the difficulties encountered in information seeking for academic research in today’s information environment. These findings refine the understanding of the dynamic relationship between information systems and services and their users within social-scientific research practice and provide implications for scholarly information-system development

scholarly journals Information Literacy from the Trenches: How Do Humanities and Social Science Majors Conduct Academic Research?

2008 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 427-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison J. Head
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Behavior Study ◽  
Library Resources

This article examines the ways in which students majoring in humanities and social sciences conceptualize and operationalize course-related research. Findings are presented from an information-seeking behavior study with data collected from student discussion groups, a student survey, and a content analysis of professors' research assignment handouts. Results indicate that students first use course readings and library resources for academic research and then rely on public Internet sites later in their research process. Students adopt a hybrid approach to course-related research. A majority of students in this study leveraged both human and computer-mediated resources to compensate for their lack of information literacy. In particular, students faced problems with determining information needs for assignments, selecting and critically evaluating resources, and gauging professors' expectations for quality research.

scholarly journals Academic capitalism and academic culture: A case study.

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Mendoza ◽  
Joseph B. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
American Academic

This case study investigated the impact of academic capitalism on academic culture by examining the perspectives of faculty members in an American academic department with significant industrial funding. The results of this study indicate that faculty members believe that the broad integrity of the academic culture remains unaffected in this department and they consider industrial sponsorship as a highly effective vehicle for enhancing the quality of education of students and pursuing their scientific interests. This study provides valuable insights to federal and institutional policiescreated to foster industry-academia partnerships and commercialization of academic research.

scholarly journals The Impact of Technology Platform Change on the Information Seeking Behavior of Academicians in Amhara

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chalachew Muluken Liyew ◽  
Sertse Abebe Ayalew ◽  
Yibeltal Tafere Bayih
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
Technology Platform ◽  
Change Environment ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
The Impact

This study empirically measures the information seeking behavior of academician on the rapid technology platform change environment in the technology institutes found in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The questionnaire was prepared and distributed to the academicians of technology institutes to collect information about the medium which was used for seeking information. The questions were how devices helped to seek information, the purpose of the information, and challenges faced while seeking information and measure of satisfaction level for the digital library in the institutes. Hence, the study reveals that users used portable devices to seek information from the internet and the digital library rather than using printed copies of information for their academic, research and community service activities. The results show that the information dissemination medium should be changed to electronic information due to the rapid growth of information and communication technology that impacts the information seeking behavior of users, and provide continuous support and training to use the electronic resources.

scholarly journals Served on a Silver Platter working Towards an Academic Research Data Concierge Service

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (06) ◽  
pp. 271-279
Author(s):  
Michael A. Collura ◽  
Virginia A Dressler ◽  
Michael Hawkins ◽  
Michael Kavulic
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Research University ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
American Academic

This article will discuss the development of a research concierge service aimed at supporting the unique data needs of researchers at each stage of the research lifecycle. Although based on work at one institution, a North American academic 4-year research university, the presented strategies are transferable to many different types of institutions. The concept behind this service emerged when staff members from the Office of Research, Information Technology, and University Libraries embarked on an endeavour, by way of a newly formed collaborative working group, to identify disparate research support services around campus. Steps will be suggested to assess and align existing support services as well as uncover gaps in service within an institution. A review of organisational models from other institutions with complementary services will also be included. The article will also examine the challenges faced by our institution in creating this collaborative group and the new service approach.

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