Understanding the Application of Science Mapping Tools in LIS and Non-LIS Domains

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Ectopic valvular ossification during the course of degenerative valve disease is a relatively rare event. The presence of lamellar bone tissue in human cardiac valve was first documented histologically by Rosenstein over a century ago (1). The frequency of ossification in surgically excised native cardiac valves reported in three large retrospective analyses was 13% (aortic and mitral valves) (...

LIS meets the EIP

To meet a perceived need for information professionals engaging in projects on document and knowledge management, a new course on Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) and Intranets has been established at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS). The aim of the course has been to provide the graduates with a better understanding of fundamental theoretical, methodological and ...

Quality in LIS Journals : The Search Continues

During the first half of 2000 a pilot project on library and information science (LIS) journal quality was undertaken in the Asian region for the IFLA Round Table on Library and Information Science Journals (RTLISJ). It showed that a simple but effective methodology could be used to determine the most commonly acepted criteria for evaluating LIS journal quality, the success or otherwise of LIS ...

Changes in the LIS research front: Time-sliced cocitation analyses of LIS journal articles, 1990-2004

Chief Editor\'s Note: A Critique of LIS Texts and of the Congress of Information Science and Knowledge Studies Specialists

Education has three main elements: teachers, students and text books. Many have discussed these three elements and there are plenty of texts written, but there are still many challenges to be addressed. Teachers are the main factor in teaching and training. Teaching promotes the life and life style, but training shows how to get rid of human challenges. Students often try to pass the courses in...