one of the most important task of the researchers after selection the research topic, is search for various sources and references for gathering data and information about the subject. undoubtedly this search has been more extensive and accurate, value and credibility. accordingly should be said that the number and variety of citation sources and credit is one of the criteria in evaluation acad...

Psychological motivation for information searching is an important area of research that has received relatively little attention. This study addresses these motivatio11s in an academic environment. Psychological needs causing undergraudates to seek informtion in the context of continuing motivation are identified. In addition, the study identifies categories of sources used to satisfy these in...

Extensive research has shown high rates of burnout among physicians, including those who work in academic health centers. Little is known, however, about stress, burnout, and morale of academic biomedical scientists. The authors interviewed department chairs at one U.S. institution and were told that morale has plummeted in the past five years. Chairs identified three major sources of stress: f...

Historically, academic centers have been the venue for conducting important clinical trials. Teams of welltrained investigators functioning in well controlled settings have set the standard for rigorous scientific design and data interpretation in clinical trials. Institutional review boards have contributed to research subject safety and minimization of scientific misconduct. This system has b...

There is a staggering upsurge in the incidence of plagiarism of scientific literature. Literature shows divergent views about the factors that make plagiarism reprehensible. This review explores the causes and remedies for the perennial academic problem of plagiarism. Data sources were searched for full text English language articles published from 2000 to 2015. Data selection was done using me...

In Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA), the aim is to use an ontology to mediate the access to data sources. We present a plug-in for the standard ontology editor Protégé that allows users to model ontologies with mappings to data sources in order to perform OBDA. We argue that our plug-in, together with an OBDA-Enabled reasoner, allows users to build, test, and deploy OBDA Systems in academic or...

This study focuses on processes involved in students’ academic self-concept constructions before, during, and after secondary school transition. The study is based on a four-wave longitudinal dataset (N = 1953). Structural equation modeling showed that during school transition, the impact of grades on students’ academic self-concepts in Math and English decreased whereas the effects of maternal...

The Internet culture is creating a new scientific communication system with new facilities that are competing with, and might replace, the present printed information sources. The use and non-use of these facilities by Nigerian academic scientists were investigated, using data collected from a survey of academic staff of selected disciplines in 10 universities. It was found that the scientists ...