This paper describes our continued work of a unique robotics project, Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials (CAPM), within the context of libraries. As libraries provide a growing array of digital library services and resources, they continue to acquire large quantities of printed material. This combined pressure of providing electronic and print-based resources and services has led to seve...

E-journal, printed journal, and database usage data from campus polls conducted annually, 1998–2000, at one large research university show increased use of e-journals and decreased use of printed journals by faculty and graduate students as the number of available e-journals increased from two hundred to more than three thousand. Little or no statistical correlation between age and frequency of...

This peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in Human Resources for Health are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in Human Resources for Health or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.human-reso...

aim and background: appropriate and comprehensive response to problems and needs of mental health services requires to employ participatory approaches. therefore, this literature review study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration as one of the beneficial methods of delivering mental health services. methods and materials: in this review study, data was collected by searching electroni...

this research attempted to study the reading behavior of graduate students in digital environment at university of isfahan through 2008-2009.  different elements such as types of electronic resources, reading methods, amounts of note taking, amounts of printing and the advantages of using the electronic resources are being discussed. the paper employs descriptive survey research method to answe...

Clinicians value printed patient education materials for use in their busy practices because of their accessibility, convenience, and low cost. These materials can help broach important and sensitive topics, reinforce medical information verbally discussed with the patient in a cost-effective manner, and save time typically required to explain clinical topics. If a material can provide necessar...

effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. during the recent years, evidence-based nursing (ebn) has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. however, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals...

Little has changed in centuries—supervisors assign work, perhaps based on training, skills, and experience, to various resources. At first the resources were only people, eventually supported by tools such as typewriters, printed forms, and adding machines. Eventually some of the steps were automated—the invoices were automatically totaled and printed, but only after people sorted the punched c...

In this paper we lay out various ways of representing knowledge. They start from the older and simpler way: the printed dictionary. However useful for linguists and for the general public, the printed dictionary is not able to answer the nowadays needs in linguistics and in interdisciplinary domains that deal with various semantic aspects of language. The advent of computers imposed the develop...