Cyberabstracts: a portal on the subject of abstracting designed to improve information literacy skills

With the overall purpose of improving the information literacy skills of librarianship and information science students, an academic portal specifically centred on abstracts and abstracting resources is proposed. We take the existing literature, together with our knowledge and experience of abstract...

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Published inJournal of information science Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 667 - 679
Main Author Pinto, Maria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2008
Sage Publications
Bowker-Saur Ltd
Subjects
Abstracting
Applications
Applications (e.g. Digitizing,...)
Exact sciences and technology
Information and communication sciences
Information and communication technologies
Information literacy
Information science
Information science. Documentation
Information technologies: storage media, equipment
Internet resources (portals, blogs, wikis,…)
Knowledge management
Portals
Sciences and techniques of general use
Studies
Web portals
resources evaluation
information literacy
academic portal
abstract/abstracting
Information literacy
Higher education
Web portal
Information resource
Subject portal
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ISSN0165-5515
1741-6485
DOI10.1177/0165551507086262

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Summary:With the overall purpose of improving the information literacy skills of librarianship and information science students, an academic portal specifically centred on abstracts and abstracting resources is proposed. We take the existing literature, together with our knowledge and experience of abstract/abstracting topics and web-based technologies to conceive the research design. The research mainly consists of the selection, assessment and web-display of the most relevant abstracts on knowledge management, information representation, natural language processing, abstract/abstracting, modelling the scientific document, information retrieval and information evaluation. The resulting Cyberabstracts portal presents its products consistently and includes reference, abstract, keywords, assessment and access to the full document. Improvement opportunities for this unique subject-based gateway, representing much more than a mere subject catalogue, are uncovered as the starting point on a planned route towards excellence.
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ISSN:0165-5515
1741-6485
DOI:10.1177/0165551507086262