5. LIS Education

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire; Minishi-Majanja, Mabel K.; Abdullahi, Ismail

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“…Infometrics has generally gained increased attention among scholars from a variety of disciplines as a common scientific research design in education, research and trend analysis (Qiu et al, 2017;4). Its uptake in the recent past has propelled informetrics to rank among the top-ranking topics in library and information science (LIS) research (see Chang et al, 2015;Onyancha and Majanja, 2017;Onyancha, 2018;White, 2010). Apart from its use to resolve some methodological issues in the research process and improve the scientific accuracy of quantitative analysis of information from a theoretical point of view (Qiu et al, 2017), informetrics informs policies and decisions across a broad range of fields, from economy to politics and to social issues that influence the flow and use patterns of information (Maluleka and Onyancha, 2016).…”

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Patterns and trends of university-industry research collaboration in Ghana between 2011 and 2020

Danquah,

Onyancha,

Avuglah

2024

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Purpose The ranking of universities and other research-intensive institutions in global ranking systems is based on numerous indicators, including number of articles with external collaboration, number of articles with international collaboration, number of articles with industry collaboration as well as co-patents with industry. The purpose of this paper is to examine university–industry research collaboration in Ghana, with the aim of exploring the relationship between the research output collaborations in the top four universities in Ghana and industry across different geographical scales. Design/methodology/approach This study’s data was obtained from the SciVal database, which drawn its data from the Scopus bibliographic and citation database. The bibliographic and citation data were extracted using a search of the publications affiliated to the University of Ghana, for the period 2011–2020. Findings Key findings demonstrate a constant rise in the number of research publications by the selected universities over time. Research collaboration intensity in the selected universities in terms of co-authored publications was higher as compared to single-authored publications. University–industry research co-authorships were, however, lower when compared to university–university research co-authorships. The university–industry research co-authorships occurred mostly with Europe, Asia-Pacific and North American-based institutions as opposed to African-based institutions. In Ghana, four industry-based institutions were engaged in intensive research with the selected universities. Originality/value This study demonstrates that, for each selected university, it is possible to measure the performance of individual universities in both intra-regional and international collaboration. Such results may be useful in informing policy as well as merit-based public funding of universities in Ghana.

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Patterns and trends of university-industry research collaboration in Ghana between 2011 and 2020

Danquah,

Onyancha,

Avuglah

2024

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“…These course have sometimes been structured into new degree programs. Onyancha and Minishi-Majanja (2009) have noted department name changes from "library science," to "library and information science" (or studies), to "information science" (or studies); they have also identified LIS programs that have merged with other disciplines in order to tap into a wider professional information market and attract more students in the face of viability challenges in a competitive higher education sector (p. 111). I have interrogated this latter theme in a study of South African LIS schools, which concludes that "LIS schools in South Africa or elsewhere need to dig deeply and creatively into their epistemological resources and use the interdisciplinary nature of the LIS discipline to sustain their academic projects in a highly competitive and arduous environment" (Raju, 2013, p. 257).…”

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LIS Education in the Digital Age for an African Agenda

Raju¹

2015

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To provide an exposé of digital-age library and information science (LIS) education for an African agenda, this paper adopts an emergent qualitative research design by drawing on the literature on LIS education in Africa. It also draws on data gleaned from a survey of heads of schools of LIS in South Africa, and from content analyses of LIS school websites in South Africa and selected parts of the continent. The paper locates its narrative within Abbott's chaos of disciplines theory and concludes that the LIS discipline's "interstitial nature," its "fractal distinctions in time," and the resulting chaos of disciplines should not be seen as a crisis for LIS education in Africa and globally, but as an opportunity for a paradigm shift to broaden the LIS disciplinary domain and to stake an intellectual claim on this extended domain-and so contribute to the growth and development of LIS services in Africa within the context of an African development agenda. Research Design An emergent qualitative research design is appropriate for examining African library and information science (LIS) education in the digital age because it allows the researcher "to learn about the problem or issue. .. after the researcher enters the field and begins to collect data" (Creswell, 2014, p. 186). This is different from a positivist approach, which requires the "research design to be decided on before data are collected" (Wel

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Library and Information Science (LIS) in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Research from 2012–2021: An Informetric Perspective

Onyancha

2024

Information, Knowledge, and Technology for Teaching and Research in Africa

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5. LIS Education

Cited by 6 publications

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Patterns and trends of university-industry research collaboration in Ghana between 2011 and 2020

Patterns and trends of university-industry research collaboration in Ghana between 2011 and 2020

LIS Education in the Digital Age for an African Agenda

Library and Information Science (LIS) in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Research from 2012–2021: An Informetric Perspective

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