Academic library resources and research support services to English teachers in higher education institutions

Shoaib, Muhammad; Rasool, Shamshad; Anwar, Behzad; Ali, Rustum

doi:10.1080/1941126x.2023.2165240

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“…World Health Organisation declared the pandemic as a global issue and issued guidelines to minimise the spread of risk of infection or contagious disease [11][12][13][14] . At the same time in developed countries, the online educational activities were supported with the available infrastructure and energy resources keeping in mind to have physical distancing rules 15,16 . However, in developing countries, the shifting of online educational activities was not a good experience [17][18][19][20] .…”

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“…University libraries were also shifted to e-libraries and they shift their print resources to digital resources [24][25][26] . It is pertinent to mention here that the concept of e-library is rapidly prevailing in all the developing and developed countries to provide digital resources at the doorstep and clockwise 15,16 . As online libraries provide e-resources to scholars and academicians for study and research purposes [27][28][29][30] .…”

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“…Similarly, Pashootanizadeh and Rafie 47 highlight the views of users and public library directors through social media. Moreover, several researchers assert the significance of online libraries through different lens including use of web based information resources in university library and public library collection 48 , libraries in distance education in Nigeria 25 , Internet in public libraries of South Africa 49 , technology in libraries 50 , reconceptualization system in terms of digital library 51 , digital reference services 52 , access service in academic library 53 , data privacy policy in public library 54 , library services and data insecurity 55 , services for digital collections 56 , library resources and research support 15,16 , copyrights in university library 57 , information libraries 31 , Internet resources in Russia 58 , grey literature in Belgium library 59 , e-learning library 60 , e-books in library 61 , and online library 2 .…”

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Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

Ali

Shoaib

Syed

2021

Journal of Information Science

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This paper attempts to examine the e-libraries, digital libraries, electronic libraries, and online libraries employing bibliometric study techniques from 1971 to 2020. It focuses to consolidate the published documents on the library indexed in Web of Science. It has been observed that we found 4266 published documents employing bibliometric analysis. The study findings show that digital libraries are the top topic, proceeding paper is the top type of document, and most are published in the English language. Similarly, the year 2006 to 2010 has the highest number of published documents, top author Fox EA, Dept. Comp Sci top organisation, United States top country, and digital libraries as a top keyword has been found. Further, the name of Liu et al. has been at the top of the author’s list. Moreover, the results are presented in tables and figures to show the trend of data.

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Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

Ali

Shoaib

Syed

2021

Journal of Information Science

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“…Presently, the use of modern support services has an important role to enhance the quality of libraries. These services include digitisation of print collections, open-access data, data management, information services, information literacy and services, open access of publishing access to the latest techniques of searching research material and bibliometric techniques [7–9]. In response, universities tried their efforts to change research support in academic libraries as per the need of library users [10–12].…”

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“…Therefore, academic libraries have also been transformed into online information services and digital resources along with information literacy to facilitate online academic activities [14–17]. Furthermore, diversified research work was conducted on these research support services in developing and developed countries [7,18–21]. These scholars and researchers used different research design and data analysis techniques to conclude their studies, including qualitative, quantitative, content analysis, observational research and bibliometric analysis [2,22–24].…”

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Information literacy and research support services in academic libraries: A bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020

Ali

Shoaib

Abdullah

2022

Journal of Information Science

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This article attempted to examine research support services, information services, print collections, digital resources and information literacy using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. The main aim was to consolidate the published studies on the research support services in academic libraries in the Web of Science (WoS) indexed documents. However, there has been a lack of quantitative measurements on the subject. Thus, we used the bibliometric method and found a total of 4079 published documents. The study findings revealed that the topic of ‘information literacy and library’ was on top with a total number of 2168 publications, 3047 articles as a type of published documents, 3662 publications in English and a considerable increase in publications as per years were found. The top author named Fourie I was found with 106 citations and 22 articles started in 2001. Similarly, the University of Illinois found on top organisations out of 2609, United States on top out of 113 countries and information literacy as a keyword out of 6179. Furthermore, the Journal of Academic Librarianship placed at top of sources out of 726 and the National Institutes of Health NIH USA as a top funding agency.

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Provision of research support services across the research lifecycle in university libraries

Hussain,

Rafiq

2023

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This study aims to identify current offerings of research support services (RSS) by Pakistani university libraries to their research community at various phases of the research lifecycle. It also offers data on the future planning of libraries about RSS and compares the results with international studies to gauge the progress of Pakistani university libraries in this direction. This study used a quantitative design to collect data from 138 reference/head librarians of university libraries across four research lifecycle stages. The Cronbach alpha reliability of the questionnaire was 0.95, and the data were analyzed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Frequency analysis and the Chi-square test were used to draw inferences. The results indicated that more than 50% of university libraries in Pakistan were providing most of the research support services associated with all stages of the research lifecycle. The majority of libraries offer traditional research support services as compared to advanced services which have been developed in recent times across the globe. The results of the study further indicated that private-sector university libraries were offering a higher level of research support services than public-sector university libraries. Furthermore, libraries associated with public sector universities showed more inclination toward offering these services as a part of their future planning. This study examined the current status of Pakistani university libraries’ research support services, grouped according to each stage of the research lifecycle. The study is an amalgamation of traditional and advanced research support services in order to give new dimensions to this area and the structured instrument designed for this study may be used by other researchers to conduct similar studies in their social setting. The findings will aid public sector university libraries in their efforts to provide their research communities with greater research support services. The results will be valuable to university and library administrators for strategic planning to meet the community’s need for research-based services.

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Academic library resources and research support services to English teachers in higher education institutions

Cited by 5 publications

References 68 publications

Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

Information literacy and research support services in academic libraries: A bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020

Provision of research support services across the research lifecycle in university libraries

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