The evolution of library and information science 1965–1985: A content analysis of journal articles

Järvelin, Kalervo; Vakkari, Pertti

doi:10.1016/0306-4573(93)90028-c

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“…Hence, in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, the emphasis was placed on aspects such as the technical and automation process (Buttlar, 1991;Feehan, Gragg, Haverner, & Kester, 1987;Jarvelin & Vakkari, 1990;Jarvelin & Vakkari, 1993;Nour & Peritz, 1985) and greater importance later on being given to research connected with information storage and recovery through catalogues and library databases (Koufogiannakis & Crumley, 2006;Tsay, 2004). Other spheres such as library cooperation, the use of surveys, and user training stand out in the present study.…”

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“…The panorama is completed by another series of research cores, such as law in relation with copyright and data security and protection in access to information or the sources of information connected with business and companies. The presence of some descriptors, such as students or users in the top positions of frequency ranking and at the center of the relations network constructed, reflects the change in course in a good deal of the research in respect of the investigation performed in preceding decades, as this has gone from a perspective focusing on organizations' internal aspects, their problems, and their role of intermediaries to one that values the role played by users as final consumers of information and the services offered (Jarvelin & Vakkari, 1990;Jarvelin & Vakkari, 1993;Kumpulainen, 1991).…”

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Library and information science research areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa

González‐Alcaide¹,

Castelló‐Cogollos²,

Navarro-Molina³

et al. 2007

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Library and information science research areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa

González‐Alcaide¹,

Castelló‐Cogollos²,

Navarro-Molina³

et al. 2007

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Sin lugar a dudas los estudios más significativos en esta temática han sido los implementados por Järvelin y Vakkari (1990;1993). En el trabajo de 1993, las muestras consisten en 142, 359, 449 artículos publicados en intervalos de diez años: 1965, 1975 y 1985, respectivamente, localizados en 40 revistas del núcleo de LIS, seleccionadas de acuerdo con el método propuesto por Powell (1985).…”

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Estudio de los métodos de investigación y técnicas de recolección de datos utilizadas en bibliotecología y ciencia de la información

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2017

Rev. esp. doc. cient.

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El tema de este trabajo corresponde a la forma en que los métodos y técnicas de investigación son utilizados en el marco de la Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información (LIS). Su objetivo radica en aportar algunas consideraciones acerca del estado del arte en lo relativo a las cuestiones metodológicas como modo de contribuir al debate sobre la pertinencia de considerar la existencia de un campo disciplinar metodológico. Para ello se han inspeccionado las taxonomías utilizadas para categorizar los métodos de investigación entre 1925 y 2010. Tras un análisis se observó que los métodos de investigación han ido variando a lo largo del tiempo y que el punto de vista de la adecuación de los diferentes estudios se relaciona fuertemente con el tipo de investigación adoptada (exploratoria, descriptiva, correlacional o explicativa). Se concluye que la utilidad de las comparaciones resulta conveniente cuando se utiliza el mismo sistema de clasificación, y que los bibliotecarios son cada vez más sofisticados y disciplinados con respecto a las metodologías que utilizan.

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“…The classification of the research methods included Bibliometrics, Content Analysis, Delphi Method, Experimental Study, Historical Research, Observation and Description, Operational Research, Secondary Analysis, Survey, among others. Järvelin and Vakkari (1993) confirm, through content analysis, that in recent decades the literature in library economy and IS have presented several statistical analysis of published research, although none covers the full range of existing thematic and methodological choices. This study seems to have established the most consistent system of categories as it has been used as a framework for other studies, as those of Kumpulainen (1991) and Rochester and Vakkari (1998).…”

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Methodological choices for research in Information Science: Contributions to domain analysis

2016

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The article focuses on the ways of organizing studies according to their methodological choices in the Base Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação (Reference Database of Journal articles in Information Science). We highlight how the organization of scientific production by the methodological choices in Information Science contributes to the identification of its production features and domain analysis. We studied research categories and proposed five classification criteria: research purposes, approaches, focus, techniques and type of analysis. The proposal of a corpus in Information Science is empirically applied, represented by 689 articles, 10% of the production indexed in Base Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação from 1972 to 2010. We adopt content analysis to interpret the methodological choices of authors identified in the corpus. The results point out that exploratory studies are more predominant when considering the research purpose; regarding the research approach, bibliographic and documentary studies are more predominant; systematic observation, questionnaire and interview were the most widely used techniques; document analysis and content analysis are the most widely used types of analysis; the research focus of theoretical, historical and bibliometric studies are more predominant. We found that some studies use two methodological choices and explicit epistemological approaches, such as the studies following the positivist approach in the 1970s, and those influenced by the phenomenological approach in the 1980s, which increased the use of methods in qualitative research. Keywords

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The evolution of library and information science 1965–1985: A content analysis of journal articles

Cited by 157 publications

References 3 publications

Library and information science research areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa

Library and information science research areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa

Estudio de los métodos de investigación y técnicas de recolección de datos utilizadas en bibliotecología y ciencia de la información

Methodological choices for research in Information Science: Contributions to domain analysis

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