Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-203). Issued also online.

INTRODUÇÃO: O Brasil adentrou o século 21, caracterizado como o século da Ciência e Tecnologia - C&T, buscando discutir, identificar e implantar mecanismos de construção de uma sociedade onde o conhecimento seja o propulsor de conquistas sociais, econômicas e culturais. Tinha pela frente a tarefa de confrontar desafios que se apresentavam no cenário do sistema nacional de C&T, como a fragmentação das atividades de C&T, a ausência de coordenação interinstitucional e a concentração das atividades de C&T em determinadas regiões do país. OBJETIVO: Este estudo se propôs analisar uma das principais estratégias do recém-criado Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia do Ministério da Saúde para o enfrentamento a estes desafios, desenvolvido, entre os anos 2002 e 2008 por meio do Programa Pesquisa para o SUS: gestão compartilhada em saúde PPSUS. MÉTODO: Trata-se de um estudo exploratório e descritivo, desenvolvido por meio de recursos dos métodos quantitativo de pesquisa e com suporte de instrumentos multivariados de coleta de dados: pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa documental. No tocante aos dados, foram coletados dados sobre o conjunto de projetos de pesquisa em ciência e tecnologia em saúde, fomentados no país no período de 2002 a 2008 e financiados pelo Ministério da Saúde, em ação compartilhada com Fundações de Amparo à Pesquisa (FAPs) de Unidades Federativas do país e com Secretarias Estaduais de Saúde (SES). As fontes de coleta dos dados foram a base de dados gerenciais PesquisaSaúde do Ministério da Saúde e a base de dados do Curriculum Lattes do CNPq. A coleta de dados abrangeu o universo de 1.271 projetos de pesquisa, fomentados no país desde o início do programa de fomento à pesquisa em ciência e tecnologia em saúde (2002), até 2008, quando teve início a pesquisa. RESULTADOS: Nas três edições do PPSUS estudadas, houve a participação de todos os 27 estados da federação, 213 instituições de pesquisa e 1.151 pesquisadores. Do total de recursos 41 por cento foram alocados pelas FAPs e SES, mostrando uma crescente responsabilização destes como parceiros efetivos na consolidação do programa. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados observados reforçaram a hipótese positiva de que o programa de gestão descentralizada produziu efetivamente uma reestruturação em termos de gestão de C&T, interferindo no aprimoramento das políticas de C&T nos estados, institucionalizando ações de gestão de forma a se constituírem numa rotina administrativa. Quanto à redução das desigualdades na distribuição de recursos de C&T entre as grandes regiões do país, os resultados demonstraram que, nos estados onde as FAPs e SES estavam mais estruturadas foram, justamente, aqueles que mais contribuíam para as ações de C&T. Este movimento repete o status quo, proporcionando a continuidade das disparidades regionais. Porém, teve o êxito de produzir uma adesão positiva para ações efetivas em C&T em Estados onde não havia um histórico nesta área, traduzindo-se num forte aliado para a redistribuição de forças no cenário de C&T. / INTRODUCTION: Brazil began the 21st century characterized as the century of Science and Technology - S&T, seeking to discuss, identify, and implement mechanisms for building a society where knowledge is the engine of social achievements, economic and cultural. Its objective was to confront challenges that were presented in the national scenario of S&T, as the fragmentation of S&T, the lack of interagency coordination and, concentration of S & T in certain regions of the country. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze one of the main strategies of the newly created Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Health to face these challenges, developed between 2002 and 2008 by the \"Research Program to the SUS: management shared health - PPSUS\". METHOD: This was an exploratory and descriptive, developed through features of quantitative methods of research and support tools for multivariate data collection: bibliographic research, desk research. As regards the data were collected on the number of research projects in science and technology in health, fostered in the country in the period 2002-2008 and funded by the Ministry of Health, in action shared with the Research Support Foundations (FAPs) of Federal Units of the country and the State Departments of Health (SES). The sources of data collection were the data base management \"PesquisaSaúde\" the Ministry of Health and, the database of the CNPq Lattes Curriculum. The data collection covered the universe of 1,271 research projects, promoted in the country since the beginning of the program to encourage research in science and technology in health (2002) until 2008, when the survey began. RESULTS: In the three editions of PPSUS studied, there was participation from all 27 states of the federation, 213 research institutions and researchers 1151. 41 per cent of the total funds were allocated by FAPs and SES, showing an increasing accountability of consolidation as effective partners in the program. CONCLUSION: The results reinforced the positive assumption that the program of decentralized produced effectively restructured in terms of management of C&T, interfering in improving policies for S & T in the states, institutionalizing management actions in order to constitute an administrative routine. As for the reduction of inequalities in the distribution of resources in S & T among the major regions of the country, the results showed that, in states where the FAPs were more structured and SES were precisely those who most contributed to the actions of S&T. This movement repeats the status quo, providing continuity of regional disparities. But the success had to produce a positive adherence to effective actions in S&T in states where there was a historic in this area, resulting in a strong ally for the redistribution of forces in the scenario of S&T.

Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / Research, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial role played by institutions of higher learning, such as universities, in this regard. In particular, the contribution of academic libraries in supporting the country’s agenda, with regard to its teaching and research goals, has come to the fore. Academic libraries have been portrayed, quite correctly, as the legitimate heart of the university, for majority of scholars rely heavily on their collections and services in their quest to develop new knowledge. However, the role played by these important facilities in supporting postgraduate students and researchers in South Africa is yet to be comprehensively examined. With a view to partly address this existent knowledge gap, this study examines the interaction between the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC’s) library and the institution’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences’ postgraduate students and researchers. In accomplishing this task, I explore the skill set and competencies required of the subject librarian to best support the research needs of postgraduate students and researchers at UWC’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences. I also investigate the perceptions and expectations of postgraduate students and researchers vis-à-vis the institution’s library. Additionally, this study explores the innovative measures adopted by UWC’s library in its quest to provide competent and satisfactory services to its postgraduate students and researchers. For its theoretical framework, this study employs the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI), also known as Roger’s model. This framework has been used to explore how innovative research services can be established and offered to support postgraduate students and researchers’ needs. This study employs a mixed methods approach and makes use of various data collection instruments, namely, survey questionnaires and interviews. The collected data has been analyzed through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The transcribed interviews have been analyzed thematically. The findings indicated some gaps between postgraduate students’ and researchers’ expectations for library’s research support services, research workshops and skills and competencies of a subject librarian. The findings also revealed postgraduate students’ and researchers’ perception of the library’s research support services, research workshops and subject librarians’ skills and competencies to be fulfilled. Even though many of the identified needs are currently being addressed by UWC library, several potential areas for improvement were identified. One of the major challenges is the awareness of the library services and facilities the library offers to support research. Other challenges that postgraduates’ students and researchers are facing is that they are often not aware how to search for information, easy access to the library’s resources and the expertise of the subject librarians.

Mgr. Lenka Němečková An analysis of research support in engineering with the emphasis on a university environment and based upon a survey of information behavior and information needs at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague (dissertation thesis) Analýza informační podpory uživatelů z oblasti technických oborů a věd s důrazem na vysokoškolské prostředí a opírající se o výzkum informačního chování a informačních potřeb provedený na ČVUT v Praze a VŠCHT Praha (disertační práce) Abstract This thesis is focused on the analysis of researchers' information behavior and information needs in engineering in academia and in industry. It is aimed at identifying trends in research support by university libraries based on research of information behavior and information needs that has been conducted at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague and by a brief insight into industrial environment. Initial parts of the thesis provide an overview of classification schemes in engineering. It also describes brief differences between university and industry environment with the aim at defining the differences in user information needs. It further provides brief summary of theories and models of information behavior and identifies differences between information needs of students and researchers concluding in defining research skills as basic...

Introduction: Researcher support is often written in the perspective of researchers, and few examine it from the perspective of archivists and librarians, the aim of this study is to change that. In this study we examine how archivists and librarians within Data Access Units (DAU) use their knowledge and how said knowledge is used to achieve the requirements set for making research data available at higher education institutions in Sweden. Method: In this study we have chosen to interview librarians and archivists at DAU:s since their goal is to be there for researchers and create access to data. A qualitative method was used to generate deeper understanding about the subjects. Theories: By applying two theories, Wiig’s Knowledge Management Cycle and Patrick Wilson’s cognitive authority, we aim to show the cycle from beginning of knowledge to the use of knowledge and a deeper understanding of why DAU are to be trusted, both by themselves and by researchers. Analysis and results: Within DAU archivist are unseen next to librarians, often left out and are therefore not assigned cognitive authority compared to the librarians who are often the first that researchers contact when they need help with their data. Problems arise when librarians answer questions meant for archivists, further reducing the archivist’s cognitive authority and highlights the wedge between the professions. However, we have found that many trusts DAU, and that the colleagues trust each other. Conclusions: DAU:s builds and pools knowledge to combine and give a complete coverage in the support they provide for researchers. This allows the different professions in DAU to share their knowledge and their strengths, helping them overcome the increasing demands from the scientific world. This is aided by the fact that archivists and librarians respect each other and assign each other cognitive authority over their specific knowledge domains. However, archivists do not gain the same amount of it from researchers, as librarians do.

Interest in effectively publishing academic articles stems from involvement in statistical research support provided to academic researchers conducting their research. In the context of this study research output (RO) is defined as the publication of research findings (articles) in academic journals accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET). The vantage point of this research is that of research support statisticians. New knowledge is continually required to drive decision making, policy formulation, industry, economies, regulation, development, innovation and progress (SESCES 2015:9; Pullinger 2014). Quality published research serves as a reliable source of new information. Therefore measures are globally and nationally implemented to stimulate article publication. Such measures and incentives include measurement of publication rate; journal impact ratings; government funding of research based on research output; acknowledgement as research-intensive institutions, promotion opportunities linked to publication rate and more. Although the literature reports on aspects of the production and publication of research findings, limited research is reported on research output productivity (ROP) viewed from the perspective of the statistical community that support research within the research process. Therefore a theoretical framework for ROP had to be developed. Classic grounded theory (GT) proved to be an appropriate methodology for this research based on its theory-develop properties. The literature, responses to an open- and closed-ended questionnaire, observational field notes of this researcher and informal discussion notes were inter alia used as data bases in the cycles of data-collection-analysis-and-comparison that characterise GT implementation. Theoretical components (‘categories’) that emerged in the research include the research process as central concept (the ‘core category’), a research practice component; role players in the research process; the attitude of researchers; knowledge of researchers; skills and attributes of researchers; research resources and research resource centres; and the research climate of the researcher environment. These components constitute the factors that impact ROP. Relational links - which forms the second leg of a developing theory - between these components are explained quantitatively in terms of multivariate linear regression equations; a profile of researcher-type (discriminant analysis) and qualitatively by means of the literature and field notes of this researcher. The emerged theoretical model indicates that knowledge and skills of academic researchers, as well as researcher-type directly impact on the research process and therefore on ROP. Furthermore attitude forms a discriminatory attribute of academic researchers. The objective with the development of the model of ROP was to identify important components of RO delivery and propose grassroots recommendations to promote ROP. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Didactics)

Interest in effectively publishing academic articles stems from involvement in statistical research support provided to academic researchers conducting their research. In the context of this study research output (RO) is defined as the publication of research findings (articles) in academic journals accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET). The vantage point of this research is that of research support statisticians. New knowledge is continually required to drive decision making, policy formulation, industry, economies, regulation, development, innovation and progress (SESCES 2015:9; Pullinger 2014). Quality published research serves as a reliable source of new information. Therefore measures are globally and nationally implemented to stimulate article publication. Such measures and incentives include measurement of publication rate; journal impact ratings; government funding of research based on research output; acknowledgement as research-intensive institutions, promotion opportunities linked to publication rate and more. Although the literature reports on aspects of the production and publication of research findings, limited research is reported on research output productivity (ROP) viewed from the perspective of the statistical community that support research within the research process. Therefore a theoretical framework for ROP had to be developed. Classic grounded theory (GT) proved to be an appropriate methodology for this research based on its theory-develop properties. The literature, responses to an open- and closed-ended questionnaire, observational field notes of this researcher and informal discussion notes were inter alia used as data bases in the cycles of data-collection-analysis-and-comparison that characterise GT implementation. Theoretical components (‘categories’) that emerged in the research include the research process as central concept (the ‘core category’), a research practice component; role players in the research process; the attitude of researchers; knowledge of researchers; skills and attributes of researchers; research resources and research resource centres; and the research climate of the researcher environment. These components constitute the factors that impact ROP. Relational links - which forms the second leg of a developing theory - between these components are explained quantitatively in terms of multivariate linear regression equations; a profile of researcher-type (discriminant analysis) and qualitatively by means of the literature and field notes of this researcher. The emerged theoretical model indicates that knowledge and skills of academic researchers, as well as researcher-type directly impact on the research process and therefore on ROP. Furthermore attitude forms a discriminatory attribute of academic researchers. The objective with the development of the model of ROP was to identify important components of RO delivery and propose grassroots recommendations to promote ROP. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Didactics)

Subject and learning support librarianship first began in African university libraries in the 1960s, but became more prevalent in the 1980s. Subject librarians, who were known by different titles in various universities, were responsible for one or more subjects, departments, schools or faculties, in terms of providing a subject-based information service, and performing subject-based collection development, user education, and liaison functions. They were organised according to specific models or structures which determined whether or not they performed only subject duties in the library. They formed a core part of the university library, and with each major technological advance, they had to reassess their roles, titles, functions, duties, educational qualifications and skills, so as to adapt to the new information environment. Unfortunately, the inception, development, re-assessment and adaptation of subject librarianship on the African continent did not follow a standard path, and no standards guidelines were compiled that could be utilised by new subject services. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles, responsibilities and skills of subject librarians in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) region. The target population consisted of subject librarians in this region and a census method was used to determine participants. The quantitative research approach employing a survey design was used by the study. Data was collected using questionnaires, and results were clarified by interviews with a selection of library managers. Data was analysed using SPSS, MS-Excel and content analysis. The research found that the main models of subject librarianship in place were the dual and hybrid models. It determined the main titles that subject librarians were known by, and that their role, involved providing teaching, learning and research support to faculty members, staff, students and researchers. It also determined the main functions and related duties performed, and the main educational qualifications and skills held by, or required by subject librarians. Since the study found that no guidelines, specifically targeted at subject librarians in the region, were available, as one of its outcomes it provided guidelines, in the form of an appendix, for new subject services to adapt or adopt if they desired. / Information Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

Subject and learning support librarianship first began in African university libraries in the 1960s, but became more prevalent in the 1980s. Subject librarians, who were known by different titles in various universities, were responsible for one or more subjects, departments, schools or faculties, in terms of providing a subject-based information service, and performing subject-based collection development, user education, and liaison functions. They were organised according to specific models or structures which determined whether or not they performed only subject duties in the library. They formed a core part of the university library, and with each major technological advance, they had to reassess their roles, titles, functions, duties, educational qualifications and skills, so as to adapt to the new information environment. Unfortunately, the inception, development, re-assessment and adaptation of subject librarianship on the African continent did not follow a standard path, and no standards guidelines were compiled that could be utilised by new subject services. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles, responsibilities and skills of subject librarians in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) region. The target population consisted of subject librarians in this region and a census method was used to determine participants. The quantitative research approach employing a survey design was used by the study. Data was collected using questionnaires, and results were clarified by interviews with a selection of library managers. Data was analysed using SPSS, MS-Excel and content analysis. The research found that the main models of subject librarianship in place were the dual and hybrid models. It determined the main titles that subject librarians were known by, and that their role, involved providing teaching, learning and research support to faculty members, staff, students and researchers. It also determined the main functions and related duties performed, and the main educational qualifications and skills held by, or required by subject librarians. Since the study found that no guidelines, specifically targeted at subject librarians in the region, were available, as one of its outcomes it provided guidelines, in the form of an appendix, for new subject services to adapt or adopt if they desired. / Information Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)