TY - JOUR
T1 - Information literacy in the professional literature
T2 - An exploratory analysis
AU - Aharony, Noa
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Purpose: The current study aims to review the different publications dealing with information literacy and the emerging trends reflected over the ten years, 1999-2009, in the Web of Science (WOS) database. Design/methodology/approach: The study presents both a statistical descriptive analysis of document type, subject areas, authors, source titles, publication years, languages, countries and keywords of publications extracted from the WOS database, as well as a thorough content analysis of keywords and abstracts extracted from the WOS database. Findings: The main results suggest that the term information literacy has various characteristics in an additional and interesting context: health and medicine. This finding may reflect a tendency of association between information literacy and health and medicine and stresses people's need for information literacy in this specific context. Originality/value: The current study emphasises the notion that information literacy is no longer an issue for librarians or educators only.
AB - Purpose: The current study aims to review the different publications dealing with information literacy and the emerging trends reflected over the ten years, 1999-2009, in the Web of Science (WOS) database. Design/methodology/approach: The study presents both a statistical descriptive analysis of document type, subject areas, authors, source titles, publication years, languages, countries and keywords of publications extracted from the WOS database, as well as a thorough content analysis of keywords and abstracts extracted from the WOS database. Findings: The main results suggest that the term information literacy has various characteristics in an additional and interesting context: health and medicine. This finding may reflect a tendency of association between information literacy and health and medicine and stresses people's need for information literacy in this specific context. Originality/value: The current study emphasises the notion that information literacy is no longer an issue for librarians or educators only.
KW - Health and medicine
KW - Information literacy
KW - Research work
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77952727664&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/00012531011046907
DO - 10.1108/00012531011046907
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AN - SCOPUS:77952727664
SN - 2050-3806
VL - 62
SP - 261
EP - 282
JO - Aslib Journal of Information Management
JF - Aslib Journal of Information Management
IS - 3
ER -