Institutional priorities and faculty rewards update

A Multi-Institutional Survey on Faculty Development Needs, Priorities and Preferences in Medical Education in an Asian Medical School

BACKGROUND Faculty development in medical education is crucial for maintaining academic vitality. The authors conducted a needs assessment survey in Singapore to determine the educational needs and priorities of clinical faculty. METHODS This study implemented a questionnaire-based, anonymous, multi-institutional survey with stratified random sampling. Each question was anchored with two stat...

Research Priorities of Iranian Faculty Members and PhD Students in Medical Library and Information Science

Objective: The field of “medical library and information science” has a broad research platform due to its interdisciplinary nature. However, the lack of resources necessitates the attention to research priorities in this field. This study aims to identify the research priorities of Iranian faculty members and PhD students in medical library and information science. Methods: This is a descript...

Motivating and Impeding Factors Affecting Faculty Contribution to Institutional Repositories

Institutional Repositories (IRs) are predicated on contributions by members of a university community, particularly faculty members. In fact, faculty contribution is considered one of the success factors for an IR even though several studies have found a low rate of faculty submission. In order to learn how we might be able to address this problem, the present study investigated factors that mo...

Institutional Repositories : Faculty Deposits , Marketing , and the Reform of Scholarly

This study explores faculty deposits in institutional repositories (IR) within selected disciplines and identifies the diverse navigational paths to IR sites from library Web site homepages. The statistical relationship between the development of an IR and the presence of a Web site dedicated to the reform of traditional scholarly communication is also explored. The implications for the develop...

The Relationship of Institutional Planning and Institutional Research to Faculty Development