compact - disc: a new media in information science

New media landscapes and the science information consumer.

Individuals are increasingly turning to online environments to find information about science and to follow scientific developments. It is therefore crucial for scientists and scientific institutions to consider empirical findings from research in online science communication when thinking about science in the public sphere. After providing a snapshot of the current media landscape, this paper ...

A Comparison of Nursing Students’ Satisfaction in Compact Disc-based Education vs. Traditional Education

Introduction: Given the variety of educational methods and the conditions and facilities, selecting appropriate methods is one of the instructors’ practices to achieve educational goals. The aim of this study was to compare Nursing Students’ Satisfaction with CD-based and traditional education at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental study. The ...

Toward a New Science of Information

Currently, a Science of Information does not exist. What we have is Information Science that grew out of Library and Documentation Science with the help of Computer Science. The basic understanding of information in Information Science is the Shannon type of “information” at which numerous criticisms have been levelled so far. The task of an as-yet-to-be-developed Science of Information would b...

Evaluation of the use of a new compact disc for auditory perceptual assessment in the elderly.

The present study examined the performance of 40 normal-hearing young adults and 38 elderly adults, some normal hearing and some hearing impaired, on the Department of Veterans Affairs' new compact disc (VA-CD) for auditory perceptual assessment. Principal-components factor analyses were performed on the test scores from each group of subjects with very similar results obtained from each group ...

Information science abstracts: Tracking the literature of information science. Part 2: A new taxonomy for information science

ing and indexing (A&I) services have long provided their users with aids to retrieving information from their databases. The initial products of many A&I services were printed publications organized in separate sections similar to chapters in a book and containing helpful author and subject indexes. Each section contained abstracts of articles on a broad subject. Users could therefore simply sc...

New Media in ( Computer ) Science Teaching at University Level