Introduction. Critical appraisal is a crucial aspect of evidence-based practice. In order to determine whether research is valid, reliable and applicable, the evidence-based practice process advocates that published research be critically appraised. Between 2006 and 2008, the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice published 101 evidence summaries, critically appraising research...

This paper provides a brief review of writings and thoughts on future directions of the profession as well as education for library science from educators and professionals in Australia. Education for library and information science in Australia is relatively young (less than fifty years old) (G.S. Wagner, Education for Information 15 (1997), 171–177.) and hopefully more pliable and less resist...

Introduction. This study aims to gain a greater understanding of the development of open access practices amongst library and information science authors, since their role is integral to the success of the broader open access movement. Method. Data were collected from scholarly articles about open access by library and information science authors from 2003 until 2011 found in the Library and In...

This paper presents a prototype of TLIS VIVO, a researcher networking system of the Library and Information Science field based in Taiwan, by using ORCID, VIVO, and Linked Open Data technologies. It extends VIVO with the author identifier system ORCID, and integrates data thus harvested from Chinese Library & Information Science Abstracts (CLISA), and Scopus. The study demonstrates a practical ...