Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kayongo, Jessica, Helm, Clarence
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1064882
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1867181312128843776
author Kayongo, Jessica
Helm, Clarence
author_facet Kayongo, Jessica
Helm, Clarence
Kayongo, Jessica
Helm, Clarence
collection Education Resources Information Center
contents Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame Kayongo, Jessica Helm, Clarence College Libraries Graduate Students Citation Analysis Doctoral Dissertations Library Materials User Needs (Information) Comparative Analysis Humanities Engineering Sciences Social Sciences Intellectual Disciplines This study focused on determining the extent to which collections of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame met the needs of graduate students. This study data (2005-2007) consisted of a citation analysis of 248 dissertations and focused on the following questions: What were the graduate students citing in their dissertations? Did the library own the cited items? How did the disciplines compare in their citation patterns? The data showed that over 90 percent of the 39,106 citations were to books and journals. The libraries owned 67 percent of the items graduate students cited in their dissertations. The libraries owned 83 percent of the Arts & Humanities, 90 percent of the Engineering, 92 percent of the Science, and 75 percent of the Social Sciences sources in the top 1,000 most cited titles, indicating a need for funding for further development of Social Sciences collections in the Hesburgh Libraries.
format Recurso educativo Open Access
id eric_EJ1064882
institution ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
language en
publishDate 2012
record_format eric
spellingShingle Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame
Kayongo, Jessica
Helm, Clarence
College Libraries
Graduate Students
Citation Analysis
Doctoral Dissertations
Library Materials
User Needs (Information)
Comparative Analysis
Humanities
Engineering
Sciences
Social Sciences
Intellectual Disciplines
Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame Kayongo, Jessica Helm, Clarence College Libraries Graduate Students Citation Analysis Doctoral Dissertations Library Materials User Needs (Information) Comparative Analysis Humanities Engineering Sciences Social Sciences Intellectual Disciplines This study focused on determining the extent to which collections of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame met the needs of graduate students. This study data (2005-2007) consisted of a citation analysis of 248 dissertations and focused on the following questions: What were the graduate students citing in their dissertations? Did the library own the cited items? How did the disciplines compare in their citation patterns? The data showed that over 90 percent of the 39,106 citations were to books and journals. The libraries owned 67 percent of the items graduate students cited in their dissertations. The libraries owned 83 percent of the Arts & Humanities, 90 percent of the Engineering, 92 percent of the Science, and 75 percent of the Social Sciences sources in the top 1,000 most cited titles, indicating a need for funding for further development of Social Sciences collections in the Hesburgh Libraries.
title Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame
topic College Libraries
Graduate Students
Citation Analysis
Doctoral Dissertations
Library Materials
User Needs (Information)
Comparative Analysis
Humanities
Engineering
Sciences
Social Sciences
Intellectual Disciplines
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1064882