Electronic Databases and Publishing / / Albert Henderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511391003321
• Autore: Henderson Albert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-351-28879-2; 1-351-28880-6; 1-351-28878-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 025.316
• Soggetti: Machine-readable bibliographic data; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: part, 14 Statistics of RILM: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale -- chapter 1 Database Publishing Statistics -- chapter 2 Secondary Information Services—Mirrors of Scholarly Communication: Forces and Trends -- chapter 3 Resources for Research and Learning: The Databases of the Research Libraries Group -- chapter 4 The OCLC Online Union Catalog: An Incomparable Library Resource -- chapter 5 EMBASE—The Excerpta Medica Database: Quick and Comprehensive Drug Information -- chapter 6 Growth and Change in the World's Biological Literature as Reflected in BIOSIS Publications -- chapter 7 Secondary Publishing in Changing Times: Profile of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts -- chapter 8 Documenting the World's Sociological Literature: Sociological Abstracts -- chapter 9 Evolution and Revolution at PAIS: Technology and Concepts -- chapter 10 The History and Scope of the American Economic Association's EconLit and the Economic Literature Index -- chapter 11 INFO-SOUTH: Leading the Way on the Information Superhighway to Latin America and the Caribbean -- chapter 12 AgeLine Database on Middle Age and Aging: Reflecting Population Diversity -- chapter 13 Statistics of Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life Databases -- chapter 15 Trends in Courses Taught: Insights from CMG's College Faculty Database -- chapter 16 Statistical Analysis of the TULSA Database, 1965-1994 -- chapter 17 A ; Brief History of the Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology -- chapter 18 Growth of the Computing Literature as Reflected in the Computing Information Directory, 1981-1995 -- part, 19 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Program -- chapter 20 The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Bibliographic Database -- chapter 21 Calculators and Crystal Balls: Predicting Journal Subscription Prices -- chapter 22 Monitoring the Health of North America's Small and Mid-Sized Book Publishers Since 1980 -- chapter 23 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services Member Data Services -- chapter 24 Growth and Change of the World's Chemical Literature as Reflected in Chemical Abstracts -- chapter 25 A Brief History of the Mathematical Literature -- chapter 26 From Published Paper to MR Review: How Does It Happen? -- chapter 27 The PASCAL and FRANCIS Databases of the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (France): Presentation and Statistics -- chapter 28 Information Access Company: The Evolution of InfoTrac Multi-Source Databases and Their Importance to Library End-Users.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The true pioneers in electronic publishing put their bibliographic databases on tape and online in the 1960s. Nearly all of them had long experience with compiling information for distribution in printed form and a strong market connection. As a result of Soviet advances in science and space technology, American government support for information science and academic libraries flowed freely for a little over a decade, making possible tremendous advances in technology, in retrieval techniques and in sophisticated coverage. Advances in information technology and market conditions have encouraged many more participants to underwrite the development of databases that now extend into the arts, social sciences, business, and popular interests. These essays show how production statistics accompanied by statements of editorial coverage provide a fairly accurate reflection of output of many of the major disciplinary bibliographic databases. The urgent priority of information resources in the 1960s has encouraged comprehensive servicing of the formal research literature as published in journals and monographs. Authors have counted subject words, languages, origins, types of publication, and so on over several decades. This volume also includes articles on some databases that are not strictly bibliographic, such as the CMG database of college courses, which illuminates some of the changes in college textbook publishing. Information seekers will find the many tables of practical use, as guidance to what and how much may be found within each database. Analysts of publishing, of science policy, and of higher education will find information relevant to expenditures, human resources, and other indicators of education, research, and technology activity."--Provided by publisher.

Dialogue, argumentation and education : history, theory and practice / / Baruch B. Schwarz, Michael J. Baker ; foreword by Lauren B. Resnick with Faith Schantz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155152503321
• Autore: Schwarz Baruch B.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-108-10585-8; 1-108-10994-2; 1-108-11062-2; 1-316-49396-2; 1-108-11130-0; 1-108-11198-X; 1-108-11470-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 371.3/7
• Soggetti: Questioning; Discourse analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Foreword Lauren B. Resnick and Faith Schantz; Preface; 1. Beginnings; 2. Changes in the role of talk in education: philosophical and ideological revolutions; 3. Argumentation theory for education; 4. The pervasive role of argumentation according to progressive pedagogies; 5. Argumentative interactions in the classroom; 6. Argumentative design; 7. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: New pedagogical visions and technological developments have brought argumentation to the fore of educational practice. Whereas students previously 'learned to 'argue', they now 'argue to learn': collaborative argumentation-based learning has become a popular and valuable pedagogical technique, across a variety of tasks and disciplines. Researchers have explored the conditions under which arguing to learn is successful, have described some of its learning potentials (such as for conceptual change and reflexive learning) and have developed Internet-based tools to support such learning. However, the further ; advancement of this field presently faces several problems, which the present book addresses. Three dimensions of analysis - historical, theoretical and empirical - are integrated throughout the book. Given the nature of its object of study - dialogue, interaction, argumentation, learning and teaching - the book is resolutely multidisciplinary, drawing on research on learning in educational and psychological sciences, as well as on philosophical and linguistic theories of dialogue and argumentation.