Research methods in information / / Alison Jane Pickard ; with contributions from Sue Childs [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511454003321
• Autore: Pickard Alison Jane
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Facet, , 2013
• ISBN: 9781783300235; 1-78330-023-X; 9781856048132
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 020.72
• Soggetti: Information science - Research - Methodology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Setting the content -- The research hierarchy -- Overview of contents -- Part 1 Starting the research process -- Major research paradigms -- Introduction -- Positivist research -- Postpositivism and mixed methods research (MMR) -- Interpretivist research -- Qualitative or quantitative methodology? -- Qualitative research design -- Quantitative research design -- Mixed methods research -- Criteria for judging research -- Establishing trustworthiness in qualitative research -- Establishing rigour in quantitative research -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Reviewing literature -- Introduction -- Information searching and retrieval -- Evaluation -- Critical analysis -- Synthesizing the research: developing a theoretical framework -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Defining the research -- Introduction -- Designing a conceptual framework -- The research hypothesis -- Research aims and objectives -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- The research proposal -- Why write a proposal? -- Structure of a research proposal -- The proposal as a research framework -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Sampling -- Why sample? -- Population and sample -- Probability sampling -- Purposive sampling -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further ; reading -- Research data management -- Ethics in research -- Introduction -- Gaining access to the field -- Informed consent -- Anonymity and confidentiality? -- Protecting participants -- Ethics online -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading.; Part 2 Research methods -- Case studies -- Introduction -- Phases in case study research -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Surveys -- Introduction -- Descriptive surveys -- Explanatory surveys -- The survey process -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Experimental research -- Introduction -- The nature of causality -- The true experiment -- Quasi-experimental design: the 'effects study' -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Usability testing -- Introduction -- Quasi experimental usability studies -- Cognitive walkthroughs -- Heuristic evaluation -- Ethnography -- Introduction -- Components of ethnographic study -- Virtual ethnography -- Ethics in ethnography -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Delphi study -- Introduction -- The Delphi process -- Rules of a Delphi study -- Modifying a Delphi study -- Delphi studies and new technologies -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Action research -- Introduction -- The action research cycle -- Trustworthiness in action research -- Action research as reflective practice -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Historical research -- Introduction -- The research process -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Grounded theory: method or analysis? -- Introduction -- Defining grounded theory -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading.; Part 3 Data collection techniques -- Interviews -- Introduction -- What is the purpose of an interview? -- The seven stages of the interview process -- Online interviewing -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Questionnaires -- Introduction -- Designing questionnaires -- Developing questions -- Scale items -- Forms of questionnaire -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Observation -- Introduction -- The role of the observer -- Recording what you see: going with signposts -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Diaries -- Introduction -- The purpose of diaries in research -- Participant diaries -- The researcher's log -- Structure and recording -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Focus groups -- Introduction -- The purpose of a focus group -- Organizing a focus group -- Online focus groups -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Analysis of existing, extnernally created material -- The different supporting roles of documents -- LIS research principally based on documents -- Citation analysis -- Logs associated with computer software and the use of ICT.; Part 4 Data analysis and research presentation -- Qualitative analysis -- Introduction -- Phenomenological strategies -- Ethnographic methods -- Narrative and discourse analysis -- Constant comparative analysis -- Memo writing -- Presenting qualitative findings -- Software for qualitative analysis -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Quantitative analysis -- Introduction -- Levels of measurement -- Frequency distribution -- Cross-tabulation -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- Correlation -- Displaying data -- Testing for statistical significance -- Software for quantitative analysis -- Summary -- Practical exercise -- Suggested further reading -- Presenting the research -- Introduction -- Planning the final report -- Form and structure -- Summary -- Suggested further reading -- Glossary and references.
• Sommario/riassunto: The long-awaited 2nd edition of this best-selling research methods handbook is fully updated and includes brand new coverage of online research methods and techniques, mixed methodology and qualitative analysis. This edition includes two new contributed chapters: Professor Julie McLeod, Sue Childs and Elizabeth Lomas focus on research data management, applying evidence from the recent JISC funded ‘DATUM’ project; Dr Andrew Shenton examines strategies for analysing existing documents.

Limiting secularism : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film / / Priya Kumar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781839003321
• Autore: Kumar Priya
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 0-8166-5665-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 299 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 809/.8954
• Soggetti: South Asian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; South Asian literature - Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures - Moral and ethical aspects - India; Secularism in literature; Secularism in motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: At Home with the Stranger; 1 Rethinking Secularism; 2 For God's Sake, Open the Universe a Little More: Cosmopolitan Fictions; 3 Acts of Return: Literature and Post-Partition Memory; 4 Fictions of Violence: Witnessing and Survival in Partition Literature; 5 It's My Home, Too: Minoritarian Claims on the Nation; Postscript; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic ; of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of Indian"" from ""Pakistani"" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can rep

Republic of Mozambique : : Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation, Sixth Review Under the Policy Support Instrument, Request for a Three-Year Policy Support Instrument and Cancellation of Current Policy Support Instrument

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910975204703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2013
• ISBN: 9781484377147; 1484377141; 9781484373613; 1484373618; 9781484387498; 148438749X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Collana: IMF Staff Country Reports
• Disciplina: 332.152
• Soggetti: Monetary policy - Mozambique; Banking; Banks and Banking; Banks and banking; Banks; Corporate crime; Credit; Debt Management; Debt sustainability analysis; Debt; Debts, External; Debts, Public; Depository Institutions; Exports and Imports; External debt; Finance, Public; Fiscal policy; International economics; International Lending and Debt Problems; Macroeconomics; Micro Finance Institutions; Monetary economics; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General; Money and Monetary Policy; Mortgages; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General; Public debt; Public finance & taxation; Public Finance; Public financial management (PFM); Revenue administration; Revenue; Sovereign Debt; Taxation; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General; White-collar crime; Mozambique Economic conditions; Mozambique, Republic of
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PROGRAM PERFORMANCE; A. Macroeconomic Developments; B. Monetary Response; C. Fiscal Response; D. Structural Reforms; OUTLOOK AND RISKS; BOXES; 1. Risk Assessment Matrix; ARTICLE IV: DISCUSSIONS; A. Preparing for Natural Resource Management; B. Fiscal Policy; C. Debt Management and Borrowing Strategy; 2. Social Protection Floor in Mozambique; D. Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Issues; 3. Financial Inclusion in Mozambique; E. External Sector Stability; F. Inclusive Growth; NEW PSI AND PROGRAM ISSUES; STAFF APPRAISAL; FIGURES; 1. Impact of Global Developments2. Inflation and Monetary Developments; 3. Fiscal Developments; TABLES; 1. Selected Economic and Financial Indicators, 2010-18; 2. Government Finances, 2010-13; 3. Government Finances, 2010-18; 4. Monetary Survey, 2010-13; 5. Balance of Payments, 2010-18; 6. Financial Soundness Indicators for Banking Sector, 2003-12; 7. Quantitative Assessment Criteria and Indicative Targets Under the 2010-13 PSI; 8. Quantitative Assessment Criteria and Indicative Targets Under the Proposed 2013-16 PSI; 9. Structural Benchmarks Under the Current PSI 2010-13; APPENDIXES; I. Letter of IntentAttachment 1: Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies; Attachment 2: Technical Memorandum of Understanding; II. The Impact of Megaprojects on Growth and Fiscal ; Revenue; III. External Balance and Reserve Adequacy Assessment; IV. Natural Gas, Public Investment, and Debt Sustainability; V. Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy; Contents; RELATIONS WITH THE FUND; WORLD BANK-IMF COLLABORATION; STATISTICAL ISSUES
• Sommario/riassunto: The staff report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation for the Republic of Mozambique focuses on the development agenda and appropriate policy priorities to successfully transition to a resource-rich era. These priorities include skillful medium-term management of the impact of developing coal and gas resources, high public investment spending on growth, external competitiveness, and through increased commercial borrowing, on debt sustainability and investment planning. Mozambique has a high rate of public investment of which more than half is financed domestically. The authorities are working to strengthen their project selection and economic profitability analysis capacity, and to assess the impact of related borrowing on public debt.