Browsing by Author "Rawi, Nagham Baha"

With the advanced development of information technologies, the lack of an explicit statement of what information ethics rights are, and the current spurious dissemination practices of information carried out by professionals in academia, not to mention the invasions into personal privacy that are more intensive and extensive than any period before now, information ethics violations continue to challenge our traditional notion of ethics. The study's literature also highlighted the issue of limits to intellectual freedom, particularly from an Islamic perspective and analyzed the ethical doubts that PhD students of academic institutions have over information ethics. The study is based on the 400 questionnaires distributed to Ph.D students at 6 chosen Malaysian universities and the interviews of nine specialist academics in different fields, reassembling the related threads of the various aspects regarding IE in academia. The students were asked to answer 10 hypothetical scenarios representing cases of citing practices in research writing. The results indicate that students have various levels of understanding of the issues of information ethics. Hence, information ethics awareness still calls for more awareness in the institutions of higher learning. The Institutions, professors and libraries, have a responsibility to infuse spiritual values of moral honesty in their students. Certain actions were recommended in this research to improve the quality of the intellectual experience at the academic institutions, and to improve communication among university constituents by disseminating information on IE to a wider audience in the university community. This is of utmost significance particularly in academia, where information ethics forms the core and spirit of the various aspects of the inculcation and development of knowledge.

Bibliometric concepts are applicable to the World Wide Web, as it is the largest network of documents in history. The job of bibliometricains has become uncomplicated as the Web Sites are playing a progressively more important role in supplementing the library services and information dissemination through the World Wide Web. In this study, a bibliometric analyses was used to examine, identify, and describe the field of online information existing in the chosen journal Online Information Review (OIR). The data was collected through the selection of the journal articles and under the subject Online Searching for the years 1997-2006. The findings from the study revealed that the range of articles published per volume is between 7and 26. The average number of references per an article is 27.30%. The average length per article is 10 pages. 50.6% of the articles are research oriented. The percentage of multi-authored papers is slightly higher at (51.78%) or 129 articles out of a total of 249. The most prolific author contributed 10 articles; 23.90% of the authors are geographically affiliated to USA. The most productive institution is The Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, UK with 25 authors out of 465 authors. The most popular subject is Online Data Bases; 51.81% of the articles contained author self-citation, while the rate of journal self – citation is found to be 32.54% and most of the articles (99.19%) contained no formal acknowledgment.