The first transnational project meeting was held in Bulgaria on 26-27 april of 2022. At this meeting, the goal and target groups to which the project is directed were presented. The budget, the planned transnational meetings, as well as the different deadlines for achieving the main goals of the project were discussed. During this meeting, […]
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The kickoff meeting of the European Project DIGI-KEY has been held in the city of Stara Zagora Zara on 26th and 27th of April 2022. The kickoff meeting setting the foundation for the project’s successful implementation. The DIGI-KEY project is expected to be a significant step towards promoting digital literacy in higher education. The goal
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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, held in online mode in September 2021. The 61 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions. The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) is organized by the Department of Information Management of
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“Fake news is any false story that looks like news. It is designed to convince readers that it’s true. Some fake news is created and spread intentionally. A poorly researched story that contains errors might also be considered fake news. Fake news has boomed in recent years” 1 which is why the theme of the
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The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS) collected data from more than 21,000 university students in 33 countries regarding their reading format (print or electronic) preferences and behaviors when engaging with academic texts during a three-year period. Quantitative analysis shows a consistent preference for print reading among most students worldwide. This paper presents new findings
What’s BOBCATSSS ? Bobcatsss is independent European non-governmental and non-profit association. The purpose of the Association is to promote European cooperation within library and information science (LIS) education and research, and to provide a body through which European interest regarding LIS education can be represented. As its current form, the association does not take members,
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Introduction: The aim of this study is to understand how university researchers behave in the context of using and sharing research data in OA mode. Method. An online questionnaire survey was conducted amongst academics and researchers in three countries – UK, France and Turkey. There were 26 questions to collect data on: researcher information, e.g.
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Ecil 2018 was organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, the Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University, the Information Literacy Association, and the Department of Information and Communication Studies at the University of Oulu. The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) took place in Oulu, Finland, from 24-27 September 2018.
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This study reports the descriptive and inferential statistical findings of a survey of academic reading format preferences and behaviors of 10,293 tertiary students worldwide. The study hypothesized that country-based differences in schooling systems, socioeconomic development, culture or other factors might have an influence on preferred formats, print or electronic, for academic reading, as well as
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