FAQ

Q: How can the researcher explain the importance of his/her research?

A:The researcher must explain the motives and justifications of performing the research together with the research contribution in the intellectual output or addition to theory or solving a certain problem. The researcher must be ready to answer certain questions like:

● What is the importance of the research he/she is performing?

●What is the addition the research is going to offer?

●Why do you think you are capable of performing this research?

Q:Are there any conditions and standards for choosing the research title?

A:The researcher must choose carefully a title for his/her research. The title should reflect the objective content of the research and its field together with the method followed in studying the problem. The title must be brief and devoid of ambiguity; and it should contain easy, clear and revised words that do not embrace impeccable grammatical and spelling errors.

Q:Wha is meant by the phrase ”research borders”?

A:The objectivity borders, geographical borders (spatial), temporal borders, human borders.

Example: The Phenomenon of addition spread among youth in Jeddah Province

        Objectivity borders: Drugs and Heroin.

       Geographical borders: Jeddah Province Southern Neighborhoods.

       Temporal borders: 1427-1428AH

        Human borders: Male School pupils (15-23 year old)

Q: What are the conditions of quoting?

A: A number of conditions should be realized in quoting; including achieving balance, researcher ought to highlight his/her personality; there is a relation between the source quoted from and the research subject and the quotation must be justified i.e. there is an occasion that necessitates quoting.

Q: What is the relation between storage and retrieval? 

A: If we agree that retrieval is a recovery of something stored (by you or by somebody else), this means that there is a relation between storage and retrieval; and as long as storage is elaborate and organized, the retrieval process will be easy and soft.

Q: What are the words that are synonymous to retrieval?

A: Search, circulation, downloading, transfer, saving, resaving.

Q: What are the purposes of retrieval?

A: Searching, Development, Authoring, Planning, Problem Solving, Decision making, Entertainment.

Q: What are the languages of indexing?

A: Natural Language.

    Artificial or Controlled Language

Q: What is meant by Thesauri?

A: The thesauri are list of terms or descriptors used for rationing or restricting the description of concepts contained in the document; and they show the hierarchical relationships necessary for use in the following relations:

   BT: broader term

   NT: narrow term

   RT: related term

   SN: scope note

Q: Who are the persons with a retrieval relationship?

A: Authors, Publishers, distributors, agents, information specialists, librarians, Intermediaries and users.

Q: What is meant by Open Access System?

A: Availing the intellectual output in the internet that save the user’s right in reading, downloading, photocopying, printing, distributing and searching free of charge. It helps in achieving communication in the field of scientific research and exchange of ideas. It helps in increasing the Impact factor that aids in giving a positive image about the institution and its research activity (especially in light of the frenzied competition and emergence of classification agencies). It also achieves a principle long advocated by the academic community.

Q: Is there any relationship between the media and Open Access?

A:There is a close relation between the media and the Open Access Style; because through the media it is possible to provide the Current Awareness Service. The media is also possible to include the Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI). It is worth mentioning that it is not enough to have an open free access without efficient media. It is also not enough to pay attention to the media only as a solution for all problems.  But it should coincide with the renewal and improvement of publication processes, including the implementation of review standards ….etc.

 Q: What are the types of electronic publishing?

A:Commercial E-Publishing is similar to commercial publishing of print books, in terms of the implementation of the processes of reviewing, editing and checking before issuing. In Self E-Publishing, the author is responsible totally about publishing his/her book, starting from the stage of preparing the book until its marketing; and often to obtain the book through the author’s website.

Q: What are the advantages of E-Publishing?

A: The possibility of collecting the manuscript in different shapes: sound, text, image, rapid production, quality, adding improvements and variations, renewal and data reuse and rapid distribution. Also the cost is limited without the need for Intermediaries. It also provides the cooperation of authors in producing the E-Subject. It is possible for the user to buy one article; unlike the traditional way where the whole issue of the journal should be bought.

Q: What is the definition of a variable?

A: The Variable: unlike the fixed; example:

    Man is fixed but has variable factors: length, weight, occupation, psychological state…etc. The variables interact with each others to produce something new; like length interacting with weight, age with health and psychological state with performance. The variable could have more than one value; example:

The variable “sex” has two values: male and female. The variable “occupation” has many values: student, employee, business man..etc.      

Q: Is it possible for one variable to have many values?

A: Yes; like:

Language: Arabic, English, French, German.

Occupation: civil employee, military employee, governmental employee, on-the-job civil employee, retired.

Q: What is the relationship between variables?

A:Three main types: proportional, inverse, zero.

Q: What does marketing mean?

A:It means the search for and determining users and knowing their needs and working on meeting those needs with different possible means and methods. It means the human activity that aims at meeting the users’ needs and desires. It also means planning that concentrates on products, distribution means, pricing, promotion directed to specific groups representing the users of library services. Marketing means the processes of creating certain value through finding the timing, place, and styles of the appropriate service. It also means the transfer of attention in concentrating on products to users’ needs; where the products are provided according to the user point of view and not the producer of these products point of view.


Last Update
11/12/2012 3:42:44 PM