Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy Conference Program 2017

Official Conference Program. Conference was cancelled due to the impact of Hurricane Irma on the area

Making sense of Citations

How many times do we hear some variation on, Why do we have to do citations? At Saint Martin\u27s University, we have noticed that many faculty, as well-meaning as they are, quickly rush through the mechanics of citation without addressing the why of the process. We have developed a workshop to address this gap in students\u27 understanding of the concept. At the core of this workshop we present the concept of scholarly conversations and boil citations down to answering five basic questions: 1) Who made it? 2) What is it? 3) Where can I find it? 4) When was it made? 5) If it\u27s electronic, what is the link? By setting up citations as answers to these implicit questions, students have expressed they better understand the structure and function of citations, which they say will help them in the future

Exploring scholarly papers through citations

Bibliographies are fundamental components of academic papers and both the scientific research and its evaluation are fundamentally organized around the correct examination and classification of scientific bibliographies. Currently, most digital libraries publish bibliographic information about their content for free, and many include the citations (outgoing and in some cases even incoming) to the papers they manage. Unfortunately no sophistication is spent for these lists: monolithic pieces of text where it is even difficult to tell automatically the authors, the title and publication details, and where users are provided with no mechanisms to filter and access full context of each citation. For instance, there is no way to know in which sentence a work was cited (the citation context) and why (the citation function). In this paper we introduce a novel environment for navigating, filtering and making sense of citations. The interface, called BEX, exploits data freely available in a Link Open Dataset about scholarly papers; end-user testing proved its efficacy and usability