From library skills to information literacy

The application of new technologies and the acquisition of new sources and methods of information dissemination, as well as the provision of libraries services, requires the special education of the users in order to take advantage of these sources and services. In this paper, an investigation of the Greek academic libraries and their user education sessions is attempted. This research aims to explore the user education sessions offered by the libraries, with special regards to the education, the type of user education sessions and their contents. For the collection of the elements, the questionnaire method is selected. The current situation as much as it concerns the libraries and the applied teaching methods at the Greek education institutions, is presented

A fully parameterized virtual coarse grained reconfigurable array for high performance computing applications

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have proven their potential in accelerating High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications. Conventionally such accelerators predominantly use, FPGAs that contain fine-grained elements such as LookUp Tables (LUTs), Switch Blocks (SB) and Connection Blocks (CB) as basic programmable logic blocks. However, the conventional implementation suffers from high reconfiguration and development costs. In order to solve this problem, programmable logic components are defined at a virtual higher abstraction level. These components are called Processing Elements (PEs) and the group of PEs along with the inter-connection network form an architecture called a Virtual Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array (VCGRA). The abstraction helps to reconfigure the PEs faster at the intermediate level than at the lower-level of an FPGA. Conventional VCGRA implementations (built on top of the lower levels of the FPGA) use functional resources such as LUTs to establish required connections (intra-connect) within a PE. In this paper, we propose to use the parameterized reconfiguration technique to implement the intra-connections of each PE with the aim to reduce the FPGA resource utilization (LUTs). The technique is used to parameterize the intra-connections with parameters that only change their value infrequently (whenever a new VCGRA function has to be reconfigured) and that are implemented as constants. Since the design is optimized for these constants at every moment in time, this reduces the resource utilization. Further, interconnections (network between the multiple PEs) of the VCGRA grid can also be parameterized so that both the inter- and intraconnect network of the VCGRA grid can be mapped onto the physical switch blocks of the FPGA. For every change in parameter values a specialized bitstream is generated on the fly and the FPGA is reconfigured using the parameterized run-time reconfiguration technique. Our results show a drastic reduction in FPGA LUT resource utilization in the PE by at least 30% and in the intra-network of the PE by 31% when implementing an HPC application

From library skills to information literacy

The application of new technologies and the acquisition of new sources and methods of information dissemination, as well as the provision of libraries services, requires the special education of the users in order to take advantage of these sources and services. In this paper, an investigation of the Greek academic libraries and their user education sessions is attempted. This research aims to explore the user education sessions offered by the libraries, with special regards to the education, the type of user education sessions and their contents. For the collection of the elements, the questionnaire method is selected. The current situation as much as it concerns the libraries and the applied teaching methods at the Greek education institutions, is presented

Cataloging conventional and digital objects: new tools with old names or old names to new tools?

Information concerning the creation of tools and bibliographic description standards of library material are referred. Detailed reference to their development and adjustment to the data created so as to reflect the new conditions and needs, the way these are formed in the contemporary environment, is made. We present the efforts made by the bibliographic agencies to develop new and to improve the traditional/conventional tools for the description of the conventional documents as well as the electronic resources available in the World Wide Web

Impact of COVID-19 Dentistry-Related Literature:An Altmetric Study

INTRODUCTION: Scientific literature on COVID-19 has grown rapidly during the pandemic. The aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the popularity on the web of the available dental publications on COVID-19 and to examine associations amongst article characteristics, online mentions, and citations.MATERIALS AND METHODS: An Altmetric Explorer search was conducted for COVID-19 articles published in dental journals using 3 keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and pandemic. The following Altmetric data were collected: Altmetric attention score (AAS), mentions by news outlets, tweets, Mendeley readers, and Web of Science citations. Additionally, article title, type, topic, origin and open access status, journal title, quartile of impact factor (IF) distribution, and time lapse between COVID-19 pandemic onset and publication date were analysed.RESULTS: In all, 253 articles published in 48 dental journals were eligible for the study. AAS was significantly influenced by article topic, type, origin, and journal IF quartile. There was a negligible correlation between AAS and Web of Science citations. Mendeley was the only Altmetric source highly correlated with citations.CONCLUSIONS: There was substantial online interest in COVID-19 dentistry-related literature, as depicted by the AAS of the reviewed articles and social media metrics. Mendeley reader counts were highly correlated with citations, and they may therefore be valuable in research impact evaluation.</p

Impact of COVID-19 Dentistry-Related Literature:An Altmetric Study

INTRODUCTION: Scientific literature on COVID-19 has grown rapidly during the pandemic. The aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the popularity on the web of the available dental publications on COVID-19 and to examine associations amongst article characteristics, online mentions, and citations.MATERIALS AND METHODS: An Altmetric Explorer search was conducted for COVID-19 articles published in dental journals using 3 keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and pandemic. The following Altmetric data were collected: Altmetric attention score (AAS), mentions by news outlets, tweets, Mendeley readers, and Web of Science citations. Additionally, article title, type, topic, origin and open access status, journal title, quartile of impact factor (IF) distribution, and time lapse between COVID-19 pandemic onset and publication date were analysed.RESULTS: In all, 253 articles published in 48 dental journals were eligible for the study. AAS was significantly influenced by article topic, type, origin, and journal IF quartile. There was a negligible correlation between AAS and Web of Science citations. Mendeley was the only Altmetric source highly correlated with citations.CONCLUSIONS: There was substantial online interest in COVID-19 dentistry-related literature, as depicted by the AAS of the reviewed articles and social media metrics. Mendeley reader counts were highly correlated with citations, and they may therefore be valuable in research impact evaluation.</p