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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Pinto, Maria; Fernandez-Ramos, Andres; Sanchez, Gerardo; Meneses, Grizly – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2013
The study was carried out with students of official doctoral programs of Information Science in four universities in Spain and Latin America with the purpose of finding out, through self-assessments, student perceptions of their own information competence. A survey was designed to determine self-perceptions of knowledge, skills and attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Information Science Education
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Pinto, Maria – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011
The IL-HUMASS survey is applied to a sample of Spanish Social Sciences and Humanities students in an attempt to gain a better understanding of their information literacy from an internal perspective. We analyze scores for three dimensions (motivation, self-efficacy and learning habits) of each of the survey's 26 variables, grouped into 4…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Humanities, Social Sciences, College Students
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Pinto, Maria; Fernandez-Marcial, Viviana; Gomez-Camarero, Carmen – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2010
This research explores the extent of service quality in Spanish university science and technology libraries, based on the expectations and perceptions of their users: faculty and researchers. Users' information behavior is analyzed with the specially designed BiQual tool, which reveals specific needs such as the greater importance of electronic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Services, Case Studies
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Pinto, Maria; Garcia-Marco, Javier; Sales, Dora; Cordon, Jose Antonio – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2010
The InfoliTrans Test is a portal designed to analyze, explore, and improve information competence among students of higher education, using the field of Translation and Interpretation for this pilot project. The methodology, based on the best international practices and experiences, and its specifications are detailed. From a practical standpoint,…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Measures (Individuals), Information Skills, College Students