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Current Awareness 2022: January

This monthly post, compiled by the Information Search Librarians Team, will note special dates and themes, and draw your attention to possibly interesting cross-disciplinary topical references intended to inform and to inspire ideas for research.

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What is current awareness

Current awareness is the term used to describe staying informed by keeping up to date with the latest publications, research and news in your field.

The perspective of current awareness is the present and the forthcoming, as opposed to the retrospective. 

Current awareness ranges from looking for information on specific topics on a regular basis (and this usually involves the assistance of your Personal Librarian to help you set up a search profile matched to your research interests) to embracing a wider, more general, and cross-disciplinary view that brings an element of serendipity into your search for the latest information.

Informally, researchers remain alert in all contexts for useful information and insights that will inform their daily practice, their research, and spark off innovative and creative ideas for new avenues of research.

Website of the month

The website of the month is Semantic Scholar, a team of researchers and engineers at the Allen Institute for AI, building a better way to search and discover scientific knowledge.

 

Their mission is is to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using AI. Their Research team studies information overload and develops AI tools to overcome it.  Product and Engineering teams deliver these unique AI-driven features at scale to millions of scholars each month

https://www.semanticscholar.org

 

Further reading

 
On Open Distance Learning:
The Impact and Efficacy of E-Counselling in an Open Distance Learning Environment: A Mixed Method Exploratory Study
R Wells - Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis

 

An exploration of China-Africa cooperation in higher education: Opportunities and challenges in open distance learning
X Zhu, G Chikwa - Open Praxis, 2021 - search.informit.org

 

Exclusion reloaded: The chronicles of COVID-19 on students with disabilities in a South African open distance learning context
SA Ngubane-Mokiwa… - Journal of Intellectual …, 2021 - lifescienceglobal.com
 
Open Distance Learning and Immersive Technologies: A Literature Analysis
A Ntaba, M Jantjies - … Tension between Digital Technologies and Learning …, 2021 - Springer

About the monthly awareness page

The year is marked with many special days, weeks, and months dedicated and devoted to raising awareness about important issues.

This monthly post, compiled by the Information Search Librarians Team, will note special dates and themes, and draw your attention to possibly interesting cross-disciplinary topical references intended to inform and to inspire ideas for research.

Selected noteworthy days in January

   1250th International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICRIET)

Date : 14th Jan,2022

Venue : Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 
International Conference on Business, Commerce and Management Studies (ICBCMS)

Date : 27th Jan,2022

Venue : Dubai, United Arab Emirates

 

1180th International Conference on Psychology, Language and Teaching (ICPLT)

 

Date : 02nd Feb,2022

Venue : Singapore, Singapore
 

In The Media

Archive

Should you wish to read Current Awareness guides of previous years, please visit the archive:

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2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

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Golden oldies

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Manuela Aparicio, Fernando Bacao and Tiago Oliveira,

An e-Learning Theoretical Framework

Educational Technology & Society
Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2016), pp. 292-307
 
 
Educational Technology
Vol. 35, No. 6 (November-December 1995), pp. 43-48