The scientific production of Ibero-American authors on information literacy (1985–2013)

Abstract

The objective of this study was to make a current diagnosis of the scientific production of Ibero-American researchers on information literacy and information competences during the last four decades. The literature output on information literacy was examined using the techniques of bibliometric analysis and information visualization. The literature considered was that constituted by the articles included in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), Scopus (Elsevier), Library and Information Science Abstracts, and Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts databases. The occurrence of descriptors was analysed using VOSViewer, a program that groups them into clusters and generates a map of their connections. The results showed exponential growth of some 30 % annually between 2005 and 2011, with a mean of 14.45 documents per year. Spain, with 119 documents, was the top producing country, followed by Brazil with 76. The distribution of the more than 500 authors fitted a Lotka-law pattern, and the distribution of the 105 journals fitted the three zones of a Bradford-law pattern. The visualization map showed the 62 descriptors to group into seven clusters. For its centrality, there stood out ''Information literacy'', strongly related with ''Information Science''. At the edge of the

Evolution and diffusion of information literacy topics

“…Sproles et al ( 2013 ) analyzed the literature on information literacy and library instruction from 2001 to 2010 and discovered that key topics continue to be collaboration, assessment, and the application of technology to instruction efforts. Pinto et al ( 2014 ) compared the conceptual structure of information literacy between the social sciences and health sciences from 1974 to 2011. The area of health sciences yielded four clusters, and the most central descriptor was “education”, which was strongly linked to “information retrieval” and weakly linked to “information skills”, “information seeking”, and “information science”.…”

“…Studies on information literacy topics and their changes can be informative for researchers and can help them to better understand the domains of such topics, that is, by clarifying the developmental context of information literacy, finding weak points and grasping future trends, which will contribute to the development and innovation of information literacy. Some studies have classified the topics of information literacy via qualitative systematic reviews (Sproles et al, 2013 ), content analyses (Wu, Li, et al, 2020 ), bibliometric analyses (Kolle, 2017 ; Park & Kim, 2011 ), citation analyses (Taşkin et al, 2013 ) and word co-occurrence analyses (Pinto, 2015 ; Pinto et al, 2014 , b , 2019 ). These studies are often focused on limited scenarios, such as higher education and information literacy education.…”

Information Literacy Practices of Spanish-Speaking Graduate Students at the University of Kansas

“…22 In Latin America, however, the number of IL programs is much lower, with just 13.5 percent (72 of 532) of university libraries in Mexico providing any sort of education outreach. 23 Overall, differing educational goals and economic opportunities mean that libraries in the region do not yet support IL as a priority. Moreover, IL is rarely mentioned beyond academic libraries, 24 although Edilma Naranjo-Vélez and Nora Elena Rendón-Giraldo note a few examples of IL in public and school libraries, 25 and Elisabeth Dudziak makes a strong case for linking IL to development and business contexts.…”

“…Moreover, IL is rarely mentioned beyond academic libraries, 24 although Edilma Naranjo-Vélez and Nora Elena Rendón-Giraldo note a few examples of IL in public and school libraries, 25 and Elisabeth Dudziak makes a strong case for linking IL to development and business contexts. 26 Given these implementation challenges, how is IL currently understood in Ibero-America? In 2015, María Pinto, M. Isabel Escalona, Antonio Pulgarín, and Alejandro Uribe-Tirado analyzed the six periods of Ibero-American IL research.…”

competencia informacional y derechos de autor en las bibliotecas de instituciones de educación superior de Brasil

“…Como es habitual, su desarrollo y evolución ha sido diferente según las áreas geográficas y el desarrollo de los países, destacándose como líderes los países anglosajones, en tanto que los países iberoamericanos han ido algo más retrasados (Dudziak, 2010), aunque en los últimos años se detecta un importante incremento de los autores de esta región en la producción científica sobre la materia (Pinto et al, 2015). A este respecto, si nos centramos en el caso concreto de Brasil nos encontramos con que con 179 contenidos era el tercer país del entorno iberoamericano, tras España con 397 y México con 212 (Uribe-Tirado, 2013), aumentando hasta 238 contenidos en febrero de 2015, según datos de la wiki ALFIN Iberoamérica (http://alfiniberoamerica.wikispaces.com/).…”