Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2023

Dominic Agyei Dankwah

  Dr. Dominic Agyei Dankwah is a practising librarian at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, in Ghana. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Studies and a Master of Arts degree in Library Studies, all from the University of Ghana, Legon. Dominic subsequently enrolled at the University of South Africa, where he completed his PhD programme in Information Science. He is a co-recipient of the UHAS Seed Grant and a beneficiary of the University of Pretoria-Carnegie CPD Programmes. At UHAS, he leads a team of experts at the Electronic Library and Training Support Department of the UHAS Library. As well, he lectures in Information Literacy, a university-wide course for first-year undergraduate students of UHAS. Dominic has been a key facilitator in several training programmes, locally and internationally. Dr. Dankwah is a certified Mendeley Advisor. He has, so far, published in several esteemed scientific journals, written book chapters, and continues to

Reference Management Systems (RMS) Preferences

This article discusses the findings of a study on students' knowledge and use of Reference Management Software in managing their referencing and citation needs. Using a descriptive study to distribute questionnaires among students of a health training institution, the authors share details on the respondents' knowledge of and preferred RMS, their primary use, and the why some do not use these tools. These interesting findings will be of academics in the scholarly communications ecosystem and especially, mentors and supervisors of research students. The full text of this piece could be accessed via:  https://tinyurl.com/bdz6amv6