Chiu Tzu-heng

Taipei Medical University | TMU · Center for General Education

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Dataverse, a global research data management consortium. The authors examine specifically the institutional characteristics, the utilization of the associated data sets and the relevant research data management services at its participating university libraries. This evidence-based...

In this article, we sought to determine whether perceived enjoyment (PE), perceived ease of use (PEOU), and perceived usefulness (PU) impacted children’s attitude toward using an augmented reality mobile application (app) to search for books in a smart library. We used an experiment and a questionnaire survey to measure the perceptions of 238 child...

In the year of 2009, the Taipei Medical University Library (TMUL) set up the TMU Institutional repository(IR) and began to promote concepts of scholarly communication in the campus and three affiliated hospitals. Since then, the TMU Academic Hub has been established, a scholarly communicate librarian has been appointed and a new Knowledge Service S...

A questionnaire related to journal submission was sent to researchers for a 2-week period to investigate the submission status as well as the problems faced by Taipei Medical University faculties and researchers. This study has two major findings including the Experience of predatory journal and Calculations of academic performance point and discus...

Innovative services, digital technology, and quality information are increasingly required in libraries to meet the needs of digital natives (i.e., children). The information-seeking behaviours of children in the process of book selection, searching, browsing, and using a library differ significantly from adults. In this study, we have developed an...

Digital natives are born into an information-dense resource-abundant world, which greatly influences their needs with regard to libraries. Furthermore, the information-seeking behaviors of children in the process of book selection, browsing, reading, and using a library differ significantly from adults. The high-quality information content and inno...

This is the 10th in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science librarianship. This issue describes developments in health science librarianship in the first decade of the 21st century in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The next issue will report on Japan and South Korea.JM

The Ministry of Education in Taiwan designed 3 information literacy (IL) related digital learning materials in 2008 and conducted a series of promotion activities. The MoE aims to encourage general education teachers in the universities to utilize these digital learning materials, and to resolve the deficiency of IL teachers. In September 2010, the...

The purpose of archiving is to build up a knowledgebase for future reference. In order to play the leading roles in the 21st century, countries around the world are all effectively maintaining their historical archives; not only does it preserve records for future inquiry, it also will provide guidelines for political reference information. In addi...

If any organization wants to persist forever and raise its competitiveness, it must possess a decent knowledge management mechanism, so that it can efficiently utilize knowledge, share knowledge, create knowledge, and absorb new knowledge to enhance a continuous growth, As far as an enterprise is concerned, the primary objective of knowledge manage...

Influenced by the concept of a “Knowledge Economy,” knowledge management (KM) has been receiving a lot of attention in the field of business administration recently. In the field of Library and Information Science, corporate librarians working in the information centers are mostly affected by KM either in their working environment or in their daily...

Influenced by the concept of “Knowledge Economics”, knowledge management (KM) is getting a lot of attention in the field of business administration recently. Corporate centers are mostly affected by KM either in their working environment or in the role of their daily operation in the field of Library and Information Science. In the United States, t...

Using a qualitative research method, in this study we investigated the attributes and factors that might affect the organization of knowledge resources in the library and information service industry. The findings from this study suggest that, in addition to "document/content" attributes (i.e., author, title, subject, etc.) traditionally emphasized...

This study explores the citation pattern of health science related subjects, using the theses and dissertations in 90 and 91 academic years of TMU as the research samples. Findings of this study can not only provide information for decision making of budget allocation in TMU, but also serve as the reference for other medical universities and colleg...

Classification is a way of seeing the world. In a classification scheme, phenomena of interest are represented in a context of relationships that provide description, explanation, prediction, heuristics, and the generation of new knowledge. Knowing that information organization isn’t equal to knowledge organization, the author first defines the sco...

The Era of knowledge Economy has come, and “knowledge” has become a key resource for enterprises. How to keep creating and utilizing new knowledge has become an important topic for modern business management. In the future, how to manage “knowledge” efficiently and effectively will be a crucial issue. However, due to differences in training backgro...

A good library association serves its members, improves the librarianship, and helps library institutions achieving their missions. This article describes the history, missions and goals, organization structure, membership, financial sources, professional activities, publication, and website of the Library Association of China (LAC) and American Li...

】 In 2010, the author was appointed by the Medical Library Committee of the Library Association of Republic of China (MLCLAR) to conduct a research project on all medical libraries in Taiwan. The project was to investigate the willingness of supporting the MLC consortium purchase as well as to identify core medical e-resources for purchase. The aut...