Joseph Ngoaketsi

University of the Witwatersrand | wits · Department of History

Bibliometric research provides a quantitative basis for evaluating the productivity and impact of researchers, research groups, institutions, and even countries. Therefore, this study examined a bibliometric analysis of the available research on Coronavirus. We. Only relevant observational and interventional studies on coronavirus covering the stud...

Bibliometric research provides a quantitative basis for evaluating the productivity and impact of researchers, research groups, institutions, and even countries. Therefore, this study examined a bibliometric analysis of the available research on Coronavirus. We. Only relevant observational and interventional studies on coronavirus covering the stud...

The study examined correlates of online bookstores service quality, satisfaction, and patronage intention among the research students in Nigerian universities. Through a survey design, the study drew on 711 research students from ten universities in the Southwest , Nigeria. Three hypotheses were developed and tested. The findings revealed that onli...

The aim of the congress is to develop human, social and cultural capital. The EMI Congress is an academic, social and cultural organization where academics, entrepreneurs, public and private sector managers and NGO leaders, artists and students exchange information. The main theme of the congress will be "The Entrepreneurship and Social Sciences in...

The advancement in technologies coupled with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and its associated technologies such as artificial intelligence, AI, robotic technology, virtual/augmented reality, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, and the likes have entered into the academic and other types of libraries have all brought changes into the dig...

The advancement in technologies coupled with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and its associated technologies such as artificial intelligence, AI, robotic technology, virtual/augmented reality, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, and the likes have entered into the academic and other types of libraries have all brought changes into the dig...

Digitisation is the practice of converting physical information into a digital (computer-readable format), by using digital technologies to modify the existing structure by enhancing the efficiency of an organisational process, foster reliability, and quality. This is a method of incorporating conventional records into a digitised form by eliminati...

The convergence of technologies and emergence of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary modus of knowledge production justify the need for research that explores the disinterestedness or interconnectivity of the information science disciplines. The quantum leap in knowledge production, increasing demand for information and knowledge, changing info...

Religious libraries have evolved through time and space and their contributions to the present day libraries have not been given a thorough coverage in the corpus of librarianship. While the aforementioned libraries have taken various forms throughout their histories in supporting their broader institutions' missions and have had various kinds of r...

This study investigated predictors of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) utilization by distance education librarians and drew out implications on library services in distance learning in Eswatini'. Eswatini is a small country in the Southern part of Africa where only a few studies on MOOCs have been conducted focusing on perceived usefulness, ins...

Libraries, museums and archives share a common denominator since they all belong to the realm of memory institutions. However, it appeared there is no synergy between the Sharpeville community library and other related institutions within the same proximity under the Emfuleni Municipality. Sharpeville occupies a significant historical space in the...

Breaking the Colonial “Contract”: From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks, laws, and institutions. The main achie...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate open access practices (OAPs): a roadmap to research paper publications in academic institutions. The rationale that necessitates this scenario was the dwindling nature of the inability of researchers and lecturers/academics in African academic institutions to access related materials in their subj...

There is one aspect of Libraries that needs particularly to be highlighted, namely the role of the public library as a par excellence site that upholds the public intellectual space when contrasted to the more restricted academic space. It is a primary means by which public intellectuals and, through them, civil society, may hold even academia to a...

This study examined information literacy, metacognitive abilities and self-concept capabilities. The evaluation of this research indicated that self-concept is the totality of psychological, emotional, psychosomatic and mental development that provide confidence to individual in the ability to search, use, appraise and assess information resources,...