Managing Information for Research: Practical help in researching, writing and designing dissertations

"It’s .... an excellent piece of work which will help anyone who is prepared to learn about the most effective manner of organising and presenting information". Roy Johnson 2009 Mantex Information Design
 "... this is one of the best handbooks on how to manage continuously the handling of information throughout the whole process of formulating initial hypothesis towards the end product – the dissertation..." Simonas Daukantas Vilnius Information Research August 2009
 "This is a very engaging book on research that, unusually, covers the neglected but strategically important information and knowledge aspects of the research process, including writing, designing and dissemination. It is also unusual in that the authors talk personally to the reader (lots of practical advice offered), and for the 'real conversations' it furnishes from practising and recent researchers. It makes a very welcome change from those stereotypical research methods books that seem only ever to tell you what you already knew in a remote, formalistic and repetitive fashion. By contrast this book is fresh, interesting, fills a real gap in the research literature and the authors' passion for quality research is there for everyone to see." Professor David Nicholas, Director, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, and UCL Centre for Publishing, University College London.
 "I was delighted when I discovered this treasury of useful advice and insight, and I recommend it to my research students. The book is based on interviews with real research students (who are quoted at length), so it offers the solidarity of a shared experience, not just a lecture. The authors understand the difficulties that students face as they try to organize their thoughts, their time, and the inevitable mountain of data and references. They demonstrate the power of diagramming and clear typography in their own writing and their graphic techniques are powerful ways to organize the processes of thinking and writing. The resulting clarity will also delight supervisors and examiners." Rob Waller, Professor of Information Design, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading.
 You can't do research of any kind without doing two things: 1 Finding and organizing relevant information 2 Transforming it into the end product on which your research will be judged and rewarded (or not!)
 Yet realistic and detailed guidance on these vital activities is in short supply. The authors' unique design approach shows how the two are related and how they can support each other throughout research.
 New features in this completely rewritten and re-designed edition include:
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<li> Stories from the experience of researchers </li>
<li> Typographical page layout templates for each part of a dissertation </li>
<li> 'Tips, time-savers and troubleshooting' for dissertation writers</li>
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Orna,Elizabeth

Stevens,Graham

Reference

Open University Press

Information as a resource to be managed within an organization, is a concept accepted by information professionals, but not necessarily by general management. The aim of this book is twofold: to help the information professional to present, prepare and implement an information policy and also to encourage management to accept the significance of such a policy for their own organization. The book is structured in such a way that "reading paths" are identified for the two user groups. The style, structure and layout reflect the practical nature of planning an information policy.

Practical information policies: how to manage information flow in organizations

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Gower

Offers a straighforward way of working out what an organization needs to know to survive and prosper; what information it requires to "feed" its knowledge; and how people need to interact in using knowledge and information. This edition includes new chapters on people and technology.

Practical Information Policies

Gower Pub.Co.

This ground-breaking book opens up new territory for knowledge and information management. The only way we can make what we know visible to other people is by putting it into Information Products â€“ the products, in any medium, where users meet the information they need, and gain access to the knowledge of others. Without them, little business would get done inside organizations or between them and the outside world. They are essential for the flow, exchange, application, and preservation of information and knowledge. This is the first book to make the case for the proper recognition of information products by organizations. It shows how they should support business objectives and processes and be incorporated into information strategy and information architecture; illustrates the value they can both add and subtract; identifies the full range of stakeholders in them; and argues that a triple alliance of information management, information systems/IT, and information design is critical for successful information products. Stories from real life illustrate every step of the argument. The final part of the book demonstrates how an actual organization used information auditing as a tool to develop a strategic information product for an important user community.

Making Knowledge Visible: Communicating Knowledge Through Information Products (Gower Developments in Business) (Gower Developments in Business)

Liz Orna's original Practical Information Policies has become a standard text which has helped information managers in many countries to take productive action in their own environment: to get a job they wanted, carry through an information audit, make a successful business case for an information policy, or formulate an information strategy. This book is designed specially for students preparing to enter the information professions; working professionals in other fields, whose job includes an information-management element; and senior managers from other specialisms who have overall responsibilities for information activities. Information Strategy in Practice provides, in brief and practical form, and informal style: ¢ a reliable account of the key processes involved in developing organizational information policy and strategy, with realistic suggestions on carrying them through, drawn from actual practice ¢ a sound framework of the ideas underlying the practice recommended, which readers can relate to their own context ¢ advice from experience about dealing with the kind of problems that often beset information-strategy development, and about getting the best from the process.

Information Strategy in Practice

Routledge

Information Handling in Museums

Clive Bingley

Making Knowledge Visible: Communicating Knowledge Through Information Products (Gower Developments in Business S)

Liz Orna's original Practical Information Policies has become a standard text which has helped information managers in many countries to take productive action in their own environment: to get a job they wanted, carry through an information audit, make a successful business case for an information policy, or formulate an information strategy. This book is designed specially for students preparing to enter the information professions; working professionals in other fields, whose job includes an information-management element; and senior managers from other specialisms who have overall responsibilities for information activities. Information Strategy in Practice provides, in brief and practical form, and informal style: &#65533; a reliable account of the key processes involved in developing organizational information policy and strategy, with realistic suggestions on carrying them through, drawn from actual practice &#65533; a sound framework of the ideas underlying the practice recommended, which readers can relate to their own context &#65533; advice from experience about dealing with the kind of problems that often beset information-strategy development, and about getting the best from the process.

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Managing Information for Research: Practical help in researching, writing and designing dissertations

Managing Information for Research: Practical help in researching, writing and designing dissertations

Practical information policies: how to manage information flow in organizations

Practical Information Policies

Making Knowledge Visible: Communicating Knowledge Through Information Products (Gower Developments in Business) (Gower Developments in Business)

Information Strategy in Practice

Information Handling in Museums

Making Knowledge Visible: Communicating Knowledge Through Information Products (Gower Developments in Business S)

Information Strategy in Practice