October 2013

Evaluation of the effect of media-mix on HIV/AIDS information dissemination in Abia State, Nigeria

The study examined the effectiveness of media-mix in disseminating HIV/AIDS information to rural communities in Abia State, Nigeria. Abia State is made up of three Geo-political Zones namely Abia North, Abia South, and Abia Central. From the three zones, two zones Abia North and Abia South were randomly selected and from these two zones, two Local Government Areas (LGAs) – Ohafia and Obingwa were purposively...

Author(s): Odoemelam L. E. and Nwachukwu I.

October 2013

The pattern of using information by research scholars in zoology: A bibliometric study

Citations of 24 doctoral dissertations in Applied Zoology submitted to Kuvempu University since its inception were analysed to study the information use pattern of research scholars. The study also analysed the principal bibliographic forms, the journal used and their distribution according to country of origin and chronological scattering. The application of Bradford’s Law of scattering to the literature of...

Author(s): B. U. Kannappanavar and Koteppa Banateppanavar