| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 102 === As the domestic library subject service is still in its infancy, research is lacking on this aspect, especially in the field of specialized library subject services. This study utilized the SCONUL information literacy standard architecture to design interview outline, in order to better understand the information literacy practices for mathematical graduate students and professors, and to explore their needs for library subject services. This study used semi-structured, in-depth interviews to 18 graduate students and professors in the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, analyzing their information literacy behavior and subject service needs. Information literacy effects various behavior of writing a thesis or research project, including how to determine the research topic, select information and search strategies, gather information, evaluate information, management information to the application of information.
The results show that in different levels of academic achievements, such as master students, doctoral students, and professors showed different literacy behaviors, as the SCONUL seven pillars of information literacy of UK higher education, showing from the novice, beginner, advanced, competent, skilled, to the experts, the various stages of information seeking behavior and library skills. Master students are the novice stage, PhD students belong advanced stage, while professors are expert stage.
The study found that mathematics graduate students and professors of information literacy behavior has several characteristics : 1) Master's thesis topic is mainly dependent on the guidance of advisor; 2) doctoral research topics may be extended from Master thesis; 3) Google is the main way to graduate students seeking information; 4) doctoral students further use Google Scholar, MathScinet or ArXiv as information search channels; 5) peers are important source of information for professors; 6) news subscription is not highly demand in the pure math field; 7) participate in the academic community via the Internet is not very high; 8) Research Gate is highly recommended of communication capabilities by professors; 9) doctoral students using reference index (such as citations, journal impact factor) are better than master students as the paper quality assessment methods; 10) peer review report is assured by professors for feedback function; 11) the LaTex typesetting software is more popular than Word software; 12) LaTex or other application software, such as R statistical software or MATLAB, were self-guided by graduate students; 13) bibliographic management software compatible with BibTex format is preferred, for example the Papers; 14) graduate students thesis cite less papers, therefore less demand for bibliographic management; 15) graduate students are not clear on how the reference articles should be rewritten to avoid plagiarism; 16) professors think the verbal communication of ideas should be respected and mentioned in research paper; 17) professors are optimistic for library data curation ; 18) graduate students often encounter difficulties in literature reading and analysis; 19) professors believe graduate students are lack of scientific training in thesis writing; 20) graduate students submit manuscript to journals rely on the guidance of professor; 21) professors hold cautious reservations to the emerging open access journals due to the peer review system has not been well established; 22) seminars and workshops are important source of information.
The demand for library subject services by mathematics graduate students and professors, found through interviews, are mainly: 1) holding workshops of the mathematical database; 2) introducing the LaTex mathematical typesetting software; 3 ) providing introduction to bibliographic management software, Papers; 4) strengthen the academic influence index (impact factor) and SCI citations introduction; 5) assisting guidelines to scientific paper writing; 6) assisting the information collection of paper submission; 7) provide interpersonal venue and activities.
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