Information literacy: the concept captured from studies on health
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https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v8i3.681Keywords:
Information literacy, Concept formation, Health sciences, Classification, Questionnaires ResumenAbstract
The concept of information literacy (IL) has evolved since its birth in 1974. This article analyzes the employment of the IL concept within studies in the health sciences. For this purpose, we have used the bibliographic search on Medline/PubMed throughout 1998-2010. Both IL and aspects of IL on texts and questionnaires of selected articles were examined. From 26 studies, four applied the expression IL and 22 applied different terms. The studies that seemed to investigate aspects more tied to the concept of IL had librarians as authors or collaborators. Although the IL term has only been employed in four studies, the intention of investigating IL was implicit on the remaining 22 studies. Since Medline indexes the health science literature, we believe that the authors preferred not to use the term IL or, perhaps, they were not aware of its particular concept. The incorporation of IL into Medline's MeSH vocabulary indicates that IL has been assimilated by the health sciences.Downloads
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