The perception of library and information science journals by LIS education deans and ARL library directors: A replication of the kohl-davis study

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-377

  Nisonger, Thomas E ^a   Davis, Charles H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 23744506472     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.66.4.341     Document Type: Review

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35. In order to protect respondent confidentiality, as required by the Indiana University Human Subjects Committee, returned questionnaires were removed from the envelopes and filed so that it was impossible to associate a completed questionnaire with a particular individual. However, for the second mailing it was possible to estimate nonrespondents to the initial mailing based on postmarks on the returning envelopes.
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43. The authors are aware that statistical purists maintain that t-tests should not be used for ordinal data and for descriptive rather than inferential statistics. In reality, t-tests are commonly applied to these types of data, and we have used them here for the sake of continuity with the original Kohl-Davis study and its replications.
44. Kohl and Davis, "Ratings of Journals by ARL Library Directors and Deans," 43; percentage calculated by Nisonger and Davis.
45. Ibid., 42.
46. Ibid., 43-44; percentages calculated by Nisonger and Davis.
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