Information literacy in the professional literature: an exploratory analysis

摘要

Purpose - The current study aims to review the different publications dealing with informationrnliteracy and the emerging trends reflected over the ten years, 1999-2009, in the Web of Science (WOS)rndatabase.rnDesign/methodology/approach - The study presents both a statistical descriptive analysis ofrndocument type, subject areas, authors, source titles, publication years, languages, countries andrnkeywords of publications extracted from the WOS database, as well as a thorough content analysis ofrnkeywords and abstracts extracted from the WOS database.rnFindings - The main results suggest that the term information literacy has various characteristics inrnan additional and interesting context: health and medicine. This finding may reflect a tendency ofrnassociation between information literacy and health and medicine and stresses people's need forrninformation literacy in this specific context.rnOriginality/value - The current study emphasises the notion that information literacy is no longerrnan issue for librarians or educators only.