Recent Publications

Assefa, S.G., Alemneh, D.G., & Rorissa, A. (2015). Diffusion of scientific knowledge in agriculture: The case for Africa. Agricultural Information Worldwide, 6, 34-47.

Oguz, F., & Assefa, S. (2014). Faculty members’ perceptions towards institutional repository at a Medium-Sized University: Application of a binary logistic regression model. Library Review, 63(3), 189-202.

Assefa, S. G. and Rorissa, A. (2013), A bibliometric mapping of the structure of STEM education using co-word analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 64: 2513–2536.

Assefa, S.G., & Gershman, L. (2012). 21st Century skills and science education in K-12 environment. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 14(1&2), 139-162.

Assefa, S. G. (2012). Unfulfilled promises of globalization: Global knowledge production and Africa. In Kuang-ming Wu (Ed.), Globalization Dynamics: Psychological, Economic, Technological, and Cultural – Volume I: Problems, Cultural Intercourse (vol. 1, pp. 18). New York: Nova Science Publishers. www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=29513

Assefa, S.G., Rorissa, A., Alemneh, D.G., & Albright, K. (2012). Content divide: Africa and the global knowledge footprint. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 49(1), 1-3.

Assefa, S.G. (2009). Human Conceptual Representation and Knowledge Structure in The UMLS: A Coherence Analysis.Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag.

Assefa, S.G. (2009). Coherent knowledge structure and theory-based approach to categorization. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 45(1), 1-9.

Assefa, S.G., & Prybutok, V. (2006). Towards a comprehensive model to predict perceived performance impact of wireless/mobile computing in a mandatory environment. In I. Garcia & R. Trejo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems (pp. 2663-2672). Acapulco, Mexico: Association for Information System.

Conference presentations

Assefa, S.G., Rorissa, A., Matusiak, K., & Alemneh, D.G. Open Access: The Global Scene. Association for Information Science and Technology annual meeting, Seattle, WA, October 31 - November 5, 2014. https://www.asis.org/asist2014/abstracts/panels/90.html

Assefa, S. G., Alemneh, D.G., Rorissa, A. Diffusion of scientific knowledge in agriculture: The case for Africa. International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists World Congress, Cornell University, July 22-24, 2013, http://iaald.library.cornell.edu/

Assefa, S. G., Alemneh, D.G., Rorissa, A. Using Moodle as an Online Learning Management System to offer Professional Development Courses to Agricultural Extension Workers in Africa. International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists World Congress, Cornell University, July 22-24, 2013, http://iaald.library.cornell.edu/

Alemneh, D.G., Assefa, S. G., Rorissa, A. Partnership for enhancing developing countries’ capacity in participating in global knowledge production and use. International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists World Congress, Cornell University, July 22-24, 2013, http://iaald.library.cornell.edu/

Assefa, S. G., Alemneh, D. G., Rorissa, A., & Albright, K. (2012, October). Content divide: Africa and the global knowledge footprint. 75th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Baltimore, MD, October 21-24, 2012.

Assefa, S.G. (2009, August). Bridging the digital divide: the promise of high-speed Internet for LIS education in Africa. Paper presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, Italy.

Assefa, S.G. (2007, January). Analysis of relations in the semantic network of the unified medical language system. Doctoral student’s research poster session presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education, Seattle, WA.

Assefa, S.G. (2006, January). Investigation of the unified medical language system using situation theory: a pragmatics approach. Poster session presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education, San Antonio, TX

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