A master list with the following fields was then created:
Author
Title of document
Year of publication
Subject of document
Type of document
Journal
Collaboration
Affiliation
Number of documents
Downloading of data
The following procedure was then used to download data for this particular study.
Database
The LISTA and WORLDCAT databases were used to retrieve data. LISTA is accessible through its host database Ebscohost on the internet. The WORLDCAT database is accessible via the University of Zululand library webpage, through the FIRSTSEARCH host database. To access it, a password and a user ID is required.
Keywords used
The full name of each academic librarian was used as a keyword to search all three databases for any publication that may have been published by the said academic librarian.
