Journal of Documentation: Volume 79 Issue 7

The readability of abstracts in library and information science journals

Nina Jamar

The purpose of the research was to find out if there are any differences in the readability score between abstracts published in scientific journals from library and information…

“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise

Amber L. Cushing, Giulia Osti

This study aims to explore the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in archival practice by presenting the thoughts and opinions of working archival practitioners. It…

Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership

Reijo Savolainen

This article aims to elaborate the context-sensitive nature of credibility assessment by examining how such judgments are made in online discussion in times of uncertainty caused…

What do we mean by “data”? A proposed classification of data types in the arts and humanities

Bianca Gualandi, Luca Pareschi, Silvio Peroni

This article describes the interviews the authors conducted in late 2021 with 19 researchers at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of…

Exploring arXiv usage habits among Slovenian scientists

Zala Metelko, Jasna Maver

This study investigates how important the preprint arXiv is for Slovenian scientists, whether there are differences between scientific disciplines and the reputation of arXiv…

Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors

Alejandro Morales-Vargas, Rafael Pedraza-Jimenez, Lluís Codina

The field of website quality evaluation attracts the interest of a range of disciplines, each bringing its own particular perspective to bear. This study aims to identify the main…

Is dc:subject enough? A landscape on iconography and iconology statements of knowledge graphs in the semantic web

Sofia Baroncini, Bruno Sartini, Marieke Van Erp, Francesca Tomasi, Aldo Gangemi

In the last few years, the size of Linked Open Data (LOD) describing artworks, in general or domain-specific Knowledge Graphs (KGs), is gradually increasing. This provides…

Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings

Kimmo Kettunen, Heikki Keskustalo, Sanna Kumpulainen, Tuula Pääkkönen, Juha Rautiainen

This study aims to identify user perception of different qualities of optical character recognition (OCR) in texts. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of different…

Open access books through open data sources: assessing prevalence, providers, and preservation

Mikael Laakso

Science policy and practice for open access (OA) books is a rapidly evolving area in the scholarly domain. However, there is much that remains unknown, including how many OA books…

Revisiting the notion of the public library as a meeting place: challenges to the mission of promoting democracy in times of political turmoil

Hanna Carlsson, Fredrik Hanell, Lisa Engström

This article explores how public librarians understand and perform the democratic mission of public libraries in times of political and social turbulence and critically discusses…

An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic referencing and citing practices

Erika Alves dos Santos, Silvio Peroni, Marcos Luiz Mucheroni

In this study, the authors want to identify current possible causes for citing and referencing errors in scholarly literature to compare if something changed from the snapshot…

Digitizing and parsing semi-structured historical administrative documents from the G.I. Bill mortgage guarantee program

Sara Lafia, David A. Bleckley, J. Trent Alexander

Many libraries and archives maintain collections of research documents, such as administrative records, with paper-based formats that limit the documents' access to in-person use…

Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals

Jin Gao, Julianne Nyhan, Oliver Duke-Williams, Simon Mahony

This paper presents a follow-on study that quantifies geolingual markers and their apparent connection with authorship collaboration patterns in canonical Digital Humanities (DH…

Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: the librarians' perspective

Koraljka Golub, Jenny Bergenmar, Siska Humelsjö

This article aims to help ensure high-quality subject access to Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersexual (LGBTQI) fiction, and aims to identify…

Cognitive appraisals and information-seeking achievement emotions: a qualitative study of Swedish primary teacher students

Claes Dahlqvist, Christel Persson

Primary teachers play a vital role in fostering pupils' successful futures. Therefore, gaining knowledge of primary teacher students' learning processes, including the achievement…

Online subject searching of humanities PhD students at a Swedish university

Koraljka Golub, Xu Tan, Ying-Hsang Liu, Jukka Tyrkkö

This exploratory study aims to help contribute to the understanding of online information search behaviour of PhD students from different humanities fields, with a focus on…