The Electronic Library: Volume 36 Issue 3

Construction of personal knowledge maps for a peer-to-peer information-sharing environment

Chunxiu Qin, Pengwei Zhao, Jian Mou, Jin Zhang

Browsing knowledge documents in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment is difficult because knowledge documents in such an environment are large in quantity and distributed over…

Geographical visualization of research collaborations of library science in China

Jiming Hu, Ruhua Huang, Yubo Wang

The purpose of this paper is to visualize the collaboration network among regions in library science (LS) in China. Using various methods and tools of social network analysis and…

Domain-specific readability measures to improve information retrieval in the Persian language

Sholeh Arastoopoor

The degree to which a text is considered readable depends on the capability of the reader. This assumption puts different information retrieval systems at the risk of retrieving…

Exploring the context of visual information seeking

Shahram Sedghi, Zeinab Shormeij, Iman Tahamtan

Information seeking is an interactive behaviour of the end users with information systems, which occurs in a real environment known as context. Context affects information-seeking…

Barriers to digitization in university libraries of Pakistan: a developing country’s perspective

Muhammad Rafiq, Kanwal Ameen, Munazza Jabeen

The purpose of this study is to identify barriers that are hindering digitization initiatives in university libraries of Pakistan.

Improving the discoverability of PhD student work through a CRIS system

Lidija Ivanovic, Bojana Dimic Surla, Dusan Surla, Dragan Ivanovic, Zora Konjovic, Gordana Rudic

Dissertations from the University of Novi Sad (UNS) are integrated with the research information system called the current research information system (CRIS) UNS. This paper aims…

Usability testing for an open-source integrated library system: A task-based study of the Koha OPAC interface

Asma Khatun, S.M. Zabed Ahmed

The aim of this paper is to empirically examine the usability of the Koha OPAC from a user perspective.

Institutional repositories: a bibliometric study of the social sciences citation index (SSCI)

Yi-Ping Liao, Tsu-Jui Ma

This paper aims to provide a bibliometric study of journal articles related to institutional repositories in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between January 1993 and…

Factors affecting student use of Web-based services: Application of UTAUT in the Pakistani context

Muhammad Arif, Kanwal Ameen, Muhammad Rafiq

The delivery of information services in higher education is increasingly relying on Web-based systems. The low adoption and underutilization of information systems have been major…

The smart library project: Development of information and library services for educational and scientific activity

Ruslan Aleksandrovich Baryshev, Sergey Vladimirovich Verkhovets, Olga Ivanovna Babina

This paper aims to analyse the phenomenon of smart libraries, which began in the 2000s, alongside the development of computer technology, digital storage the internet and…

Semi-automatic extraction of multiword terms from domain-specific corpora

Vesna Pajić, Staša Vujičić Stanković, Ranka Stanković, Miloš Pajić

A hybrid approach is presented, which combines linguistic and statistical information to semi-automatically extract multiword term candidates from texts.

Can I have more of these please?: Assisting researchers in finding similar research papers from a seed basket of papers

Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar, Schubert Foo, Natalie Pang

During the literature review phase, the task of finding similar research papers can be a difficult proposition for researchers due to the procedural complexity of the task…