The Electronic Library: Volume 42 Issue 5

A study on the influence of digital literacy on elderly user’s intention to identify social media false information

Lu Chen, Jing Jia, Manling Xiao, Chengzhen Wu, Luwen Zhang

This research exclusively focuses on China’s elderly Internet users given how severe a threat disinformation has become for this particular population group as social media…

Factors influencing the adoption of big data in libraries: a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed articles from 2013 to 2023

Khurram Shahzad, Shakeel Ahmad Khan

The purpose of this study are to identify the factors influencing the adoption of big data in libraries, determine the challenges causing the hindrance of big data implementation…

A method of identifying domain-specific academic user information needs based on academic Q&A communities

Chunxiu Qin, Yulong Wang, XuBu Ma, Yaxi Liu, Jin Zhang

To address the shortcomings of existing academic user information needs identification methods, such as low efficiency and high subjectivity, this study aims to propose an…

Research on the construction and application of a smart library services maturity evaluation system based on CMM

Zhongxian Bai, Lvna Yu, Lei Zhao, Weijia Wang

Smart libraries are the result of the application of smart technologies in the era of digital intelligence. The establishment and improvement of its service evaluation system…

Readiness of Pakistani journals for open access publishing

Muhammad Zahid Raza, Muhammad Rafiq, Saira Hanif Soroya

This study was designed to discover the readiness of the higher education commission (HEC)-recognized journals of Pakistan in terms of human, financial and technological…

Tell me what to do first: how behavioural skills drive users’ intention to adopt online health information

Zhenyi Tang, Pengyi Zhang, Yujia Li, Preben Hansen

To gain a deeper understanding of users’ health information adoption and to promote the effectiveness of health information spread in the context of online limited information…

Unlocking Generation Y’s continuance intentions in personal cloud storage services: an extended expectation confirmation model analysis

Ali Vafaei-Zadeh, Davoud Nikbin, Jing Loo, Haniruzila Hanifah

This study aims to investigate the factors that influence the continuance intention to use personal cloud storage services among Generation Y.