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Of Orrefors and Noritake: or, has Geert Hofstede something to say about web site design?
G.E. GormanThe purpose of this paper is to look at Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of culture.
A snapshot of information use patterns of academics in British universities
Donna Gardiner, David McMenemy, Gobinda ChowdhuryThis paper aims to study information behaviour of academics in the digital age. Compares information behaviour of British university academics in three disciplines – computer and…
A checklist for evaluating open source digital library software
Dion Hoe‐Lian Goh, Alton Chua, Davina Anqi Khoo, Emily Boon‐Hui Khoo, Eric Bok‐Tong Mak, Maple Wen‐Min NgMany open source software packages are available for organizations and individuals to create digital libraries (DLs). However, a simple to use instrument to evaluate these DL…
JavaScript tools for online information retrieval
Ruwan Gamage, Hui DongEfficiency of server side search engines is very low in cases of slow internet connections. Therefore, this study aims to examine use of client side search tools.
Digital libraries: what do users want?
Elahe Kani‐Zabihi, Gheorghita Ghinea, Sherry Y. ChenThe purpose of this study is to determine user suggestions for digital libraries' functionality and features.
MetaLib, WebFeat, and Google: The strengths and weaknesses of federated search engines compared with Google
Xiaotian ChenSeeks to describe library federated search engines MetaLib and WebFeat as research tools by comparing MetaLib with WebFeat and by highlighting their strengths and weaknesses…
A study of metadata element co‐occurrence
Jin Zhang, Iris JastramThis paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co‐occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web…
Public Library 2.0: Towards a new mission for public libraries as a “network of community knowledge”
Gobinda Chowdhury, Alan Poulter, David McMenemyThis article seeks to propose a new vision for public libraries in the digital age.
Open access to scholarly indexing/abstracting information
Peter JacsóThe purpose of this article is to discuss open access to scholarly indexing/abstracting information.
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1468-4527e-ISSN:
1468-4535ISSN-L:
1468-4527Renamed from:
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- Professor Eugenia Siapera