Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 67 Issue 4

Book or NOOK? Information behavior of academic librarians

Elizabeth McDonald, Marina Rosenfield, Tim Furlow, Tara Kron, Irene Lopatovska

The purpose of this paper is to understand patterns in information behavior of academic librarians, individuals who influence information technology adoption in academic libraries…

Evaluating hotels rating prediction based on sentiment analysis services

Rutilio Rodolfo López Barbosa, Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, Miguel Angel Sicilia-Urban

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the reliability of numerical ratings of hotels calculated by three sentiment analysis algorithms.

Document-based approach to improve the accuracy of pairwise comparison in evaluating information retrieval systems

Sri Devi Ravana, MASUMEH SADAT TAHERI, Prabha Rajagopal

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to have more accurate results in comparing performance of the paired information retrieval (IR) systems with reference to the…

Knowledge management reliability assessment: an empirical investigation

Roozbeh Hesamamiri, Mohammad Mahdavi Mazdeh, Mostafa Jafari, Kamran Shahanaghi

A perfect knowledge management (KM) initiative is one that achieves its objectives without any failure during a pre-defined period. However, KM implementation is not perfect in…

User studies and user education programmes in archival institutions

Shadrack Katuu

The purpose of this paper is to examine user studies as well as user education within the context of public services offered by archival institutions. It highlighted some of the…

Authors self-citation behaviour in the field of Library and Information Science

Tariq Ahmad Shah, Sumeer Gul, Ramesh C Gaur

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the author self-citation behavior in the field of Library and Information Science. Various factors governing the author self-citation…