Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 37 Issue 3

Editorial

Identifying the factors influencing digital library use among research students: a case of National Digital Library of Pakistan

As the revolution of information takes place, industrialized societies are going to become information societies. Developing countries such as Pakistan are going to change due to…

Professional competence and attitudes of library personnel towards digital services in selected university libraries in Nigeria

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the professional competence and attitude of library personnel towards digital services in selected university libraries in Nigeria…

Author productivity pattern and applicability of Lotka’s inverse square law: a bibliometric appraisal of selected LIS open access journals

The purpose of this paper is to know whether the authors’ productivity pattern of library and information science (LIS) open access journals adheres to Lotka’s inverse square law…

Research data services from the perspective of academic librarians

This study aims to investigate the perceptions of academic librarians regarding research data services (RDS) in academic library environments. This study also examines a range of…

Researchers’ awareness about plagiarism and impact of plagiarism detection tools – does awareness effect the actions towards preventing plagiarism?

This paper aims to analyse researchers’ awareness about plagiarism and impact of plagiarism detection tools on the actions that they take to prevent plagiarism. It also employs a…

How can governments nudge students to become ebook readers? Evidence from Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to investigate if and how government intervention can nudge students to become ebook readers.

Diagnosing Spanish literature bachelor students’ information literacy in digital environments

The purpose of this study was to adapt and implement the Association of College and Research Library’s (ACRL’s) Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English for…

Democracy, digitisation and public libraries

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what democratic challenges the digitisation of the public libraries in Denmark has entailed. Using the concepts from a national library…