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Direct linkAladeniyi, Fasa Rachael; Fasae, Joseph Kehinde – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The study aims to investigate the use of cybercafe for internet access by students of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: Using descriptive design, 382 copies of a structured questionnaire were administered to students of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, who were using the institution cybercafe as at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Services, Access to Computers
Zhang, Liyi; Ye, Pinghao; Liu, Qihua – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on users' information behaviour in China, a topic which has not been researched extensively. The aim is to help producers and providers collect and develop more electronic resources. Design/methodology/approach: The study investigates users' information behaviour at seven "211 Project"…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Academic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Publications
Bankole, Olubanke M. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the extent and level of internet access and use among scientists at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Nigeria, its impact on their academic activities and the constraints faced in internet use. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire survey with all the 125 scientists in the Faculty of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, College Faculty, Internet
Vilar, Polona; Zumer, Maja – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an empirical study of information behaviour of young Slovenian researchers. Design/methodology/approach: Built on some well-known models of scholarly information behaviour the study complements a previously conducted study of the same population, which focused on the aspects of user…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Graduate Students, Information Retrieval
Gupta, Dinesh K. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the use of electronic journals from the INFONET consortium by faculty and research scholars of physics and chemistry at Kurukshetra University, India. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on the results of a questionnaire distributed to all the teachers and research scholars of the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Journals, Printed Materials, Periodicals
Wang, Minglu – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how the authors gained a better understanding of the variety of library users' data needs, and how gradually some new data services were established based on current capabilities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a case study of the new data services at the John Cotton Dana Library, at…
Descriptors: Library Services, Data, User Needs (Information), Academic Libraries
Min, Shao; Yi, Yang – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The paper aims to provide an overview of the e-resources and services in Tsinghua University Library, Beijing, and describe five campus-wide user surveys. It states how these user surveys play an important role in service quality enhancement. Design/methodology/approach: Following a brief history of Tsinghua University Library, a summary…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Use Studies, Surveys
Kapoor, Kanta – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to quantify the use of electronic journals in comparison with the print collections in the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Library. Design/methodology/approach: A detailed analysis was made of the use of lending services, the Xerox facility and usage of electronic journals such as Science Direct,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Use Studies, Electronic Journals, Library Materials
Xu, Fei – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a library with useful information about selection criteria for an electronic resource assessment system and practical assistance on how to implement efficiently such a system. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on literature review, desk research, and implementation experience.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Criteria, Use Studies
Oduwole, Adebambo Adewale; Oyewumi, Olatundun – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: This study aims to examine the accessibility and use of web-based electronic databases on the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) portal by physicians in the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro--a psychiatry health institution in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: Collection of data was through the use of a three-part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Psychiatric Hospitals, Access to Information
Mahmood, Khalid; Richardson, John V., Jr. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to survey the web sites of the academic libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (USA) regarding the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. Design/methodology/approach: The websites of 100 member academic libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (USA) were surveyed. Findings: All libraries were found to be…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries
Kim, Yong; Chung, Min Gyo – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: This paper seeks to describe a personal recommendation service (PRS) involving an innovative hybrid recommendation method suitable for deployment in a large-scale multimedia user environment. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed hybrid method partitions content and user into segments and executes association rule mining,…
Descriptors: Information Services, Use Studies, Electronic Libraries, Innovation
Tam, Winnie; Cox, Andrew M.; Bussey, Andy – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the features that international student users prefer for next generation OPACs. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 16 international students of the University of Sheffield were interviewed in July 2008 to explore their preferences among potential features in next generation OPACs. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes, Use Studies
Lonsdale, Ray; Armstrong, Chris – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the findings from the qualitative strand of the National e-Book Observatory (2007-2009) project, relating to the promotion of e-textbooks in UK universities by the library, academics and publishers. A complementary paper on the ways in which students and academics locate e-books provided by their…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Academic Libraries, Librarians
Maabreh, Majdi A.; Al-Kabi, Mohammed N.; Alsmadi, Izzat M. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: This study is an attempt to develop an automatic identification method for Arabic web queries and divide them into several query types using data mining. In addition, it seeks to evaluate the impact of the academic environment on using the internet. Design/methodology/approach: The web log files were collected from one of the higher…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Web Sites, Search Engines, Classification
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