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Direct linkWu, Dan; He, Daqing – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the further integration of machine translation technologies with cross language information access in providing web users the capabilities of accessing information beyond language barriers. Machine translation and cross language information access are related technologies, and yet they have their own unique…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English, Chinese
Sirisha, B. S.; Jeevan, V. K. J.; Raja Kumar, R. V.; Goswami, A. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a personalised information support system to help faculty members to search various portals and e-resources without typing the search terms in different interfaces and to obtain results re-ordered without human intervention. Design/methodology/approach: After a careful survey of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Services, College Faculty, Information Retrieval
Zou, Qing; Liu, Guoying – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate various issues related to Chinese language localisation in Evergreen, an open source integrated library system (ILS). Design/methodology/approach: A Simplified Chinese version of Evergreen was implemented and tested and various issues such as encoding, indexing, searching, and sorting…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Chinese, Classification, Indexing
Parkes, David – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of ebrary's e-books at Staffordshire University. Design/methodology/approach: Details are provided of the history of Staffordshire's involvement with ebrary as a supplier of e-books as well as methods of searching for information in the ebrary collection as well as other e-book collections…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Academic Libraries, Case Studies
Lazarinis, Fotis – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: Locating information on the internet is an important skill in the Information Society. Some recent studies showed that searching using non-English terms is a more demanding task than searching in English. Based on these observations, this paper aims to apply the Instructional System Design (ISD) methodology to analyse, design and…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Engines, Non English Speaking, Greek
Fernandes, Derrick – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: The paper seeks to describe the provision of access to the Safari Tech Books collection of e-books at Hillingdon Libraries. Design/methodology/approach: Details are given of how the e-books collection is part of a broader range of e-information services provided by Hillingdon. Methods of searching for e-books are described, with…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Public Libraries, Library Services
Creaser, Claire; Hamblin, Yvonne; Davies, J. Eric – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2006
Purpose: Online content has largely replaced traditional print-based resources as the primary tool for literature searching throughout much of the academic and research community. This paper presents the results of a small-scale study, commissioned by the JISC in 2004, to assess the potential efficiency gains that may be achieved through the use…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Research, Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness
