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Kumar, Bimal Aklesh; Goundar, Munil Shiva – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Mobile language learning (MLL) is an emerging field of research, and many MLL applications have been developed over the years. In this paper, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to establish a body of knowledge on the development of MLL applications. The SLR analyzed forty seven papers from seven different digital libraries…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Emily Kilcer; Lauren Puzier; Carol Anne Germain – College & Research Libraries, 2025
Institutional repositories (IRs) remain a powerful tool for opening, sharing, and preserving scholarship. Scholarly communication (SC) services and resources are essential to promoting and supporting IRs. Linking SC services within an IR offers support to users at their point of need. This study investigates the prevalence of web linking between…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Scholarship, Library Services, Academic Libraries
Hassan Mallam Ibrahim; Kamsuriah Ahmad; Hasimi Sallehudin – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
As the need for digital content increases almost daily, preserving this content for university libraries, especially in the least developed and developing nations, becomes a challenge, resulting in the loss of this data. Even though most of these libraries are automated and adopt one digital preservation strategy or the other, library users need…
Descriptors: Preservation, Technology Uses in Education, Research Libraries, Internet
Chakravarty, Rupak – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2019
ETDs are the Swiss-army-knife which has unearthed the shades of grey by bringing forth the until now hidden research to the forefront of the world. ETDs powered by open source software like DSpace, EPrints build up information ecosystem for effective storage and retrieval of theses and dissertations which take years of hard work to culminate. Such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Masters Theses, Doctoral Dissertations
Moore, Hilde Terese Drivenes; Trysnes, Irene – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
This study investigates how children can develop information literacy (IL) skills even before they learn how to read and write. In the project we used a combination of participatory observation and action research-inspired trialling of digital tools. Kindergarteners were given iPads and access to the app Book Creator to create their own digital…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Information Literacy, Story Telling
Paladino, Emily B.; Klentzin, Jacqueline C.; Mills, Chloe P. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2017
Based on in-person, task-based usability testing and interviews, the authors' library Web site was recently overhauled in order to improve user experience. This led to the authors' interest in additional usability testing methods and test environments that would most closely fit their library's goals and situation. The appeal of card sorting…
Descriptors: Usability, Interviews, Web Sites, Electronic Libraries
Kichuk, Diana – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The electronic conversion of scanned image files to readable text using optical character recognition (OCR) software and the subsequent migration of raw OCR text to e-book text file formats are key remediation or media conversion technologies used in digital repository e-book production. Despite real progress, the OCR problem of reliability and…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Equipment, Computer Software
McGinn, Tony; Taylor, Brian; McColgan, Mary; McQuilkan, Janice – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: To compare the performance of a range of search facilities; and to illustrate the execution of a comprehensive literature search for qualitative evidence in social work. Context: Developments in literature search methods and comparisons of search facilities help facilitate access to the best available evidence for social workers.…
Descriptors: Social Work, Online Searching, Search Engines, Databases
O'Neill, Marie; Musto, Lara – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
Using a mixed methods research approach this study explores faculty perceptions of LORLS at DBS. Data generated by the study will inform advocacy, marketing and training initiatives to promote the platform. The study concludes with a number of deductive and inductive findings. The first is that although DBS faculty are highly predisposed to using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Lists, Business Schools, College Faculty
Hakimjavadi, Hesamedin; Masrek, Mohamad Noorman – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the status of eight interoperability protocols within repositories of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) as an introduction to further studies on feasibility of deploying these protocols in upcoming areas of interoperability. Design/methodology/approach: Three surveys of 266 ETD…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Theses, Information Systems, Computer Software
Guajardo, Richard; Brett, Kelsey; Young, Frederick – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2017
For the past several years academic libraries have been adopting discovery systems to provide a search experience that reflects user expectations and improves access to electronic resources. University of Houston Libraries has kept pace with this evolving trend by pursuing various discovery options; these include an open-source tool, a federated…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Erb, Rachel A.; Erb, Brian – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2014
This case study offers an alternative use of LibGuides beyond its intended purpose to offer course and subject guides. LibGuides have become an integral part of the virtual instruction landscape at Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries. We discovered that the LibGuides platform can also be effectively harnessed to provide support for…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Access to Information, Case Studies
Biletskiy, Yevgen; Baghi, Hamidreza; Steele, Jarrett; Vovk, Ruslan – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: Presently, searching the internet for learning material relevant to ones own interest continues to be a time-consuming task. Systems that can suggest learning material (learning objects) to a learner would reduce time spent searching for material, and enable the learner to spend more time for actual learning. The purpose of this paper is…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Online Searching, Electronic Libraries
Amiel, Tel; Soares, Tiago Chagas – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
We present an analysis of 50 repositories for educational content conducted through an "audit system" that helped us classify these repositories, their software systems, promoters, and how they communicated their licensing practices. We randomly accessed five resources from each repository to investigate the alignment of licensing…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Educational Resources, Certification, Conflict
Noorhidawati, A.; Hanum, N. Fariza; Zohoorian-Fooladi, N. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: This paper reports an exploratory study examining how users participate in social tagging activities in a scholarly digital library environment to learn about their motivations, behaviour, and practices. Method: This study was conducted in two phases: a survey to investigate usage and attitudes of social tagging tool, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Electronic Libraries, Indexing