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Vivian Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Academic music libraries in the US collect resources to support music students and faculty in their performance and research needs. These resources include non-text items such as musical scores and recordings that are difficult to represent in standard library information systems that were built for text items. The advent of web scale discovery…
Descriptors: Music, Academic Libraries, Information Seeking, Undergraduate Students
Susan G. Archambault – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Traditional information literacy skills (e.g., effectively finding and evaluating information) need to be updated due to the rapidly changing information ecosystem and the growing dominance of online platforms that use algorithms to control and shape information. This article proposes additions to the current ACRL "Framework for Information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Algorithms, Standards, Academic Libraries
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Klassen, Timothy W. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
After instituting major cuts to discipline-specific science abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases at an ARL library due to significant budget cuts, the author sought to determine if such cuts were being made by other academic libraries and what trends could be found in holdings of such databases. Annually, over the course of eight years,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Budgeting
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Felichism Kabo; Annaliese Paulson; Doreen Bradley; Ken Varnum; Stephanie Teasley – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Seeking to better understand the longitudinal association between online usage of library-licensed content and short- and long-term student performance, we linked EZproxy logs to institutional university data to study how library usage impacts semester and cumulative GPAs. Panel linear mixed effects regression models indicate online library usage…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Contracts, Bibliographic Databases
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Azeem Akbar; Abdul Jabbar; Qurat UI Ain Saleem; Murtaza Ashiq – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has considerably increased among students, including students with vision impairment (SVI). There has been limited work on the information and digital needs of people with disabilities, particularly SVI who were studying for their masters or MPhil and were involved in research activities…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Accessibility (for Disabled), Access to Information, Students with Disabilities
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Chad E. Buckley; Rachel E. Scott; Anne Shelley; Cassie Thayer-Styes; Julie A. Murphy – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study reports faculty experiences regarding the discovery of scholarly content, highlighting similarities and differences across a range of academic disciplines. The authors interviewed twenty-five faculty members at a public, high-research university in the Midwest to explore the intersections of discovery, browsing, and format from diverse…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Scholarship, Writing (Composition), Periodicals
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Pearce, Alexa L. – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Libraries have adopted web scale discovery services with the goal of providing their users with a streamlined research experience. However, the single search box that characterizes web scale discovery is one option among many that libraries continue to provide, including subject databases and other legacy tools. Libraries lack evidence regarding…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Information Retrieval, Library Services
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Simon Robins – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
Using data from seven R1 and R2 universities in Ohio, this study seeks to determine the extent of usage of full-text e-journal articles stored across multiple platforms. Specifically, COUNTER 5 data is presented from five major academic journal publishers (Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Oxford, Wiley, and Springer), looking at usage within each of…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Journal Articles, Electronic Journals, Use Studies
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James Van Loon; Shawn McCann – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
Academic libraries must provide accessible electronic and information technology to patrons using assistive technology to access library materials. Accessibility of scholarly material is particularly important in the STEM disciplines, where attrition rates of students with disabilities is higher than in other fields. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, STEM Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Bibliographic Databases
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Wiersma, Gabrielle; Tovstiadi, Esta – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This article presents the results of a study of academic e-books that compared the metadata and search results from major academic e-book platforms. The authors collected data and performed a series of test searches designed to produce the same result regardless of platform. Testing, however, revealed metadata-related errors and significant…
Descriptors: Metadata, Search Strategies, Electronic Publishing, Accuracy