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Mariangela Spotti Lopes Fujita; Roberta Cristina Dal’Evedove Tartarotti; Paula Regina Dal´Evedove; Maria Carolina Andrade e Cruz – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Considering the importance of subject retrieval for scientific visibility, and the need to guide authors in self-archiving their papers in institutional repositories of university libraries, this study observed the patterns and strategies used by authors while indexing for keyword assignment. The study examined four categories of analysis:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Research Libraries, Scientific and Technical Information
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Stapleton, Suzanne Cady; Dinsmore, Chelsea S.; Van Kleeck, David; Ma, Xiaoli – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Discovery of digital items by scholars and the public is highly dependent upon effective metadata to ensure inclusion and prioritization in search engines. Subject descriptions based on controlled vocabulary, such as Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH), are particularly useful to enhance discovery, but they may be expensive to provide. In…
Descriptors: Indexing, Metadata, Computer Use, Electronic Publishing
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Benoit, Edward, III; Munson, Amanda L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
Based on a comparison of two nearly identical surveys in 2010 and 2016, this study examines the deepening practitioner concern over the use of social tagging within digital collections during the past six years. While participants reported a greater level of experience and increased use of social tagging, concerns regarding control, consistency,…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Librarians, Indexing
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West, Wendy – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Current users of academic libraries are avid readers of graphic novels. These thought-provoking materials are used for leisure reading, in instruction, and for research purposes. Libraries need to take care in providing access to these resources. This study analyzed the cataloging practices and social tagging of a specific list of graphic novel…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Novels, Cartoons, Cataloging
Yang, Sharon Q. – Computers in Libraries, 2012
The study looked into the 307 Koha libraries listed in Breeding's Library Technology Guides. Since all the tag clouds in Koha are user-contributed, their adoption and usage can shed light on the extent to which libraries are supporting user tagging. The research also revealed that public library users are more actively involved in tagging than…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Public Libraries, Indexing, Metadata
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Chapman, Suzanne; Desai, Shevon; Hagedorn, Kat; Varnum, Ken; Mishra, Sonali; Piacentine, Julie – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
The University of Michigan Library wanted to learn more about the kinds of searches its users were conducting through the "one search" search box on the Library Web site. Library staff conducted two investigations. A preliminary investigation in 2011 involved the manual review of the 100 most frequently occurring queries conducted…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Web Sites, Online Searching, Classification
Geisselmann, Friedrich – 2000
This paper begins with some general remarks about the indexing of electronic publications. Characteristics of today's information world are highlighted, including decentralization, distributed data collections, and heterogeneous data structures and indexing procedures. Three possible models for managing access to information are summarized: a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Classification, Decentralization