Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 51 Issue 1

Investigating the determinants of e-book adoption

Chia-Lin Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Mu-Chen Chen, Kuo-Chien Chang, Ai-Yun Hsieh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the key factors that affect users’ adoption of e-books using an extension of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT…

Answer selection and expert finding in community question answering services: A question answering promoter

Hei-Chia Wang, Che-Tsung Yang, Yi-Hao Yen

Community question answering (CQA) websites provide an open and free way to share knowledge about general topics on the internet. However, inquirers may not obtain useful answers…

A comparison among approaches for recommending learning objects through collaborative filtering algorithms

Henrique Lemos dos Santos, Cristian Cechinel, Ricardo Matsumura Araújo

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a comparison among three different approaches for recommending learning objects (LO) inside a repository. The comparison…

Instrument development and contextualization for perceived characteristics of e-transactions

Ibrahim Abunadi, Fayez Alqahtani

The purpose of this paper is to identify and develop a contextualized model and instrument to assess citizens’ transactions with government organizations, with a view to…

Unicorn data scientist: the rarest of breeds

Saša Baškarada, Andy Koronios

Many organizations are seeking unicorn data scientists, that rarest of breeds that can do it all. They are said to be experts in many traditionally distinct disciplines, including…

The data-literature interlinking service: Towards a common infrastructure for sharing data-article links

Adrian Burton, Hylke Koers, Paolo Manghi, Sandro La Bruzzo, Amir Aryani, Michael Diepenbroek, Uwe Schindler

Research data publishing is today widely regarded as crucial for reproducibility, proper assessment of scientific results, and as a way for researchers to get proper credit for…