The Electronic Library: Volume 21 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
A comparison between needed competencies of academic librarians and LIS curricula in Pakistan
Khalid MahmoodRapidly growing academic libraries are the major consumers of the product of seven LIS schools in Pakistan. The changing environment of academic life demands new…
Monitoring scientific publications over the WWW
Le Vu Ho, Siu Cheung Hui, A.C.M. FongThe World Wide Web has become an important medium for disseminating scientific publications. To make their research works accessible to other researchers, most research…
Informatics: a brief survey
Shaoyi HeSince the late 1970s, the term “informatics” has increasingly been adopted to describe the application of information technology to various fields, such as legal…
Academic librarians’ perception of Lexis‐Nexis
Alexei Oulanov, Edmund J.Y. PajarilloThis research is an examination of the perception by academic librarians of the Web version of Lexis‐Nexis academic datafile. Specifically, the investigation utilizes…
Enriching user‐oriented class associations for library classification schemes
Hsiao‐Tieh Pu, Chyan YangThis paper explores the possibility of adding user‐oriented class associations to hierarchical library classification schemes. Some highly associated classes not grouped…
Overcoming psychological obstacles to optimal online search performance
Brian QuinnSuccessful online searching is more than simply a matter of mastering search technique. Emotions, attitudes and environmental factors like stress also play a crucial role…
Metadata management system: design and implementation
Shien‐Chiang Yu, Kun‐Yung Lu, Ruey‐Shun ChenCommonly, an organizational information system may have various data types and directory formats. It usually employs different metadata formats to represent the documents…
Journal publishing is ripe for change
Howard FalkFocuses on the changes taking place in the world of scholarly publishing. Outlines the activities and future plans of a selection of new open distribution publishing sources.
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle