The Electronic Library: Volume 35 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Xinning Su, Chengzhi Zhang, Daqing He

Social science data repositories in data deluge: A case study of ICPSR’s workflow and practices

Wei Jeng, Daqing He, Yu Chi

Owing to the recent surge of interest in the age of the data deluge, the importance of researching data infrastructures is increasing. The open archival information system…

Impact of device on search pattern transitions: A comparative study based on large-scale library OPAC log data

Dan Wu, Renmin Bi

This paper discusses the differences in search pattern transitions for mobile phone, tablet and desktop devices by mining the transaction log data of a library online…

Exploring topics related to data mining on Wikipedia

Yanyan Wang, Jin Zhang

Data mining has been a popular research area in the past decades. Many researchers study data-mining theories, methods, applications and trends; however, there are very…

A paper-text perspective: Studies on the influence of feature granularity for Chinese short-text-classification in the Big Data era

Hao Wang, Sanhong Deng

In the era of Big Data, network digital resources are growing rapidly, especially the short-text resources, such as tweets, comments, messages and so on, are showing a…

The exploration of information extraction and analysis about science and technology policy in China

Wen Zeng, Changqing Yao, Hui Li

Science and technology policy plays an important role in promoting the development of economic and social development in China. At present, the research on science and…

Semantically linking events for massive scientific literature research

Junsheng Zhang, Yunchuan Sun, Changqing Yao

This paper aims to semantically linking scientific research events implied by scientific and technical literature to support information analysis and information service…

Information diffusion on communication networks based on Big Data analysis

Nan Zhou, Xiu-Xiu Zhan, Song Lin, Shang-Hui Yang, Chuang Liu, Gui-Quan Sun, Zi-Ke Zhang

Information carriers (including mass media and We-Media) play important roles in information diffusion on social networks. The purpose of this paper is to investigate…

Predicting users’ demographic characteristics in a Chinese social media network

Qiangbing Wang, Shutian Ma, Chengzhi Zhang

Based on user-generated content from a Chinese social media platform, this paper aims to investigate multiple methods of constructing user profiles and their effectiveness…

Emotion evolutions of sub-topics about popular events on microblogs

Qingqing Zhou, Chengzhi Zhang

The development of social media has led to large numbers of internet users now producing massive amounts of user-generated content (UGC). UGC, which shows users’ opinions…

The role of academic libraries in research data service (RDS) provision: Opportunities and challenges

Holly H. Yu

Propelled by fast-evolving computational technology and cloud-based data storage, the increasing ease in research data collection is outstripping the capacity in research…

A belief–desire–intention model for blog users’ negative emotional norm compliance: Decision-making in crises

Peng Wu, Si Shen, Daqing He, Jia Tina Du

The purpose of this paper is to understand blog users’ negative emotional norm compliance decision-making in crises (blog users’-NNDC).

Measuring global research activities using geographic data of scholarly article visits

Zhichao Fang, Xinhui Guo, Yang Yang, Zhongkai Yang, Qingchun Li, Zhigang Hu, Xianwen Wang

This study aims to analyse the geographical distribution of global research activities and to investigate the knowledge diffusion embodied in scientific papers.

Digital methods for social science: an interdisciplinary guide to research innovation

Zinaida Manžuch

Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics

Philip Calvert

Dynamic research support for academic libraries

Owen Peter Lund