The Electronic Library: Volume 37 Issue 4

How reading in single- and multiple-column types influence our cognitive load: an EEG study

Hosam Al-Samarraie, Atef Eldenfria, Fahed Zaqout, Melissa Lee Price

The impact of different screen-based typography styles on individuals’ cognitive processing of information has not been given much consideration in the literature, though…

Exploring repost features of police-generated microblogs through topic and sentiment analysis

XiaoBo Tang, Shixuan Li, Na Gu, MingLiang Tan

This study aims to explore the repost features of microblogs acting to promote the information diffusion of government-generated content on social media.

Librarians’ perceptions about adoption and uses of the Koha integrated library software in Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Ijaz Mairaj

This study aims to find out the reasons of adopting Koha integrated library software, discovers the problems faced by librarians during its implementation, and gets the…

A model for creating a virtual library in Iranian universities of medical sciences

Mehdi Alipour-Hafezi, Hamidreza Radfar, Behrooz Rasuli, Majid Nabavi, Mohsen Haji Zeinolabedini, Afsaneh Dehnad, Shirin Mohamadzadeh, Leila Nemati-Anaraki

This paper aims to propose an integrating model for creating virtual libraries in Iranian universities of medical sciences.

Content-based image retrieval based on combination of texture and colour information extracted in spatial and frequency domains

Neda Tadi Bani, Shervan Fekri-Ershad

Large amount of data are stored in image format. Image retrieval from bulk databases has become a hot research topic. An alternative method for efficient image retrieval…

Effects of map design characteristics on users’ search performance and cognitive load: An empirical study

Hosam Al-Samarraie, Atef Eldenfria, Melissa Lee Price, Fahed Zaqout, Wan Mohamad Fauzy

This paper aims to investigate the influence of map design characteristics on users’ cognitive load and search performance. Two design conditions (symbolic vs…

A visual interactive reading system based on eye tracking technology to improve digital reading performance

Chih-Ming Chen, Jung-Ying Wang, Yu-Chieh Lin

Developing attention-aware systems and interfaces based on eye tracking technology could revolutionize mainstream human–computer interaction to make the interaction…

Detecting online expressional anomie and its evolutions in social media

Qingqing Zhou, Ming Jing

Expressional anomie (e.g. obscene words) can hinder communications and even obstruct improvements of national literacy. Meanwhile, the borderless and rapid transmission of…

Bilingual lexical extraction based on word alignment for improving corpus search

Jelena Andonovski, Branislava Šandrih, Olivera Kitanović

This paper aims to describe the structure of an aligned Serbian-German literary corpus (SrpNemKor) contained in a digital library Bibliša. The goal of the research was to…

Use patterns of e-journals among the science community: a transaction log analysis

Azra Rafique, Kanwal Ameen, Alia Arshad

This study aims to explore the evidence-based patterns of e-journal usage, such as the most used and least used databases, at a public-sector university in Pakistan, by…