The Electronic Library: Volume 40 Issue 3

Constructing a mobile visual search framework for Dunhuang murals based on fine-tuned CNN and ontology semantic distance

Ziming Zeng, Shouqiang Sun, Jingjing Sun, Jie Yin, Yueyan Shen

Dunhuang murals are rich in cultural and artistic value. The purpose of this paper is to construct a novel mobile visual search (MVS) framework for Dunhuang murals, enabling users…

Characterizing Chinese online public opinions towards the COVID-19 recovery policy

Wei Yu, Nan Chen, Junpeng Chen

The online users’ characteristic information can provide decision support for policy-designing and construction of public strategies. Hence, this paper aims to conduct online…

Analysing scientific publications in the field of mobile information systems using bibliometric analysis

Guijie Zhang, Fangfang Wei, Chunyan Guo, Yanfang Wang

This paper aims to present a longitudinal and visualising study using bibliometric approaches to depict the emerging trends and research hotspots within the mobile information…

Process-driven quality improvement for scientific data based on information product map

Wei Zong, Songtao Lin, Yuxing Gao, Yanying Yan

This paper aims to provide a process-driven scientific data quality (DQ) monitoring framework by information product map (IP-Map) in identifying the root causes of poor DQ issues…

Explaining student loyalty towards using WhatsApp in higher education: an extension of the IS success model

Mohammad Iranmanesh, Nagaletchimee Annamalai, Kavigtha Mohan Kumar, Behzad Foroughi

Recent years have documented the growing interest in using WhatsApp in higher education. However, the determinants of students’ satisfaction and loyalty towards WhatsApp groups…

Sentiment lexicon construction for Chinese book reviews based on ultrashort reviews

Mengjuan Zha, Changping Hu, Yu Shi

Sentiment lexicon is an essential resource for sentiment analysis of user reviews. By far, there is still a lack of domain sentiment lexicon with large scale and high accuracy for…

Assessing the quality and credibility of scholarly information resources: an investigation into information behaviours of university faculty members

Umme Habiba, Md. Emdadul Islam

This paper aims at assessing faculty members' information searching patterns and the process of determining their information sources' quality and credibility.

HIET Web-based digital repository for health informatics evaluation tools

Hero Khezri, Peyman Rezaei, Fateme Askarian, Reza Ferdousi

Evaluating health information systems is an integral part of the life cycle and development of information systems as it can improve the quality of health care. The purpose of…

Effects of ASQE-based learning on the information literacy, problem-solving and critical thinking of students with different growth mindsets

Chenchen Liu, ChiuLin Lai, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Yun-Fang Tu

This study aims to investigate the information literacy (IL) performance and higher order thinking skills of students with different levels of growth mindset and their perceptions…

Modelling searching on academic social networking sites: a focus on learning outcomes

Dan Wu, Liuxing Lu, Lei Cheng

This paper aims to establish a theoretical search model on academic social networking sites (ASNSs).