The Electronic Library: Volume 40 Issue 4

Development and application of a digital humanities research platform for biographies of Malaysian personalities

Chih-Ming Chen, Tek-Soon Ling, Chung Chang, Chih-Fan Hsu, Chia-Pei Lim

Digital humanities research platform for biographies of Malaysia personalities (DHRP-BMP) was collaboratively developed by the Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity in…

Assessing books’ academic impacts via integrated computation of multi-level citation information

Qingqing Zhou

Citations have been used as a common basis to measure the academic accomplishments of scientific books. However, traditional citation analysis ignored content mining and without…

Examining predictors of digital library use: an application of the information system success model

Memoona Iqbal, Muhammad Rafiq, Saira Hanif Soroya

Digital libraries are not only an assortment of information assets yet have turned into a digital community for correspondence, searching and electronic learning. Also…

Factors influencing intentions to use library social media marketing accounts: taking the example of WeChat

Chen Xin, Liu Yingxi

This study aims to explore the factors influencing intentions to use library social media marketing accounts from users’ perspectives to help libraries use social media to provide…

Determinants of continuous usage of library resources on handheld devices: findings from PLS-SEM and fuzzy sets (fsQCA)

Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Sujeet Kumar Sharma, Avinash Gaur

This study aims to investigate the key factors that motivate learners to use handheld devices to access library resources. To do so, this study integrates the technology…

Dynamic sentiment sensing of cities with social media data

Guanghui Ye, Ze Peng, Jinyu Wei, Lingzi Hong, SongYe Li, Chuan Wu

A lot of people share their living or travelling experiences about cities by writing posts on social media. Such posts carry multi-dimensional information about the…

Using data mining technology to analyse the spatiotemporal public opinion of COVID-19 vaccine on social media

Tingting Li, Ziming Zeng, Jingjing Sun, Shouqiang Sun

The deployment of vaccines is the primary task in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to understand the public’s opinions on vaccines and then design…

Framework for entity extraction with verification: application to inference of data set usage in research publications

Svetlozar Nestorov, Dinko Bačić, Nenad Jukić, Mary Malliaris

The purpose of this paper is to propose an extensible framework for extracting data set usage from research articles.

Student use of digital libraries during COVID-19: structural equation modelling in Indonesian and Malaysian contexts

Akhmad Habibi, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob, Muhammad Sofwan

This paper aims to examine the determinants that drive digital library use by university students in Indonesia and Malaysia during COVID-19. A proposed model based on the unified…

Effective components on the process of concept and meaning creation and their application in ontologies: focusing on Peirce’s triadic sign model

Khadije Moradi, Amir Ghaebi, Masumeh Karbala Aghaei Kamran

This study aims to focus on the interpretation component of Peirce’s triadic model of sign to identify: the components affecting the interpretation of an object and the components…