The Electronic Library: Volume 41 Issue 4

Digital immigrants’ attitudes toward e-reading in Iraq and Pakistan

Saira Hanif Soroya, Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi, Mohsin Abdur Rehman

In the digital transformation race, the older generation, called digital immigrants (generation X), encounter various obstacles. This study aims to investigate the e-reading…

Metadata construction scheme of a traditional clothing digital collection

Qingzhu Ye

The purpose of this paper is to construct a digital collection and database of traditional clothing that is convenient for the digital dissemination and application of traditional…

Determinants of overall user success in an academic digital library environment: validation of the integrated digital library user success (IDLUS) model

Memoona Iqbal, Muhammad Rafiq

Digital Libraries are complex, and this complexity is a motive to study user success on the behalf of appropriate user success models. These models comprise the factors which play…

Impact of personal innovativeness, perceived smartphone ease of use and mobile self-efficacy on smartphone-based personal information management practices

Irfan Ali, Nosheen Fatima Warraich

Although, smartphones have facilitated users to keep their personal information, nonetheless, less has been investigated about factors affecting personal information management…

The browser extension guidance for online information searching

Esra Efendioğlu, Emine Sendurur

This study aims to develop and test a browser extension as a scaffolding tool to guide learners about evaluating online sources.

Can social capital and planned behaviour favour an increased willingness to share scientific data? Evidence from data originators

Fengwen Zhi, Meng Zhang, Shuaijie Zhang, Congyuan Cheng, Tao Shen

This study aims to reveal the factors that drive researchers to share data and to provide reference for promoting open scientific data.

Satisfaction with information services among individuals in China’s urban communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wang Shen, Junyao Wang, Xin Feng, Yuming He

This paper aims to study individuals’ information service satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in China’s urban communities.

Research on the evaluation of academic journals from a multidimensional fusion measurement perspective

Rongying Zhao, Weijie Zhu

This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis to evaluate the current situation of journals, examine the factors that influence their development, and establish an…

Effects of e-learning technologies on university librarians and libraries: a systematic literature review

Khurram Shahzad, Shakeel Ahmad Khan

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of emerging technologies in e-learning on university librarians and libraries. The study also intended to identify emerging…