Library Hi Tech: Volume 39 Issue 3

Editorial

Po Sen Huang, Yvette C. Paulino, Stuart So, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho

Academic libraries' response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria

Joseph Kehinde Fasae, Clement Ola Adekoya, Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari

The study aims to investigate the academic libraries' response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic situation in Nigeria.

An analysis of university students' health information service needs from academic library in the post-COVID-19 age through Kano model

Yuan Meng, Li Dong, Rui Guan, Yan Zhang

The study aims to find out the university students' health information service needs in post-COVID-19 age and then consider how to do the health information services well and…

Bibliometric analysis on OA articles of public health emergencies from multidimensional perspective

Xin Feng, Liming Sun, Yuehao Liu, Jiapei Li, Ye Wu

This paper aims to explore the development trend of OA articles and their advantages and disadvantages in the process of fighting the pandemic, and conduct a multi-level and…

When peril responds to plague: predatory journal engagement with COVID-19

Ryan M. Allen

The academic community has warned that predatory journals may attempt to capitalize on the confusion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to further publish low quality academic work…

Impact of conspiracy beliefs on Covid-19 fear and health protective behavior: a case of university students

Muhammad Asif Naveed, Amara Malik, Khalid Mahmood

This study investigated the impact of conspiracy beliefs on fear of Covid-19 and health protective behavior of university students in Pakistan.

How social media fosters the elders' COVID-19 preventive behaviors: perspectives of information value and perceived threat

Tran Hung Nguyen, Xuan Cu Le

Although crisis communication via social media has engaged academia's attention during the disease outbreak, information value for preventive behaviors is inadequately studied…

Social media communication of the scientific and technological literature in emergency under COVID-19

Jiapei Li, Liming Sun, Xin Feng, Peiyi He, Yue Zhang

This paper takes the current COVID-19 pandemic raging around the world as a realistic background and uses the informal scientific communication mode in social media as the…

The applicability of blockchain technology in healthcare contexts to contain COVID-19 challenges

Mohammad Raihanul Hasan, Shiming Deng, Neegar Sultana, Muhammed Zakir Hossain

Blockchain technology, a key feature of the fourth industrial revolution, is receiving widespread attention and exploration around the world. Taking the coronavirus pandemic as an…

Information system for epidemic control: a computational solution addressing successful experiences and main challenges

Guilherme Conceição Rocha, Henrique Mohallem Paiva, Davi Gonçalves Sanches, Daniel Fiks, Rafael Martins Castro, Lucas Fernando Alvarenga e Silva

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused a major impact on worldwide public health and economics. The lessons learned from the successful attempts to contain the pandemic escalation…

Retrospective and prospective approaches of coronavirus publications in the last half-century: a Latent Dirichlet allocation analysis

Farshid Danesh, Meisam Dastani, Mohammad Ghorbani

The present article's primary purpose is the topic modeling of the global coronavirus publications in the last 50 years.

Setting the boundaries of COVID-19 lockdown relaxation measures

Samer Saab, Mohammad Al Abbas, Rola Najib Samaha, Rayana Jaafar, Khaled Kamal Saab, Samer Said Saab Jr

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple deterministic model that quantifies previously adopted preventive measures driven by the trend of the reported number of deaths in…

On fluctuating characteristics of global COVID-19 cases and identification of inflection points

Xin Feng, Hanshui Zhang, Yue Zhang, Liming Sun, Jiapei Li, Ye Wu

The emergence of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has had a tremendous impact on the world, and the characteristics of its evolution need to be better understood.

Sprawl of the COVID-19 in changing scenario: a methodology based on social interaction

Gaurav Kumar, Akshay Kumar, Farhan Mohammad Khan, Rajiv Gupta

There are several methods developed in the recent past to predict the spread of COVID-19 in different countries. However, due to changing scenarios in terms of interaction among…