OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 25 Issue 3

Researching the research process: Information‐seeking behavior, Summon, and Google Books

Norm Medeiros

This paper seeks to describe undergraduate research habits, as identified through a study at Saint Mary's College of California.

Library in the clouds

Robert Fox

This paper aims to examine the issue of cloud computing and how it relates to digital library service provisioning.

Applied digital library project management: Using paired comparison analysis to determine relative importance

H. Frank Cervone

This paper sets out to define and describe paired comparison analysis as a method for prioritizing the factors that have the most impact in a digital library project.

Contributions of open access to higher education in Europe and vice versa

Elisavet Chantavaridou

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the relationship between open access and academic institutions, as well as the initiatives that spring from this…

Providing online access to oral histories: a case study

Caroline Daniels

The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical example of a process repositories may follow in making oral history interviews available online.

Bibliometric tools applied to analytical articles: the example of gene transfer‐related research

Donghui Wen, Te‐Chen Yu, Yuh‐Shan Ho

The objective of this study is to conduct a bibliometric indicator and to conduct an analysis of citations per publication of all horizontal gene transfer‐related publications in…

Usability analysis for redesign of a Caribbean academic library web site: a case study

Richard Rogers, Hugh Preston

This paper seeks to present a usability evaluation of the web site of the Main Library of the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) to get users and site…

Giving voice to the past: digitizing oral history

Kimberly Weatherford Stevens, Bethany Latham

The purpose of this paper is to describe the processes and procedures utilized by Jacksonville State University's Houston Cole Library to digitize an oral history collection and…