Information Discovery and Delivery: Volume 47 Issue 3

Networked library access and services delivery for the blind and visually impaired university students: evidence from the UAE

Alia Al-Harrasi, Ahmed Taha

The study aims to discuss the special needs-centric information delivery as a new genre of the academic library services. It also sheds light on the assistive technology used to…

Impact of personality traits on information needs and seeking behavior of LIS students in Pakistan

Shamshad Ahmed, Farhat Rehman, Arslan Sheikh

This paper aims to identify the personality traits (agreeableness, openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness and neuroticism) of library and information science…

The prediction of petition based on Big Data

Ting Xue, Huiqi Liu

The development of Big Data and online searching engine provides a good opportunity for studying petition in China. This study has constructed a set of indices for predicting…

Correlating research impact of library and information science journals using citation counts and altmetrics attention

Ifeanyi Jonas Ezema, Cyprian I. Ugwu

Since the development of web 2.0, there has been a paradigm shift in methods of knowledge sharing. This has equally impacted on techniques of research evaluation. Many scholars…

Artificial bee colony algorithm for feature selection and improved support vector machine for text classification

Janani Balakumar, S. Vijayarani Mohan

Owing to the huge volume of documents available on the internet, text classification becomes a necessary task to handle these documents. To achieve optimal text classification…