Table of contents - Special Issue: Persuasive technology and plagiarism technology
Persuasive design: a different approach to information systems (and information)
Per HasleThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the theme issue on “Persuasive design”.
Persuasive territories in European cultural politics: critical and controlled knowledgescapes
Mikkel Thelle, Nanna Bonde ThylstrupThis paper aims to view the concept of persuasive technology as a framework for discussing cultural politics on the internet. Taking digital collections as a point of departure…
Persuading library use in technologically structured individuals
Susan Ferebee, James Wayne DavisRecent neuroscience research demonstrates that individuals born after 1980 (technologically structured individuals (TSI)) differ in brain structure from individuals born before…
Personalization in library databases: not persuasive enough?
Jean E. McLaughlinThe intersection of persuasive technology and personalization features in enterprises such as Amazon.com delivers familiar consumer web interactions related to the purchase of…
Evaluation of cheating detection methods in academic writings
Ahmed Patel, Kaveh Bakhtiyari, Mona TaghaviThis paper aims to focus on plagiarism and the consequences of anti‐plagiarism services such as Turnitin.com, iThenticate, and PlagiarismDetect.com in detecting the most recent…
Development, assessment and use of an on‐line plagiarism tutorial
Karen Kate Kellum, Amy E. Mark, Debra A. Riley‐HuffThe purpose of this paper is to share with the wider academic community an example of one tool developed locally that can be a successful part of any institution's arsenal on the…
Archiving in the networked world: preserving plagiarized works
Michael SeadlePlagiarism has become a salient issue for universities and thus for university libraries in recent years. This paper aims to discuss three interrelated aspects of preserving…
Millennials and the adoption of new technologies in libraries through the diffusion of innovations process
Heidi BlackburnLiterature on the features of new technology in libraries of every type and size is readily available, but looking at the factors playing a part in the process (relative…
Role of policies in collaborative design process for digital libraries within African higher education
Pauline Ngimwa, Anne AdamsThis paper aims to explore the role of institutional and national policies in the design process of educational digital libraries developed collaboratively with key stakeholders…
Evaluation of the resource utilization efficiency of university libraries using DEA techniques and a proposal of alternative evaluation variables
Younghee NohThis paper seeks to rediscover the most suitable efficiency evaluation variables (input and output variables) for digital libraries and to employ the data envelopment analysis…
Laying the information literacy foundation: a multiple‐media solution
Amy Gustavson, Angela Whitehurst, David HisleThis paper seeks to provide a solution for teaching comprehensive information literacy instruction when time is limited during one‐shot library instruction sessions. It aims to…
Whether big deals are really big for engineering college libraries?: Or is there any need for better model?
Aragudige Nagaraja, K.C. Gangadhar, M. VasanthakumarLibrary consortia have played a vital role in sharing information resources among participating libraries. In India, engineering college libraries subscribe to many electronic…
A standard procedure for Bradford analysis and its application to the periodical literature in systems librarianship
Fei XuThe purpose of this paper is to develop a standard procedure for Bradford analysis: export citations from research databases to a bibliographic management tool, separate the…
Personal information management (PIM), reference management and mind maps: the way to creative librarians?
Ina FourieThis column aims to explore the potential of personal information management (PIM) and reference management. It focuses on combining the use of PIM and reference management…
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0737-8831Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho