Information Discovery and Delivery: Volume 50 Issue 1

Analyzing the relationship between organizational culture and lifelong learning among the information professionals in the university libraries of Pakistan

Amjid Khan, Shamshad Ahmed

This paper aims to examine the relationships between the perceptions of library and information science (LIS) professionals about organizational culture (OC) and lifelong learning…

MOOC opinion mining based on attention alignment

Yuanxin Ouyang, Hongbo Zhang, Wenge Rong, Xiang Li, Zhang Xiong

The purpose of this paper is to propose an attention alignment method for opinion mining of massive open online course (MOOC) comments. Opinion mining is essential for MOOC…

Factors influencing scholarly publication productivity: a systematic review

Nazia Wahid, Nosheen Fatima Warraich, Muzammil Tahira

The importance of scientific publications has enhanced the research activities at all aggregate levels. The purpose of this paper is to conduct an in-depth review of studies…

A Markov logic network method for reconstructing association rule-mining tasks in library book recommendation

Shanshan Wang, Jiahui Xu, Youli Feng, Meiling Peng, Kaijie Ma

This study aims to overcome the problem of traditional association rules relying almost entirely on expert experience to set relevant interest indexes in mining. Second, this…

Evaluating disaster-related tweet credibility using content-based and user-based features

Nasser Assery, Yuan (Dorothy) Xiaohong, Qu Xiuli, Roy Kaushik, Sultan Almalki

This study aims to propose an unsupervised learning model to evaluate the credibility of disaster-related Twitter data and present a performance comparison with commonly used…

Changing behavior of academic libraries and role of library professionals

Mohammad Aslam

This paper aims to discover the key challenges and identifies reasons for the changing behavior of academic libraries and the role of library professionals, and how can they…

Twitter dialogue: an analysis of Pakistani politicians’ information sharing

Syeda Hina Batool, Wasim Ahmed, Khalid Mahmood, Henna Saeed

The use of Twitter by political parties and politicians has been well studied in developed countries. However, there is a lack of empirical work, which has examined the use of…

Factors influencing college students’ behaviours of spreading internet public opinions on emergencies in universities

Pinghao Ye, Liqiong Liu

This study aims to explore the influencing factors on college students’ behaviours of spreading Internet public opinion on emergencies in colleges and universities. This study…

Information-seeking behavior in the digital age: use by faculty members of the internet, scientific databases and social networks

Chia Rostami, Elaheh Hosseini, Mohammad Karim Saberi

The study aims to survey information-seeking behavior of the Iranian medical faculty members and to identify the reasons and obstacles of their usage via the internet, scientific…

Knowledge sharing in public organizations in Pakistan: leaders’ ethical role and psychological capital of employees

Quratulain Amber, Abdul Baseer Qazi, Nadeem Javaid, Iram A. Khan, Mansoor Ahmad

This study aims to examine the role of ethical leaders on the knowledge-sharing behavior of public sector employees. Ethical leaders engender knowledge-sharing behavior of…