Information Discovery and Delivery: Volume 50 Issue 2

A unified perspective on the adoption of online teaching in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic

Amit Mittal, Archana Mantri, Urvashi Tandon, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

The study aims to develop a theoretical model that highlights the determinants of the adoption of online teaching at the time of the outbreak of COVID-19. This study adopted a…

Archival Big Data and the Spanish Flu in Copenhagen

Kim Abildgren

The Spanish Flu 1918–1920 saw a high degree of excess mortality among young and healthy adults. The purpose of this paper is a further exploration of the hypothesis that high…

Citizen journalism practices during COVID-19 in spotlight: influence of user-generated contents about economic policies in perceiving government performance

Syed Hassan Raza, Ogadimma C. Emenyeonu, Muhammad Yousaf, Moneeba Iftikhar

Citizen journalism practices through social networking sites are increasingly becoming an imperative source of public opinion formation. Given the increase in the volume of…

A hierarchal model of coding knowledge towards facilitating knowledge transfer in organizations

Changiz Valmohammadi, Farzaneh Rahmani

This paper aims to present a hierarchal and operational model of coding knowledge towards facilitating the transformation of knowledge in organizations.

A framework for management of digital records on the cloud in the public sector of South Africa

Amos Shibambu, Ngoako Solomon Marutha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a framework for management of digital records on the cloud in South Africa.

An interactive query-based approach for summarizing scientific documents

Farnoush Bayatmakou, Azadeh Mohebi, Abbas Ahmadi

Query-based summarization approaches might not be able to provide summaries compatible with the user’s information need, as they mostly rely on a limited source of information…

Susceptibility of falling behind current medical knowledge among health-care professionals: the extended parallel process model

Salman Bin Naeem, Rubina Bhatti, Khurshid Ahmad, Muhammad Rafi

The purpose of this paper is to appraise the possible response outcomes (no response, fear control or danger control) of a fear-based message on falling behind current medical…

Revealing at-risk learning patterns and corresponding self-regulated strategies via LSTM encoder and time-series clustering

Mingyan Zhang, Xu Du, Kerry Rice, Jui-Long Hung, Hao Li

This study aims to propose a learning pattern analysis method which can improve a predictive model’s performance, as well as discover hidden insights into micro-level learning…

Semantic enrichment on large scanned collections through their “satellite texts”: the paradigm of Migne’s Patrologia Graeca

Evagelos Varthis, Spyros Tzanavaris, Ilias Giarenis, Sozon Papavlasopoulos, Manolis Drakakis, Marios Poulos

This paper aims to present a methodology for the semantic enrichment on the scanned collection of Migne’s Patrologia Graeca (PG), attempting to easily locate on the Web domain the…

Library leadership in Nigeria and COVID-19 pandemic

Esther Arinola Arapasopo, Clement Ola Adekoya

The current scourge of COVID-19 in educational enterprise requires that libraries tame the wave of the pandemic through effective leadership. This paper aims to investigate…