The Electronic Library: Volume 34 Issue 3

Intellectual structure of trust in business and management: a co-citation analysis

Keng-Chieh Yang

In the past few decades, there has been a lot of literature about trust research for business and management. However, few authors have applied co-citation analysis.

Use of smartphone apps among library and information science students at South Valley University, Egypt

Essam Mansour

The purpose of this study is to investigate the use patterns and ownership of smartphone apps among students at the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS) at the…

Inverse local context analysis: A method for exhaustively gathering documents from limited accessible data sources

Wei Lu, Xinghu Yue, Qikai Cheng, Rui Meng

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of inverse local context analysis (ILCA) to obtain data from limited accessible data sources.

Analytical study of open access health and medical repositories

Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Shueb Sheikh

This study aims to assess open access (OA) repositories in the field of the health and medicine (H&M) available in the Directory of the Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) by…

Research on feature-based opinion mining using topic maps

Lixin Xia, Zhongyi Wang, Chen Chen, Shanshan Zhai

Opinion mining (OM), also known as “sentiment classification”, which aims to discover common patterns of user opinions from their textual statements automatically or…

Retrieval efficiency of select search engines vis-à-vis diverse open courseware formats

Zahid Ashraf Wani, Adil Ahmad Sofi

This paper aims to gauge the visibility of open content available in different formats of select open courseware (OCW) repositories through prominent search engines.

Risk assessment of digital library information security: a case study

Zhengbiao Han, Shuiqing Huang, Huan Li, Ni Ren

This paper uses the GB/T20984-2007 multiplicative method to assess the information security risk of a typical digital library in compliance with the principle and thought of ISO…

Effects of gender in library and information science research: A case study of The Electronic Library

Sumeer Gul, Tariq Ahmad Shah, Samir N. Hamade, Rabiya Mushtaq, Ikrah Koul

This study aims to showcase the effect of gender in the field of library and information science.

A comparative analysis of available features and Web 2.0 tools on selected Nigerian and South African university library websites

Adeyinka Tella, Oyegunle John Oladapo

The study aims to present a comparative analysis of available Web 2.0 tools in library websites of selected Nigerian and South African universities.

Digital literacy and digital content supports learning: The impact of blogs on teaching English as a foreign language

Charlene L. Al-Qallaf, Afaf S.R. Al-Mutairi

This paper aims to investigate the impact of blogs on teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to primary students. The study also explores educators’ perceptions of social…

Records management and Information Culture: Tackling the People Problem

Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

The Accidental Indexer

Philip Hider

Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities

Philip Calvert