The Electronic Library: Volume 35 Issue 6

Investigation on the statistical methods in research studies of library and information science

The statistical method plays an extremely important role in quantitative research studies in library and information science (LIS). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the…

Distinctive organisational business imperatives of Big Data: a literature review

The purpose of this study was to identify the business imperatives characteristic of an organisation that will benefit from the use of Big Data, to give business managers…

Factors affecting LIS Israeli students’ mobile phone use: an exploratory study

Although the mobile phone is a popular gadget, only a few studies have examined the relationships between personality characteristics and mobile phone use. This study aims to…

Applications of collaborative annotation system in digital curation, crowdsourcing, and digital humanities

Collaboratively annotating digital texts allow users to add valued information, share ideas and create knowledge. Most importantly, annotated content can help users obtain a…

Engineering researchers’ data reuse behaviours: a structural equation modelling approach

The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors that influence engineering researchers’ data reuse behaviours.

Assessment of global law and psychiatry research in the period of 1993-2012: Review and forecast on research emphases and research trends (Part-II)

The purpose of the present study is to analyze highly cited articles and global research emphases and trends of law and psychiatry (L&P) research during the period of 1993 to 2012…

Information security behaviors of smartphone users in China: an empirical analysis

Understanding user behavior is increasingly critical for information security in the use of smartphones. There is, however, lack of empirical studies about the behavior of…

Semantic text-based image retrieval with multi-modality ontology and DBpedia

The purpose of this study is to reduce the semantic distance by proposing a model for integrating indexes of textual and visual features via a multi-modality ontology and the use…

Using author tri-citation analysis to map knowledge domains in knowledge representations

Previous commonly used author co-citation analysis (ACA) methods have limited the ability to deal with accidental co-citation in constructing a raw co-citation matrix. Therefore…

Factors influencing the adoption of digital reference services among the university librarians in Pakistan

This study aims to explore the factors affecting the adoption of digital reference services (DRS) among the university librarians in Pakistan.

Publications by faculty members indexed in Science Citation Index and Scopus: an Iranian case study

The paper aims to report an investigation that was conducted to identify the scholarly publications by faculty members of the Allameh Tabataba’i University that were indexed in…

Magnetism of WhatsApp among veterinary students

Instant messaging (IM) apps like WhatsApp have given an impetus to rapid sharing of information through multimedia messages in this information age and their clear impact has been…

Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content

Deep Text: Using Text Analytics to Conquer Information Overload, Get Real Value from Social Media, and Add Big(ger) Text to Big Data

Digital photo magic: easy image retouching and restoration for librarians, archivists and teachers