Aslib Proceedings: Volume 63 Issue 1

R&D collaboration in 50 major Spanish companies

Antonio Perianes‐Rodríguez, Carlos Olmeda‐Gómez, María Antonia Ovalle‐Perandones, Zaida Chinchilla‐Rodríguez, Felix Moya‐Anegón

Although the role of enterprise in R&D is broadly acknowledged, few attempts have been made to gather data for analyzing the nature and scope of private sector collaboration. This…

Google Generation II: web behaviour experiments with the BBC

David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, David Clark, Peter Williams

The purpose of this paper is to report on continuing research undertaken on the way the Google Generation behave on the internet and to compare this with an earlier highly…

EIAH data model: Semantic interoperability among distributed digital repositories

Emad Khazraee, Saeed Moaddeli, Azadeh Sanjari, Shadi Shakeri

The purpose of this paper is to provide a clear image of the information architecture used in the Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History (EIAH) and to show how it was…

Modelling the information‐seeking behaviour of children and young people: Inspiration from beyond LIS

Andrew K. Shenton, Naomi V. Hay‐Gibson

The paper seeks to draw on Sice's systems model, itself based on Senge's “fixes that fail” archetype, and on data from two previous research projects conducted by one of the…

A study on the development of Korean academic libraries' duty model based on the job analysis

Sin‐Young Kim, Jee‐Yeon Lee

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the jobs and duties involved in Korean academic libraries and to provide a clear picture of relative issues. This research will assist…

Bibliometric analysis of Chinese superconductivity research, 1986‐2007

Qilun Zhu, Peter Willett

The purpose of this paper is to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the development of Chinese research in superconductivity since the advent of high‐temperature…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh