The Electronic Library: Volume 34 Issue 5

Understanding Gamification

The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-By-Shelf Guide

Book reviews: Managing Your Brand: Career Management and Personal PR for Librarians

The status of open access library and information science journals in SSCI

The main purpose of this paper is to measure the status and quality of library and information science (LIS) open-access (OA) journals in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).

Current status of open access journals published in D8 countries and registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (pre-2000 to 2014)

The study aims to monitor the status of open access (OA) journals published in Developing 8 (D-8) countries, i.e. Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan…

Internet services in academic libraries: Impact on the use of printed resources and implications for libraries in Nigeria

The use of the internet and World Wide Web to source information is now an emerging practice in developing countries and seems to be obscuring the use of printed resources in…

Knowledge discovery of digital library subscription by RFC itemsets

The paper aims to understand the book subscription characteristics of the students at each college and help the library administrators to conduct efficient library management…

Lotka’s Law and productivity patterns of authors in biomedical science in Nigeria on HIV/AIDS: A bibliometric approach

This study aims to analyze the productivity patterns of authors in Nigeria using publications indexed in Medline from 2008 to 2012 based on Lotka’s Law. Lotka’s Law of scientific…

Research data management in universities of central China: Practices at Wuhan University Library

Revealing research data’s production and use, the status of research data management (RDM) and researchers’ service requirements in universities of Central China; this study aims…

Willingness of patrons to use library public computing facilities: insights from Malaysia

This paper aims to examine relationships between attitude, self-efficacy and subjective norm with library patrons’ behavioural intention to use public computing facilities at a…

Differences of Pareto principle performance in e-resource download distribution: An empirical study

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the databases from a certain library are Pareto-compliant or not? If so, to what extent is the Pareto principle performance evident…

Inventory of a library collection using Android application

This paper aims to discuss the possibilities of using a mobile application in the process of conducting an inventory of library collection and present an application for the same…

Managing digital records in a global environment: A review of the landscape of international standards and good practice guidelines

This paper aims to widen as well as deepen the discussion on standards and good practice guidelines beyond just local or regional efforts and include international developments.