The Electronic Library: Volume 36 Issue 4

Analysing user sentiment of Indian movie reviews: A probabilistic committee selection model

Shrawan Kumar Trivedi, Shubhamoy Dey

To be sustainable and competitive in the current business environment, it is useful to understand users’ sentiment towards products and services. This critical task can be…

Design of a digital library maturity model (DLMM)

Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Nader Naghshineh, Sirous Alidousti, Maryam Nakhoda

There are many challenges in the development of a digital library (DL) and their complexity can be approached effectively with a maturity model. In a maturity model, the features…

How to make an electronic library accessible

Rita Kosztyánné Mátrai

The purpose of this paper is to identify important principles which should be applied to electronic library websites to make them usable for all people.

Library cooperation in Zimbabwe: in search of a suitable model to underpin national development

Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Archie Dick

The paper explores library cooperation in Zimbabwe and gathers views from librarians on the need for a library consortium model to underpin national development. This study aims…

A multi-methods study exploring the role of stakeholders in the digital preservation environment: The case of Ghana

Kofi Koranteng Adu

This study aims to examine the role of stakeholders in the digital preservation under the following key research questions: What are the levels of awareness of the volumes of…

Usage pattern of e-resources among management students in Nagpur, Maharashtra (India)

Vinod Kumar, Vandana , D.K. Batra

This paper aims to investigate the usage pattern of electronic resources (e-resources) among management graduates. The respondents were asked about the types of e-resources they…

Capturing user sentiments for online Indian movie reviews: A comparative analysis of different machine-learning models

Shrawan Kumar Trivedi, Shubhamoy Dey, Anil Kumar

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining are emerging areas of research for analyzing Web data and capturing users’ sentiments. This research aims to present sentiment analysis of an…

Assessing the digital library research output: bibliometric analysis from 2002 to 2016

Khurshid Ahmad, Zheng Jian Ming, Muhammad Rafi

The purpose of this bibliometric analysis is to quantify the prominence and impact of published literature within the field. The research has been conducted with the intent of…

Factors of mobile library user behavioral intention from the perspective of information ecology

Xiwei Wang, Mengqing Yang, Jiaxing Li, Nanaxue Wang

The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors of the mobile library users’ attitude and behavioral intention from the perspective of information ecology. The research…

The application and teaching evaluation of Japanese films and TV series corpus in JFL classroom

Yuqin Liu, Lanling Han, Bo Jiang, Xiaoyan Su

The aim of this paper is to solve the problem of lack of real context in JFL (Japanese as Foreign Language) classroom with video corpus-based teaching. It also offers reference…

A bibliometric analysis for global research trends on ectomycorrhizae over the past thirty years

Xu Jiang, Liu Yanbin

Based on the significance of ectomycorrhizae (ECM) and increased publication activity on this subject, it was decided to carry out a bibliometric analysis of scientific outputs in…

Constructing an ontology based on a thesaurus: A case of ASIS&TOnto based on the ASIS&T Web-based thesaurus

Maryam Nowroozi, Mahdieh Mirzabeigi, Hajar Sotudeh

Considering the shortcomings of the ASIS&T Web-based thesaurus in representing concepts and semantic relations, there is a need to use more effective semantic tools, such as…