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Building digital libraries from simple building blocks
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. Fox, Rohit Kelapure, Aaron Krowne, Ming LuoMetadata harvesting has been established by the Open Archives Initiative as a viable mechanism for connecting a provider of data to a purveyor of services. The Open Digital…
Information literacy: an integrated concept for a safer Internet
Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, José Carlos TeixeiraThis paper aims to provide an overview of some of the most recent developments in concepts and practices associated with information literacy worldwide, revealing the paradox…
Heuristics, tools, and systems for evaluating Internet information: helping users assess a tangled Web
John W. FritchThis paper discusses facilitated Internet evaluation, explores heuristics, tools and systems that have been developed to help users evaluate Internet information. Delineates a…
The digital archive of the Swedish East India Company, 1731‐1813: a joint project of a university library and a history department
Margareta BennerThe article describes a digitisation project in which Göteborg University Library, Sweden, is publishing a collection of eighteenth century manuscripts on the Internet, in…
Which academic subjects have most online impact? A pilot study and a new classification process
Mike Thelwall, Liwen Vaughan, Viv Cothey, Xuemei Li, Alastair G. SmithThe use of the Web by academic researchers is discipline‐dependent and highly variable. It is increasingly central for sharing information, disseminating results and publicising…
Characteristics and choices of public access Internet users in Victorian public libraries
Gary Hardy, Graeme JohansonProvision of public Internet access has been viewed by governments as a key step towards encouraging uptake among people who do not have access to information communication…
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- Professor Eugenia Siapera