Information Discovery and Delivery: Volume 47 Issue 4

Is learning anytime, anywhere a good strategy for success? Identifying successful spatial-temporal patterns of on-the-job and full-time students

Xu Du, Juan Yang, Brett Shelton, Jui-Long Hung

Online learning is well-known by its flexibility of learning anytime and anywhere. However, how behavioral patterns tied to learning anytime and anywhere influence learning…

Exploring the relationship of university students’ educational variables and the degree of their use of virtual social networks

Mansour Jalali, Asgarali Bouyer

The purpose of this paper is to explore relationships among the university students’ educational variables and their educational variables concerning educational, cultural and…

Do altmetrics correlate with citations? A study based on the 1,000 most-cited articles

Ali Ouchi, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Nasim Ansari, Leila Hashempour, Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam

The purpose of this paper is to study the presence of highly cited papers of Nature in social media websites and tools. It also tries to examine the correlation between altmetric…

Technology integration for students’ information and digital literacy education in academic libraries

Muhammad Rafi, Zheng JianMing, Khurshid Ahmad

Digital literacy has become a widely studied topic for connecting people, participation in government and public affairs. It encourages library professionals to train students and…

Understanding second grader’s computational thinking skills in robotics through their individual traits

Youngkyun Baek, Dazhi Yang, Yibo Fan

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the personal traits and computational thinking skills of second graders within the context of robotics activities.

Examining similarities and differences of citation patterns between monographs and papers: a case in biology and computer science

Yuzhuo Wang, Chengzhi Zhang

Citation content in academic papers and academic monographs promotes the knowledge flow among different publications. However, existing citation content analysis (CCA) focuses on…

Transformational leadership and innovation in teaching and learning activities: the mediation effect of knowledge management

Sugunah Supermane

Education institutions persist by transforming leadership skills to manage their knowledge resources efficiently as well as enhance the lecturer’s teaching and learning innovation…

Understanding eWOM of Chinese Governments information service: a perceived value-based perspective

Zhen Zhang, Haihua Chen, Bo Xiao

In a people-oriented society, it is necessary to understand the electronic word of mouth (eWOM) of information service of the government. Government affair microblogs (GAM), which…