Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication: Volume 69 Issue 8/9

Digital curation practices in institutional repositories in South India: a study

Shajitha C.

The purpose of this study was to identify the digital curation practices in institutional repositories (IRs) in South India.

Emoticons and non-verbal communications across Arabic, English, and Korean Tweets

Jung Ran Park, Houda El Mimouni

The purpose of this study is to examine how tweeters drawn from three different languages and cultural boundaries manage the lack of contextual cues through an analysis of Arabic…

Perceptions regarding academic social networks for scholarly communications

Nujoud Al-Muomen, Abdus Sattar Chaudhry, Oroba Al-Othinah

This study aims to investigate the perceptions of academics regarding the use and usefulness of academic social networks (ASNs) in the scholarly communication practices of faculty…

Use of mobile technologies for care of internal medicine clients in Nigeria’s premier teaching hospital

Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu, Henry Abolade Areo

The purpose of this study was to examine how cost, network and technology factors affect the use of mobile technologies for clients’ care in internal medicine department in…

Profiling information-seeking behavior of mosque speechmakers in Upper Egypt

Essam Mansour

The purpose of this paper is attracting attention to the use of information by mosque speechmakers (MSs) in the Islamic and Arabic world, specifically in Upper Egypt.

Unwrap citation count, Altmetric Attention Score and Mendeley readership status of highly cited articles in the top-tier LIS journals

Yingqi Tang, Hungwei Tseng, Charlcie Vann

The purpose of the study is to use a multidimensional perspective on the analysis of scholarly articles published in the top-tier Library and Information Science (LIS) journals…

What do the business employers want? A sequential mixed methods exploration of information professionals’ competencies

Waqar Ahmad Awan, Kanwal Ameen

The job market of library and information professionals has expanded from academic to industrial, special and business libraries. The unique nature of the organizations, their…

Assessing the credibility of Web information by university students: findings from a case study in Iran

Hamid Keshavarz

The purpose of this paper is to explore how university students assess the credibility of diverse information available on the Web.

Looking for knowledge management in library and information science research

Naresh Kumar Agarwal, Md. Anwarul Islam

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the place of knowledge management (KM) in library and information science (LIS) research. The authors looked for KM articles published…

Role of social networking services for scientists in promoting scientific output on example of Polish representatives of social communication and media sciences

Małgorzata Kowalska-Chrzanowska, Przemysław Krysiński

This paper aims to answer the question of how the Polish representatives of social communication and media sciences communicate the most recent scientific findings in the media…