How do health care professionals select medical images they need?
AbstractPurpose – This paper aims to report the results of a study investigating the relevance criteria used by health care professionals when seeking medical images. Design/methodology/approach – Data...
View ArticleA compound correlation model for disjoint literature-based knowledge discovery
AbstractPurpose – The algorithm of disjoint literature-based knowledge discovery provides a convenient, efficient and effective auxiliary method for scientific research. Based on an analysis of...
View ArticlePersistence and half-life of URL citations cited in LIS open access journals
AbstractPurpose – The main purpose of the present study is to examine the availability and persistence of URL citations in two LIS open access journals. It also intended to calculate the half-life...
View ArticleJob rotation program evaluation: the Niger Delta University Library
AbstractPurpose – Since 2004 the Niger Delta University Library has adopted a job rotation program to help solve manpower and skills acquisition problems. The study reported in this paper aimed to...
View ArticleReference accuracy in library and information science journals
AbstractPurpose – This paper aims to determine the percentage of reference errors and type of errors in four library and information science (LIS) journals. Design/methodology/approach – Research...
View ArticleFacebook use in libraries: an exploratory analysis
AbstractPurpose – The current study aims to present an exploratory analysis of the use of Facebook in American public and academic libraries, with the purpose of understanding patterns of Facebook use...
View ArticleMapping the network structure of science parks: An exploratory study of...
AbstractPurpose – This study aims to introduce a method based on link analysis to investigate the structure of the R&D support infrastructure associated with science parks in order to determine...
View ArticlePromoting African indigenous knowledge in the knowledge economy: Exploring...
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore why Africa's indigenous knowledge is not playing a more active and visible role in the knowledge economy and to the roles that academia and...
View ArticleThe Arab uprising 2011: new media in the hands of a new generation in North...
AbstractPurpose – This aim of this paper is to relate the spread of new information and communications technology in Arab countries to the mobilization of young Tunisians and Egyptians in the uprisings...
View ArticleResearching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in...
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the difficulties encountered when researching the adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) by small hotels in Addis Ababa,...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS information and changing sexual behaviour among undergraduate...
AbstractPurpose – This paper aims to investigate the level of HIV/AIDS information among undergraduate students at two university colleges in Tanzania, and its role in changing risky sexual behaviour....
View ArticleUse of community radio to communicate agricultural information to Zimbabwe's...
AbstractPurpose – This paper aims to report an investigation into the benefits and limitations of radio to communicate agricultural information to peasant farmers, and how it can be successfully...
View ArticleResearch visibility, publication patterns and output of academic librarians...
AbstractPurpose – This study seeks to establish and compare the research and publication patterns and output of academic librarians in Eastern Africa from 2000 to 2009 using informetric techniques....
View ArticleSocial justice and the international flow of knowledge with specific...
AbstractPurpose – In the globalized world the movement of scholars facilitates the global flow of knowledge and supports the pillars of the knowledge economy as defined by the World Bank. But not all...
View ArticleWeb co-word analysis for business intelligence in the Chinese environment
AbstractPurpose– The study seeks to apply Web co-word analysis to the Chinese business environment to test the feasibility of the method there. Design/methodology/approach– The authors selected a group...
View ArticleHow graduate students perceive, use, and manage electronic resources
AbstractPurpose– This study aims to investigate graduate student perceptions of electronic resources, their search behaviour, and their usage patterns. Design/methodology/approach– Interviews were...
View ArticleUndergraduate students' interaction with online information resources in...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to identify the opinions of undergraduate students on the importance of internet-based information sources when they undertake academic tasks....
View ArticleThe attitudes of LIS chairs toward the iSchools movement in China: A...
AbstractPurpose– The goal of this paper is to identify the attitudes of the chairs of library and information science (LIS) programs in Chinese universities toward the iSchools movement....
View ArticleStem cell research: bibliometric analysis of main research areas through...
AbstractPurpose– Research with stem cells is a biomedical venture with great scientific impact, and whose development flows over into many other areas. This article aims to present a dual analysis of...
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