The Electronic Library: Volume 26 Issue 4
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
Investigating online community portals for enhanced alumni networking
Zenia Barnard, Chris RensleighThe core purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which web portal technology and online communities could be successfully applied by the alumni offices of higher…
The digital library as an enterprise: the Zachman approach
Abrizah Abdullah, A.N. ZainabThe purpose of this paper is to examine the needs of digital library stakeholders and how a collaborative digital library might be designed to meet these needs. The collaborative…
Digital divide and economic development: case study of sub‐Saharan Africa
Stephen M. MutulaThe purpose of this paper is to examine the nexus between the digital divide and development and discusses attempts being made at continental, regional and country levels to…
Enhancing literary electronic books with logical structure: electronic work
Miguel A. Martínez‐Prieto, Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús M. Vegas, Joaquín Adiego, Carlos E. CuestaThis paper aims to present the concept of electronic work, such as an e‐book integrator of concerns (logical structure, appearance and functionality), for representing literary…
Business administration students' perception of usability of the Business Source Premier database: A case study
Alexei OulanovThe current article is a research study examining user perception of the usability of an online information system used by business administration students. The online database…
The influence of traditional reading habits on the construction of digital libraries in developing countries
Zheng SonghuiThe purpose of this study is to explore the traditional reading habits of library users which were ignored when digital libraries were constructed in developing countries. It…
Can I help you? Implementing an IM service
Anna Hvass, Sue MyerThe purpose of this paper is to report the results of a case study evaluating the introduction of an instant messaging (IM) reference service.
E‐government web site enhancement opportunities: a learning perspective
Jen‐Hung Huang, Stacy Huey‐Pyng ShyuThis study seeks to develop a framework of analysis that categorizes features of e‐government web site design in a matrix of knowledge‐acquiring process versus learners' values…
Digital repository in ceramics: a metadata study
Chandana PatraThis paper seeks to study the metadata requirements for setting up a digital repository in ceramics resources that would provide researchers and ceramic art professionals with…
Design of a model of publication sharing and harvesting
Shien‐Chiang YuThis study aims to discuss a system constructed to satisfy scholars' personal information management requirements when collecting e‐documents, and to include generation of a…
Evaluation of information providers and popular search engines on the base of postgraduate students' perspectives
Nosrat Riahinia, Fatimah ZandianThis study seeks to examine the postgraduate students of two universities (Tarbiat Moallem and Tarbiat Modares) in Tehran to discover how they use online databases and general…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle