{"title":"Relationship between authors' structural position in the collaboration network and research productivity: Case of Indian earth scientists","authors":"Sameer Kumar, J. Jan","doi":"10.1108/PROG-01-2013-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-01-2013-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compute and analyze the topological properties of co-authorship network formed between earth scientists in India. As a case study, the authors evaluate bibliographic data of authors who have contributed research articles in the Journal of the Geological Society of India, a premier earth science journal in India. Design/methodology/approach – Research articles totaling 3,903 records from 1970 to 2011 were harvested from the ISI Web of Science SCI database and analyzed using Social Network Analysis. Findings – The author productivity in terms of number of papers published followed Lotka's law with β=2.1027. A dense giant component was detected that spanned 73 percent of the network with a density of 0.0017 and clustering coefficient of 0.631, suggesting high level of knowledge diffusion and a rapid flow of information and creativity in this network. Local metrics were calculated using degree, betweenness and closeness centralities. A strong correlation was seen betw...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"355-369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-01-2013-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62195649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F.Ch. Tsimpoglou, Vasiliki V. Koukounidou, Eleni K. Sakka
{"title":"E-ViVa, the national Hellenic fulltext database on Librarianship and Information Science","authors":"F.Ch. Tsimpoglou, Vasiliki V. Koukounidou, Eleni K. Sakka","doi":"10.1108/PROG-02-2013-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-02-2013-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present E-ViVa (Ellinike Vivliothikonomike Vase), the national Hellenic fulltext database on Librarianship and Information Science, developed by the Library of the University of Cyprus. The objectives of E-ViVa are to identify, locate, gather, organize, index, digitize, preserve and promote the results of the research conducted in Greece and Cyprus in the scientific fields of Archival, Library and Information Sciences. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides data concerning the volume, the coverage, the inclusion criteria, the content, the format and the platform of the database, as well as the steps that have been followed for the development. The legal framework related with the copyright issues that are raised are also discussed. Findings – A comparison is attempted between the coverage of E-ViVa and the relative records included in five subject-related databases: eLIS, LISA, LISTA, ISI-SSCI and SCOPUS. Finally the future plans for the project are pres...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"171 1","pages":"383-393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-02-2013-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62195893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The completeness of articles and citation in the Slovene Wikipedia","authors":"Manca Noc, M. Zumer","doi":"10.1108/PROG-12-2012-0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-12-2012-0069","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this research was to examine the number and type of sources cited by featured articles from the Slovene Wikipedia with the purpose of assessing their quality. A sample of random articles was also procured in order to give a clearer picture of the content of the Slovene Wikipedia. Design/methodology/approach – A research was conducted on 122 featured articles from the Slovene Wikipedia from 2009, 2010 and 2011. The following aspects of the articles were analyzed: topic and originality of the article and number, language and type of sources cited. Findings – The results have shown that most of the featured articles are adapted from the English Wikipedia, the most common topics being science, sports and history. Based on these results the authors have concluded that despite some deficiencies the featured articles on the Slovene Wikipedia are of much higher quality compared to random articles. Research limitations/implications – The biggest research limitation is the ever changing nat...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"53-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-12-2012-0069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62200314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nelson Piedra, E. Tovar, Ricardo Colomo Palacios, J. López-Vargas, Janneth Chicaiza
{"title":"Consuming and producing linked open data: the case of OpenCourseWare","authors":"Nelson Piedra, E. Tovar, Ricardo Colomo Palacios, J. López-Vargas, Janneth Chicaiza","doi":"10.1108/PROG-07-2012-0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-07-2012-0045","url":null,"abstract":"– The aim of this paper is to present an initiative to apply the principles of Linked Data to enhance the search and discovery of OpenCourseWare (OCW) contents created and shared by the universities. , – This paper is a case study of how linked data technologies can be applied for the enhancement of open learning contents. , – Results presented under the umbrella of OCW-Universia consortium, as the integration and access to content from different repositories OCW and the development of a query method to access these data, reveal that linked data would offer a solution to filter and select semantically those open educational contents, and automatically are linked to the linked open data cloud. , – The new OCW-Universia integration with linked data adds new features to the initial framework including improved query mechanisms and interoperability.","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"16-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-07-2012-0045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62198152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources","authors":"J. Paul","doi":"10.1108/PROG-08-2013-0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-08-2013-0044","url":null,"abstract":"By reading, you can know the knowledge and things more, not only about what you get from people to people. Book will be more trusted. As this building a digital repository program with limited resources, it will really give you the good idea to be successful. It is not only for you to be success in certain life you can be successful in everything. The success can be started by knowing the basic knowledge and do actions.","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"90-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62198419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cybrarian's Web: An A-Z Guide to 101 Free Web 2.0 Tools and Other Resources","authors":"R. Yeates","doi":"10.1108/PROG-10-2013-0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-10-2013-0059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"95-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62199534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Users' perceptions of blog functions: educational vs personal use","authors":"Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Wei-Jane Lin, Tzu-Yi Lu","doi":"10.1108/PROG-10-2012-0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-10-2012-0058","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This paper aims to understand how users' perceptions of the different functions of blogs vary in educational use and personal use, and further to explore whether experience with blogs has an influence on differences in perceptions of blog functions. Design/methodology/approach – To empirically determine whether the blog functions were suitable for educational and personal use, a blog system with numerous functions was constructed for users to evaluate. In total, 48 college students were recruited to participate in the study. The participants navigated this system and then filled in a questionnaire to give their opinions on the functions of both educational blogs and personal blogs. Findings – The findings of this study indicate that of the 26 blog functions, perceptions of 20 of the functions differed significantly between educational and personal use. Moreover, the results showed that only two blog functions, backup and traffic source, were influenced by both blog experience and blog usage. Ori...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"41-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-10-2012-0058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62199105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital library technology in J-ISIS: concept, implementation and comparison with GSDL","authors":"E. D. Smet","doi":"10.1108/PROG-07-2012-0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-07-2012-0038","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – Although the new J-ISIS software from UNESCO, based on Berkeley DB and Lucene technology, complies with some of the technical requirements as seen necessary for digital library applications, an easy way of building collections so far was not available. The purpose of this paper is to give a report on some necessary DL technological requirements, such as the capability to deal with any metadata structure and alphabets and full-text indexing of documents of any length, and how J-ISIS can deal with these, as well as on the production of the DL interface for digital library applications based on Tika technology. Design/methodology/approach – A brief comparison is made with a well-established DL software, i.e. Greenstone Digital Library, regarding the concepts and performance. Findings – While using a quite different architecture and approach, the test shows that J-ISIS can process the documents faster and with more economical storage efficiency, inviting UNESCO to invest more into it in order to all...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"76-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-07-2012-0038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62198014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors affecting Web 2.0 adoption: a case study","authors":"Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Mansoureh Hosseini-Shoar","doi":"10.1108/PROG-02-2012-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-02-2012-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to identify factors affecting the adoption of Web 2.0 tools by librarians of academic libraries located in Hamedan, Iran. Design/methodology/approach – Methodologically, this survey is applied using a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the survey was 47 librarians of academic and college libraries located in Hamedan (Iran). The tool used for data gathering is a questionnaire made based on the relevant literature as well as authors' standpoint. It consists of 39 questions under ten broad factors. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS (version 16). Findings – Totally, ten broad factors affecting the adoption of Web 2.0 tools by the librarians were identified. The most effective factors are job conditions, changeability, skills, competitiveness, and saving time. Practical implications – To positively and effectively affect the adoption of Web 2.0 tools by librarians especially Hamedan academic librarians, holding training courses and related w...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"2-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-02-2012-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62195837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting Started with Cloud Computing","authors":"R. Yeates","doi":"10.1108/PROG-10-2013-0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-10-2013-0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"92-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62199462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}