... Limited 2013 Online catalogues Information retrieval User studies University libraries India Access approaches Libraries Universities Responding to the question on the purposes of using OPAC, a majority of the users (79 per cent in PUC, 74.1 per cent in PUP and 63.2 per cent...

...). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 GeoTheses Geosciences GSDL Digital libraries Union catalogue Online catalogues Open source India Conventionally theses and dissertations have long been regarded as the basis of higher education. They represent the outcome of focused...

... them and those in the developed countries in terms of ICT literacy. Online catalogues Classification Libraries Communication technologies Information science Nigeria © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 This is the electronic version of Dewey Decimal classification scheme...

... Worldwide web Online catalogues Greece Information retrieval User interfaces Nowadays, libraries are considered as places with access to information in many formats and from many sources. Apart from providing physical and/or digital information assets, libraries also provide services related...

... or Liberty3 that are used in many other countries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Academic libraries Online catalogues New Zealand User interfaces In short, the results reflected that all OPACs covered the basic search features. The libraries had developed a wide range of search...

... Online catalogues Generation and dissemination of information Hong Kong Teaching and research are two of the essential components of university education. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to archive, preserve and disseminate the research works of the faculty, staff and postgraduate...

... blocks. These blocks are marked with digits from 0 to 9, where each of them represents special kind of bibliographic data. Information inside the blocks is organized into fields. Library systems Computer software Bibliographies Online catalogues Worldwide web This paper presents a part...

... introduced in the USA in the late 1970s (Heiliger and Henderson, 1971 , p. 7). In the early 1980s, OPACs were also introduced in a few Indian libraries. An OPAC provides the users online access to the library's catalogue allowing them to search and retrieve records from the online catalogue and depending...

... they are providing library catalog linking services through the OCLC WorldCat (2006) as a gateway. Google Scholar [2] will also be analyzed, as it is carrying out a wide‐scale library resource linking project for major libraries all over the world. Portals South Korea University libraries Online...

... at: d.wells@curtin.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Online catalogues Information Communication Information retrieval Even though the online public access catalogue (OPAC) now functions against a background of alternative information‐gathering technologies it is likely...

... an important position in the library's overall information environment, interacting with other information systems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Online catalogues User studies Research organizations Spain The card catalogue and, subsequently, the online public access catalogue...

.... Originality/value The paper is significant in outlining issues in developing a seamless national resource discovery and resource access service. Libraries Australia Online catalogues For the past 23 years the National Library of Australia has provided an online service to support resource...

... OPAC users of the British Council Library in Kolkata. Findings While implementing the verbal protocol method this study has developed a scheme of coding with the help of which the protocol data were analysed and proposed a generic model of online catalogue searching process flow. It is suggested...

... Arabic scripts web‐based catalogues in the GCC. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Languages Online catalogues Academic libraries Persian Gulf States The Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) is a regional organization which constitutes the states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar...

... by students in the School of Applied Science at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Online catalogues Worldwide web User interfaces Most Web search engines accept natural language queries, perform some kind of fuzzy matching...

... of user behaviour about OPAC but also depicts the differences in user behaviour as well as the effects of technological changes from card catalogue (manual system) to OPAC (automated system). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Catalogues Online catalogues User studies Despite...