...Emine Sendurur; Sonja Gabriel Purpose This study aims to discover how domain familiarity and language affect the cognitive load and the strategies applied for the evaluation of search engine results pages (SERP). Design/methodology/approach This study used an experimental research design...

...Soyeon Park; Kihun Cho Purpose This study aims to investigate and compare mobile and desktop user search behaviours of the 1300K site, a Korean shopping search engine, by using transaction log analysis. Design/methodology/approach Transaction logs of 1300K site were collected over a three...

...Zahid Ashraf Wani; Adil Ahmad Sofi Purpose This paper aims to gauge the visibility of open content available in different formats of select open courseware (OCW) repositories through prominent search engines. Design/methodology/approach Open content in three formats (pdf, audio and video) from...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Google Scholar Activity-based costing Citation database Co-citation analysis Intellectual structure Multivariate statistical analysis Search engines Internet In this new digital era, the dramatic switch from print collections of articles...

...Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Search engines Information retrieval Information searches Range (statistics) For most people web search engines (SEs) are the starting point for their exploration of web content, yet they know very little...

...Sayyed Mahdi Taheri; Nadjla Hariri Purpose The purpose of this research was to assess and compare the indexing and ranking of XML‐based content objects containing MARCXML and XML‐based Dublin Core (DCXML) metadata elements by general search engines (Google and Yahoo!), in a comparative analytical...

... storage Search engines Virtual learning environments The road to success is always under construction (Author unknown). Many advances in learning technologies are taking place throughout the world; these advances offer a range of tools and new opportunities to enhance teaching and learning...

... without reading a lot of text. The fifth edition, which includes some new topics especially “search engine optimization strategies”, “search narrowers”, and “evaluating web pages”, consists of four units. The first unit “Searching the internet effectively” provides learners with useful step‐by‐step...

... attention has been paid to the indexing of subfields that contain punctuation marks having special semantic meanings for librarians and the transliteration between Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Also, originality of this work lies in using the Apache Lucene search engine, which facilitates building highly...

... --> Internet Information searches Searching Search engines Ran Hock is a prolific author of successful internet guides, and this third edition of his handbook for searching the internet follows a well tried pattern: an overview of Internet searching, followed by a survey of the different tools: Web...

... be useful for users that have high‐speed networks and use modern search engines. Hence, users that do not have such applicants could not use them. In fact, the act of removing tension between performance, cost and technology has a direct relation to content and users. Sometimes, it is better to choose...

... Information research Teaching Search engines The investigator posted invitation messages to different scholarly/professional listservs to recruit participants from 2 April‐14 May 2007. The listervs were EDUCAUSE (http://educause.edu), Association of Library and Information Science Education (http...

...Philip Calvert Search engines Information retrieval Web site management is a subject that intrigues many information managers and the past decade has seen many librarians become webmasters and web content managers. All people involved with web sites sooner or later become fascinated...

...Huang Meng‐xing; Xing Chun‐xiao; Zhang Yong Purpose This paper seeks to create a novel management model for digital libraries which can effectively respond to the challenges and culture posed by Google or other search engines. Design/methodology/approach The paper attempts to construct...

... of libraries and their resources. Potter is quick to spot the dangers in using this hugely popular search engine: people who only use Google Scholar and come to believe that ‘that is all there is’; an advanced search which does not recognise variant search behaviour patterns in different researcher groups...

... Limited 2009 --> Information searches Search engines Internet Web 2.0, tagging and folksonomies, are changing the way we search for information. In Searching 2.0, Sauers looks at how Web 2.0 tools affect the way we search. After an introduction to the concepts underlying...

... data to be embedded and is consequently preserved in the process of duplication and transmission. Thus the portability of the authentication method is magnified. In addition, users can use general search engines, like Google, to find the CC licensed documents. Originality/value The paper points out...

...Alastair G. Smith Edited by Maristella   Agosti . Information Access through Search Engines and Digital Libraries . Heidelberg : Springer   2008 . 214 pp. , ISBN: 978‐3‐540‐75133‐5   €69.95 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Digital...

... and Yahoo! are the most frequently used search engines, while the other searching options are less used. Availability of some key online databases are exclusively confined to only a selected few B‐School libraries of the State. Practical implications The paper restricts the study exclusively to e...

...Nosrat Riahinia; Fatimah Zandian Purpose This 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 search engines. Design/methodology/approach This study was carried out...