...Javaria Javaid; Saira Soroya; Khalid Mahmood Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the attitude of faculty members towards knowledge-sharing in the University of Education, Lahore. The impact of personal and organizational factors that may contribute to effective knowledge-sharing among...

... in the procedure of electing candidates for particular academic and research titles. The evaluation and quantitative presentation of the results and evaluation of citations were carried out on data taken from the database of the Current Research Information System of the University of Novi Sad (CRIS UNS), which...

...Monireh Gharibe Niazi; Masumeh Karbala Aghaei Kamran Purpose As a result of the so-called information explosion, it is very important for researchers, faculty members and students to access scientific and research information, which highlights the importance of designing university websites...

...Adeyinka Tella; Oyegunle John Oladapo Purpose The study aims to present a comparative analysis of available Web 2.0 tools in library websites of selected Nigerian and South African universities. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis was adopted as the design for the study. Twenty...

...Arif Khan; Haroon Idrees Purpose – This study aims to explore the Web impact factors (WIFs) for websites of Pakistani universities. The paper discusses why revised Web impact factor (RWIF) is more meaningful than simple WIF. The study also attempts to rank the top-five websites of Pakistani...

...Ren Ding; Feicheng Ma Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess student web searching competency. The paper aims to determine varying levels of university student competency in web searches and to investigate and compare their competency levels of searching academic and daily‐life tasks...

...S.M. Zabed Ahmed Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the pattern of electronic information resources use and satisfaction with university‐paid resources by the faculty members in eight public universities in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach An online questionnaire was used...

...‐book reading supports between academic reading and leisure reading? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 E‐books Students Universities Reading, Taiwan Reading strategy Electronic reading E‐book system Reading behaviour Here we discuss the definition and purposes of reading...

...Wei‐Wen Wu; Lawrence W. Lan; Yu‐Ting Lee Purpose The aim of this paper is to propose a novel evaluation framework to explore the “root causes” that hinder the acceptance of using internal cloud services in a university. Design/methodology/approach The proposed evaluation framework incorporates...

...Shiv Kumar; Ranjana Vohra Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the manner and purposes for which users search the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) in the University Libraries of India. The study is a comparative analysis of the use of OPAC in three universities located...

... more electronic resources. Design/methodology/approach The study investigates NSTL users' behavior from seven “211 projects” universities in Wuhan, a city in central China. The questionnaire includes questions about respondents' basic information (i.e. educational level, discipline, etc...

...Abdul Mannan Khan; Naved Ahmad Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out the level of awareness and use of e‐journals by the researchers of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) – both central universities funded by the University Grants Commission...

...E. Williams Nwagwu; Janet Adekannbi; Olayiwola Bello Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing use of the internet by students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and to establish the variation of this use by students' personal characteristics, and as a result...

...Heejung Kim; Hyewon Lee Purpose Contrary to the development of digital libraries at Korean universities, which has been due to the progress of information technologies, university archives are in their early stages and are not fully using the digital environment. This paper aims to evaluate...

...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...

...Amgad Elgohary Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Web Impact Factor of Arab universities. Design/methodology/approach The study included 99 universities representing 20 Arab countries. The advanced search facility of AltaVista was used for data collection. Two rounds...

...‐research process. Design/methodology/approach A survey and focus groups investigating internet use by academic staff and research students at Curtin University (Western Australia) for e‐research and scholarly communication purposes. The survey questioned respondents on their formal and informal...

...Daniel Emojorho; Awhefe Adomi Purpose This study is aimed at looking at the extent to which staff of Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria, are acquainted with and use information technology facilities for academic pursuit. Design/methodology/approach The main instruments used for collecting...

...John‐Oswald Amekuedee Purpose The study was undertaken to find out which library processes have been automated in Ghana's three older public university libraries namely, the Balme Library, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Library and the University of Cape Coast (UCC...

...David Raitt; Abdulraheem Sani; Muta Tiamiyu Purpose To evaluate the status of automated information services in selected Nigerian universities with a view to identifying progress and prospects of, and constraints to, the technological transformation of Nigerian universities as the basis...