...Zijian Wang; Ximing Xiao; Shiwei Fu; Qinggong Shi Purpose This study aims to uncover the mechanisms behind the marginalization of county-level public libraries. Design/methodology/approach The research surveyed 25 counties in central China, including Hubei, Chongqing, Hunan, and Guizhou...

...Yang Gou; Rui Li; Zhibo Zhuang Purpose This paper aims to objectively present the research dynamics of China in the field of information behavior and its development trends. Firstly, it incorporates China’s research in the field of information behavior into the global research network...

... of scholars have called for further investigation into the inter-territorial and multi-dimensional aspects of the digital divide in China. This study aims to address these gaps by examining the disparities across 31 provinces, particularly emphasizing the transition from the traditional access and skills...

... links and the largest nodes, and cooperates closely with other institutions, with a burst intensity of 14.61, showing an industry-leading posture. This is followed by the School of Law of Ocean University of China and the School of Humanities and Social Development of Nanjing Agricultural University...

... species (Lu et al., 2020). Similar to the SARS coronavirus outbreak in 2002, COVID-19 is likely to have an unknown etiology during the transmission from animal species to humans (Sohrabi et al., 2020). Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province in China, is regarded as the epicenter...

... libraries from “the selected list of universities and colleges, which will participate in the country's construction plan of world-class universities and first-class disciplines” announced by the Ministry of Education of China in September 2017 (Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2017...

...Qiuhui Xiao; Xiaotong Xu; Panpan Liu Purpose Recently, increasing importance has been given to electronic records in China, despite the lack of understanding that institutions and organizations have regarding the security status of electronic records preservation. Wuhan, the largest city...

... to the community, and they found it to have an important role in their daily lives. Originality/value This study will be useful for understanding the roles of the public library in a Chinese context, as well as the views and perceptions of the public library to disadvantaged user groups in China. Dr...

...Yaolin Zhou; Jingqiong Sun; Jiming Hu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the leading topics and developmental trends of archival information resource research in China by visualizing the intellectual structure and evolution patterns of archival information resource research...

... has received much attention from industry, governments, academia world because of its huge application prospects (Huang and Li, 2010 ; Zhu et al., 2010). At present, Japan, South Korea and the USA have set the development of IoT as their national strategies. China has also set IoT...

... as research collaboration opportunities (Van Noorden, 2014 ; Jeng et al., 2015). SM makes learning ubiquitous, providing more opportunities, access, and learning tools (Veletsianos and Kimmons, 2012). In China, the GSM platforms available to teachers are developing rapidly, although ASM...

...Chunmei Gan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current characteristics and status of WeChat application in Chinese public libraries. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 46 sub-provincial and provincial public libraries in China, this study collected data from...

...Rongying Zhao; Fengjiao Guo; Zhuheng Fu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to generalize the teaching characteristics of some typical colleges in China which offer Informetrics courses, and to propose useful suggestions for the course construction of Informetrics through empirical investigation...

...Lihong Zhou; Yaqian Song; Tong Zhou Purpose Self-service libraries (SSLs) have been regarded as an effective approach to provide convenient book services to the enormously large populations of China’s cities. These SSLs are in fact automatic book service machines, which provide a combination...

... and practice alike in China. All the constructs and the corresponding measure items were adapted from the previous literature to fit the context of this study. Specifically, the items measuring ease of use and usefulness were adapted from Venkatesh et al. (2003) ; the items measuring use were...

...). In China, digital libraries in universities have achieved substantial development since the Ministry of Education (MOE) initiated the China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS ) in 1998. There are four national information centers whose ultimate support is provided and maintained by CALIS...

...Lihong Zhou; Miguel Baptista Nunes Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the process of doing qualitative inductive research in China, drawing its conclusions from a grounded theory study. To be more specific, this paper reflects on the process of approaching interviewees...

...Lili Luo; Yuan Wang; Lifeng Han Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study about a successful, award-winning online video marketing project at an academic library in China, hoping to shed light on how to most effectively employ social media in libraries' marketing campaigns...

... electronic resources in China. Design/methodology/approach Data collection was conducted through a large scale survey. A total of 378 valid data coming from the users of a Chinese university library were used for data analysis. Findings There are more users in Chinese university library who perceived...

... behaviors of the respondents. The survey lasted from 15 April to 15 June 2010 and 479 responses were received. Findings Mobile reading is in its early stages of development and has huge market potential in China. The pay‐reading service only makes up a small, slowly growing share. Well educated users...