...Mahdi Zeynali Tazehkandi; Mohsen Nowkarizi Purpose The purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of Google (as an international search engine) as well as of Parsijoo, Rismoon, and Yooz (as Persian search engines). Design/methodology/approach In this research, Google search engine...

... search engine optimization (SEO) position due to the low coding errors and fair site speed, the libraries are leading in content generation and the museums have a very good total SEO index due to their strong social media activities. Common issues are detected in the description of web images, non...

... Search engines Institutional repositories The application of controlled subject vocabularies is a means of improving resource discovery. By consistently applying subject terms across resources, similar resources can be more effectively collocated when searching or browsing by subject. Controlled...

.... The tool was created with the mission to help metadata assignment, focused in particular on identifying the keywords for the purpose of indexing. Describing contents with metadata aids development and optimization of internal search systems, such as search engines for digital repositories, intranets...

... would like to thank: Digital libraries Google Scholar Institutional repositories Metadata Search engine optimization Search engines Article Type: List of reviewers From: Library Hi Tech, Volume 32, Issue 4 Aaron Nichols, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point...

... Findings – Repositories that use GS recommended metadata schemas and express them in HTML meta tags experienced significantly higher indexing ratios. The ease with which search engine crawlers can navigate a repository also seems to affect indexing ratio. The second and third metadata...

..., and examined the results of Google Scholar's explicit harvests. Findings Repositories that use GS recommended metadata schemas and express them in HTML meta tags experienced significantly higher indexing ratios. The ease with which search engine crawlers can navigate a repository also seems to affect...

... functionality’, ‘word cloud’ and ‘most popular’ ranking.” In other words: [m]any new features that are associated with search engines such as word cloud, faceted navigation, the most popular ranking and related items are, however, not found in the surveyed OPACs (Luong and Liew, 2009 , p. 376...

... and search forms at the lower levels. User interfaces Libraries Information searches Search engines The purpose of a library gateway is to guide library users to appropriate resources that return relevant answers to research questions. It uses a structured approach to categorizing...

...‐examined and bibliographic references updated. If there is a fault it is in the refusal to investigate federated search engines. Bell says that this is because they eliminate “the vendors” individual interfaces and all their features. I hope that she will reconsider this in a future edition...

... Limited 2010 --> Libraries Library users Search engines Information searches The majority of librarians and library users employ Google on a daily basis for quick information searches, and while Google Scholar is increasingly well‐known, there are several other Google applications...

... the disadvantages of the current Robots.txt and Robots Meta tags and proposes new a comprehensive amendment based on this new function. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Systems software Tagging Copyright law Search engines The dramatic increase in web sites, to around 172,338,726...

... the change of paradigm in scholarly communication towards a new fully electronic twenty‐first century model. Design/methodology/approach In order to achieve these goals, a new set of web indicators has been introduced, obtained mainly from data gathered from search engines, the new mediators of scholarly...

...Ross MacDonald Medical libraries Information searches Searchers Searching Search engines Internet Terry Ann Jankowski has served on the Medical Library Association Expert Searching Task Force, and edited the expert searching column in the MLA News. Her experience...

... --> Internet Search engines Copyright law Electronic journals Electronic books Digital libraries Google, one of the most popular and widely used internet search engines, has embarked on an ambitious library project aiming at providing free, online access to all works no longer in copyright...

... at: dean.james@exch.library.tmc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Medical libraries Library users User interfaces Software tools Search engines United States of America In Fall 2006, staff from the Houston Academy of Medicine‐Texas Medical Center Library (HAM‐TMCL) and the Life...

... significant costs, especially if it is hosted locally, and while a hosted service may be less costly, it may be less customizable (Caswell and Wynstra, 2007). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Information retrieval Database management systems Academic libraries Search engines...

...Elke Greifender; Mark‐Shane Scale Purpose The primary objectives of this research paper are to explore the concept of social search, evaluate the performance of Facebook as a social search engine, and to understand the relationship between social networking sites (SNS) and social search...

...Michael Seadle; Seda Ozmutlu; Gencer C. Cosar Purpose Identification of topic changes within a user search session is a key issue in content analysis of search engine user queries. Recently, various studies have focused on new topic identification/session identification of search engine...

...Bobby L. Hollandsworth; Jennifer Foy Purpose This paper aims to shed light on federated search engine solutions by documenting how Westminster College implemented a new system after a failed attempt. Design/methodology/approach The librarians became interested in a new federated search...