Purpose This study develops a conceptual framework and a series of instruments for capturing researchers' data-sharing practices in the social sciences, by synergizing the theory of knowledge infrastructure and the theory of remote scientific collaboration. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

Purpose: Through a two-stage survey, this paper examines how researchers judge the quality of answers on ResearchGate Q&A, an academic social networking site. Design/methodology/approach: In the first-stage survey, 15 researchers from Library and Information Science (LIS) judged the quality of...

Building multilingual resources and providing multilingual services have always been important tasks for Chinese academic libraries, but they are also the difficult issues that the libraries are facing. In this chapter, we present a survey conducted on six different academic libraries for...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify the opinions of undergraduate students on the importance of internet‐based information sources when they undertake academic tasks. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a set of identified typical academic tasks for undergraduate students, three...

Purpose – The goal of the research is to explore whether the use of higher‐level semantic features can help us to build better self‐organising map (SOM) representation as measured from a human‐centred perspective. The authors also explore an automatic evaluation method that utilises...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to analyse the hyperlinks leading to six teen health websites in order to assess the visibility of teen health web portals as well as to discover which websites refer teens to reliable health information. Design/methodology/approach – An environmental...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the integration of digital library (DL) technologies with ontology‐based knowledge representation in providing semantic rich information access (IA) in e‐learning. DL technologies have powerful and flexible content management and access...