Purpose This paper aims to investigate the characterization of corrections to the papers published in Library and Information Science (LIS) journals during 2006-2015. It studies the frequency and location of the published errors, time interval between the publication of the original papers and...

Purpose This study aims to explore the scholarly literature published on “Terrorism” by India and Pakistan and has an in-depth bibliometric analysis of its various facets. Design/methodology/approach Data for the study were harvested from the “Web of Science” one of the widely used and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the authorship patterns and the relationship between them based on some statistical indices for the role of libraries in promoting education at the global level. Design/methodology/approach The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)...

Purpose Recognizing that the nature of research and scholarly communication is changing rapidly, an institutional repository (IR) is a tool for collecting, storing, accessing and disseminating scholarly communication within and without the institutions. The primary reason for establishing an IR...

Purpose The purpose of the study is to review the e-books collection, namely, Ebrary Academic Complete, by understanding its features, cost and usage at Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). The study attempts to understand the usefulness of Ebrary in terms of...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the options for streaming video service available to libraries and determine which platform would best fit the needs of the University at Albany Libraries. Design/methodology/approach Usage data and faculty and student feedback about the streaming...

Purpose The study aims to investigate the document selection rationale of library and information science students to satisfy their academic needs. Design/methodology/approach The descriptive survey design was used for the study using questionnaire as the data collection instrument. The...

Purpose This paper aims to present the results of an analysis about the subjectivity in the process of thematic representation of photographs. Design/methodology/approach The experiments were applied to students of the Course of Librarianship (Biblioteconomia) of the Universidade Federal de...

Purpose This paper aims at demonstrating how the material approach questions conventional hierarchies of photographic value, showing a way to deal with large quantities of photographs accumulated by scientific and scholarly disciplines in their archives. Design/methodology/approach For...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of women in the field of photography after the second wave of feminism in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The grounded theory on the position of women in contemporary photography has been contrasted with the information collected by...