Many libraries and information centres in the developing countries are still far behind the libraries in developed countries in the transition from traditional to electronic libraries. They are expected to continue acquiring print material, while simultaneously seeking out electronic sources. However, few developing countries such as India, Kenya and Thailand are competing with those in the dev...

This book is a revised and expanded edition of a work previously published in 2000. It is aimed particularly at practitioners coming new to the electronic resources area, as well as at more experienced professionals interested in new approaches. Eight chapters of varying length cover collection development policies; selection criteria and the selection process; budgeting and acquisitions; organ...

This descriptive study replicates and extends previous research on advanced practice RNs and the (1) reference resources available to them at the point of care, (2) resources they use to inform their clinical practice, and (3) resources they are accessing from handheld electronic devices such as PDAs, smartphones, and tablet computers during practice. These elements formed the purpose of the cu...

Meaningful sentences are composed of meaningful words; any system that hopes to process natural languages as people do must have information about words, their meaning and relative words in another language. This information is traditionally provided through electronic dictionaries. But these dictionary entries evolved for the convenience of human readers, not for machines. So, machine readable...

The TRIAL SOLUTION EU project focused on the publication of personalized electronic documents based on existing scientific books. Its general approach consists in slicing electronic books into elementary learning resources and annotating them with metadata enabling the retrieval of resources by a semantic search. The annotated resources are published into a repository available for teachers or ...

This study elaborated relations between digital library use by university faculty, users' discipline and the availability of key resources in the Finnish National Electronic Library (FinELib), Finnish national digital library, by using nationwide representative survey data. The results show that the perceived availability of key electronic resources by researchers in FinELib was a stronger pred...