Digital libraries offer diverse information resources in digital format. These resources may include any digital collection of books, journals, papers, proceedings and so on. The major challenge for the library is to provide access to all these resources in an integrated and user-friendly way. It is essential to provide an effective method for the users to enable them to make concept-based quer...

Digital publishing resources contain a lot of useful and authoritative knowledge. It may be necessary to reorganize the resources by concepts and recommend the related concepts for e-learning. A recommender system is presented in this paper based on the semantic relatedness of concepts computed by texts from digital publishing resources. Firstly, concepts are extracted from encyclopedias. Infor...

0098-7913/$–see fro doi:10.1016/j.serrev. Brooks is the Senio EBSCO Informat e-mail: sbrooks@e Donovan is the Vi Information Serv [email protected] Rumble is the Vic Africa for EBSCO USA; e-mail: crum The digital divide affects many nations of the developing world. The term encompasses inadequate funding, a lack of necessary computer and Internet skills, and a lack of English-language proficienc...

PURPOSE Digital technology has the potential to support teenagers and young adults (TYAs) with cancer from the onset of their disease into survivorship. We aimed to establish (1) the current pattern of use of TYA digital technologies within our service-user population, and (2) their preferences regarding digital information and support within the service. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was ...

The digital learning environment comprises various resources - didactically transformed and untransformed information, mediated communication. Students’ information behaviour combines both actions characteristic of the traditional educational process specific for environment, based on tools user interactions. in is considered as an indicator their engagement activities that contribute to person...

The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) is a three-year joint effort of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis focused on collection and preservation of digital geospatial data resources from state and local government agencies. NCGDAP is being undertaken in partnership with the Library of Congres...

Digital geospatial information is now widely available via the Internet, commercial software, and computer-assisted tools. Examples include electronic map and route services, digital photographs, and coordinates obtained from global positioning system (GPS) receivers. Digital geospatial data could be used to increase the efficiency of field staff operations by providing spatial resources in a m...