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Image storage and retrieval as an important development in services to library users

Hartley, R.J. (Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, 1996)

Images of the electromagnetic spectrum on the internet

Tsagogeorga, Athena; Halkia, Krystallia (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)

This work analyzes a substantial number of electromagnetic (E/M) spectrum images found on the Internet. Ninety-five (95) relevant network sites were studied and sixty-nine (69) different ways of E/M spectrum depiction were ...

Images of ‘cell division’ on the internet

Prinou, Lucia; Halkia, Krystallia (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)

The use of images in teaching biology is considered to be of great importance for the comprehension of concepts by secondary school students. Important questions for the didactics of biology, which might be of interest to ...

Imagine: collection development in Greek academic libraries in 2001

Demas, Samuel (Βιβλιοθήκη Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας; Βιβλιοθήκη Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, 1998)

Librarians are adapting the principles and practices of collection development to integrate new forms of publishing into the concept of library "collections". One essential challenge is to learn to choose wisely among ...

Immersive cultural experience through innovative multimedia applications: The History of Monserrate Palace in Sintra (Portugal) presented by Virtual Agents

Nuno Neto, Joao.; Joao Neto, Maria. (Multi Science Publishing, 2012-10-29)

We are currently in the process of making a series of interconnected multimedia applications, in order to value and enliven the monuments of Sintra, Portugal - classified by Unesco as World Heritage site in 1995. This ...

Impact factor and education journals: a critical examination and analysis

Τόγια, Ασπασία; Τσιγγίλης, Νικόλαος; Togia, Aspasia; Tsigilis, Nikolaos (2006)

Scientific journals are the primary mode of formal communication in science. The ISI Impact factor, a bibliometric indicator that measures the citation rate of the "average" article in a journal, has been widely used for ...

The impact of Facebook on libraries and librarians: a review of the literature

Βασιλακάκη, Ευγενία; Γαρουφάλλου, Εμμανουήλ; Vasilakaki, Evgenia; Garoufallou, Emmanouel (2014)

Social networking sites are becoming more and more popular triggering an increase in published research and impacting different aspects of daily life. One such aspect concerns libraries and librarians and the way they have ...

The impact of Google on discovering scholarly information: managing STM publishers’ visibility in Google

Kostagiolas, Petros; Strzelecki, Artur; Banou, Christina; Lavranos, Charilaos (2020)

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss Google visibility of five large STM publishers (Elsevier, Emerald Publishing, Springer, Taylor & Francis and John Wiley & Sons) with the aim to focus on and investigate various ...

The Impact of Local Literature on Foreign Libraries: a Bibliographic Evaluation of the Modern Greek Literary Generation of Last Decade

Wilson, D.C. (2019)

This article presents a bibliographic survey relating to the number of titles in Modern Greek fiction owned by libraries worldwide. Using extracted metadata, mainly via the OCLC WorldCat database and supplemented with ...

The Impact of Open Access Policies on Libraries: the New Era in Publishing Industry

Κυριακή-Μάνεση, Δάφνη; Χαλεπλίογλου, Άρτεμις; Βασιλακάκη, Ευγενία; Vasilakaki, Evgenia; Kyriaki Manesi, Daphne; Challeplioglou, Artemis (2006)

Statement: The development and widespread adoption of Internet as a strong information tool is transforming the Publishing Industry. The field, perhaps most, affected by this change is the one of Information Science, which ...

The impact of Twitter on libraries: a critical review of the literature

Βασιλακάκη, Ευγενία; Γαρουφάλλου, Εμμανουήλ; Vasilakaki, Evgenia; Garoufallou, Emmanouel (2015)

Purpose – The paper aims to present a critical review on the adoption and use of Twitter in libraries. Twitter, a microblogging service, is becoming more and more popular amonglibraries as a means of reaching users and as ...

The impact of αn environmental education Based informatics module on the attitudes of students in grades 5 and 6 towards the environment

Karasavvidis, Ilias; Malandrakis, George (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)

This paper reports data from a case study project aimed at examining the effect of an environmental educationbased Informatics module on the attitudes of students in grades 5 and 6 towards a series of environmental issues. ...