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Geoskills Among Academic Librarians in Greece, Cyprus and Spain
(2016)
Existing literature on Geographic Information (GI) and libraries points out that American and Canadian librarians have long been aware of the intimate relationship between geospatial data and libraries. In Europe, though, ...
Meta-composer: synthesizing online FRBR works from library resources
(2010)
Next generation display and indexing of cataloging records are mainly influenced from the development of the FRBR conceptual model. While the process for collecting all relevant bibliographic records in a catalogue to an ...
Mining user communities in digital libraries
(2010)
The interest in the analysis of library user behaviour has been increasing rapidly since the advent of digital libraries and the Internet. In this context, the authors analyze the queries posed to a digital library and ...
Using Google™ facets as implicit feedback for query expansion in database searching
(2012)
The purpose of this study is to examine the Google facets, namely the suggestions found occasionally under the section "Searches related to" on the Google results page. The study focuses on whether they constitute good ...
Information seeking and searching habits of Greek physicists and astronomers: a case study of undergraduate students
(2012)
The aim of this study was to investigate the information seeking and searching behavior of Greek physicists and especially
astronomers. More specifically, it attempted to shed a light on students’ information needs and ...
Tracking Scholarly Publishing of Hospitals Using MEDLINE, Scopus, WoS and Google Scholar
(2017)
Scientific literature focuses on facilitating communication among researchers. Many studies have been conducted to compare effectiveness, coverage, and performance among databases available to researchers and/or librarians. ...
Comparing metadata quality in the Europeana context
(2012)
The quality of the metadata affects the interoperability of the collections and the quality of all search results, and is important to the success of Europeana. It is not obvious how to define quality metrics, on different ...
Policies, Open Access and Cooperation as Factors Influencing Geospatial Collections in Libraries and Institutional Repositories
(2017)
The aim of this paper is to explore whether in today's changing landscape libraries institutional repositories are
used, in order to develop collections of locally produced geospatial data. Furthermore, this study will ...
Geospatial Data Collection Policies, Technology and Open Source in Websites of Academic Libraries Worldwide
(2016)
The proliferation of geospatial data demands the engagement of information organizations, such as academic libraries,
for their management and diffusion.
The purpose of this paper is to reveal issues related to the development ...
Describing immovable monuments with metadata standards
(2012)
Collections with immovable monuments are less researched than other material of our culture from the aspect of description. This led us to study the metadata elements hosted in various heterogeneous schemas by local ...