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    • Use of bibliometric analysis of Greek hospital personnel publications 

      Pylarinou, Stamatoula; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2020)
      In this paper, Stamatoula Pylarinou with her supervisor Prof. Sarantos Kapidakis reports on an analysis of bibliographic data of the publications of Greek hospital personnel, conducted as part of Stamatoula’s doctoral ...
    • The use of grounded theory in identifying the user experience during search 

      Βασιλακάκη, Ευγενία; Johnson, Frances; Vasilakaki, Evgenia (2015)
      Grounded theory offers a useful method for gaining an understanding of the context of the user experience when searching on an experimental multilingual image retrieval system. Observational, cognitive and affective data ...
    • The use of marketing concepts in library services: a literature review 

      Γαρουφάλλου, Εμμανουήλ; Σιάτρη, Ράνια; Ζαφειρίου, Γεωργία; Μπαλαπανίδου, Αικατερίνη; Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Zafeiriou, Georgia; Balapanidou, Ekaterini; Siatri, Rania (2013)
      Marketing supports the reaching of organizational goals by focusing on the identification and satisfaction of customer needs, thus it can also contribute considerably in achieving the objectives of non-profit organizations ...
    • The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: practices and Perspectives 

      Κουτσομητρόπουλος, Δημήτριος Α.; Αλεξόπουλος, Ανδρέας Δ.; Σολωμού, Γεωργία Δ.; Παπαθεοδώρου, Θεόδωρος; Koutsomitropoulos, Dimitrios A.; Alexopoulos, Andreas D.; Solomou, Georgia D.; Papatheodorou, Theodore (2010)
      The wide availability of educational resources is a common objective for universities, libraries, archives and other knowledge-intensive institutions. Although generic metadata specifications (such as Dublin Core) seem to ...
    • Use of Open Access Journals in Biomedicine in Greece 

      Βλαχάκη, Ασημίνα; Urquhart, Christine; Vlachaki, Assimina (2010)
      Purpose – The purpose of this research project is to explore the impact of open access initiatives on biomedical research scientific publishing and scholarly communication in Greece. Design/methodology/approach – The paper ...
    • Use of reference management software among postgraduate students in Greece 

      Nitsos, Ilias; Malliari, Aphrodite; Chamouroudi, Rodopi (2021-03-02)
      The use of reference management software in the context of academic work and research is the main subject of this study. The study focuses on the extent to which postgraduate students at the Aristotle University of ...
    • A user evaluation of subject based information gateways: case study ADAM 

      Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Monopoli, Maria (2001)
      Nowadays, end-users have quick and direct access to a massive amount of information available on the Net. However, this information is unorganised expectin g users to be able to identify and evaluate it in accordance with ...
    • User interaction in digital libraries: coping with diversity through adaptation 

      Ακουμιανάκης, Δ.; Παραμύθης, Α.; Στεφανίδης, Κωνσταντίνος; Νικολάου, Χρήστος; Akoumianakis, D.; Paramythis, A.; Stephanidis, C.; Nikolaou, Christos (2000)
      Presents a study which examined the characteristics of digital library systems and identified some of its human-computer interaction (HCI) challenges. Implications of digital libraries on HCI design; Discussion; Summary ...
    • A user-centred approach to the evaluation of Subject Based Information Gateways: case study SOSIG 

      Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Nicholas, David; Monopoli, Maria (2000)
      There has been a massive increase in the amount of information available to people as a result of the Internet and information seekers are expected to be in the position to identify and evaluate this information according ...
    • A user-oriented evaluation of digital libraries: case study the 'electronic journals' service of the library and information service of the University of Patras, Greece 

      Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Κορφιάτη, Μαρίνα; Γεωργίου, Παναγιώτης; Nicholas, David; Korfiati, Marina; Georgiou, Panos; Monopoli, Maria (2002)
      Respondents were asked to indicate which factors would discourage them from accessing an e-journals service. The choices provided by the questionnaire are detailed in Table XVIII. There was also the "other" option where ...
    • Users’ behaviour patterns in academic libraries’ OPACs: a multivariate statistical analysis 

      Μάλλιαρη, Αφροδίτη; Κυριακή-Μάνεση, Δάφνη; Kyriaki Manesi, Daphne; Malliari, Aphrodite (2007)
      This paper aims to present real time user searches in a Greek academic library OPAC (University of Macedonia Library) in relation to user profile. Design/methodology/approach – Using as a test bed a Greek academic library ...
    • Using digital corpora for preserving and processing cultural heritage texts: a case study 

      Γαλιώτου, Ελένη; Galiotou, Eleni (2014)
      The purpose of this paper is to describe the creation and exploitation of a historical corpus in an attempt to contribute to the preservation and availability of cultural heritage documents. Design/methodology/approach – ...
    • Using Google™ facets as implicit feedback for query expansion in database searching 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Μάστορα, Άννα; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Mastora, Anna (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 ...
    • Using handhelds to search in physical and digital information spaces 

      Βερονίκης, Σπύρος; Γαβρίλης, Δημήτρης; Ζούτσου, Κυριακή; Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Veronikis, Spyros; Gavrilis, Dimitris; Zoutsou, Kyriaki; Papatheodorou, Christos (2008)
      In recent years a wealth of information is becoming available thanks to computer and networking technology. Modern libraries incorporate in their collections information content in both physical and digital form. Meanwhile, ...
    • Using time-driven activity-based costing to improve the managerial activities of academic libraries 

      Kissa, Barbara; Stavropoulos, Antonios; Karagiorgou, Dimitra; Tsanaktsidou, Elisabeth (2019-09)
      Nowadays, Academic libraries are required to provide high quality services despite their limited budget. Library managers should rely on valid information to keep the library's activities, resources and costs under control. ...
    • A Utilization Model of Users' Metadata in Libraries 

      Κακάλη, Κωνσταντία; Kakali, Constantia (2014)
      The purpose of this paper is to define a utilization model of meaningful users' tags in subject indexing work in libraries. The research work was originally performed with a quantitative method; a large number of relations ...
    • A value-propagating transformation technique for Datalog programs based on non-deterministic constructs 

      Γεργατσούλης, Μανώλης; Ροντογιάννης, Παναγιώτης; Ποτίκας, Πέτρος; Gergatsoulis, Manolis; Rondogiannis, Panos; Potikas, Petros (2006)
      The branching-time transformation is a recent technique for optimizing Chain Datalog programs. In this paper we propose a significant extension of the branching-time transformation which we believe opens up a promising new ...
    • Valuing studies in higher education: Symbolic means and strategies of students negotiating their position in the library and information science field 

      Moniarou-Papaconstantinou, Valentini (2020)
      The library and information science field attempts to legitimize its position in higher education, in a ‘culture of uncertainty’, where boundaries are fluid. The position of LIS in the hierarchical classification of academic ...
    • Valuing studies in higher education: symbolic means and strategies of students negotiating their position in the library and information science field 

      Μονιάρου-Παπακωνσταντίνου, Βαλεντίνη; Moniarou-Papaconstantinou, Valentini (2018)
      The library and information science field attempts to legitimize its position in higher education, in a ‘culture of uncertainty’, where boundaries are fluid. The position of LIS in the hierarchical classification of academic ...
    • View selection for real conjunctive queries 

      Αφράτη, Φώτο; Γεργατσούλης, Μανώλης; Παυλάκη, Βάσια; Chirkova, Rada; Afrati, Foto; Gergatsoulis, Manolis; Pavlaki, Vassia (2007)
      Given a query workload, a database and a set of constraints, the view-selection problem is to select views to materialize so that the constraints are satisfied and the views can be used to compute the queries in the workload ...