Information Services & Use - Volume 31, issue 3-4

Authors: Milloy, Caren | Stone, Graham | Collins, Ellen

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences.

Keywords: Open access, scholarly monograph, humanities and social sciences, culture, technology, business models, research study

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0655

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 249-258, 2011

Authors: Linde, Peter | Eriksson, Jörgen | Kullman, Lars | Fathli, Margareta | Karlsson, Klemens | Sikström, Marjatta | Sköld, Ylva | Tång, Ingela

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The main purpose of this project has been to examine the accessibility of refereed conference articles and the OA- and publishing policies of conferences in order to in this way elucidate different aspects concerning self-archiving in Swedish institutional repositories. For this purpose, the project participants have examined a number of conferences and references to conference articles via their institutional repositories during a specific time period and described these from the perspective of a common scheme. The study has showed that the local institutional repositories fill an important role to make conference publications visible. We have found that ca. 50% of …the conference papers can be published as postprints in our institutional repositories. We have noticed that ca. 15% or the studied conference articles are not available at all. It is, therefore, of great importance to use local institutional repositories as a publishing channel, not only for primary published material such as dissertations and reports, but also as a source for finding these conference articles “without a home”. Between 20–25% of the examined articles were found in some type of OA archive; ca. half of these were found in one of the project participants' own institutional repositories. This indicates that the publishing database of respective higher education institution is an important factor for open accessibility. Ca. 10% of the conferences in the study had an explicit OA policy or expressed such a policy by openly making conference articles accessible on their conference sites. A big problem when it comes to self-archiving of conference articles is the lack of information about OA policy. The landscape of conference publishing is complex and the self-archiving of documents from conferences is very time-consuming. Above all, we would wish a policy resource for conferences similar to the SHERPA/RoMEO. At present, however, there is no other alternative than scrutinizing the conferences' copyright information to the authors and from this attempt to draw conclusions about possible self-archiving. To facilitate the future handling and classification of conference articles in Swedish institutional repositories a number of recommendations are suggested. Show more

Keywords: Open Access, conference articles, institutional repositories, self-archiving

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0656

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 259-269, 2011

Authors: Gatsou, Chrysoula | Politis, Anastasios | Zevgolis, Dimitrios

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper explores the effectiveness, efficiency and ease of use of two alternative interface interactions in a mobile tablet application. More specifically, the study employs a navigation task which novice users were required to complete by means of two types of main menu button, one utilizing text and the other utilizing a visual metaphor. Furthermore, little evidence exists on the effect of the use of metaphor on users of various ages and levels of computer experience. Our results show that young users prefer buttons that display a visual metaphor in the form of an icon, in contrast to older participants, …who preferred the button that employed text. They also show that the users' performance is dependent upon age. Show more

Keywords: Mobile tablet, visual metaphor, interface, interaction design, novice user

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0657

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 271-279, 2011

Authors: Soydal, İrem | Alır, Gülten | Ünal, Yurdagül

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Universities play an important role in lifelong learning. E-learning is one of the key elements in today's networked and knowledge oriented world. It is crucial to know whether the universities are ready to transform their courses to e-learning systems. In this paper the e-learning readiness of the academic staff of Hacettepe University Faculty of Letters (HUFL) is investigated. A 37-item questionnaire along with some demographic questions is used for obtaining the data. Results show that title might be a significant factor for e-learning readiness and in general, HUFL academic staff are not ready for the e-learning environment. The findings of …this study will help to conduct a larger study throughout Turkey in order to determine a model for course of action for transition to an e-learning system. Show more

Keywords: E-learning readiness, higher education, academic staff readiness

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0659

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 281-291, 2011

Authors: Gerbrandy, Jelle | Kloek, Els

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The Biographical Portal aims to collect, organize and make available all biographical Information that is available about Dutch people. In this paper, we describe the design process, the choices we made, the tools we used that may useful for a larger audience and “lessons learned”: things that we feel we have done well, and things we would have done differently if we had known from the start what we do now.

Keywords: Biography, standards, cultural heritage, data aggregation

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0660

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 293-299, 2011

Authors: Santos Silva, Dora

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The publishing industry went through more structural changes in the past ten years than in the whole second half of XX century. In magazine publishing in particular, since the emergence of the first sites to complement the print edition in the 1990s to the release of iPad in 2010, these media have enjoyed numerous opportunities provided by new technologies, which, in turn, demanded the reinvention of editorial and business models. This article seeks to bring together some of the opportunities that digital magazines should embrace (or try) to be sustainable in the future and get the readers' attention and loyalty.

Keywords: Digital journalism, digital magazine publishing, magazine journalism, business models, digital magazine publishing software

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0661

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 301-310, 2011

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2011-313-427

Citation: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 311-313, 2011