Purpose–The purpose of this study is to investigate the manner and purposes for which
users search the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) in the University Libraries of India …

Purpose–Libraries in Greece are mostly financed by public sources, with private funding
covering only a very small proportion of their budget. The deteriorating, slowly growing …

Metadata lies at the heart of every digital repository project in the sense that it defines and
drives the description of digital content stored in the repositories. Metadata allows content to …

Abstract Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA) is a new model used for e-book acquisition by
academic libraries. A key component of this model is to make records of e-books available in …

This article has three main objectives: i) to describe the use patterns of electronic and
traditional resources in Portuguese academic libraries; ii) to estimate the value of the …

This study aims to look at search patterns in the OPAC and determine the reasons for failure
rates. With this study, interface design problems icould be addressed and the users' search …

En este estudio se analiza el modo en que los usuarios realizan tareas de búsqueda y
recuperación de información mediante consulta en la Biblioteca Digital Hispánica …

Over the past two decades Greek university libraries have had to respond to a changing
academic and information landscape which impacts significantly on the type of services …

The study makes an endeavor to assess the search interfaces of leading academic
databases, viz Cambridge Journals, JSTOR, Sage Journals, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink …