Stereotype and most-popular recommendations are widely neglected in the research-paper recommender-system and digital-library community. In other domains such as movie recommendations and hotel search, however, these ...

It is clear to see that a library built for the general population is expected to serve new roles in the 21st century. The most likely role taken up by the library is to live on as a cultural centre. The paper reviews ...

In most universities in Europe, the barriers to enter into a LIS master degree after earning a degree in another subject are typically high. The same is true for the international mobility of students enrolled in BA or ...

Information graphics are commonly used to display information. Nevertheless, the retention of information can differ depending on the presentation of the content. A topic that is currently present to all of us in the ...

In an online experiment using a representative sample of the German online population (n = 1,000), we compare users’ selection behaviour on two versions of the same Google search engine results page (SERP), one showing ...

Mit der Bildung eines Kommunikations- und Informationszentrums (kiz) aus zuvor selbständigen Zentralen Einrichtungen hat die Universität Ulm die organisatorischen Voraussetzungen für die Einführung eines campusübergreifenden, ...

The UK Government’s ten year strategic vision for public libraries in England was defined in Framework for the Future, which set out current strengths and key areas for development for public libraries in supporting ...

Hidden access to information caused by lacking technological skills, language barriers, insufficient information literacy and last not least by problems of the copyright laws are known and frequently discussed by ...

This paper presents the findings of a user survey, promoted and financed by the Digital Renaissance Foundation in Italy. Digital resources and the Web are continuing to offer many opportunities to improve the access to ...

We suggest a historical and epistemological treatment of the theme of access to information and its means: the changes in the means of access and the value given to knowledge in Western history from Plato to nowadays. ...