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 ...

Users of online bookstores are not interested only in general book description when searching and buying books, but also in subjective reader opinion, which could be found in online reviews. Reviewers usually comment on ...

Digital cultural heritage portals provide universal access to cultural objects and associated metadata originating in divers countries and language milieus. Offering an equally heterogeneous audience access to this content ...

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 paper presents the findings of research into the extent and impact of restricted access to ICT based communications for specific groups of staff in UK further and higher education organisations. Educational institutions ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent development of Web Analytics offers new perspectives to libraries, archives and museums to improve their knowledge of user needs and behaviours. In order to dive into the mind of their end users, institutions ...