Summary: The study of the factors that determine the Open Access Journals (OAJs) usage behaviour is very important in order to enhance provision of quality services by information professionals, researchers and public at large. OAJs form a virtual platform for knowledge sharing, free accessibility and dissemination of research findings. Throug

Summary: Audience Response System (ARS) has been identified as a probable and innovative solution to fix problems related to conventional education practices, which come as a result of the isolation and lack of interaction and engagement that exist in traditional classes. Previous research has shown that ARS improves interactive learning a

Summary: The purpose of this research was to develop an ontology for Do’a and Zikr al-Ma’thur for counselling. The ontology was constructed to provide high school counsellors with access to relevant Do’a and Zikr al-Ma’thur for counselling session and intervention. Do’a and Zikr al-Ma’thur are essential supplications towards ALLAH

Summary: Knowledge of Islamic finance is evolving, resulting in the numerous bibliographic databases on Islamic finance have been developed in silos. Due to the growing nature of this knowledge, there is a need for its subject terms to be understood by users. Therefore, it is a need to increase the subject vocabulary control for this knowledge

Summary: Difficulties in identifying basic and fundamental Islamic information sources is a common issue amongst Muslim Converts in Malaysia. Inundated with the proliferation of information sources, Converts are unsure of the suitability or relevance of such sources and thus they experience challenges when learning and practicing Islam. Unders

Summary: Online banking is growing tremendously in recent years. This is attributed to the explosion in internet technologies on both computer and handheld-devices platforms. Unfortunately, the growth of online banking is accompanied by a persistent growth of attacks in the form of phishing and malware. Therefore, ensuring security of personal

Summary: Although the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an excellent and preferred choice for almost all block cipher applications, it is not suitable for extremely constrained environments such as Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags and sensor networks. Therefore, the demand for lightweight algorithms is very strong and vital. Ligh

Summary: The research aimed to design and evaluate an innovative Web 2.0-based collaborative learning (CL) with the Islamic ethical system to support the problematic issues of CL and enhance its opportunities in the application domain. This study planned practicing Web 2.0-based CL based on the social constructivist theory for formal and infor

Summary: Studies on scholarly use of the Internet are inconclusive. This mixed methods study investigates faculty perceptions on institutional and personal factors relating to Internet use patterns in Nigerian public universities. The objectives of the study are: (1) to examine the Internet Use Patterns (IUP); (2) to determine whether a signif

Summary: There is a general consensus among academics in the fields of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences that people are inherently different and they handle similar jobs in different ways. That is because each individual has unique characteristic patterns of personality traits that modulate and control his/her behavior. However, someone’s