Summary: This study investigates the relationship between information communication technology (ICT) funding from the Malaysian government towards scholarly publishing. This study attempts to explore the relationship between the amount spent on research and development (R&D) by the government to the number of references or articles publish

Summary: Semantic Digital Libraries give users a better understanding of the collections. This research is aimed at developing ontology for use in a Semantic Digital Library. The research objectives are to identify the subjects and sources for the ontology development to construct the semantic relationship predicates and to verify the semantic

Summary: The purpose of the study was to assess the perceptions of academic librarians of the copyright law in Malaysia. It also aimed at examining copyright problems faced by academic libraries in relation to their operations and services. The study then looked at the ethical aspects of librarianship associated with copyright, precautiona

Summary: The study investigates the current status of library automation in primary and secondary schools in Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur(WPKL). The main objectives of this study are to determine the extent of library automation in terms of system, modules and functions being automated and used, to establish the level of satisfactions of t

Summary: This research attempts to discover the information seeking behavior among undergraduate programming learners. This study investigates the specific issues regarding the seeking process including types of resources and the most preferred resource, challenges in the seeking process, and the ways students benefit from the seeking process

Summary: In addition to the traditional print resources, libraries of today offer online databases which contain electronic resources (ERs) such as electronic journals or electronic books for better and easy access, regardless of time and distance. The uses of these ERs are growing very fast and are becoming very popular in all kinds of librar

Summary: Well-organized classification schemes undoubtedly influence the process of searching information on the web. Web portals have developed their own classification schemes to categorize their information. However, their own classification schemes did not necessarily go through the process of peer reviews, and systematic approach. The pos

Summary: Reference services are considered one of the key activities in academic libraries. Currently, digital reference services have attracted the attention of libraries and information practitioners and researchers all over the world. The main objectives of this research are: (i) to determine whether the selected academic libraries in Malay

Summary: This study investigates the delivery methods practised by the public university libraries in delivering user education programme. The main objective of this study was to find out the differences and similarities between the selected university libraries in terms of types of delivery methods used, preferred delivery methods and problem

Summary: Subject search is considered as the most important type of searching in library OPAC. It has been found to be very useful in assisting users to locate library materials on specific subject. This study investigated the patterns of subject searching in Islamic bibliographic works. The main objective of this study was to study studen