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Economics and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information
(MIT Press, 1997-05-19)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities of computers and communication networks, accompanied by equally dramatic decreases in cost, have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. This paper ...
The Value of Social Search: Seeking Collective Personal Experience in Social Q&A.
(2013)
In this paper, we examine the value of social question-answering (Q&A) services as a platform for social search. We present a quasi-field study where we instructed 20 study participants to use a social Q&A service, Yahoo! ...
Information Seeking Behavior of Engineers
(2017-02-01)
Engineers are largely specialists trained in areas such as mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering, yet they work in a broad range of environments, such as research and development, design, testing, manufacturing, ...
Institutional repositories: The Experience of master’s and baccalaureate institutions
(2008)
In 2006, MIRACLE Project investigators censused library directors at all U.S. academic
institutions about their activities planning, pilot testing, and implementing the institutional
repositories on their campuses. Out ...
Selecting Microfilm for Digital Preservation
(American Library Association, 1996-01)
Project Open Book is Yale University Library's multiyear, multifaceted study exploring the feasibility of converting preservation microfilm to digital imagery and enhancing both physical and intellectual access to the ...
Teaming Up with Robots: An IMOI (Inputs-Mediators-Outputs-Inputs) Framework of Human–Robot Teamwork
(2017-10-04)
Despite the established volume of literature on human–robot interaction, the ways in which humans and robots work together as a team have been relatively understudied. Current approaches to human–robot teamwork do not fully ...
Why is it difficult to find comprehensive information? Implications of information scatter for search and design
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-07)
The rapid development of Web sites providing extensive coverage of a topic, coupled with the development of powerful search engines (designed to help users find such Web sites), suggests that users can easily find comprehensive ...