The purpose of this research is to establish a comparative analysis between open access journals and those open access journals whose sole purpose is to research on energy as a socialized conduit. To achieve such objective three tools will be used, namely: 1) the bibliographic database of abstracts, 2) the citations of articles for scientific journals, including Scopus, and 3) bibliometric analysis. Different studies show research that has been published in non-open access journals is larger in ...

Information Science 

The rising popularity of mobile payments can be attributed to the widespread use of smartphones and their applications. Despite its potential to simplify our lives, its adoption in African countries has been limited. This paper aims to enhance our understanding of the critical factors that influence the acceptance of mobile payments in Nigeria by exploring the impact of “network externalities” in addition to conventional technology acceptance factors. It posits that performance expectancy, effor...

Electric Engineering  Culture  Information Management  Applications of Communication Systems  Information Science  Economics  Technology  Demography  Information and Communication: Security, Privacy, and Trust 

[Purpose/Significance]: To provide a reference for the development of open data theory and practice by targeting a review of China’s open data policy-related research. [Method/Process]: Through textual content analysis, the study finds that the research on open data policy in China currently consists of four main sections: theoretical research, policy content analysis, policy coordination research, and policy evaluation. [Result/Conclusion]: At present, China’s research on open data policy has m...

Information Science 

Open Access (OA) are research publications published in scholarly journals or institutional repositories online without restrictions. It enables end users to consume, transfer and reproduce the full text of scholarly works in their fields of study. OA library resources support academic and research within institutions of higher learning as it strives to provide an alternative solution in a place where there is no equality in information and knowledge. The pursuit and use of OA library resources ...

Information Science  Library, Intelligence and Philology 

Increasing measurable student achievement is a primary goal for K-12 institutions worldwide. To this end, Instructional Leaders must be knowledgeable concerning instructional best practices, technology, and current research in education. This paper examines professional development for Instructional Leaders utilizing an accomplished teaching model that employs National Board for Professional Teaching Standards resources as the basis for instruction. Within the context of this paper, Instructiona...

Education Administration  Information Science  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Teacher Education  Technology  Distance and Open Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

This paper examines the effect of four typographic modification variables among a group of dyslexic and non-dyslexic adults (18 - 45 y) during English reading. The eye movement recordings of 14 participants dyslexic (n = 2) and non-dyslexic (n = 14) readers were analyzed by examining the following parameters: pupil diameter, blink count, blink duration and blink frequency. The typographic modification variables assessed co comprise font color, background color, line spacing and font type. It was...

Information Science  Optical Communications  Psychology  Linguistics 

The study assessed the utilization of the University of the Gambia Main Library by various schools of the university. The schools that mostly utilize the library and the average time spent were examined. The data was generated from the Main Library database. The database was appropriate for this study as a useful method for assessing the schools that utilize the library most and the average time spent by students from April to September 2021. From the findings of the study, it was concluded that...

Information Science  Library, Intelligence and Philology 

This study clarifies the connotation of new liberal arts and information literacy, analyzes the current situation and existing problems of college students’ information literacy, and establishes a “four-in-one” college students’ information literacy model under the background of new liberal arts, which takes training objectives as guidance, innovative teaching mode as path, integration platform as a guarantee and strengthening teachers as support. It aims to help the industry to better populariz...

Information Science  Library, Intelligence and Philology 

The study is aimed at investigating the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use on library service delivery in two universities namely, University of Ghana library (Ghana) and Jiangsu university library (China). The paper adopted quantitative method and used a structured questionnaire to gather the research data. A sample size of 62 staff from Jiangsu University Library and 80 staff from the University of Ghana Library were selected. In all, a sample size of 142 respondents ...

Information Management  Information Science  Information retrieval  Technology  Library, Intelligence and Philology  Information and communication theory and algorithms 

Research data management (RDM) practices in China are underdeveloped despite the release of RDM policy on 2nd April 2018 and research to unearth these challenges cannot be overemphasized. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship among critical stakeholders in RDM specifically from librarians’ perspective to speed up the RDM agenda for maximum benefit. This study used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to study the relationship among critical stakeholders in RDM. The finding...

Information Science  Library, Intelligence and Philology