Due to abundance of information available on the Internet, society seeks new types of digital information resources which would facilitate better delivery of information for different purposes. One such information resource type is digital institutional repository. Successful use of digital institutional repositories depends mostly on quality of content they offer, and on unrestricted access to...

Archeologists use artifacts to make statements about occupants of a physical space. Users of information resources leave behind data–based artifacts when they interact with a digital library or other Web–based information space. One process for examining these patterns is bibliomining, or the combination of data warehousing, data mining and bibliometrics to understand connections and patterns b...

in this paper, the notion of the digital divide has been described, and a few analyzing methods of digital divide have been reviewed. analyzing methods of digital divide are called indices which have different indicators and different formulas for calculation. since data collection for an indicator may be difficult, calculating an index is an essential problem. we collected and calculated some ...

In this paper the authors describe a Project entitled “Divulgación de Recursos Educativos Digitales (DIRED)” (Divulgation of Digital Educational Resources) addressed to promoting specific educational resources and mobile apps for educational proposals in order to manage them through the institutional repository of the Salamanca University (GREDOS). The authors present a proposal for describing ...

introduction: increasing volume of information in various sciences, such as medicine, has led to the use of various strategies to effectively provide students, researchers, and teachers with medical and paramedical information. the iranian ministry of health and medical education has developed an online digital library, called iranian national medical digital library (inmdl), which provides acc...

PURPOSE One of the many challenges clinicians face is applying growing medical knowledge to specific patients; however, there is an information gap between information needs and delivery. Digital information resources could potentially bridge this gap. Because most medical students are exposed to personal computers throughout their education, this study postulated that students may be more comf...

As digital libraries proliferate (together with other forms of online information resources), the challenges facing the DL community are no longer those of basic access and resource discovery by naive textual query. Instead, the appearance of systems that provide a deeper interpretation of the literature based on the bibliographic relationships between authors and the articles that they write, ...

Educational establishments continue to seek opportunities to rationalize the way they manage resources. cloud computing is to supply safe, quick, convenient data storage. It will make significant impacts in the construction of digital resources in college. This thesis firstly introduce its definition, theory of work and nature, and describe its applications at present, then analyze the problems...