E-Print Depositing Behavior of Physicists and Astronomers: An Intradisciplinary Study

Hamid R. Jamali; David Nicholas

Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 35, No. 2 (March 2009) pp. 117–125

This article investigates the e-print depositing behavior of physicists and astronomers. Fifty-six PhD students and staff at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University College London were interviewed. A survey was also carried out (47....

The Use, Users, and Role of Abstracts in the Digital Scholarly Environment

David Nicholas; Paul Huntington; Hamid R. Jamali

Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 33, No. 4 (July 2007) pp. 446–453

Utilizing transactional log data taken from digital journal libraries and attitudinal and demographic data derived from a questionnaire survey, the article pieces together evidence concerning the use, users, and role of abstracts in a digital...

Comparison of Engineering Skills with IR 4.0 Skills

Mohd Kamaruzaman; R Hamid; A Mutalib; M Rasul

International Journal of Online Engineering Vol. 15, No. 10 (Jun 27, 2019) pp. 15–28

In the heart of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) is a set of rapidly evolving and converging technologies, which can bring sizeable consequences toward the economy, lifestyle, health, education, labour markets and skills development. The changes...

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Finding Information in (Very Large) Digital Libraries: A Deep Log Approach to Determining Differences in Use According to Method of Access

David Nicholas; Paul Huntington; Hamid R. Jamali; Carol Tenopir

Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 32, No. 2 (March 2006) pp. 119–126

This report presents the early findings of an exploratory deep log analysis (DLA) of journal usage on OhioLINK, reporting on the information seeking methods of users. Compared to the users who sought information by browsing journals, those who...

A Novel Wiki-Based Remote Laboratory Platform for Engineering Education

Ning Wang; Xuemin Chen; Qianlong Lan; Gangbing Song; Hamid R. Parsaei; Siu-Chun Ho

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Vol. 10, No. 3 (2017) pp. 331–341

With the unprecedented growth of e-learning, more and more new IT technologies are used to develop e-learning tools. As one of the most common forms of social computing, Wiki technology has been used to develop the collaborative and cooperative...