Free Online Resources in the Digital Age

Today’s school library uses an increasing number of digital resources to supplement a print collection that is moving more toward fiction and literary non-fiction. Supplemental resources, including streaming video, online resources, subscription databases, audiobooks, e-books, and even games, round out the new collections. Despite the best efforts of even the hardest-working librarians in the best-funded libraries, there are many challenges to going digital.

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A selective study of online resources of information on Plant Taxonomy & Systematics: a new path of data flow to the users in the digital age

Indian Journal of Forestry ◽

10.54207/bsmps1000-2014-r5msa0 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 445-455

Author(s):

Partha Das ◽

Bhupendra Kholia

Keyword(s):

Data Flow ◽

Digital Age ◽

Public Domain ◽

Online Resources ◽

Plant Taxonomy ◽

The World

The paper describes the importance of plant taxonomy and classifies the various plant taxonomic databases. It tries to focus on some selective important online public domain databases of plant taxonomy and systematics which are becoming a new path of data flow to the plant taxonomists, botanists and researchers on biodiversity all over the world.

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Hard Copy or Online? Balancing Books and Bytes in the Digital Age

Legal Information Management ◽

10.1017/s1472669615000456 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 184-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Claire Greening

Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

Hard Copy ◽

Online Resources ◽

Information Professionals ◽

The Law ◽

Law Library

AbstractClaire Greening explores some of the challenges that library and information professionals face when weighing up hard copy and online resources. Rather than trying to establish a preferred or ‘best’ format, this article instead explores the advantages that both formats have to offer and considers how they can co-exist within the law library. The article concludes with some questions to ask when purchasing and organising resources and explores some of the practical considerations to take into account regarding training.

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Information Seeking Models in the Digital Age

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch392 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 4515-4527

Author(s):

Mudasir Khazer Rather ◽

Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

Keyword(s):

Information Seeking ◽

Digital Age ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Research Articles ◽

Online Resources ◽

Information Seeking Behavior ◽

Pictorial Representation ◽

Web Tools ◽

Database Research ◽

Seeking Behavior

A model may be defined as a structure for thinking about a problem and may evolve into a statement of the relationships among theoretical propositions. Most models of information behavior are generally the statements, often in the form of diagrams that attempt to explicate an information-seeking activity, the causes and consequences of that activity, or the relations among stages in information-seeking behavior. This chapter explores, introduces and discusses select information seeking models and explains various elements of each modal. Various online resources like database, research articles and other web tools will be accessed to retrieve relevant information related to the select models. Further, the chapter also focuses on the diagrammatic or pictorial representation of each model.

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Information Seeking Models in the Digital Age

Advances in Library and Information Science - Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Library Science, Information Management, and Scholarly Inquiry ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7659-4.ch022 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 279-294

Author(s):

Mudasir Khazer Rather ◽

Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

Keyword(s):

Information Seeking ◽

Digital Age ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Research Articles ◽

Online Resources ◽

Information Seeking Behavior ◽

Pictorial Representation ◽

Web Tools ◽

Database Research ◽

Seeking Behavior

A model may be defined as a structure for thinking about a problem and may evolve into a statement of the relationships among theoretical propositions. Most models of information behavior are generally the statements, often in the form of diagrams that attempt to explicate an information-seeking activity, the causes and consequences of that activity, or the relations among stages in information-seeking behavior. This chapter explores, introduces, and discusses select information-seeking models and explains various elements of each model. Various online resources like database, research articles, and other web tools will be accessed to retrieve relevant information related to the select models. Further, the chapter also focuses on the diagrammatic or pictorial representation of each model.

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Academic Online Resources and Global Implications

Global Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch003 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 25-36

Author(s):

Y. Inoue ◽

S. Bell

Keyword(s):

Web Sites ◽

Search Engines ◽

Digital Age ◽

Online Resources ◽

Amount Of Information ◽

Video And Audio ◽

The Right ◽

Audio Information

The question of finding the right information is perhaps even more important, and it requires a new organizing principle of information for the digital age…. The problem that people are running into with digitized information is that the amount of information is growing exponentially. The number of Web sites has grown from 5,000 to 50 million over the last 10 years or so, and the information they contain is very dynamic. At the same time, search engines are becoming more powerful and people are creating more sophisticated, semantically based retrieval mechanisms. All of that will, in fact, improve the quality of search and finding information. However, there is a different dimension, that of video and audio information, which cannot be routinely indexed and searched at present. (Goodman, 2001, pp. 13-14)

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Academic Online Resources and Global Implications

Teaching with Educational Technology in the 21st Century ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-723-2.ch008 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 213-229

Author(s):

Yukiko Inoue ◽

Suzanne Bell

Keyword(s):

Web Sites ◽

Search Engines ◽

Digital Age ◽

Online Resources ◽

Amount Of Information ◽

Video And Audio ◽

The Right ◽

Audio Information

The question of finding the right information is perhaps even more important, and it requires a new organizing principle of information for the digital age…. The problem that people are running into with digitized information is that the amount of information is growing exponentially. The number of Web sites has grown from 5,000 to 50 million over the last 10 years or so, and the information they contain is very dynamic. At the same time, search engines are becoming more powerful and people are creating more sophisticated, semantically based retrieval mechanisms. All of that will, in fact, improve the quality of search and finding information. However, there is a different dimension, that of video and audio information, which cannot be routinely indexed and searched at present. (Goodman, 2001, pp. 13-14)

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Cultural Tourism and the Tourist Experience in the Digital Era

10.4018/978-1-7998-8528-3.ch001 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Eunice Ramos Lopes ◽

Paulo Alexandre Santos ◽

João Tomaz Simões

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Central Region ◽

Digital Age ◽

Cultural Tourism ◽

Online Resources ◽

Cultural Appropriation ◽

Tourist Destinations ◽

Digital Era ◽

Analysis Methodology ◽

Tourist Experience

This chapter aims to reveal the growing importance of cultural tourism, reflected in the cultural heritage of cities and its concrete tourist experience in a digital age society. One of the stipulated goals was to understand the existing relationship between tourist and cultural appropriation with the mediation of the digital. The chapter focuses on a city located in the central region of Portugal and followed a quantitative and qualitative analysis methodology. The digital era has been fostering a fundamental capital in the promotion of the existing resources in cities to attract visitors and to reveal the tourist experiences developed in the visited tourist destinations. The main conclusion is the interactions that take place between heritage, tourist experience and ICT implying connections that tourists spontaneously comment through online resources. When making their comments they end up demarcating their tourist experience classifying it according to their expectations in relation to the heritage resources they visit.

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