This paper explores the extent to which the ideals of ‘openness’ are being applied to physical knowledge resources and research spaces. The study investigates the relationship between academic library access policies and institutional positions on open access/open science publishing. Analysis of library access policies from twenty academic ins…[Read more]

There is a traditional narrative within information studies regarding precision and recall measures. Precision and recall have been the most commonly used retrieval metrics and are the basis for more complicated and accurate information retrieval evaluations. Relevance, which is the criterion by which both recall and precision are judged, is…[Read more]

Cure Ribelli è una pubblicazione che nasce dalle attività di ricerca e disseminazione svolte da WeMake nell’ambito del progetto Digital Social Innovation for Europe, un programma supportato dalla Commissione Europea che punta a rafforzare la rete di organizzazioni che propongono l’utilizzo delle tecnologie con una prospettiva mirata all’i…[Read more]

The publication Rebelling with Care is the result of the research and dissemination activities carried out by WeMake within the framework of DSI for Europe, a project supported by the European Commission to reinforce the network of organizations using technologies to make a positive impact on society. The DSI paradigm revolves around key concepts…[Read more]

Library and information center services are at risk during times of extensive budget reductions. Publicly funded institutions labeled as inessential or as auxiliary departments may lose the revenue necessary to maintain full staffing. Financial circumstances of recent years highlight the importance of strategic planning in library and information…[Read more]

A traditional expectation for publicly funded libraries is that they should be institutions where patron records are kept confidential and a standard of privacy is maintained. After the events of 911, methods increasing search and surveillance powers and reducing legal protections were drafted into law as the “Patriot Act”. Searching patron rec…[Read more]

In response to a lack of funding during the 2007–2009 recession, many library systems reduced or eliminated professional and library support positions. Traditional outcome measurements were not sufficient to convince tax-depleted legislatures to allocate more funds to libraries. In response to the crisis authors recommended cost-saving measures a…[Read more]

Postmodernity’s cultural database logic and the consequent filmic characteristics of the digital age were fostered by Lev Manovich’s 1999 essay “The Database as Symbolic Form,” whereby Manovich furthered Roland Barthes’ adoption of Saussurrean sign-systems to describe cultural phenomena. In particular, Manovich applied Saussure’s description…[Read more]

Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin A…[Read more]

Self-monitoring as a personality attribute is given particular attention by researchers in order to understand employee performance and productivity in the organizational context. Numerous studies focused on the impact of self-monitoring from individual employee perspective with limited focus on the impact of the organization’s performance. H…[Read more]

Purpose: The aim of this research was to find out the differences in guest occupancies and profits of the private and public hotels between and within the years 2008 and 2014.

Methodology: The researchers followed explanatory research to differentiate the data with statistical tools. The researchers undertook the deductive approach to test the…[Read more]

Mushroom is the most popular delicious, nutritious and medicinal vegetable in the world. Now it is considered as the most promising concept for crop diversification. It has been regarded as an effective means for poverty alleviation in less developed countries due to its potential for a quick, high return of profit on a small investment.…[Read more]

Every business organization has some responsibilities to the people because organizations need people to sell their products. No organization can make profit without selling products to the customers. However, every bank needs customers to sell products for earning profits. In this case, the authority of each bank should accomplish some activities…[Read more]

This paper investigates whether percentage of ownership controlled by the directors of companies has any association with types of dividend declared by them. Based on the data for the years 2006 to 2009 from the Dhaka Stock Exchange, this paper found that most of the companies provided stock dividends rather than cash dividends. Using Yate’s C…[Read more]

This study endeavor is to examine the efficiency in the both life insurance and life Takaful industry of Bangladesh. The study used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to explore the contributions of technical and efficiency changes to the growth of productivity in the life insurance industries of Bangladesh by using descriptive statistics such as…[Read more]

This paper present the current Corporate Social Responsibility practices by banking sector in Bangladesh. It also attempts to examine the importance of CSR (Gaining Competitive advantage, Customer’s and Employee’s Positive Behavior, Financial performance, etc) using open end questionnaire aims to collect respondent’s opinion. Data analyzed by St…[Read more]

Seung-Hui Cho, the mass murderer who called himself Question Mark, left a lot of questions behind him. One of them obviously speaks for itself: what motivated him to kill thirty-three strangers at Virginia Tech? Another question almost goes without saying: why do we seek refuge behind moral explanations? Like ‘the question mark kid’ the adult…[Read more]

This study aims at investigating the methods, importance, process, and present situation of managing talented employees in Corporations. The study revealed that having talented employees helps organizations to drive and be competitive but it is difficult to acquire such people. Thus, some innovative campaigns, for instance, global trainee and…[Read more]

Pot experiments were carried out in Dhaka, Bangladesh from March to September 2012 to evaluate the morphological and physiological parameters of Castor oil Plant (Ricinus communis L.), a second generation energy crop propagated from seeds. The leaves and petioles of castor plants were collected from the earthen pot to determine the leaf and…[Read more]