This dissertation assesses the diffusion of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the scientific community in the last decade using Social Network Analysis (SNA) in Turkey. This dissertation aims to evaluate the flow of ...

This paper tests the validity of Urquhart’s Law (‘‘the inter-library loan demand for a periodical is as a rule a measure of its total use’’). It compares the use of print journals at the Turkish Academic Network and ...

The recent developments in technology made it possible to provide various services through the Web. Users’ tendencies to request services via the Web and their expectations from the services are increasing gradually. In ...

Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube are currently among the most frequently visited websites with Web 2.0 features. They are used not only for social networking and entertainment but also for access to information, for ...

Purpose – The peoples living in the Balkan Peninsula over centuries have created a very rich cultural heritage and the constant political upheavals in the region have affected the development and preservation of their ...

In his recent book, “The World is Flat”, Thomas L. Friedman reviews the impact of networks on globalization. The emergence of the Internet, web browsers, computer applications talking to each other through the Internet, ...

The use of a library’s collection should be monitored and the results should be taken into consideration in order to establish an effective and effi cient collection development and collection management policy. This paper ...

Bibliometric findings obtained through the analyses of articles published in journals are used to create scientific and technological road maps and to develop collection management policies in libraries. Yet such ...

The Turkish National Library has recently published the Bibliography of Articles of the Republican Era 1923-1999 (BARE) on CD-ROM. BARE is the most comprehensive bibliography that indexes the articles contained in ...

Industrial Society is based on mass production and mass distribution of standardized goods and services. The objective of companies is to reduce the unit cost by producing and distributing the same goods in large quantities ...