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 aim of this study is to evaluate the institution of library and archive in Ancient Anatolia in the context of socio-economical and cultural structure. In this study, fi rst the basic characteristics of the culture ...

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 ...

The development of the “Open Access” (OA) movement since early 1990s has been radically changing the scientific communication landscape. Within the last decade more universities and research institutions are recommending ...

Abstract The efficiency of published scientific works are measured and examined qualitatively by bibliometric methods. As a significant efficiency measurement tool, citations form one of the parameters of research evaluation ...

Abstract Due to the rapid growth of information on the Internet, search engines are used to getting information included in documents created in different languages. This paper aims to find out if the two search engines ...