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Xiaojun Xu; Guanghui Cheng – College & Research Libraries, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore the realization of users' information rights (IRs) in the smart service of university libraries. Based on the LibQUAL model, principal component analysis (PCA) is used to measure the quality of smart services in university libraries. The contribution weight of various services to the realization of IRs is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Services
Wu, Yuehua – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The development and diffusion of information and communication technologies, particularly the internet, creates a worldwide trend of using ICTs and the internet to deliver public services. This new form of electronic administration--e-government--potentially offers great benefits to society in that it can enhance public service efficiency,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Information Dissemination, Telecommunications
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Warner, Julian – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Focuses on the history of the United States as a copyright haven from 1790 to the Chace Act of 1891. Indicates analogies between the United States' historical practice and the exploitation of its intellectual property, without observing copyright, to late 20th-century China. Examines the contrast between the idea of a transition to an information…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Economics, Foreign Countries, History
Farrall, Kenneth N. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation problematizes the "state dossier system" (SDS): the production and accumulation of personal information on citizen subjects exceeding the reasonable bounds of risk management. SDS--comprising interconnecting subsystems of records and identification--damage individual autonomy and self-determination, impacting not only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Social Systems, Risk Management
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Xiaoming, Hao; Zhang, Kewen; Yu, Huang – Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, 1996
Examines the potential impact of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on government controls of information in China. Examines the current development of CMC in China; challenges posed by new media technologies to government information control; and the current policy of the Chinese government towards on-line communication and its implications.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
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Xiaoying, Dong – International Information and Library Review, 1995
Examines the pattern and distribution of secondary information systems and services in China. Topics include the role of government, government policies and relevant standards, distribution of discipline-oriented bibliographies and indexes, the change from printed materials to databases, and the transition to a market economy. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Databases, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries