Recent Submissions

  • Measuring Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Creation: A Review of the Literature 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Ramaiah, Chennupati K. (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2020)
    This paper presented a review of literature related to knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. The paper discussed the nature and types of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, theories and models of knowledge ...
  • Faculty and students’ perceptions toward Islamic and law information resources and services 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Mostafa, Imad Ibraheem (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2021)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate and understand the perceptions of faculty members and students toward Islamic and law information resources and services. The paper explored the perceptions of respondents’ ...
  • The Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges for libraries 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Ramaiah, Chennupati K. (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2019)
    With the necessity to be connected to the Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) will receive more and more attention. By using RFID technologies, IoT will be able to connect everyday devices and transfer data between them. ...
  • Towards an Information Society: The State of the Arab Countries 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Said, Raed (International Journal of Information Science, 2012)
    The purpose of this paper is to explore how the Arab countries are progressing in developing information society and how they differ in their efforts to build an information society. The researchers are interested to ...
  • Global Research Productivity in Knowledge Management: an Analysis of Scopus Database 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Ramaiah, Chennupati K. (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2020)
    The main objective of this study is to investigate and analyze global research productivity in knowledge management (KM) research published from 1960 to 2017 and indexed in Scopus database. It is the first scientometric ...
  • Exploring Research Skills among Undergraduate Students of Private Universities in UAE 

    Said, Raed; Kaba, Abdoulaye (IEEE, 2011)
    The purpose of this paper is to explore undergraduate research skills of students from private universities in the UAE. A survey was conducted in two private universities. These are Al-Ain university of Science & ...
  • Digital Resources and Services: An Investigation of GCC Academic Libraries 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Ramaiah, Chennupati K. (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals, 2014)
    This paper seeks to examine and describe the provision of digital resources and services by academic libraries in the GCC countries. It specifically targets the top three or 18 academic institutions of six GCC countries ...
  • Investigating Knowledge Acquisition among Faculty Members 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Ramaiah, Chennupati K. (Informing Science Institute, 2018)
    Aim/Purpose This study investigates the issue of knowledge acquisition among faculty members. Background The paper reports the use of knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources by faculty members. It also ...
  • Bibliometric analysis of research output on the internet of things in the Arab world 

    Kaba, Abdoulaye; Ramaiah, Chennupati K. (Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, 2019)
    Arab countries understand the importance of the Internet of things for the development of society. This entails many efforts to conduct research related to the Internet of things in the Arab countries. Analysing contributions ...
  • Fighting adult illiteracy with the help of the environmental print material 

    Iqbal, Tassawar; Iqbal, Saqib; Hussain, Syed Sajid; Khan, IftikharAhmed; Khan, Hikmat Ullah; Rehman, Attiqa (Public Library of Science., 2018)
    Adult illiteracy is a major problem worldwide especially in developing countries. Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs working in this context are not very effective due to lack of motivation for the people who are not ...