Purpose Exploratory search activities are ubiquitous in various information systems. Much
potentially useful or even serendipitous information is discovered during the exploratory …

While the search interfaces used by common academic digital libraries provide easy access
to a wealth of peer‐reviewed literature, their interfaces provide little support for exploratory …

Today'software systems have to cope with changing environments while at the same time
facing high non-functional requirements such as flexibility and dependability. Recently …

Information-seeking tasks with learning or investigative purposes are usually referred to as
exploratory search. Exploratory search unfolds as a dynamic process where the user, amidst …

Academic digital library searchers often employ exploratory search strategies when faced
with the complex search task of finding academic literature on a topic that is new to them …

Despite ongoing advances in information retrieval algorithms, people continue to
experience difficulties when conducting online searches within digital libraries. Because …

The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as
text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched collections offer new opportunities …

The primary focus of Web information retrieval support systems (WIRSS) are to address the
aspects of search that consider the specific needs and goals of the individuals conducting …

Keywords contain important contextual information about search results within academic
digital library search interfaces. However, such information tends to be underutilized within …

The system presented in this article aims to improve information access through the use of
semantic annotation utilizing a non-traditional approach. Instead of applying semantic …