Purpose

Blockchain technology is a distributed and decentralized public digital ledger, which is employed to save dynamic transaction data and static records across several computers so that each record could not be modified retroactively without the collusion of the network and alteration of all subsequent blocks. Recently, it has become immensely popular in digital resource sharing in different research areas such as healthcare, smart cities, cryptocurrency and libraries. Since the current eLibrary systems are vulnerable to issues such as unauthorized access, plagiarism, etc., there is a lack of access control system that can efficiently address these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors designed a conceptual model for evaluating the users' intention in the use of blockchain-based digital libraries, which can facilitate the resource organization and provide additional security to interactive processes between users. To conduct our survey, the authors devised and shared two versions, English and Chinese, among 298 participants. Moreover, 7 PhD students participated in the pre-testing of the questioner design. The authors analyzed the demographic data using the Jamovi software and SmartPLS in order to generate the path modeling.

Findings

This study revealed that blockchain technology adaption in eLibraries is essential for enhancing the quality of services, infrastructure and resources for libraries. The study’s results show that optimism, informativeness, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude and intention to use blockchain technology for accessing digital resources in libraries.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the adoption of blockchain technology in the digital library. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this work is the first empirical attempt to provide a new perspective of developing digital libraries based on security policies. This model shows the underpinning knowledge to manage digital resources, which can facilitate the design phases and enhance the management costs in eLibraries.

中文翻译：

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对采用区块链技术访问数字图书馆资源的意见挖掘

目的

区块链技术是一种分布式、去中心化的公共数字账本，用于保存多台计算机上的动态交易数据和静态记录，使每条记录在没有网络勾结和所有后续区块更改的情况下无法追溯修改。最近，它在医疗保健、智慧城市、加密货币和图书馆等不同研究领域的数字资源共享中变得非常流行。由于当前的电子图书馆系统容易受到诸如未经授权访问、抄袭等问题的影响，因此缺乏可以有效解决这些问题的访问控制系统。

设计/方法/方法

作者设计了一个概念模型来评估用户使用基于区块链的数字图书馆的意图，这可以促进资源组织并为用户之间的交互过程提供额外的安全性。为了进行我们的调查，作者设计并在 298 名参与者中分享了英文和中文两个版本。此外，7名博士生参与了提问者设计的预测试。作者使用 Jamovi 软件和 SmartPLS 分析人口统计数据以生成路径建模。

发现

这项研究表明，电子图书馆中的区块链技术适应对于提高图书馆的服务、基础设施和资源的质量至关重要。研究结果表明，乐观、信息量、感知有用性、感知易用性、使用区块链技术访问图书馆数字资源的态度和意图。

原创性/价值

这项研究有助于在数字图书馆中采用区块链技术。据作者所知，这项工作是首次尝试为基于安全策略开发数字图书馆提供新视角。该模型展示了管理数字资源的基础知识，可以促进电子图书馆的设计阶段并提高管理成本。