Aslib Proceedings: Volume 55 Issue 1/2

Knowledge production, consumption and impact: policy indicators for a changing world

Ian Rowlands

This paper provides a high‐level overview of some of the main research themes and preoccupations that are reported in this special ciber issue of Aslib Proceedings: New…

Information metrics and user studies

Carol Tenopir

Three questions – what can be studied; how can studies be done; and what can be measured – drive research methods and help to identify information metrics for user studies. User…

(Mis)understanding the digital media revolution

Richard Withey

Describes recent confusion about the nature of the digital revolution and the impact of this on commercial and academic behaviour. Illustrates that the nature of the digital…

Digital information consumers, players and purchasers: information seeking behaviour in the new digital interactive environment

David Nicholas, Tom Dobrowolski, Richard Withey, Chris Russell, Paul Huntington, Peter Williams

Sketches the key characteristics of the newly information enfranchised general public (the digital information consumers). Portrays the digital consumer as…

Beyond outputs: new measures of biomedical research impact

Grant Lewison

Biomedical research evaluation has traditionally been based on analysis of outputs and their citations by other papers. However we should try to map the routes by which research…

Digital information provision via interactive television: understanding the digital consumer

Barrie Gunter

To achieve its objective of having virtually all its services (central and local) online by 2005, the Government must close the “digital divide”, i.e. provide access for those…

Comparing the use of two DiTV transmission services: same service, different outcomes

Paul Huntington, David Nicholas, Peter Williams

NHS Direct Digital was available to almost exactly the same number of users in both Hull and London via two different transmission DiTV companies: Kingston Interactive Television…

Home electronic health information for the consumer: user evaluation of a DiTV video‐on‐demand service

Peter Williams, David Nicholas, Paul Huntington

Reports on a qualitative study exploring a highly innovative digital TV pilot service. Focus groups of medical and health information professionals, “condition‐specific” subjects…

Modelling the diffusion of specialised knowledge

Julian Warner

This paper reviews developments from a study of the reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996. Research evaluation, including the value of citation analysis and the…

Digital journals, Big Deals and online searching behaviour: a pilot study

David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Anthony Watkinson

Evaluates, through deep log analysis, the impact of “Big Deal” agreements on the online searching behaviour of users of the Emerald digital library Web site, which provides…

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