Aslib Proceedings: Volume 56 Issue 6

The legal protection of databases: current situation of the international harmonisation process

J. Carlos Fernández‐Molina

The requisite of creativity set down by copyright laws does not fit well into the context of digital databases. The risk of being unprotected increases in the case of factual…

Escaping from the straitjacket: UK MPs and their e‐newsletters

Nigel Jackson

Members of Parliament (MPs) want to communicate their ideas, messages and activities to their constituents. Within the modern political campaigning era the central party…

Learner support in UK public libraries

Rachel Spacey, Anne Goulding

Purpose. To convey the initial findings of Biblio.for.mEDA, an EU project exploring lifelong learning provision for adults in public libraries set in the context of a literature…

Evaluating internet usage and ecommerce growth in Greece

Dimitrios Xanthidis, David Nicholas

According to studies and surveys conducted world‐wide, government incentives and current legal frameworks, private initiatives and investments, technology available at a…

Operationalising the concept of “information” for research into information behaviour

Andrew K. Shenton

To clarify the subject of a project and indicate its limits, investigators must define for readers their work's key concepts. In most information behaviour research, definition of…

Consumer trust in health information on the web

Paul Huntington, David Nicholas, Barrie Gunter, Chris Russell, Richard Withey, Panayiota Polydoratou

In the case of health information the quality and authenticity of the digital information have always been a matter of major concern for health and information professionals. This…

Note from the publisher

Rebecca Marsh

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