Aslib Proceedings: Volume 60 Issue 5

Civilisation and its disconnects

Robin Hunt

This paper aims to explore some initial and necessarily broad ideas about the effects of the world wide web on our methods of understanding and trusting, online and off.

Information‐seeking behaviour of physicists and astronomers

Hamid R. Jamali, David Nicholas

The study aims to examines two aspects of information seeking behaviour of physicists and astronomers including methods applied for keeping up‐to‐date and methods used for finding…

Iranian women in science: a gender study of scientific productivity in an Islamic country

Mehrnoush Mozaffarian, Hamid R. Jamali

The aim of the paper is to explore and test gender differences in the authorship of Iranian journal articles.

Transition and people with learning disabilities: Reflections on the quality of content that emerges from the process of involving service users in information provision

Peter Williams

The paper's purpose is to describe the information content of web sites developed by and for people with learning disabilities around the theme of transition from school to…

Flickr: a case study of Web2.0

Andrew M. Cox

The “photosharing” site Flickr is one of the most commonly cited examples used to define Web2.0. This paper aims to explore where Flickr's real novelty lies, examining its…

A framework for evaluating web sites of public authorities

Eleni Panopoulou, Efthimios Tambouris, Konstantinos Tarabanis

In this paper, the aim is to develop a framework for evaluating the web sites of public authorities. The proposed framework consists of four axes: two for assessing the general…