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    Intergenerational workplace knowledge sharing: challenges and new directions

    Jiayang Tang, Jorge Tiago Martins

    Drawing on theories pertaining to knowledge sharing, ageing at work and human resource practices for ageing workers, this article explores knowledge sharing challenges…

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    Engaging interaction and long-term engagement with WhatsApp in an everyday life context: exploratory study

    Juan-Antonio Martinez-Comeche, Ian Ruthven

    The aim of this exploratory study is to analyze if the most used factors related to the engaging interaction and long-term engagement with online applications can be…

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    Reusing design information: an investigation of the document creation process in service design projects

    Yu-Tzu Lin

    Design rationale is design information that explains why an entity is designed as it is. This paper investigates how the documentation process and the use of documents in…

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    Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement

    Yazdan Mansourian

    This paper reports findings from a research project about human information behaviour in the context of serious leisure. Various forms of information activities in this…

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    Toward a conceptual framework of health crisis information needs: an analysis of COVID-19 questions in a Chinese social Q&A website

    Qing Ke, Jia Tina Du, Lu Ji

    The purpose of this paper is to understand how the contextual factors of health crisis information needs are different from a general health context and how these factors…

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    Documenting social justice in library and information science research: a literature review

    Joseph Winberry, Bradley Wade Bishop

    The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of social justice research in library and information science (LIS) literature in order to identify the research…

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    Validation of information-seeking behaviour of nursing students confirms most profiles but also indicates desirable changes for information literacy support

    Peter Stokes, Robert Priharjo, Christine Urquhart

    The study aims were: (1) to replicate a previous study by the first author to confirm previous findings (internal validity) and to check construct validity of previously…

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    Discursive power and resistance in the information world maps of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community leaders

    Vanessa Kitzie, Travis Wagner, A. Nick Vera

    This qualitative study explores how discursive power shapes South Carolina lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities' health…

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    Data modeling and evaluation of deep semantic annotation for cultural heritage images

    Xiaoguang Wang, Ningyuan Song, Xuemei Liu, Lei Xu

    To meet the emerging demand for fine-grained annotation and semantic enrichment of cultural heritage images, this paper proposes a new approach that can transcend the…

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    Classifying economics for the common good: a note on the links between sustainable development goals and JEL codes

    Jussi T.S. Heikkilä

    This brief note sheds light on the links between Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.

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    The Chinese philosophy of information by Kun Wu

    Tianqi Wu, Kaiyan Da

    By introducing the basic concepts and theories of the philosophy of information created by Kun Wu, and making some comparisons of the philosophy of information and related…

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    Tag analysis as a tool for investigating information behaviour: comparing fan-tagging on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own and Etsy

    Ludi Price, Lyn Robinson

    This article describes the third part of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, the first stage of which is described in…

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    Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country

    Maja Krtalic

    This paper presents findings from a study that explored why and how long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members seek and use information about their…

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    Organizing personal digital information: an analysis of faculty member activities

    Jerry Jacques, Sabine Mas, Dominique Maurel, Jonathan Dorey

    The objective of this paper is to document and analyze the organizational activities of faculty members using a personal information management (PIM) framework developed…

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    Research data sharing behaviour of engineering researchers in Norway and the UK: uncovering the double face of Janus

    Mari Louise Mallasvik, Jorge Tiago Martins

    In a context of growing policy pressures to increase the societal impact of Higher Education Institutions (HEI), open access to research data has gained increased…

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    Reading by listening: conceptualising audiobook practices in the age of streaming subscription services

    Elisa Tattersall Wallin

    The purpose of this paper is to clarify issues related to the contemporary study of audiobook practices, in order to aid subsequent research on topics related to reading…

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    “Outside the industry, nobody knows what we do” SEO as seen by search engine optimizers and content providers

    Sebastian Schultheiß, Dirk Lewandowski

    In commercial web search engine results rankings, four stakeholder groups are involved: search engine providers, users, content providers and search engine optimizers…

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    The steering effects of citations and metrics

    Lai Ma

    This paper aims to understand the nature of citations and metrics in the larger system of knowledge production involving universities, funding agencies, publishers, and…

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    Acting hot or not? Testing the citing to show-off hypothesis

    Jeppe Nicolaisen, Tove Faber Frandsen

    Citation analysis as a method for studying scientific communication is frequently criticized for being based on biased citation practices. Questionable motives for the…

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    Research on discipline development and discipline difference of intelligence science in China

    Shuqing Li, Li Ding, Xiaowei Ding, Huan Hu, Yu Zhang

    With the continuous change of research contents and methods of intelligence science, its integration with other disciplines is also deepening. The purpose of this paper is…

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    Facilitation of information literacy through a multilingual MOOC considering cultural aspects

    Stefan Dreisiebner, Anna Katharina Polzer, Lyn Robinson, Paul Libbrecht, Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Cristóbal Urbano, Thomas Mandl, Polona Vilar, Maja Žumer, Mate Juric, Franjo Pehar, Ivanka Stričević

    The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the rationale, technical framework, content creation workflow and evaluation for a multilingual massive open online course…

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    An emerging genre of contemporary fact-checking

    Amalia Juneström

    By exploring the social features of contemporary fact-checking this study aims to increase our understanding of fact-checking as a genre and shed light on some of the…

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    Social aspects of personal information organization

    Kyong Eun Oh

    The purpose of this paper is to examine how individuals' personal information organization reflects their social environments in order to understand social aspects of…

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    The paratext of digital documents

    Roswitha Skare

    The purpose of this study is to provide a discussion on how to apply Genette's concept of the paratext to analyze digital documents. The article argues that the concept…

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    Automatic classification of older electronic texts into the Universal Decimal Classification–UDC

    Matjaž Kragelj, Mirjana Kljajić Borštnar

    The purpose of this study is to develop a model for automated classification of old digitised texts to the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), using machine-learning methods.

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    Information experiences of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada

    Nafiz Zaman Shuva

    Studies on the information behaviour of immigrants including refugees across the globe show a significant dependency of immigrants on their informal networks for meeting…

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    Information cultures and strategies for coping with information overload: case of Estonian higher education institutions

    Liia Lauri, Sirje Virkus, Mati Heidmets

    This paper focuses on the links between information culture and the perception of the information overload on the example of higher education institutions in Estonia. The…

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    Image-based information: paintings in Wikipedia

    Trilce Navarrete, Elena Villaespesa

    This study aimed at understanding the use of paintings outside of an art-related context, in the English version of Wikipedia.

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    Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: are existing models applicable?

    Gerd Berget, Andrew MacFarlane, Nils Pharo

    A substantial number of models have been developed over the years, with the purpose of describing the information seeking and searching of people in various user groups…

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    A systematic integrative review of cognitive biases in consumer health information seeking: emerging perspective of behavioral information research

    Tsangyao Chen

    With the growing interest in behavioral health and medical decision-making, this systematic integrative review aims to understand research on cognitive biases in the…

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