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Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior
Juliana MestreThis study demonstrates how individual paradigms implicate the questions asked, methods used and results drawn in association with a common object of study in human…
The influences of communitarian philosophy in public policy: mapping the discourse of Scottish public library strategy
Colin Paton, David McMenemyThis research investigates the presence of communitarian philosophy within contemporary Scottish public library strategy, exploring links between philosophy, politics and practice.
Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and proposals from practice
Jo Bates, Helen Kennedy, Itzelle Medina Perea, Susan Oman, Lulu PinneyThe purpose is to present proposals to foster what we call a socially meaningful transparency practice that aims to enhance public understanding of data-based systems…
Integrated use of KOS and deep learning for data set annotation in tourism domain
Giovanna Aracri, Antonietta Folino, Stefano SilvestriThe purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for the enrichment and tailoring of a knowledge organization system (KOS), in order to support the information…
A systematic review of methods for aligning, mapping, merging taxonomies in information sciences
Yi-Yun Cheng, Yilin XiaThe purpose of this study is to provide a systematic literature review on taxonomy alignment methods in information science to explore the common research pipeline and…
Planning, implementing and evaluating research data services in academic libraries: a model approach
Cody Hackett, Jeonghyun KimOne of the most critical changes to academic library services in the last decade has been the development and implementation of research data services (RDS). This paper…
The intricate web: network and rhizome metaphors in hypertext and the web and the epistemic challenge of fake news
Luke TredinnickThis article analyses the structure of hypertext and the world wide web through the contrasting metaphors of the network and the rhizome and applies that analysis to the…
Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues
Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou, Sarah KenderdineDespite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today…
Does the perceived quality of interdisciplinary research vary between fields?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Emma Stuart, Meiko Makita, Mahshid Abdoli, Paul Wilson, Jonathan M. LevittTo assess whether interdisciplinary research evaluation scores vary between fields.
The health information behaviors of people who inject drugs: a scoping review of the literature
Margaret Sullivan, George ShawThe United States of America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. However, little has been written within the domain of LIS (Library and Information Science) about the…
Does serendipity matter in knowledge management? Organizational sharing and use of encountered information
Sanda Erdelez, Yuan-Ho Huang, Naresh Kumar AgarwalThis study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within…
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts
James A. Hodges, Ciaran B. TraceThis article aims to advance a multifaceted framework for preserving algorithms and algorithmic systems in an archival context.
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?
Werner ScheltjensUpcycling is conceptualised as a digital historical research practice aimed at increasing the scientific value of historical data collections produced in print or in…
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change
Antonella FoderaroThis study introduces Simone Weil's impersonal justice concept and its relevance to libraries' identity and role in societies. The article presents the constituents of…
Fractured academic space: digital literacy and the COVID-19 pandemic
Annemaree Lloyd, Alison HicksThe study focussed on information literacy practices, specifically on how higher education staff managed the transition from established and routinised in-person teaching…
“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel
Margaret GrossThis piece explores the philosophical origins of sense-making as defined in Brenda Dervin’s methodology.
“I think sometimes the whole process is just a little bit intimidating”: modeling the health insurance decision-making process
Emily VardellThis qualitative study explores how individuals understand health insurance concepts and make health insurance purchase decisions. The study sought to develop a model of…
The coverage of information science and knowledge organization in the Library of Congress Subject Headings
Jonathan Furner, Birger HjørlandThis article examines the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), which is the most used subject heading system in the world and an instance of a controlled vocabulary (CV).
A conceptual framework for motivation factors influencing researchers' use of academic web profiles
Iris Brun Galili, Mette SkovThis article provides insight into researchers' use of academic web profiles and an understanding of how the influencing factors highlighted in the literature interact…
Affective memories and perceived value: motivators and inhibitors of the data search-access process
Qiao Li, Chunfeng Liu, Jingrui Hou, Ping WangAs an emerging tool for data discovery, data retrieval systems fail to effectively support users' cognitive processes during data search and access. To uncover the…
Scholarly communication: a concept analysis
Rachel Fleming-May“Scholarly Communication” is a frequent topic of both the professional and research literature of Library and Information Science (LIS). Despite efforts by individuals…
A Chinese academic tradition examined in the context of international academic communication: exploratory research into Shang Que articles
Weinan Zheng, Peng Xiao, Andrew MaddenAcademic contention occurs when research evidence is amenable to more than one interpretation. China has a long tradition of Shang Que (商榷), in which authors argue for…
Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: can qualitative research be world-leading?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli, Emma Stuart, Meiko Makita, Paul Wilson, Jonathan M. LevittScholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify…
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic
Marianne Paimre, Sirje Virkus, Kairi OsulaThe purpose of the article is to introduce the outcomes of a study analyzing the relationships between willingness to use technology for health purposes, health…
Knowledge management in museums: enhancing organizational performance and public value
Neville Vakharia, Alex H. PooleThis study examines the enabling factors and practices that foster knowledge management in museums and the impact of those factors and practices on museums' performance…
Centered and decentered: toward a knowledge organization perspective on social reality
Jack AndersenThe purpose is to offer a discussion of how we can conceive of the organization of knowledge in digital culture and its changing nature. The article proposes to view of it…
Computer vision and machine learning approaches for metadata enrichment to improve searchability of historical newspaper collections
Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, Steven Verstockt, Nico Van de Weghe, Sally Chambers, Julie M. BirkholzHistorical newspaper collections provide a wealth of information about the past. Although the digitization of these collections significantly improves their accessibility…
Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda
Alison HicksThe purpose of this conceptual paper is to suggest that the growing sociocultural theorisation of risk calls for a more robust research focus on the role that information…
Perry Starlight, Ali Orbit and Kim Cosmos' alien encounter: creating a picturebook as information for children and parents participating in research
Katharine Smales, Annemaree Lloyd, Samantha RaynerThis study explored whether the creation of an illustrated picturebook could explain the terms and practicalities of participatory, multi-method qualitative research to…
Unsilencing colonial archives via automated entity recognition
Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens, Giovanni ColavizzaThis paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields
Marianne Lykke, Louise Amstrup, Rolf Hvidtfeldt, David Budtz PedersenSeveral frameworks have been developed to map and document scientific societal interaction and impact, each reflecting the specific forms of impact and interaction that…
Towards a vernacular aesthetics of liking for information studies
Cheryl KlimaszewskiPersonal museums provide the conceptual catalyst for liking as a research approach and inclusivity around “idiosyncratic” knowledges within information research. An…
A proposal of conceptual model for Brazilian popular music
Marcos Fragomeni Padron, Fernando William Cruz, Juliana Rocha De Faria Silva, Richard P. SmiragliaThe term “Brazilian popular music” refers to a varied repertoire of musical styles with a strong connection to local culture. The initiatives of representation of this…
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