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Green library as a subject of research – a quantitative and qualitative perspective
Małgorzata Fedorowicz-KruszewskaThe objective of the article is to determine the numerical increase in publications on green libraries and the dynamics of its development as well as to determine the…
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The social media use of Muslim women in the Arabian Peninsula: insights into self-protective information behaviours
Steven Buchanan, Zamzam HusainThe purpose is to provide insight into the social media related information behaviours of Muslim women within Arab society, and to explore issues of societal constraint…
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Audiobook routines: identifying everyday reading by listening practices amongst young adults
Elisa Tattersall WallinThis article explores, identifies and conceptualises everyday audiobook reading practices amongst young adults.
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Serious information in hedonic social applications: affordances, self-determination and health information adoption in TikTok
Shijie Song, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Xinlin Yao, Zhichao Ba, Qinghua ZhuHedonic social applications have been increasingly popular among health information consumers. However, it remains unclear what motivates consumers to adopt health…
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Organizing subject access to cultural heritage in Swedish online museums
Koraljka Golub, Pawel Michal Ziolkowski, Goran ZlodiThe study aims to paint a representative picture of the current state of search interfaces of Swedish online museum collections, focussing on search functionalities with…
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Image manipulation in scholarly publications: are there ways to an automated solution?
Thorsten Stephan BeckThis paper provides an introduction to research in the field of image forensics and asks whether advances in the field of algorithm development and digital forensics will…
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Versioning boundary objects: the citation profile of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM)
Kai Li, Chenyue Jiao, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent LarivièreResearch objects, such as datasets and classification standards, are difficult to be incorporated into a document-centric framework of citations, which relies on unique…
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Exploring the digital humanities research agenda: a text mining approach
Soohyung Joo, Jennifer Hootman, Marie KatsuraiThis study aims to explore knowledge structure and research trends in the domain of digital humanities (DH) in the recent decade. The study identified prevailing topics…
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Infotainment as a hybrid of information and entertainment: a conceptual analysis
Reijo SavolainenTo elaborate the nature of infotainment as a mediating concept between information and entertainment by analysing how the concept of infotainment is approached in diverse…
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Hide and seek – the role of personality, sense of coherence and experiential information in hidden information needs
Jannica Heinström, Shahrokh Nikou, Eero SormunenThe aim of this study is to assess the impact of personality traits and sense of coherence (SOC) on concealing information needs out of shame. The study also investigates…
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Making time/breaking time: critical literacy and politics of time in data visualisation
Veronica Johansson, Jörgen StenlundRepresentations of time are commonly used to construct narratives in visualisations of data. However, since time is a value-laden concept, and no representation can…
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Information literacy as a site for anticipation: temporal tactics for infrastructural meaning-making and algo-rhythm awareness
Jutta Haider, Olof SundinThe article makes an empirical and conceptual contribution to understanding the temporalities of information literacies. The paper aims to identify different ways in which…
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“Bouncing ideas” as a complex information practice: information seeking, sharing, creation, and cooperation
Rebekah Willson“Bouncing ideas” is a phrase used colloquially to illustrate a way of advancing ideas in the workplace. While described by some as a key part of their information work, it…
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Timeliness in information sharing within creative industries. Case: Finnish game design
J. Tuomas Harviainen, Miikka J. Lehtonen, Sören KockThis article aims to examine instances of timeliness and temporality in information sharing conducted by members of the Finnish game design community. By doing so, it…
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Museum open data ecosystems: a comparative study
Peter Booth, Trilce Navarrete, Anne OgundipeThis study aims to investigate how, in forming their policy towards open data (OD), art museums interact with the OD ecosystems they are part of, comprising internal and…
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Spatial thinking, gender and immaterial affective labour in the post-Fordist academic library
Karen P. NicholsonThe purpose of this paper is to use spatial thinking (space-time) as a lens through which to examine the ways in which the socio-economic conditions and values of the…
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Documenting multiple temporalities
Pamela J. McKenzie, Elisabeth DaviesThis article explores the varied ways that individuals create and use calendars, planners and other cognitive artifacts to document the multiple temporalities that make up…
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Trust in the academy: a conceptual framework for understanding trust on academic web profiles
Helena FranckeInstitutional and commercial web profiles that provide biobibliographic information about researchers are used for promotional purposes but also as information sources. In…
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Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources
Elina Late, Sanna KumpulainenThe paper examines academic historians' information interactions with material from digital historical-newspaper collections as the research process unfolds.
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Trauma, time and information
Ronald E. DayIn this article the author would like to discuss information and the causal-temporal models as discussed in trauma theory and reports from trauma therapy. The article…
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Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present
John S. SebergerThis paper theorizes ubiquitous computing as a novel configuration of the archive. Such a configuration is characterized by shifts in agency underlying archival mechanics…
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Reading time: exploring the temporal experiences of reading
Paulette M. Rothbauer, Lucia Cedeira SerantesThe purpose of this paper is to explore various concepts of time and temporal dimensions in the context of everyday reading experiences.
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Discourses of fact-checking in Swedish news media
Amalia JuneströmThe purpose of this paper is to examine how contemporary fact-checking is discursively constructed in Swedish news media; this serves to gain insight into how this…
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The trajectory of linked data in late capitalism
Erik Radio, James KalwaraThe aim of this article is to analyze the trajectory of library linked data in light of the ideological machinations of late capitalism. This is accomplished in order to…
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Preservation for diverse users: digital preservation and the “Designated Community” at the Ontario Jewish Archives
Nathan MolesConventional approaches to digital preservation posit that archives should define a Designated Community, or future user group, for whom they preserve digital information…
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COVID-19 immunity (or vaccine) passports: a documentary overview and analysis of regimes of health verification within the coronavirus pandemic
Marc Richard Hugh KosciejewIntroducing immunity or vaccine passports is one non-pharmaceutical intervention that governments are considering to exempt immune, vaccinated or otherwise risk-free…
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Mapping the research on museums and the public sphere: a scoping review
Andreas Vårheim, Roswitha SkareIn museum research, museums are held as vital in maintaining the public sphere. This scoping review takes stock of the present status of museum–public sphere research by…
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Information behavior during the Covid-19 crisis in German-speaking countries
Stefan Dreisiebner, Sophie März, Thomas MandlThe purpose of this study is to explore the impact of the Covid-19 crisis at the level of individual information behavior among citizens from the German-speaking…
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Characteristics of the health information seeking behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review on information types, information sources and influencing factors
Romy Menghao Jia, Jia Tina Du, Yuxiang Chris ZhaoLesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) individuals' health information seeking is an important topic across multiple disciplines and areas. The…
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“I found what I needed, which was a supportive community”: an ethnographic study of shared information practices in an online cosplay community
Emily Vardell, Ting Wang, Paul A. ThomasThis study explored the information practices of cosplayers, as well as the social norms, social types and information infrastructure of an online cosplay Facebook group…
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Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems
Björn EkströmThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how a methodological coupling of visualisations of trace data and interview methods can be utilised for information…
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LIS research across 50 years: content analysis of journal articles
Kalervo Järvelin, Pertti VakkariThis paper analyses the research in Library and Information Science (LIS) and reports on (1) the status of LIS research in 2015 and (2) on the evolution of LIS research…
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Ethics and digital collections: a selective overview of evolving complexities
David MindelDigital collections are becoming more commonplace at libraries, archives and museums around the world, creating potential for improved accessibility to information that…
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Intellectual structure of information science 2011–2020: an author co-citation analysis
Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas StrotmannThis study continues a long history of author co-citation analysis of the intellectual structure of information science into the time period of 2011–2020. It also examines…
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Bringing order or creating exclusion: systems for managing disability in a university
Hilary Yerbury, Simon Darcy, Nina Burridge, Barbara AlmondClassification schemes make things happen. The Australian Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which derives its classification system from the World Health Organization's…
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Libraries, museums and cultural centers in foreign policy and cultural diplomacy: a scoping review
Randolf Mariano, Andreas VårheimLibraries, museums and cultural centers have long served as cultural ambassadors and foreign policy instruments, bridging diplomatic relationships among nation-states and…
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A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions
Youngseek KimThis study examined how the qualities of both data and documents of existing datasets can contribute to researchers' satisfaction of data reuse, and how it affects their…
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Geographies of information behaviour: a conceptual exploration
Andrew Cox, Crystal FultonThis article examines the relation between place, space and information behaviour.
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Sender vs. recipient-orientated information systems revisited
Andrew MacFarlane, Sondess Missaoui, Stephann Makri, Marisela Gutierrez LopezBelkin and Robertson (1976a) reflected on the ethical implications of theoretical research in information science and warned that there was potential for abuse of…
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Research output, intellectual structures and contributors of digital humanities research: a longitudinal analysis 2005–2020
Fangli Su, Yin ZhangThis study aims to update and extend previous efforts gauging the status of the quickly evolving field of digital humanities (DH). Based on a sample of directly relevant…
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LIS neutrality: a Wittgensteinian interpretation
Stephen MacdonaldThis study builds on a first study by Macdonald and Birdi (2019) that argues the concept of neutrality within library and information science (LIS) demands a sensitivity…
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Wikipedia: an unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship
Denise A. SmithTo date, health information behaviour (HIB) models have not been applied to an exploration of Wikipedia as a consumer health information resource. Wikipedia has been…
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Bonded design in the virtual environment: the transition of a participatory design methodology
Valerie Nesset, Elisabeth C. Davis, Owen Stewart-Robertson, J. Brice BibleThis paper examines how bonded design (BD), a participatory design methodology, was influenced by the transition to working in a virtual environment necessitated by the…
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Sharing experiential information in online discussion: the case of coping with the COVID-19 epidemic
Reijo SavolainenTo specify the nature of experiential information by examining how such information is articulated and shared in online discussion.
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A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors
Hyerim Cho, Minh T.N. Pham, Katherine N. Leonard, Alex C. UrbanWith ready access to search engines and social media platforms, the way people find image information has evolved and diversified in the past two decades. The purpose of…
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Mapping knowledge domains on Wikipedia: an author bibliographic coupling analysis of traditional Chinese medicine
Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas StrotmannWikipedia has the lofty goal of compiling all human knowledge. The purpose of the present study is to map the structure of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) knowledge…
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In quest of goldilocks ranges in searching for information on the web
Anna Matysek, Jacek TomaszczykThe quest to discover optimal conditions or amounts has been carried out in many scientific disciplines and practical fields. In astrophysics, biology, medicine…
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Genre as digital social action: the case of archiving, tagging and searching in digital media culture
Jack AndersenThe purpose of this article is to develop a contemporary understanding of genre as digital social action. Particular emphasis will be on archiving, tagging, and searching…
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Digital storytelling and participatory local heritage through the creation of an online moving image archive: a case-study of Fraserburgh on Film
Andrew Davidson, Peter H. ReidThe aim of the research was to create a site which could host an archive of moving image associated with the town of Fraserburgh in Scotland, but could also include other…
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“So many things were new to us”: identifying the settlement information practices of newcomers to Canada across the settlement process
Danielle AllardThe purpose of this paper is to identify and map the shifting relationship between the settlement process and the information practices of newcomers from the Philippines…
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COVID-19 and the social organization of knowledge in Wikipedia: a study of social representations
Marcin Roszkowski, Bartłomiej WłodarczykThe paper aims to present the development of conceptualization of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) based on associations with other articles on English edition of…
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The information trust formation process for informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study
Laura Sbaffi, Sarah HargreavesThis paper provides new insights on trust formation during information-seeking processes of informal caregivers of people with dementia and identifies the sources of…
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Transcoding authenticity: preserving unreleased gaming software outside of memory institutions
James A. HodgesThis paper aims to introduce new criteria for evaluating authenticity in digital preservation, particularly in cases related to unreleased software projects and…
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A proposed reading event analysis model (REAM) for determining likely reading format preferences
A.M. Salaz, Diane MizrachiThis conceptual paper relates disparate evidence on the factors influencing reading format choice and preference, whether print or digital, in order to inform educational…
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A knowledge organization framework for influencing tourism-centered place-making
Shiv Shakti Ghosh, Sunil Kumar ChatterjeeThis study demonstrates the synthesis of a knowledge organization framework from tourist reviews and an ontological model with its implementation in graph database, which…
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Fast-food information, information quality and information gap: a temporal exploration of the notion of information in science communication on climate change
Carin GraminiusThe purpose of this study is to discuss the concept of information in relation to temporality within the context of climate change communication. Furthermore, the paper…
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The pragmatics of weeding
Betsy Van der Veer MartensThe purpose of this research is to investigate the language of “weeding” (library deselection) within public library collection development policies in order to examine…
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“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process
Anna-Maija Multas, Noora HirvonenThis study examines the information literacy practices of young video bloggers, focusing on the ways in which they construct their cognitive authority through a…
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Researcher attitudes toward data sharing in public data repositories: a meta-evaluation of studies on researcher data sharing
Jennifer L. Thoegersen, Pia BorlundThe purpose of this paper is to report a study of how research literature addresses researchers' attitudes toward data repository use. In particular, the authors are…
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Seven information practices for alleviating information vulnerability
Devendra Dilip Potnis, Joseph WinberryThis literature review aims to identify conscious, intentional, repetitive and transferrable information-related decisions and activities (i.e. information practices) for…
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Serendipity in human information behavior: a systematic review
Yaxi Liu, Chunxiu Qin, Xubu Ma, Huigang LiangSerendipitous information discovery has become a unique and important approach to discovering and obtaining information, which has aroused a growing interest for…
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Health-seeking behaviours of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Europe: a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles
Hamed Ahmadinia, Kristina Eriksson-Backa, Shahrokh NikouImmigrants, asylum seekers and refugees living in Europe face a number of challenges in accessing or using health information and healthcare services available in their…
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