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Factors influencing research data communication on Zika virus: a grounded theory
Michelli Pereira da Costa, Fernando César Lima LeiteThe purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model to illustrate factors influencing research data communication on diseases caused by the Zika virus.
Somatic and cultural knowledge: drivers of a habitus-driven model of tacit knowledge acquisition
Hui Chen, Jose Miguel Baptista Nunes, Gillian Ragsdell, Xiaomi AnThe purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the role of individual learning and development in acquiring tacit knowledge in the context of the inexorable and intense…
Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition: Transkribus as a case study
Guenter Muehlberger, Louise Seaward, Melissa Terras, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Vicente Bosch, Maximilian Bryan, Sebastian Colutto, Hervé Déjean, Markus Diem, Stefan Fiel, Basilis Gatos, Albert Greinoecker, Tobias Grüning, Guenter Hackl, Vili Haukkovaara, Gerhard Heyer, Lauri Hirvonen, Tobias Hodel, Matti Jokinen, Philip Kahle, Mario Kallio, Frederic Kaplan, Florian Kleber, Roger Labahn, Eva Maria Lang, Sören Laube, Gundram Leifert, Georgios Louloudis, Rory McNicholl, Jean-Luc Meunier, Johannes Michael, Elena Mühlbauer, Nathanael Philipp, Ioannis Pratikakis, Joan Puigcerver Pérez, Hannelore Putz, George Retsinas, Verónica Romero, Robert Sablatnig, Joan Andreu Sánchez, Philip Schofield, Giorgos Sfikas, Christian Sieber, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Tobias Strauß, Tamara Terbul, Alejandro Héctor Toselli, Berthold Ulreich, Mauricio Villegas, Enrique Vidal, Johanna Walcher, Max Weidemann, Herbert Wurster, Konstantinos ZagorisAn overview of the current use of handwritten text recognition (HTR) on archival manuscript material, as provided by the EU H2020 funded Transkribus platform. It explains HTR…
Seven pillars and five minds: small business workplace information literacy
Hayley Lockerbie, Dorothy WilliamsThe purpose of this paper is to develop and test a theoretical framework for understanding information literacy (IL) within the context of a small business workplace environment…
The role of serendipity in the story ideation process of print media journalists
Matthew Bird-Meyer, Sanda Erdelez, Jenny BossallerThe purpose of this paper is to build upon the studies of journalism from an LIS perspective by exploring and differentiating the purposive behavior of newspaper reporters from…
Disinformation and misinformation triangle: A conceptual model for “fake news” epidemic, causal factors and interventions
Victoria L. RubinThe purpose of this paper is to treat disinformation and misinformation (intentionally deceptive and unintentionally inaccurate misleading information, respectively) as a…
Document and data continuity at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology
Robert D. Montoya, Katherine MorrisonThe purpose of this paper is to examine how archaeological document collections are layered entities and, thus, consist of documents that may be in discordance with one another…
Closing the researcher-practitioner gap: An exploration of the impact of an AHRC networking grant
Hazel Hall, Peter Cruickshank, Bruce RyanThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which learning gained through participation in three research methods workshops funded by an Arts and Humanities Research…
User engagement with political “facts” in the context of the fake news phenomenon: An exploration of information behaviour
Rita Marcella, Graeme Baxter, Agnieszka WalickaThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that explored human behaviour in response to political “facts” presented online by political parties in Scotland.
Scottish citizens’ perceptions of the credibility of online political “facts” in the “fake news” era: An exploratory study
Graeme Baxter, Rita Marcella, Agnieszka WalickaThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that explored public perceptions of the credibility of “facts and figures” contained within five social media posts…
Towards a diversified knowledge organization system: An open network of inter-linked subsystems with multiple validity scopes
Maayan Zhitomirsky-GeffetThe need for inclusive and logically consistent representation of diverse and even confronting viewpoints on the domain knowledge has been widely discussed in the literature in…
The reading background of Goodreads book club members: a female fiction canon?
Mike Thelwall, Karen BourrierDespite the social, educational and therapeutic benefits of book clubs, little is known about which books participants are likely to have read. In response, the purpose of this…
Russian Science Citation Index on the WoS platform: a critical assessment
Alexei Kassian, Larisa MelikhovaThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the journals of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) (Web of Science platform) in respect to publication misconduct and predatory…
Exploring the role of repertoire in library cataloging
Rachel Ivy Clarke, Brian DobreskiLibrary work is increasingly being explored from the perspective of design. Still, little work has actively explored specific aspects of design as they relate to library…
Mitigating risk: mediating transition through the enactment of information literacy practices
Alison HicksThe purpose of this paper is to present the emergent grounded theory of mitigating risk, which was produced through an analysis of the information literacy practices of…

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