Journal of Documentation: Volume 79 Issue 1

An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services

Dan Wu, Shu Fan, Shengyi Yao, Shuang Xu

Ethnic minorities (EMs), who make up a sizable proportion of multilingual users, are more likely to browse and search in their native language. It is helpful to identify…

Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information

Martin Muderspach Thellefsen

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and clarify a possible realist foundation of domain analysis and knowledge organization, and in this vein, investigate into how the concept…

When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements

Nanna Kann-Rasmussen

This article presents a discussion of how librarians' engagement in certain social movements manifests itself in public libraries, how librarians justify their engagement with…

Overcoming social divisions with the public library

Tomoya Igarashi, Masanori Koizumi, Michael Majewski Widdersheim

The purpose of this study is to describe the full picture of how public libraries contribute to overcoming social division through their resources, programming and services.

Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search

Romina Sharifpour, Mingfang Wu, Xiuzhen Zhang

With an explosion of datasets available on the Web, dataset search has gained attention as an emerging research domain. Understanding users' dataset behaviour is imperative for…

The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use

Maja Krtalic, Kingsley T. Ihejirika

This paper explores personal collection management and use in the context of migration. The paper further investigates how migrants use items in personal collections to reflect…

The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis

Leo Appleton, Hazel Hall

The research was undertaken to explore the role of the UK public library as a public sphere and the ways in which this role relates to the epistemic, community and political…

Expert judgments versus publication-based metrics: do the two methods produce identical results in measuring academic reputation?

Katerina Guba, Angelika Tsivinskaya

This study aims to assess the validity of citation metrics based on the disciplinary representative survey.

Information overload: a concept analysis

Mohamed Amine Belabbes, Ian Ruthven, Yashar Moshfeghi, Diane Rasmussen Pennington

With the shift to an information-based society and to the de-centralisation of information, information overload has attracted a growing interest in the computer and information…

Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge

Michela Montesi

The purpose of this research is to understand everyday information behavior (IB) during the Covid-19 pandemic at the “new normal” stage, focusing on the notions of experiential…

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis

Robertas Damaševičius, Ligita Zailskaitė-Jakštė

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly impacted society and academic life and research practices. This study is an attempt to comprehend whether a global…

Questioning the role of information poverty in immigrant employment acquisition: empirical evidence from African immigrants in Canada

Millicent N. Mabi, Heather L. O'Brien, Lisa P. Nathan

Skilled, well-educated African immigrants arrive in Canada with aspirations for more opportunities and a better life, but too often end up with few employment options and…

A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies

Andrea Jimenez, Sara Vannini, Andrew Cox

The aim of this paper is to introduce a holistic decolonial lens for Library and Information Studies (LIS). As such it centres in the following questions: what does decolonisation…

A systematic review of information practices research

Huan Zhong, Zhengbiao Han, Preben Hansen

This systematic literature review aims to elaborate the research progress of information practices to help other researchers attain a more holistic and comprehensive understanding…