Online Information Review: Volume 34 Issue 5

An anatomy of the credibility of online newspapers

Chung Joo Chung, Hyunjung Kim, Jang Hyun Kim

The purpose of this paper is to discover the primary components of credibility of three types of online newspapers and how the credibility of news differs by type.

The means‐end cognitions of web advertising: a cross‐cultural comparison

Chen‐Su Fu, Wann‐Yih Wu

The paper, based on the concepts of means‐end chain (MEC) theory and high versus low‐context cultures, aims to understand whether the differentiation of culture connotations is…

Supporting information access in e‐learning by integrating digital libraries and ontology

Daqing He, Yefei Peng, Ming Mao, Dan Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the integration of digital library (DL) technologies with ontology‐based knowledge representation in providing semantic rich information…

Ontological content‐based filtering for personalised newspapers: A method and its evaluation

Veronica Maidel, Peretz Shoval, Bracha Shapira, Meirav Taieb‐Maimon

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new ontological content‐based filtering method for ranking the relevance of items for readers of news items, and its evaluation. The…

Performance evaluation and comparison of the five most used search engines in retrieving web resources

Sanjib K. Deka, Narendra Lahkar

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the performance and efficiency of the five most used search engines, i.e. Google, Yahoo!, Live, Ask, and AOL, in retrieving internet…

The citation impact of Open Access agricultural research: A comparison between OA and non‐OA publications

Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli

The main purpose of this study is to assess the citation advantage for self‐archived Open Access (OA) agriculture research against its non‐OA counterparts.

Knowledge exploration with concept association techniques

Chen‐Chung Liu, Shih‐Hsun Fan Chiang, Chih‐Yueh Chou, Sherry Y. Chen

Exploratory learning is regarded as an important ability for developing knowledge from open environments. During the exploration, learners not only need to acquire new information…

The JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool – virtues and vices

Peter Jacsó

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is an advisory body to the higher and further education funding councils for England, Scotland and Wales, and the Department of…

Digital Information: Order or Anarchy?

Mae Keary

Media Literacy

Mae Keary

Website Visibility: The Theory and Practice and Improving Rankings

Fernando Bação

Handbook of Research on E‐Government Readiness for Information and Service Exchange: Utilizing Progressive Information Communication Technologies

Per Flensburg