Online Information Review: Volume 38 Issue 3

Academic opinions of Wikipedia and Open Access publishing

The purpose of this paper is to examine academics’ awareness of and attitudes towards Wikipedia and Open Access journals for academic publishing to better understand the perceived…

Decrease in free computer science papers found through Google Scholar

Informally computer scientists reported they could access free copies of research papers they needed via tools such as Google Scholar. To ascertain whether this perception came…

Key drivers of consumer loyalty to Facebook fan pages

With the rapid expansion of social networking sites, researchers and practitioners are challenged to understand drivers of customer loyalty in fan pages. The purpose of this paper…

A study of blog networks to determine online social network properties from the tie strength perspective

Most studies on tie strength have focused on its definition, calculation and applications, but have not paid much attention to how tie strength can help analyse online social…

The effect of social embeddedness on bloggers’ creativity

Blogs provide opportunities for bloggers to create. This creativity can attract audiences and generate commercial success for blog service providers (BSPs). Thus to obtain…

“Wisdom of the crowds” and online information reliability: A case study of Israeli real estate websites

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the quality and reliability of websites’ content can be assessed through the lens of “wisdom of the crowds”. In particular as a…

Elements of the management of norms and their effects on the sense of virtual community

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how decisions of managers and administrators of online communities on norms and rules affect the sense of virtual community (SOVC)…

Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

Digital Humanities in Practice

Examining the Concepts, Issues and Implications of Internet Trolling

How Information Technology Is Conquering the World: Workplace, Private Life and Society

(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A Pragmatic Analysis of Message Board Relations

The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students

Open-Source Technologies for Maximizing the Creation, Deployment and Use of Digital Resources and Information

Recent Developments in the Design, Construction and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies

Erratum

Are we gaining control of the web, or is this an impossible dream?