Aslib Journal of Information Management
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Library and Information Studies
Factors influencing the importance of criteria for judging answer quality on academic social Q&A platforms
Lei Li, Chengzhi Zhang, Daqing HeWith the growth in popularity of academic social networking sites, evaluating the quality of the academic information they contain has become increasingly important…
“We Need Psychological Support”: the information needs and seeking behaviors of African refugees in the United States
Musa Dauda Hassan, Dietmar WolframThe purpose of this study is to examine the information needs and seeking behaviors of African refugees in the Midwest United States. The research also investigates the…
A thematic analysis of highly retweeted early COVID-19 tweets: consensus, information, dissent and lockdown life
Mike Thelwall, Saheeda ThelwallPublic attitudes towards COVID-19 and social distancing are critical in reducing its spread. It is therefore important to understand public reactions and information…
Towards a typology of personal information management behavior: exploring and defining people's interactions with personal information
Lilach Alon, Alona Forkosh Baruch, Rafi NachmiasDifferences in personal information management (PIM) behavior are well established in the literature, but are defined from the narrow perspective of practical use (e.g…
Constructing information experience: a grounded theory portrait of academic information management
Lettie Y. Conrad, Christine S. Bruce, Virginia M. TuckerThis paper aims to discuss what it means to consider the information experience of academic information management from a constructivist grounded theory perspective. Using…
Understanding the information needs and information-seeking behaviours of new-generation engineering designers for effective knowledge management
Hao Qin, Hongwei Wang, Aylmer JohnsonThis paper aims to explore the information needs and information-seeking behaviours of the new generation of engineering designers. A survey study is used to approach what…
Impact of contexts, resource types and perceptions on information management within the personal domain among college students
Sue Yeon Syn, Donghee Sinn, Sujin KimThis study aims to investigate how college students' personal information behaviors were impacted by contexts, resource types and perceptions of personal information management.
“You make me miss Pune so much”: memory making and documenting in a Virtual Zenana
Priya KizhakkethilThe purpose of the study is to look at memory making and the documenting of memories, as a part of the document and information experience of women belonging to the Indian…
Subject structure of the research area on collaborative information behaviour
Remigiusz SapaThe principal aim of the present study was to identify and model the subject structure of the research area on collaborative information behaviour (CIB).
The assessment of the appraisal of records: case of the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Venda
Nkholedzeni Sidney NetshakhumaThe purpose of this study was to investigate the state of appraisal with regard to compliance with archives and records management legislations (ARML), the archives and…
Understanding extended information seeking: The perspectives of psychological empowerment and digital libraries attachment
Xianjin Zha, Chengsong Huang, Yalan Yan, Guanxiang Yan, Xue Wang, Kun ZhangThis study aims to explore the mechanisms of extended information seeking, which is the combination of extended information technologies (IT) use behavior and…
Participatory design for ontologies: A case study of an open science ontology for qualitative coding schemas
Julian Hocker, Christoph Schindler, Marc RittbergerThe open science movement calls for transparent and retraceable research processes. While infrastructures to support these practices in qualitative research are lacking…
How are research data governed at Japanese repositories? A knowledge commons perspective
Kai NishikawaThe purpose of this paper is to survey how research data are governed at repositories in Japan by deductively establishing a governance typology based on the concept of…
Enhancing classroom instruction with online news
Michael D. Ekstrand, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad PeraThis paper investigates how school teachers look for informational texts for their classrooms. Access to current, varied and authentic informational texts improves…
Coming to America: Iranians' use of Telegram for immigration information seeking
Sarah Nikkhah, Angela P. Murillo, Alyson Leigh Young, Andrew D. MillerThis study examines Iran-US migrants' use of the most popular messaging application in Iran—Telegram—and shows how they use it to manage their migration information practices.
Exploring social aspects of task perception using cognitive sociology
Eun Youp Rha, Nicholas BelkinThe purpose of this paper is to explore effects of individuals' social context on their perception of a task, for better understanding of social aspects of task-based…
How online reviews affect purchase intention: a new model based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework
Linlin Zhu, He Li, Feng-Kwei Wang, Wu He, Zejin TianThe relationship between online reviews and purchase intention has been studied in previous research. However, there was little knowledge about the effect of information…
Readiness for information security of teachers as a function of their personality traits and their assessment of threats
Noa Aharony, Dan Bouhnik, Nurit ReichThis study examines the impact of personality traits on the degree of challenge experienced by individuals with respect to the threat on their information, the evaluation…
Artificial intelligence and mobile apps for mental healthcare: a social informatics perspective
Alyson GambleFor decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has been utilized within the field of mental healthcare. This paper aims to examine AI chatbots, specifically as offered through…
What we can learn from elite academic staff publication portfolios: a social network analysis
Maria J. Grant, Robyn R. Lotto, Ian D. JonesThe study aims to construct an understanding of professional academic writing network structures to inform organisational strategic investment in academic staff development.
Investigating academic library responses to predatory publishing in the United States, Canada and Spanish-speaking Latin America
Jairo Buitrago Ciro, Lynne BowkerThis is a comparative investigation of how university libraries in the United States, Canada and Spanish-speaking Latin America are responding to predatory publishing.
Why we like Google Scholar: postgraduate students' perceptions of factors influencing their intention to use
Faiz Alotaibi, Frances JohnsonThis study examines the use of the search engine, Google Scholar, from the perspective of a specific study group, that of international postgraduate students. Based on the…
Optimisation of archival processes involving digitisation of typewritten documents
Hrvoje Stančić, Željko TrbušićThe authors investigate optical character recognition (OCR) technology and discuss its implementation in the context of digitisation of archival materials.
Enablers and barriers to knowledge management in universities: perspectives from South Africa and Mauritius
Poonam Veer Ramjeawon, Jennifer RowleyUniversities need to manage their knowledge assets, and, to work creatively to maximize the enablers and minimize the barriers associated with knowledge management…
Open data and its peers: understanding promising harbingers from Nordic Europe
Maxat KassenThe peer-to-peer perspective on open data is an interesting topic to research, taking into account that data-driven innovations and related startups are often developed…
Social media in government offices: usage and strategies
Gal Yavetz, Noa AharonyThe current study seeks to present and examine the strategies, management and dissemination of information on social media platforms by Israeli government organizations…
Assessment of the appraisal of records: Case of the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Venda
Nkholedzeni Sidney NetshakhumaThe purpose of this study is to assess the appraisal of records at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Venda. Furthermore, the study intends to recommend…
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2050-3806Renamed from:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Dirk Lewandowski
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