Aslib Proceedings: Volume 57 Issue 5

Trust in the news on television

Barrie Gunter

Television has long been cited by viewers as their primary and most trusted source of news, especially in relation to news of national and international affairs. Aims to explore…

Web hyperlink profiles of news sites: A comparison of newspapers of USA, Canada, and China

Yijun Gao, Liwen Vaughan

To construct web visibility profiles of news web sites by examining hyperlinks pointing to the sites.

An information dynamic: technologies for the reproduction of written utterances

Julian Warner

The aim of this paper is to reveal an information dynamic in which technology or dead labour is substituted for living mental labour.

The mismanagement of knowledge management

Wing Lam, Alton Chua

To examine the causes of knowledge management (KM) failure.

Parallel methods for the generation of partitioned inverted files

A. MacFarlane, J.A. McCann, S.E. Robertson

The generation of inverted indexes is one of the most computationally intensive activities for information retrieval systems: indexing large multi‐gigabyte text databases can take…

Creative information seeking Part I: a conceptual framework

Shu‐Shing Lee, Yin‐Leng Theng, Dion Hoe‐Lian Goh

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for creative information seeking drawing upon Weisberg's argument that creativity exists in everyone, and mapping the creative process…