Aslib Proceedings: Volume 65 Issue 3

Physician directed information prescription service (IPs): barriers and drivers

Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Ali Roshani Shiramin

The objective of this study is to find out physicians' attitudes towards prescribing information to patients and the barriers they may face regarding IPs to patients.

Analyzing web citations availability and half‐life in medical journals: A case study in an Iranian university

Mariam Jalalifard, Yaghoub Norouzi, Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam

The aim of this study is to compare the situation of internet resource citations in scientific articles of the journals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences from…

Enabler and inhibitor factors influencing competitive intelligence practices

Montserrat Garcia‐Alsina, Eva Ortoll, Josep Cobarsí‐Morales

This paper has a twofold aim. Firstly, to give some insight into competitive intelligence practices in a little‐explored area in the field of competitive intelligence: the higher…

Conceptualizing perceived affordances in social media interaction design

Yuxiang Zhao, Jiang Liu, Jian Tang, Qinghua Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically develop the concept of perceived affordance based on the existing studies, and to construct a conceptual framework to show how…

Literature review writing: how information is selected and transformed

Kokil Jaidka, Christopher S.G. Khoo, Jin‐Cheon Na

This paper aims to report a study of researchers' preferences in selecting information from cited papers to include in a literature review, and the kinds of transformations and…

Personal Knowledge Management: Individual, Organizational and Social Perspectives

Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam