Journal of Documentation: Volume 75 Issue 6

Bridging the divide: Reflections on university-industry collaboration for the development of the graduate certificate in petroleum data management

Fionnuala Cousins, Peter Reid, Elizabeth Tait

The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the development of a new graduate certificate course in Petroleum Data Management. The course was developed in response to…

Adopting situationally relevant modes of music information at different stages of information-seeking processes: A longitudinal investigation among music students

Antti Mikael Rousi, Reijo Savolainen, Pertti Vakkari

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the picture of situational relevance by examining how modes of music information are viewed as situationally relevant at different stages…

Is digitalization the only driver of convergence? Theorizing relations between libraries, archives, and museums

Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen

The purpose of this paper is to theorize and discuss potential factors for convergence between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs).

Context from the data reuser’s point of view

Ixchel M. Faniel, Rebecca D. Frank, Elizabeth Yakel

Taking the researchers’ perspective, the purpose of this paper is to examine the types of context information needed to preserve data’s meaning in ways that support data reuse.

Information seeking abroad: an everyday-life study of international students

Morten Hertzum, Jette Seiden Hyldegård

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how four international students at a Danish university cope with their study-related and everyday information needs, behaviorally as…

Citations to chemical databases in scholarly articles: to cite or not to cite?

Robert Tomaszewski

Chemical databases have had a significant impact on the way scientists search for and use information. The purpose of this paper is to spark informed discussion and fuel debate on…

The syllabus as a student privacy document in an age of learning analytics

Kyle M.L. Jones, Amy VanScoy

The purpose of this paper is to reveal how instructors discuss student data and information privacy in their syllabi.

Library and information science and sustainable development: a structured literature review

Christine Meschede, Maria Henkel

Awareness on and importance of sustainability in all aspects of our lives is becoming more and more important. The question arises, how – not if – scientists can contribute to a…

Representing search tasks in an information use environment: a case of English primary schools

Sophie Rutter, Elaine G. Toms, Paul David Clough

To design effective task-responsive search systems, sufficient understanding of users’ tasks must be gained and their characteristics described. Although existing…

Public libraries as public sphere institutions: A comparative study of perceptions of the public library’s role in six European countries

Ragnar Audunson, Svanhild Aabø, Roger Blomgren, Hans-Christoph Hobohm, Henrik Jochumsen, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Rudolf Mumenthaler, Karsten Schuldt, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Kerstin Rydbeck, Máté Tóth, Andreas Vårheim

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of public libraries as institutions underpinning a democratic public sphere as reasons legitimizing libraries compared to reasons…

Study on the research evolution of Nobel laureates 2018 based on self-citation network

Fangfang Wen

Science is a continuum of experiences consisting of authors and their publications, and the authors’ experience is an integral part of their work that gets reflected through…

Maturing research data services and the transformation of academic libraries

Andrew M. Cox, Mary Anne Kennan, Liz Lyon, Stephen Pinfield, Laura Sbaffi

A major development in academic libraries in the last decade has been recognition of the need to support research data management (RDM). The purpose of this paper is to capture…

Hyperdocumentation: origin and evolution of a concept

Olivier Le Deuff, Arthur Perret

The purpose of this paper is to provide context and raise interest for the term hyperdocumentation in the context of document theory.

Chasing Frankenstein’s monster: information literacy in the black box society

Annemaree Lloyd

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and examine algorithmic culture and consider the implications of algorithms for information literacy practice. The questions for…

“The right information”: perceptions of information bias among Black Wikipedians

Boryung Ju, Brenton Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to examine motivators that drive Black Wikipedia contribution. The authors explore motivations around content contribution, effects of gender on…

Genres and situational appropriation of information: Explaining not-seeking of information

Isto Huvila

Information science research has begun to broaden its traditional focus on information seeking to cover other modes of acquiring information. The purpose of this paper is to move…