Journal of Documentation: Volume 78 Issue 5

Information culture and recordkeeping: a case of Chinese enterprises

Zhiying Lian, Ning Wang, Gillian Oliver

The purpose of this paper is to report findings from an investigation on the information culture and recordkeeping in two Chinese companies, exploring the interaction between…

Extinction by citation deficiency: are botany journals at risk?

Ian Timothy Riley

With the current dynamics of scientific publishing increasingly driven by citation metrics, it is quite possible this will lead to the loss of some lower-ranked journals as they…

Saturation, acceleration and information pathologies: the conditions that influence the emergence of information literacy safeguarding practice in COVID-19-environments

Annemaree Lloyd, Alison Hicks

The purpose of this second study into information literacy practice during the COVID-19 pandemic is to identify the conditions that influence the emergence of information literacy…

Domain analytic paradigm: a quarter century exploration of fundamental ideas in information science

Lin Wang, Junping Qiu

The conditions that domain analysis becomes an academic school of information science (IS) are mature. Domain analysis is one of the most important foundations of IS. The purpose…

The role of historical and contextual knowledge in enterprise search

Marianne Lykke, Ann Bygholm, Louise Bak Søndergaard, Katriina Byström

The purpose of the study is to examine enterprise searching practices across different work areas and work tasks in an enterprise search system in an international biotechnology…

Representation and the problem of bibliographic imagination on Wikipedia

Brendan Luyt

The astonishing thing about Wikipedia is that despite the way it is produced, the product is as good as it is and not far worse. But this is no reason for complacency. As others…

Pets and people: information experience of multispecies families

Niloofar Solhjoo, Maja Krtalić, Anne Goulding

This paper introduces more-than-human perspective in information behaviour and information experience studies. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understandings of the…

Public librarians' perception of their professional role and the library's role in supporting the public sphere: a multi-country comparison

Jamie Johnston, Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Anna Mierzecka, Ragnar Andreas Audunson, Hans-Christoph Hobohm, Kerstin Rydbeck, Máté Tóth, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Henrik Jochumsen, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Sunniva Evjen

The overarching aim of this article is to consider to what extent the perceptions of librarians in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Poland and Sweden reflect a unified…

Sociocultural barriers to information and integration of women refugees

Khadijah Kainat, Eeva-Liisa Eskola, Gunilla Widén

This study focuses on specifically women refugees' experiences of accessing information and how sociocultural barriers impact these experiences aiming to broaden the LIS…

Memetics as informational difference: offering an information-centric conception of memes

Alexander O. Smith, Jeff Hemsley

Information scientists may find value in studying cultural information evolution and information diffusion through memetics. Information studies in memetics have often found…

A call for the library community to deploy best practices toward a database for biocultural knowledge relating to climate change

Martha B. Lerski

In this paper, a call to the library and information science community to support documentation and conservation of cultural and biocultural heritage has been presented

Image manipulation in scholarly publications: are there ways to an automated solution?

Thorsten Stephan Beck

This paper provides an introduction to research in the field of image forensics and asks whether advances in the field of algorithm development and digital forensics will…