Online Information Review: Volume 32 Issue 5

Can we be assured of quality scholarship in a peer review‐less environment?

G.E. Gorman

The purpose of this short paper is to focus on peer review in academic publishing.

Educational games with blogs: Collaborating to motivate second language undergraduate critical thinking

Chiann‐Ru Song

The importance of critical thinking disposition (CTD) in second language (L2) university students' writing is a topic rarely discussed. The purpose of this research paper is to…

Factors affecting online research by nurses in Taiwan

Hung‐Yi Lu, James E. Andrews, Hsin‐Ya Hou, Su‐Yen Chen, Yen‐Hwa Tu, Yung‐Chang Yu

The aim of this paper is to investigate predictors of online medical research by nurses.

Semantic copyright management for internet‐wide knowledge sharing and reuse

Roberto García González, Rosa Gil

To extract the full potential from internet‐wide knowledge sharing and reuse, the underlying copyright issues must be taken into account and managed using digital rights…

Voluntary and compulsory information disclosed online: The effect of industry concentration and other explanatory factors

Isabel Gallego Álvarez, Isabel María García Sánchez, Luis Rodríguez Domínguez

This work aims to check the validity of the hypotheses of the agency, signalling, political costs and proprietary costs theories in the disclosure of information online. More…

Navigation quality as a key value for the webpage of a financial entity

Enrique Bonsón‐Ponte, Tomás Escobar‐Rodríguez, Francisco Flores‐Muñoz

The objective of this study is to measure the navigation quality of the corporate webpages of the principal European financial entities, given the vital importance of the…

Structured versus unstructured tagging: a case study

Judit Bar‐Ilan, Snunith Shoham, Asher Idan, Yitzchak Miller, Aviv Shachak

This paper seeks to describe and discuss a tagging experiment involving images related to Israeli and Jewish cultural heritage. The aim of this experiment was to compare freely…

Influence of online shopping information dependency and innovativeness on internet shopping adoption

Enrique Bigné‐Alcañiz, Carla Ruiz‐Mafé, Joaquín Aldás‐Manzano, Silvia Sanz‐Blas

The paper's purpose is to analyse the influence of online shopping information dependency and innovativeness on the acceptance of internet shopping.

Problems with the use of web search engines to find results in foreign languages

Dirk Lewandowski

This paper's aim is to test the ability of the major search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask to distinguish between German‐ and English‐language documents.

The pros and cons of computing the h‐index using Web of Science

Péter Jacsó

The purpose of this paper, the fourth in a series, is to discuss the pros and cons of the h‐index in the Web of Science (WoS).

Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times

David Stuart

Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies

Mae Y. Keary

Intr@nets for Info Pros

Ina Fourie

Library Project Funding: A Guide to Planning and Writing Proposals

Ina Fourie

Using Interactive Technologies in Libraries

Ina Fourie

Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse

Tony Rodrigues

The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries

Ina Fourie

Outstanding paper