Online Information Review: Volume 34 Issue 3

A quantitative assessment of relationships between user characteristics and frequency of access to community information networks in New Zealand public libraries

Lan Anh Tran

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether user characteristics (including gender, age, education, ethnicity and employment) affect the frequency of access to community…

Sharing and hiding online secrets: Using social relation and tag ontology in social software access control

Chi‐Lun Liu

This paper aims to manage access control tasks to satisfy the user privacy needs of online information resources according to social relations and tags.

Podcast search: user goals and retrieval technologies

Jana Besser, Martha Larson, Katja Hofmann

This research aims to identify users' goals and strategies when searching for podcasts and their impact on the design of podcast retrieval technology. In particular, the paper…

The relative importance of usability and functionality factors for online auction and shopping web sites

Fethi Calisir, A. Elvan Bayraktaroğlu, Cigdem Altin Gumussoy, Y. İlker Topcu, Tezcan Mutlu

The purpose of this study is to determine the relative importance of the usability and functionality factors for online auction and shopping web sites from the perspective of…

Search strategies on a new health information retrieval system

Xiangming Mu, Kun Lu, Hohyon Ryu

The goals of this study are: to evaluate the merits of a newly developed health information retrieval system; to investigate users' search strategies when using the new search…

The impact of electronic resources on humanities graduate student theses

Ming‐der Wu, Shih‐chuan Chen

This study aims to answer the following questions about humanities graduate students: what are the characteristics of the documents cited in their theses? Where and how do they…

Analysis of online social networks: a cross‐national study

Dong‐Hee Shin

The purpose of this study is to investigate users' underlying motivations for engaging in social networking through online social networking services (SNS) compared with their…

Differences in the rank position of journals by Eigenfactor metrics and the five‐year impact factor in the Journal Citation Reports and the Eigenfactor Project web site

Péter Jacsó

The traditional, annually issued Journal Citation Reports (JCR) have been enhanced since the 2007 edition by the Eigenfactor Scores (EFS), the Article Influence Scores (AIS) and…

Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications

I‐Hsien Ting

Information Science in Transition

Amanda Spink

Web‐based Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice: Developing Virtual Environments for Social and Pedagogical Advancement

Madely du Preez