Online Information Review: Volume 34 Issue 4

Open knowledge: challenges and facts

Francisco J. García‐Peñalvo, Carlos García de Figuerola, José A. Merlo

The purpose of this paper is to open the special issue of Online Information Review on open knowledge management in higher education. Its aim is to review the concept and…

Living Requirements Space: An open access tool for enterprise resource planning systems requirements gathering

Femi Adisa, Petra Schubert, Frantisek Sudzina, Björn Johansson

This paper aims to discuss a new tool for requirements gathering in the Web 2.0 era. It seeks to investigate the features that this kind of tool should have in order to be as…

The University of Alicante's institutional strategy to promote the open dissemination of knowledge

Faraón Llorens, Juan José Bayona, Javier Gómez, Francisco Sanguino

Information and communication technologies have became pervasive in people's lives and in this changing world education cannot remain anchored in old‐fashioned models which ignore…

The impact of open access on the management of scientific knowledge

Steffen Bernius

This paper aims at analysing the impact of open access (OA) on the creation, retrieval and transfer of scientific knowledge. In doing so, the focus is set on scientific research…

Students' adoption of an open access online education service: An exploratory study in an emerging higher education (HE) market

Maha Mourad

This paper seeks to investigate students' adoption of an open access online education service in higher education and their perceptions of its attributes as an innovation in an…

Personalisation and sociability of open knowledge management based on social tagging

Baozhen Lee, Shilun Ge

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the personalised and social characteristics of open knowledge management in higher education based on social tagging in the Web 2.0…

Semantic representation for copyright metadata of user‐generated content in folksonomies

Haklae Kim, John Breslin, Jae Hwa Choi

The purpose of this research is to investigate some general features of folksonomies and user‐generated content with copyright issues, and to present semantic representation for…

Comparison of journal impact rankings in the SCImago Journal & Country Rank and the Journal Citation Reports databases

Péter Jacsó

The purpose of this paper is to compare the journal impact rankings of the open access SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) database and the subscription‐based Journal Citation…

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 44

David Mason

Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology

Marthie de Kock

Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies

Rowena Cullen

Human Information Retrieval

Amanda Spink

The Google Generation: Are ICT Innovations Changing Information‐seeking Behaviour?

Marthie de Kock

Open knowledge management in higher education

Francisco J. García-Penalvo Carlos García de Figuerola Jose A. Merlo