Online Information Review: Volume 37 Issue 2

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Like me! Analyzing the 2012 presidential candidates’ Facebook pages

Jenny Bronstein

The present study aims to report the findings of a qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the Facebook pages of the two presidential candidates.

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Social media and scholarly reading

Carol Tenopir, Rachel Volentine, Donald W. King

The purpose of this paper is to examine how often university academic staff members use and create various forms of social media for their work and how that use influences their…

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A comparative analysis of the search feature effectiveness of the major English and Chinese search engines

Jin Zhang, Wei Fei, Taowen Le

The purpose of this paper to investigate the effectiveness of selected search features in the major English and Chinese search engines and compare the search engines’ retrieval…

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E‐commerce websites for developing countries – a usability evaluation framework

Layla Hasan, Anne Morris, Steve Probets

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodological usability evaluation approach for e‐commerce websites in developing countries.

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A longitudinal study of HotMap web search

Orland Hoeber

HotMap web search was designed to support exploratory search tasks by adding lightweight visual and interactive features to the commonly used list‐based representation of web…

Keyword stuffing and the big three search engines

Herbert Zuze, Melius Weideman

The purpose of this research project was to determine how the three biggest search engines interpret keyword stuffing as a negative design element.

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Do natural language search engines really understand what users want?: A comparative study on three natural language search engines and Google

Nadjla Hariri

Purpose – The main purpose of this research is to determine whether the performance of natural language (NL) search engines in retrieving exact answers to the NL queries differs…

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Users’ experiences and perceptions on using two wiki platforms for collaborative learning and knowledge management

Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Felix Siu, Michael Liang, Catherine M. Capio, Wendy W.Y. Wu

This study aims to examine users’ experiences and perceptions associated with the use of two wiki variants in the context of collaborative learning and knowledge management in…

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ProQuest's Graduate Education Program (GEP) – a powerful, free database and software package for LIS educators and students worldwide

Peter Jacso

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the main features of the components of Proquest's giga database package for LIS faculty and students of databases and software services…

Cover of Online Information Review

ISSN:

1468-4527

e-ISSN:

1468-4535

ISSN-L:

1468-4527

Renamed from:

Online and CD-Rom Review

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Eugenia Siapera