Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 70 Issue 5

An empirical study of biological scientists’ article sharing through ResearchGate: Examining attitudinal, normative, and control beliefs

Youngseek Kim

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how attitudinal, normative and control beliefs influence scientists’ article sharing through ResearchGate.

Can museums find male or female audiences online with YouTube?

Mike Thelwall

The purpose of this paper is to investigates if and why audience gender ratios vary between museum YouTube channels, including for museums of the same type.

Understanding the trust building mechanisms in social media: Regulatory effectiveness, trust transfer, and gender difference

Yongqiang Sun, Yan Zhang, Xiao-Liang Shen, Nan Wang, Xi Zhang, Yanqiu Wu

Although the impacts of trust on information disclosure have been well recognized, the trust building mechanisms in social media are still underexplored. To fill this gap, the…

Adopting and managing open data: Stakeholder perspectives, challenges and policy recommendations

Maxat Kassen

The purpose of this paper is to study a multi-institutional and multi-layer nature of open data-driven communication processes that provide a collaborative platform to meet the…

Using children’s search patterns to predict the quality of their creative problem solving

Cristian Olivares-Rodríguez, Mariluz Guenaga, Pablo Garaizar

The purpose of this paper is to propose a computational model that implicitly predict the children’s creative quality of solutions by analyzing the query pattern on a…

Politicians’ use of Facebook during elections: Use of emotionally-based discourse, personalization, social media engagement and vividness

Jenny Bronstein, Noa Aharony, Judit Bar-Ilan

The purpose of this paper is to understand the use of Facebook by Israeli party leaders during an election period by examining four elements: the type of Aristotelian language of…

The state and evolution of Gold open access: a country and discipline level analysis

Xianwen Wang, Yunxue Cui, Shenmeng Xu, Zhigang Hu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of Gold open access (OA) rates in different countries and disciplines, as well as explore the influencing factors.