Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 71 Issue 2

Factors affecting the unplanned use behavior of academic libraries users: Towards an axial coding pattern

Hadi Harati, Fatemeh Nooshinfard, Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Fahimeh Babalhavaeji, Nadjla Hariri

The purpose of this paper is to identify and design the axial coding pattern of the factors affecting the unplanned use behavior of users of the academic libraries and information…

User adoption of a hybrid social tagging approach in an online knowledge community

Chunxiu Qin, Yaxi Liu, Jian Mou, Jiangping Chen

Online knowledge communities make great contributions to global knowledge sharing and innovation. Resource tagging approaches have been widely adopted in such communities to…

Relation between internet financial information disclosure and internal control in Spanish local governments

María del Rocío Moreno-Enguix, Ester Gras-Gil, Joaquín Henández-Fernández

The application of new public governance by many countries has led to the creation of new management systems in public administration and the development of an effective…

Ethics in social media marketing: How should sponsorship information be disclosed in online product reviews?

Wen-Chin Tsao, Tz-Chi Mau

Consumer-generated online product reviews (OPRs) have become a crucial source of information for consumers; however, OPRs are increasingly being incentivized. The purpose of this…

From health to performance: Amateur runners’ personal health information management with activity tracking technology

Yuanyuan Feng, Denise E. Agosto

Building on theoretical foundation of personal information management (PIM) in information science, this paper seeks to understand how activity tracker users manage their personal…

Readability and word complexity of SERPs snippets and web pages on children’s search queries: Google vs Bing

Dania Bilal, Li-Min Huang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the readability and level of word complexity of search engine results pages (SERPs) snippets and associated web pages between Google and…

Exploring the impact of game framing and task framing on user participation in citizen science projects

Jian Tang, Nathan R. Prestopnik

The purpose of this paper is to examine how game framing and task framing influence experienced meaningfulness (eudaimonia) and perceived enjoyment (hedonia), which, in turn, can…

Do prestige and trust sustain knowledge-based communities? Evidence from Medical Ethics co-authorship networks in France: A micro study

Sameer Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to identify embedded communities among Medical Ethics scholars in France based on their position and strength of association in the social networks…