...Zahra Shamlou; Mohammad Karim Saberi; Mohammad Reza Amiri Purpose Today, the Internet has become an attractive source for obtaining health information. Since women play an important role in maintaining the health of the family and community and since they are active seekers of health information...

... control to guarantee a proper provision of services that meet citizens’ requirements. The purpose of this paper is to focus on Spanish local government with the intention of determining the impact of the internal control structure on the disclosure of financial information on the internet. Design...

..., the internet has increasingly been adopted as a communication and electoral campaign tool by political actors worldwide. Consequently, a significant body of literature on the use of ICTs by political parties and by individual politicians has emerged since the mid-1990s. As Gibson and Ward (2009) observe...

...: Scaffolding and Decision-making Technologies Hershey, PA IGI Global/Information Science Reference 2012 286 pp. 9781613503201 US$175.00 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Internet Web sites Discovery learning Self-discovery learning...

... series of investigations by the authors, which has examined the use of the internet by political parties and candidates during parliamentary election campaigns in Scotland. These are the only such studies which have looked specifically at the Scottish political arena. Internationally, most studies...

... and the effects of the internet on this conflict. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a case study of the 2007 presidential election in Korea. During the campaign period, two video clips (one on YouTube and the other on Daum, a major domestic web portal) emerged and implicated the then‐leading...

...Mariam Jalalifard; Yaghoub Norouzi; Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam Purpose The aim of this study is to compare the situation of internet resource citations in scientific articles of the journals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences from 2005‐2009. Design/methodology/approach...

...Graeme Brown; David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the way that Scottish public library authorities are implementing filtering software as a public access internet management tool. The aim of the study is to determine the extent to which filtering systems are used...

... according to situational demands (Goffman, 1959). It is also called impression management, which emphasises people's attempts to control how their self is presented (Min and Lee, 2011). The anonymous and textual nature of the internet facilitates self‐presentation and allows individuals to deal with issues...

... Internet There are a large number of library associations in the world. A library association is a professional association which provides services to the library and information community within one country or across multiple countries. Library associations play a vital role in promoting...

...Daqing He; Dan Wu; Zhen Yue; Anna Fu; Kim Thien Vo Purpose This paper aims to identify the opinions of undergraduate students on the importance of internet‐based information sources when they undertake academic tasks. Design/methodology/approach Based on a set of identified typical academic...

... the use of the internet and mobile phones as tools for building democracy and bringing change. Evidence shows that social media played a major role in bringing down long‐standing dictatorships. The new media challenged government imposed media controls and provided activists with new tools for organising...

... Bibliography Accuracy Reference Periodicals Publishing Internet Articles published in academic journals usually contain a list of references, ranging from a few key articles to an extensive list of over a hundred publications. The accuracy of these references is important for a variety of reasons...

...Frank Parry Melius   Weideman . Website Visibility: The Theory and Practice of Improving Rankings . Oxford : Chandos   2009 . , ISBN: 9781843344735 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Websites Internet Web designers Web rankings The internet...

...Graeme Baxter; Rita Marcella; Evaggelos Varfis Purpose This paper seeks to report the results of a study, which investigated the use of the internet by political parties and individual candidates in Scotland as part of their campaign for election to the UK Parliament in 2010. Design/methodology...

... Internet Link analysis is a broad term used for investigations based primarily upon counting or analysing hyperlinks to or between a set of web sites. For instance, many information science studies have assessed whether counts of links to academic web sites could be used to measure the impact...

... be contacted at: Paul2.matthews@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Epistemology Social networking sites Internet Communities Knowledge sharing Information profession A group of friends are gathered around a loud and persuasive man in a pub, who is holding forth...

... behaviour Copyright law Intellectual property Internet This paper summarises and evaluates the literature on digital consumer behaviour and attitudes towards digital piracy. It is a timely contribution to the debate around digital piracy, as the topic is hot news in the UK. The Government's...

..., the main findings of the CIBER study of the Google generation are summarised. The limitations and main focus on advanced countries in the present understanding of internet use are stressed. The current state of internet use in Mexico is summarised. Findings The need for proactive global policies aimed...

... at these results, an experiment that could be repeated with different web sites. Beatriz Plaza can be contacted at: beatriz.plaza@ehu.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Internet User studies Worldwide web Systems analysis Data mining Hundreds of thousands of academics worldwide own...