...: 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...

... Information consumption Webometrics Web sites Web site design The study of the usage that a web surfer makes of a website, the pages that they visit and how they behave is one of the most important questions that the online marketing sector needs to answer in order to fulfil customer demands (Lee...

... on the internet with a view to identifying areas where web presence is not optimal so improvements can be made. Design/methodology/approach The authors do this by analysing the relevant information on their web sites and by comparing institutional listings of scientific production between 2005 and 2006...

...Mike Thelwall Purpose Link analysis is an established topic within webometrics. It normally uses counts of links between sets of web sites or to sets of web sites. These link counts are derived from web crawlers or commercial search engines with the latter being the only alternative for some...

...Robin Hunt The ex‐editor of Guardian Unlimited, considers the current position of newspaper Web sites. Points to the success of the old trusted brands. Agrees they cost a lot but believes newspapers have little choice but to continue to invest in them, they are becoming a fixed cost...

...Liwen Vaughan; Kathy Hysen The study found a significant correlation between the number of external links and the journal impact factor for LIS journals. Journals with higher journal impact factor scores tend to attract more links to their Web sites. The study also investigated issues pertaining...

...Julian Bowers‐Brown; Barrie Gunter A marketing efficiency model was applied to the analysis of the use of Web sites by the three major political parties (Conservatives, Labour, and Liberal Democrats) in the UK during the 2001 general election. Data were collected through face‐to‐face interviews...