...Neena Sondhi; Himanshu Joshi Purpose This study aims to segment and profile young internet addicts in India and examine their state of well-being. Design/methodology/approach Young’s Internet Addiction Test was adapted to identify and profile cohorts among the internet addicts. Diener’s...

...Nirmal Singh Purpose Plagiarism is wrecking the academic spheres all around the world. The internet is accused for causing exponential increase in plagiarism. This paper aims to examine the prevalence of plagiarism among veterinary students and assess the impact of the internet on their plagiarism...

..., clubs, etc. to meet up, make friends and hang out (Gobble, 2012). The launch of smartphones and mobile devices with internet capabilities and the technical convergence of computer and mobile networks have opened great opportunities for synergy between social networking sites and mobile social network...

... with people (72.50 per cent). The students use the Internet on their devices very often. The Internet facilities mostly used by the students are e-mails (71.25 per cent), social media (68.75 per cent) and search engines (60.50 per cent). The challenges mostly faced by the students using mobile devices...

... – The descriptive design was adopted for the research questions, while the correlational design was adopted for the hypothesis. The purposive sampling technique was also adopted in selecting 12 university libraries which the preliminary study had revealed that they have Internet access and also subscribe to ERs...

...Grace Ada Ajuwon; Sunday O. Popoola Purpose – This study aims to determine the influence of motivational factors: perceived ease of use (PEU), perceived enjoyment (PEJ) and perceived usefulness (PU) on utilisation of Internet health information resources among resident doctors in tertiary health...

...Jurgita Rudžionienė Internet Internet security Internet users Online personas Internet personas The Internet and the World Wide Web represent the greatest technological innovations in the world, yet contain plenty of risks and dangers, and every information user should be aware...

...Alastair G. Smith Randolph Hock The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher (4th ed.) Medford, NJ Information Today 2013 344 pp. 978-1-937290-02-3 US$24.94 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Google Scholar Activity-based costing Citation database Co-citation analysis Intellectual structure Multivariate statistical analysis Search engines Internet In this new digital era, the dramatic switch from print collections of articles...

...David Mason Web Science starts from the premise that anything as complicated as the internet must behave in a similar way to living organisms and must be subject to the physical laws of the universe. In other words, even though it is a concept, a manifestation of multiple independent...

... Academic libraries Websites Wikis Internet According to Wikipedia (2010) , the free Web encyclopedia: The term Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user‐centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide...

... searching competency in ISST was evaluated within five sub‐competencies: the competence to formulate and conduct an information search that includes a variety of resources available on the internet; the competence to evaluate information in terms of accuracy, authority, bias, and relevance; the competence...

... recommendation systems. Since our purpose is to achieve personalized recommendation in digital libraries and the candidate items to be recommended mainly refer to academic articles, we select VSM to represent user profiles. Digital libraries User studies Internet Languages Programming and algorithm...

...Noa Aharony Purpose The current study seeks to describe and analyze academic library websites in the years 2000 and 2010, as they appear both in the Internet Archive and in current library websites. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis of 31 academic libraries homepages which were...

... and incorporate relevant Web 2.0 based services including web forms in each web‐based library service; apply semantic technologies and ontologies; adopt next‐generation internet (IPv6); and provide multi‐language support content. This study also examined institutional characteristics and resources dedicated...

... Publishing Limited 2012 Information Information literacy Information searches Worldwide web Website classification Evaluation Internet Searching This paper investigates two important questions relating to the information behaviour of internet users: 1. What criteria do users...

... the internet for personal purposes. IT self‐efficacy and perceived computer competence were positively related to the frequency of use of certain electronic activities and previous PC/internet experience. In addition, the frequency of IT use was a strong predictor of IT self‐efficacy, and both frequency of use...

... of professional experience and place of work have no effect on the frequency of use, while perceived skill level of internet use and perceived ease of Web 2.0 use have a significant effect on the frequency. Lack of computer literacy, and lower availability of computers and internet facilities were the major...

... Networks Information society Internet Information exchange This is a challenging book to read and often appears to ask more questions than it can answer. It is a probing critique of networks and social media and how we are not using the technology for our own purposes but instead letting...

... --> Information profession Libraries Web 2.0 Internet Career development Building your Library Career with Web 2.0 is one of those rare books you review when you wish that you were the author. It was a pleasure to read, and I think it will offer even more insight and inspiration with a second...