...), with the addition of two new variables (i.e. research purpose and the impact of COVID-19). Findings The research article volume has consistently maintained a stable trend. A notable difference from Choi and Harper (2020) and Carlsson (2015) is the rise of “user perspectives” as the second most prevalent theme...

... patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative study forms part of a broader research project, examining how information literacy and information practices unfolded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phase Three of this project, which forms the subject of this paper...

...Peter H. Reid; Lyndsay Mesjar Purpose The research examined Scottish public libraries and the libraries' response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020–2021. The research focussed particularly around the way that the libraries helped to support community resilience...

...Tibor Koltay Purpose A wide choice of varied information and data-based tools is reviewed in order to determine their ability treating symptoms of the COVID-19 infodemic. Several literacies and derived literacies, presumably having the ability to fulfil these roles are enumerated. There is also...

...Robertas Damaševičius; Ligita Zailskaitė-Jakštė Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly impacted society and academic life and research practices. This study is an attempt to comprehend whether a global emergency of COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on researcher...

...Annemaree Lloyd; Alison Hicks Annemaree Lloyd can be contacted at: annemaree.lloyd@ucl.ac.uk The purpose of this second study into information literacy practice during the COVID-19 pandemic is to identify the conditions that influence the emergence of information literacy...

...' issues on two pandemics, the Spanish flu and the current Covid-19 disease, towards the detection of semantic similarities and differences among them through the implementation of computational tasks and corpus linguistics methodologies. Findings Given the cross-fielding representativeness of terms...

... publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of the Covid-19 crisis at the level of individual information behavior among citizens from the German-speaking countries...

... in this important scholarship by contributing the start of a documentary analysis of (proposed and existing) COVID-19 immunity passports in order to more fully center their documentary status within research and conversations about them. By beginning an exploration of what makes immunity passports thinkable...

... the current one. None use information horizons methodology or pull samples from the same population shortly before and immediately following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, so in that way this research is unique. Also, most pandemic HIS literature is in the domains of medicine or public health, whereas...

...Marcin Roszkowski; Bartłomiej Włodarczyk The methodological approach taken in this study was based on the application of Moscovici's theory of social representations to Wikipedia's knowledge organization system (KOS). Internal links in the Wikipedia article about COVID-19 were considered anchors...

... coronavirus pandemic (also interchangeably referred to as COVID-19 or the COVID-19 pandemic) has been mediated by signs. The ways in which most individuals navigate society and experience this global health crisis, on both personal and collective levels, are shaped by signage associated with the disease...

...Annemaree Lloyd; Alison Hicks What has informed the UK public's understanding about the COVID-19 pandemic and what information practices and literacies of information came into view during the early days of the pandemic and the subsequent countrywide lockdown? As information researchers...

...Qing Ke; Jia Tina Du; Lu Ji Jia Tina Du is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: tina.du@unisa.edu.au Health crisis outbreaks have become increasingly frequent and diverse due to ecological, environmental and socioeconomic factors (Smith et al., 2014). COVID-19, which...

... By analyzing one snapshot of early COVID-19 coverage by three well-known fact-checkers and another one six months later, this study explores fact-checking as a genre. The material was examined for recurrent characteristics and the findings were categorized into corresponding themes that emerged through an open...