... of university degree. The hypothesis that a preference for hard or soft subjects affects IB is supported by results of an analysis in which like or dislike of maths/ICT is correlated with responses to the survey. Interviewees’ comments led to the proposal that academic subjects can be classified according...

...Nujoud Al‐Muomen; Anne Morris; Sally Maynard Purpose This paper seeks to report the results of research conducted to model the information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University and the factors influencing that behaviour. Design/methodology/approach The research employed...

...Nigel Payne; Mike Thelwall Purpose This paper seeks to address the question: do university web sites publish the same kind of information and use the same kind of hyperlinks year on year or do these change over time? Design/methodology/approach A link classification exercise is used...

...Amanda H. Goodall Purpose This paper seeks to address the question: should the world's top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? Design/methodology/approach The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world's top 100 universities identified in a global...

...Christine Urquhart Caroline   Howard , Karen   Schenk and Richard   Discenza . Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning . Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing (Idea Group)   2004 . pp. 352 , ISBN: 1‐59140...

...Ramunė Petuchovaitė Edited by Kevin   Robins and Frank   Webster . The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets and Management . Oxford : Oxford University Press   2002 . £19.99 , ISBN: 0‐19‐925793‐0 © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Universities Higher education...

... for copyright ownership in research papers by universities, academics, and publishers by drawing on the literature, a survey of 542 academic authors and an analysis of 80 journal publisher copyright transfer agreements. The paper concludes that self‐archiving is not best supported by copyright transfer...

... university systems in order to test whether it is capable of identifying the most important Web pages. The results are also compared with simple inlink counts. It was discovered that the highest inlinked pages do not always have the highest PageRank, indicating that the two metrics are genuinely different...

...Mike Thelwall Web links are a phenomenon of interest to bibliometricians by analogy with citations, and to others because of their use in Web navigation and search engines. It is known that very few links on university Web sites are targeted at scholarly expositions and yet, at least in the UK...

... workers Information systems Public sector Voluntary organizations Universities Technology is society made durable (Latour, 1991). Similarly, information resources are structured according to the organisational arrangements that lie behind and before them. Information...

... are difficult to generalise to the new medium. In this context, one new challenging object of study is the modern multi‐faceted, multi‐genre, partly unregulated university Web site. This paper develops a methodology to analyse the patterns of interlinking between university Web sites and uses it to indicate...

... Universities Information technology Communications technology Certainly, the title lives up to its promise of discussing both theory and practice surrounding digital developments in higher education. The editors and contributors, a significant number based at the University of Auckland, are all...

..., a bespoke web crawler designed specifically for the calculation of reliable WIFs is presented. This crawler was used to calculate WIFs for a number of UK universities, and the results of these calculations are discussed. The principal findings were that with certain restrictions, WIFs can be calculated...

...Margaret Kinnell It is proposed that university education for library and information professionals has become less autonomous in character and more systematised. A triangular model which describes a dynamic tension between professors, students and the state is developed by further analysis...