...Annika Rantala; Heidi Enwald; Sandy Zinn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine differences of health information seeking among Finnish and South African university students. The focus is on weight management and on how students utilise various internet sources. Design/methodology...

...Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences and similarities between computer ethics, internet ethics and cyberethics as reflected in the contents of the published literature as well as the search trends on Google. Design/methodology/approach...

...Ina Fourie; Constance Bitso; Theo J.D. Bothma Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of the importance for library and information services (LIS) to take the responsibility to find a manageable way to regularly monitor internet censorship in their countries, and to suggest...

...Jane Greenberg, Eva Mendez Rodriguez and Gema Bueno de la Fuente; Danielle Andre Becker; Ingrid Bonadie-Joseph; Jonathan Cain Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover how many of the authors' own university students own internet-enabled mobile devices and how they use them...

...Michael Seadle; Beth Sandore Namachchivaya Purpose This paper aims to examine how the internet both precipitated and facilitated significant shifts for academic libraries in the kinds of services they provide, and the ways in which they provide access to content. It aims to view this evolution...

...Mikkel Thelle; Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Purpose This paper aims to view the concept of persuasive technology as a framework for discussing cultural politics on the internet. Taking digital collections as a point of departure, the cases of Europeana and Google Books are to be discussed as promoting...

... Publishing Limited 2011 Tests and testing Mobile communication systems Internet Libraries Academic libraries have begun to examine the possibility of providing more of their services and content via smartphones. One example is EBSCOhost Mobile, which provides access to articles...

... Limited 2010 --> Publishing Book publsihers History of civilization Internet “Given its ancient origins some 2,000 years ago, the book can be considered one of the oldest artefacts surviving in our age”. In other words the book's basic architecture has not changed over the centuries...

...Lan Anh Tran © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Internet Computer based learning Electronic media Languages The emergence of Web 2.0 applications has been widespread and rapid during the last few years. While this emergent technology has been adopted by many sectors...

...Ross MacDonald Kevin   Curran . Understanding the Internet: A Glimpse into the Building Blocks, Applications, Security and Hidden Secrets of the Web . Oxford : Chandos Publishing   2009 . 301 pp. , ISBN: 9781843344995   Soft cover Chandos Internet Series © Emerald Group...

... Career development Academic staff Internet Respondents were asked how many years they had held their current position. About 22.2 percent had it for a year or less, followed by 7.9 percent who have held it for 12. The average length of time is slightly over seven years. The mean is 7.17 years...

... cover) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Reference services Libraries Librarians Internet This is a book which attempts to discover what the “desk” means in a library in the twenty‐first century. The editors could have called it the “information desk” or “reference desk...

...Kay Neville Publ;ic libraries Internet Library users Public Libraries and Internet Service Roles examines the place of the public library in the provision of internet services, including the expectations of library users, the community and the government. The authors have...

... Publishing Limited 2010 --> Internet Worldwide web User satisfaction Being visible on the web has become an important marketing and business tool. Various books published in the past few years have focused on designing good web sites able to market products or services and share information...

... of digital preservation within this book. Worldwide web Internet Information Archiving Many organisations are faced with the daunting challenge of preserving and curating their vital data and information sources and records. The rapid expansion and growth of these artefacts, many of them media...

...   Taksa . Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis . Hershey, PA : IGI Global/Information Science Reference   2008 . 603 pp. , ISBN: 9781599049748   (price not reported) hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Worldwide web Internet The Handbook...

...M. Höppner; W. Horstmann; S. Rahmsdorf; Rudi Schmiede Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss what the beginning of the Internet Age means for the functions and structures of scholarly information and communication by looking at and evaluating today's usability and usage of the digital...

... not reported (Soft cover) The Medical Library Association Guides © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Medical libraries Information searches Searchers Searching Search engines Internet Terry Ann Jankowski has served on the Medical Library Association Expert Searching Task Force...

... --> Internet Search engines Copyright law Electronic journals Electronic books Digital libraries Google, one of the most popular and widely used internet search engines, has embarked on an ambitious library project aiming at providing free, online access to all works no longer in copyright...

...) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Medical informatics Ethics Medical ethics Internet Information systems Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Medical Informatics is an essential publication for researchers in medical and health informatics and should therefore...