...Karine Aoun Barakat; Amal Dabbous; Abbas Tarhini Purpose During the past few years, the rise in social media use for information purposes in the absence of adequate control mechanisms has led to growing concerns about the reliability of the information in circulation and increased the presence...

...Manuela García-Tabuyo; Alejandro Saez-Martin; Carmen Caba-Perez Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to identify legislators’ policy on the mandatory, online proactive disclosure of information; and to identify environmental influences on behaviour in this respect. To implement...

...Professor G.E. Gorman and Professor Jennifer Rowley; Madely du Preez Edited by Christine Bruce et al. Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice Bingley Emerald Publishing 2014 338pp. £80.00, hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015...

...Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam Ian Brown and Christopher T. Marsden Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age Cambridge, MA MIT Press 2013 267pp. US$40.00 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014...

...Ina Fourie Key Issues Regarding Digital Libraries: Evaluation and Integration is another excellent title in the Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services (edited superbly by Gary Marchionini). It is part of a series on digital libraries consisting of four...

.... £22.00 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Governance Regulation Information What do we know about the stamina and staying power of the realist approach to evaluation research? Pawson describes a methodology for this process based on philosophy...

...‐libraries Mobile technology Librarians Information Distant learning Libraries' service delivery modes are being transformed by mobile service delivery approaches. This is because libraries are embracing the opportunities mobile technologies offer in their mainstream services. M‐Libraries 3...

...Daqing He; Yefei Peng; Ming Mao; Dan Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the integration of digital library (DL) technologies with ontology‐based knowledge representation in providing semantic rich information access (IA) in e‐learning. DL technologies have powerful and flexible...

...Brenda Chawner Edited by Axel   Bruns and Joanne   Jacobs . Uses of Blogs . New York, NY : Peter Lang   2006 . 267 pp. , ISBN: 0820481246   SFr43.00 (soft cover) Digital Formations, 38 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Information Communication...

... to interact with its stakeholders, and there are some useful short case studies provided to illustrate this point. Then she discusses how IPs can add value to the organisation and, intriguingly, how they can even subtract value. On this latter point she says, “examples of information products that subtract...

...G.E. Gorman Purpose To provide a brief viewpoint on wikis. A wiki is a web site that allows – and encourages – users to share information by freely writing new content, adding to existing content, and editing or commenting on content. Design/methodology/approach An opinion piece based...

...G.E. Gorman A more organised and sustained discourse is immediately evident in the much larger collection, Readings in Cyberethics, edited by Spinello and Tavani. It should be noted that the editors differ from Almagno in that they speak of “computer ethics” rather than “information...

...G.E. Gorman Edited by Richard A.   Spinello and Herman T.   Tavani . Readings in Cyberethics . Sudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett   2003 . 601 pp. , ISBN: 076371500X © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Information Ethics This is a joint review...

...G.E. Gorman A more organised and sustained discourse is immediately evident in the much larger collection, Readings in Cyberethics, edited by Spinello and Tavani. It should be noted that the editors differ from Almagno in that they speak of “computer ethics” rather than “information...

...John W. Fritch This paper discusses facilitated Internet evaluation, explores heuristics, tools and systems that have been developed to help users evaluate Internet information. Delineates a taxonomy for these systems, and offers descriptive information and sample tools representative of each...

...Hans E. Roosendaal; Theo W.C. Huibers; Peter A.Th. M. Geurts; Paul E. van der Vet The economic impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the academic library and on the academic institution are discussed in terms of changes in the value chain of scientific information induced...

...Jeffrey N. Gatten The political process behind the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) and the implications for higher education are described. The negotiation, acquisition, and delivery of digital information to students and faculty are core services of academic libraries. UCITA...

...Aimee Fifarek Adoption of technology in academic libraries sets up circumstances for collection of personal patron information and records of patron information seeking behaviour not possible in the pre‐digital library. Even if collected unintentionally, this information may then be seized by law...

...: to produce information, and on the basis of that information, to produce knowledge, and on the basis of that knowledge, wisdom. In the context of globalisation of information, the memory was the method of knowing. The organisation, processing and retrieval of information tend to take on a structure...

...Thomas Engel; Johann Gasteiger Information exchange is of primary importance in any scientific discipline but particularly so in such an information‐rich domain as chemistry. Chemists have developed a language of their own for representing information which is essentially graphical in nature...