...Yolanda Ramirez; Elena Merino; Montserrat Manzaneque Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to know the views of university stakeholders concerning intellectual capital (IC) reporting; second, to examine the quality of voluntary IC disclosure by public Spanish universities...

... and institutional e-mail web domain) in September 2015. The whole Spanish academic system (82 institutions) was used as a test. Additionally, specific searches to companies (Google) and world-class universities were performed to identify and classify potential errors in the functioning of the feature. Findings...

...Emma Stuart; David Stuart; Mike Thelwall Purpose Rising tuition fees and a growing importance on league tables has meant that university branding is becoming more of a necessity to attract prospective staff, students, and funding. Whilst university websites are an important branding tool, academic...

... Universities Google Scholar Academic journals Academic search engines Microsoft Academic Search Scientific fields Research literature has traditionally paid more attention to GS than MAS due to its higher coverage and ease of use, among other things (Orduña-Malea et al., 2014). Most...

... academic system, taking into account their complexity (multi-domains) and diversity (different official languages). Design/methodology/approach – Inlinks, title and URL mentions from 76 Spanish universities were manually extracted from the main search engines (Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo!, Bing...

... of the choice of database and data retrieval methods on the research performance of a number of selected Asian universities from 33 countries using two different indicators (publication volume and citation count) and three subject fields (energy, environment and materials) during the period 2005‐2009. Design...

..., but there are ideas here that will spark discussion for years to come. Richard A.   DeMillo . Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press   2011 . 320 pp. , ISBN: 9780262015806   US$27.95 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012...

...Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez; Luis Rodríguez‐Domínguez; Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how several variables, such as universities' profitability, growth‐reduction of student numbers, age/tradition, type of university and internationality, among others...

...Emma Angus; Mike Thelwall; David Stuart Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate general patterns of tag usage and determines the usefulness of the tags used within university image groups to the wider Flickr community. There has been a significant rise in the use of Web 2.0 social...

... 2006 Digital storage Universities Publishers The last issue of this column discussed the open access alternatives to scholarly indexing/abstracting information (Jacsó, 2006a). These can fully or partially substitute for some fee‐based indexing/abstracting publications in print, CD‐ROM...

...Donna Gardiner; David McMenemy; Gobinda Chowdhury Purpose This paper aims to study information behaviour of academics in the digital age. Compares information behaviour of British university academics in three disciplines – computer and information sciences, business/management, and English...

...Frank Parry John   Tiffin and Lalita   Rajasingham . The Global Virtual University . London : RoutledgeFalmer   2003 . 166 pp. , ISBN: 0415287022   £22.50 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Virtual organizations Universities...

... high impact non‐academic sites hosted by universities. As a pilot study, the classification process itself was also investigated and the problems of applying subject classification to academic Web sites discussed. The study draws out a number of issues in this regard, having no simple solutions...

... lies outside the West). Jonathan   Lazar . Managing IT/Community Partnerships in the 21st Century . Hershey, PA : Idea Group Publishing   2002 . 293 pp. , ISBN: 1930708335   US$89.95 (hardback) © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Universities Partnerships Information...

...Joy Tillotson Using a questionnaire distributed to participants in the library instruction programmes at two Canadian universities, the author studied students’ understanding of the need for Web site evaluation and their ability to articulate criteria for evaluation. The results show that students...

...Brad Eden Presents a diary of the attempts to construct and launch a collaborative and interdepartmental digital project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Looks at some of the problems that arose. Concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and suggestions of how to deal...

...Julie M. Still In a study of university library Web sites in four English speaking countries (Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA), the visual display of information was found to be similar across all countries. However, there were some differences in the content supplied. All of the 150 library...

...Joshua McKain Colleges Universities Education Internet Petersons.com, the self‐proclaimed “education supersite”, serves a myriad people seeking information about private secondary and post‐secondary institutions. With nearly 14,000 links to Petersons.com from other Web sites, this site...