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Researcher attitudes toward data sharing in public data repositories: a meta-evaluation of studies on researcher data sharing
Jennifer L. Thoegersen, Pia BorlundThe purpose of this paper is to report a study of how research literature addresses researchers' attitudes toward data repository use. In particular, the authors are interested in…
Health-seeking behaviours of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Europe: a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles
Hamed Ahmadinia, Kristina Eriksson-Backa, Shahrokh NikouImmigrants, asylum seekers and refugees living in Europe face a number of challenges in accessing or using health information and healthcare services available in their host…
“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process
Anna-Maija Multas, Noora HirvonenThis study examines the information literacy practices of young video bloggers, focusing on the ways in which they construct their cognitive authority through a health-related…
LIS research across 50 years: content analysis of journal articles
Kalervo Järvelin, Pertti VakkariThis paper analyses the research in Library and Information Science (LIS) and reports on (1) the status of LIS research in 2015 and (2) on the evolution of LIS research…
Fast-food information, information quality and information gap: a temporal exploration of the notion of information in science communication on climate change
Carin GraminiusThe purpose of this study is to discuss the concept of information in relation to temporality within the context of climate change communication. Furthermore, the paper aims to…
Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources
Elina Late, Sanna KumpulainenThe paper examines academic historians' information interactions with material from digital historical-newspaper collections as the research process unfolds.
Discourses of fact-checking in Swedish news media
Amalia JuneströmThe purpose of this paper is to examine how contemporary fact-checking is discursively constructed in Swedish news media; this serves to gain insight into how this practice is…
Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems
Björn EkströmThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how a methodological coupling of visualisations of trace data and interview methods can be utilised for information practices…
Information behavior during the Covid-19 crisis in German-speaking countries
Stefan Dreisiebner, Sophie März, Thomas MandlThe 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…
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening
Anna LundhThe aim of the paper is to create a greater understanding of how people who are blind or vision impaired describe their use of audio-based reading technologies, with a particular…
Trust in the academy: a conceptual framework for understanding trust on academic web profiles
Helena FranckeInstitutional and commercial web profiles that provide biobibliographic information about researchers are used for promotional purposes but also as information sources. In the…
Organizing subject access to cultural heritage in Swedish online museums
Koraljka Golub, Pawel Michal Ziolkowski, Goran ZlodiThe study aims to paint a representative picture of the current state of search interfaces of Swedish online museum collections, focussing on search functionalities with…
A niche of their own: variations of information practices in biodiversity citizen science
Björn EkströmInformation practices become highly complex in biodiversity citizen science projects due to the projects’ large scale, distributed setting and vast inclusion of participants. This…
Audiobook routines: identifying everyday reading by listening practices amongst young adults
Elisa Tattersall WallinThis article explores, identifies and conceptualises everyday audiobook reading practices amongst young adults.
Measuring the time spent on data curation
Anja Perry, Sebastian NetscherBudgeting data curation tasks in research projects is difficult. In this paper, we investigate the time spent on data curation, more specifically on cleaning and documenting…
Volunteers' strategies for supporting asylum seekers with information challenges
Hilda RuokolainenThis paper examines the strategies that volunteers use when supporting asylum seekers with their information challenges to be able to develop services for asylum seekers and…
Gender influences in Digital Humanities co-authorship networks
Jin Gao, Julianne Nyhan, Oliver Duke-Williams, Simon MahonyThis paper presents a co-authorship study of authors who published in Digital Humanities journals and examines the apparent influence of gender, or more specifically, the…
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library
Zakayo KjellströmThis paper aims to show how an illegal repository of literature, the Z-library, relates to and influences its users and how this relation is unique due to the illegal nature of…
Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology
Shahrokh Nikou, Mark De Reuver, Matin Mahboob KanafiInformation and digital literacy have recently received much interest, and they are being viewed as critical strategic organisational resources and skills that employees need to…
Metrics and epistemic injustice
Lai MaThis paper examines the socio-political affordances of metrics in research evaluation and the consequences of epistemic injustice in research practices and recorded knowledge.
Health literacy, health literacy interventions and decision-making: a systematic literature review
Maedeh Ghorbanian Zolbin, Isto Huvila, Shahrokh NikouThe purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between elderly people's health literacy skills and those people's decision to make use of digital health service…
Innovating peer review, reconfiguring scholarly communication: an analytical overview of ongoing peer review innovation activities
Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Stephen Pinfield, Ludo Waltman, Helen Buckley Woods, Johanna BrumbergThe study aims to provide an analytical overview of current innovations in peer review and their potential impacts on scholarly communication.
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach
Andreas Nishikawa-PacherHow to obtain a list of the 100 largest scientific publishers sorted by journal count? Existing databases are unhelpful as each of them inhere biased omissions and data quality…
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions
Koraljka Golub, Jenny Bergenmar, Siska HumlesjöThe purpose of this study is to investigate the needs of potential end-users of a database dedicated to Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI…
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation
Thomas D. Wilson, Elena MaceviciuteMisinformation is a significant phenomenon in today's world: the purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations behind the creation and use of misinformation.
Nameless strangers, similar others: the affordances of a young people's anonymous online forum for health information practices
Noora HirvonenThe study examines how the technical features and associated social practices of an anonymous, text-based online forum intended for young people make it a unique platform for…
Task information types related to data gathering in media studies
Laura Korkeamäki, Heikki Keskustalo, Sanna KumpulainenThe purpose of this paper is to examine what types of task information media scholars need while gathering research data to create new knowledge.
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