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Fractured academic space: digital literacy and the COVID-19 pandemic
Annemaree Lloyd, Alison HicksThe study focussed on information literacy practices, specifically on how higher education staff managed the transition from established and routinised in-person teaching…
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?
Werner ScheltjensUpcycling is conceptualised as a digital historical research practice aimed at increasing the scientific value of historical data collections produced in print or in electronic…
“I think sometimes the whole process is just a little bit intimidating”: modeling the health insurance decision-making process
Emily VardellThis qualitative study explores how individuals understand health insurance concepts and make health insurance purchase decisions. The study sought to develop a model of the…
“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel
Margaret GrossThis piece explores the philosophical origins of sense-making as defined in Brenda Dervin’s methodology.
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts
James A. Hodges, Ciaran B. TraceThis article aims to advance a multifaceted framework for preserving algorithms and algorithmic systems in an archival context.
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change
Antonella FoderaroThis study introduces Simone Weil's impersonal justice concept and its relevance to libraries' identity and role in societies. The article presents the constituents of impersonal…
A systematic review of methods for aligning, mapping, merging taxonomies in information sciences
Yi-Yun Cheng, Yilin XiaThe purpose of this study is to provide a systematic literature review on taxonomy alignment methods in information science to explore the common research pipeline and…
Integrated use of KOS and deep learning for data set annotation in tourism domain
Giovanna Aracri, Antonietta Folino, Stefano SilvestriThe purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for the enrichment and tailoring of a knowledge organization system (KOS), in order to support the information extraction…
A Chinese academic tradition examined in the context of international academic communication: exploratory research into Shang Que articles
Weinan Zheng, Peng Xiao, Andrew MaddenAcademic contention occurs when research evidence is amenable to more than one interpretation. China has a long tradition of Shang Que (商榷), in which authors argue for their…
The intricate web: network and rhizome metaphors in hypertext and the web and the epistemic challenge of fake news
Luke TredinnickThis article analyses the structure of hypertext and the world wide web through the contrasting metaphors of the network and the rhizome and applies that analysis to the epistemic…
The health information behaviors of people who inject drugs: a scoping review of the literature
Margaret Sullivan, George ShawThe United States of America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. However, little has been written within the domain of LIS (Library and Information Science) about the health…
Does the perceived quality of interdisciplinary research vary between fields?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Emma Stuart, Meiko Makita, Mahshid Abdoli, Paul Wilson, Jonathan M. LevittTo assess whether interdisciplinary research evaluation scores vary between fields.
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