Online Information Review: Volume 27 Issue 2

Modern Hebrew literature on the Web: a content analysis

Judit Bar‐Ilan, Nurit Groisman

In this study, a set of freely accessible Web sites were examined, as a first step in understanding the ways the Web is utilised for disseminating, publishing, discussing…

Relevancy rankings: pay for performance search engines in the hot seat

Dion H. Goh, Rebecca P. Ang

Pay for performance (PFP) search engines provide search services for documents on the Web, but unlike traditional search engines, they rank documents not on content…

Re‐inventing subject access for the semantic Web

Rosemary Aud Franklin

First generation scholarly research on the Web lacked a firm system of authority control. Second generation Web research is beginning to model subject access with library science…

Think local, search global? Comparing search engines for searching geographically specific information

Alastair G. Smith

This study evaluates the retrieval of New Zealand information using three local New Zealand search engines, four major global search engines and three metasearch engines. Searches…

Education practice and analysing behaviour of students in a Web‐based learning environment: an exploratory study from China

Ying Liu, Fuzong Lin, Xue Wang

Tertiary institutions are increasingly providing Web‐based courses to learners both on‐campus and off‐campus, enabling more students to take these courses and get the most recent…

Changes in the value chain of scientific information: economic consequences for academic institutions

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…

Network information resources management system based on knowledge mining

Chengyu Zhang, Ping Wang, Yi Zhao, Qiang Lai, Li Kong

This article describes the analysis, design and implementation of the network information resources management system (NIRMS), which uses distributed modes of content management…