Journal history
Previously published as Online Review and then Online and CD-ROM Review
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Unique attributes
Online Information Review is a refereed journal devoted to the broad field of online information in the academic, corporate, scientific and commercial contexts. It addresses issues related to online sources, systems and services, with a primary focus on online and digital information creation, storage, retrieval and applications. Coverage is intentionally international, with contributions from both developed and developing countries.
Key benefits
- First-class research on a variety of key topics including digital information retrieval and online applications in a variety of contexts
- Leading scholarly papers on the development and design of information retrieval software
- Key predictions from leading contributors on future developments, changes and challenges
- Authoritative coverage on the current use, analysis, and management of information
- A guide to the professional literature and occasional research notes.
Key journal audiences
- Senior management
- Practicing information professionals
- Information researchers and lecturers
- Academics and students
Coverage
- Getting the best out of search engines
- Key developments in the field of metadata
- Difference between web databases and their capabilities and limitations
- New approaches to search engine design on the web
- Rating and choosing search engines
- The changing role of the information professional and end-user due to web search services
- The role of intelligent agents in web information.
- Web use and content in various contexts, including e-commerce
Online Information Review is indexed and abstracted in:
- ABI/INFORM Complete
- ABI/INFORM Global
- Academic Research Library
- Academic Search Alumni Edition
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Premier
- Cabell's
- CINAHL
- Compendex
- CompuMath Citation Index
- Computer Science Index
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- Current Abstracts
- Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Discovery
- Education Full Text
- Education Research Complete
- ERIC®
- Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- The Informed Librarian
- INSPEC (Electrical & Electronics Abstracts)
- ISI Alerting Service
- Library and Information Science Abstracts
- Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
- Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
- Library Literature and Information Science
- Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
- OmniFile Full Text Select
- Platinum Periodicals
- Professional ABI/INFORM Complete
- Professional ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Journals
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Computer Science Journals
- ProQuest Curriculum Essentials
- ProQuest Education Journals
- ProQuest Library Science
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
- ProQuest Pharma Collection
- ProQuest SciTech Journals
- ProQuest Technology Journals
- Research Library
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Social SciSearch
- zetoc
Online Information Review is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Library and Information Studies Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
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