Online Information Review: Volume 28 Issue 3

Subjects:

Table of contents

Web usage statistics and Web site evaluation: a case study of a government publications library Web site

Susan Xue

Web usage statistics are often used as a tool for assessing a Web site, despite some of their drawbacks. This paper attempts to evaluate a government publications library Web site…

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Quantifying Web‐site visits using Web statistics: an extended cybermetrics study

Sanghamitra Jana, Supratim Chatterjee

The purpose of the present research is to evaluate the accessibility and lineament of a Web site through statistical analysis of the site log files using any available software…

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Retrieval features for online databases: common, unique, and expected

Roslina Othman, Nor Sahlawaty Halim

The aims of this study were to identify the retrieval features for online databases; difficulties faced by users; and retrieval features expected by users. A total of 25 databases…

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Online IR system evaluation: online databases versus Web search engines

Hong (Iris) Xie

This study evaluated two different types of online information retrieval (IR) systems: online databases and Web search engines, in terms of user generated criteria. It also…

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Measurement of the presence of keywords and description meta‐tags on a selected number of Iranian Web sites

Dariush Alimohammadi

Digital information retrieval has been as a problem, and at the same time a research interest for information scientists in recent years. They have planned some solutions to solve…

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Cybercriminal impacts on online business and consumer confidence

Alan D. Smith

The information revolution, coupled with the strategic leveraging of the Internet, has exposed a number of relatively open societies to the dangers of cybercriminal and…

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Citation‐enhanced indexing/abstracting databases

Péter Jacsó

Provides an introductory look at what savvy users should know about the implications of having information about cited references in I/A records. Looks at the more sophisticated…

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Cover of Online Information Review

ISSN:

1468-4527

Renamed from:

Online and CD-Rom Review

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Eugenia Siapera