Online Information Review: Volume 31 Issue 6

The DeLorean or the Mini?: Digital imperatives for publishers, digital dilemmas for repositories

The paper aims to examine the issue of the development of digital publishing and also the preservation of data.

The medical digital library landscape

The purpose of this paper is to identify two medical digital libraries from each of the following three countries: Canada, the USA and the UK. It aims to discuss strengths and…

Factors influencing the usage of 3G mobile services in Taiwan

The purpose of this study is to analyse factors influencing subscribers' usage of 3G mobile services in Taiwan.

The impact of participation in virtual brand communities on consumer trust and loyalty: The case of free software

The importance of virtual brand communities is growing day by day as a result of consumers increasingly using online tools to contact fellow consumers in order to get information…

Perceived substitutability between digital and physical channels: the case of newspapers

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main motivations that influence readers to read newspapers, and, to analyse their influence on the level of perceived substitutability…

An exploratory study of Google Scholar

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the new scientific search service Google Scholar (GS). It aims to discuss this search engine, which is intended exclusively for searching…

Relevance ranking is not relevance ranking or, when the user is not the user, the search results are not search results

The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of the differences between the actual technical principles determining relevance ranking, and how relevance ranking is…

Cognitive shifts related to interactive information retrieval

Interactive information retrieval (IR) involves many human cognitive shifts at different information behaviour levels. Cognitive science defines a cognitive shift or shift in…

Help features in digital libraries: types, formats, presentation styles, and problems

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Help features in digital libraries and identify problems related to their design.

Evaluating the searching capabilities of e‐commerce web sites in a non‐English language: A Greek case study

The purpose of this work in progress is to build a methodology for evaluating the searching capabilities of e‐shops. The emphasis of the evaluation is on ease of use and on the…

Software issues related to cited references

The underlying software issue related to cited references is the capability of the software to identify the specific work cited by a reference, and associate it with the correct…

How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library

Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

Long‐term Preservation of Digital Documents: Principles and Practices

The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E‐mail Environments

Web Archiving

Web Campaigning