Online Information Review: Volume 39 Issue 3

Accepting the challenges of social media research

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new viewpoint series, Monitoring the Media: Spotlight on Social Media Research, by providing an overview of the key challenges in…

Factors affecting information sharing in social networking sites amongst university students: Application of the knowledge-sharing model to social networking sites

Drawing upon the knowledge sharing model, the purpose of this paper is to identify personal and environmental antecedents to information sharing on social networking sites (SNSs…

Correlation analysis for comparison of the citation impact of journals, magazines, and conferences in computer science

In many research areas, there are a variety of different types of academic publications, including journals, magazines and conferences, which provide outlets for researchers to…

Evaluating the degree of domain specificity of terms in large terminologies: The case of AGROVOC

Large terminologies usually contain a mix of terms that are either generic or domain specific, which makes the use of the terminology itself a difficult task that may limit the…

Factiva and Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies: Comparing retrieval reliability between academic institutions

Scholars rely on electronic databases to conduct searches and locate relevant citations. The purpose of this paper is to compare the retrieval results on the same topic (multiple…

Disclosing the network structure of private companies on the web: The case of Spanish IBEX 35 share index

It is common for an international company to have different brands, products or services, information for investors, a corporate blog, affiliates, branches in different countries…

Existing plagiarism detection techniques: A systematic mapping of the scholarly literature

– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the state-of-the-art techniques used to detect plagiarism in terms of their limitations, features, taxonomies and processes.

The synergy between eBooks and printed books in Brazil

– The purpose of this paper is to discuss reading habits in relation to printed books and eBooks.

Social viewing behavior in social TV: proposing a new concept of socio-usability

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how usability and sociability differ in the way they influence users’ experiences using social TV (STV).

Academic Search Engines: A Quantitative Outlook

Advances in Digital Document Processing and Retrieval

Data Mining with Decision Trees: Theory and Applications

Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices

Perspectives on Privacy: Increasing Regulation in the USA, Canada, Australia and European Countries

Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future

Living in a world of biased search engines