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Report - Articles That Are Pre-2004 and 10+ Pages


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fldTitle:
Knowledge creation: absorptive capacity, organizational mechanisms, and knowledge storage/retrieval capabilities

fldKeywords:
absorptive capacity; organizational mechanisms; organizational memory; knowledge creation

fldAbstract:
Drawing on a knowledge-based perspective of the firm (KBV), this study develops a framework that delineates the interrelationships among ‘the roles of individuals as well as organizations,’ ‘the IT capabilities of knowledge storage/ retrieval,’ and ‘knowledge creation.’


fldTitle:
Formulation and analysis of in-place MSD radix sort algorithms

fldKeywords:
sorting algorithms; radix sort; MSD radix sort; Matesort; general radix Matesort; Quicksort

fldAbstract:
We present a unified treatment of a number of related inplace MSD radix sort algorithms with varying radices, collectively referred to here as ‘Matesort’ algorithms.


fldTitle:
Abstracts: Problems Classified From The User's Perspective

fldKeywords:
abstract quality; abstract comprehensibility; terminology; agriculture databases; education databases; user evaluation

fldAbstract:
Background: most of the recent research into abstracts conducted by the information science (IS) community has had little practical implication in terms of improvement and quality.


fldTitle:
Human resource information systems (HRIS) and technology trust

fldKeywords:
technology trust; human resource information systems; systems implementation; organizational trust; pooled interdependence; organizational community; organizational culture; technology adoption; technology utility; technology usability; socialization; sensitivity to privacy; predisposition to trust

fldAbstract:
Scholars in many disciplines have considered the antecedents and consequences of various forms of trust.


fldTitle:
Constructing intelligent and open mobile commerce using a semantic web approach

fldAbstract:
To achieve the full potential of mobile commerce (m-Commerce), many problems need to be resolved, such as how to make m-Commerce seamlessly span wide areas with heterogeneous information sources; how to improve the matchmaking between user requirements and product specifications; and how to make m-Commerce systems more intelligent in taking different actions according to different user context environments


fldTitle:
A reference model for designing effective reputation information systems

fldKeywords:
reputation systems; reputation information systems; reference model; meta-specification; determinants of reputation; personal reputation; organizational reputation

fldAbstract:
A reference model for designing effective reputation information systems


fldTitle:
Collaborative interaction behaviors in an information technology problem-solving context: cognitive movements of the helper and the helped

fldKeywords:
collaboration; interaction; problem-solving model; Sense-Making; cognitive movement; time-line interview
Abstract (English

This paper explores patterns of cognitive movements in the context of information technology problem solving.

fldAbstract:
This paper explores patterns of cognitive movements in the context of information technology problem solving.


fldTitle:
What are communities of practice? A comparative review of four seminal works

fldKeywords:
communities of practice; collaboration; knowledge, networks

fldAbstract:
This paper is a comparative review of four seminal works on communities of practice.


fldTitle:
How Much Is Too Little?  Privacy and Smart Cards in Hong Kong and Ontario

fldKeywords:
privacy; technology; anonymity; government; Ontario; Hong Kong; smart card; consultation; digital self

fldAbstract:
In this article, we analyze the notion of privacy - how it is conceptualized and implemented as a constitutive element of identity - in two different cultures: Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and Ontario, Canada.


fldTitle:
Influencing web-browsing behavior with intriguing and informative hyperlink wording

fldKeywords:
information design; hyperlinks; internet-based research

fldAbstract:
Textual hyperlinks are important mainstays of the navigation systems of websites.


fldTitle:
Towards a weighted average framework for evaluating the quality ofweb-located health information

fldKeywords:
web-located; health information; quality; accuracy; authority; disclosure; privacy; weighted average

fldAbstract:
This article proposes a framework for evaluating the quality of web-located health information.


fldTitle:
Interaction quality between IS professionals and users: impacting conflictand project performance

fldKeywords:
Interaction quality between IS professionals and users: impacting conflictand project performance

fldAbstract:
The quality of the interaction between the information system project team and the users in a development project is not clearly linked to the success of projects in terms of meeting budgets and product goals.


fldKeywords:
blogs; bloggers; information hubs; information dissemination

fldAbstract:
Blogging has become an important activity on the web; the number of web blogs is growing extremely fast, and thus this phenomenon cannot be ignored.


fldTitle:
Mapping interdisciplinarity in demography: a journal network analysis

fldKeywords:
demography; interdisciplinarity; valued directed network; citing frequency; cited frequency; citation percentage; cluster analysis; network diagram

fldAbstract:
Despite increasing interest in studying the intellectual structures of interdisciplinary fields, mapping interdisciplinarity in demography remains an unexplored topic.


fldTitle:
The limits of DeCSS posting: a comparison of internet posting of DVDcircumvention devices in the European Union and China

fldKeywords:
DeCSS; copyright; digital rights management; anti-circumvention; EUCD; open source software; intellectual property; WIPO; protest; collective action; social informatics

fldAbstract:
This study explored differences in DeCSS posting between EU member nations, the PRC, Hong Kong, and Macau.


fldTitle:
To Know or not to Know: A Moral Reflection on Information Poverty

fldKeywords:
information poverty; digital divide; information society; social exclusion; access to information; access to technology; social justice; ethics

fldAbstract:
This article reflects, from an ethical perspective, on the problem of information poverty.


fldTitle:
Conceptions of the Internet in Everyday Life Information Seeking

fldKeywords:
internet; world wide web; information seeking behaviour; user expectations; user satisfaction; perceptions; mental models; selection; information sources

fldAbstract:
Based on the interviews of 18 people in Finland in 2001-2, conceptions of the Internet as an information source were explored.


fldTitle:
A Content Analysis of Librarianship Research

fldKeywords:
content analysis; evidence-based librarianship; library and information studies research; library and information studies periodicals; research domains

fldAbstract:
Objective: To conduct a content analysis of library and information studies (LIS) literature published in 2001 and test the domains developed by Crumley and Koufogiannakis.


fldTitle:
Can Personal Web Pages that Link to Universities Yield Information about the Wider Dissemination of Research?

fldKeywords:
internet; world wide web; research web sites; university web sites; personal home pages; personal web sites; citation linking; citation rankings; research dissemination; impact analysis

fldAbstract:
The growth of the Web has made available a vast collection of informal publishing by individual citizens who previously would not have had access to a media outlet to express their opinions.


fldTitle:
Variations in Use of Meta Tag Keywords by Web Pages in Different Languages

fldKeywords:
world wide web; web pages; indexing; metadata; meta tags; keywords; titles; language variations; character sets; character coding; ASCII extensions; HTML character entity references

fldAbstract:
Sets of top-ranking pages in 19 languages returned by the Google search engine were downloaded and their titles and meta tagged keywords analyzed.


fldTitle:
Philosophical foundations and research relevance: issues for information research

fldKeywords:
information science; librarianship; research; philosophical framework; methodologies; models; relevance; professional practice; knowledge organization; integrative levels; phenomenology

fldAbstract:
This paper examines three ideas that affect the nature of research in information science: (1) the fact of the incoherent nature of information science, which results from the concept of ‘information’ being dealt with at different integrative levels; (2) the lack of an over-arching philosophical framework that might guide the development of methods; and (3) the problem of grounding research in the reality of everyday professional practice.


fldTitle:
Why Do Web Sites from Different Academic Subjects Interlink?

fldKeywords:
webometrics; scholarly communication; interdisciplinary links; hyperlinks; web sites

fldAbstract:
On the Web, hyperlinks have been used both to assess the impact of academic Web sites and to trace aspects of online informal scholarly communication.


fldTitle:
Measuring the benefits of knowledge management at the Financial ServicesAuthority: a case study

fldKeywords:
knowledge management; strategies; implementation; impact analysis; benefit assessment; research methods; quantitative methods

fldAbstract:
While many knowledge management case studies and theoretical texts list benefits to an organization of the implementation of a knowledge management strategy, the literature provides little evidence that systems have been devised to measure those benefits.


fldKeywords:
cyber cafés; Africa; Internet; regional development; use statistics; telecommunications infrastructure; information technology; electronic commerce; national policies; regional variations

fldAbstract:
The paper provides an overview of the origin of cyber cafe culture and the growth of this industry in Africa.


fldTitle:
Assessing used content across five digital health information services usingtransaction log files

fldKeywords:
digital information services; consumer health information; use statistics; transaction log analysis; information content; content analysis

fldAbstract:
A digital service, like a web site, may contain a lot of information but we often do not know if it is used, relevant or valuable.


fldTitle:
Managing the paradox: the valuation of knowledge and knowledge management

fldAbstract:
The valuation of knowledge, and hence the assessment of the usefulness of approaches and programmes for managing knowledge, is a difficult, yet vital, task.


fldTitle:
Frame analysis as a tool for understanding information policy

fldAbstract:
This paper explores frame theory as a tool for making the value systems that underpin our understandings of information policy more explicit.


fldTitle:
Evaluating metrics for comparing the use of web sites: a case study of two consumer health web sites

fldAbstract:
Use is plainly an important characteristic in determining the success or otherwise of a web site and in making comparisons between sites.


fldTitle:
A framework for evaluating geographical information

fldAbstract:
This paper introduces a framework for the evaluation of geographic information (GI), divided into representational and communicative aspects.


fldTitle:
Challenges posed by web-based retrieval of scientific papers: Okapi participation in TIPS

fldAbstract:
This paper reviews some of the past Okapi research and discusses the role of Okapi in the current TIPS project.


fldTitle:
Transparency and teledemocracy: issues from an ‘e-consultation’

fldAbstract:
Transparency is a term common to distributed computing, communications studies and other fields that information science draws upon.


fldTitle:
Bridging the digital divide with low-cost information technologies

fldAbstract:
Although there are many requirements that need to be met if the digital divide between rich and poor countries is to be narrowed, this paper focuses on just one aspect of the problem; namely, the need for low-cost information technologies that are suitable to the conditions prevailing in the latter rather than the former.


fldTitle:
A Web-based registry of low-cost information technologies for developing countries

fldAbstract:
The paper seeks to explain why no registry of low-cost information technologies for developing countries exists


fldTitle:
Knowledge management in pursuit of learning: the Learning with Knowledge Cycle

fldAbstract:
This paper suggests that knowledge and learning are closely intertwined.


fldTitle:
Digital health information provision and health outcomes

fldAbstract:
An online questionnaire survey of more than 1,000 users of a consumer health website, SurgeryDoor, was conducted, which sought to discover why the site was consulted and whether the information obtained from it had any health outcome.


fldTitle:
How French research scientists are making use of electronic journals: a case study conducted at Pierre et Marie Curie University and Denis Diderot University

fldAbstract:
There have been few studies to date on how French research scientists are using electronic journals in their work.


fldTitle:
Features of DESCRIPTION META tags in public home pages

fldAbstract:
A random sample of 628 Web pages registered with Yahoo! was analyzed for use of META tags and specifically the DESCRIPTION tag; 357 contained META tags and 163 used the DESCRIPTION tag.


fldTitle:
A review of the status of 20 digital libraries

fldAbstract:
Recent proliferation of research in digital libraries has given rise to a number of working digital libraries around the world.


fldTitle:
LISLEX: Legal issues of concern to the library and information sector


fldTitle:
A study of the use of CD-ROM databases in Nigerian academic libraries

fldAbstract:
This study investigates the use of CD-ROM databases in academic libraries in Nigeria.


fldTitle:
Technology, the Public Libraries Network and the need for joined-up thinking


fldTitle:
Owning and licensing content - key legal issues in the electronic environment


fldTitle:
Best of Health: evaluation of a high-street consumer health information shop in a rural area

fldAbstract:
This study examines a consumer health information project, sponsored by the pnnHighland Health zBoard; based in Inverness, it caters for the health information needs of the widely dispersed population of the Scottish Highlands.


fldTitle:
A practical typology of adult fiction borrowers based on their reading habits

fldAbstract:
This paper applied a typological procedure, developed by Lazarsfeld from the social sciences, to a set of qualitative data on fiction reading habits for the purpose of forming a practical typology of fiction borrowers.


fldAbstract:
Publishers are often confused with printers; in fact, even in the print-on-paper world, they carry out a number of important functions.


fldTitle:
Access to information: the Canadian experience


fldTitle:
The dissemination of information by local authorities on the World Wide Web

fldAbstract:
Local authorities (LAs) exist to provide a variety of services to their citizens, and they have a responsibility to communicate information, in increasing quantities, to the people within their locality


fldTitle:
Usenet newsgroups’ profile analysis, utilising standard and non-standard statistical methods

fldAbstract:
An analysis of usenet newsgroups’ profiles, utilising standard and non-standard statistical methods


fldTitle:
A comparative study of citations from papers by Korean scientists and their journal attributes

fldAbstract:
The purposes of this paper are to investigate the citations from papers by Korean scientists for several fields in the sciences, to compare the citation patterns of articles taken from Korean sources versus non-Korean sources, and to identify the relationship between the citations made by Korean scientists and eight variables (subscription costs, publisher type, country of publication, frequency of publication, journal’s age, peer review, inclusion in Science Citation Index, in-library use and local availability) for journals in those fields.


fldTitle:
Information consultancy and brokerage in Botswana

fldAbstract:
Limited empirical research on information consultancy and brokerage is documented and almost nothing originates from authors in the developing countries despite the upsurge of reasons for involvement in the services provided in the region.


