Editorial

Jonas Tana, Emil Eirola, and Kristina Eriksson-Backa
Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24
Jinfang Niu
Comparing the diffusion and adoption of linked data and research data management services among libraries
Mohammad Soltani Delgosha, Nastaran Hajiheydari, and Hamideh Saadatmanesh
Semantic structures of business analytics research: applying text mining methods
Noreen Kirkman and Gaby Haddow
Compliance with the first funder open access policy in Australia
Ming Zhan, Qin Yu, and Ji Wang
Effectively organizing hashtags on Instagram: a study of library-related captions
Cameron M. Pierson, Anne Goulding, and Jennifer Campbell-Meier
Metaphors and critical incidents: introduction to a methodological approach derived from expressions of librarian professional identity
Vassiliki Veros
The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
Tuulikki Alamettälä and Eero Sormunen
The effect of a teaching intervention on students’ online research skills in lower secondary education.
Francisco Javier Martínez Méndez, Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez and Rosana López Carreño
Linked open data en bibliotecas: estado del arte


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Conference announcements and calls for papers

ISIC 2020, the 13th information behaviour conference, 28th September to 2nd October, 2020, will be held now as a virtual conference. Information on the revised, modest fees is to be found here: http://www.isic2020.co.za/index.php/registration-and-fees/

Reviews


ball  American Psychological Association. Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. The official guide to APA style. APA, 2019.
ball  Badia, Antonio. The information manifold. Why computers can't solve algorithmic bias and fake news. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.
ball  Dunn, Stuart. A history of place in the digital age London: Routledge, 2019.
ball  Floridi, Luciano. The logic of information: a theory of philosophy as conceptual design. Oxford University Press, 2019
ball  Jaeger, Paul T. and Greene Taylor, Natalie. Foundations of information policy. London: Facet Publishing, 2019.
ball  Kirk, Andy. Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design. 2nd ed. London: SAGE publications ltd., 2019.
ball  Kourany, Janet and Carrier, Martin (eds.). Science and the production of ignorance: when the quest for knowledge is thwarted. MIT Press, 2020.
ball  Lingel, Jessa An Internet for the people: the politics and promise of graigslist. Princeton University Press, 2020.
ball  Miller, Arthur I. The artist in the machine: the world of AI-powered creativity. The MIT Press, 2019.
ball  Robson, E. Ancient knowledge networks: a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia.London: UCL Press, 2019.

Now available


Theory in information behaviour research, edited by T.D. Wilson, is now available as an e-book, price $9.99, from Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, FNAC & the Apple iBookstore - accessed through the iBooks app. Read the review.