Volume 7 No 1 October 2001

ISSN 1368-1613

Contents

 General Editorial

Special Issue on Environmental Scanning and Competitive Intelligence

 Issue Editorial

 Environmental scanning as information seeking and organizational learning, by Chun Wei Choo, University of Toronto, Canada

 Scanning and vicarious learning from adverse events in health care, by Anu MacIntosh-Murray, University of Toronto, Canada

 Factors influencing environmental scanning in the organizational context, by Zita Correia, National Institute for Engineering and Industrial Technology, Lisbon, Portugal and T.D. Wilson, University of Sheffield, UK

 Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore, by Shrianjani Marie (Gina) de Alwis, Singapore Institute of Management and Susan Ellen Higgins, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 Finding competitive intelligence on Internet start-up companies: a study of secondary resource use and information-seeking processes, by Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri-Columbia and Nicole Ware, University of Texas at Austin, USA

 Environmental scan on women's health information resources in Ontario, Canada, by Christine Marton, University of Toronto, Canada

 Intelligence obtained by applying data mining to a database of French theses on the subject of Brazil, by Kira Tarapanoff, Luc Quoniam, Rogério Henrique de Araújo Júnior, and Lillian Alvares, Brazil.

 Using information technology to support knowledge conversion processes, by Rodrigo Baroni de Carvalho, Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais and Marta Araújo Tavares Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Additional Refereed Papers

 Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science, by Donald T. Hawkins, Editor-in-Chief, Information Science Abstracts, Medford, NJ, USA

 Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector, by Judith Broady-Preston & Tim Hayward, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.

Working Paper

 Focus on further education of librarians in Latvia, by Iveta Gudakovska, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

  Abstracts in Spanish/Resúmenes en Español  

Calls for papers

  Fourth International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Context - ISIC2002

  Call for Papers: "Knowledge Management and the Emperor's New Clothes" - a special issue of Information Research

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Reviews

  Jean Aitchison, Alan Gilchrist, and David Bawden. Thesaurus construction and use: a practical manual. 4th ed. ASLIB: London, 2000.

  Sheila Corrall Strategic management of information services: a planning handbook. London: Aslib/IMI, 2000.

  Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau  Elementary Statistics for Library and Information Service Management. London: Aslib-IMI, 2001

  EndNote 5.0. Berkeley, CA: ISI ResearchSoft.

  Lars Höglund, Tom Wilson (eds.).  The new review of information behaviour research. Vol. 1: Studies of information seeking in context. ISIC III, The third international conference on research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts, Göteborg, 2000. London: Taylor Graham Publishing, 2000

  Tania Konn.   Guide to business information on Russia, the NIS and the Baltic States. 3rd ed. London: Aslib-IMI, 2000

  Jennifer Rowley and John Farrow.   Organizing knowledge: an introduction to managing access to information. 3rd ed. Aldershot: Gower, 2000.

  Raymond A. Wall, Sandy Norman, Paul Pedley, and Frank Harris.  Copyright made easier. 3rd ed. London: Aslib-IMI, 2000

  Paul Pedley Free business and industry information on the web. London: Aslib-IMI, 2000

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