Editorial


Invited paper


Marcia Bates
The information professions: knowledge, memory, heritage

Regular papers


Nancy Pontika
Why principal investigators funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health publish in the Public Library of Science journals.
Hilary Yerbury
Information practices of young activists in Rwanda
Alisa Howlett and Zaana Howard
Exploring the use of evidence in practice by Australian special librarians
Sook Lim and Nick Steffel
Influence of user ratings, expert ratings and purposes of information use on the credibility judgments of college students
Christine Yates and Helen Partridge
Citizens and social media in times of natural disaster: exploring information experience
Luis Cárcamo Ulloa, Mari-Carmen Marcos Mora, Ramon Cladellas Pros and Antoni Castelló Tarrida
News photography for Facebook: effects of images on the visual behaviour of readers in three simulated newspaper formats
Jongwook Lee, Gary Burnett, Micah Vandegrift, Jung Hoon Baeg and Richard Morris
Availability and accessibility in an open access institutional repository: a case study
Reijo Savolainen
Expressing emotions in information sharing: a study of online discussion about immigration
Asad Ali Shah, Sri Devi Ravana, Suraya Hamid and Maizatul Akmar Ismail
Web credibility assessment: affecting factors and assessment techniques

Conference report


Elena Maceviciute
International Conference 'Publishing Trends and Contexts 2014, Focus: Digital Authors and Electronic Books', 8-9 December, 2014, Pula, Croatia


Special supplement: Proceedings of ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Leeds, 2-5 September, 2014: Part 2.




ball Resúmenes en Español


Reviews

ball  Cronin, B. & Sugimoto, C.R. (2014). Scholarly metrics under the microscope: from citation analysis to academic auditing. Medford, NJ: Information Today Inc.
ball  Day, Ronald E. Indexing it all: the subject in the age of documentation, information, and data. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014.
ball  Dorner, Daniel G., Gorman G.E. and Calvert, Philip J. Information needs analysis: principles and practice in information organizations. London: Facet Publishing, 2015
ball  Hyder, Eileen. Reading groups, libraries and social inclusion: experiences of blind and partially sighted people. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
ball  Schopflin, Katharine, (Ed.). A handbook for coporate information professionals. London: Facet Publishing, 2015.
ball  Whitworth, Andrew. Radical information literacy: reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement.. London: Chandos Publishing, 2014.

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, Diesel e-Book Store, Versent Books, Flipkart (India), and the Apple iBookstore - accessed through the iBooks app. Read the review.



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Conference announcements


7th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, Paris (IUT-Descartes University, 26-29 May 2015
III International Seminar on LIS Education and Research (LIS-ER), Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Barcelona, 4-5 June 2015.
17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK, 25-26 June, 2015

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Poznan, Poland, 14-18 September, 2015
Social Media Studies Symposium (SMS-S) 2015, BorĂ¥s, Sweden
ISIC: the information behaviour conference, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 20-23 September, 2016


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