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abstracting Human creation of abstracts with selected computer assistance tools
academic heads of departments Investigating the management information needs of academic heads of departments: a critical success factors approach
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom: a Critical Success Factors approach. (British Library R & D Report 6252)
academic impact The potential for altmetrics to measure other types of impact in scientific production: academic and social impact dynamics in social media and networks
academic libraries Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model.
  A cross-discipline comparison of subject guides and resource discovery tools
  E-books in academic libraries: results of a survey carried out in Sweden and Lithuania
  Effective techniques for the promotion of library services and resources
  Five things to change first when academic libraries embrace Web access
  Freshmen's use of library electronic resources and self-efficacy
  Information behaviour and information practices of academic librarians: a scoping review to guide studies on their learning in practice
  Information source characteristics and environmental scanning by academic library managers
  Librarians’ attitudes towards application of information technology in academic libraries in Pakistan.
  Partnerships or parallel lines? The contributions of practitioners and academics to library and information research
  The perceived value of the academic library: a systematic review
  The role of a data librarian in academic and research libraries
  Science and technology parks and their relationships with university libraries
  The societal impact of information behaviour research on developing models of academic information ecologies
  Thematic analysis of the value of Kuhlthau’s work for the investigation of information behaviour in creative workspaces in academic libraries
  Through indigenous eyes: looking for indigenous services in Australian and New Zealand university libraries
  Total quality management, British Standard accreditation, Investors in People and academic libraries
  Towards an information provision strategy for university libraries in Ghana
  Using e-materials for study: students’ perceptions vs. perceptions of academic librarians and teachers
  Using phenomenography to bridge the gap between research and practice: a meta-analysis of three phenomenographic studies
  When definitions in practice do not align with the literature: defining emerging technologies in academic libraries
academic performance An analysis of usage statistics of electronic papers in a Korean scholarly information repository.
  A deeper look into the complex relationship between social media use and academic outcomes and attitudes
academic ranking Comparative analysis of homepage Website visibility and academic rankings for UK universities
academics The application of structuration theory in studying collaboration between librarians and academic staff in universities in Australia and Vietnam.
  Comunicación de conocimiento. ¿Habilidad de los profesores universitarios?
  Effective use of value-added features and services of proprietary databases in an academic context
  A framework for understanding information sharing: an exploration of the information sharing experiences of female academics in Saudi Arabia
  Information behaviour of Slovenian researchers: investigation of activities, preferences and characteristics
  Information School academics and the value of their personal digital archives
  Seeking relevance in academic information use
  A two-way street: collaboration and information sharing in academia. A theoretically-based, comparative Australian/Vietnamese study
  The use of the Internet by English academics
  Using phenomenography to bridge the gap between research and practice: a meta-analysis of three phenomenographic studies
acceptance Exploring factors influencing acceptance and use of video digital libraries
access to information The creation of bent knowledge: how lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth negotiate and reconfigure homophobic and heterosexist discourse
  Facilitating access to and use of bioinformatics resources
  ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
  Library legislation and free access to information as new topics in library and information science education
  Designing Internet research assignments: building a framework for instructor collaboration
action learning Generating and analysing data for applied research on emerging technologies: a grounded action learning approach
action research
see also: research circles
An action research approach to curriculum development
  Recent trends in user studies: action research and qualitative methods
  When definitions in practice do not align with the literature: defining emerging technologies in academic libraries
activism and activists Information practices of young activists in Rwanda
  Social media activism in Maldives: information practices and civil society.
activity theory Activity systems, information sharing and the development of organizational knowledge in two Finnish firms: an exploratory study using Activity Theory
  An activity-theory-based model to analyse Web application requirements
  Activity theory in information systems research and practice - theoretical underpinnings for an information systems development method
  Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour
  Cultural-historical activity theory and domain analysis: metatheoretical implications for information science.
  Everyday inclusive Web design: an activity perspective
  From activity to learning: using cultural historical activity theory to model school library programmes and practices
  How work positions affect the research activity and information behaviour of laboratory scientists in the research lifecycle: applying activity theory
  Human activity - contributions to the anthropological sciences from a perspective of activity theory.
  Information behaviour in research network building by relocated scholars in Swedish higher education: a report on a pilot project
 . Information on the move: the use of mobile information systems by UK Police Forces
  A re-examination of information seeking behaviour in the context of activity theory
  Tensions and contradictions in the information behaviour of Board members of a voluntary organization
actor-network theory Documents as social actors: a study of digital tutorials using actor-network-theory and the concept of documentary practices
  E-learning objects and actor-networks as configuring information literacy teaching.
  Information stabilisation and – destabilisation as potential usable concepts in practice theoretical approaches
  Searching for delegated knowledge in elementary schools
  Towards extending actor-network theory with a graphical syntax for information systems research
adaptive information systems Towards adaptive information systems: individual differences and hypermedia
adolescents see: youth
adult education A bibliometric analysis of Australia’s public library adult non-fiction collections
  Information literacy in the tension between school's discursive practice and students' self-directed learning
affective barriers Approaching the affective barriers to information seeking: the viewpoint of appraisal theory
affective needs Approaching the affective factors of information seeking: the viewpoint of the information search process model
  An information need for emotional cues: unpacking the role of emotions in sense making.
  Ending the dance: a research agenda for affect and emotion in studies of information behaviour
  Teen engagements with data in an after-school data literacy programme at the public library
agricultural extension workers Information-seeking behaviour of Iranian extension managers and specialists
agricultural information systems Agricultural information systems and communication networks: the case of dairy farmers in the Samsun province of Turkey
altmetrics Attention and altmetrics.
  The potential for altmetrics to measure other types of impact in scientific production: academic and social impact dynamics in social media and networks
anthropology Human activity - contributions to the anthropological sciences from a perspective of activity theory.
archaeology 'If we just knew who should do it', or the social organization of the archiving of archaeology in Sweden
  Information work analysis: an approach to research on information interactions and information behaviour in context
archives Acceptance of online audio-visual cultural heritage archive services: a study of the general public
  Archivists about students as archives users.
  Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden.
  Connecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook groups as emergent community archives
  Digitality, epistolarity and reconstituted letter archives
  From coexistence to convergence: studying partnerships and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums
  'If we just knew who should do it', or the social organization of the archiving of archaeology in Sweden
  Institutional convergence in the libraries, archives and museums sector: a contribution towards a conceptual framework
  Looking at the Khmer Rouge archives through the lens of the records continuum model: towards an appropriated archive continuum model
  The meaning of interoperability and its implications for archival institutions: challenges and opportunities in Croatia, Finland and Sweden.
  Qualitative questionnaires as a method for information studies research
  Transcending silos, developing synergies: libraries and archives
  ‘Us and them’: expert and practitioner viewpoints on small New Zealand community archives
archivists ALM in the public sphere: how do archivists, librarians and museum professionals conceive the respective roles of their institutions in the public sphere?
Argentina Las revistas argentinas de Ciencias Antropológicas: visibilidad en bases de datos internacionales
Asian immigrants Everyday information behaviour of Asian immigrants in South Australia: a mixed-methods exploration
astrophysics Cognitive styles and eye movement patterns: an empirical investigation into user interactions with interface elements and visualisation objects of a scientific information system
  Simultaneous and comparable numerical indicators of international, national and local collaboration practices in English-medium astrophysics research papers
attitude change Implications of counter-attitudinal information exposure in further information-seeking and attitude change
audiobooks Exploring the circulation of digital audiobooks: Australian library lending 2006–2017
audio-visual resources Acceptance of online audio-visual cultural heritage archive services: a study of the general public
Australia The application of structuration theory in studying collaboration between librarians and academic staff in universities in Australia and Vietnam.
  A bibliometric analysis of Australia’s public library adult non-fiction collections
Australia Compliance with the first funder open access policy in Australia
  Effective techniques for the promotion of library services and resources
  Everyday information behaviour of Asian immigrants in South Australia: a mixed-methods exploration
  The experience of evidence-based practice in an Australian public library: an ethnography
  Exploring the use of evidence in practice by Australian special librarians
  Freedom of information and the right to know: tensions between openness and secrecy
  Indigenous Australians’ information behaviour and Internet use in everyday life: an exploratory study
  The online life of individuals experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage: how do they experience information?
  Public library websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation
  The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
  Through indigenous eyes: looking for indigenous services in Australian and New Zealand university libraries
  A two-way street: collaboration and information sharing in academia. A theoretically-based, comparative Australian/Vietnamese study
  The use of digital image collections and social media amongst Australian historical societies
  What makes an object queer? Collecting and exhibiting LGBT stories in regional museums and archives
  Where information is paramount: a mixed methods multi-disciplinary investigation of Australian online investors
authorship Understanding textual authorship in the digital environment: lessons from historical perspectives
autism Information behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): a case study
  Information needs and behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders: parents’ reports on their experiences and perceptions
auto-ethnography Falling together – a conceptual paper on the complexities of information interactions and research gaps in empathetic care for the dying
  The information behaviour of Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers: an autoethnographic pilot study
automatic classification Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions
avoidance of information A typology of cancer information seeking, scanning and avoiding: results from an exploratory cluster analysis

banana farmers The information behaviour of Ugandan banana farmers in the context of participatory development communication
banks see financial services
Bates, Marcia J. Castles and inverted castles: the work of Marcia J. Bates
bibliographic databases An analysis of usage statistics of electronic papers in a Korean scholarly information repository.
  Coverage of Spanish social sciences and humanities journals by national and international databases
  Las revistas argentinas de Ciencias Antropológicas: visibilidad en bases de datos internacionales
bibliographic information systems Exploring the influences on pragmatic and hedonic aspects of user experience.
bibliographic records Bibliographic records in an online environment
  Creating better library information systems: the road to FRBR-land
bibliometrics Academic software downloads from Google Code: useful usage indicators?
  Análisis bibliométrico de la literatura científica publicada en "Ciencia. Revista hispano-americana de ciencias puras y aplicadas" (1940-1974)
  An analysis of usage statistics of electronic papers in a Korean scholarly information repository.
  Attention and altmetrics.
  A bibliometric analysis of Australia’s public library adult non-fiction collections
  A bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s
  A bibliometric study of the publication patterns of scientists in South Africa, 1992-96
  A bibliometric study of scholarly articles published by library and information science authors about open access
  Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science,
  Big science, nano science? Mixed method approach to mapping evolution and structure of nanotechnology [Poster abstract]
  Citing the innovative work of the original inventors: an analysis of citation to prior clinical trials.
  Comparative analysis of university-government-enterprise coauthorship networks in three scientific domains in the region of Madrid
bibliometrics Compliance with the first funder open access policy in Australia
  Comunicación de conocimiento. ¿Habilidad de los profesores universitarios?
  Different traditions in the study of disciplinarity in science – science and technology studies, library and information science and scientometrics
  The evolution of recent research on Catalan literature through the production of PhD theses: a bibliometric and social network analysis.
  How human information behaviour researchers use each other's work: a basic citation analysis study.
  Intelligence obtained by applying data mining to a database of French theses on the subject of Brazil
  Library and information science according to the citing pattern of students: a bibliometric study.
  Partnerships or parallel lines? The contributions of practitioners and academics to library and information research
  Performance of Mexican scholarship holders in the production of scientific knowledge: from bibliometrics to science policy? (In Spanish: Desempeño de becarios Mexicanos en la producción de conocimiento cientifico ¿de la bibliometria a la politica cientifica?)
  Pressure to publish: a bibliometric study of PhD students (1993-2009)
  Producción latinoamericana en biblioteconomía y documentación en el Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) 1966-2003
  The publication activity of Region Västra Götaland: a bibliometric study of an administrative and political Swedish region during the period 1998-2006.
  Simultaneous and comparable numerical indicators of international, national and local collaboration practices in English-medium astrophysics research papers
  Study of interdisciplinarity in chemistry research based on the production of Puerto Rican scientists 1992-2001
  Webometrics: emergent or doomed?
  Women in academia: a bibliometric perspective
big-data Balancing efficiency and effectiveness for fusion-based search engines in the 'big data' environment
  Big-data in cloud computing: a taxonomy of risks
bio-informatics Facilitating access to and use of bioinformatics resources
  Library and information science and biomedical informatics: converging disciplines
  Why Choose This One? Factors in scientists’ selection of bioinformatics tools
blind & sight-impaired persons Access to electronic resources by visually impaired people
  Everyday information behaviour of the visually impaired in China
  Information seeking by blind and sight impaired citizens: an ecological study
  Using digital libraries non-visually: understanding the help-seeking situations of blind users
blogs Being private in public: information disclosure behaviour of Israeli bloggers
  Blogging motivations of women suffering from infertility
  Dietary blogs as sites of informational and emotional support
  Scholarly blogging practice as situated genre: an analytical framework based on genre theory
  The use of Weblogs (blogs) by librarians and libraries to disseminate information
  Weblog publishing behaviour of librarianship and information science students: a case study.
  Which types of news story attract bloggers?
blunting see: avoidance of information
book history The changing role of subjects connected with book history and publishing in the education of library specialists in Estonia
book reviewing The handicap principle: a new perspective for library and information science research
bookselling Adventures in Winter Wonderland - observing user behaviour in a digital twin bookstore [Short paper]
  Analysis of the user queries of an e-commerce bookstore in terms of the Library of Congress classification and key publishers
  Cultured and popular literary circuits on Facebook: a case study of Singaporean print culture in social media
  Publishing, bookselling and the World Wide Web
boundaries Understanding boundaries: physical, epistemological and virtual dimensions
Brazil The development of tourism indicators through the use of social media data: the case of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  The general public's access and use of health information: a case study from Brazil
  Information needs and information competencies: a case study of the off-site supervision of financial institutions in Brazil
  Information professionals in Brazil: core competencies and professional development
  The information professional's profile: an analysis of Brazilian job vacancies on the Internet
  Intelligence obtained by applying data mining to a database of French theses on the subject of Brazil
bricolage Conceptualising welfare workers as information bricoleurs: theory building using literature analysis, organisational ethnography and grounded theory analysis
browsing Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user Web browsing strategies
  A literature-based approach to annotation and browsing of Web resources
  What is browsing—really? A model drawing from behavioural science research
Buddhism Spirituality and everyday information behaviour in a non-Western context: sense-making in Buddhist Laos
business Business information culture: a qualitative study of the information culture in the Finnish insurance industry
  Business use of the World Wide Web
  Business Use of The World Wide Web: a report on further investigations
  Determining the information needs of small and medium-sized enterprises: a critical success factor analysis.
  Environmental cognitions and scanning behaviour of managers of Chinese small and medium-size enterprises: an empirical study of a multidimensional model
  Finding competitive intelligence on Internet start-up companies: a study of secondary resource use and information-seeking processes
  The influence of information processing needs on the continuous use of business intelligence
  Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries
  Intranets in French firms: evolutions and revolutions.
  Link between contractually integrated retail entrepreneurs' working experience and their information gathering and interpreting styles
  Measuring information behaviour performance inside a company: a case study
  MISCO: A Conceptual Model for MIS Implementation in SMEs
  Organisational strategy and competitive intelligence practices in Malaysian public listed companies
  Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector
business analysts Information seeking and use behaviour of economists and business analysts.
business analytics Semantic structures of business analytics research: applying text mining methods
business environment Scanning the business environment for information: a grounded theory approach
business information services, The influence of information processing needs on the continuous use of business intelligence
  In search of facilitating citizens' problem solving: public libraries' collaborative development of services with related organizations
  Satisfaction and perception of usefulness among users of business information services in Japan
business intelligence The emerging role of business intelligence culture
business journals A document co-citation analysis method for investigating emerging trends and new developments: a case of twenty-four leading business journals
business performance Information and business performance: a study of information systems and services in high-performing companies
  Use of news and patent mining to identify companies with growth potential
business process re-engineering Re-engineering change in higher education
business strategy Exploring design-fits for the strategic alignment of information systems with business objectives.

call centres Analysing information behaviour in structured service encounters: a case of call centre operations
Canada An examination of the health information seeking experiences of women in rural Ontario, Canada.
  Environmental scan on women's health information resources in Ontario, Canada
  Public library websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation
  Studying digital library users over time: a follow-up survey of Early Canadiana Online
  Use of historical documents in a digital world: comparisons with original materials and microfiche
cancer Assessing cancer patients' health information needs: a standardized approach
  Cancer information seeking in social question and answer services. Identifying health-related topics in cancer questions on Yahoo! Answers
  An exploratory review of research on cancer pain and information-related needs: what (little) we know
  Information needs and information behaviour of patients and family members in a cancer palliative care setting
  Questioning strangers about critical medical decisions: "What happens if you have sex between the HPV shots?"
  Topical network of breast cancer information in a Korean American online community: a semantic network analysis
  A typology of cancer information seeking, scanning and avoiding: results from an exploratory cluster analysis
career planning Knowledge acquisition and modification in students' exploratory Web search processes while career planning 376
carers Collaborative auto-ethnography as a way of seeing the experience of caregiving as an information practice.
  Falling together – a conceptual paper on the complexities of information interactions and research gaps in empathetic care for the dying
  The nature and constitution of informal carers' information needs: what you don't know you need is as important as what you want to know.
Caribbean Consistency between indexers in the LILAC database (Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature)
Catalan literature The evolution of recent research on Catalan literature through the production of PhD theses: a bibliometric and social network analysis.
catalogues & cataloguing Accounting for users' inflated assessments of on-line catalogue search performance and usefulness: an experimental study
  Cataloguing in special libraries in the 1990s
  Exploring the influences on pragmatic and hedonic aspects of user experience.
  Intuitiveness of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: a study in a broader context
  New ways of exploring the catalogue: incorporating text and culture
  Text genres in information organization
  What is the title of a Web page? A study of Webography practice
cattle farmers A study of the development of the digital ranch.
censorship Censura y tolerancia del material sexualmente explícito: la opinión de los estudiantes universitarios de pregrado
chemical databases Molecular diversity techniques for chemical databases
chemical information processing Extracting variant forms of chemical names for information retrieval
  Textual and chemical information processing: different domains but similar algorithms
chemistry Study of interdisciplinarity in chemistry research based on the production of Puerto Rican scientists 1992-2001
child protection Documentation and use of client information system by social workers in child protection services
children Contemporary Chinese parents' needs and questions of parenting for young children: a Web text-mining approach
  The development of children's Web searching skills - a non-linear model
  Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
  How do children reformulate their search queries?
  Information behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): a case study
  Information needs and behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders: parents’ reports on their experiences and perceptions
  Making sense of participation in cultural activities for children
  Subject positions of children in information behaviour research
  Support versus restriction: parents’ influence on young children’s information behaviour in connection with mobile devices
  ‘Talk, talk and more talk': parental perceptions of young children's information practices related to their hobbies and interests
childrens' librarianship Stories of story-time: the discursive shaping of professional identity among Swedish children’s librarians.
Chile Applying the user meta model to the analysis of scientific knowledge production and transfer. insights from exploring scientific, small-scale, fishery management in Chile
  An empirical analysis of mobile Internet acceptance in Chile
China Chatman’s theory of life in the round applied to the information seeking of small populations of ethnic minorities in China
  Contemporary Chinese parents' needs and questions of parenting for young children: a Web text-mining approach
  Environmental cognitions and scanning behaviour of managers of Chinese small and medium-size enterprises: an empirical study of a multidimensional model
  Everyday information behaviour of the visually impaired in China
  Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
  The impacts of Internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the Internet
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
  The mutual shaping of online and offline social relationships
  Perceived information needs and availability: results of a survey of small dairy farmers in Inner Mongolia
  A risk perception model: simulating public response to news reports in China
  Understanding user satisfaction with Chinese government social media platforms
citation analysis An analysis of usage statistics of electronic papers in a Korean scholarly information repository.
  Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music)
  Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions
  Electronic journals and scholarly communication: a citation and reference study.
  Internationality in Finnish Research: an examination of collaborators, citers, tweeters, and readers.
  The transfer of theories and models from information behaviour research into other disciplines
  Use of citation analysis to predict the outcome of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise for Unit of Assessment (UoA) 61: Library and Information Management
  Web links as research indicators: analogues of citations?
citation behaviour The role of trust and authority in the citation behaviour of researchers
  Survey on inadequate and omitted citations in manuscripts: a precursory study in identification of tasks for a literature review and manuscript writing assistive system
citation indexes From metrics to representation: the flattened self in citation databases
citation systems Do citation systems represent theories of truth?
civil servants Factors affecting the information behaviour of managers in the Kuwaiti civil service: a relational model
classification Arguments for 'the bibliographical paradigm'. Some thoughts inspired by the new English edition of the UDC
  The classification of musical transformation: a conceptual approach to the knowledge organization of musical arrangements
  Conceptions of knowledge about classification schemes: a multiplane approach.
  The Cool and Belkin faceted classification of information interactions revisited
  Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM
  Mediation machines: how principles from traditional knowledge organization have evolved into digital mediation systems.
  Metaphors of time and installed knowledge organization systems: Ouroboros, Architectonics, or Lachesis?
  Record-keeping professionals’ perceptions of users and use of functional classification systems in the Finnish public sector
  The retrievability of a discipline: a domain analytic view of classification [Poster abstract]
  Scientific publications as boundary objects: theorizing the intersection of classification and research evaluation.
  Supporting better treatments for meeting health consumers' needs: extracting semantics in social data for representing a consumer health ontology
  Task-based navigation of a taxonomy interface to a digital repository
  Transcultural categorization in contextualized domains
  Using design experiments to investigate conceptual issues in knowledge organization: an ongoing study
client information systems Documentation and use of client information system by social workers in child protection services
clinical decision-making The impact of information on clinical decision-making by general medical practitioners
  Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting
clinical practice Exploring rehabilitation therapists' clinical questions for evidence based patient care
  The information practices of physicians in clinical practice
clinical trials Citing the innovative work of the original inventors: an analysis of citation to prior clinical trials.
clinicians Profiling European physicians' usage of eHealth services
  Variables associated with environmental scanning among clinicians at substance abuse treatment clinics
cloud computing Big-data in cloud computing: a taxonomy of risks
clustering Non-hierarchic document clustering using a genetic algorithm.
co-authorship networks Comparative analysis of university-government-enterprise coauthorship networks in three scientific domains in the region of Madrid
  Simultaneous and comparable numerical indicators of international, national and local collaboration practices in English-medium astrophysics research papers
co-citation analysis Analysis of collaboration and co-citation networks between researchers studying violence involving women
  The discourses of contemporary information science research: an alternative approach
  A document co-citation analysis method for investigating emerging trends and new developments: a case of twenty-four leading business journals.
Covid-19 Network relationships of U.S. government health agencies in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic
co-word analysis Semantic structures of business analytics research: applying text mining methods
code libraries Academic software downloads from Google Code: useful usage indicators?
coding Validating coding for a theoretical model of information behaviour
cognitive authority Cognitive authority, emotions and information quality evaluation
  Finnish adolescents’ selection and assessment of health information sources
  In Web search we trust? Articulation of the cognitive authorities of Web searching.
  Media credibility and cognitive authority. The case of seeking orienting information
cognitive factors Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
cognitive framework Information seeking in the newsroom. Application of the cognitive framework for analysis of the work context
cognitive styles Cognitive styles and eye movement patterns: an empirical investigation into user interactions with interface elements and visualisation objects of a scientific information system
  Seeking information with an information visualization system: a study of cognitive styles
cognitive work analysis From information behaviour research to the design of information systems: the Cognitive Work Analysis framework
collaboration Analysis of collaboration and co-citation networks between researchers studying violence involving women
  The application of structuration theory in studying collaboration between librarians and academic staff in universities in Australia and Vietnam.
  Consulting engineers' social networks and their collaborative information behaviour
  Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors
  From coexistence to convergence: studying partnerships and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums
  Illuminating collaboration in emergency health care situations: paramedic-physician collaboration and 3D telepresence technology
  Individual and collaborative information behaviour of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia
  Materiality and embodiment in collaborative knowledge processes: knowledge creation for a virtual power plant
  Partnerships or parallel lines? The contributions of practitioners and academics to library and information research
  Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration: rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population
  Research together: exploring students’ collaborative information behaviour in group work settings
  Simultaneous and comparable numerical indicators of international, national and local collaboration practices in English-medium astrophysics research papers
  Strategies, obstacles, and attitudes: student collaboration in information seeking and synthesis projects
  Voice, agency and equity: deep community collaboration in record-keeping research
collaboratories see: computer-supported collaborative work
collection development Designing collections for storytelling: purpose, pathos, and poetry
  Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration: rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population
  The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
Colombia Modelling the information practices of music fans living in Medellín, Colombia.
communication Empathetic communication among discourse participants in virtual communities of people who suffer from mental illnesses
  Information sharing and knowledge sharing as communicative activities
communication research Impact of assessment criteria on publication behaviour. The case of communication research in Spain
communities of practice Communities of practice in the business and organization studies literature
  The duality of knowledge
  Searching Usenet for virtual communities of practice: using mixed methods to identify the constructs of Wenger's theory
community information access Community problem-solving framed as a distributed information use environment: bridging research and practice
  The role of telecentres in the provision of community access to electronic information
  A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by a case of community network development.
  Telecentres and the provision of community based access to electronic information in everyday life in the UK
community organizations An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges
  Information literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors [Short paper]
competitive intelligence see environmental scanning
computer assisted abstracting Human creation of abstracts with selected computer assistance tools
computer mediated communication The role of computer-mediated communication in the research process of music scholars: an exploratory investigation
computer mediated information behaviour Settings, arenas and boundary objects: socio-material framings of information practices
  Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: the ramifications of the information behaviour of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
computer scientists A coding system for qualitative studies of the information-seeking process in computer science research
  Information seeking in electronic environment: a comparative investigation among computer scientists in British and Greek universities
  Information interaction among computer scientists. A longitudinal study
  Scholarly communication in transition: computer scientists' information behaviour over twenty years
computer-supported co-operative work Identifying factors that may impact the adoption and use of a social science collaboratory: a synthesis of previous research
  Research together: exploring students’ collaborative information behaviour in group work settings
  Towards formal evaluation of collaborative work
  The socio-technical design of a library and information science collaboratory
conceptual models Conceptual modelling of workplace information practices: a literature review
conferences Editorial: selected papers from RAILS: Research Applications, Information and Library Studies 2016
  Rhythms of being at ISIC - understanding the place of the ISIC conferences in information seeking research
conspicuous consumption Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
conspiracy theory An information behaviour approach to conspiracy theories: listening in on voices from within the vaccination debate.
constructivism The applicability of constructivist user studies: how can constructivist inquiry inform service providers and systems designers?
  An action research approach to curriculum development
  Gender and learning attitudes in using Web-based science lessons
  Hypermedia as an experiential learning tool: a theoretical model
  The social construction of the world of gay and lesbian people and their information behaviour
contemplation Contemplative aims for information.
content analysis Critical theory as a foundation for pragmatic information systems design
  Finding competitive intelligence on Internet start-up companies: a study of secondary resource use and information-seeking processes
  Observing documentary reading by verbal protocol
  The role of computer-mediated communication in the research process of music scholars: an exploratory investigation
  The role of telecentres in the provision of community access to electronic information
  Speaking of users: on user discourses in the field of public libraries
  Talking about the problem: a content analysis of pre-search interviews
  The "user turn" in practice: information behaviour researchers’ constructions of information users
  Web information seeking by pages: an observational study of moving and stopping
  What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation
content validation Content validation for level of use of feature rich systems: a Delphi study of electronic medical records systems
context Contextual information behaviour analysis of grief and bereavement: temporal and spatial factors, multiplicity of contexts and person-in-progressive situation
  Rethinking context in information research: bounded versus centred sets
continuing professional development Focus on further education of librarians in Latvia
  'In the eye of the beholder': knowledge and skills requirements for data professionals
  The smart ones: one-person librarians in Ireland and continuing professional development. [Poster abstract]
  When definitions in practice do not align with the literature: defining emerging technologies in academic libraries
controlled vocabulary
see also classification
Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM
conversation analysis The conversation as the answer: collective information seeking and knowledge construction on a social question and answer site
conversation theory Participatory networks: the library as conversation
copyright Copyright protection in Israel: a reality of being 'pushed into the corner'
corporate identity Análisis de la información sobre identidad visual y comunicación corporativa en los sitios web: un estudio sobre los bancos y cajas de ahorros en España
  Las nuevas leyes de derecho de autor: ¿adecuadas para la preservación digital?
counselling The value creating network in preventive health care. Medical doctors as information providers and knowledge producers in counselling in the context of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes type 2.
creativity Beyond eureka moments: supporting the invisible work of creativity and innovation
  Creating by me, and for me: investigating the use of information creation in everyday life.
  Kickstarting creativity: supporting the productive faces of uncertainty in information practice
  The role of personality in musicians’ information seeking for creativity
credibility of information Effects of relational characteristics of an answerer on perceived credibility of informational posts on social networking sites: the case of Facebook
  Improving users' credibility perception of travel expert blogs: useful lessons from television travel shows
  Influence of user ratings, expert ratings and purposes of information use on the credibility judgments of college students
  Use of credibility heuristics in a social question-answering service.
  Web credibility assessment: affecting factors and assessment techniques
critical incident technique Metaphors and critical incidents: introduction to a methodological approach derived from expressions of librarian professional identity
  Using the critical incident technique to evaluate the service quality perceptions of public library users: an exploratory study
critical realism Critical realism and information systems research: why bother with philosophy?
critical success factors Critical Success Factors and information needs in Estonian industry
  Determining the information needs of small and medium-sized enterprises: a critical success factor analysis.
  Determining organizational information needs: the Critical Success Factors approach.
  Investigating the management information needs of academic heads of departments: a critical success factors approach
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom: : a Critical Success Factors approach. (British Library R & D Report 6252)
critical theory Critical theory and the legitimation of library and information science
  Critical theory as a foundation for pragmatic information systems design
  Seeking critical literacies in information practices: reconceptualising critical literacy as situated and tool-mediated enactments of meaning.
Croatia Information support system for Alzheimer’s disease patients’ caregivers in Croatia: a phenomenological approach
  The meaning of interoperability and its implications for archival institutions: challenges and opportunities in Croatia, Finland and Sweden.
  Scholarly electronic databases and information sciences students in Croatia: perceptions, uses and challenges
  Visual presentation and communication of Croatian academic Websites
cross-lingual information retrieval Compounds in dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval
  The RATF formula (Kwok's formula): exploiting average term frequency in cross-language retrieval
  Targeted s-gram matching: a novel n-gram matching technique for cross- and mono-lingual word form variants
crowdsourcing Effects of objective and subjective competence on the reliability of crowdsourced relevance judgments
cultural activities Making sense of participation in cultural activities for children
cultural capital The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
cultural heritage Acceptance of online audio-visual cultural heritage archive services: a study of the general public
  Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden.
  Digital cultural heritage 2.0: a meta-design consideration
  Keynote address: Museum value or museality: only a theoretical concept or concrete and practical tool?
  Passion trumps pay: a study of the future skills requirements of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Australia
culture Cultural congruence of websites: conscious, unconscious or coincidental? The case of Honda Cars.
  The cultural landscape of women refugees in Sweden - a road to information and integration [Short paper]
  Investigating the ‘Why?’ rather than the ‘How?’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on newcomer populations’ use of public libraries [Short paper]
  The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland [Poster]
  Visual presentation and communication of Croatian academic Websites
curriculum development An action research approach to curriculum development
  From library and information science through information studies to information studies and interactive media: emergence, expansion and integration of information studies at the University of Tampere illustrated in word clouds

dairy farmers Agricultural information systems and communication networks: the case of dairy farmers in the Samsun province of Turkey
  Perceived information needs and availability: results of a survey of small dairy farmers in Inner Mongolia
data librarians The role of a data librarian in academic and research libraries
data literacy Searching for critical dimensions in data literacy
  Teen engagements with data in an after-school data literacy programme at the public library
data management Comparing the diffusion and adoption of linked data and research data management services among libraries.
  Information School academics and the value of their personal digital archives
  The role of a data librarian in academic and research libraries
data mining Data mining of Internet users' interests in diverse, hierarchical information needs
  Discovering the hidden secrets in your data - the data mining approach to information.
  Intelligence obtained by applying data mining to a database of French theses on the subject of Brazil
data protection Remembering and forgetting in the digital age – a position paper
data sharing Research data sharing during the Zika virus public health emergency
database design A selective review of knowledge-based approaches to database design.
  Report on the 1st International Workshop on Validation, Verification and Integrity Issues of Expert and Database Systems
databases
see also: bibliographic databases
Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions
  Effective use of value-added features and services of proprietary databases in an academic context
  Molecular diversity techniques for chemical databases
  Scholarly electronic databases and information sciences students in Croatia: perceptions, uses and challenges
  Searching databases without query-building aids: implications for dyslexic users
decision-making Factors affecting group decision making: an insight on information practices by investigating decision making process among Tactical Commanders.
  The impact of information on clinical decision-making by general medical practitioners
  Implications of counter-attitudinal information exposure in further information-seeking and attitude change
  The influence of social media on information sharing and decision making in policing: research in progress.
  Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore
  Information literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors [Short paper]
  Materiality, contextuality, representation and agency: examining the mediating artefacts of decision-making
  Systematic reviews as object to study relevance assessment processes [Short paper]
decision support systems The current state of decision support in Lithuanian business
Delphi studies Conceptualización y perspectivas de la alfabetización informacional en Iberoamérica: un estudio Delphi
  Content validation for level of use of feature rich systems: a Delphi study of electronic medical records systems
  Incorporating nonparametric statistics into Delphi studies in library and information science
democracy The public library, democracy and Rancière’s poetics of politics
  Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings
demographics Influence of demographics and information literacy self-efficacy on information avoidance propensity among youth
Denmark Pressure to publish: a bibliometric study of PhD students (1993-2009)
  Socio-cultural innovation through and by public libraries in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Denmark: concepts and practices
depression Contested knowledge and information behaviour: treatments for depression
  Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24
design-fits Exploring design-fits for the strategic alignment of information systems with business objectives.
design research Information sharing in the field of design research.
desire lines The road not taken: locating desire lines across information landscapes
development studies The influence of information behaviour on information sharing across cultural boundaries in development contexts
  Information science in sustainable development and de-industrialization
diaries-research The diary method and analysis of student’s mental representations of information spaces as the research approach in information behaviour research
digital divide see: information society
digital information A review of large-scale 'How much information?' inventories: variations, achievements and challenges
  Searching for delegated knowledge in elementary schools
  Using e-materials for study: students’ perceptions vs. perceptions of academic librarians and teachers
digital libraries An analysis of the use of electronic journals and commercial journal article collections through the FinELib portal
  The capability of search tools to retrieve words with specific properties from large text collections [Poster]
  D-Fussion: a semantic selective dissemination of information service for the research community in digital libraries.
  Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence.
  Diseño y desarrollo de una plataforma digital de apoyo a la docencia y a la investigación en Archivos Electrónicos: un portal temático
  Discipline, availability of electronic resources and the use of Finnish National Electronic Library - FinELib.
  Emotions associated with failed searches in a digital library
  Exploring factors influencing acceptance and use of video digital libraries
  Information behaviour research and information systems development: the SHAMAN project, an example of collaboration
  Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages.
  The Library Visit Study: user experiences at the virtual reference desk
  On identifying name equivalences in digital libraries
  Participatory networks: the library as conversation
  Search features of digital libraries
  Social tagging in a scholarly digital library environment: users' perspectives
  Studying digital library users over time: a follow-up survey of Early Canadiana Online
  Use of historical documents in a digital world: comparisons with original materials and microfiche
  Three looks at users: a comparison of methods for studying digital library use
  Users and user study methodology: the JUBILEE project
  Using digital libraries non-visually: understanding the help-seeking situations of blind users
digital media Genre, the organization of knowledge and everyday life.
digital mediation systems Mediation machines: how principles from traditional knowledge organization have evolved into digital mediation systems.
digital preservation Extreme long-term preservation of information – who cares? Swedish opinions about nuclear waste information
  Information behaviour research and information systems development: the SHAMAN project, an example of collaboration
  Institutional repositories as infrastructures for long-term preservation
  Las nuevas leyes de derecho de autor: ¿adecuadas para la preservación digital?
  Tracing traces: a document-centred approach to the preservation of virtual world communities.
digital ranch A study of the development of the digital ranch.
digital repositories Availability and accessibility in an open access institutional repository: a case study
  Compliance with the first funder open access policy in Australia
  Implantación de la Open Archives Initiative en España
  Institutional repositories as infrastructures for long-term preservation
  Managing and evaluating digital repositories
  Issues and challenges in researchers’ adoption of open access and institutional repositories: a contextual study of a university repository
  Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students
  Task-based navigation of a taxonomy interface to a digital repository
  Value-added services in institutional repositories in Spanish public universities
digital resources Available, but not accessible? Investigating publishers’ e-lending licensing practices.
  What can 100,000 books tell us about the international public library e-lending landscape?
digital tutorials Documents as social actors: a study of digital tutorials using actor-network-theory and the concept of documentary practices
digitisation The library as a multidimensional space in the digital age
  Remembering and forgetting in the digital age – a position paper
disabilities Accessing learning resources: experiences of students with disability
disasters see emergencies
disciplinary cultures Reading orientations in state research institutes
discourse analysis The discourses of contemporary information science research: an alternative approach
  Inscription and interpretation of text: a cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community
  Justifying the use of Internet sources in school assignments on controversial issues
  Power matters: Foucault's pouvoir/savoir as a conceptual lens in information research and practice
  Subject positions of children in information behaviour research
discussion lists see virtual communities
diseases Illness perception and information behaviour of patients with rare chronic diseases
  'What is (a) disease?' Disease as events and access to information
disinformation A social diffusion model of misinformation and disinformation for understanding human information behaviour
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
dissemination of information see information dissemination
distance education Affording a place: the role of persistent structures in social navigation
  Distance education as a new possibility for librarians in Estonia
  Information-seeking behaviour of distance learning students
  A social network study of the growth of community among distance learners
  Understanding on-line community: the affordances of virtual space
distributed information behaviour Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour
doctoral theses See: theses
document architecture Document architecture draws a circle: on document architecture and its relation to library and information science education and research
document clustering Non-hierarchic document clustering using a genetic algorithm.
documents Phenomenology, experience, and the essence of documents as objects.
documentary practices A conceptual framework for investigating documentary practices in pre-hospital emergency care
  Documents as social actors: a study of digital tutorials using actor-network-theory and the concept of documentary practices
documentation Documents as social actors: a study of digital tutorials using actor-network-theory and the concept of documentary practices
  Embodiment, information practices and documentation: a study of mid life martial artists
domain analysis Hidden bias to responsible bias: an approach to information systems based on Haraway's situated knowledges
  The retrievability of a discipline: a domain analytic view of classification [Poster abstract]
donations The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
Dublin Core Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, the Resource Description Framework and Topic Maps
dyslexia Searching databases without query-building aids: implications for dyslexic users

e-books The acquisition of e-books in the libraries of Swedish higher education institutions
  Digital textbooks: school librarians' stages of concerns in initial implementation
  The discourse on printed and electronic books: analogies, oppositions, and perspectives
  The e-book phenomenon: a disruptive technology
  E-book publishing in Lithuania: the publisher‘s perspective.
  E-books in academic libraries: results of a survey carried out in Sweden and Lithuania
  Electronic books: content provision and adoption possibilities among users in Latvia
  Exploring the circulation of digital audiobooks: Australian library lending 2006–2017
  The lowest canonical denominator: electronic literary texts, and the role of the information professional
  A national survey of early adopters of e-book reading in Sweden
  Not all on the same page: e-book adoption and technology exploration by seniors
  Publishers’ responses to the e-book phenomenon: survey results from three 'small language' markets.
  Reader’s block: a systematic review of barriers to adoption, access and use in e-book user studies
  Validation of the visitor and resident framework in an e-book setting
e-lending Available, but not accessible? Investigating publishers’ e-lending licensing practices.
  What can 100,000 books tell us about the international public library e-lending landscape?
economists Information seeking and use behaviour of economists and business analysts.
  Network analysis of a virtual community of learning of economics educators.
Edinburgh Seven Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors
editing Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors
education An empirical study of the effect of information technology expenditures on student achievement
  Criterios para la evaluación de la usabilidad de los recursos educativos virtuales: un análisis desde la alfabetización en información
  Developing educational hypermedia applications: a methodological approach
  Diseño y desarrollo de una plataforma digital de apoyo a la docencia y a la investigación en Archivos Electrónicos: un portal temático
  Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment
  Evaluation of the JISC Information Environment: student perceptions of services
  Experiencing information seeking and learning: a study of the interaction between two phenomena
  Fast surfing for availability or deep diving into quality - motivation and information seeking among middle and high school students
  From information to knowledge: charting and measuring changes in students' knowledge of a curriculum topic
  From school to work and from work to school: information environments and transferring information literacy practices
  Gender and learning attitudes in using Web-based science lessons
  How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  The impact of access to electronic and digital information resources on learning opportunities for young people: a grounded theory approach
  'In the eye of the beholder': knowledge and skills requirements for data professionals
  Information literacy in the tension between school's discursive practice and students' self-directed learning
  Information needs in a community of reading specialists: what information needs say about contextual frameworks
  Information practices in elementary schools
  The Internet as a learning tool: a preliminary study
  An investigation of information-seeking behaviour of geography teachers for an information service intervention: the case of Lesotho
  Knowings in practice: some insights into evidence-based practice implemented by students
  A matter of facts? Linguistic tools in the context of information seeking and use in schools
  Students' use of Web literacy skills and strategies: searching, reading and evaluating Web information
  Studying information needs as question-negotiations in an educational context: a methodological comment
  Task based design of a digital work environment (DWE) for an academic community
  The transfer of theories and models from information behaviour research into other disciplines
  Use of Web search engines and personalisation in information searching for educational purposes
  University students' information seeking behaviour in a changing learning environment - How are students' information needs, seeking and use affected by new teaching methods?
  see also adult education distance education, elementary education, higher education, professional education
elderly persons see: older people
e-learning Comportamiento humano de la información comercial: teleformación en España
  Criterios para la evaluación de la usabilidad de los recursos educativos virtuales: un análisis desde la alfabetización en información
  E-learning objects and actor-networks as configuring information literacy teaching.
electronic document and records management systems Content validation for level of use of feature rich systems: a Delphi study of electronic medical records systems
  Looking at the Khmer Rouge archives through the lens of the records continuum model: towards an appropriated archive continuum model
  Search behaviour in electronic document and records management systems: an exploratory investigation and model
electronic forums see online communities
electronic information A literature-based approach to annotation and browsing of Web resources
  Access to electronic resources by visually impaired people
  Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment
  Evaluation of the JISC Information Environment: student perceptions of services
  Freshmen's use of library electronic resources and self-efficacy
  The impact of access to electronic and digital information resources on learning opportunities for young people: a grounded theory approach
  Information seeking in electronic environment: a comparative investigation among computer scientists in British and Greek universities
  Library usage patterns in the electronic information environment
  My e-journal - exploring the usefulness of personalized access to scholarly articles and services.
  The role of telecentres in the provision of community access to electronic information
  The use of the Internet by English academics
  Users and user study methodology: the JUBILEE project
  Work-related use of an electronic network
electronic journals Balancing ideology and feasibility: a case study on adopting and evaluating open access publishing models for a society journal within philosophy
  A bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s
  Beyond usage: understanding the use of electronic journals on the basis of information activity analysis
  Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science,
  Electronic journals and scholarly communication: a citation and reference study.
  The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): an open access journal using an un-paid, volunteer-based organization.
  Exploring the development of the independent, electronic, scholarly journal
  Lithuanian on-line periodicals on the World Wide Web
  Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change
  Report on a survey of readers of Information Research
  Supporting undergraduate learning through the collaborative promotion of e-journals by library and academic departments
electronic meeting systems The use of genre analysis in the design of electronic meeting systems
electronic publishing The complementary relationship between the Internet and traditional mass media: the case of online news and information
  Conference report: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund 24-25 April, 2006
  Electronic publishing and the future of the book
  Electronic publishing in librarianship and information science in Latin America – a step towards development?
  Newspapers and their fear of channel spillover: evidence for Europe
  Online newspapers: the impact of culture, sex, and age on the perceived importance of specified quality factors
  Report on a survey of readers of Information Research
  The role of perceived substitution and individual culture in the adoption of electronic newspapers in Scandinavia
  Scholarly communication, scholarly publication and the status of emerging formats
  Supporting undergraduate learning through the collaborative promotion of e-journals by library and academic departments
  see also e-books; publishing
electronic texts see e-books
elementary education Information practices in elementary schools
  Searching for delegated knowledge in elementary schools
  Using empirical data to refine a model for information literacy instruction for elementary school students.
e-mail A grounded theory study of the relationship between e-mail and burnout
emergencies Citizens and social media in times of natural disaster: exploring information experience
  Community disaster resilience and social solidarity on social media: a semantic network analysis on the Sewol ferry disaster
  The impact of information technology capability, information sharing and government process redesign on the operational performance of emergency incident management systems
  The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour
  Proposed model of information behaviour in crisis: the case of Hurricane Sandy
  Research data sharing during the Zika virus public health emergency
emergency care A conceptual framework for investigating documentary practices in pre-hospital emergency care
emotions Cognitive authority, emotions and information quality evaluations
  Emotions associated with failed searches in a digital library
  Expressing emotions in information sharing: a study of online discussion about immigration
empathy Empathetic communication among discourse participants in virtual communities of people who suffer from mental illnesses
engineering students Domain knowledge, search behaviour, and search effectiveness of engineering and science students: an exploratory study
  Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: the cases of engineering and law students in Ireland
engineers Consulting engineers' social networks and their collaborative information behaviour
environmental factors Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews
environmental health Civil society organizations: providing and exchanging information about environmental health risks.
environmental scanning Conceptualizing outcome and impact measures for intelligence services
  Development and evaluation of a framework to explain causes of competitive intelligence failures
  Environmental cognitions and scanning behaviour of managers of Chinese small and medium-size enterprises: an empirical study of a multidimensional model
  Environmental scan on women's health information resources in Ontario, Canada
  Environmental scanning as information seeking and organizational learning
  Exploring and understanding the causes of competitive intelligence failures: an information behaviour lens
  Factors influencing environmental scanning in the organizational context
  Finding competitive intelligence on Internet start-up companies: a study of secondary resource use and information-seeking processes
  Environmental scanning: how developed is information acquisition in Western European companies?
  Information source characteristics and environmental scanning by academic library managers
  Intelligent agent appropriation in the tracking phase of an environmental scanning process: a case study of a French trade union
  Organisational strategy and competitive intelligence practices in Malaysian public listed companies
  Perceived environmental uncertainty, information literacy and environmental scanning: towards a refined framework
  Scanning and vicarious learning from adverse events in health care
  Scanning the business external environment for information: evidence from Greece
  Scanning the business environment for information: a grounded theory approach
  Variables associated with environmental scanning among clinicians at substance abuse treatment clinics
epistemology Applied epistemology and understanding in information studies
  Perspective in information behaviour research
  Understanding knowledge genesis by means of multivariate factor analysis of epistemological belief structures
Estonia The changing role of subjects connected with book history and publishing in the education of library specialists in Estonia
  Critical Success Factors and information needs in Estonian industry
  Distance education as a new possibility for librarians in Estonia
ethnicity Chatman’s theory of life in the round applied to the information seeking of small populations of ethnic minorities in China
  Racial and ethnic matching in information intermediation
ethnography Collaborative auto-ethnography as a way of seeing the experience of caregiving as an information practice.
  The experience of evidence-based practice in an Australian public library: an ethnography
  Exploring multiple spaces and practices: a note on the use of ethnography in research in library and information studies
  Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Losing the art and craft of know-how: capturing vanishing embodied knowledge in the 21st century
  Metatheory or methodology? Ethnography in library and information science.
ethnomethodology Ethnomethodology and the study of online communities: exploring the cyber streets
eugenics Images as scientific documents in Swedish race biology: two practices.
European Union Archives, libraries and museums as communicators of memory in European Union projects.
  Diffusion and usage patterns of Internet services in the European Union
  For or against Brexit? Justifying oppositional arguments in online discussion
  Training information services specialists in the less-favoured regions of the European Union (TRAIN-ISS)
evaluation Analysis of the similarity of the responses of Web search engines to user queries: a user perspective
  Cognitive authority, emotions and information quality evaluations
  Customised content and impact in Website evaluation models: the case of international film festivals
  Evaluating shared workspace performance using human information processing models
  Perceived difficulty as a determinant of Web search success
  How do users evaluate individual documents? An analysis of dimensions of evaluation activities
everyday life Applying McKenzie's model of information practices in everyday life information seeking in the context of the menopause transition
  Creating by me, and for me: investigating the use of information creation in everyday life.
  Credibility assessments of everyday life information on Facebook: a sociocultural investigation of a group of mothers
  Enthusiastic, realistic and critical: discourses of Internet use in the context of everyday life information seeking
  Everyday hassles and related information behaviour among youth: a case study in Taiwan
  Everyday information behaviour of Asian immigrants in South Australia: a mixed-methods exploration
  Everyday information behaviour of the visually impaired in China
  Hobby-related information-seeking behaviour of highly dedicated online museum visitors
  Household information practices: how and why householders process and manage information
  Indigenous Australians’ information behaviour and Internet use in everyday life: an exploratory study
  Information creation and the ideological code of managerialism in the work of keeping track
  Investigating reading culture in Tanzania [Poster]
  Paranormal information seeking in everyday life: the paranormal in information action
  Qualitative questionnaires as a method for information studies research
  Resident university students’ everyday-life information seeking behaviour in Pakistan
  The role of information in a lifetime process – a model of weight maintenance by women over long time periods
  Socio-demographic characteristics associated with everyday health information literacy of young men.
  Telecentres and the provision of community based access to electronic information in everyday life in the UK
  Use of information and communication technologies in the everyday lives of Indian women: a normative behaviour perspective.
  Young men´s perceptions of fear appeal versus neutral health messages – associations with everyday health information literacy, education, and health.
evidence-based practice The experience of evidence-based practice in an Australian public library: an ethnography
  Exploring rehabilitation therapists' clinical questions for evidence based patient care
  Exploring the use of evidence in practice by Australian special librarians
  Making sense of changing and evolving health information: exploring uncertainty in an 'evidence-based' world
  The ruling relation of evidence-based practice: the case of documentary governance in a social welfare service.
  Systematic reviewing, meta-analysis and meta-synthesis for evidence-based library and information science
  Untangling the evidence: introducing an empirical model for evidence-based library and information practice
Excite search engine Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study
experiential learning Hypermedia as an experiential learning tool: a theoretical model
  see also virtual learning environments
experiments The interplay between knowledge gap and perceived risk in motivating risk information seeking
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
expert systems Report on the 1st International Workshop on Validation, Verification and Integrity Issues of Expert and Database Systems
eye-tracking Cognitive styles and eye movement patterns: an empirical investigation into user interactions with interface elements and visualisation objects of a scientific information system
  Information scent – credibility and gaze interactions: an eye-tracking analysis in information behaviour
  The interplay between knowledge gap and perceived risk in motivating risk information seeking

Facebook Attention and altmetrics.
  Connecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook groups as emergent community archives
  Credibility and usefulness of health information on Facebook: a survey study with U.S. college students.
  Credibility assessments of everyday life information on Facebook: a sociocultural investigation of a group of mothers
  Cultured and popular literary circuits on Facebook: a case study of Singaporean print culture in social media
  Effects of relational characteristics of an answerer on perceived credibility of informational posts on social networking sites: the case of Facebook
  Friend or foe: exploring master suppression techniques on Facebook
  Information behaviour of undergraduate students using Facebook Confessions for educational purposes
  Intention to share: the relationship between cybersecurity behaviour and sharing specific content in Facebook
  Leading factors that explain engagement in closed Facebook groups
  News photography for Facebook: effects of images on the visual behaviour of readers in three simulated newspaper formats
  Repurposing Facebook for documenting personal history: how do people develop a secondary system use?
facet analysis Facets: ersatz, resource and tag
facts The fragmentation of facts and infrastructural meaning-making: new demands on information literacy
faculty see academics
family history see genealogy
farm workers Information behaviour of migrant Hispanic farm workers and their families in the Pacific Northwest
fear appeal Perceptions of fear appeal and preferences for feedback in tailored health communication: an explorative study among pre-diabetic individuals
film festivals Customised content and impact in Website evaluation models: the case of international film festivals
financial products, Analysis of information sources representation for financial product design: new perspectives for information seeking and use behaviour.
financial services Análisis de la información sobre identidad visual y comunicación corporativa en los sitios web: un estudio sobre los bancos y cajas de ahorros en España
  Information needs and information competencies: a case study of the off-site supervision of financial institutions in Brazil
  Information synergy as the catalyst between information technology capability and innovativeness: empirical evidence from the financial service sector
  Information technology adoption for service innovation practices and competitive advantage: the case of financial firms
Finland Activity systems, information sharing and the development of organizational knowledge in two Finnish firms: an exploratory study using Activity Theory
  An analysis of the use of electronic journals and commercial journal article collections through the FinELib portal
  Business information culture: a qualitative study of the information culture in the Finnish insurance industry
  Discipline, availability of electronic resources and the use of Finnish National Electronic Library - FinELib.
Finland Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24
  Immigrants seeking work-life-related information: a study of the information practices of Russian and Kurd women in Finland
  Internationality in Finnish Research: an examination of collaborators, citers, tweeters, and readers.
  From library and information science through information studies to information studies and interactive media: emergence, expansion and integration of information studies at the University of Tampere illustrated in word clouds
  Knowledge creation in a research and development project. A multiple case study in the context of clean energy markets in Finland
  The meaning of interoperability and its implications for archival institutions: challenges and opportunities in Croatia, Finland and Sweden.
  Prospective history teachers' information behaviour in lesson planning
  Public librarians as partners in problem-based learning in secondary schools: a case study in Finland
  Record-keeping professionals’ perceptions of users and use of functional classification systems in the Finnish public sector
fishery management Applying the user meta model to the analysis of scientific knowledge production and transfer. insights from exploring scientific, small-scale, fishery management in Chile
Flickr Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure
focus factor The focus factor: a dynamic measure of journal specialisation
focus groups Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews
folksonomies see social tagging
Foucault, Michel Power matters: Foucault's pouvoir/savoir as a conceptual lens in information research and practice
France How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  Information seeking and use behaviour of economists and business analysts.
  Intranets in French firms: evolutions and revolutions.
French language see Old French

gaming The impact of information on clinical decision-making by general medical practitioners
  Information as capability for action and capital in synthetic worlds
  Just rol[l/e] with it: the sense-making practices of a tabletop roleplaying game community
  Metagames in information work
  Keynote address. Mixed realities: information spaces then and now
  Live-action, role-playing environments as information systems: an introduction
  Quantified academic selves: the gamification of research through social networking services
  Video game information needs and game organization: differences by sex and age
gays see: homosexuals; lesbians
Germany Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
gender A gender perspective on Internet use: consequences for information seeking
  Information as social and intellectual capital in the research career: a gender perspective
  Sex differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among Israeli students with different technical backgrounds
  Users' information behaviour - a gender perspective
genealogy Learning from e-family history: a model of online family historian research behaviour
  Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians
genetic algorithms Non-hierarchic document clustering using a genetic algorithm.
genre theory Genre, format and medium across the information professions
  Genre, the organization of knowledge and everyday life.
  Record as social action: understanding organizational records through the lens of genre theory
  Scholarly blogging practice as situated genre: an analytical framework based on genre theory
  The use of genre analysis in the design of electronic meeting systems
geographical information systems Double or nothing: is redundancy of spatial data a burden or a need in the public sector of Uganda?
geography teachers Information-seeking behaviour of prospective geography teachers at the National University of Lesotho
  An investigation of information-seeking behaviour of geography teachers for an information service intervention: the case of Lesotho
Germany Assessment of information needs in public health in Germany: results of a nationwide survey
  Evaluation of three German search engines: Altavista.de, Google.de and Lycos.de
  Personal knowledge and information management behaviour in the light of the comparative studies among Polish and German students.
Ghana Social capital and knowledge transmission in the traditional Kente textile industry of Ghana
  Towards an information provision strategy for university libraries in Ghana
Google Academic software downloads from Google Code: useful usage indicators?
  Data mining of Internet users' interests in diverse, hierarchical information needs
  The front and backstage: pupils’ information activities in lower secondary school.
  Mixed methods data collection using simulated Google results: reflections on the methods of a point-of-selection behaviour study
  Personalised Web search and user satisfaction: a user-centred evaluation
  We still trust in Google, but less than 10 years ago: an eye-tracking study
government agencies Exploring the effectiveness of cross-boundary information sharing in the public sector: the perspective of government agencies
government/industry collaboration Comparative analysis of university-government-enterprise coauthorship networks in three scientific domains in the region of Madrid
government information Tracking government Websites for information integration
GPs (General Practitioners) see: medical practitioners
Greece Scanning the business external environment for information: evidence from Greece
grounded theory Generating and analysing data for applied research on emerging technologies: a grounded action learning approach
  A grounded theory study of the relationship between e-mail and burnout
  The impact of access to electronic and digital information resources on learning opportunities for young people: a grounded theory approach
  Information work analysis: an approach to research on information interactions and information behaviour in context
  Scanning the business environment for information: a grounded theory approach
  Socio-cultural innovation through and by public libraries in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Denmark: concepts and practices
  Trust or do not trust: evaluation strategies used by online health information consumers in South East Asia.
group-based learning Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Research together: exploring students’ collaborative information behaviour in group work settings
groupware Evaluating shared workspace performance using human information processing models

handicap principle The handicap principle: a new perspective for library and information science research
hashtags Effectively organizing hashtags on Instagram: a study of library-related captions
health and safety The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour
health care Health care information for youth in vulnerability contexts: designing a website with an interdisciplinary and participatory approach
  Illuminating collaboration in emergency health care situations: paramedic-physician collaboration and 3D telepresence technology
  Shadow bodies and information sharing: analysing obstacles in mental health care provision
  The value creating network in preventive health care. Medical doctors as information providers and knowledge producers in counselling in the context of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes type 2.
  Work roles as enactors of workplace information practices: the diverse role of physicians in a health care team.
health information Access to health information: perception of barriers among elderly in a language minority
  Assessing cancer patients' health information needs: a standardized approach
  Assessment of information needs in public health in Germany: results of a nationwide survey
  Avoiding health information in the context of uncertainty management
  Can user and task characteristics be used as predictors of success in health information retrieval sessions?
  Cancer information seeking in social question and answer services. Identifying health-related topics in cancer questions on Yahoo! Answers
  Civil society organizations: providing and exchanging information about environmental health risks.
  College students' use of social media for health in the USA and Korea.
  Contested knowledge and information behaviour: treatments for depression
  A comparative study on the health information needs, seeking and source preferences among mothers of young healthy children: American mothers compared to recent immigrant Korean mothers
  Credibility and usefulness of health information on Facebook: a survey study with U.S. college students.
  Cultural differences in the health information environments and practices between Finnish and Japanese university students
  Determinants of information behaviour and information literacy related to healthy eating among Internet users in five European countries
  E-health literacy and the vaccination dilemma: an Israeli perspective
  Environmental scan on women's health information resources in Ontario, Canada
  An examination of the health information seeking experiences of women in rural Ontario, Canada.
  Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24.
  Finnish adolescents’ selection and assessment of health information sources
  The general public's access and use of health information: a case study from Brazil
  Health care information for youth in vulnerability contexts: designing a website with an interdisciplinary and participatory approach
  Health information acquisition online and its influence on intention to visit a medical institution offline
  Health information behaviour, attitudes towards health information and motivating factors for physical activity among older people: differences by sex and age
  Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers: an exploratory study
  Health information for the teenage years: what do they want to know?
  Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community
  Icelanders and trust in the Internet as a source of health and life-style information
  Illness perception and information behaviour of patients with rare chronic diseases
  Information behaviour, health self-efficacy beliefs and health behaviour in Icelanders' everyday life
  Information horizons mapping to assess the health literacy of refugee and immigrant women in the USA
  Information management and technology strategy in healthcare: local timescales and national requirements
  Topical network of breast cancer information in a Korean American online community: a semantic network analysis
  Information strategies and professional identity: a study of nurses' experiences of information at the workplace
  Intention to seek information on cancer genetics
  Is this OCD?: Exploring conditions of information poverty in online support groups dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder
  Making sense of changing and evolving health information: exploring uncertainty in an 'evidence-based' world
  Measuring patients’ preferences and priorities for information in chronic kidney disease
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
  Patients reading their medical records: differences in experiences and attitudes between regular and inexperienced readers
  Perceptions of fear appeal and preferences for feedback in tailored health communication: an explorative study among pre-diabetic individuals
  The place of health information and socio-emotional support in social questioning and answering
  Predictors of cancer information overload: findings from a national survey
  Preferences in the use of social media for seeking and communicating health and lifestyle information
  Profiling European physicians' usage of eHealth services
  Questioning strangers about critical medical decisions: "What happens if you have sex between the HPV shots?"
  Relatives as supporters of elderly peoples' information behaviour
  Scanning and vicarious learning from adverse events in health care
  Seeking information about health and lifestyle on the Internet
  Sharing is caring: the everyday informal exchange of health information among adults aged fifty and over.
  Social mediators and inclusive information: communication flow of healthcare information among adolescents in vulnerable communities
  Social network analysis of the mental health sub-topic on the MedlinePlus subject directory
  Socio-demographic characteristics associated with everyday health information literacy of young men.
  Supporting better treatments for meeting health consumers' needs: extracting semantics in social data for representing a consumer health ontology
  To jointly negotiate a personal decision: a qualitative study on information literacy practices in midwifery counselling about contraceptives at youth centres in Southern Sweden
  'The transfer of information through word of mouth is powerful': interpersonal information interactions and personal health management
  Trends in health information-seeking behaviour in the U.S. foreign-born population based on the Health Information National Trends Survey, 2005 - 2014
  Trust or do not trust: evaluation strategies used by online health information consumers in South East Asia.
  Understanding information behaviour in palliative care: arguing for exploring diverse and multiple overlapping contexts
  The use of an online forum for health information by married Korean women in the United States
  Use of information sources by cancer patients: results of a systematic review of the research literature
  Users’ link sharing in an online health community.
  Using external training materials to strengthen health information management in East Africa
  The value creating network in preventive health care. Medical doctors as information providers and knowledge producers in counselling in the context of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes type 2.
  Variables associated with environmental scanning among clinicians at substance abuse treatment clinics
  'Whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache.' Moral tensions in heart surgery patients' and their spouses' talk about information seeking
  Young men's perceptions of fear appeal versus neutral health messages – associations with everyday health information liteacy, education, and health.
health records see: medical records
health sciences The transfer of theories and models from information behaviour research into other disciplines
  Why principal investigators funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health publish in the Public Library of Science journals.
health service management Reaching health service managers with research
Hebrew Individual and collaborative information behaviour of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia
heritage institutions From coexistence to convergence: studying partnerships and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums
hermeneutics Applied epistemology and understanding in information studies
  Hermeneutics: a sketch of a metatheoretical framework for library and information science research
  Inscription and interpretation of text: a cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community
  Materiality and embodiment in collaborative knowledge processes: knowledge creation for a virtual power plant
  The value of discernment: making use of interpretive flexibility in metadata generation and aggregation
high-performing companies Information and business performance: a study of information systems and services in high-performing companies
high-school students see secondary school students
higher education Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model.
  Comparative analysis of homepage Website visibility and academic rankings for UK universities
  Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment
  Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Information behaviour in research network building by relocated scholars in Swedish higher education: a report on a pilot project
  The information culture of higher education institutions: the Estonian case
  Information literacy in higher education - empowerment or reproduction? A discourse analysis approach
  Information systems strategy formation in higher education institutions
  Metadata as a normalising mechanism for information-transfer behaviour in higher education institutions: the information culture perspective
  Re-engineering change in higher education
  Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: 'information ground' characteristics based on the college student experience
  Visual presentation and communication of Croatian academic Websites
  Women in academia: a bibliometric perspective
historians Modelling historians' information-seeking behaviour with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach
historical bibliography The changing role of subjects connected with book history and publishing in the education of library specialists in Estonia
historical documents Looking at the Khmer Rouge archives through the lens of the records continuum model: towards an appropriated archive continuum model
  ‘Us and them’: expert and practitioner viewpoints on small New Zealand community archives
  Use of historical documents in a digital world: comparisons with original materials and microfiche
hobbies Hobby-related information-seeking behaviour of highly dedicated online museum visitors
homelessness #Homeless but at home in cyberspace
  ‘Talk, talk and more talk': parental perceptions of young children's information practices related to their hobbies and interests
homosexuals The information world of gay men living with HIV
  The social construction of the world of gay and lesbian people and their information behaviour
  What makes an object queer? Collecting and exhibiting LGBT stories in regional museums and archives
Honda Cars Cultural congruence of websites: conscious, unconscious or coincidental? The case of Honda Cars.
hotel industry Web 2.0 as a tool for market intelligence acquisition in the Malaysian hotel industry
household information Household information practices: how and why householders process and manage information
human-computer interaction An improved method of studying user-system interaction by combining transaction log analysis and protocol analysis
  Metodologías para el desarrollo de Interfaces Visuales de Recuperación de Información: análisis y comparación
human relations Human issues of library and information work
hyperlinks What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation
hypermedia Towards adaptive information systems: individual differences and hypermedia
  Hypermedia as an experiential learning tool: a theoretical model
  Developing educational hypermedia applications: a methodological approach

Iceland Icelanders and trust in the Internet as a source of health and life-style information
  Information behaviour, health self-efficacy beliefs and health behaviour in Icelanders' everyday life
  Seeking information about health and lifestyle on the Internet
illness Illness perception and information behaviour of patients with rare chronic diseases
image retrieval Image seeking in multilingual environments: a study of the user experience
  Image use in social network communication: a case study of tweets on the Boston marathon bombing
images Images as scientific documents in Swedish race biology: two practices.
  The use of digital image collections and social media amongst Australian historical societies
immigrants A comparative study on the health information needs, seeking and source preferences among mothers of young healthy children: American mothers compared to recent immigrant Korean mothers
  Everyday information behaviour of Asian immigrants in South Australia: a mixed-methods exploration
  Immigrants' information needs: their role in the absorption process
  Immigrants seeking work-life-related information - a study of the information practices of Russian and Kurd women in Finland
  Information behaviour in research network building by relocated scholars in Swedish higher education: a report on a pilot project
  Information horizons mapping to assess the health literacy of refugee and immigrant women in the USA
  Information tactics of immigrants in urban environments
  The practice of public library-work for newly arrived immigrants
  Topical network of breast cancer information in a Korean American online community: a semantic network analysis
  Trends in health information-seeking behaviour in the U.S. foreign-born population based on the Health Information National Trends Survey, 2005 - 2014
  The use of an online forum for health information by married Korean women in the United States
impact indicators Customised content and impact in Website evaluation models: the case of international film festivals
indexing An associative index model for the results list based on Vannevar Bush's selection concept
  Consistency between indexers in the LILAC database (Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature)
  Effectively organizing hashtags on Instagram: a study of library-related captions
  Evaluation of controlled vocabularies by inter-indexer consistency
  Facets: ersatz, resource and tag
  The integration of folksonomies within a thesaurus in a social science Web portal: SIDBRINT
  Investigation into the existence of the indexer effect in key phrase extraction
  Measuring the value of professional indexing
  Mining query subtopics from social tags
  Observing documentary reading by verbal protocol
  Social tagging in a scholarly digital library environment: users' perspectives
  Trusting tags, terms, and recommendations
indexing languages Evaluation of controlled vocabularies by inter-indexer consistency
  Term based comparison metrics for controlled and uncontrolled indexing languages
India Open access publishing in Indian premier research institutions
  Use of information and communication technologies in the everyday lives of Indian women: a normative behaviour perspective.
indigenous peoples Indigenous Australians’ information behaviour and Internet use in everyday life: an exploratory study
  Through indigenous eyes: looking for indigenous services in Australian and New Zealand university libraries
individual differences The journey of information: how students perceive information in France using the draw and write technique.
  Learning analytic devices: co-forming, re-forming, in-forming. [Short paper]
  Serendipity as chaos or discovery – exploring the role of personality and sense of coherence
  Towards adaptive information systems: individual differences and hypermedia
Indonesia Development of online travel Web scraping for tourism statistics in Indonesia
information access 'What is (a) disease?' Disease as events and access to information
information activity analysis Beyond usage: understanding the use of electronic journals on the basis of information activity analysis
information avoidance Influence of demographics and information literacy self-efficacy on information avoidance propensity among youth
  Seeking and avoiding information in a risky world
  To share or not to share: an explorative study of health information non-sharing behaviour among Flemish adults aged fifty and over
information barriers Access to health information: perception of barriers among elderly in a language minority
  Information barriers and Maori secondary school students
information behaviour
see also information needs, information seeking behaviour, information use
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum: a study of voters' online information behaviour.
  Analysing information behaviour in structured service encounters: a case of call centre operations
  An analysis of usage statistics of electronic papers in a Korean scholarly information repository.
  Applying McKenzie's model of information practices in everyday life information seeking in the context of the menopause transition
  Approaches to task in contemporary information studies
  Assessing the potential of third space to design a creative virtual academic space based on findings from information behaviour
  Assisting information practice: from information intermediary to digital proxy [Poster]
  Being in place: embodied information practices.
  The benefits and limitations of using key informants in library and information studies research
  Beyond information seeking: towards a general model of information behaviour.
  Bringing human information behaviour into information systems research: an application of systems modelling
  Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms
  Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour
  Cancer information seeking in social question and answer services. Identifying health-related topics in cancer questions on Yahoo! Answers
  Challenges in sharing information effectively: examples from command and control.
  Collaborative auto-ethnography as a way of seeing the experience of caregiving as an information practice.
  College students' sexual health information needs and source preferences in relation to worry about sexual health outcomes
  Comportamiento humano de la información comercial: teleformación en España
  Conceptual modelling of workplace information practices: a literature review
  Contested knowledge and information behaviour: treatments for depression
  Contextual information behaviour analysis of grief and bereavement: temporal and spatial factors, multiplicity of contexts and person-in-progressive situation
  Contextualising information practices and personal information management in mobile work
  Creating and sharing: teens’ information practices in digital communities
  Creating by me, and for me: investigating the use of information creation in everyday life.
  Crisis-based information seeking: monitoring versus blunting in the information seeking behaviour of working students during the Southeast Asian Haze Crisis
  Cultural differences in the health information environments and practices between Finnish and Japanese university students
  Determinants of information behaviour and information literacy related to healthy eating among Internet users in five European countries
  Developing an information seeking behaviour profile for nursing and midwifery students
  Development and assessment of the content validity of a scale to measure how well a digital environment facilitates serendipity
  The development of legal capability through information use: empirical findings, along with methodological and practical challenges in a mixed methods study
  The diary method and analysis of student’s mental representations of information spaces as the research approach in information behaviour research
  The diffusion of information behaviour research across disciplines
  Diffusion of information behaviour theory into education for reference service [Short paper]
  Digital deception in cybersecurity: an information behaviour lens
  Digital music and generation Y: discourse analysis of the online music information behaviour talk of five young Australians
  Distrust, mistrust, untrust and information practices.
  Ecological modelling of individual and contextual influences: a person-in-environment framework for hypothetico-deductive information behaviour research
  Effective use of value-added features and services of proprietary databases in an academic context
  Elaborating the conceptual space of information-seeking phenomena
  Embodiment, information practices and documentation: a study of mid life martial artists
  Ending the dance: a research agenda for affect and emotion in studies of information behaviour
  Everyday information behaviour of Asian immigrants in South Australia: a mixed-methods exploration
  Everyday information behaviour of the visually impaired in China
  Expert power as a constituent of opinion leadership: a conceptual analysis
  Exploring and understanding the causes of competitive intelligence failures: an information behaviour lens
  Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24
  Exploring the use of evidence in practice by Australian special librarians
  Factors affecting group decision making: an insight on information practices by investigating decision making process among Tactical Commanders.
  Factors affecting the information behaviour of managers in the Kuwaiti civil service: a relational model
  Falling together – a conceptual paper on the complexities of information interactions and research gaps in empathetic care for the dying
  Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour
  Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure
  A framework for understanding culture and its relationship to information behaviour: Taiwanese aborigines' information behaviour
  From information behaviour research to the design of information systems: the Cognitive Work Analysis framework
  The front and backstage: pupils’ information activities in lower secondary school.
  A general theory of human information behaviour
  Gently to hear, kindly to judge: the affective information practices of theatre professionals and journalists
  Handling inconsistencies between information modalities - workplace learning of newly qualified nurses
  Health information behaviour, attitudes towards health information and motivating factors for physical activity among older people: differences by sex and age
  How experiences reported on intermediary information seeking from inter-disciplinary contexts can inform a study on competitive intelligence professionals
  How human information behaviour researchers use each other's work: a basic citation analysis study.
  Human-agent interaction from the perspective of information behaviour and usability. [Poster abstract]
  Human information behaviour in conversation: understanding the influence of informal conversation on learning in a political party
  Illness perception and information behaviour of patients with rare chronic diseases
  Image use in social network communication: a case study of tweets on the Boston marathon bombing
  Immigrants seeking work-life-related information: a study of the information practices of Russian and Kurd women in Finland
  Improving university students’ assessment-related online work
  Indigenous Australians’ information behaviour and Internet use in everyday life: an exploratory study
  Individual and collaborative information behaviour of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia
  Influence of demographics and information literacy self-efficacy on information avoidance propensity among youth
  The influence of spatial attributes on users’ information behaviour in academic libraries: a case study [Short paper]
  Influences on the judgement of enough information
  Information activity in serious leisure
  Information as capability for action and capital in synthetic worlds
  Information behaviour among young women in vulnerable contexts and social inclusion: the role of social mediators.
  Information behaviour and information practices of academic librarians: a scoping review to guide studies on their learning in practice
  An information behaviour approach to conspiracy theories: listening in on voices from within the vaccination debate.
  Information behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): a case study
  Information behaviour of top managers of telecommunications network units in the context of the digital transformation of the organization
  The information behaviour of Ugandan banana farmers in the context of participatory development communication
  Information behaviour illustrated
  Information behaviour of Australian men experiencing stressful life events: the role of social networks and confidants
  Information behaviour, health self-efficacy beliefs and health behaviour in Icelanders' everyday life
  Information behaviour in research network building by relocated scholars in Swedish higher education: a report on a pilot project
  Information behaviour of migrant Hispanic farm workers and their families in the Pacific Northwest
  Information behaviour of music record collectors
  Information behaviour of New York City subway commuters
  Information behaviour of Slovenian researchers: investigation of activities, preferences and characteristics
  Information behaviour of undergraduate students using Facebook Confessions for educational purposes
  Information behaviour research and information systems development: the SHAMAN project, an example of collaboration
  Information behaviour that keeps found things found
  Information behaviour, visual research, and the information horizon interview: three ways.
  The information environment of researchers in molecular medicine
  Information interaction among computer scientists. A longitudinal study
  Information needs and behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders: parents’ reports on their experiences and perceptions
  Information needs and information behaviour of patients and family members in a cancer palliative care setting
  Information non-seeking behaviour
  Information on the move: the use of mobile information systems by UK Police Forces
  Information on the run: experiencing information during an ultramarathon
  The information practice of volunteer guides at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
  Information practices and competences that evidence information capability in a company
  Information practices in elementary schools
  Information practices during 3D modelling in a public library makerspace: generating ideas, seeking help and iterative trial and error
  The information practices of physicians in clinical practice
  Information practices of young activists in Rwanda
  Information quality assessment on the Web: an expression of behaviour
  Information-related behaviour as meaning-making processes: a study of science centre visitors
  Information scent – credibility and gaze interactions: an eye-tracking analysis in information behaviour
  Information seeking and use behaviour of economists and business analysts.
  Information stabilisation and – destabilisation as potential usable concepts in practice theoretical approaches
  Information support system for Alzheimer’s disease patients’ caregivers in Croatia: a phenomenological approach
  Information tactics of immigrants in urban environments
  The information world of gay men living with HIV
  Information work analysis: an approach to research on information interactions and information behaviour in context
  Investigating reading culture in Tanzania [Poster]
  Investigating the ‘Why?’ rather than the ‘How?’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on newcomer populations’ use of public libraries [Short paper]
  Keynote address: Trends and approaches in information behaviour research
  Kickstarting creativity: supporting the productive faces of uncertainty in information practice
  Knowledge creation in a research and development project. A multiple case study in the context of clean energy markets in Finland
  A life goals perspective on the information behaviour of elderly adults [Short paper]
  Link between contractually integrated retail entrepreneurs' working experience and their information gathering and interpreting styles
  Losing the art and craft of know-how: capturing vanishing embodied knowledge in the 21st century
  Making sense of changing and evolving health information: exploring uncertainty in an 'evidence-based' world
  Managing collaborative information sharing: bridging research on information culture and collaborative information behaviour
  Measuring information behaviour performance inside a company: a case study
  Mobile devices and information patterns amongst tourists.
  Modelling marketing professionals' information behaviour in the workplace: towards a holistic understanding
  Modelling the information practices of music fans living in Medellín, Colombia.
  Multi-dimensional analysis of dynamic human information interaction
  Newcomer information seeking: the role of information seeking in newcomer socialization and learning in the workplace
  A new model of information behaviour based on the Search Situation Transition schema.
  News photography for Facebook: effects of images on the visual behaviour of readers in three simulated newspaper formats
  Old women and tablets: information behaviour in unfavourable contexts and social mediators [Short paper]
  Organizational information behaviour in the public consultation process in Scotland
  A participatory design informed framework for information behaviour studies
  Pathways to research participant recruitment in a challenging information behaviour context: South African cold case investigators as exemplar [Poster]
  Personality traits and group-based information behaviour: an exploratory study
  Perspective in information behaviour research
  Power matters: Foucault's pouvoir/savoir as a conceptual lens in information research and practice
  Practical and scholarly implications of information behaviour research: a pilot study of research literature
  The practical management of information in a task management meeting: taking 'practice' seriously
  Problem situations encountered by middle managers working in a municipality in transition
  Preparing for opening night: temporal boundary objects in textually-mediated professional practice
  A proposed general model of information behaviour.
  Proposed model of information behaviour in crisis: the case of Hurricane Sandy
  Prospective history teachers' information behaviour in lesson planning
  Psychodynamic perspectives in information behaviour
  Qualitative interpretative categorisation for efficient data analysis in a mixed methods information behaviour study.
  Reconciling doctor as clinician and doctor as entrepreneur: the information practices and identity work of early career surgeons
  The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland [Poster]
  Repurposing Facebook for documenting personal history: how do people develop a secondary system use?
  Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other: making user and audience studies matter
  Revisiting the user-centered turn in information science research: an intellectual history perspective
  Serendipity as chaos or discovery – exploring the role of personality and sense of coherence
  Serendipity dimensions and users' information behaviour in the physical library interface
  Settings, arenas and boundary objects: socio-material framings of information practices
  Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: the ramifications of the information behaviour of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
  The social construction of the world of gay and lesbian people and their information behaviour
  A social diffusion model of misinformation and disinformation for understanding human information behaviour
  The societal impact of information behaviour research on developing models of academic information ecologies
  Spirituality and everyday information behaviour in a non-Western context: sense-making in Buddhist Laos
  Subject positions of children in information behaviour research
  Support versus restriction: parents’ influence on young children’s information behaviour in connection with mobile devices
  Student learning as information behaviour: exploring assessment task processes
  Systematic reviews as object to study relevance assessment processes [Short paper]
  Talk as a metacognitive strategy during the information search process of adolescents
  ‘Talk, talk and more talk': parental perceptions of young children's information practices related to their hobbies and interests
  Task complexity and information behaviour in group based problem solving
  Tensions and contradictions in the information behaviour of Board members of a voluntary organization
  Thematic analysis of the value of Kuhlthau’s work for the investigation of information behaviour in creative workspaces in academic libraries
  Time as a framework for information science: insights from the hobby of gourmet cooking
  Towards a definition of serendipity in information behaviour
  The transfer of theories and models from information behaviour research into other disciplines
  Trends in information behaviour research.
  Tweens and their in-betweens: giving voice to young people when exploring emerging information practices associated with smart devices.
  Understanding information behaviour in palliative care: arguing for exploring diverse and multiple overlapping contexts
  Unexplored territory: information behaviour in the Fourth Age
  Untangling the building blocks: a generic model to explain information behaviour to novice researchers.
  User query behaviour in different task types in a spoken language vs. textual interface: a Wizard of Oz experiment
  Users' information behaviour - a gender perspective
  The "user turn" in practice: information behaviour researchers’ constructions of information users
  Using participant or non-participant observation to explain information behaviour
  Using phenomenography to bridge the gap between research and practice: a meta-analysis of three phenomenographic studies
  Validating coding for a theoretical model of information behaviour
  Visitors and residents: what motivates engagement with the digital information environment?
  Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research
  Weaving an affective framework for information behaviour research: a consideration of ‘trilogy of mind’ and ‘flow’
information behaviour What can you perceive? Understanding user’s information quality judgment on academic social networking sites
  'What's past is prologue': towards a general model of lay information mediary behaviour
  Where information is paramount: a mixed methods multi-disciplinary investigation of Australian online investors
  Work and information: which workplace models still work in modern digital workplaces?
  Work roles as enactors of workplace information practices: the diverse role of physicians in a health care team.
  Writing and reading the results: the reporting of research rigour tactics in information behaviour research as evident in the published proceedings of the biennial ISIC conferences, 1996 – 2014
information competency see information literacy
information culture Business information culture: a qualitative study of the information culture in the Finnish insurance industry
  The emerging role of business intelligence culture
  The impact of organizational information culture on information use outcomes in policing: an exploratory study
  The information culture of higher education institutions: the Estonian case
  Metadata as a normalising mechanism for information-transfer behaviour in higher education institutions: the information culture perspective
information design Collaboration between library and information science and information design disciplines. On what? Why? Potential benefits?
information dissemination Constructing a model of effective information dissemination in a crisis
  From paper-based towards post-digital scholarly publishing: an analysis of an ideological dilemma and its consequences
  My e-journal - exploring the usefulness of personalized access to scholarly articles and services.
  Reaching health service managers with research
  Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings
information ecologies The societal impact of information behaviour research on developing models of academic information ecologies
information environment The information environment of researchers in molecular medicine
  Perceptions of the information environment by researchers: a qualitative study
  The road not taken: locating desire lines across information landscapes
  The societal impact of information behaviour research on developing models of academic information ecologies
information exchange
see also: information sharing
Crying mothers mobilise for a collective action: collaborative information behaviour in an online community
  Keynote address. Mixed realities: information spaces then and now
  Knowledge creation in a research and development project. A multiple case study in the context of clean energy markets in Finland
  Research on information and knowledge sharing in emergency response: a case study of the offshore oil and gas industry
  Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings
information hiding & hoarding Death by a thousand cuts: behaviour and attitudes that inhibit enterprise information asset management
information horizon A comparative study on the health information needs, seeking and source preferences among mothers of young healthy children: American mothers compared to recent immigrant Korean mothers
  Information behaviour, visual research, and the information horizon interview: three ways.
  Information horizons mapping to assess the health literacy of refugee and immigrant women in the USA
information inequality see: information society
information interactions The Cool and Belkin faceted classification of information interactions revisited
information literacy Adding the information literacy perspective to refugee integration research discourse: a scoping literature review [Short paper]
  La alfabetización informacional en bibliotecas públicas. Situación actual y propuestas para una agenda de desarrollo
  Analytical implications of using practice theory in workplace information literacy research
  Authoring Wikipedia articles as an information literacy assignment: copy-pasting or expressing new understanding in one's own words?
  Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model.
  Comunicación de conocimiento. ¿Habilidad de los profesores universitarios?
  Conceptualización y perspectivas de la alfabetización informacional en Iberoamérica: un estudio Delphi
  Contextual factors affecting learning in Laos and the implications for information literacy education
  Corporeality and practice theory: exploring emerging research agendas for information literacy
  Criterios para la evaluación de la usabilidad de los recursos educativos virtuales: un análisis desde la alfabetización en información
  Critical thinking and information literacy: different concepts, shared conceptions
  Determinants of information behaviour and information literacy related to healthy eating among Internet users in five European countries
  Discourse and practice in information literacy and information seeking: gaps and opportunities
  E-health literacy and the vaccination dilemma: an Israeli perspective
  E-learning objects and actor-networks as configuring information literacy teaching.
  Ecological dimensions of information literacy
  The effect of a teaching intervention on students’ online research skills in lower secondary education
  The fragmentation of facts and infrastructural meaning-making: new demands on information literacy
  From school to work and from work to school: information environments and transferring information literacy practices
  Influence of demographics and information literacy self-efficacy on information avoidance propensity among youth
  Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Information experience in a diaspora small world [Short paper]
  Information literacy and regimes of truth: continuity and disruption
  Information literacy and the serious leisure participant: variation in the experience of using information to learn
  Information literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors [Short paper]
  Information literacy at workplace: the organizational leadership perspective
  Information literacy in Europe: a literature review
  Information literacy in higher education - empowerment or reproduction? A discourse analysis approach
  Information literacy in the tension between school's discursive practice and students' self-directed learning
  Information literacy practices and student protests: mapping community information landscapes
  Information literacy standards and the World Wide Web: results from a student survey on evaluation of Internet information sources
  Information needs and information competencies: a case study of the off-site supervision of financial institutions in Brazil
  Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting
  An integrated model of information literacy, based upon domain learning
  Intelligence, academic self-concept, and information literacy: the role of adequate perceptions of academic ability in the acquisition of knowledge about information searching.
  The interplay between literacy and digital technology: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach
  Justifying the use of Internet sources in school assignments on controversial issues
  Learning information literacy
  A new direction for library and information science: the communication aspect of information literacy
  Perceived environmental uncertainty, information literacy and environmental scanning: towards a refined framework
  Perspectives on information literacy: a framework for conceptual understanding
  Questioning a discourse of information literacy practice in web-based tutorials
  Recasting information literacy as socio-cultural practice: implications for library and information science researchers
  Resistant spectatorship and critical information literacy: strategies for oppositional readings.
  The role of youths’ perceived information literacy in their assessment of youth information and counselling services
  Seeking critical literacies in information practices: reconceptualising critical literacy as situated and tool-mediated enactments of meaning.
  The sigh of the information literate: an examination of the potential for oppression in information literacy
  Socio-demographic characteristics associated with everyday health information literacy of young men.
  Standardised library instruction assessment: an institution-specific approach
  Students’ engagement in collaborative knowledge construction in group assignments for information literacy
  Students' use of Web literacy skills and strategies: searching, reading and evaluating Web information
  Swapping settings: researching information literacy in workplace and in educational contexts
  Teaching information seeking: relating information literacy education to theories of information behaviour
  To jointly negotiate a personal decision: a qualitative study on information literacy practices in midwifery counselling about contraceptives at youth centres in Southern Sweden
  Towards an integrated analytical framework of information and communications technology literacy: from intended to implemented and achieved dimensions.
  Using empirical data to refine a model for information literacy instruction for elementary school students.
  Young men's perceptions of fear appeal versus neutral health messages – associations with everyday health information literacy, education, and health.
  Young women evaluating information sources before choosing a contraceptive. Dimensions of information literacy and democracy. [Poster abstract].
information management Death by a thousand cuts: behaviour and attitudes that inhibit enterprise information asset management
  The development of the information management research area
  The duality of knowledge
  An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges
  Exploring individuals’ patterns of personal information management practices: factors influencing the representation, organization and credibility assessment of information.
  How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour
  I = 0 (Information has no intrinsic meaning)
  Information in organizations: directions for information management
  Information and knowledge management: dimensions and approaches.
  The information cycle in the European Commission's policy-making process [Poster abstract]
  Information management and technology strategy in healthcare: local timescales and national requirements
  Information practices and competences that evidence information capability in a company
  Information work analysis: an approach to research on information interactions and information behaviour in context
  Knowledge management: another management fad?
  Knowledge management, codification and tacit knowledge
  Knowledge management: re-thinking information management and facing the challenge of managing tacit knowledge
  Managing information in law firms: changes and challenges
  Mismanagement of personally identifiable information and the reaction of interested parties to safeguarding privacy in South Korea
  The nonsense of 'knowledge management'
  Remembering and forgetting in the digital age – a position paper
  The ruling relation of evidence-based practice: the case of documentary governance in a social welfare service.
  Seeking an ideal solution to the management of personal information collections
  Understanding knowledge management and information management: the need for an empirical perspective
  Using external training materials to strengthen health information management in East Africa
  Using information technology to support knowledge conversion processes
information needs Action research and users' needs.
  Adding the information literacy perspective to refugee integration research discourse: a scoping literature review [Short paper]
  An activity-theory-based model to analyse Web application requirements
  Assessing cancer patients' health information needs: a standardized approach
  Assessing user needs of Web portals: a measurement model
  Assessment of information needs in public health in Germany: results of a nationwide survey
  Bridging information requirements and information needs assessment: do scenarios and vignettes provide a link?
  Contemplative aims for information.
  Critical Success Factors and information needs in Estonian industry
  Determining organizational information needs: the Critical Success Factors approach.
  Determining the information needs of small and medium-sized enterprises: a critical success factor analysis.
  Elaborating the motivational attributes of information need and uncertainty
  An exploratory review of research on cancer pain and information-related needs: what (little) we know
  Exploring rehabilitation therapists' clinical questions for evidence based patient care
  Immigrants' information needs: their role in the absorption process
  Information-making-related information needs and the credibility of information
  Information management and technology strategy in healthcare: local timescales and national requirements
  An information need for emotional cues: unpacking the role of emotions in sense making.
  Information needs and behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders: parents’ reports on their experiences and perceptions
  Information needs and information behaviour of patients and family members in a cancer palliative care setting
  Information needs and information competencies: a case study of the off-site supervision of financial institutions in Brazil
  Information needs in a community of reading specialists: what information needs say about contextual frameworks
  Information needs research in Russia and Lithuania, 1965-2003
  Information support system for Alzheimer’s disease patients’ caregivers in Croatia: a phenomenological approach
  Investigating the management information needs of academic heads of departments: a critical success factors approach
  Investigating methods for understanding user requirements for information products
  The information needs of female Police Officers involved in undercover prostitution work
  Iranian engineers' information needs and seeking habits: an agro-industry company experience
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom: a Critical Success Factors approach. (British Library R & D Report 6252)
  The nature and constitution of informal carers' information needs: what you don't know you need is as important as what you want to know.
  A need for information on information needs
  Perceived information needs and availability: results of a survey of small dairy farmers in Inner Mongolia
  Personal anticipated information need
  A proposed methodology for the conceptualization, operationalization, and empirical validation of the concept of information need
  A study of interpersonal information seeking: the role of topic and comment in the articulation of certainty and uncertainty of information need
  Understanding the information needs and search behaviour of mobile users
  Video game information needs and game organization: differences by sex and age
information overload A grounded theory study of the relationship between e-mail and burnout
  The experience of mobile information overload: struggling between needs and constraints
  Influences on the judgement of enough information
  Predictors of cancer information overload: findings from a national survey
  Spreading the load: mobile information and communications technologies and their effect on information overload
information policy National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative
  Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: the ramifications of the information behaviour of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
  Studying information needs as question-negotiations in an educational context: a methodological comment
information practice See information behaviour
information processing Evaluating shared workspace performance using human information processing models
  Towards a definition of metaskills
information products Investigating methods for understanding user requirements for information products
  Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector
  Textual and chemical information processing: different domains but similar algorithms
information professions Genre, format and medium across the information professions.
  Genre, the organization of knowledge and everyday life.
  The information professions: knowledge, memory, heritage
  Information through the lens: information research and the dynamics of practice.
  Passion trumps pay: a study of the future skills requirements of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Australia
  Stories of story-time: the discursive shaping of professional identity among Swedish children’s librarians.
information provision strategy Towards an information provision strategy for university libraries in Ghana
information quality Cognitive authority, emotions and information quality evaluations
  Exploring individuals’ patterns of personal information management practices: factors influencing the representation, organization and credibility assessment of information.
  Information quality assessment on the Web: an expression of behaviour
  An inside view: credibility in Wikipedia from the perspective of editors
  What can you perceive? Understanding user’s information quality judgment on academic social networking sites
information requirements See information needs
Information Research: an international electronic journal Report on a survey of readers of Information Research
information resources Analysis of information sources representation for financial product design: new perspectives for information seeking and use behaviour.
  Criterios para la evaluación de la usabilidad de los recursos educativos virtuales: un análisis desde la alfabetización en información
  The information condition: information resources and use in labour, work and action
  Learning from student experiences for online assessment tasks.
information retrieval A model of cognitive load for IR: implications for user relevance feedback interaction
  The challenge of automated tutoring in Web-based learning environments for information retrieval instruction
  Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions
  Disposal of information seeking and retrieval research: replacement with a radical proposition
  Document level assessment of document retrieval systems in a pairwise system evaluation
  The ecosystem of information retrieval
  The effectiveness of Web search engines to index new sites from different countries
  Extracting variant forms of chemical names for information retrieval
  Guardians of the knowledge: relevant, irrelevant, or algorithmic?
  Image seeking in multilingual environments: a study of the user experience
  Metodologías para el desarrollo de Interfaces Visuales de Recuperación de Información: análisis y comparación
  Moving beyond text highlights: inferring users' interests to improve the relevance of retrieval
  On conceptual models for information seeking and retrieval research
  Uma revisão dos algoritmos de radicalização em língua portuguesa
  A survey of stemming algorithms in information retrieval
  Synchronised Object Retrieval: the enhancement of information retrieval performance in multimedia environments using synchronisation protocols.
  Targeted s-gram matching: a novel n-gram matching technique for cross- and mono-lingual word form variants
  Task dimensions of user evaluations of information retrieval systems
  Term based comparison metrics for controlled and uncontrolled indexing languages
  Textual and chemical information processing: different domains but similar algorithms
  Texty, a visualization tool to aid selection of texts from search outputs
  Towards collaboration between information seeking research and information retrieval
  Watch this: LINQ shifts the paradigm of query
  Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval
  Which lens for a study of information retrieval systems for cold case investigations - activity theory, systems or ecological approach?
information retrieval evaluation Evaluating the performance of information retrieval systems using test collections
  Document level assessment of document retrieval systems in a pairwise system evaluation
  "In the catalogue ye go for men": evaluation criteria for information retrieval systems.
  Task dimensions of user evaluations of information retrieval systems
  The IIR evaluation model: a framework for evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems
  Shifts in information-seeking strategies in information retrieval in the digital age: Planned-situational model
information schools The conceptual landscape of iSchools: examining current research interests of faculty members
  Information School academics and the value of their personal digital archives
information science The benefits and limitations of using key informants in library and information studies research
  A bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s
  Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science,
  Collaboration between library and information science and information design disciplines. On what? Why? Potential benefits?
  The concept of usefulness in library and information science research
  Coordenadas paradigmáticas, históricas y epistemológicas de la Ciencia de la Información: una sistematización.
  Critical theory and the legitimation of library and information science
  "Deep down things": in what ways is information physical, and why does it matter for information science?
  Defining the information disciplines in encyclopedia development
  Different traditions in the study of disciplinarity in science – science and technology studies, library and information science and scientometrics
  Exploring the structure of library and information science Web space based on multivariate analysis of social tags
  From collections to connections: building a revised platform for library and information science
  From library and information science through information studies to information studies and interactive media: emergence, expansion and integration of information studies at the University of Tampere illustrated in word clouds
  The handicap principle: a new perspective for library and information science research
  Heterogeneity and homogeneity in library and information science research [Poster abstract]
  Information and information science: an address on the occasion of receiving the award of Doctor Honoris Causa, at the University of Murcia, 30 September, 2010
  Information and knowledge: an evolutionary framework for information science
  Information as self-organised complexity; a unifying viewpoint
  Information science as a social science
  Information science in sustainable development and de-industrialization
  Is information still relevant?
  Levels of information and library and information science as a science of mentefacts
  Library and information science according to the citing pattern of students: a bibliometric study.
  Library and information science as a research domain: problems and prospects
  Library and information sciences in the information disciplines environment: towards integrative models of disciplines, professional community and information and communication public policies
  The many faces of practice theory in library and information studies.
  The nature of information science: changing models
  A new direction in information science research: making information science a human science
  Philosophy of information as underlying and unifying theory of information science
  The quest for umbrella terms in information science. Tracking the origins of informatology and informatics
  Research methods and techniques in Spanish library and information science journals (2012-2014)
  Rethinking context in information research: bounded versus centred sets
  Revisiting the user-centered turn in information science research: an intellectual history perspective
  Scholarly electronic databases and information sciences students in Croatia: perceptions, uses and challenges
  Strategic reflexive conversation – a new theoretical-practice field within library and information science
  Synthesizing or diversifying library and information science. Sketching past achievements, current happenings and future prospects, with an interest in including or excluding approaches
  Toward a critique of the information age: Herbert Marcuses contribution to information science's conceptions
  The transfer of theories and models from information behaviour research into other disciplines
  Turn, turn, turn
  What's in a turn?
information searching Approaching the affective factors of information seeking: the viewpoint of the information search process model
  A comparative study of methods to explore searchers' affective perceptions of images.
  Controlling the urge to search. Studying the informational texture of practices by exploring the missing element.
  Construcción de estrategias sistemáticas para la búsqueda exhaustiva de información en Internet: un marco de toma de decisiones aplicado a la información sobre psicología de la salud
  The development of children's Web searching skills - a non-linear model
  The diffusion of information behaviour research across disciplines
  Domain knowledge, search behaviour, and search effectiveness of engineering and science students: an exploratory study
  The diffusion of information behaviour research across disciplines
  Dynamic aspects of relevance: differences in users' relevance criteria between selecting and viewing videos during leisure searches
  The effect of query complexity on Web searching results
  Emotions associated with failed searches in a digital library
  How do children reformulate their search queries?
  The impact of new bibliographic models on the search experience
  Improving university students’ assessment-related online work
  Information resource selection of undergraduate students in academic search tasks
  The 'information search process' revisited: is the model still useful?
  In Web search we trust? Articulation of the cognitive authorities of Web searching.
  Intelligence, academic self-concept, and information literacy: the role of adequate perceptions of academic ability in the acquisition of knowledge about information searching.
  Knowledge acquisition and modification in students' exploratory Web search processes while career planning
  Models of information search: a comparative analysis
  Mixed methods data collection using simulated Google results: reflections on the methods of a point-of-selection behaviour study
  A naïve ontology for concepts of time and space for searching and learning
  Perceived difficulty as a determinant of Web search success
  Reinforcement learning in information searching
  Search behaviour in electronic document and records management systems: an exploratory investigation and model
  Search engines: a first step to finding information: preliminary findings from a study of observed searches.
  Searching databases without query-building aids: implications for dyslexic users
  The search queries that took Australian Internet users to Wikipedia
  Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study
  Sources of noise in interactive information search.
  Student search behaviour in an online public access catalogue: an examination of 'searching mental models' and 'searcher self-concept'
  A study of the information search behaviour of the millennial generation
  Talk as a metacognitive strategy during the information search process of adolescents
  Texty, a visualization tool to aid selection of texts from search outputs
  Thematic analysis of the value of Kuhlthau’s work for the investigation of information behaviour in creative workspaces in academic libraries
  Trust or do not trust: evaluation strategies used by online health information consumers in South East Asia.
  Uncovering the research process of international students in North America: are they different from domestic students?
  Understanding the information needs and search behaviour of mobile users
  Use of Web search engines and personalisation in information searching for educational purposes
  Users’ link sharing in an online health community.
  Visualization as a research and design approach for library and information science: exploring seniors’ use of a visual search interface [Poster abstract]
  Watch this: LINQ shifts the paradigm of query
information seeking behaviour Analysis of information sources representation for financial product design: new perspectives for information seeking and use behaviour.
  Analysis of the user queries of an e-commerce bookstore in terms of the Library of Congress classification and key publishers
  The applicability of constructivist user studies: how can constructivist inquiry inform service providers and systems designers?
  Autonomous, controlled and half-hearted. Unemployed people's motivations to seek information about jobs
  Approaching the affective barriers to information seeking: the viewpoint of appraisal theory
  Barriers to information seeking in school libraries: conflicts in perceptions and practice
  Beyond communication - research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter—paper 2
  Bringing human information behaviour into information systems research: an application of systems modelling
  Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour
  A coding system for qualitative studies of the information-seeking process in computer science research
  Collaborative information seeking during leisure travelling: triggers and social media usage.
  Concentration of Web users' online information behaviour
  Conceptualizing information need in context.
  The conversation as the answer: collective information seeking and knowledge construction on a social question and answer site
  A cross-discipline comparison of subject guides and resource discovery tools
  Data mining of Internet users' interests in diverse, hierarchical information needs
  Dialogue processes in online information seeking and sharing: a study of an asynchronous discussion group
  Discourse and practice in information literacy and information seeking: gaps and opportunities
  Disposal of information seeking and retrieval research: replacement with a radical proposition
  Elaborating the conceptual space of information-seeking phenomena
  Enthusiastic, realistic and critical: discourses of Internet use in the context of everyday life information seeking
  Environmental scanning as information seeking and organizational learning
  An examination of the health information seeking experiences of women in rural Ontario, Canada.
  Experiencing information seeking and learning: a study of the interaction between two phenomena
  Factors relating to problems experienced in information seeking and use: findings from a cross-sectional population study in Finland
  Fast surfing for availability or deep diving into quality - motivation and information seeking among middle and high school students
  Finding competitive intelligence on Internet start-up companies: a study of secondary resource use and information-seeking processes
  Freshmen's use of library electronic resources and self-efficacy
  A gender perspective on Internet use: consequences for information seeking
  Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers: an exploratory study
  Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community
  Hobby-related information-seeking behaviour of highly dedicated online museum visitors
  How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity
  "I asked my Mum, but..." and other cases of unsuccessful information seeking by asking.
  Image seeking in multilingual environments: a study of the user experience
  The impact of access to electronic and digital information resources on learning opportunities for young people: a grounded theory approach
  The impact of organizational information culture on information use outcomes in policing: an exploratory study
  The impact of personality and approaches to learning on information behaviour.
  Imposed information seeking in public libraries and school library media centers: a common behaviour?
  Implications of counter-attitudinal information exposure in further information-seeking and attitude change
  Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore
  Information as social and intellectual capital in the research career: a gender perspective
  Information behaviour that keeps found things found
  Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: the cases of engineering and law students in Ireland
  Information seeking and use behaviour of economists and business analysts.
  Information seeking and use of high school students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in learning contexts
  Information seeking as idea-generating and -stabilizing feature in entrepreneurship courses at university
  Information-seeking behaviour of distance learning students
  Information seeking behaviour of mathematicians: scientists and students
  The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour
  Information-seeking behaviour of Iranian extension managers and specialists
  Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting
  Information seeking by blind and sight impaired citizens: an ecological study
  "Information Seeking in Context" and the development of information systems
  Information seeking in organizations: epistemic contexts and contests
  Information seeking in the newsroom. Application of the Cognitive Framework for analysis of the work context
  Information seeking in electronic environment: a comparative investigation among computer scientists in British and Greek universities
  Information seeking research needs extension toward tasks and technology
  The information source preferences and information monitoring behaviour of pregnant women in Pretoria, South Africa
  Information strategies and professional identity: a study of nurses' experiences of information at the workplace
  Inner circles and outer reaches: local and global information-seeking habits of authors in acknowledgment paratext
  Intention to seek information on cancer genetics
  The interplay between knowledge gap and perceived risk in motivating risk information seeking
  An investigation of information-seeking behaviour of geography teachers for an information service intervention: the case of Lesotho
  Iranian engineers' information needs and seeking habits: an agro-industry company experience
  Keynote address. Mixed realities: information spaces then and now
  Learning assignment as task in information seeking research
  Library user studies for strategic planning
  Managers look to the social network to seek information
  A matter of facts? Linguistic tools in the context of information seeking and use in schools
  Media credibility and cognitive authority. The case of seeking orienting information
  Meta-synthesis of research on information seeking behaviour
  A model of the information seeking and decision making of online coin buyers
  Modelling historians' information-seeking behaviour with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach
  Modelling the information seeking and use process in the workplace: employing sense-making approach
  Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of international students in their use of social media in Malaysia
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
  Newcomer information seeking: the role of information seeking in newcomer socialization and learning in the workplace
  A non-linear model of information seeking behaviour
  On conceptual models for information seeking and retrieval research
  Paranormal information seeking in everyday life: the paranormal in information action
  Personal anticipated information need
  Preferences in the use of social media for seeking and communicating health and lifestyle information
  Recent trends in user studies: action research and qualitative methods
  A re-examination of information seeking behaviour in the context of activity theory
  Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay,
  The remaking of fractured landscapes: supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT)
  Report on the Second Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking: New Orleans, 12 October, 2011
  Resident university students’ everyday-life information seeking behaviour in Pakistan
  A review of Web information seeking research: considerations of method and foci of interest
  The role of personality in musicians’ information seeking for creativity
  The role of the research phase in information seeking behaviour of Jewish scholars: a modification of Ellis's behavioural characteristics.
  Scholarly use of information: graduate students' information seeking behaviour
  Seeking and avoiding information in a risky world
  Seeking information about health and lifestyle on the Internet
  Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians
  Seeking information with an information visualization system: a study of cognitive styles
  Shifts in information-seeking strategies in information retrieval in the digital age: planned-situational model
  Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: 'information ground' characteristics based on the college student experience
  Something old, something new: preliminary findings from an exploratory study about people's information habits and information grounds
  Solving problems on the World Wide Web
  Spatial factors as contextual qualifiers of information seeking
  Strategies, obstacles, and attitudes: student collaboration in information seeking and synthesis projects
  Students seeking information for their Master's thesis: the effect of the Internet
  A study of interpersonal information seeking: the role of topic and comment in the articulation of certainty and uncertainty of information need
  A study of labour market information needs through employers' seeking behaviour
  Talking about the problem: a content analysis of pre-search interviews
  Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings
  Teaching information seeking: relating information literacy education to theories of information behaviour
  Towards collaboration between information seeking research and information retrieval
  Trends in health information-seeking behaviour in the U.S. foreign-born population based on the Health Information National Trends Survey, 2005 - 2014
  A typology of cancer information seeking, scanning and avoiding: results from an exploratory cluster analysis
  University students' information seeking behaviour in a changing learning environment - How are students' information needs, seeking and use affected by new teaching methods?
  The use of certainty and the role of topic and comment in interpersonal information seeking interaction
  Use of social media in different contexts of information seeking: effects of sex and problem-solving style
  Users and user study methodology: the JUBILEE project
  Web information seeking by pages: an observational study of moving and stopping
  What defines 'enough' information? How policy workers make judgements and decisions during information seeking: preliminary results from an exploratory study
  What's newsworthy about 'information seeking'? An analysis of Google's News Alerts.
  'Whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache.' Moral tensions in heart surgery patients' and their spouses' talk about information seeking
  Work-related use of an electronic network
  Young women evaluating information sources before choosing a contraceptive. Dimensions of information literacy and democracy. [Poster abstract].
information services El efecto de las noticias de alto impacto en los servicios de documentación: el caso del atentado terrorista del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid en la prensa española.
  Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries
  The provision and sharing of information between service providers and settling refugees
  Uncertainty in reference and information service.
information services specialists Training information services specialists in the less-favoured regions of the European Union (TRAIN-ISS)
information sharing
see also: information exchange
Activity systems, information sharing and the development of organizational knowledge in two Finnish firms: an exploratory study using Activity Theory
  Beyond communication - research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter—paper 2
  Challenges in sharing information effectively: examples from command and control.
  Civil society organizations: providing and exchanging information about environmental health risks.
  The cultural landscape of women refugees in Sweden - a road to information and integration [Short paper]
  Dialogue processes in online information seeking and sharing: a study of an asynchronous discussion group
  Exploring the effectiveness of cross-boundary information sharing in the public sector: the perspective of government agencies
  Falling together – a conceptual paper on the complexities of information interactions and research gaps in empathetic care for the dying
  Handling inconsistencies between information modalities - workplace learning of newly qualified nurses
  How do personality traits shape information-sharing behaviour in social media? Exploring the mediating effect of generalised trust
  Image use in social network communication: a case study of tweets on the Boston marathon bombing
  Information sharing and knowledge sharing as communicative activities
  Intention to share: the relationship between cybersecurity behaviour and sharing specific content in Facebook
  Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective
  Practising humour: knowledge sharing and humour in the workplace
  The remaking of fractured landscapes: supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT)
  Shadow bodies and information sharing: analysing obstacles in mental health care provision
  Sharing is caring: the everyday informal exchange of health information among adults aged fifty and over
  Tacit knowledge sharing and social media: the determination of a methodological approach to explore the intangible
  Understanding information sharing behaviour of millennials in large multinational organisations: a research in progress
  Understanding news-sharing across different platforms: the effects of newsworthiness and gratifications from news-sharing
  Workplace information sharing: a generational approach
  Expressing emotions in information sharing: a study of online discussion about immigration
  A framework for understanding information sharing: an exploration of the information sharing experiences of female academics in Saudi Arabia
  The impact of information technology capability, information sharing and government process redesign on the operational performance of emergency incident management systems
  The influence of information behaviour on information sharing across cultural boundaries in development contexts
  The influence of social media on information sharing and decision making in policing: research in progress.
  Information sharing: an exploration of the literature and some propositions
  Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries
  Information sharing between doctoral students and supervisors: fixed roles and flexible attitudes
  Information interaction among computer scientists. A longitudinal study
  Information sharing in the field of design research.
  Knowledge creation in interactive events. A pilot study in the Joy of Reading programme.
  Learning to become a better poet: situated information practices in, of, and at a Japanese tanka gathering
  Managing collaborative information sharing: bridging research on information culture and collaborative information behaviour
  A practice theoretical exploration of information sharing and trust in a dispersed community of design scholars
  Preferences in the use of social media for seeking and communicating health and lifestyle information
  The provision and sharing of information between service providers and settling refugees
  Research on information and knowledge sharing in emergency response: a case study of the offshore oil and gas industry
  Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter—paper 1.
  The role of motivators in improving knowledge-sharing among academics
  Sharing happy information: responses and self-portrayal.
  A survey of information sharing on Facebook
  'The transfer of information through word of mouth is powerful': interpersonal information interactions and personal health management
  A two-way street: collaboration and information sharing in academia. A theoretically-based, comparative Australian/Vietnamese study
  What a social capital perspective can bring to the understanding of information sharing in a university context
  see also: information exchange
information skills see: information literacy
information society Competency in network use as a resource for citizenship: implications for the digital divide
  Conceptualising the role of digital reading in social and digital inclusion
  Diseño y desarrollo de una plataforma digital de apoyo a la docencia y a la investigación en Archivos Electrónicos: un portal temático
  Information worlds of people with deafblindness
  The online life of individuals experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage: how do they experience information?
  Sex differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among Israeli students with different technical backgrounds
  The spell of HOMO IRRETITUS:amidst superstitions and dreams
  National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative
  Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: the ramifications of the information behaviour of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
information sources The cultural landscape of women refugees in Sweden - a road to information and integration [Short paper]
  Finnish adolescents’ selection and assessment of health information sources
  Information literacy standards and the World Wide Web: results from a student survey on evaluation of Internet information sources
  Information source characteristics and environmental scanning by academic library managers
  The information source preferences and information monitoring behaviour of pregnant women in Pretoria, South Africa
  Information support system for Alzheimer’s disease patients’ caregivers in Croatia: a phenomenological approach
  Selecting and using information sources: source preferences and information pathways of Israeli library and information science students of your paper
information strategy Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model.
  Information management and technology strategy in healthcare: local timescales and national requirements
  Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector
  National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative
information studies - education Document architecture draws a circle: on document architecture and its relation to library and information science education and research
  Investigating the elements of supervision in library and information science practicums: a systematic literature review
  The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. An introduction to the new publisher of Information Research
information systems see also adaptive information systems
Internet information systems
knowledge-based systems
  Agricultural information systems and communication networks: the case of dairy farmers in the Samsun province of Turkey
  Bringing human information behaviour into information systems research: an application of systems modelling
  Big-data in cloud computing: a taxonomy of risks
  Chinese cultural and power perspective on information systems: technological frames and re-frames
  Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
  Critical realism and information systems research: why bother with philosophy?
  Critical theory as a foundation for pragmatic information systems design
  Documentation and use of client information system by social workers in child protection services
  Exploring design-fits for the strategic alignment of information systems with business objectives.
  Exploring the influences on pragmatic and hedonic aspects of user experience.
  Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management
  Forms of labour in information systems
  From information behaviour research to the design of information systems: the Cognitive Work Analysis framework
  Hidden bias to responsible bias: an approach to information systems based on Haraway's situated knowledges
  An improved method of studying user-system interaction by combining transaction log analysis and protocol analysis
  The influence of information processing needs on the continuous use of business intelligence
  Information and business performance: a study of information systems and services in high-performing companies
  Information behaviour research and information systems development: the SHAMAN project, an example of collaboration
  "Information Seeking in Context" and the development of information systems
  Live-action, role-playing environments as information systems: an introduction
  Maintaining Web cache coherency
  Online communities: satisfaction and continued use intention
  Operational use of electronic records in police work
  The status of the IS field: historical perspective and practical orientation
  Systems for the management of information in a university context: an investigation of user need.
  Towards extending actor-network theory with a graphical syntax for information systems research
  The transfer of theories and models from information behaviour research into other disciplines
information systems strategy Information systems strategy formation in higher education institutions
information technology Co-experience on Twitter: a study of information technology professionals
  An empirical study of the effect of information technology expenditures on student achievement
  Extending the Technology Acceptance Model with perceived community characteristics
  The impact of information technology capability, information sharing and government process redesign on the operational performance of emergency incident management systems
  Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Information synergy as the catalyst between information technology capability and innovativeness: empirical evidence from the financial service sector
  Information technology adoption for service innovation practices and competitive advantage: the case of financial firms
  Librarians’ attitudes towards application of information technology in academic libraries in Pakistan.
  Mapping techno-literary spaces: adapting multiple correspondence analysis for literature and art informatics.
  Use of information and communication technologies in the everyday lives of Indian women: a normative behaviour perspective.
information use Access to electronic resources by visually impaired people
  Analysis of information sources representation for financial product design: new perspectives for information seeking and use behaviour.
  The benefits and limitations of using key informants in library and information studies research
  Beyond usage: understanding the use of electronic journals on the basis of information activity analysis
  Changing taxpayers’ beliefs with information that enables to make sense of taxes: the case of Lithuania
  Community problem-solving framed as a distributed information use environment: bridging research and practice
  The concept of usefulness in library and information science research
  Conceptualizing the personal outcomes of information
  The development of legal capability through information use: empirical findings, along with methodological and practical challenges in a mixed methods study
  Diversity in the conceptions of information use
  Epistemic work and knowing in practice as conceptualizations of information use
  Expected and materialised information source use by municipal officials: intertwining with task complexity
  Factors relating to problems experienced in information seeking and use: findings from a cross-sectional population study in Finland
  From novice to nutrition expert – exploration of nutrition expertise and information use of nutritionists. [Poster abstract]
  How are records used in organizations?
  Information access and use by legislators in the Ugandan parliament
  The information condition: information resources and use in labour, work and action
  Information seeking and use of high school students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in learning contexts
  Information use and secondary school students: a model for understanding plagiarism
  A matter of facts? Linguistic tools in the context of information seeking and use in schools
  A method for the analysis of information use in source-based writing.
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
  The nature of information and its effective use in rural development
  Patients reading their medical records: differences in experiences and attitudes between regular and inexperienced readers
  Reader’s block: a systematic review of barriers to adoption, access and use in e-book user studies
  Record-keeping professionals’ perceptions of users and use of functional classification systems in the Finnish public sector
  The role of information in a lifetime process – a model of weight maintenance by women over long time periods
  Seeking relevance in academic information use
  The social psychology of information use: seeking "friends", avoiding "enemies"
  Speaking of users: on user discourses in the field of public libraries
  Student learning as information behaviour: exploring assessment task processes
  Task complexity affects information use: a questionnaire study in city administration
  Three looks at users: a comparison of methods for studying digital library use
  Use of information sources by cancer patients: results of a systematic review of the research literature
  Where does the information come from? Information source use patterns in Wikipedia
  Why Choose This One? Factors in scientists’ selection of bioinformatics tools
  Young people's perceptions and usage of Wikipedia
information visualization Making sense of document collections with map-based visualisations: the role of interaction with representations
  Metodologías para el desarrollo de Interfaces Visuales de Recuperación de Información: análisis y comparación
  The relationship between research method and visual display: a study of conference proceedings in the field of knowledge organization
  Seeking information with an information visualization system: a study of cognitive styles
  Texty, a visualization tool to aid selection of texts from search outputs
  Visualization as a research and design approach for library and information science: exploring seniors’ use of a visual search interface [Poster abstract]
information work Enacting workplace information practices: the diverse roles of physicians in a health care team
  Human issues of library and information work
  Metagames in information work
information work analysis Information work analysis: an approach to research on information interactions and information behaviour in context
innovation The 4Ps of innovation culture: conceptions of creatively engaging with information
  Adoption of open government data: perspectives of user innovators
  Information professionals' attitude toward the adoption of innovations in everyday life
  Information synergy as the catalyst between information technology capability and innovativeness: empirical evidence from the financial service sector
  Information technology adoption for service innovation practices and competitive advantage: the case of financial firms
  What drives collective innovation? Exploring the system of drivers for motivations in open innovation, Web-based platforms
Instagram Effectively organizing hashtags on Instagram: a study of library-related captions
institutional convergence Institutional convergence in the libraries, archives and museums sector: a contribution towards a conceptual framework
institutional repositories See digital repositories
insurance industry Business information culture: a qualitative study of the information culture in the Finnish insurance industry
intellectual capital Information as social and intellectual capital in the research career: a gender perspective
intellectual property rights The ethics of DeCSS posting: towards assessing the morality of the Internet posting of DVD copyright circumvention software
  Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights: ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryption program
interactive information retrieval see: information retrieval, information retrieval evaluation
interdisciplinary research Study of interdisciplinarity in chemistry research based on the production of Puerto Rican scientists 1992-2001
interfaces Cognitive styles and eye movement patterns: an empirical investigation into user interactions with interface elements and visualisation objects of a scientific information system
Internet Censura y tolerancia del material sexualmente explícito: la opinión de los estudiantes universitarios de pregrado
  Designing Internet research assignments: building a framework for instructor collaboration
  Development of online travel Web scraping for tourism statistics in Indonesia
  Diffusion and usage patterns of Internet services in the European Union
  The effectiveness of Web search engines to index new sites from different countries
  Enthusiastic, realistic and critical: discourses of Internet use in the context of everyday life information seeking
  Finding competitive intelligence on Internet start-up companies: a study of secondary resource use and information-seeking processes
  Indigenous Australians’ information behaviour and Internet use in everyday life: an exploratory study
  A gender perspective on Internet use: consequences for information seeking
  Icelanders and trust in the Internet as a source of health and life-style information
  The impacts of Internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the Internet
  Information seeking by blind and sight impaired citizens: an ecological study
  Justifying the use of Internet sources in school assignments on controversial issues
  Profiling European physicians' usage of eHealth services
  Public use of the Internet at Chester library, UK.
  Seeking information about health and lifestyle on the Internet
  Students seeking information for their Master's thesis: the effect of the Internet
  Untangling the relationship between Internet anxiety and Internet identification in students: the role of Internet self-efficacy
  Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
Internet information gateways The Social Science Information Gateway: putting theory into practice.
Internet information systems An Internet Information System for GPs
  The use of the Internet by English academics
inter-operability The meaning of interoperability and its implications for archival institutions: challenges and opportunities in Croatia, Finland and Sweden.
inter-organizational relations From coexistence to convergence: studying partnerships and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums
interpersonal behaviour Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
interviews Combining contextual interviews and participative design to define requirements for text analysis of historical media
  Empowering interviews: narrative interviews in the study of information literacy in everyday life settings
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
  Support versus restriction: parents’ influence on young children’s information behaviour in connection with mobile devices
  What can we make of our interview data? From interdisciplinary to intra-disciplinary research
intranets Intranets in French firms: evolutions and revolutions.
Iran Information-seeking behaviour of Iranian extension managers and specialists
  Iranian engineers' information needs and seeking habits: an agro-industry company experience
Israel Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews
  Being private in public: information disclosure behaviour of Israeli bloggers
  Copyright protection in Israel: a reality of being 'pushed into the corner'
  E-health literacy and the vaccination dilemma: an Israeli perspective
  Empathetic communication among discourse participants in virtual communities of people who suffer from mental illnesses
  Immigrants' information needs: their role in the absorption process
  Individual and collaborative information behaviour of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia
  Women in academia: a bibliometric perspective

Japan Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries
  In search of facilitating citizens' problem solving: public libraries' collaborative development of services with related organizations
  Learning to become a better poet: situated information practices in, of, and at a Japanese tanka gathering
  Public libraries as places for self-directed lifelong learning: narratives of empowerment.
  Satisfaction and perception of usefulness among users of business information services in Japan
JavaScript™ Watch this: artisanal animation
  The influence that JavaScript™ has on the visibility of a Website to search engines - a pilot study
Jewish studies The role of the research phase in information seeking behaviour of Jewish scholars: a modification of Ellis's behavioural characteristics.
job descriptions The information professional's profile: an analysis of Brazilian job vacancies on the Internet
  A profession in transition: towards development and implementation of standards for visual resources management. Part A - the organization's perspective
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
journalists Information seeking in the newsroom. Application of the Cognitive Framework for analysis of the work context
journals Análisis comparativo de la calidad de las revistas científico-técnicas españolas de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte (2000-2005)
  Core journals in library and information science: measuring the level of specialization over time
  The focus factor: a dynamic measure of journal specialisation
  Las revistas argentinas de Ciencias Antropológicas: visibilidad en bases de datos internacionales

key phrase extraction Investigation into the existence of the indexer effect in key phrase extraction
kidney disease Measuring patients’ preferences and priorities for information in chronic kidney disease
knowledge-based systems A selective review of knowledge-based approaches to database design.
knowledge creation Materiality and embodiment in collaborative knowledge processes: knowledge creation for a virtual power plant
knowledge management see: communities of practice; environmental scanning; information management; intranets; organizational change; organizational learning; etc.
knowledge representation Conceptions of knowledge about classification schemes: a multiplane approach.
  Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM
  Do citation systems represent theories of truth?
  Genre, the organization of knowledge and everyday life.
  Mediation machines: how principles from traditional knowledge organization have evolved into digital mediation systems.
  Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on the Web
knowledge sharing see: information sharing
Korean mothers A comparative study on the health information needs, seeking and source preferences among mothers of young healthy children: American mothers compared to recent immigrant Korean mothers

labour theory Forms of labour in information systems
labour market information Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
  A study of labour market information needs through employers' seeking behaviour
language acquisition Heritage language acquisition and maintenance: home literacy practices of Japanese-speaking families in Canada
Laos Contextual factors affecting learning in Laos and the implications for information literacy education
  Spirituality and everyday information behaviour in a non-Western context: sense-making in Buddhist Laos
Latin America Conceptualización y perspectivas de la alfabetización informacional en Iberoamérica: un estudio Delphi
  Consistency between indexers in the LILAC database (Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature)
  Electronic publishing in librarianship and information science in Latin America – a step towards development?
  Producción latinoamericana en biblioteconomía y documentación en el Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) 1966-2003
Latin language Processing morphological variants in searches of Latin text
Latvia Electronic books: content provision and adoption possibilities among users in Latvia
  Focus on further education of librarians in Latvia
law firms Managing information in law firms: changes and challenges
law students Domain knowledge, search behaviour, and search effectiveness of engineering and science students: an exploratory study
  Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: the cases of engineering and law students in Ireland
learning Handling inconsistencies between information modalities - workplace learning of newly qualified nurses
  Human information behaviour in conversation: understanding the influence of informal conversation on learning in a political party
  Information literacy in the tension between school's discursive practice and students' self-directed learning
  Learning analytic devices: co-forming, re-forming, in-forming. [Short paper]
  Newcomer information seeking: the role of information seeking in newcomer socialization and learning in the workplace
  Reinforcement learning in information searching
  Student learning as information behaviour: exploring assessment task processes
  Understanding knowledge genesis by means of multivariate factor analysis of epistemological belief structures
learning resources Accessing learning resources: experiences of students with disability
learning spaces Charrette: case study of participatory library space designing in a postgraduate course
  The correlation between out-of-school and in-school reading resources with primary school students’ reading attainment.
  Telling stories: extending informed learning with narrative theory
  When definitions in practice do not align with the literature: defining emerging technologies in academic libraries
learning styles The impact of personality and approaches to learning on information behaviour.
  Telling stories: extending informed learning with narrative theory
legal information Managing information in law firms: changes and challenges
leisure activities Collaborative information seeking during leisure travelling: triggers and social media usage.
  Dynamic aspects of relevance: differences in users' relevance criteria between selecting and viewing videos during leisure searches
  Information activity in serious leisure
  The information behaviour of Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers: an autoethnographic pilot study
  Information-related behaviour as meaning-making processes: a study of science centre visitors
  Social media in serious leisure: themes of horse rider safety
lesbians The social construction of the world of gay and lesbian people and their information behaviour
  What makes an object queer? Collecting and exhibiting LGBT stories in regional museums and archives
Lesotho Information-seeking behaviour of prospective geography teachers at the National University of Lesotho
  An investigation of information-seeking behaviour of geography teachers for an information service intervention: the case of Lesotho
less-favoured regions Training information services specialists in the less-favoured regions of the European Union (TRAIN-ISS)
letter archives Digitality, epistolarity and reconstituted letter archives
librarians Metaphors and critical incidents: introduction to a methodological approach derived from expressions of librarian professional identity
librarianship From collections to connections: building a revised platform for library and information science
  The concept of usefulness in library and information science research
  From library and information science through information studies to information studies and interactive media: emergence, expansion and integration of information studies at the University of Tampere illustrated in word clouds
  Levels of information and library and information science as a science of mentefacts
  Library and information science according to the citing pattern of students: a bibliometric study.
  The many faces of practice theory in library and information studies.
  Metaphors and critical incidents: introduction to a methodological approach derived from expressions of librarian professional identity
  Minding the gap: investigating the alignment of information organization research and practice
  The missing profession: towards an institution of critical technical practice
  The practice of public library-work for newly arrived immigrants
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
  Research methods and techniques in Spanish library and information science journals (2012-2014)
  Synthesizing or diversifying library and information science. Sketching past achievements, current happenings and future prospects, with an interest in including or excluding approaches
  To what ends, by which means? The development of the library faith from moral uplift to makerspace.
  Turn, turn, turn
libraries The application of structuration theory in studying collaboration between librarians and academic staff in universities in Australia and Vietnam.
  Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden.
  Comparative analysis of the development of multicultural library services in the Spanish public library network (2007-2010)
  Effectively organizing hashtags on Instagram: a study of library-related captions
  From coexistence to convergence: studying partnerships and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums
  Library user studies for strategic planning
  Participatory networks: the library as conversation
  The problem of 'userism', and how to overcome it in library theory
  Transcending silos, developing synergies: libraries and archives
library & information education The changing role of subjects connected with book history and publishing in the education of library specialists in Estonia
  Distance education as a new possibility for librarians in Estonia
  Document architecture draws a circle: on document architecture and its relation to library and information science education and research
  Electronic publishing in librarianship and information science in Latin America – a step towards development?
  Focus on further education of librarians in Latvia
  From library and information science through information studies to information studies and interactive media: emergence, expansion and integration of information studies at the University of Tampere illustrated in word clouds
  Human issues of library and information work
  Information professionals in Brazil: core competencies and professional development
  Library legislation and free access to information as new topics in library and information science education
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
library architecture The library as a multidimensional space in the digital age
library history Late, lost, or renewed? A search for the public sphere in public libraries
library legislation Library legislation and free access to information as new topics in library and information science education
library use Discipline, availability of electronic resources and the use of Finnish National Electronic Library - FinELib.
  Investigating the ‘Why?’ rather than the ‘How?’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on newcomer populations’ use of public libraries [Short paper]
  The library as a multidimensional space in the digital age
  Library usage patterns in the electronic information environment
  The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland [Poster]
licence agreements Available, but not accessible? Investigating publishers’ e-lending licensing practices.
  What can 100,000 books tell us about the international public library e-lending landscape?
linked data Comparing the diffusion and adoption of linked data and research data management services among libraries.
  Factores para la adopción de linked data e implantación de la web semántica en bibliotecas, archivos y museos
literary quality The anatomy of excitement: teenagers’ conceptualizations of literary quality.
literature and art informatics Mapping techno-literary spaces: adapting multiple correspondence analysis for literature and art informatics.
Lithuania The current state of decision support in Lithuanian business
  E-book publishing in Lithuania: the publisher‘s perspective.
  E-books in academic libraries: results of a survey carried out in Sweden and Lithuania
  The emerging role of business intelligence culture
  Information needs research in Russia and Lithuania, 1965-2003
  ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
  Lithuanian on-line periodicals on the World Wide Web
lurkers Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews

mailing lists see online communities
makerspaces Assessing the potential of third space to design a creative virtual academic space based on findings from information behaviour
  Facilitation in library makerspaces: a prototype for a professional development model
  Information practices during 3D modelling in a public library makerspace: generating ideas, seeking help and iterative trial and error
  To what ends, by which means? The development of the library faith from moral uplift to makerspace.
Malaysia Crisis-based information seeking: monitoring versus blunting in the information seeking behaviour of working students during the Southeast Asian Haze Crisis
  Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of international students in their use of social media in Malaysia
  Organisational strategy and competitive intelligence practices in Malaysian public listed companies
  Web 2.0 as a tool for market intelligence acquisition in the Malaysian hotel industry
Maldives Social media activism in Maldives: information practices and civil society.
management Total quality management, British Standard accreditation, Investors in People and academic libraries
management information needs The current state of decision support in Lithuanian business
  Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore
  Investigating the management information needs of academic heads of departments: a critical success factors approach
  Information in organizations: directions for information management
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom
  The management information needs of academic Heads of Department in universities in the United Kingdom: a Critical Success Factors approach. (British Library R & D Report 6252)
  Managers look to the social network to seek information
management information systems MISCO: A Conceptual Model for MIS Implementation in SMEs
  Systems for the management of information in a university context: an investigation of user need
managers Problem situations encountered by middle managers working in a municipality in transition
Maori Information barriers and Maori secondary school students
  Information, indigeneity and identity: the information seeking behaviours of Maori secondary school students
Marcuse, Herbert Toward a critique of the information age: Herbert Marcuse's contribution to information science's conceptions
market intelligence Market knowledge absorptive capacity: a measurement scale
marketing Modelling marketing professionals' information behaviour in the workplace: towards a holistic understanding
  Web 2.0 as a tool for market intelligence acquisition in the Malaysian hotel industry
martial arts Embodiment, information practices and documentation: a study of mid-life martial artists
Marxist philosophy Human activity - contributions to the anthropological sciences from a perspective of activity theory.
mass media The complementary relationship between the Internet and traditional mass media: the case of online news and information.
  El efecto de las noticias de alto impacto en los servicios de documentación: el caso del atentado terrorista del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid en la prensa española.
  Media credibility and cognitive authority. The case of seeking orienting information
  The public reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996
master suppression Friend or foe: exploring master suppression techniques on Facebook
mathematicians Information seeking behaviour of mathematicians: scientists and students
MCA see multiple correspondence analysis
medical information see health information
medical practitioners Exploring rehabilitation therapists' clinical questions for evidence based patient care
  The information practices of physicians in clinical practice
  An Internet information system for GPs
  Reconciling doctor as clinician and doctor as entrepreneur: the information practices and identity work of early career surgeons
  The value creating network in preventive health care. Medical doctors as information providers and knowledge producers in counselling in the context of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes type 2.
medical records Patients reading their medical records: differences in experiences and attitudes between regular and inexperienced readers
  Physician adoption of electronic health records: a visualisation of the role of provider and state characteristics in incentive programme participation
medication information How Middle Eastern students in the USA use their social networks for medication information: a mixed methods study
memory institutions
see also , cultural heritage, libraries, museums
Archives, libraries and museums as communicators of memory in European Union projects.
Mendeley Internationality in Finnish Research: an examination of collaborators, citers, tweeters, and readers.
mental illness Empathetic communication among discourse participants in virtual communities of people who suffer from mental illnesses
  Social network analysis of the mental health sub-topic on the MedlinePlus subject directory
mental mapping Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
mental models Eliciting mental models of music resources: a research agenda
  Student search behaviour in an online public access catalogue: an examination of 'searching mental models' and 'searcher self-concept'
mentefacts Levels of information and library and information science as a science of mentefacts
metacognition Talk as a metacognitive strategy during the information search process of adolescents
  Towards a definition of metaskills
metadata Análisis de metadatos de noticias para la extracción de información del código fuente. El software MetadatosHTML
  The capability of search tools to retrieve words with specific properties from large text collections [Poster]
  From many records to one graph: concepts of restructuring
  Mediation machines: how principles from traditional knowledge organization have evolved into digital mediation systems.
  Metadata as a normalising mechanism for information-transfer behaviour in higher education institutions: the information culture perspective
  The value of discernment: making use of interpretive flexibility in metadata generation and aggregation.
  Watch this: Webified markup
metaphors Making sense of the Web: a metaphorical approach
  Metaphors and critical incidents: introduction to a methodological approach derived from expressions of librarian professional identity
metrics From metrics to representation: the flattened self in citation databases
Middle East How Middle Eastern students in the USA use their social networks for medication information: a mixed methods study
migrants Information behaviour of migrant Hispanic farm workers and their families in the Pacific Northwest
misinformation A social diffusion model of misinformation and disinformation for understanding human information behaviour
mobile information systems Activity Theory in information systems research and practice - theoretical underpinnings for an information systems development method
  An empirical analysis of mobile Internet acceptance in Chile
  Contextualising information practices and personal information management in mobile work
  The experience of mobile information overload: struggling between needs and constraints
  Information on the move: the use of mobile information systems by UK Police Forces
  Mobile devices and information patterns amongst tourists.
  Operational use of electronic records in police work
  Spreading the load: mobile information and communications technologies and their effect on information overload
  Support versus restriction: parents’ influence on young children’s information behaviour in connection with mobile devices
  Tweens and their in-betweens: giving voice to young people when exploring emerging information practices associated with smart devices.
  Understanding the information needs and search behaviour of mobile users
modelling Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
molecular diversity Molecular diversity techniques for chemical databases
molecular medicine The information environment of researchers in molecular medicine
monitoring and blunting Crisis-based information seeking: monitoring versus blunting in the information seeking behaviour of working students during the Southeast Asian Haze Crisis
morphological variants Processing morphological variants in searches of Latin text
motor sport An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges
multimedia Synchronised Object Retrieval: the enhancement of information retrieval performance in multimedia environments using synchronisation protocols.
multiple correspondence analysis Mapping techno-literary spaces: adapting multiple correspondence analysis for literature and art informatics.
multivariate analysis Exploring the structure of library and information science Web space based on multivariate analysis of social tags
museums ALM in the public sphere: how do archivists, librarians and museum professionals conceive the respective roles of their institutions in the public sphere?
  Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden.
  From coexistence to convergence: studying partnerships and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums
  Hobby-related information-seeking behaviour of highly dedicated online museum visitors
  The information practice of volunteer guides at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
  Institutional convergence in the libraries, archives and museums sector: a contribution towards a conceptual framework
  Keynote address: Museum value or museality: only a theoretical concept or concrete and practical tool?
  What makes an object queer? Collecting and exhibiting LGBT stories in regional museums and archives
music and musicians Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music)
  The classification of musical transformation: a conceptual approach to the knowledge organization of musical arrangements
  Digital music and generation Y: discourse analysis of the online music information behaviour talk of five young Australians
  Eliciting mental models of music resources: a research agenda
  Information behaviour of music record collectors
  Modelling the information practices of music fans living in Medellín, Colombia.
  The role of computer-mediated communication in the research process of music scholars: an exploratory investigation
  The role of personality in musicians’ information seeking for creativity

name equivalences On identifying name equivalences in digital libraries
narrative theory Telling stories: extending informed learning with narrative theory
National Health Service Information management and technology strategy in healthcare: local timescales and national requirements
national information infrastructure National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative
natural disasters see emergencies
natural language processing Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions
need for cognition The role of the need for cognition in the university students’ reading behaviour
neighbourhood book exchanges Neighbourhood book exchanges: localising information practices
networked society Library and information science's ontological position in the networked society: using new technology to get back to an old practice
networks Competency in network use as a resource for citizenship: implications for the digital divide
  Information behaviour in research network building by relocated scholars in Swedish higher education: a report on a pilot project
  Network analysis of a virtual community of learning of economics educators.
  The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective.
  A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by a case of community network development.
  Work-related use of an electronic network
newsgroups Using newsgroup headers to predict document relevance
newspapers Análisis de metadatos de noticias para la extracción de información del código fuente. El software MetadatosHTML
  Newspapers and their fear of channel spillover: evidence for Europe
  News photography for Facebook: effects of images on the visual behaviour of readers in three simulated newspaper formats
  The online information experiences of news-seeking young adults
  Online newspapers: the impact of culture, sex, and age on the perceived importance of specified quality factors
  The role of perceived substitution and individual culture in the adoption of electronic newspapers in Scandinavia
news search engines see search engines
news stories A risk perception model: simulating public response to news reports in China
  What motivates the online news browser? News item selection in a social information seeking scenario
  Which types of news story attract bloggers?
New Zealand An evaluation of New Zealand political party Websites
  Information barriers and Maori secondary school students
  Information, indigeneity and identity: the information seeking behaviours of Maori secondary school students
  The interface between indigenous knowledge and libraries: the need for non-Māori librarians to make sense of mātauranga Māori in their professional lives
  Through indigenous eyes: looking for indigenous services in Australian and New Zealand university libraries
N-gram matching Stemming and N-gram matching for term conflation in Turkish texts
  Targeted s-gram matching: a novel n-gram matching technique for cross- and mono-lingual word form variants
Nigeria Data mining of Internet users' interests in diverse, hierarchical information needs
  Research on information and knowledge sharing in emergency response: a case study of the offshore oil and gas industry
non-hierarchic document clustering Non-hierarchic document clustering using a genetic algorithm.
nonparametric statistics Incorporating nonparametric statistics into Delphi studies in library and information science
normative behaviour Use of information and communication technologies in the everyday lives of Indian women: a normative behaviour perspective.
Norway The public library: an arena for an enlightened and rational public sphere? The case of Norway.
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
nuclear waste Extreme long-term preservation of information – who cares? Swedish opinions about nuclear waste information
nursing & midwifery Developing an information seeking behaviour profile for nursing and midwifery students
  Handling inconsistencies between information modalities - workplace learning of newly qualified nurses
  Information strategies and professional identity: a study of nurses' experiences of information at the workplace
  Qualitative interpretative categorisation for efficient data analysis in a mixed methods information behaviour study.

observation Using participant or non-participant observation to explain information behaviour
obsessive compulsive behaviour Is this OCD?: Exploring conditions of information poverty in online support groups dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder
oil and gas industry The case for a risk-assessed approach to organizational records management in the oil and gas sector
  The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour
  Research on information and knowledge sharing in emergency response: a case study of the offshore oil and gas industry
Old French Word variant identification in Old French
older people Access to health information: perception of barriers among elderly in a language minority
  Assisting information practice: from information intermediary to digital proxy [Poster]
  Health information behaviour, attitudes towards health information and motivating factors for physical activity among older people: differences by sex and age
  Latent segmentation of older adults in the use of social networks and e-banking services
  A life goals perspective on the information behaviour of elderly adults [Short paper]
  The mutual shaping of online and offline social relationships
  Old women and tablets: information behaviour in unfavourable contexts and social mediators [Short paper]
  Relatives as supporters of elderly peoples' information behaviour
  To share or not to share: an explorative study of health information non-sharing behaviour among Flemish adults aged fifty and over
  Sharing is caring: the everyday informal exchange of health information among adults aged fifty and over
  Unexplored territory: information behaviour in the Fourth Age
online banking Latent segmentation of older adults in the use of social networks and e-banking services
online catalogues Accounting for users' inflated assessments of on-line catalogue search performance and usefulness: an experimental study
online communities see virtual communities
online company reports Degree of Internet corporate reporting: a research framework
online discussions Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews
  Dialogue processes in online information seeking and sharing: a study of an asynchronous discussion group
  For or against Brexit? Justifying oppositional arguments in online discussion
online forums see virtual communities
online games see: gaming
online learning see virtual learning environments
online reference service User satisfaction with referrals at a collaborative virtual reference service
online support groups When online support groups prevail: the information experience of chest/breastfeeders who only express their milk
ontology see classification
open access publishing Balancing ideology and feasibility: a case study on adopting and evaluating open access publishing models for a society journal within philosophy
  A bibliometric study of scholarly articles published by library and information science authors about open access
  Compliance with the first funder open access policy in Australia
  Conference report: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund 24-25 April, 2006
  The cost-effectiveness of the article-processing-charge-funded model across countries in different scientific blocks: the case of Elsevier's hybrid open access journals
  The costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models
  The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): an open access journal using an un-paid, volunteer-based organization.
  Impact of open access scholarly publications on the Web
  Issues and challenges in researchers’ adoption of open access and institutional repositories: a contextual study of a university repository
  ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
  Medical Education Online: a case study of an open access journal in health professional education.
  Modes of access: the influence of dissemination channels on the use of open access monographs
  Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text
  Open access publishing in Indian premier research institutions
  Open access publishing trend analysis: statistics beyond the perception
  Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students
  Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change
  Report on a survey of readers of Information Research
  The 'platinum route' to open access: a case study of E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
  Scientific journal publishing: yearly volume and open access availability
  Taking the plunge: open access at the Canadian Journal of Sociology
  Using phenomenography to bridge the gap between research and practice: a meta-analysis of three phenomenographic studies
  Why principal investigators funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health publish in the Public Library of Science journals.
Open Archives Initiative Implantación de la Open Archives Initiative en España
open data Adoption of open government data: perspectives of user innovators
  Factores para la adopción de linked data e implantación de la web semántica en bibliotecas, archivos y museos
  Watch this: LOD - linking open data
open government Adoption of open government data: perspectives of user innovators
open source software Communal resources in open source software development
opinion mining An investigation of the intellectual structure of opinion mining research
oral information Conceptualizing oral documents
  Documents, dialogue and the emergence of tertiary orality
  "I asked my Mum, but..." and other cases of unsuccessful information seeking by asking.
  Investigating oral information
ordinal regression Effective techniques for the promotion of library services and resources
organization theory Factors influencing environmental scanning in the organizational context
  Minding the gap: investigating the alignment of information organization research and practice
organizational change Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden.
  Five things to change first when academic libraries embrace Web access
  Re-engineering change in higher education
organizational communication Using information technology to support knowledge conversion processes
organizational culture The emerging role of business intelligence culture
  Minding the gap: investigating the alignment of information organization research and practice
organizational learning Environmental scanning as information seeking and organizational learning
  'Information in context': co-designing workplace structures and systems for organizational learning
  Scanning and vicarious learning from adverse events in health care

paediatrics Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting
Pakistan Conceptions of school libraries and the role of school librarians: findings from case studies of primary schools in Lahore.
  Librarians’ attitudes towards application of information technology in academic libraries in Pakistan.
  Resident university students’ everyday-life information seeking behaviour in Pakistan
palliative care Information needs and information behaviour of patients and family members in a cancer palliative care setting
paranormal information Paranormal information seeking in everyday life: the paranormal in information action
parents Information behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): a case study
  Information needs and behaviour of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders: parents’ reports on their experiences and perceptions
  Support versus restriction: parents’ influence on young children’s information behaviour in connection with mobile devices
participants Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews
participative design Charrette: case study of participatory library space designing in a postgraduate course
  Combining contextual interviews and participative design to define requirements for text analysis of historical media
  Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting
  Measuring patients’ preferences and priorities for information in chronic kidney disease
  A participatory design informed framework for information behaviour studies
  Understanding Elders’ knowledge creation to strengthen indigenous ethical knowledge sharing
participatory development communication The information behaviour of Ugandan banana farmers in the context of participatory development communication
patents Classification and information management for patent collections: a literature review and some research questions
  Use of news and patent mining to identify companies with growth potential
path analysis The impacts of Internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the Internet
patients Information needs and information behaviour of patients and family members in a cancer palliative care setting
periodicals see: journals
personal information management Continuum thinking and the contexts of personal information management
  Exploring individuals’ patterns of personal information management practices: factors influencing the representation, organization and credibility assessment of information.
  Household information practices: how and why householders process and manage information
  How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour
  Information creation and the ideological code of managerialism in the work of keeping track
  Information School academics and the value of their personal digital archives
  Mismanagement of personally identifiable information and the reaction of interested parties to safeguarding privacy in South Korea
  Personal digital information archiving among students of social sciences and humanities
  Personal health information management by college students: patterns of inaction
  Personalised Web search and user satisfaction: a user-centred evaluation
  Personal knowledge and information management behaviour in the light of the comparative studies among Polish and German students.
  Resolvability of references in users' personal collections
  Seeking an ideal solution to the management of personal information collections
personality traits Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour
  How do personality traits shape information-sharing behaviour in social media? Exploring the mediating effect of generalised trust
  The impact of personality and approaches to learning on information behaviour.
  Personality traits and group-based information behaviour: an exploratory study
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
  The role of personality in musicians’ information seeking for creativity
  Serendipity as chaos or discovery – exploring the role of personality and sense of coherence
phenomenography Experiencing information seeking and learning: a study of the interaction between two phenomena
  Using phenomenography to bridge the gap between research and practice: a meta-analysis of three phenomenographic studies
phenomenology Materiality and embodiment in collaborative knowledge processes: knowledge creation for a virtual power plant
  Phenomenology, experience, and the essence of documents as objects.
philosophy of information Philosophy of information as underlying and unifying theory of information science
photography Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure
  Images as scientific documents in Swedish ‘race biology’: two practices
  News photography for Facebook: effects of images on the visual behaviour of readers in three simulated newspaper formats
physicians Work roles as enactors of workplace information practices: the diverse role of physicians in a health care team.
plagiarism Information use and secondary school students: a model for understanding plagiarism
poets Learning to become a better poet: situated information practices in, of, and at a Japanese tanka gathering
Poland Personal knowledge and information management behaviour in the light of the comparative studies among Polish and German students.
  Text genres in information organization
police and policing The impact of organizational information culture on information use outcomes in policing: an exploratory study
  The influence of social media on information sharing and decision making in policing: research in progress.
  The information needs of female police officers involved in undercover prostitution work
  Information on the move: the use of mobile information systems by UK Police Forces
  Operational use of electronic records in police work
politics An evaluation of New Zealand political party Websites
  Human information behaviour in conversation: understanding the influence of informal conversation on learning in a political party
  Implications of counter-attitudinal information exposure in further information-seeking and attitude change
  Twitter conversation dynamics of political controversies: the case of Sweden's December Agreement
popular culture The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
pornography Censura y tolerancia del material sexualmente explícito: la opinión de los estudiantes universitarios de pregrado
portals Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, the Resource Description Framework and Topic Maps
  From HTML to XML and more? A case study of language games within portal server technology implementation
  Assessing user needs of Web portals: a measurement model
postgraduate students Resident university students’ everyday-life information seeking behaviour in Pakistan
postmodernism Dancing around the edges: the use of postmodern approaches in information behaviour research as evident in the published proceedings of the biennial ISIC conferences, 1996—2010
power Power matters: Foucault's pouvoir/savoir as a conceptual lens in information research and practice
practice theory Analytical implications of using practice theory in workplace information literacy research
  The behaviour/practice debate: a discussion prompted by Tom Wilson's review of Reijo Savolainen's Everyday information practices: a social phenomenological perspective. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
  Being in place: embodied information practices.
  Corporeality and practice theory: exploring emerging research agendas for information literacy
  Diseño y desarrollo de una plataforma digital de apoyo a la docencia y a la investigación en Archivos Electrónicos: un portal temático
  Distrust, mistrust, untrust and information practices.
  Information practices of young activists in Rwanda
  Information stabilisation and – destabilisation as potential usable concepts in practice theoretical approaches
  Information through the lens: information research and the dynamics of practice.
  The many faces of practice theory in library and information studies.
  Modelling the information practices of music fans living in Medellín, Colombia.
  My e-journal - exploring the usefulness of personalized access to scholarly articles and services.
  Planting contemporary practice theory in the garden of information science
  Practising humour: knowledge sharing and humour in the workplace
  Reconciling doctor as clinician and doctor as entrepreneur: the information practices and identity work of early career surgeons
pre-diabetes Perceptions of fear appeal and preferences for feedback in tailored health communication: an explorative study among pre-diabetic individuals
prediction models Can user and task characteristics be used as predictors of success in health information retrieval sessions?
privacy "Essentially made of information": concepts and implications of informational privacy
  Sex differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among Israeli students with different technical backgrounds
probability The problem of probability: an examination and refutation of Hjørland’s relevance equation.
problem-based learning Public librarians as partners in problem-based learning in secondary schools: a case study in Finland
problem solving Community problem-solving framed as a distributed information use environment: bridging research and practice
  Solving problems on the World Wide Web
  Task complexity and information behaviour in group based problem solving
  Use of social media in different contexts of information seeking: effects of sex and problem-solving style
product information Functional relevance and inductive development of an e-retailing product information typology
professional development Facilitation in library makerspaces: a prototype for a professional development model
  Passion trumps pay: a study of the future skills requirements of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Australia
professional education The Bologna process and the ups and downs of professionalisation in Swedish public libraries
  The case for curriculum reform in Australian information management & library and information science education: Part 1. Technology and digitization as drivers.
  The critical and continuing role of library and information science curriculum in the teacher training of future librarians
  Diffusion of information behaviour theory into education for reference service [Short paper]
  Envisioning an iSchool curriculum
  Information, media, digital industries and the library and information science curriculum. [Abstract only]
  Information professionals in Brazil: core competencies and professional development
  Information seeking and information retrieval curricula development for modules taught in two library and information science schools: the cases of Ljubljana and Dublin
  Introduction: Facing the educational future [Introduction to the educational forum section of the 6th CoLIS conference].
  Investigating the elements of supervision in library and information science practicums: a systematic literature review
  Library and information professionals as knowledge engagement specialists. Theories, competencies and current educational possibilities in accredited graduate programmes
  Library and information science and biomedical informatics: converging disciplines
  A new direction for library and information science: the communication aspect of information literacy
  The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. An introduction to the new publisher of Information Research
professional identity Metaphors and critical incidents: introduction to a methodological approach derived from expressions of librarian professional identity
project management Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management
promotion Effective techniques for the promotion of library services and resources
protein structures Identification of ß-sheet motifs in three-dimensional protein structures, using a subgraph isomorphism algorithm: an update of a 1992 study
protocol analysis An improved method of studying user-system interaction by combining transaction log analysis and protocol analysis
psychodynamics Psychodynamic perspectives in information behaviour
psychological factors Active participants and lurkers in online discussion groups: an exploratory analysis of focus group interviews
psychology Human activity - contributions to the anthropological sciences from a perspective of activity theory.
psychometric analysis The impacts of Internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the Internet
public administration Expected and materialised information source use by municipal officials: intertwining with task complexity
public consultation Open for business? An historical, comparative study of public access to information about two controversial coastal developments in North-east Scotland
  Organizational information behaviour in the public consultation process in Scotland
public health Assessment of information needs in public health in Germany: results of a nationwide survey
  Patients reading their medical records: differences in experiences and attitudes between regular and inexperienced readers
  Research data sharing during the Zika virus public health emergency
public libraries La alfabetización informacional en bibliotecas públicas. Situación actual y propuestas para una agenda de desarrollo
  ALM in the public sphere: how do archivists, librarians and museum professionals conceive the respective roles of their institutions in the public sphere?
  Available, but not accessible? Investigating publishers’ e-lending licensing practices.
  A bibliometric analysis of Australia’s public library adult non-fiction collections
  The Bologna process and the ups and downs of professionalisation in Swedish public libraries
  Comparative analysis of the development of multicultural library services in the Spanish public library network (2007-2010)
  The experience of evidence-based practice in an Australian public library: an ethnography
  Facilitation in library makerspaces: a prototype for a professional development model
  Imposed information seeking in public libraries and school library media centers: a common behaviour?
  Information practices during 3D modelling in a public library makerspace: generating ideas, seeking help and iterative trial and error
  Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries
  In search of facilitating citizens' problem solving: public libraries' collaborative development of services with related organizations
  Institutional convergence in the libraries, archives and museums sector: a contribution towards a conceptual framework
  An investigation into the impact of the Sheffield Libraries strike
  Late, lost, or renewed? A search for the public sphere in public libraries.
  Methodological frameworks for developing a model of the public sphere in public libraries.
  The practice of public library-work for newly arrived immigrants
  Public librarians as partners in problem-based learning in secondary schools: a case study in Finland
  Public libraries as places for empowering women through autonomous learning activities
  Public libraries as places for self-directed lifelong learning: narratives of empowerment.
  Public libraries as promoters of social sustainability?
  Public libraries, community resilience, and social capital.
  Public libraries, social capital and low intensive meeting places
  The public library: an arena for an enlightened and rational public sphere? The case of Norway.
  The public library, democracy and Rancière’s poetics of politics
  The public library: from information access to knowledge management - a theory of knowledge and knowledge categories
  The public library user and the charter tourist: two travellers, one analogy
  Public library Websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation
  Public use of the Internet at Chester library, UK.
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
  Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration: rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population
  Research foundations related to the public sphere and public libraries
  Satisfaction and perception of usefulness among users of business information services in Japan
  The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
  Serendipity dimensions and users' information behaviour in the physical library interface
  Socio-cultural innovation through and by public libraries in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Denmark: concepts and practices
  Speaking of users: on user discourses in the field of public libraries
  Teen engagements with data in an after-school data literacy programme at the public library
  Using the critical incident technique to evaluate the service quality perceptions of public library users: an exploratory study
  What can 100,000 books tell us about the international public library e-lending landscape?
  What motivates twitter users to engage with libraries?
Public Library of Science Why principal investigators funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health publish in the Public Library of Science journals.
public policy What defines 'enough' information? How policy workers make judgements and decisions during information seeking: preliminary results from an exploratory study
public sector Exploring the effectiveness of cross-boundary information sharing in the public sector: the perspective of government agencies
  Record-keeping professionals’ perceptions of users and use of functional classification systems in the Finnish public sector
  Towards a stakeholder model for the co-production of the public-sector information system
public sphere ALM in the public sphere: how do archivists, librarians and museum professionals conceive the respective roles of their institutions in the public sphere?
  Late, lost, or renewed? A search for the public sphere in public libraries.
  Methodological frameworks for developing a model of the public sphere in public libraries.
  Public libraries, community resilience, and social capital.
  The public library: an arena for an enlightened and rational public sphere? The case of Norway.
publishing and publishers see also electronic publishing
  After Beall’s ‘List of predatory publishers’: problems with the list and paths forward
  Analysis of research collaboration between universities and private companies in Spain based on joint scientific publications
  Available, but not accessible? Investigating publishers’ e-lending licensing practices.
  The changing role of subjects connected with book history and publishing in the education of library specialists in Estonia
  Conference report: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund 24-25 April, 2006
  The costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models
  E-book publishing in Lithuania: the publisher‘s perspective.
  The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): an open access journal using an un-paid, volunteer-based organization.
  From paper-based towards post-digital scholarly publishing: an analysis of an ideological dilemma and its consequences
  Impact of assessment criteria on publication behaviour. The case of communication research in Spain
  Impact of open access scholarly publications on the Web
  Medical Education Online: a case study of an open access journal in health professional education.
  A model of scientific communication as a global distributed information system
  Online newspapers: the impact of culture, sex, and age on the perceived importance of specified quality factors
  Open access publishing in Indian premier research institutions
  Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text
  Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change
  The 'platinum route' to open access: a case study of E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
  Pressure to publish: a bibliometric study of PhD students (1993-2009)
  Publishers’ responses to the e-book phenomenon: survey results from three 'small language' markets.
  Publishing, bookselling and the World Wide Web
  Scientific journal publishing: yearly volume and open access availability
  Research methods and techniques in Spanish library and information science journals (2012-2014)
  Scholarly communication, scholarly publication and the status of emerging formats
  What can 100,000 books tell us about the international public library e-lending landscape?

qualitative research
see also ethnomethodology
The applicability of constructivist user studies: how can constructivist inquiry inform service providers and systems designers?
  Business information culture: a qualitative study of the information culture in the Finnish insurance industry
  A coding system for qualitative studies of the information-seeking process in computer science research
  Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user Web browsing strategies
  Generating and analysing data for applied research on emerging technologies: a grounded action learning approach
  Information-related behaviour as meaning-making processes: a study of science centre visitors
  Information seeking by blind and sight impaired citizens: an ecological study
  Navigational data: a graphical methodology to support qualitative analysis
  Qualitative interpretative categorisation for efficient data analysis in a mixed methods information behaviour study.
  Qualitative questionnaires as a method for information studies research.
  Recent trends in user studies: action research and qualitative methods
  Validating coding for a theoretical model of information behaviour
  Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research
quality assessment Can user and task characteristics be used as predictors of success in health information retrieval sessions?
  Exploring individuals’ patterns of personal information management practices: factors influencing the representation, organization and credibility assessment of information.
  Information quality assessment on the Web: an expression of behaviour
  An inside view: credibility in Wikipedia from the perspective of editors
query building Searching databases without query-building aids: implications for dyslexic users
question answering systems Analysis of automatic translation of questions for question-answering systems
questionnaire design Qualitative questionnaires as a method for information studies research.

race Racial and ethnic matching in information intermediation
race biology See: eugenics
Rancière, Jacques The public library, democracy and Rancière’s poetics of politics
ratings Influence of user ratings, expert ratings and purposes of information use on the credibility judgments of college students
reading The anatomy of excitement: teenagers’ conceptualizations of literary quality.
  The correlation between out-of-school and in-school reading resources with primary school students’ reading attainment.
  Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
  Improving university students’ assessment-related online work
  Investigating reading culture in Tanzania [Poster]
  Reading orientations in state research institutes
  The role of the need for cognition in the university students’ reading behaviour
readers' advisory services A synergistic alternative to readers' advisory services: managing customer knowledge
  Racial and ethnic matching in information intermediation
readership surveys Report on a survey of readers of Information Research
reading Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration: rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population
recommendation agents How does customer's product expertise moderate the usefulness of information recommendation agents in online stores?
record collectors Information behaviour of music record collectors
records management The case for a risk-assessed approach to organizational records management in the oil and gas sector
  Education and training for records management in the electronic environment - the (re)search for an appropriate model
  How are records used in organizations?
  Record as social action: understanding organizational records through the lens of genre theory
  Record-keeping professionals’ perceptions of users and use of functional classification systems in the Finnish public sector
  The records perspective: a neglected aspect of information literacy.
  Voice, agency and equity: deep community collaboration in record-keeping research
recruitment The information professional's profile: an analysis of Brazilian job vacancies on the Internet
  Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries – an analysis of job advertisements.
re-engineering Re-engineering change in higher education
reference group theory Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay,
refugees Adding the information literacy perspective to refugee integration research discourse: a scoping literature review [Short paper]
  The cultural landscape of women refugees in Sweden - a road to information and integration [Short paper]
  Information horizons mapping to assess the health literacy of refugee and immigrant women in the USA
  The provision and sharing of information between service providers and settling refugees
  The remaking of fractured landscapes: supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT)
relational cues Effects of relational characteristics of an answerer on perceived credibility of informational posts on social networking sites: the case of Facebook
relevance Analysing the effects of individual characteristics and self-efficacy on users' preferences for system features in relevance judgment.
  Dynamic aspects of relevance: differences in users' relevance criteria between selecting and viewing videos during leisure searches
  Effects of objective and subjective competence on the reliability of crowdsourced relevance judgments
  Guardians of the knowledge: relevant, irrelevant, or algorithmic?
  Local versus global information relevance in Website use: a case study with the information literacy portal AlfinEEES
  Mapping the development of user constructs of relevance assessment as informed by topicality.
  A model of cognitive load for IR: implications for user relevance feedback interaction
  Moving beyond text highlights: inferring users' interests to improve the relevance of retrieval
  The problem of probability: an examination and refutation of Hjørland’s relevance equation.
  Relevance as process: judgements in the context of scholarly research
  Seeking relevance in academic information use
  Situating relevance: exploring individual relevance assessments in context
  Systematic reviews as object to study relevance assessment processes [Short paper]
  Using newsgroup headers to predict document relevance
repositories See digital repositories
reputation Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms
  Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective
research assessment See: research evaluation
research career Information as social and intellectual capital in the research career: a gender perspective
research circles The research circle as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners
research collaboration Analysis of research collaboration between universities and private companies in Spain based on joint scientific publications
research data Comparing the diffusion and adoption of linked data and research data management services among libraries.
research evaluation Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music)
  Impact of assessment criteria on publication behaviour. The case of communication research in Spain
  The public reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996
  Use of citation analysis to predict the outcome of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise for Unit of Assessment (UoA) 61: Library and Information Management
  Scientific publications as boundary objects: theorizing the intersection of classification and research evaluation.
ResearchGate What can you perceive? Understanding user’s information quality judgment on academic social networking sites
  Which academic papers do researchers tend to feature on ResearchGate?
research libraries Comparing the diffusion and adoption of linked data and research data management services among libraries.
research life-cycle How work positions affect the research activity and information behaviour of laboratory scientists in the research lifecycle: applying activity theory
research methods The benefits and limitations of using key informants in library and information studies research
  Combining contextual interviews and participative design to define requirements for text analysis of historical media
  The development of legal capability through information use: empirical findings, along with methodological and practical challenges in a mixed methods study
  The diary method and analysis of student’s mental representations of information spaces as the research approach in information behaviour research
  Information behaviour, visual research, and the information horizon interview: three ways.
  Meta-synthesis of research on information seeking behaviour
  Methodological frameworks for developing a model of the public sphere in public libraries
  Perspective in information behaviour research
  Qualitative questionnaires as a method for information studies research.
  The relationship between research method and visual display: a study of conference proceedings in the field of knowledge organization
  Research foundations related to the public sphere and public libraries
  Research methods and techniques in Spanish library and information science journals (2012-2014)
  The "user turn" in practice: information behaviour researchers’ constructions of information users
  Using participant or non-participant observation to explain information behaviour
  What can we make of our interview data? From interdisciplinary to intra-disciplinary research
  Which lens for a study of information retrieval systems for cold case investigations - activity theory, systems or ecological approach?
  Writing and reading the results: the reporting of research rigour tactics in information behaviour research as evident in the published proceedings of the biennial ISIC conferences, 1996 – 2014
research participation The benefits and limitations of using key informants in library and information studies research
  Pathways to research participant recruitment in a challenging information behaviour context: South African cold case investigators as exemplar [Poster]
  Privacy and trust attitudes in the intent to volunteer for data-tracking research
research policy Internationality in Finnish Research: an examination of collaborators, citers, tweeters, and readers.
research-practice gap Minding the gap: investigating the alignment of information organization research and practice
researchers The societal impact of information behaviour research on developing models of academic information ecologies
Resource Description Framework Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, the Resource Description Framework and Topic Maps
rewards Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
risk behaviour The role of motivation and risk behaviour in software development success
  Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
risk perception A risk perception model: simulating public response to news reports in China
  Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
  Seeking and avoiding information in a risky world
rural development The nature of information and its effective use in rural development
Russia Information needs research in Russia and Lithuania, 1965-2003
Rwanda Information practices of young activists in Rwanda

Sámi people Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration: rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population
Saudi Arabia A framework for understanding information sharing: an exploration of the information sharing experiences of female academics in Saudi Arabia
Scandinavia The role of perceived substitution and individual culture in the adoption of electronic newspapers in Scandinavia
scenarios Bridging information requirements and information needs assessment: do scenarios and vignettes provide a link?
scholarly communication
see also publishing
Communicating research findings to library and information science practitioners: a study of ISIC papers from 1996 to 2000
  Conference report: Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund 24-25 April, 2006
  Electronic journals and scholarly communication: a citation and reference study.
  From metrics to representation: the flattened self in citation databases
  From paper-based towards post-digital scholarly publishing: an analysis of an ideological dilemma and its consequences
  Issues and challenges in researchers’ adoption of open access and institutional repositories: a contextual study of a university repository
  A model of scientific communication as a global distributed information system
  Modes of access: the influence of dissemination channels on the use of open access monographs
  Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change
  Reading orientations in state research institutes
  Rhythms of being at ISIC - understanding the place of the ISIC conferences in information seeking research
  Scholarly communication in transition: computer scientists' information behaviour over twenty years
  Scholarly communication, scholarly publication and the status of emerging formats
  Scholarly communication's problems: an analysis
  Scientific journal publishing: yearly volume and open access availability
  Subject domain expertise of ISIC2018 reviewer community: a scoping review
  Survey on inadequate and omitted citations in manuscripts: a precursory study in identification of tasks for a literature review and manuscript writing assistive system
scholarly publishing see publishing
school libraries Barriers to information seeking in school libraries: conflicts in perceptions and practice
  Conceptions of school libraries and the role of school librarians: findings from case studies of primary schools in Lahore.
  The correlation between out-of-school and in-school reading resources with primary school students’ reading attainment.
  Digital textbooks: school librarians' stages of concerns in initial implementation
  From activity to learning: using cultural historical activity theory to model school library programmes and practices
  Using an infrastructure perspective to conceptualise the visibility of school libraries in Sweden.
schools library services Are Schools Library Services equipped to survive in the Age of Information?
  The correlation between out-of-school and in-school reading resources with primary school students’ reading attainment.
  Using an infrastructure perspective to conceptualise the visibility of school libraries in Sweden.
science parks Science and technology parks and their relationships with university libraries
science policy Performance of Mexican scholarship holders in the production of scientific knowledge: from bibliometrics to science policy? (In Spanish: Desempeño de becarios Mexicanos en la producción de conocimiento cientifico ¿de la bibliometria a la politica cientifica?)
science and technology studies Different traditions in the study of disciplinarity in science – science and technology studies, library and information science and scientometrics
scientific information Analysis of research collaboration between universities and private companies in Spain based on joint scientific publications
  Applying the user meta model to the analysis of scientific knowledge production and transfer. insights from exploring scientific, small-scale, fishery management in Chile
  Scientific publications as boundary objects: theorizing the intersection of classification and research evaluation.
scientists How work positions affect the research activity and information behaviour of laboratory scientists in the research lifecycle: applying activity theory
scorecard models Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector
Scotland Organizational information behaviour in the public consultation process in Scotland
search engines Analysis of the similarity of the responses of Web search engines to user queries: a user perspective
  Back door entries, invisible ink, and false drops on the Web: in interim research note
  Balancing efficiency and effectiveness for fusion-based search engines in the 'big data' environment
  Developments in search engine presentation of search results
  The effect of query complexity on Web searching results
  The effectiveness of Web search engines to index new sites from different countries
  Evaluation of three German search engines: Altavista.de, Google.de and Lycos.de
  Improving university students’ assessment-related online work
  The influence that JavaScript™ has on the visibility of a Website to search engines - a pilot study
  The interplay between knowledge gap and perceived risk in motivating risk information seeking
  Investigating perception biases on intellectual property search systems: a study on the priming effect
  Mining query subtopics from social tags
  The nature of meaning in the age of Google
  Personalised Web search and user satisfaction: a user-centred evaluation
  Search engines: a first step to finding information: preliminary findings from a study of observed searches.
  Search features of digital libraries
  Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study
  Sythesis and critical analysis of evaluations of the effectiveness of Web search engines. (In Spanish: Síntesis y crítica de las evaluaciones de la efectividad de los motores de búsqueda en la Web)
  Use of Web search engines and personalisation in information searching for educational purposes
  Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval
secondary school students The effect of a teaching intervention on students’ online research skills in lower secondary education
  Fast surfing for availability or deep diving into quality - motivation and information seeking among middle and high school students
  Finnish adolescents’ selection and assessment of health information sources
  The front and backstage: pupils’ information activities in lower secondary school.
  How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  Information barriers and Maori secondary school students
  Information, indigeneity and identity: the information seeking behaviours of Maori secondary school students
  Information seeking and use of high school students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in learning contexts
  Information use and secondary school students: a model for understanding plagiarism
  Public librarians as partners in problem-based learning in secondary schools: a case study in Finland
  Students' use of Web literacy skills and strategies: searching, reading and evaluating Web information
  Young people's perceptions and usage of Wikipedia
selective dissemination of information Changing taxpayers’ beliefs with information that enables to make sense of taxes: the case of Lithuania
  D-Fussion: a semantic selective dissemination of information service for the research community in digital libraries.
selective tradition The selective tradition: the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia
self-directed learning Information literacy in the tension between school's discursive practice and students' self-directed learning
  Public libraries as places for self-directed lifelong learning: narratives of empowerment.
self-efficacy Analysing the effects of individual characteristics and self-efficacy on users' preferences for system features in relevance judgment.
  A deeper look into the complex relationship between social media use and academic outcomes and attitudes
  The effect of a teaching intervention on students’ online research skills in lower secondary education
  Information behaviour, health self-efficacy beliefs and health behaviour in Icelanders' everyday life
  Untangling the relationship between Internet anxiety and Internet identification in students: the role of Internet self-efficacy
semantic information systems SemSEDoc: Utilización de tecnologías semánticas en el aprovechamiento de los repositorios documentales de los proyectos de desarrollo de software
semantic network analysis Community disaster resilience and social solidarity on social media: a semantic network analysis on the Sewol ferry disaster
  Topical network of breast cancer information in a Korean American online community: a semantic network analysis
semantic structure Semantic structures of business analytics research: applying text mining methods
semantic web A literature-based approach to annotation and browsing of Web resources
  Factores para la adopción de linked data e implantación de la web semántica en bibliotecas, archivos y museos
  Forms of labour in information systems
  Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages.
  The necessity for information space mapping for information retrieval on the semantic web
  The Semantic Web: opportunities and challenges for next-generation Web applications
  The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship
  Watch this: LOD - linking open data
semantics Contemporary Chinese parents' needs and questions of parenting for young children: a Web text-mining approach
  Supporting better treatments for meeting health consumers' needs: extracting semantics in social data for representing a consumer health ontology
senior citizens see: older people
sense-making Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity
  An information need for emotional cues: unpacking the role of emotions in sense making.
  Just rol[l/e] with it: the sense-making practices of a tabletop roleplaying game community
  Losing the art and craft of know-how: capturing vanishing embodied knowledge in the 21st century
  Modelling the information seeking and use process in the workplace: employing sense-making approach
serendipity Development and assessment of the content validity of a scale to measure how well a digital environment facilitates serendipity
  Serendipity as chaos or discovery – exploring the role of personality and sense of coherence
  Serendipity dimensions and users' information behaviour in the physical library interface
  Towards a definition of serendipity in information behaviour
serious leisure Information activity in serious leisure
service quality Using the critical incident technique to evaluate the service quality perceptions of public library users: an exploratory study
sexual health College students' sexual health information needs and source preferences in relation to worry about sexual health outcomes
Sheffield City Libraries An investigation into the impact of the Sheffield Libraries strike
Singapore Cultured and popular literary circuits on Facebook: a case study of Singaporean print culture in social media
  Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore
  National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative
Slovakia The societal impact of information behaviour research on developing models of academic information ecologies
Slovenia Information behaviour of Slovenian researchers: investigation of activities, preferences and characteristics
small and medium-sized enterprises Determining the information needs of small and medium-sized enterprises: a critical success factor analysis.
  Environmental cognitions and scanning behaviour of managers of Chinese small and medium-size enterprises: an empirical study of a multidimensional model
SMIL Synchronised Object Retrieval: the enhancement of information retrieval performance in multimedia environments using synchronisation protocols.
social capital Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour
  Public libraries, community resilience, and social capital
  Public libraries, social capital and low intensive meeting places
  Social capital and library and information science research: definitional chaos or coherent research enterprise?
  What a social capital perspective can bring to the understanding of information sharing in a university context
social care Conceptualising welfare workers as information bricoleurs: theory building using literature analysis, organisational ethnography and grounded theory analysis
  Documentation and use of client information system by social workers in child protection services
  The ruling relation of evidence-based practice: the case of documentary governance in a social welfare service.
  Social capital and knowledge transmission in the traditional Kente textile industry of Ghana
social disadvantage Old women and tablets: information behaviour in unfavourable contexts and social mediators [Short paper]
  Socio-cultural innovation through and by public libraries in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Denmark: concepts and practices
social impact The potential for altmetrics to measure other types of impact in scientific production: academic and social impact dynamics in social media and networks
social inclusion Information behaviour among young women in vulnerable contexts and social inclusion: the role of social mediators.
  Old women and tablets: information behaviour in unfavourable contexts and social mediators [Short paper]
social learning theory The impacts of Internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the Internet
social media #Homeless but at home in cyberspace
  Assisting information practice: from information intermediary to digital proxy [Poster]
  Attention and altmetrics.
  Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms
  Cancer information seeking in social question and answer services. Identifying health-related topics in cancer questions on Yahoo! Answers
  Citizens and social media in times of natural disaster: exploring information experience
  Co-experience on Twitter: a study of information technology professionals
  Collaborative information seeking during leisure travelling: triggers and social media usage.
  College students' use of social media for health in the USA and Korea.
  Community disaster resilience and social solidarity on social media: a semantic network analysis on the Sewol ferry disaster
  Connecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook groups as emergent community archives
  Cultured and popular literary circuits on Facebook: a case study of Singaporean print culture in social media
  A deeper look into the complex relationship between social media use and academic outcomes and attitudes
  Determinants of continued use of social media: the perspectives of uses and gratifications theory and perceived interactivity.
  The development of tourism indicators through the use of social media data: the case of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  Effects of relational characteristics of an answerer on perceived credibility of informational posts on social networking sites: the case of Facebook
  Expert power as a constituent of opinion leadership: a conceptual analysis
  Expressing emotions in information sharing: a study of online discussion about immigration
  How do personality traits shape information-sharing behaviour in social media? Exploring the mediating effect of generalised trust
  The influence of social media on information sharing and decision making in policing: research in progress.
  Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective
  Mining query subtopics from social tags
  News photography for Facebook: effects of images on the visual behaviour of readers in three simulated newspaper formats
  The potential for altmetrics to measure other types of impact in scientific production: academic and social impact dynamics in social media and networks
  Preferences in the use of social media for seeking and communicating health and lifestyle information
  Quantified academic selves: the gamification of research through social networking services
  Responding to the haze: information cues and incivility in the online small world
  The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective.
  Social media activism in Maldives: information practices and civil society.
  Social media in serious leisure: themes of horse rider safety
  Tacit knowledge sharing and social media: the determination of a methodological approach to explore the intangible
  The use of digital image collections and social media amongst Australian historical societies
  Understanding user satisfaction with Chinese government social media platforms
  Use of social media in different contexts of information seeking: effects of sex and problem-solving style
  What motivates twitter users to engage with libraries?
  When social media are your source
  Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
social memory Remembering and forgetting in the digital age – a position paper
social network theory Big science, nano science? Mixed method approach to mapping evolution and structure of nanotechnology [Poster abstract]
  A social network study of the growth of community among distance learners
  Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour
  The evolution of recent research on Catalan literature through the production of PhD theses: a bibliometric and social network analysis.
  Information behaviour of Australian men experiencing stressful life events: the role of social networks and confidants
  Managers look to the social network to seek information
social networking Latent segmentation of older adults in the use of social networks and e-banking services
  Understanding news-sharing across different platforms: the effects of newsworthiness and gratifications from news-sharing
  What can you perceive? Understanding user’s information quality judgment on academic social networking sites
social networks Consulting engineers' social networks and their collaborative information behaviour
  Creating possible selves: information disclosure behaviour on social networks
  Expert power as a constituent of opinion leadership: a conceptual analysis
  Friend or foe: exploring master suppression techniques on Facebook
  How Middle Eastern students in the USA use their social networks for medication information: a mixed methods study
  Network analysis of a virtual community of learning of economics educators.
  Network relationships of U.S. government health agencies in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic
  Participatory networks: the library as conversation
  Personal and political elements of the use of social networking sites.
  Quantified academic selves: the gamification of research through social networking services
  Sex differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among Israeli students with different technical backgrounds
  Twitter conversation patterns related to research papers
  Which academic papers do researchers tend to feature on ResearchGate?
social psychology The social psychology of information use: seeking "friends", avoiding "enemies"
social question and answer services Cancer information seeking in social question and answer services. Identifying health-related topics in cancer questions on Yahoo! Answers
  The conversation as the answer: collective information seeking and knowledge construction on a social question and answer site
  Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
  The place of health information and socio-emotional support in social questioning and answering
  Questioning strangers about critical medical decisions: "What happens if you have sex between the HPV shots?"
  Social question and answer services versus library virtual reference: evaluation and comparison from the users' perspective
  Understanding the factors influencing user experience in social question and answer services
  Use of credibility heuristics in a social question-answering service.
social relationships The mutual shaping of online and offline social relationships
social science information The Social Science Information Gateway: putting theory into practice.
social solidarity Community disaster resilience and social solidarity on social media: a semantic network analysis on the Sewol ferry disaster
social tagging Exploring the structure of library and information science Web space based on multivariate analysis of social tags
  Social tagging in a scholarly digital library environment: users' perspectives
  Term based comparison metrics for controlled and uncontrolled indexing languages
social work see social care
socialization Newcomer information seeking: the role of information seeking in newcomer socialization and learning in the workplace
socio-cultural theory The front and backstage: pupils’ information activities in lower secondary school.
socio-material theory Controlling the urge to search. Studying the informational texture of practices by exploring the missing element.
socio-technical design The socio-technical design of a library and information science collaboratory
soft systems analysis Information work analysis: an approach to research on information interactions and information behaviour in context
software 'Nobody reads the documentation': true or not?
  The role of motivation and risk behaviour in software development success
  SemSEDoc: Utilización de tecnologías semánticas en el aprovechamiento de los repositorios documentales de los proyectos de desarrollo de software
  Using information technology to support knowledge conversion processes
SOSIG The Social Science Information Gateway: putting theory into practice.
source code Análisis de metadatos de noticias para la extracción de información del código fuente. El software MetadatosHTML
South Africa The information source preferences and information monitoring behaviour of pregnant women in Pretoria, South Africa
  The nature of information and its effective use in rural development
South East Asia Trust or do not trust: evaluation strategies used by online health information consumers in South East Asia.
South Korea Crying mothers mobilise for a collective action: collaborative information behaviour in an online community
  Understanding news-sharing across different platforms: the effects of newsworthiness and gratifications from news-sharing
Spain Analysis of research collaboration between universities and private companies in Spain based on joint scientific publications
  Comparative analysis of the development of multicultural library services in the Spanish public library network (2007-2010)
  Comunicación de conocimiento. ¿Habilidad de los profesores universitarios?
  Comparative analysis of university-government-enterprise coauthorship networks in three scientific domains in the region of Madrid
  El efecto de las noticias de alto impacto en los servicios de documentación: el caso del atentado terrorista del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid en la prensa española.
  Impact of assessment criteria on publication behaviour. The case of communication research in Spain
  Implantación de la Open Archives Initiative en España
  Latent segmentation of older adults in the use of social networks and e-banking services
  Research methods and techniques in Spanish library and information science journals (2012-2014)
  Value-added services in institutional repositories in Spanish public universities
special libraries Cataloguing in special libraries in the 1990s
  Exploring the use of evidence in practice by Australian special librarians
speech interfaces User query behaviour in different task types in a spoken language vs. textual interface: a Wizard of Oz experiment
sports science Análisis comparativo de la calidad de las revistas científico-técnicas españolas de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte (2000-2005)
state research institutes Reading orientations in state research institutes
stemming Uma revisão dos algoritmos de radicalização em língua portuguesa
  Stemming and N-gram matching for term conflation in Turkish texts
  A survey of stemming algorithms in information retrieval
story-time Stories of story-time: the discursive shaping of professional identity among Swedish children’s librarians.
strategic planning Library user studies for strategic planning
stress A grounded theory study of the relationship between e-mail and burnout
strikes (labour disputes) An investigation into the impact of the Sheffield Libraries strike
structuration theory The application of structuration theory in studying collaboration between librarians and academic staff in universities in Australia and Vietnam.
students Accessing learning resources: experiences of students with disability
  College students' sexual health information needs and source preferences in relation to worry about sexual health outcomes
  The effect of a teaching intervention on students’ online research skills in lower secondary education
  How Middle Eastern students in the USA use their social networks for medication information: a mixed methods study
  Mixed methods data collection using simulated Google results: reflections on the methods of a point-of-selection behaviour study
  Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of international students in their use of social media in Malaysia
  Personal health information management by college students: patterns of inaction
  Pressure to publish: a bibliometric study of PhD students (1993-2009)
  Use of Web search engines and personalisation in information searching for educational purposes
subject gateways see portals
substance abuse Variables associated with environmental scanning among clinicians at substance abuse treatment clinics
success factors Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management
Suomi24 Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24
Sweden The acquisition of e-books in the libraries of Swedish higher education institutions
  E-books in academic libraries: results of a survey carried out in Sweden and Lithuania
  Extreme long-term preservation of information – who cares? Swedish opinions about nuclear waste information
  The cultural landscape of women refugees in Sweden - a road to information and integration [Short paper]
  Images as scientific documents in Swedish race biology: two practices.
  Information behaviour in research network building by relocated scholars in Swedish higher education: a report on a pilot project
  Information practices in elementary schools
  The meaning of interoperability and its implications for archival institutions: challenges and opportunities in Croatia, Finland and Sweden.
  A national survey of early adopters of e-book reading in Sweden
  Operational use of electronic records in police work
  The practice of public library-work for newly arrived immigrants
  The publication activity of Region Västra Götaland: a bibliometric study of an administrative and political Swedish region during the period 1998-2006.
  Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration: rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population
  The remaking of fractured landscapes: supporting refugees in transition (SpiRiT)
  To jointly negotiate a personal decision: a qualitative study on information literacy practices in midwifery counselling about contraceptives at youth centres in Southern Sweden
  Searching for delegated knowledge in elementary schools
  Twitter conversation dynamics of political controversies: the case of Sweden's December Agreement
  Using an infrastructure perspective to conceptualise the visibility of school libraries in Sweden.
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company Extreme long-term preservation of information – who cares? Swedish opinions about nuclear waste information
systematic reviews The perceived value of the academic library: a systematic review
  Systematic reviewing, meta-analysis and meta-synthesis for evidence-based library and information science
  Systematic reviews as object to study relevance assessment processes [Short paper]
systems modelling Bringing human information behaviour into information systems research: an application of systems modelling

tacit knowledge The duality of knowledge
  Knowledge management, codification and tacit knowledge
  Knowledge management: re-thinking information management and facing the challenge of managing tacit knowledge
  The nonsense of 'knowledge management'
  Tacit knowledge sharing and social media: the determination of a methodological approach to explore the intangible
tags, tagging see: indexing
Taiwan Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
  A framework for understanding culture and its relationship to information behaviour: Taiwanese aborigines' information behaviour
Tanzania Investigating reading culture in Tanzania [Poster]
task analysis Approaches to task in contemporary information studies
  Everyday hassles and related information behaviour among youth: a case study in Taiwan
  Expected and materialised information source use by municipal officials: intertwining with task complexity
  Information seeking research needs extension toward tasks and technology
  Multi-dimensional analysis of dynamic human information interaction
  The practical management of information in a task management meeting: taking 'practice' seriously
  Student learning as information behaviour: exploring assessment task processes
  Task based design of a digital work environment (DWE) for an academic community
  Task complexity affects information use: a questionnaire study in city administration
  Task complexity and information behaviour in group based problem solving
  Task dimensions of user evaluations of information retrieval systems
taxonomy see classification
teachers Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Information-seeking behaviour of prospective geography teachers at the National University of Lesotho
  An investigation of information-seeking behaviour of geography teachers for an information service intervention: the case of Lesotho
  Prospective history teachers' information behaviour in lesson planning
teaching methods Designing Internet research assignments: building a framework for instructor collaboration
  University students' information seeking behaviour in a changing learning environment - How are students' information needs, seeking and use affected by new teaching methods?
technology acceptance Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
  Digital textbooks: school librarians' stages of concerns in initial implementation
  An empirical analysis of mobile Internet acceptance in Chile
  Exploring factors influencing acceptance and use of video digital libraries
  The impacts of Internet knowledge on college students' intention to continue to use the Internet
teenagers see: youth
telecentres The role of telecentres in the provision of community access to electronic information
  Telecentres and the provision of community based access to electronic information in everyday life in the UK
term conflation Stemming and N-gram matching for term conflation in Turkish texts
terminology Genre, format and medium across the information professions.
text mining Semantic structures of business analytics research: applying text mining methods
  Use of news and patent mining to identify companies with growth potential
textual analysis Combining contextual interviews and participative design to define requirements for text analysis of historical media
textual information processing Textual and chemical information processing: different domains but similar algorithms
theoretical frameworks Turn, turn, turn
thesauri The integration of folksonomies within a thesaurus in a social science Web portal: SIDBRINT
  Term based comparison metrics for controlled and uncontrolled indexing languages
theses Intelligence obtained by applying data mining to a database of French theses on the subject of Brazil
  ‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
  Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students
thinking aloud see verbal protocol
time Time as a framework for information science: insights from the hobby of gourmet cooking
Topic Maps Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, the Resource Description Framework and Topic Maps
topic modelling Semantic structures of business analytics research: applying text mining methods
total quality management Total quality management, British Standard accreditation, Investors in People and academic libraries
tourism and tourists Collaborative information seeking during leisure travelling: triggers and social media usage.
  Development of online travel Web scraping for tourism statistics in Indonesia
  The development of tourism indicators through the use of social media data: the case of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  Mobile devices and information patterns amongst tourists.
TRAIN-ISS Training information services specialists in the less-favoured regions of the European Union (TRAIN-ISS)
training Training information services specialists in the less-favoured regions of the European Union (TRAIN-ISS)
transaction log analysis An improved method of studying user-system interaction by combining transaction log analysis and protocol analysis
translation Analysis of automatic translation of questions for question-answering systems
travel information Collaborative information seeking during leisure travelling: triggers and social media usage.
  Improving users' credibility perception of travel expert blogs: useful lessons from television travel shows
trust Distrust, mistrust, untrust and information practices.
  How do personality traits shape information-sharing behaviour in social media? Exploring the mediating effect of generalised trust
  How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  A practice theoretical exploration of information sharing and trust in a dispersed community of design scholars
  Privacy and trust attitudes in the intent to volunteer for data-tracking research
  The role of trust and authority in the citation behaviour of researchers
  Trust or do not trust: evaluation strategies used by online health information consumers in South East Asia.
Turkey Agricultural information systems and communication networks: the case of dairy farmers in the Samsun province of Turkey
Turkish language Stemming and N-gram matching for term conflation in Turkish texts
Twitter Co-experience on Twitter: a study of information technology professionals
  Image use in social network communication: a case study of tweets on the Boston marathon bombing
  Internationality in Finnish Research: an examination of collaborators, citers, tweeters, and readers.
  Network relationships of U.S. government health agencies in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic
  Twitter conversation dynamics of political controversies: the case of Sweden's December Agreement
  Twitter conversation patterns related to research papers
  What motivates twitter users to engage with libraries?
typologies Crying mothers mobilise for a collective action: collaborative information behaviour in an online community

Uganda Double or nothing: is redundancy of spatial data a burden or a need in the public sector of Uganda?
  Information access and use by legislators in the Ugandan parliament
  The information behaviour of Ugandan banana farmers in the context of participatory development communication
uncertainty Avoiding health information in the context of uncertainty management
  Beyond eureka moments: supporting the invisible work of creativity and innovation
  Elaborating the motivational attributes of information need and uncertainty
  Factors relating to problems experienced in information seeking and use: findings from a cross-sectional population study in Finland
  Kickstarting creativity: supporting the productive faces of uncertainty in information practice
  Making sense of changing and evolving health information: exploring uncertainty in an 'evidence-based' world
  Perceived environmental uncertainty, information literacy and environmental scanning: towards a refined framework
  Uncertainty in reference and information service.
  The use of certainty and the role of topic and comment in interpersonal information seeking interaction
uncivil behaviour Responding to the haze: information cues and incivility in the online small world
unemployed persons Autonomous, controlled and half-hearted. Unemployed people's motivations to seek information about jobs
union catalogues Text genres in information organization
Universal Decimal Classification Arguments for 'the bibliographical paradigm'. Some thoughts inspired by the new English edition of the UDC
universities see: higher education
university/industry collaboration Comparative analysis of university-government-enterprise coauthorship networks in three scientific domains in the region of Madrid
university libraries see academic libraries
university students Credibility and usefulness of health information on Facebook: a survey study with U.S. college students.
  Cultural differences in the health information environments and practices between Finnish and Japanese university students
  A deeper look into the complex relationship between social media use and academic outcomes and attitudes
  Domain knowledge, search behaviour, and search effectiveness of engineering and science students: an exploratory study
  Freshmen's use of library electronic resources and self-efficacy
  How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  Influence of user ratings, expert ratings and purposes of information use on the credibility judgments of college students
  Information behaviour of undergraduate students using Facebook Confessions for educational purposes
  Information resource selection of undergraduate students in academic search tasks
  Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: the cases of engineering and law students in Ireland
  Personal digital information archiving among students of social sciences and humanities
  Research together: exploring students’ collaborative information behaviour in group work settings
  Student search behaviour in an online public access catalogue: an examination of 'searching mental models' and 'searcher self-concept'
  Supporting undergraduate learning through the collaborative promotion of e-journals by library and academic departments
  Task based design of a digital work environment (DWE) for an academic community
  Uncovering the research process of international students in North America: are they different from domestic students?
  University students' information seeking behaviour in a changing learning environment - How are students' information needs, seeking and use affected by new teaching methods?
university students Using e-materials for study: students’ perceptions vs. perceptions of academic librarians and teachers
  Young people's perceptions and usage of Wikipedia
university teachers see academics
USA Comparing the diffusion and adoption of linked data and research data management services among libraries.
  How Middle Eastern students in the USA use their social networks for medication information: a mixed methods study
  Mixed methods data collection using simulated Google results: reflections on the methods of a point-of-selection behaviour study
  Public library websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation
Uruguay Old women and tablets: information behaviour in unfavourable contexts and social mediators [Short paper]
usability Criterios para la evaluación de la usabilidad de los recursos educativos virtuales: un análisis desde la alfabetización en información
  Human-agent interaction from the perspective of information behaviour and usability. [Poster abstract]
  Public library websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation
usefulness The concept of usefulness in library and information science research
Usenet Searching Usenet for virtual communities of practice: using mixed methods to identify the constructs of Wenger's theory
user experience Exploring the influences on pragmatic and hedonic aspects of user experience.
  Information-related behaviour as meaning-making processes: a study of science centre visitors
  Issues and challenges in researchers’ adoption of open access and institutional repositories: a contextual study of a university repository
user satisfaction Accounting for users' inflated assessments of on-line catalogue search performance and usefulness: an experimental study
  Satisfaction and perception of usefulness among users of business information services in Japan
  Understanding user satisfaction with Chinese government social media platforms
  User satisfaction with referrals at a collaborative virtual reference service
user studies see information needs, information-seeking behaviour
uses and gratifications theory Determinants of continued use of social media: the perspectives of uses and gratifications theory and perceived interactivity.
  Understanding news-sharing across different platforms: the effects of newsworthiness and gratifications from news-sharing

vaccination E-health literacy and the vaccination dilemma: an Israeli perspective
Veblen, Thorstein Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
verbal protocol Observing documentary reading by verbal protocol
video digital libraries Exploring factors influencing acceptance and use of video digital libraries
video games see: gaming
video libraries Exploring factors influencing acceptance and use of video digital libraries
video retrieval Effects of topic progression in interactive video retrieval experimentation
Vietnam The application of structuration theory in studying collaboration between librarians and academic staff in universities in Australia and Vietnam.
  A two-way street: collaboration and information sharing in academia. A theoretically-based, comparative Australian/Vietnamese study
vignettes Bridging information requirements and information needs assessment: do scenarios and vignettes provide a link?
violence towards women Analysis of collaboration and co-citation networks between researchers studying violence involving women
virtual communities The 2014 Scottish independence referendum: a study of voters' online information behaviour.
  Affording a place: the role of persistent structures in social navigation
  Contemporary Chinese parents' needs and questions of parenting for young children: a Web text-mining approach
  Crying mothers mobilise for a collective action: collaborative information behaviour in an online community
  Dialogue processes in online information seeking and sharing: a study of an asynchronous discussion group
  Empathetic communication among discourse participants in virtual communities of people who suffer from mental illnesses
  Ethnomethodology and the study of online communities: exploring the cyber streets
  Exploring temporal variations of depression-related health information behaviour in a discussion forum: the case of Suomi24
  Field differences in the use and perceived usefulness of scholarly mailing lists
  For or against Brexit? Justifying oppositional arguments in online discussion
  Information exchange in virtual communities: a typology.
  Inscription and interpretation of text: a cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community
  Internet corporate reporting by listed firms in Hong Kong
  Is this OCD?: Exploring conditions of information poverty in online support groups dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder
  Leading factors that explain engagement in closed Facebook groups
  A model for the development of virtual communities for people with long-term, severe physical disabilities
  Modelling user trust in online health rumours: an experiment-based study in China.
  A social network study of the growth of community among distance learners
  The mutual shaping of online and offline social relationships
  Network analysis of a virtual community of learning of economics educators.
  Online communities: satisfaction and continued use intention
  Responding to the haze: information cues and incivility in the online small world
  Searching Usenet for virtual communities of practice: using mixed methods to identify the constructs of Wenger's theory
  Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: the ramifications of the information behaviour of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
  Topical network of breast cancer information in a Korean American online community: a semantic network analysis
  Understanding on-line community: the affordances of virtual space
  The use of an online forum for health information by married Korean women in the United States
  Users’ link sharing in an online health community.
virtual learning environments
see also experiential learning
The challenge of automated tutoring in Web-based learning environments for information retrieval instruction
  Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment
  Evaluation of the JISC Information Environment: student perceptions of services
  Information activities and appropriation in teacher trainees’ digital, group-based learning
  Learning from student experiences for online assessment tasks.
  Students' collective knowledge construction in the virtual learning environment "TôLigado - your school interactive newspaper
virtual reference service Conceptualizing collaboration and community in virtual reference and social question and answer services
  The Library Visit Study: user experiences at the virtual reference desk
  Social question and answer services versus library virtual reference: evaluation and comparison from the users' perspective
visual impairment See: blind & sight-impaired persons
visual information resources A profession in transition: towards development and implementation of standards for visual resources management. Part A - the organization's perspective
visual research methods Visual methods and quality in information behaviour research: the cases of photovoice and mental mapping
visualisation Cognitive styles and eye movement patterns: an empirical investigation into user interactions with interface elements and visualisation objects of a scientific information system
visualization of information see: information visualization
voluntary organizations Tensions and contradictions in the information behaviour of Board members of a voluntary organization

Web literacy see: information skills
Web page design Everyday inclusive Web design: an activity perspective
  No bad web pages: reader empowerment and the Web
  The rise and fall of text on the Web: a quantitative study of Web archives
  Some features of alt texts associated with images in Web pages
  Watch this: Greasemonkey the Web
  Watch this: help for sick pages
Weblogs see: blogs
Webmail Cognitive factors in predicting continued use of information systems with technology adoption models.
Web ranking The impact of time in link-based Web ranking
Websites Análisis de la información sobre identidad visual y comunicación corporativa en los sitios web: un estudio sobre los bancos y cajas de ahorros en España
  Comparative analysis of homepage Website visibility and academic rankings for UK universities
  Cultural congruence of websites: conscious, unconscious or coincidental? The case of Honda Cars.
  Customised content and impact in Website evaluation models: the case of international film festivals
  Exploring reward mechanisms on social question and answer Websites: quantifying the interdependences among user activities
  Health care information for youth in vulnerability contexts: designing a website with an interdisciplinary and participatory approach
  Public library Websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation
  Tracking government Websites for information integration
  Visual presentation and communication of Croatian academic Websites
Wikipedia Authoring Wikipedia articles as an information literacy assignment: copy-pasting or expressing new understanding in one's own words?
  Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors
  How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25
  Individual and collaborative information behaviour of Wikipedians in the context of their involvement with Hebrew Wikipedia
  An inside view: credibility in Wikipedia from the perspective of editors
  The search queries that took Australian Internet users to Wikipedia
  Where does the information come from? Information source use patterns in Wikipedia
  Young people's perceptions and usage of Wikipedia
women Blogging motivations of women suffering from infertility
  Public libraries as places for empowering women through autonomous learning activities
  Use of information and communication technologies in the everyday lives of Indian women: a normative behaviour perspective.
  Women in academia: a bibliometric perspective
word clouds From library and information science through information studies to information studies and interactive media: emergence, expansion and integration of information studies at the University of Tampere illustrated in word clouds
word variant identification Targeted s-gram matching: a novel n-gram matching technique for cross- and mono-lingual word form variants
  Word variant identification in Old French
workplace studies Handling inconsistencies between information modalities - workplace learning of newly qualified nurses
  Information literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors [Short paper]
  Towards a definition of metaskills
  Work and information: which workplace models still work in modern digital workplaces?
  Work roles as enactors of workplace information practices: the diverse role of physicians in a health care team.
World Wide Web
see also search engines; semantic web
An activity-theory-based model to analyse Web application requirements
  Analysis of the similarity of the responses of Web search engines to user queries: a user perspective
  An evaluation of New Zealand political party Websites
  Assessing Website quality in context: retrieving information about genetically modified food on the Web
  Business use of the World Wide Web
  Business Use of The World Wide Web: a report on further investigations
  Back door entries, invisible ink, and false drops on the Web: in interim research note
  Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user Web browsing strategies
  Construcción de estrategias sistemáticas para la búsqueda exhaustiva de información en Internet: un marco de toma de decisiones aplicado a la información sobre psicología de la salud
  The development of children's Web searching skills - a non-linear model
  Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence.
  The effect of query complexity on Web searching results
  Five things to change first when academic libraries embrace Web access
  Impact of open access scholarly publications on the Web
  In Web search we trust? Articulation of the cognitive authorities of Web searching.
  The influence that JavaScript™ has on the visibility of a Website to search engines - a pilot study
  Information behaviour that keeps found things found
  Information literacy standards and the World Wide Web: results from a student survey on evaluation of Internet information sources
  Information quality assessment on the Web: an expression of behaviour
  Gender and learning attitudes in using Web-based science lessons
  Lithuanian on-line periodicals on the World Wide Web
  A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence
  Maintaining Web cache coherency
  Making sense of the Web: a metaphorical approach
  Perceived difficulty as a determinant of Web search success
  Publishing, bookselling and the World Wide Web
  A review of Web information seeking research: considerations of method and foci of interest
  Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study
  Solving problems on the World Wide Web
  A study of the development of the digital ranch.
  The use of the Internet by English academics
  Veblen online: information and the risk of commandeering the conspicuous self
  Watch this: corralling wild bits.
  Watch this: Web services
  Web 2.0 as a tool for market intelligence acquisition in the Malaysian hotel industry
  Web information seeking by pages: an observational study of moving and stopping
  Web links as research indicators: analogues of citations?
  Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval
  Webometrics: emergent or doomed?
  What is the title of a Web page? A study of Webography practice
  What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation
  Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on the Web

XML From HTML to XML and more? A case study of language games within portal server technology implementation
  Watch this: artisanal animation
  Watch this: forms move centre stage.
  Watch this: Webified markup
  Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on the Web
  XML: the future of web markup?

young adults The online information experiences of news-seeking young adults
  Socio-demographic characteristics associated with everyday health information literacy of young men.
  Young men´s perceptions of fear appeal versus neutral health messages – associations with everyday health information literacy, education, and health.
youth The anatomy of excitement: teenagers’ conceptualizations of literary quality.
  Creating and sharing: teens’ information practices in digital communities
  Everyday hassles and related information behaviour among youth: a case study in Taiwan
  Finnish adolescents’ selection and assessment of health information sources
  Health care information for youth in vulnerability contexts: designing a website with an interdisciplinary and participatory approach
  Health information for the teenage years: what do they want to know?
  Influence of demographics and information literacy self-efficacy on information avoidance propensity among youth
  Information behaviour among young women in vulnerable contexts and social inclusion: the role of social mediators.
  The role of youths’ perceived information literacy in their assessment of youth information and counselling services
  Social mediators and inclusive information: communication flow of healthcare information among adolescents in vulnerable communities
  Subject positions of children in information behaviour research
  Teen engagements with data in an after-school data literacy programme at the public library
  Tweens and their in-betweens: giving voice to young people when exploring emerging information practices associated with smart devices.

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