Online Information Review Volume 37 Issue 2

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Like me! Analyzing the 2012 presidential candidates’ Facebook pages

Jenny Bronstein

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-01-2013-0002

Purpose – The present study aims to report the findings of a qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the Facebook pages of the two presidential candidates. Design/methodology/approach – The sample contained 513 posts collected during the last three months of the 2012 US presidential...

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Social media and scholarly reading

Carol Tenopir; Rachel Volentine; Donald W. King

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-04-2012-0062

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how often university academic staff members use and create various forms of social media for their work and how that use influences their use of traditional scholarly information sources. Design/methodology/approach – This article is based on a...

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A comparative analysis of the search feature effectiveness of the major English and Chinese search engines

Jin Zhang; Wei Fei; Taowen Le

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-07-2011-0099

Purpose – The purpose of this paper to investigate the effectiveness of selected search features in the major English and Chinese search engines and compare the search engines’ retrieval effectiveness. Design/approach/methodology – The search engines Google, Google China, and Baidu were selected...

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E‐commerce websites for developing countries – a usability evaluation framework

Layla Hasan; Anne Morris; Steve Probets

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-10-2011-0166

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodological usability evaluation approach for e‐commerce websites in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – A multi‐faceted usability evaluation of three Jordanian e‐commerce websites was used, where three usability methods (user...

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A longitudinal study of HotMap web search

Orland Hoeber

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-09-2011-0153

Purpose – HotMap web search was designed to support exploratory search tasks by adding lightweight visual and interactive features to the commonly used list‐based representation of web search results. Although laboratory user studies are the most common method for empirically validating the...

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Keyword stuffing and the big three search engines

Herbert Zuze; Melius Weideman

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-11-2011-0193

Purpose – The purpose of this research project was to determine how the three biggest search engines interpret keyword stuffing as a negative design element. Design/methodology/approach – This research was based on triangulation between scholar reporting, search engine claims, SEO practitioners...

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Do natural language search engines really understand what users want? A comparative study on three natural language search engines and Google

Nadjla Hariri

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-12-2011-0210

Purpose – The main purpose of this research is to determine whether the performance of natural language (NL) search engines in retrieving exact answers to the NL queries differs from that of keyword searching search engines. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 40 natural language queries...

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Users’ experiences and perceptions on using two wiki platforms for collaborative learning and knowledge management

Samuel Kai Wah Chu; Felix Siu; Michael Liang; Catherine M. Capio; Wendy W.Y. Wu

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-03-2011-0043

Purpose – This study aims to examine users’ experiences and perceptions associated with the use of two wiki variants in the context of collaborative learning and knowledge management in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – Participants included two groups of postgraduate students from...

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ProQuest's Graduate Education Program (GEP) – a powerful, free database and software package for LIS educators and students worldwide

Peter Jacso

2013 Online Information Review

doi:10.1108/OIR-04-2013-0068

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the main features of the components of Proquest's giga database package for LIS faculty and students of databases and software services. These allow complimentary access to hundreds of indexing/abstracting, directory and full‐text databases, to...

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