Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Guest editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics Part 2

Guest editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics Part 2 Guest editorial Guest editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics Part 2 With an overwhelming interest in high-quality submission (Huang et al., 2021), we continue with Part II of our special issue on COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics. The selection of papers for Part II of this special issue coincided with the global spread of the Omicron variant. While this variant seems less lethal, it spreads more quickly and generates more breakthrough cases than its predecessors. We anticipate more continuing and breakthrough research in informatics related to COVID-19 as the pandemic evolves. Up to December 2021, we accepted the following 15 papers for the second series of the special issue. 1. Re-engineering in learning and library services during the pandemic Many countries and cities were locked down during the pandemic to avoid spreading the COVID-19. Most schools were closed, and students continued their studies through online training. The trend of reading habits moving from print to electronic (Wang et al., 2016; Yu et al., 2021) has accelerated (Sung and Chiu, 2021). While online learning is not new, it was not the major learning pathway until the pandemic. Feng et al. (2022) collected data from Zhihu, a Chinese website similar to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library Hi Tech Emerald Publishing

Guest editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics Part 2

Download PDF
5 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/guest-editorial-covid-19-pandemic-and-health-informatics-part-2-VYXpSf1ahJ

References (72)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
0737-8831
DOI
10.1108/lht-04-2022-447
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Guest editorial Guest editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics Part 2 With an overwhelming interest in high-quality submission (Huang et al., 2021), we continue with Part II of our special issue on COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Informatics. The selection of papers for Part II of this special issue coincided with the global spread of the Omicron variant. While this variant seems less lethal, it spreads more quickly and generates more breakthrough cases than its predecessors. We anticipate more continuing and breakthrough research in informatics related to COVID-19 as the pandemic evolves. Up to December 2021, we accepted the following 15 papers for the second series of the special issue. 1. Re-engineering in learning and library services during the pandemic Many countries and cities were locked down during the pandemic to avoid spreading the COVID-19. Most schools were closed, and students continued their studies through online training. The trend of reading habits moving from print to electronic (Wang et al., 2016; Yu et al., 2021) has accelerated (Sung and Chiu, 2021). While online learning is not new, it was not the major learning pathway until the pandemic. Feng et al. (2022) collected data from Zhihu, a Chinese website similar to

Journal

Library Hi Tech – Emerald Publishing

Published: Mar 29, 2022

There are no references for this article.