The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to examine three models of subject indexing (i.e. expert-led indexing, author-generated indexing, and user-orientated indexing); and to compare and contrast two user-orientated indexing ...

Thesis summary This thesis explores UK Internet users’ experiences of creating and maintaining friendships on social networking sites and online communities, with a particular focus on how online friendships compare to and ...

Abstract The purpose of this dissertation was to explore how different countries are approaching archiving Web 2.0 records and to ascertain if a global approach would be appropriate or practical. Archives that capture and ...

Background: The NHS is undergoing major change and libraries are not sheltered from the impact of this change. The demands of evidence based practice and clinical governance mean that librarians are increasingly expected ...

The aim of the article is to explore and explain some of the controversies around home uterine monitoring, using a socio-technical interaction networks (STIN) approach. A Cochrane systematic review identified 15 included ...

Abstract The model for evidence based library and information practice makes assumptions about the way librarians should use evidence to inform decisions. This study explores how academic librarians actually use evidence ...

This paper proposes a methodology through which to examine the history of generic novels. It is an attempt to reconstruct publishing history using the internal evidence of the books themselves. A key assumption is that ...