resources. It outlines a framework – the MODELS Information Architecture – for thinking about the components of broker services …

This paper focuses on the importance of chemical patents as an information source. After an outline of this importance …, the discussion concentrates principally on the area of structural information, highlighting some of the special …

The Royal Society Scientific Information Conference of 1948 was a top level attempt to look at scientific and technical … information in the light of the post‐war growth of the literature. Some of the large number of recommendations have been made … and technological changes in the world since then have led to a very different environment, in which information is held …

Purpose – This paper aims to respond to Budd's discussion of meaning, truth and information by exploring the … ontological framework prescribed by critical realism. Budd's thesis that information must be defined within the context of meaning … and truth is challenged and the ontological priority of information is argued. Design/methodology/approach – Following a …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the flood of information that is inundating us. This flood makes it …/methodology/approach – Classic narrative literature review applying the dosage metaphor to the growing problem of information overload. Findings …/value – This essay develops a guiding principle for thinking about how we should cope with this central problem of the information …

Purpose To date, health information behaviour (HIB) models have not been applied to an exploration of Wikipedia as a … consumer health information resource. Wikipedia has been situated and is well established as a valuable resource for the … approach to exploring the role of Wikipedia in consumer health information behaviour (CHIB) that is grounded in a conceptual …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss the concept of information in relation to temporality within the … context of climate change communication. Furthermore, the paper aims to highlight the empirical richness of information as a … notions the interviewees introduced—fast food information, information quality and information gap–as the analytical point of …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between information and boundaries. Life depends on … boundaries: it therefore needs information. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the evolution of physical, social … and cultural boundaries and considers how they have shaped ways in which information is gathered and used. Findings …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore the concept of information resilience. Design …/methodology/approach – The concept of information resilience emerges from a qualitative study that explored the health information experience and … information practices of resettling refugees. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were employed and the data collected were …

knowledge production and the conception of information. Findings The normative view of citations is understood as an ideal … nature of citations and metrics and their implications for the conception of information and knowledge production.  …