Although the information needs of women receiving antenatal and postnatal care are well understood, few studies have … examined the use of information by minority ethnic women. This paper describes a pilot study that aimed to identify the main … maternity information sources used by Somali women living in a northern city in the UK. The study described here utilised …

This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Internet information on smoking cessation using a cross‐sectional survey … design. The characteristics and content of 89 Web sites containing smoking cessation information were evaluated. The quality … of these sites were measured by the information quality tool (IQT), quality scale (QS) and DISCERN. The most widely …

addressed to a large film archive this study analyses what types of information needs real users have and how these needs are … expressed. The findings include that the requesters make use of a broad range of need attributes in specifying their information … much as 43 per cent of the requests contain no information about the context that gives rise to the request. The current …

underexplored aspect of his career is a lifelong interest in scientific communication, documentation and information science …. Utilising records in the Bernal archive in Cambridge, UK, this paper assesses Bernal's information career. It explores Bernal …‐1949, as figurehead of a co‐ordinated but unsuccessful left‐wing campaign to establish an Institute of Scientific Information …

Information seeking does not occur in a vacuum but invariably is motivated by some wider task. It is well accepted that … to understand information seeking we must understand the task context within which it takes place. Writing is amongst the … most common tasks within which information seeking is embedded. This paper considers how writing can be understood in order …

From the perspective of semiotics, “information” is an ambiguous theoretical concept because the word is used to … theoretical possibilities that open by virtue of understanding information as sign. Of particular interest is the way semiotics … suggests ways to bridge the theoretical gap between information as thing and information as cognitive phenomenon by positing …

This paper is primarily concerned with self‐efficacy in the context of information literacy. The focus is first on the … was to explore students’ (who enrolled in the Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey …) perceived self‐efficacy for information and computer literacy, are scrutinized. Results of the research indicate no significant …

, on “Evolution and information”, is set in the context of debates as to the reality and significance of the link between … the growth and development of human information and knowledge, and of biological (genetic) information and evolution.  …

The association between life and information is discussed. Information is considered to be “a stimulus which expands or …. It is proposed that information was derived from the environment as a direct result of the evolution of organisms that … World Views by other means. Such reinterpretation of evolutionary thinking has numerous implications for the information …