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Professional avatars: librarians and educators in virtual worlds

Mon, Lorri M. - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 3, pp. 318-329

conservative, humanoid avatar appearance, and imagery drawn from traditional workplaces were used by librarians and educators to … establish their professional role with “newbies”, while for “residents” an upgraded avatar appearance was necessary to convey … virtual worlds, this study describes issues in providing avatar‐mediated online distance education and online library services …

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Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation

Urban, Alex C. - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2022) 2, pp. 398-414

Purpose Video game players, equipped with image capturing and rendering features, are taking photographs within digital worlds. This study examines video game photography as a documentary practice. By considering the experiences of a gamer-turned-photographer, this study offers an initial...

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Seek, share, or withhold: information trading in MMORPGs

Harviainen, J. Tuomas; Hamari, Juho - In: Journal of Documentation 71 (2015) 6, pp. 1119-1134

severely understudied within library and information science. The paper contributes to that line of research, by showing how …

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Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society

Roper, Michael - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 5, pp. 617-619

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Using classification to convict the Khmer Rouge

Caswell, Michelle - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 2, pp. 162-184

‐Cam database shows, archival description can be used as a tool to promote accountability in societies coming to terms with …

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Serendipity and information seeking: an empirical study

Foster, Allen; Ford, Nigel - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 3, pp. 321-340

“Serendipity” has both a classical origin in literature and a more modern manifestation where it is found in the descriptions of the problem solving and knowledge acquisition of humanities and science scholars. Studies of information retrieval and information seeking have also discussed the...

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Abstracting/abstract adaptation to digital environments: research trends

Pinto, Maria - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 5, pp. 581-608

‐term prospects for progress. Concludes that reengineering, networking and visualising would be middle‐term fruitful areas of research …

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Reasons for the use and non‐use of electronic journals and databases

Talja, Sanna; Maula, Hanni - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 6, pp. 673-691

Previous research has shown that there are major differences in the search methods used in different disciplines, and … disciplinary differences in e‐journal use, outline hypotheses to be tested more rigorously in future research, and test them …

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UK Higher Education Research Yearbook

Line, Maurice B. - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 6, pp. 739-742

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Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise V

Norris, Michael; Oppenheim, Charles - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 6, pp. 709-730

A citation study of the 692 staff that makes up unit of assessment 58 (archaeology), in the 2001 UK Research Assessment …

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