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Co‐term network analysis as a means of describing the information landscapes of knowledge communities across sectors

Jacobs, Neil - In: Journal of Documentation 58 (2002) 5, pp. 548-562

Many and varied information sources are used by researchers and managers across sectors relevant to public policy development. When aggregated, these sources can be described in terms of sector‐specific information landscapes. This paper describes results from a survey that investigated such...

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Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university Web site interlinking

Thelwall, Mike - In: Journal of Documentation 58 (2002) 5, pp. 563-574

The Web is an important medium for scholarly communication of various types, perhaps eventually to replace entirely some traditional mechanisms such as print journals. Yet the Web analogy of citations, hyperlinks, are much more varied in use and existing citation techniques are difficult to...

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A research and institutional size‐based model for national university Web site interlinking

Thelwall, Mike - In: Journal of Documentation 58 (2002) 6, pp. 683-694

for universities and measures of institutional research. This paper operates on a finer‐grained level of detail, focussing … on counts of links between pairs of universities. It provides evidence of an underlying linear relationship with the …

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Can Google's PageRank be used to find the most important academic Web pages?

Thelwall, Mike - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 2, pp. 205-217

Google's PageRank is an influential algorithm that uses a model of Web use that is dominated by its link structure in order to rank pages by their estimated value to the Web community. This paper reports on the outcome of applying the algorithm to the Web sites of three national university...

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The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets and Management

Petuchovaitė, Ramunė - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 6, pp. 742-745

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RoMEO studies 1: the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self‐archiving

Gadd, Elizabeth; Oppenheim, Charles; Probets, Steve - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 3, pp. 243-277

copyright ownership in research papers by universities, academics, and publishers by drawing on the literature, a survey of 542 …‐archiving is not best supported by copyright transfer to publishers. It recommends that universities assert their interest in …

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Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning

Urquhart, Christine - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 5, pp. 678-680

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Should top universities be led by top researchers and are they?

Goodall, Amanda H. - In: Journal of Documentation 62 (2006) 3, pp. 388-411

Purpose – This paper seeks to address the question: should the world's top universities be led by top researchers, and … universities identified in a global university ranking. These numbers are then normalised by adjusting for the different citation … position of that university in the global ranking. Better universities are run by better researchers. The results are not …

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Do academic link types change over time?

Payne, Nigel; Thelwall, Mike - In: Journal of Documentation 64 (2008) 5, pp. 707-720

Purpose – This paper seeks to address the question: do university web sites publish the same kind of information and use the same kind of hyperlinks year on year or do these change over time? Design/methodology/approach – A link classification exercise is used to identify temporal changes in...

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Modelling information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University

Al‐Muomen, Nujoud; Morris, Anne; Maynard, Sally - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 4, pp. 430-459

Purpose – This paper seeks to report the results of research conducted to model the information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University and the factors influencing that behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The research employed a number of different approaches: a...

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