This paper provides a high‐level overview of some of the main research themes and preoccupations that are reported in this special ciber issue of Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives. The research activities of ciber are drawn together in the quest for a better understanding of the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to argue that a business‐marketing outlook is a lucid perspective for enhancing the value of business school faculty services provision and administration. Given the number of scholars worldwide in the area of business marketing (several hundred) compared with the...

Purpose – This paper aims to recommend dynamic capabilities as an integrative framework for the business school curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the history, sources, and consequences of the disciplinary fragmentation of most curricula. There is a determined...

The study was conducted to establish whether there is a need at the Medical Research Council for a formal CI function to be implemented. The objective of the investigation was to establish whether the CI techniques and methods, which are traditionally applied in the commercial industry, could be...

Purpose - Since the beginning of human existence, humankind has sought, organized and used information as it evolved patterns and practices of human information behaviors. However, the field of human information behavior (HIB) has not heretofore pursued an evolutionary understanding of...