Tuesday, December 18, 2018

New articles: health literacy; workplace information literacy; international students; information users

The new issue of open-access journal Information Research (vol. 23, issue 4) has been published. It includes:
- Margaret S. Zimmerman: Information horizons mapping to assess the health literacy of refugee and immigrant women in the USA
- Hanseul Stephanie Lee: A comparative study on the health information needs, seeking and source preferences among mothers of young healthy children: American mothers compared to recent immigrant Korean mothers
- Sarah Bukhari, Suraya Hamid, Sri Devi Ravana and Mohamad Taha Ijab Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of international students in their use of social media in Malaysia
Go to: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-4/infres234.html
There is also a Special supplement: Proceedings of ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Krakow, Poland, 9-11 October, 2018: Part 1
- Farhan Ahmad and Gunilla Widén, Information literacy at workplace: the organizational leadership perspective
- Tim Gorichanaz, Perspective in information behaviour research
- Heidi Julien, Lynne McKechnie, Sarah Polkinghorne and Roger Chabot, The "user turn" in practice: information behaviour researchers’ constructions of information users
- Waseem Afzal, Weaving an affective framework for information behaviour research: a consideration of ‘trilogy of mind’ and ‘flow’
- Jela Steinerova, Perceptions of the information environment by researchers: a qualitative study
- Hue Thi Pham and Kirsty Williamson, A two-way street: collaboration and information sharing in academia. A theoretically-based, comparative Australian/Vietnamese study
Go to: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-4/isic2018/isic2018.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: Indside the Diamond Building, University of Sheffield.

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