Information Services and Use archive 

About: Information Services and Use archive is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Information system & Information technology. Over the lifetime, 292 publications have been published receiving 1969 citations.

Optimizing convenient online access to bibliographic databases

Abstract: Analyse des variables affectant, peu ou prou, l'efficacite de la recherche en ligne: politique d'indexation, strategie de recherche, taille de la base de donnees et taux de couverture des domaines specialises etc

Web searching, search engines and Information Retrieval

Abstract: This article discusses Web search engines; mainly the challenges in indexing the World Wide Web, the user behaviour, and the ranking factors used by these engines Ranking factors are divided into query-dependent and query-independent factors, the latter of which have become more and more important within recent years The possibilities of these factors are limited, mainly of those that are based on the widely used link popularity measures The article concludes with an overview of factors that should be considered to determine the quality of Web search engines

The paradigm of viral communication

Abstract: The IIW Institute of Information Management (www.IIW.de) is dealing with commercial applications of digital technologies, such as the internet, digital printing, and many more.A study which has recently been carried out by the institute, identifies viral messages as a new paradigm of communication, mostly found in the area of Direct Marketing, and - who wonders - mainly within the USA. Viral messages underly certain principles: (1) Prospects and customers of the idea are offered a technology platform providing a possibility to send a message to a majority of persons; (2) There is an emotional or pecuniary incentive to participate. Ideally, niches of needs and market vacua are filled with funny ideas; (3) Also, the recipients are facing emotional or pecuniary incentives to contact a majority of further recipients - this induces a snowball effect and the message is spread virally and (4) The customer is activated as an "ambassador" of the piece of information, for instance promoting a product or a company.It is evident that there has been a long lasting history of what we call "word-of-mouth" ever since, however bundles of digital technologies empower the viral communication paradigm.

Education for Knowledge Management

Abstract: There are two key problems in designing curriculum for knowledge management (KM) The first is that what the business community means by KM is in many cases not what the academic community understands the term to mean Second, professional schools while providing the educational background needed for subsequent more senior positions, tend to educate for the skills needed for entry level positions, whereas KM jobs are senior level jobs that require a deep understanding of the organizational context and culture