The increasing availability of online content these days raises several questions about
effective access to information. In particular, the possibility for almost everyone to generate …

Purpose The purpose of this systematic literature review was to collect and review the
studies published worldwide in English language presenting the persuasive role of …

Purpose The impact of COVID-19 has led to a surge in the public's reliance on the Internet
for pandemic information, and the policy of home isolation has exacerbated this. This study …

To celebrate the 40th year ofLibrary Hi Tech, we conclude Volume 40 of our journal with a
selection of papers related to the latest issues related to library research. This editorial …

First, we thank the publisher for increasing the printing budget by 20 more articles this year
and next year in response to the long print queue. Also, we have had a timely response to …

Purpose This research explored how COVID-19 affects Shenzhen high school students'
reading behavior and preference and their parents' attitudes toward reading during the …

Purpose The paper aims to investigate the most influential social media information sources
to trust in healthcare facilities. The article shows a valuable point of reference for …

Purpose Grounded in the stressor-strain-outcome model, this study aims to examine the
impact of different information sources on information behavior among the Pakistani Z …

Following our previous special issues on social robots (Kelner et al., 2022) and smart cities
(Chang and Abdel-Basset, 2022), we are glad to present this special issue on contemporary …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the mechanism of the misinformation spread based
on the elaboration likelihood model and the effects of four factors–emotion, topic, authority …