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• Is the article crucial to my research? Evaluating task-oriented impacts of scientific articles in information seeking 

  Jiang, Jiepu; He, Daqing; Han, Shuguang; Jeng, Wei (iSchools, 2013-02)

  We propose a new aspect of evaluating scientific articles: crucialness, which refers to the state of articles being not only useful, but also scarce (difficult to be found or identified by scientists). Compared with the ...

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• "You guys who download stuff illegally, don't you ever feel guilty?": Initial analysis of changes in practices and values among Swedish illegal file sharers 2007-2012 

  Maurin Söderholm, Hanna; Lassi, Monica; Nelhans, Gustaf; Nolin, Jan (iSchools, 2013-02)

  The study reports on the practices of illegal file sharing in Sweden during the period 2007-2012. More than 1.000 posts in response to the question “You guys who download stuff illegally, don’t you ever feel guilty?” where ...

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• Re-inventing the wheel: The re-creation of documents in a bumble-bee organization 

  Schmidt, Ingbert (iSchools, 2013-02)

  In Library and Information Science our emphasis is typically on facilitating reuse of documents. There are many motivations behind this emphasis, but efficiency and time savings are common motivations. However, participants ...

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• Cooperative, dynamic Twitter parsing and visualization for dark network analysis 

  Dudas, Patrick M. (iSchools, 2013-02)

  Developing a network based on Twitter data for social network analysis (SNA) is a common task in most academic domains. The need for real-time analysis is not as prevalent due to the fact that researchers are interested ...

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• Regulating anti-social behavior on the Internet: The example of League of Legends 

  Kou, Yubo; Nardi, Bonnie (iSchools, 2013-02)

  Anti-social behavior, such as flaming in newsgroups and forums, is pervasive and problematic in many online venues. Such behavior breaks established norms and unsettles the well-being and development of online communities. ...

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