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• Increasing public and fair access to scientific findings 

  Zhou, Siyuan (iSchools, 2016-03-15)

  Public and fair access to scientific findings is an increasingly important movement for scientists, researchers, and knowledge workers who can put the findings to good use and build upon the scholarly research to innovate. ...

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• How others affect your Twitter #hashtag adoption? Examination of community-based and context-based information diffusion in Twitter 

  Zhang, Chenwei; Gao, Zheng; Liu, Xiaozhong (iSchools, 2016-03-15)

  Twitter has become a rich source of people’s opinions about a variety of topics, such as their daily life, and current news. Twitter’s retweeting and mentioning mechanisms enable users to disseminate information broadly. ...

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• Understanding scientific collaboration from the perspective of collaborators and their network structures 

  Zhang, Chenwei; Bu, Yi; Ding, Ying (iSchools, 2016-03-15)

  Scientific collaboration is one of the key factors to trigger innovations. Coauthorship networks have been taken as representations of scholars’ collaboration for a long time. This study investigates how the authors’ ...

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• Changing perceptions of a good book price: comparing the net price system of the 1900s to contemporary e-book pricing debates 

  Zhang, Mei; Eschenfelder, Kristin R. (iSchools, 2016-03-15)

  This paper explores how the valuation of books as cultural commodities change through examination of two historical periods of book pricing and publisher-vendor-library relations. The paper compares current e-book pricing ...

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• Health information seeking behavior of individuals with hearing loss in an online community 

  Yu, Biyang; Lee, Jongwook; Dong, Hang (iSchools, 2016-03-15)

  To address the dearth of research on the behavior of individuals with hearing loss who seek health information, this pilot study was designed to explore their health concerns and information needs in an online community, ...

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