Evaluating Internet information services in the Asia‐Pacific region

Watters, Paul A.; Watters, Maya F.; Carr, Stuart C.

doi:10.1108/10662249810217894

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“…He focused on two variables: the number of IP addresses as the surrogates for users, and the number of downloads (both HTML and PDF). Zhang (1999) and Watters et al (1998) analysed the log data of just one journal. Zhang used proprietary log analysis software, Getstats, to study a nine month period of log data of the web-based journal Review of Information Science.…”

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The use and users of scholarly e‐journals: a review of log analysis studies

2005

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Purpose -To provide a review of the log analysis studies of use and users of scholarly electronic journals. Design/methodology/approach -The advantages and limitations of log analysis are described and then past studies of e-journals' use and users that applied this methodology are critiqued. The results of these studies will be very briefly compared with some survey studies. Those aspects of online journals' use and users studies that log analysis can investigate well and those aspects that log analysis can not disclose enough information about are highlighted. Findings -The review indicates that although there is a debate about reliability of the results of log analysis, this methodology has great potential for studying online journals' use and their users' information seeking behaviour. Originality/value -This paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of log analysis for studying digital journals and raises a couple of questions to be investigated by further studies.

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Section: Scholarly E-journals Use and User Studiesmentioning

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The use and users of scholarly e‐journals: a review of log analysis studies

2005

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“…Access to information delivered over the Internet is best characterized on a sliding scale or, more accurately, on a multi-dimensional scale. Ultimately, individuals and organizations have very different information needs, and the connection between access and benefits must be scrutinized carefully (Jimba and Atinmo, 2000;Watters et al, 1998). Still, collective Internet access patterns offer a macro-scale view of Internet diffusion as a starting point.…”

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Prospects for the global Internet: new techniques for delivering rich digital collections to users world‐wide

Dempsey

2000

The Electronic Library

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Every user of the World Wide Web understands why the WWW is often ridiculed as the World Wide Wait. The WWW and other applications on the Internet have been developed with a client‐server orientation that, in its simplest form, involves a centralized information repository to which users (clients) send requests. This single‐server model suffers from performance problems when clients are too numerous, when clients are physically far away in the Network, when the materials being delivered become very large and hence stress the wide‐area bandwidth, and when the information has a real‐time delivery component as with streaming audio and video materials. Engineering information delivery solutions that break the single‐site model has become an important aspect of next‐generation WWW delivery systems. Intends to help the information professional understand what new directions the delivery infrastructure of the WWW is taking and why these technical changes will impact users around the globe, especially in bandwidth‐poor areas of the Internet.

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“…Duplicating other people's work via Internet access is easy for anyone. Recent Pew Research Center investigations show that over the past decade, a large proportion of college leaders (55%) believe that plagiarism has increased, and the Internet is largely (89%) to blame (Watters, 2011).…”

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Academic Integrity: Preventing Students’ Plagiarism with TURNITIN

Ismail¹,

Jabri²

2023

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The problem of plagiarism in writing scientific articles is intellectual dishonesty and received a lot of attention during this research, and relatively few students understand about plagiarism. A total of 16 respondents from final year students of the English education department involved in this research. The single group pretest-posttest comparative method was used to assess an action to determine the performance gap between the two time periods, before and after the intervention. Student papers were first submitted to measure their level of plagiarism without their knowledge. The results showed that Muhammadiyah Enrekang students practiced plagiarism on average 50.88%. Subsequently, the students were introduced by Turnitin's plagiarism detecting software and advised to examine their writing using software. The learning model intervention is then carried out with development training. The results showed that the average level of plagiarism among students decreased by 18.81%. In terms of students' perceptions of using Turnitin as a standard way of submitting their final assignments and to get feedback, the overall student reaction to the system used was positive. To avoid plagiarism, a more systematic approach should be taken by the University towards the problem of academic dishonesty, and in particular by students for the specific reasons why they practice plagiarism.

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Evaluating Internet information services in the Asia‐Pacific region

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

The use and users of scholarly e‐journals: a review of log analysis studies

The use and users of scholarly e‐journals: a review of log analysis studies

Prospects for the global Internet: new techniques for delivering rich digital collections to users world‐wide

Academic Integrity: Preventing Students’ Plagiarism with TURNITIN

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