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Background As the public increasingly uses the internet to search for resources and information regarding health and medicine, it is important that health care organizations provide adequate web resources. Website usability refers to the ease of user experience on a website. In this study, we conducted usability analyses on digital health center websites. Objective The primary aims of this study were to (1) replicate a preexisting usability scoring methodology for digital health centers; (2) apply and test this replicated usability scoring methodology on a sample set of digital health center websites; and (3) derive recommendations from the results on potential areas of improvements for our sample of digital health center websites. Methods Website usability testing was conducted from March 1, 2020, to March 15, 2020. We replicated a methodology and scoring system from previous literature and applied them to digital health center websites. Our sample included 67 digital health centers that were affiliated with US universities or hospital systems. Usability was split into the following four broad categories: accessibility, marketing, content quality, and technology. Usability tools were used to score websites in each of the four categories. The composite of the key factors of each category was used to generate a general usability and overall usability score for each website. Results The category with the highest average score (6.3) was content quality. The content quality score also had the highest SD (2.18) and an SE of 0.27. The lowest performing category was technology, which had an average score of 0.9. The technology score also had the smallest SD (0.07) and an SE of 0.01. Conclusions Our data suggest that content quality, on average, was the highest scoring variable among digital health center websites. As content is crucial to digital health knowledge, it is justified that digital health centers invest more resources into creating quality content. The overall lowest scoring variable was technology. Potential reasons for this finding include designated funding for servers, a lack of regulatory frameworks for social media presence and liability, and infrequent website audits. An easy approach for improving this variable is increasing website speed. Accessibility is another area that organizations can potentially improve. We recommend that these organizations perform periodic audits of their web presence with usability tools.

The aim of the UK Web Archive to collect and preserve the entire UK web domain ensures that it is able to reflect the diversity of voices and communities present on the open Web, including migrant communities who sustain a presence across digital and physical environments. At the same time, patterns of wider social and political exclusion, as well as the use of languages other than English, mean these communities’ web presence is often overlooked in more generic and Anglophone web archiving and (re)searching practices.

The English language is the most dominant language in the Western world and its influence can be noticed in every aspect of human communication. It&rsquo, s increasing diffusion, especially since the turn of the century, is hard to measure with conventional means. The present research studies the use of language in websites of European Union (EU) member states, in order to collect data about the prevalence of the English language in the different countries and regions of the European Union. To achieve a realistic representation of today&rsquo, s landscape of the European Web, this study uses a vast population of websites and a representative sampling size and methodology. By analyzing and processing the findings from over 100,000 websites from every country in the EU, a solid foundation is set that is used to explore the dominance of the English language in the European World Wide Web in general. This is the first study that examines the presence of English content in the websites of all EU member countries and provides statistical evidence regarding the ratio of English content availability for each country. Conclusively, the results of the research demonstrate that the English language is available on more than one quarter of all websites of non-English speaking EU member states. Moreover, it is available in the vast majority of multilingual and bilingual websites, while at the same time being the only language that is available in a number of monolingual websites. In addition, it is shown preference over the national language in a significant number of cases. A moderate negative correlation is found between a member state&rsquo, s population and the availability of English in these countries&rsquo, websites and the same holds true for a member state&rsquo, s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Both these correlations indicate that smaller countries tend to provide more content in English in order to establish a stronger presence in the international environment. Taking into account the role of language in the expression of national identity, this study provides data and insights which may contribute to the discussion about the changes underway in the national identity of EU member states.

Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overall picture of the application of Web 2.0 technologies in national libraries in African countries. The focus of the research was to examine the types of Web 2.0 technologies that were used in national library websites and their features. Design/methodology/Approach: Content analysis was used in terms of quantitative approach. A checklist as the main research instrument was developed based on other checklists and questionnaires. Data were collected by accessing National library Web sites of African countries. Findings: In the African continent out of 61 countries 51 countries have national libraries. 31 of these have web presence and 10 national libraries are using Web 2.0 technologies in their websites. Research limitations: A combination of content analysis with survey and / or interview may enable future researchers to analyze other aspects (e.g. the application of internal wikis or the use of instant messaging for reference services) of Web 2.0 that a single method of content analysis could not gain. This study explores the application of Web 2.0 and is useful for all types of national libraries in evaluating/deploying Web 2.0.

A library website plays an enhanced role compared to its traditional physical library while providing a wide variety of library services to its users. Evaluation of library websites is a key to realize the extent of user acceptance acceptance acceptanceacceptanceacceptance acceptance of the website and to improve the overall quality of the website. Under such backdrop, this paper provides a framework for ranking university library websites in Sri Lanka based on two standard webometric methods. The proposed framework consists of quantitative web presence measuring attributes namely; size, visibility, rich files and scholars along with simple and comprehensible mathematical calculations. The library administrators can get awareness about whether their website has effectively represented itself on the internet with better performance from the ranking results. The findings of the study will guide to the librarians to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses accordingly with the performance of their library websites. In general, the effective presence of these library websites on the internet can be passed on as the top by having proper number of site pages in the website that impact their perceivability through web search tools and accordingly the quantity of received external links. Meanwhile, libraries having low rich files can publish more rich files on the web to improve their overall rank. The research approach, criteria and their relative impact provide useful information in monitoring the effectiveness of the current websites and provide strategic suggestions to develop enhanced websites.

The need for a good quality education website for reliable, effective and attractive web presence is increasing as online technology is becoming an important part of the educational process. A good school education related website is very important for delivering a good user experience and satisfaction for its users, including teachers, students, and parents. Evaluating the school education websites is largely a neglected area and need to be addressed, since lack of usability may constrain the usefulness of an educational website. This research attempts to investigate and measure the quality of the education board website of India via online web diagnostic tools. The websites are evaluated on the basis of selected quality parameters—response time, download time, page size, broken links, accessibility, markup validation, design optimization, traffic and page rank. The websites are then ranked using decision making model—Linear weighted model and TOPSIS. The ranking obtained from the two models are compared to investigate the difference in the distribution of rankings. The result of this study confirmed that the website presence of school education board website is neglecting performance and quality criteria. The result shows that there is a significant correlation between the rankings obtained by two models.

Database lists, frequently presented on Databases A to Z and subject pages, are a long-standing component of a library’s web presence. Tools for producing and managing the list are frequently a part of a more comprehensive library technology, such as electronic resource management (ERM) systems, integrated library system-ERMS, and content management systems such as LibGuides. Published literature provides good coverage of these technologies, but pays little attention to functionality for database list management. This article illustrates A to Z database list evolution from 1999 to 2017 by way of manifestations at the University of Central Florida Library, conceptualizes database list systems and functions, presents findings from a survey, and shares tips and practical considerations for producing and managing database lists.

Nonprofits must reach a variety of community audiences to sustain their organizations, and these audiences include potential volunteers, donors, and clients. With the increasing availability of open-source, freely available, and inexpensive communication technologies, many nonprofits can now develop a robust web presence that targets a variety of audiences via a variety of channels. In this article, we present a three-part heuristic to help nonprofits better manage digital content. This heuristic is comprised of developing audience awareness and interaction, making use of emerging technologies, and building sustainable partnerships. Using a project designed to help a homeless shelter improve its content strategy, we explore this heuristic and its implications for helping technical and professional communicators improve local nonprofit digital capacities.

Electronic government (e-government), facilitated through government websites are becoming the fastest delivery modes of government services, as they make services available to users, anywhere, anytime. Previous studies focused on the accessibility or quality of these websites in terms of web readiness and/or web presence quality measures. However, no known study has investigated the interrelationships among web readiness, web presence quality and information communication technology deployment for government services (ICT deployment) in Nigeria. The study used a questionnaire (test-retest Spearman r 0.79 for all construct items) to collect data from a sample of 117 public servants in 20 government agencies, on their knowledge of ICT deployment in their agencies; and a checklist for the content analysis of 207 Nigerian government websites, measuring their web readiness and web presence quality. The study recommended that government agencies should re-align ICT deployment with the information, services and features of their e-government websites.

In addition to the suggestions made by the authors of the focal article (Lapierre et al., 2018), it is also important for academics to market themselves and keep their information up to date. As a practitioner, I sometimes end up working with interesting data sets worth publishing but lack the time and resources to complete the entire publication progress. There are also times when I am in need of a targeted intervention and would be willing to work with academic researchers in a mutually beneficial arrangement. As such, I need to be able to find you. This commentary expands on the focal article by providing some tips on how to be found by practitioners and increase the likelihood that a practitioner will contact you. Though networking is also of vital importance in this area, the authors of the focal article covered that well; as such, no further discussion of it will take place here.

In today's age, a wide range of individuals create their own web presence. Thanks to modern tools, creating a website is easier than ever. In order to make sure that this increased accessibility does not come at the cost of decreased security, the respective web design knowledge should become more accessible as well. We created 16 security patterns for web design based on expert knowledge. We present the solution hierarchy of these patterns and how they might be applied by non-expert users.

Medical libraries have a history of providing quality health information. Consumers who search the Internet on their own often find out-of-date, biased, or invalid information. A strong library web presence is the best approach to connecting consumers to reliable, online resources. However, hospital web development teams focus on strategic initiatives and are not always accommodating to the web page needs of medical librarians. Utilizing LibGuides and aligning the content of web pages with hospital approved sites, librarians at a large academic medical center successfully curated modern pathfinders that are attractive, easily updated, and acceptable to hospital leadership. This article details the creation, content selection, and usage of the pathfinder guides.

We propose the concept and design of a system for visualization of university's Web presence. Using tweets obtained by university names as search keywords, we analyzed the frequency and specificity of terms to propose five categories for those terms. Moreover, we summarized tweets into classifications of tweets on universities. By way of both term analysis and philological analysis, we propose ten aspects to characterize universities, which are used to define university's Web presence for our proposed system.

This article investigates ‘stage’ models that have been developed for researchers, practitioners and policymakers to explain how small businesses move from a basic to a sophisticated online presence and/or provide advice as to how they could do this. The main problem of these models is that small businesses do not necessarily develop their online presence in this manner. In addition, they do not consider that the online presence of most small businesses extends beyond their own website to the use of third party web portals, business directories and more recently social media websites. A new model, the web presence pyramid model, is thus proposed. The model represents the adoption levels of different categories of website features and does this in a non-linear manner, overcoming a limitation of stage models. A further contribution of the article is the classification of the web presence of small business industry sectors into new categories: Basic Web Presence; Added Value Websites; Online Database Websites and Payment Web Presence. A survey approach was used to conduct an online content analysis of the web presence of Australian small businesses, with the different types of web presences across industry sectors presented using the web presence pyramid model.

The Catalans were amongst the first to use the Internet to promote their unique language, culture and national identity, starting in 1993. Since early 2006, the availability of the .cat suffix for URLs has provided a highly visible focus for the Catalan presence on the Internet. An estimated 70 million webpages of Catalan language content are now available with .cat addresses. Despite Catalan’s status as a relatively small world language, it is now ranked as the 36th in usage on the Internet by web presence, with Catalan-language webpages accounting for 0.1% of the World Wide Web.

This is an era of digital transformation. Easy access of the Internet has empowered people and organizations to achieve more from sitting anywhere in the world. There was a time when every company was rushing for a web presence, and Internet adoption was picking up speed. Today, the Internet is in every pocket: you can access the Internet anywhere through cell phones, laptops, tablets, or PCs. This has brought a radical change to every industry. Today, every organization wants to do business online—whether retail, finance, entertainment, gaming, or so forth.

Introduction Much of the information that is placed online is not on an individual's or an institution's personal server, but rather makes use of external sites and services: images are uploaded to Flickr; videos to YouTube; presentations to SlideShare; and comments to Twitter. Such sites and services not only ease the publishing process for individuals, but also enable the delivery of content that has the potential to go viral. There are advantages and disadvantages for web metrics. On the one hand external sites and services can provide additional or more complete metrics: they provide a large amount of data structured in the same manner, and it is theoretically possible for all data that meets a particular criterion to be retrieved. On the other hand metrics are severely limited to the functionality that the service allows; although the data may be structured, the website may not facilitate access to this data. With such a wide range of services available, from a web analytic point of view it is necessary for librarians to ask which services are worthwhile (Vucovich et al., 2013), and at what point to stop spending the time and effort on a service. As with the web metrics discussed in the previous chapter, social media metrics offer the potential for a far wider range of insights than those into a library's own web presence. A handful of individual sites and services with hundreds of millions of users can also provide insights into a range of realworld user behaviour, forming the basis of a wide range of webometric investigations. This chapter starts by considering the types of social network site that are available and the types of social network site content that librarians may be interested in evaluating. This is followed by a closer look at some of the popular social network sites that may form the basis of a web metric investigation, previous investigations that have taken place, and some of the tools that are available.

In addition to the continued growth in the availability of the electronic versions of print-based journals and monographs, the 2000s witnessed the emergence of new web-based resources that did not have print counterparts, taking advantage of broader Internet access, increased searchability, and the ability to frequently update resources. The main challenge for health sciences libraries now, as in the print era, is to use their budgets to build the most effective collection of now electronic-based resources to meet their users' needs. This shifting from paper-based to electronic, web-based resources in health sciences libraries is now almost complete. The 2013/14 Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Annual Statistics reported that 94.7% of the total collection development expenditures were spent on electronic resources. Libraries have been developing their websites to facilitate access to these resources. Health sciences libraries are no longer defined by their physical space (if they still have a physical presence) but by their electronic collections and their web presence. Libraries have now accumulated large collections of digital resources whose very size can be a strong hindrance to users finding quality, actionable evidence and information. The challenge is to facilitate users' ability to efficiently search these large collections to find, or discover, relevant, actionable evidence and information. This process is often simply called “discovery.” Our library provides an example of the challenge of discovery, with access to over 160,000 e-books, about 15,000 of which are health and medically related; over 20,000 current serial titles; and over 60 databases . How can our library users quickly find the answers to the questions they are looking to answer in the myriad of online resources that we subscribe to? How can we build a website that enables users to efficiently access and use the full range of resources that we make available to them? We have spent the last 2 years trying to turn our website from a site that provides access to our resources by topic and A-to-Z listings by format into a discovery-based site integrating resources to provide access built around our users' needs. This commentary presents what we have learned as a starting point for a larger discussion on how academic health sciences libraries can build stronger discovery systems to improve our users' ability to find quality, actionable evidence and information meeting their specific information needs using our entire collection. We also present the questions that we think serve as starting points to continue this exploration. In my (Kronenfeld) forty years as a medical librarian, I have become firmly committed to the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) approach to supporting our library's users. But I do not think that our library's users are stupid! Most are very intelligent and good at what they do, but many do not have the time or interest to become skilled searchers of the evidence base that we make available to them. The patron base we serve ranges from people who may be experts in their work but are not experienced searchers to researchers who, in their limited area of expertise, are more advanced than we are in searching the relevant literature. The emergence of the web in the mid-1990s coincided with the development of the evidence-based medicine (EBM)/evidence-based practice (EBP) approach to the delivery of care. That approach originally focused on access to and use of the primary literature, as that was what was available at the time with the advent of widely available access to PubMed. Since then, EBM/EBP has become accepted by all health care professions [1]. The major challenges to the EBM model of care is the quality of the evidence base, which varies widely by profession [1]; effective access to the relevant evidence base; and clinicians' time and skill in evaluating the literature [2]. In supporting an EBM/EBP model of care, libraries need to support effective and efficient discovery of the most relevant evidence available, including quality secondary sources that are needed to effectively support a point-of-care model of practice [2]. In 2013, our library initiated a multiyear project to rebuild our website and improve our patrons' ability to locate quality, actionable evidence and information. Our first step was to define the goals for our new discovery system. We identified four goals as essential in planning how to improve our users' ability to effectively and efficiently access and use our collections: Ease of use: Many of our users are from the Google generation and expect to be able to enter a single phrase to perform a search. Precision: A significant number of our users are looking for very specific information and need to perform searches on very precise topics. Increased discovery of our full collection: Many of the search tools that our users have been using, such as PubMed/MEDLINE and ClinicalKey, search only a portion of the evidence and information resources that the library makes available. We wanted our discovery system to access and search as many of our library-based resources as possible in a single search. Access points: After completing the first phase of our project, the development and launch of our research-oriented discovery tool, we added a fourth goal to provide different access points for the our patrons' different types of information needs. The first phase in developing our discovery system was to develop our discovery research tool, which we saw as the core of the system. We evaluated available discovery tools and chose EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) because its algorithm seemed to best handle medical terms and concepts and return consistent, quality results, and its advanced search interface intuitively supported Boolean logic for experienced searchers. We also were impressed with the capability of EDS to limit searches by subject with “discipline limiter” filters. Our electronic resources librarian (Bright) worked for several months with the vendor to develop the tool to serve as the focus of our discovery system for research. This included extensive development of widgets that enable our users to extend and replicate their searches with one mouse click in our most heavily used databases as well as to find relevant resources for specific needs, including specialty databases in the areas of dissertations, anatomy, pharmacology, and images. We also made use of the “discipline limiters” to choose a default medical search that users can easily recognize and change. We designed and coded a search box along with our information technology (IT) and marketing departments for our OneSearch tool as the default, with additional tabs for a clinical, point-of-care search (it can search UpToDate, DynaMed Plus, or First Consult) and a PubMed search. This discovery search box is the central focus of our website. We redesigned our website around this new search box, which we launched in December 2013. The second phase of our project was to improve the access to or discovery of library resources and services beyond our OneSearch tool and search box. Library staff assessed our library users' needs to access specific types of library digital resources that were not well served by OneSearch discovery. For example, we found that OneSearch did not provide sufficient access to our available multimedia resources for faculty use in their courses or to our extensive selection of student self-assessment and exam-preparation resources. In response, we created LibGuides to facilitate this access, and we reviewed our existing guide pages and upgraded them, placing these guides in an easily accessible menu on our main website. We also added Browzine to assist our faculty and students in browsing and reviewing new issues of journals. We have found the key to this process is to review the resources that we provide and the access that our users have to these resources at the macro level. Then, we make sure the library's website and its components provide effective and efficient discovery of the library's resources to ensure the best discovery points possible.

Library websites plays an important role in dissemination of information of the institution and library resources. It acts as a trustworthy mirror of the institute. To evaluate the library website performance webometric tools and indicators are required. The present study calculated web impact factor (WIF) and R-WIF (Revised WIF) of top ten library websites of HEIs (Higher Educational Institutes) of India and further correlated both the formulas with Spearman’s Rank Correlation. It was found that WIF and R-WIF are correlated and associated which depicts that there is very less difference between the two ranking methods. The position of library websites of half HEIs of India is same while evaluating through both the formulas. After a pilot survey, the list of top ten HEIs of India is extracted from ranking web of Universities. Google search engine was chosen for the study. dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.35.5.8788

This paper compares a firm's innovation and performance with its online Web presence measured through the Web network structure. 489 firms in five different industries listed on the United States and Chinese stock markets are investigated. Using Web link data collected from Bing, blogs, Twitter and Wikipedia, we find positive correlation between betweenness centrality of a firm in the Web network and its innovation capability; and between betweenness centrality and financial performance. In order to get more accurate forecasting results, regression analysis is done for each industry and the combined industries in the United States and China. We also find that Twitter and Wikipedia only predict a firm's performance in the United States, which is not surprising as they are officially blocked in China. Blogs predict better in China than they do in the United States, as it might still be a major social media tool for Chinese firms; while for the US firms, blogs have been supplemented by Twitter and Wikipedia.

Our day-to-day needs are greatly dependent on information and communications technology (ICT)—as represented by the Internet. Knowledge about culture is no exception. This paper focuses on the availability of digital cultural information about India on the Web. We aim to answer three questions: How is Indian culture represented on the Web? How are Indian cultural heritage sites being used? Who is using the sites? The study also examines the usability of these sites, and whether they are maintained. Content, ranking, and users’ age groups are the three criteria on which this analysis has been based.

Design Thinking is an approach used by designers to systematically design products ranging from buildings to appliances to websites [1]. Design Thinking allows designers to collaborate with clients, users, and nondesigners in the design process [2,3]. In the case of the medical student-run journal launched at the University of Michigan, Michigan Journal of Medicine (MJM), we employed a design thinking process to work closely with the MJM faculty subject matter experts and student editors to design the journal website in an efficient and effective manner. This chapter presents our overall design process and the ways we specifically applied it to the design of the MJM web presence. This same process can easily be adapted to laboratory websites, patient portals, and other products for the dissemination of medical and scholarly content.

The article looks at one of the factors that may cast impact upon interest to educational programs of today’s universities in various regions of the world, namely at effective web presence of a university in the global information space. To successfully advance the university in the World Wide Web, efficient interaction with the global networked audience is necessary.

This final chapter is a condensed and critical recapitulation of the main threads of this book: The design of a multilevel cybermetric model based on the web performance of documents created by companies; the difficulty in determining what constitutes web presence (horizontal and vertical scattering of documents); the wide variety and nature of web metrics, which need to be broken down into different categories of indicators; the need for specific statistical analyses that are tailored to the web data; the development and improvement of cybermetric analysis models through the deconstruction of the concept of web performance and the incorporation of external documents and offline metrics. The chapter draws the book to a close with a final warning: Three potential risk factors (the effect of data availability, the observer effect, and the Goodhart effect) that could have a hand in the production of metrics that are unusable, skewed, or adulterated, respectively.

In this chapter we address how to identify the online presence of companies as the basic strategy for conducting a cybermetric analysis. Presence is determined by a web domain node, which is the core around which content is generated. From this web presence the web size is calculated: The number of hosted files or indexed URLs in the domain node. Then we look at the scattering of presence and size, both internally (or vertically) within the web domain nodes (through subdirectories or web subdomains) and externally (or horizontally) from alternative or satellite web domains. Finally, we explore two case studies focusing on internal and external scattering, respectively. The first is an analysis of 10 global companies that are leaders in their respective sectors. For each company, internal scattering is calculated from the first-level subdomains and subdirectories. The results show a wide variability in both the chosen approach (subdirectory or subdomain) and in the distribution of content, no specific patterns having been found. The second case study is a comprehensive analysis of the external scattering of Microsoft, both through its alternative web domains and its web satellites (in this case limited to Twitter). With regard to alternative web domains, the results show not only high external scattering but also considerable interaction between the various alternative domains, an aspect that may adversely affect the measurement of impact. As for the web satellites, there is clearly a need to rethink the concept of web presence in social networks, to go from simply counting files to considering blocks of information.

Purpose – In order to continue to respond to patron needs in a relevant way, it is necessary to continuously reevaluate the central message that the library website is intended to convey. It ' s necessary to question assumptions, listen to user needs, and shift our paradigm to make the library web presence as effective as possible. Design/methodology/approach – This is a regular viewpoint column. A basic literature review was done prior to the column being written. Findings – The library Web site remains, in many respects, the “first face” of the library for patrons. To remain relevant, traditional methodologies used in library science may need to be set aside or catered to the needs of the patron. Originality/value – Various methods regarding design philosophy are explored which may be of use to information professionals responsible for the design and content of the library Web sites.

For many organizations their websites are the first impression customers have of their companies. The impact and importance of web design on organizations continues to dramatically increase. Yet many organizations continue to struggle to find tools to strategically analyze their websites and overall online presence. While there have been numerous studies offering “best practices” for website design, most of these are dated and do not take into consideration new applications and social media tools that come into the market. In our research over 900 surveys were conducted on Inc. Magazine's Top 500 list (2011-13) of fastest growing companies in the United States. The analysis of these surveys resulted in a list of shared elements (best practices) common to the websites surveyed. Through the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Multi-attribute Decision Model, we developed a measure by which companies can assess their web presence in comparison to this best practices model. This model provides an internally consistent, robust model against which to measure an organization's website.

Examining landscapes of research data management services in academic libraries is timely and significant for both those libraries on the front line and the libraries that are already ahead. While it provides overall understanding of where the research data management program is at and where it is going, it also provides understanding of current practices and data management recommendations and/or tool adoptions as well as revealing areas of improvement and support. This study examined the research data (management) services in academic libraries in the United States through a content analysis of 185 library websites, with four main areas of focus: service , information , education , and network. The results from the content analysis of these webpages reveals that libraries need to advance and engage more actively to provide services, supply information online, and develop educational services. There is also a wide variation among library data management services and programs according to their web presence.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of online corporate reporting in three Latin American emerging markets, Argentina, Mexico and Chile, providing further evidence to test the mediation role of web presence development in the relationship between these determinants and e-disclosure. Web presence development measures the firm's efforts to archive web visibility, web usability and convenience. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a content analysis of corporate web sites, the extent of the information is measured by three internet disclosure indexes. Four constructs which are considered key drivers of a firm's disclosure strategy are identified. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to assess the research model. The sample contains publicly available data on listed companies’ web sites. Findings – The results reveal that the development of a firm's presence on the internet is as important as its characteristics in determining corporate transparency and in mediating the relationship between firm size and cross-listing and e-disclosure. Practical implications – Companies should be aware that investors are attaching increasing importance to corporate transparency. Consequently, managers should put more effort into improving web sites, which would increase corporate visibility and open up a direct communication channel with their stakeholders. They should also take advantage of web sites to provide information, above and beyond that required by local law. Not only do current and potential investors find this useful, it also increases their confidence in the company. Originality/value – This paper proposes an integrative model of the determinants of the level of online corporate reporting using constructs that reflect their multidimensional nature. A non-financial latent variable for web presence on the internet is proposed as a mediator in the relationship between e-disclosure and traditional determinants. The SEM approach simultaneously examines the direct and indirect relationships between the proposed latent variables and how these relationships influence the level of e-disclosure.

Ranking of the web sites and organizations is vital to maintain the quality of service and obtain improvements where possible. Arabic Observatory for Websites and Social Media (AOWSM) is a system that takes into consideration the web presence of organizations and ranks them based on different metrics and standards that are described later in the paper. This paper presents an introductory study about the AOWSM and describes its working, limitations, and modules. AOWSM is set to make its way for becoming a standard in the ranking of the organizations based on their quality of web services, presence, and standards.

The paper discusses the findings of a study that analyze the content and design of university library websites of Sri Lanka and highlights the points that need to be addressed in order to enhance the quality of websites. Besides, this paper presents a simplified version of an evaluative instrument that was developed by the author. Websites of university libraries of Sri Lanka were assessed in terms of both quantitative and qualitative web presence. A 17-itemed evaluative instrument was used to measure the qualitative web presence. The rating of the websites was carried out during the first week of April 2013. Findings revealed that the quantitative web presence of Sri Lankan university libraries is at a quite commendable level. All 3 parameters - availability of websites, size of sites, location of the link to the library site in the parent institution’s website - that measured the quantitative web presence were found to be in high level. Besides, out of the two parameters - content richness and design accuracy – that measured qualitative web presence, the content richness level of websites was found to be at a commendable status. However, majority of websites reported low scores when measured in terms of design accuracy. The evaluative instrument presented in this paper would be useful for library professionals in evaluating the current status of the library websites for institutional or research purposes. The evaluative instrument presented in this paper is an original tool and the results generated based on the tool have added a new set of empirical data to the body of literature. Journal of the University Librarians Association, Sri Lanka, Vol. 17, Issue 1, January 2013, Page 34-57 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jula.v17i1.6643

BackgroundWeb-based platforms can be powerful tools for research dissemination. By leveraging the advantages of mass media and interpersonal channels of communication, Web-based dissemination platforms may improve awareness about, and subsequent adoption of, evidence-based practices (EBPs). Digital dissemination strategies can augment traditional dissemination models, improving stakeholder access to digestible and actionable information and promoting translation of EBPs.ObjectiveThis study aimed to describe the reach and content of the Web presence of a National Institute on Drug Abuse Center of Excellence and how it is used to disseminate research related to digital behavioral health approaches.MethodsThe Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) has a website and regularly updated Facebook and Twitter accounts. The website features include summaries of digital behavioral health approaches and related empirical literature, a blog feed focused on the state of the science and technology concerning digital health care approaches, and a newsletter about Center activities. We extracted website usage metrics from Google Analytics and follower counts from social media accounts for the period from March 1, 2013, to July 17, 2018.ResultsSince the implementation of analytic tracking, 70,331 users have initiated 96,995 sessions on the CTBH website. The website includes summaries of 86 digital therapeutic programs, encompassing 447 empirical articles. There are 1160 posts in the CTBH blog feed, including 180 summaries of scholarly articles. The Twitter and Facebook accounts have 577 and 1500 followers, respectively. The newsletter has reached a growing subscriber network and has a high open rate relative to industry standards.ConclusionsThe CTBH Web presence serves as a model for how to leverage accessible and easily updatable digital platforms as research dissemination channels. Digital dissemination tools can augment traditional dissemination strategies to promote awareness about evidence-based digital therapeutic approaches for behavioral health and health care more broadly.

There has been a phenomenal growth in e-commerce in last few years and it still growing. The most successful and experienced companies related to E-Commerce realize that key determinant of success and failure of any website are not merely a web presence or low price but the delivery on high quality websites along with its security. A framework and model is required to attain the desired quality of website. Evaluation criteria include design, security, usability and performance for websites etc. This paper provides a review based on different authors to establish Quality. The main goal are identifying factors through different research papers and categorizing these factors.

Readership popularity has been an important proxy for success for many emerging online interactive media sites. Given the exponential growth of new web applications and services, and the intense competition among them, attaining and retaining popularity are difficult. One possible approach to this problem is to enhance the competitiveness of a web presence by using appropriate web design mechanisms. Research in this area has mainly focused on technological issues and usability studies. Few studies have paid attention to the socially constructed meaning (cognition) that is embedded in the context of media. Drawing on the heuristic model from the social cognition perspective, the author posits that source credibility and content freshness are two important media-embedded heuristics potentially influential to the readership popularity of online interactive media sites. The content analysis results of 100 leading weblogs strongly supported this hypotheses. Key quantitative findings were also consistent with the qualitative evidence provided by 28 expert practitioners. This study expands our understanding of the related constructs from a social cognition perspective and calls for design attention to influential media-embedded traits when developing online interactive media and related websites.

Webometrics research methods can be effectively used to measure and analyze information on the web. One topic discussed vehemently online that could benefit from this type of analysis is vaccines. We carried out a study analyzing the web presence of both sides of this debate. We collected a variety of webometric data and analyzed the data both quantitatively and qualitatively. The study found far more anti- than pro-vaccine web domains. The anti and pro sides had similar web visibility as measured by the number of links coming from general websites and Tweets. However, the links to the pro domains were of higher quality measured by PageRank scores. The result from the qualitative content analysis confirmed this finding. The analysis of site ages revealed that the battle between the two sides had a long history and is still ongoing. The web scene was polarized with either pro or anti views and little neutral ground. The study suggests ways that professional information can be promoted more effectively on the web. The study demonstrates that webometrics analysis is effective in studying online information dissemination. This kind of analysis can be used to study not only health information but other information as well. © 2017 ASIS&T

In this chapter, I will discuss some of the AWS services that can assist you with extending your website and web presence by helping to perform processing tasks on your behalf. Some of the development tools introduced include using CodeCommit and CodeDeploy as ways to create and manage deployment pipelines. I'll also talk about using CloudWatch and Simple Notification Service (SNS) to monitor your infrastructure health, and I’ll introduce AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS).

This study reports on the 2011 survey of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) digital repositories, employing web analysis to highlight the current state of the repositories and describing their characteristics in terms of types, contents, subject coverage and language. It also identifies the web performance of these repositories as reflected through global visibility. Data obtained from the Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and the Ranking Web of World Repositories (RWWR) were used to analyse the availability and global visibility. Findings indicate that the total number of digital repositories in ASEAN is 51 with Indonesia as the biggest contributor (20, 39 percent), followed by Malaysia (17, 33 percent) and Thailand (7, 13 percent). Out of the 51 ASEAN digital repositories identified from OpenDOAR and ROAR, only 23 (45 percent) are listed in RWWR. RWWR’s data indicates that only about 3 percent (33 out of 1,184 repositories worldwide) in ASEAN are visible. There are another 10 digital repositories identified in RWWR which are not listed under OpenDOAR or registered under ROAR. As such this study has identified a total of 61 ASEAN repositories participating in Open Access publishing through the Green Road. Findings suggest that ASEAN repositories which wish to be listed in RWWR need to have some degree of visibility and incorporate good practices in their web publication to fulfill the requirement of RWWR quantitative webometrics indicators, namely visibility, size, rich files and `scholar'.

The ease and convenience of Web-based search engines has fundamentally changed information gathering and use and given rise to tangible and significant effects in the way we form impressions of others. This study explores how the quantity of relevant search engine results affects individuals’ selection of potential partners in a team project scenario. Experimental data reveals a distinct bias favoring potential partners associated with many results as compared to those with few results, even when the results are devoid of meaningful individuating value, assuming the proportion of social media occurrences is held constant. By contrast, there was no evidence of effect from gender stereotyping as would be expected due to social categorization tendencies in contexts that provide minimal discriminating information such as the experimental scenario. Indeed there was only minimal evidence of gender effect in interaction with the result quantity factor, further highlighting the relative predominance of the latter. Findings help underscore the value of managing one’s online identity and hold implications for professionals, academics and individuals concerned with how the Web affects the way we form impressions of others.

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has used the Google Search Appliance (GSA) to provide search for the University's Web content. When the GSA license expired, the campus Information Technologies (IT) department and the University Libraries (UL) took the opportunity to collaborate on a re-launch of the service as a joint project. By collaborating closely with IT, the UL personnel gained insight and first-hand information on how to optimize the Libraries’ Web presence. Outcomes were positive, both in the resulting product and in building bridges between the work cultures.

The purpose of the present study is to conduct an empirical design and user perception analysis of the website for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), and to use this information to make relevant design recommendations for improving the quality of the website. As the central hub for online interactions with the society, it is important that hfes.org effectively and efficiently communicate messages and highlight its activities concerning its membership, publications, and services. The goal of this paper is not to present a caustic review of the Society’s shortcomings, but offer a critical analysis, supported by literature and data, of various website design elements that may be holding HFES back from maintaining a professional web presence, and to illustrate why maintaining a professional web presence is beneficial for the HFES community at large. The present paper outlines an empirical usability evaluation of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society website, hfes.org . An initial proposal and method for data collection are outlined. Results of the study will be presented the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

This paper examines the Web visibility of researchers in the field of communication. First, we measured the Web visibility of authors who have recently published their research in communication journals contained in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) provided by the Web of Science. Second, we identified a subset of authors based on their publication outlets and summarize those researchers with the highest Web presence. Lastly, we determined the factors affecting their Web visibility by using a set of national and linguistic variables of the individual researchers. Web data were collected by using a Bing.com advanced search tool based on the API. Web presence is defined as the number of Web (co-) mentions of each researcher. We identified the most solely-visible scholars in the entire communication webosphere and scholars with the most networked visibility based on co-mentions. There is a weak but statistically significant correlation between researchers' Web visibility and their SSCI publication counts. Further, US-based and/or English-speaking scholars were more noticeable than others on cyberspace.

The Web is becoming the most important scholarly communication tool and it makes more and more scientific information accessible. In recent years, university Web rankings have become in importance around the world. The central hypothesis of the ranking is that the university’s web presence reflects its global performance, the quality of its departments and services, the impact of its outputs and its international prestige. One of the most important dimensions in university Website ranking is visibility factor and usability. The dimension includes qualitative and quantitative criteria. The current paper attempts to priorities usability criteria for university Website then evaluate selected universities’ websites as a case study by some of the qualitative sub-criteria. The results show there are strong correlation between usability factors and university Website ranking.