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16.08.2005 International health organizations and officials are bracing for a pandemic.

16.08.2005 The present issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology attempts to explore “social informatics” in principle and practice.

16.08.2005 This study investigates the Web Impact Factors (WIFs) for Iranian universities and introduces a new system of measurement. Counts of links to the web sites of Iranian universities were calculated from the output of AltaVista search engine.

16.08.2005 This article reports a survey on the search habits of Internet users at the Medical University of Isfahan (MUI), a governmental university in Isfahan city, Iran. Efforts are on to find the search requirements related to the use of the Internet information.

16.08.2005 The ability to effectively search and locate information on the Internet is an important skill for education and essential for success in the 21st century.

16.08.2005 Beside its numerous advantages, the World-Wide Web has introduced many issues and challenges to computer and information sciences. Not only Web resources are in different languages and forms but also the creator of them belong to various groups and interests.

16.08.2005 CNRI has been the home to the D-Lib Magazine since its inception in 1995. However, the Magazine’s evolution can be traced directly to efforts in the early 1990s, when CNRI executed the Computer Science Technical Reports (CSTR) project supported by DARPA leading to the multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI).

16.08.2005 Much has been written about the Internet's potential to revolutionize health care delivery. As younger populations increasingly utilize Internet-based health care information, it will be essential to ensure that the elderly become adept at using this medium for health care purposes, especially those from minority, low income, and limited educational backgrounds.

16.08.2005 This editorial briefly reviews the series of unfortunate events that led to the publication, dissemination, and eventual retraction of a flawed Cochrane systematic review on interactive health communication applications (IHCAs), which was widely reported in the media with headlines such as "Internet Makes Us Sick," "Knowledge May Be Hazardous to Web Consumers' Health," "Too Much Advice Can Be Bad for Your Health," "Click to Get Sick?" and even "Is Cybermedicine Killing You?"

16.08.2005 The extraordinary growth in Internet use offers researchers important new opportunities to identify and test new ways to deliver effective behavior change programs.

12.08.2005 This article criticizes current research on the digital divide as being mainly descriptive, starting from a too simple criterion of access and failing to consider the many origins and consequences of differences in IT access.

12.08.2005 By virtue of their physical make-up, their cultural and linguistic diversity, and the relative isolation and spread of their population, Pacific Island countries are faced with a multitude of challenges in the delivery of information services.

12.08.2005 The diffusion of the Internet (and its accompanying digital divides) has occurred at the intersection of both international and within-country differences in socioeconomic, technological and linguistic factors.

12.08.2005 This article proposes a relatively simple indicator, DIDIX, that was developed in an EU-funded project to benchmark and track national digital divides within EU member states.

12.08.2005 The current issue of IT & Society focuses on digital divide comparisons across countries.

12.08.2005 This article replicates previous findings that the diffusion of the Internet is becoming more polarized by family income in the United States.