Journal history
Previously published as Online Review and then Online and CD-ROM Review
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Unique attributes
Online Information Review is an international, double blind peer-reviewed, ISI-listed journal devoted to research in the broad field of online information in academic, government, corporate, scientific and commercial contexts. Within this broad framework the journal seeks to provide a forum for experts from a range of information-related disciplines, including information science, information technology, information management, knowledge management and related social sciences.
‘Online information’ encompasses any information that is stored and viewed in electronic form, from e-books to databases, document management systems and any other information-bearing artefacts in electronic format.
OIR focuses on issues relating to online systems, services and resources, and their use, with a particular focus on on the processes and procedures involved in creating, managing, utilising, disseminating and repackaging online information (including social, political and ethical aspects). OIR invites full research and conceptual papers (up to 7000 words) in these fields, as well as shorter research notes (under 3000 words).
Coverage includes (but is not limited to):
- New approaches to information resource design on the web
- Information quality, trust and credibility
- Usability issues of online resources and websites
- Differences between web databases and their capabilities and limitations
- Choosing, evaluating, exchanging and maximising the content of online information resources of any kind
- Getting the best out of search engines
- New approaches to search engine design on the web
- Rating and choosing search engines
- Web use and content in various contexts
- The role of intelligent agents in web information
- Metadata theory and developments
- Bibliometrics in an online environment
Online Information Review is indexed and abstracted in:
- ABI/INFORM Complete
- ABI/INFORM Global
- Academic Research Library
- Academic Search Alumni Edition
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Premier
- Cabell's
- CINAHL
- Compendex
- CompuMath Citation Index
- Computer Science Index
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- Current Abstracts
- Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Discovery
- Education Full Text
- Education Research Complete
- ERIC®
- Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- The Informed Librarian
- INSPEC (Electrical & Electronics Abstracts)
- ISI Alerting Service
- Library and Information Science Abstracts
- Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
- Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
- Library Literature and Information Science
- Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
- OmniFile Full Text Select
- Platinum Periodicals
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Professional ABI/INFORM Complete
- Professional ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Journals
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Computer Science Journals
- ProQuest Curriculum Essentials
- ProQuest Education Journals
- ProQuest Library Science
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
- ProQuest Pharma Collection
- ProQuest SciTech Journals
- ProQuest Technology Journals
- Research Library
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Social SciSearch
- zetoc
Online Information Review is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Library Studies eJournals Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com or visit the Emerald Library Studies eJournals Collection page.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
* 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
Sample Articles
- Social media and corporate dialogue: the response of global financial institutions
Enrique Bonsón, Francisco Flores
Volume: 35 Issue: 1; 2011
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- Factors influencing the intended use of web portals
Chechen Liao, Pui-Lai To, Chuang-Chun Liu, Pu-Yuan Kuo, Shu-Hui Chuang
Volume: 35 Issue: 2; 2011
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- An empirical investigation of online users' keyword ads search behaviours
Sheng Wu, Cathy S. Lin, Jean Lin
Volume: 35 Issue: 2; 2011
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