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Introduction: The popularity of social question and answer sites has made it an important and convenient source for obtaining knowledge. This study quantifies how three different system characteristics (interface design, interaction and answer quality) affect users' perceptions (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived enjoyment), which in turn alter the perceived user experience. Method: Using an online survey, this study investigated the experience of using a leading Chinese site, Baidu Knows. The study received 218 validated responses which were used to test the research model. Analysis: Structural equation modelling technique was used to evaluate the hypothesised research framework. Results: The results show that the influences of the system characteristics (interface design, interaction and answer quality) on user experience are well mediated by user perceptions of usefulness, ease of use and enjoyment. Additionally, perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment have direct and significant influences on user experience. Against expectations, perceived ease of use is found to have no significant direct effect on user experience, but have an indirect effect mediated through perceived usefulness. Conclusion: Use experience is mainly determined by user perceptions about its usefulness, the ease of use and the enjoyment of using the social question and answer sites, which are derived from their evaluation in relation to specific service features. By identifying these service features and quantifying how they affect user experience, a number of practical suggestions for service design have been made to help social question and answer sites managers improve their customers' user experience, e.g. offering more attractive rewards and adding various entertainment activities to motivate users to actively participate in knowledge sharing and innovation.

A content analysis of "JLSC"'s publications in 2007-2016 was conducted to investigate its publication patterns and research topics. Elements such as article titles, keywords, authors' affiliations, titles, disciplines, author collaboration and grant-funded projects were coded and examined. Findings indicate that libraries, information services, cataloging and classification, knowledge management and information retrieval were the most frequently discussed topics. Over 50% of the authors were LIS faculty members with librarian practitioners and LIS graduate students each representing about one-quarter of the total authorship. The percentage of case studies was not significant. Over half of the articles resulted from grant-funded projects. Collaborative writing was active.

Science and Technology Novelty Search (S&TNS) is a special information consultation service developed as part of the Chinese Sci-Tech system. The author introduces the concept of S&TNS, and explains its role, and the role of the university library in the process. A quality control model to improve the quality of service of the S&TNS at Southeast University is outlined.

To be effective in higher education, text messaging must be effectively integrated into both the student and staff experience. These user groups provided input into the design of StudyLink, an email to text message service. A small-scale trial was conducted over a period of two academic terms to investigate the feasibility of using this system in a real educational setting. Students reported high satisfaction with the quantity and content of the text messages and tutors reported changes in behaviour that were directly attributable to the use of text messaging. Administrative staff members were able to integrate this service into their current means of communicating with students, though there were some difficulties in composing appropriate text messages. Students were able to effectively receive and act on text messages, but ambiguities introduced with sending text messages were not resolved. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.)

Describes CALIS (China Academic Library and Information System), a nationwide academic library consortium funded primarily by the Chinese government to serve multiple resource-sharing functions among the participating libraries, including online searching, interlibrary loan, document delivery, and coordinated purchasing and cataloging, by digitizing resources and developing an information service network. (LRW)

Discusses the trade union library system in China that has fallen on hard times amid economic and social changes of the past 20 years. Focuses on a history of the trade union library movement; services provided by trade union libraries; problems faced by union libraries; and reform of trade union libraries. (AEF)

Describes the Chemical Integrated Information Service Network (ChI2Net), a comprehensive online information service system which includes chemical, technical, economic, market, news, and management information based on computer and modern communication technology that was built by the China National Chemical Information Centre. (Author/LRW)

Presents comparative survey of development of national information infrastructures and formulation of national information policy in India and China. Highlights include influence of foreign models, library and information work traditions, indigenous development, existing organizational structures for scientific and technological information, and policy implications of introducing modern information technology. (6 references) (EJS)

Assesses the promotion and development of online information retrieval in China. Highlights include opening of the first online retrieval center at China Overseas Building Development Company Limited; establishment and activities of a cooperative network; online retrieval seminars; telecommunication lines and terminal installations; and problems to be solved (user training, research). (EJS)

Cultural ancient roads, known in Chinese as gudao, serve as heritage trails that carry historical exchanges across various regions in China. Due to their extensive preservation, wide geographical distribution, diverse thematic variations, and considerable tourist appeal, these paths have emerged as representative heritage trails, increasingly transforming into a novel tourism product experience that is highly favored by tourists and recognized by government authorities. However, research on ancient roads for tourism in China currently lacks a systematic theoretical framework, as well as relevant policies, regulations, and standards to guide their practical development. Therefore, there is a pressing need to draw upon international best practices and conduct foundational research to develop an experience element system that aligns with the perceptions, behaviors, and consumption characteristics of Chinese tourists, thereby advancing theoretical exploration in this field. This study focuses on the representative Ancient Shu Road as a case study and employs a mixed-method approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative research. It aims to construct a tourist-centric scale for the experience elements of ancient road tourism while analyzing the interactive relationship between these experience elements and tourist needs. This study addresses a significant gap in the development of indicator systems for domestic studies of ancient road tourism experiences. Ultimately, the study establishes a comprehensive scale that encompasses three core categories--trail resources and environment, facilities and services, and modes of tourism activities--along with eight primary dimensions: core resources, surrounding cultural environment, surrounding natural environment, tourism reception facilities and services, infrastructure and support services, information facilities and information services, and outdoor and recreational activities. This scale consists of thirty-two specific items, providing a robust reference for future research endeavors. Additionally, the study proposes specific development strategies related to key mechanisms, spatial configuration, and facility construction to enhance the overall development of ancient road tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online Health Information Seeking (OHIS) serves as an alternative form of social capital that can help older adults alleviate offline medical-related stress. This study collected and analyzed user interaction data from Patient-to-Doctor and Patient-to-Peer platforms and compared the roles of social support between them. Significant differences were identified in the dimensions of social support (information, emotional, and companion) on the Patient-to-Peer platforms compared with Patient-to-Doctor platforms (p < 0.05). The overall and core–core network density values for social support on Patient-to-Peer platforms were higher than those on Patient-to-Doctor platforms. Patient-to-Doctor interactions focused on information support, displaying a more centralized and efficient network with structural holes pertaining to treatment effects. By contrast, Patient-to-Peer interactions provided more emotional support, with a dispersed and redundant network containing structural holes related to individual information. Companion support was found to be weaker on both platforms. Additionally, digital literacy, surrogate seeking, and altruistic information significantly explained the variances between the two platforms (p < 0.01), with surrogate seeking playing a crucial role. These findings enhance our understanding of OHIS disparities among older adults and their surrogates, offering valuable insights for developing effective support systems and regulatory frameworks for health information platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how lesbians and gay men imagine and build their 'intimate networks of care' and negotiate moral expectations towards intergenerational family care as they age. To date, little is known about the strength and complexities of different intimate ties or the role of intergenerational dynamics in shaping ageing sexual minority people's care needs and choices. Based on narrative interviews with ageing Chinese lesbians and gay men, the findings reveal their experiences of constantly juggling their ties with families of origin, moral values around intergenerational care and the urge to receive support from and offer support to chosen networks of people. Participants exercised agency in expanding their networks of care by building friendship and (online and offline) community networks for mutual care and support in later life. Nevertheless, as evidenced by the centrality of ageing with(out) children, and the moral obligation of caring for parents in participants' narratives, participants experienced tensions between enacting what was considered morally right/wrong and developing networks of care that were perceived as emotionally intimate. Linking relational sociology with the sociology of morality, we discuss the conceptual utility of 'intimate networks of care' for sociological theorising of the linkages between sexuality, care and relational lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integration of offline channels and online channels has become a direction for the transformation and development of many e-commerce platforms, so omnichannel retailing has become an important strategy. Thus, we build a theoretical model between a platform and two suppliers to study the platform's optimal information service and omnichannel strategy choice (under a reselling agreement vs. under a hybrid retailing agreement). The results show that when the product competition intensity is low, an omnichannel strategy under a reselling agreement is conducive to increasing the offline information service level and profits of the platform. When the product competition intensity is high, the omnichannel strategy under a hybrid retailing agreement is the optimal choice, and the platform can set a smaller referral fee to transfer part of the profit to suppliers to encourage suppliers to enter omnichannel retailing. Furthermore, the platform can improve the information service level using new retailing technology, which can create a higher product showrooming effect. Finally, we introduce the case of China's household appliances to verify the effectiveness of our research and suggest that the platform establishes experience stores that can weaken the competitive relationship between suppliers and the platform to achieve a win–win strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the evolution and development of two collective care networks formed by and for people with disabilities and their family members during the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Inspired by the feminist disability studies approach to the ethics of care, I traced the interdependent moment in which people with disabilities, their family members, and non-disabled allies were connected in response to the tragic death of a 16-year-old teenager with severe cerebral palsy for the lack of care. This tragedy painfully exemplified the vulnerability of families of disabled people, as well as a care system that disproportionally allocated the care responsibility on the family; it also turned into emotional power that nurtured the emergence of two care networks that provide collective support to families of disabled people, organize the community, as well as generate public, political appeals of policies and legislation surrounding disability care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Regarding the problem of epidemic outbreak prevention and control, infectious disease dynamics models cannot support urban managers in reducing urban-scale healthcare costs through community-scale control measures, as they usually have difficulty meeting the requirements for simulation at different scales. In this paper, we propose combining contact networks at different spatial scales to study the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai from March to July 2022, calculate the initial R t through the number of cases at the beginning of the outbreak, and evaluate the effectiveness of dynamic non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) adopted at different time periods in Shanghai using our proposed approach. In particular, our proposed contact network is a three-layer multi-scale network that is used to distinguish social interactions occurring in areas of different sizes, as well as to distinguish between intensive and non-intensive population contacts. This susceptible–exposure–infection–quarantine–recovery (SEIQR) epidemic model constructed based on a multi-scale network can more effectively assess the feasibility of small-scale control measures, such as assessing community quarantine measures and mobility restrictions at different moments and phases of an epidemic. Our experimental results show that this model can meet the simulation needs at different scales, and our further discussion and analysis show that the spread of the epidemic in Shanghai from March to July 2022 can be successfully controlled by implementing a strict long-term dynamic NPI strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today's diverse health needs place greater demands on physicians. However, individual doctors have limited capabilities and may encounter many unsolvable medical problems. The physician online community provides a platform for physicians to communicate with each other and help each other. Physicians can post for help about problems they encounter at work. The number of responses to physicians' posts is critical to whether or not the problem is resolved. This study collected information on 13,226 posts from a well-known physician online community in China to analyze the factors that influence the number of post replies. In the analysis of the post content of the physician online community, this study innovatively introduces word usage features in the medical field. TextMind was used to extract the rate of several types of words in posts that frequently appear when describing medical information. Ultimately, we found that the rate of time words, visual words, auditory words, and physiological process words used in posts had a positive and significant effect on the number of post responses. A series of new post features has been found to have an impact on the number of post replies in physician online communities. This finding is beneficial for physicians to quickly obtain peer assistance through online platforms, increasing the likelihood of solving workplace challenges and improving physician care, as well as the success of physician online communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In China, online medical consultation is regarded as part of the "Internet + medical treatment" and has gradually become an accepted way for people to seek medical advice. However, many factors can affect users' security information behavior during the consultation process. In order to explore and evaluate the factors influencing the security information behavior of online medical consultation users, this paper firstly adopted semistructured interviews to collect data concerning the influencing factors originating from users themselves, other personnel, and the environment. Secondly, the Delphi method was used to determine the evaluation index system of the factors influencing the security information behavior of online medical consultation users based on the interview data. In this system, there are three first-level indexes, nine second-level indexes, and twenty-three third-level indexes. Finally, the weight of each evaluation index was calculated by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in the index system. This study improves and deepens the theoretical system of influencing factor evaluation of security information behavior. In addition, it also provides theoretical guidance and support for the more rational development of online medical consultation information services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the process of disaster emergency response, how to achieve rapid sharing of geographic information data is still a difficult problem to be solved. Combining the demand for emergency geographic information data in response to emergencies and major natural disasters in China, investigating the current situation of existing emergency geographic information data sharing, and based on the actual emergency geographic information service guarantee work, this paper researches and analyzes the sharing demand, designs the emergency geographic information data sharing model, and studies the emergency geographic information data sharing mechanism from the aspects of sharing platform, data sharing requirements, and service sharing requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing popularity of the Internet technology, people are now increasingly accustomed to obtaining information or help through the Internet. Meanwhile, the great development of the information service industry has led to the explosive growth of the demand for information service talents. In recent years, many information service talent demand reports have been released in China, and it has an important guiding significance for information service industry planning. However, there are three problems with the information service industry talent demand reports at present. First, the relevance and support of talent demand analysis and forecast to information service industry planning need to be clarified. Second, the coordination and cooperation of information service personnel demand report preparation need to be improved. The third is the wider application of scientific and reasonable information service personnel demand forecasting models. In the future, we need to develop and use more reasonable information service personnel demand forecasting models and improve the quality of information service personnel demand reports. At the same time, the supporting role of the information service industry in scientific planning needs to be strengthened continuously. Therefore, information service industry talent demand forecasting is of great significance. In this paper, a prediction model of information service talent demand is established by using gray system theory. For the deviations of the GM (1, 1) model, a combined GM (1, 1)-BP neural network prediction model is proposed. The simulation results show that the prediction results of the prediction model in this paper are satisfactory. Therefore, the GM (1, 1)-BP model proposed in this paper can be used as a reference for government decision-making and information service personnel training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the challenges to companies in Mainland China that are equipped with algorithm recommendation technologies. It highlights the broad implications of IISARM (The Internet Information Services Algorithm Recommendation Management) regulations on algorithm service providers, users, and the balance between user autonomy and national security. Topics include the regulations concerning standards for the provision of information service; and the protection of users' rights.

In response to the integration of tourism and media, this paper proposes research on the integration of tourism and its practice, leadership, and creative business based on smart city weather information. Based on this research, a systematic investigation and evaluation of smart city tourism competition models are conducted to accurately measure and influence the growth and competitiveness of smart cities, build smart tourism cities, and bring health benefits. Build China's smart tourism city and enhance the international competitiveness of China's tourism industry. Second, develop a measurement process. As for the evaluation criteria of tourism competitiveness of smart tourism cities, this paper mainly adopts the methods of single index evaluation and expert experience scoring. Select single indicators, especially quantitative indicators, and evaluate about relevant national, local, and industrial standard values. For qualitative indicators, based on the determination of relevant weights, five grades I, II, III, IV, and V are adopted, with a total score of 100, and the corresponding scores of the five grades are ≤50, 50–59, 60–69, 70–89, and ≥90, so as to determine the evaluation standard of smart Tourism city. The research shows that the research on the integration of tourism industry and cultural and creative industry based on smart city weather data is effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the "Internet+" technologies (big data and cloud computing) have been implemented in many industries, each industry involved in rural tourism economic information services has its own database, and there are still vast economic information resources that have not been exploited. Z travel agency through rural tourism enterprise third-party information services and mobile context-awareness-based Z travel has achieved good economic and social benefits by deep value mining and innovative application of the existing data of the enterprise through the third-party information service of rural tourism enterprises and mobile context-aware travel recommendation service. It clearly demonstrates that, in order to maximise the benefits of economic data, rural tourist businesses should focus not only on the application of new technologies and methodologies but also on the core of demand and data-driven and thoroughly investigate the potential value of current data. This paper mainly analyzes the problems related to how rural tourism can be upgraded under the smart tourism platform, with the aim of improving the development of China's rural tourism industry with the help of an integrated smart tourism platform, and proposes a hybrid cloud-based integrated system of smart scenic rural tourism information services, which can meet the actual use needs of rural tourism, with good shared service effect and platform application performance, and promote the development of rural tourism and resource utilization rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a form of education, distance learning currently shows great promise and the role of online libraries in delivering off-campus information services increases. This paper presents a comparative analysis of measures undertaken by traditional academic libraries in China and Italy in response to pandemic restrictions on educational operations during the lockdown period. The study utilized a specially developed questionnaire, carried out through an online survey, as a means of collecting data from library users (students and teachers). The study population includes 102 random library patrons, including 64 students and 38 teachers who were using services of academic libraries in China at the time. Through comparison with other studies, the quarantine responses of Chinese libraries were identified. The results of the study show that COVID-19 responses of libraries in China went in a direction similar to those in Italy, but the final decisions varied because of different levels of technological development. This knowledge may be used by libraries to identify areas for improvement. The results show that Chinese libraries were more effective in overcoming quarantine restrictions than those in Italy. The overwhelming majority of respondents reported that they had positive experience learning remotely and would not mind if distance learning programs continue to function after the pandemic is over. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Tourism support policies are an important issue in managing a public health crisis. This research examines 136 tourism support policy texts issued by central and local governments in China from 22 January to 31 December 2020. The policy evolution is divided into three phases: suspension of business activities of tourism enterprises (22 January–24 February 2020), orderly resumption of tourism production (25 February–28 April 2020), and regular pandemic prevention and control (29 April 2020–present). NetDraw and the qualitative analysis software NVivo were used to conduct a content analysis and co-word analysis, and to objectively analyse the structure, content, and evolution of the policy texts. We apply the PSR (pressure-state-response) model, which considers policy changes driven by reforms, innovations, the market, consumption, technology, governance, and other factors. The findings indicate that the policy content varies from decentralized to temporary, systematic, and standardized. Major policymaking gradually became coordinated, and the policy value orientation has been embodied in the transformation of science and technology information services. Finally, countermeasures and suggestions are offered with the goal of perfecting the policy coordination mechanism, improving policy implementation and 'directness', strengthening the foresight and comprehensiveness of the policymaking process, and strengthening policy innovation and production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

School enterprise cooperation, as the basic school running form of applied undergraduate education, is an important way to cultivate applied talents. However, at present, the lack of motivation for enterprises to participate in school enterprise cooperation and the resulting problem of "school hot and enterprise cold" seriously limit the talent training quality in China's application-oriented universities. There is an urgent need to explore the influencing factors and mechanisms of enterprises' participation in school enterprise cooperation to improve the training quality of applied talents. Taking Ajzen (2002) Theory of Planned Behavior as the theoretical framework, this study constructs the influencing factor model of enterprise participation in school enterprise cooperation from four aspects, namely, behavior attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavior control, and behavior intention. In this study, participants (N = 250) completed a questionnaire assessing their participation in school enterprise cooperation, which was analyzed by a structural equation model. The results show that the behavior attitude and perceived behavior control of enterprises have a significant positive impact on their intention to participate in school enterprise cooperation and then have a significant positive impact on the school enterprise cooperation behavior of enterprises. The behavior intention and perceived behavior control of enterprises have a significant positive impact on their participation in school enterprise cooperation. The policy environment has a significant regulatory effect on the relationship between the intention and behavior of enterprises' participation in school enterprise cooperation. Therefore, from the perspective of enhancing the intention of enterprises to cooperate, colleges and universities should establish the awareness of win-win cooperation and meet the interest demands of enterprises in school enterprise cooperation in order to improve the behavior attitude and intention of enterprises. From the perspective of the formation conditions of school enterprise cooperation, with the help of industry associations, an information service platform for school enterprise cooperation should be built in order to eliminate the information islands between enterprises and universities. From the perspective of the needs of school enterprise cooperation environment, government departments should strengthen the policy support for school enterprise cooperation in order to eliminate the worries of enterprises' participation in school enterprise cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In this study, specific measures adopted by the social media platforms in China supporting personal information management are investigated via surveys targeting such platforms. The purpose of this paper is to find out how social media platforms understand information management, and from which aspects and through what specific methods they provide support for information management, which contributes to understanding the issues and strategies associated with personal information management on social media. Design/methodology/approach: The dimensions and specific contents of the current platform support provided for information management are clearly defined by performing qualitative text analysis based on the content obtained from 11 platform policies published by five representative Chinese social media platforms. Findings: How social media platforms support personal information management on creation, collection, utilisation, sharing, storage, protection, removal and modification is identified. By analysing the status quo of support provided by the Chinese social media platform, some issues are proposed for discussion. Improved normative management is required to address the coexistence of multivalued information and management risks. However, the user rights are limited because the platform policies tend to be more focused on the perspective of the social media platform. Furthermore, the platform policy contents regarding information management are incomplete, and the applicability of these policies should be improved. Originality/value: This study seeks to contribute to personal information management on social media from the perspective of platform support. The perspective from the platforms as the service providers supporting information management also helps identify information management challenges and potential strategies. Furthermore, combining with the personal information management perspective, this study provides a background understanding of information management under a social collaborative framework for platforms, authorities, users and memory institutions. Peer review: The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-06-2020-0249 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advent of the era of big data appears to be an unprecedented opportunity to the development of ancient book information processing in China. A comprehensive review of the research on ancient book information processing can help researchers understand the research progress and grasp the future research trend. Based on the life cycle of ancient book information processing, this paper reviews and summarizes the progress of digital resource construction, data mining, system construction and information service, and prospects the future research trend. Although progress has been made to some extent, the ancient book information processing is still in its infancy. It is expected that more researchers will pay attention to and engage in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to analyze and show the research trends on published research on information technology applications for library information services from 2011 until 2020. The papers are collected from SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. The study reveals 310 papers from various journals, and the total number of citations is 896 from 10 years. The data from 310 papers reveal that the most productive journal with the highest number of publications is "Library Hi Tech Journal". The Library Hi Tech Journal published 24 papers for a particular topic. Meanwhile, China dominates other countries with the highest number of publications with 97 papers (29.66%), and tops the list among the most productive countries. It is found that the most visible words as keywords are "University" and "Digital" and it is followed by "Management", "Mobile", "Case", "Data", "Development", and "Application". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Getting a better understanding of the policy effectiveness and efficiency is a promising topic for encouraging the green-building initiative in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. This study introduces a framework for assessing and improving the green-building policies concerning the effectiveness with "structural consistency" of policy instruments and the efficiency with "behavioral coherence" of interagency collaborative networks and examined it with China's green-building policies from 2002 to 2019. This framework, using content mining and social network analysis, not merely provides a comprehensive approach for assessing policy performance of green-building initiative, but also contributes to integrating, comparing, and benchmarking the sustainability-transition studies from various industries and countries. The empirical evidence from China brings novel understandings to the policy-makers of emerging markets for the structural deficiencies in information services, international collaboration, and tax incentives, the three-stage roadmap of the green-building initiative, and the importance of policy agenda. This study contributes not only to the green-building literature by offering a systematic and referential framework for assessing policy performance but also to the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community by guiding the improvement of green-building policies in emerging markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we introduce the MSCI China A-shares index (MCASI) and analyze MCASI's properties. From the perspective of index investment, we found that MCASI's investor sentiments, both overnight sentiment and BW sentiment, provide significant predictability for future MCASI returns, supported by the in-sample and out-of-sample results. From the perspective of sector investment, we show that the sector portfolio of "information transfer, software and information technology services" performs the best among the 10 sector portfolios. In addition, seven approaches of the optimal portfolio in ten sectors are examined, and the results suggest that the classic Markowitz portfolio approach is recommended. Our empirical analysis is helpful for domestic and foreign investors seeking to form investment strategies for MSCI China A-shares. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internet's online information services can deliver high-quality services to the public while eliminating social alienation and virus transmission. From 2013 until the fourth quarter of 2020, China has had the highest number of Internet users in the world. Public access to information in the health care business in China is mostly through the Internet. In the healthcare business, high-quality information services are the fundamental obstacle because of their importance and effect on human lives. This article uses Chinese hospitals as a case study, covering assessment system development and empirical research. A total of 217 questionnaires were issued, 212 of which were valid, and the effective rate was 97.6 percent. The outcomes of the research show that the extensive epidemiological information services of the hospital website during an epidemic outbreak have a significant influence on the public's use of the hospital website. Secondly, high-quality epidemic-related information services are critical to enhancing website information services during outbreaks. Finally, in the epidemic, the high-quality service of the hospital's website has a greater impact on the worth of information in comparison to the content of information service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, the development of rural culture is gradually rising. Under the promotion of the sense of freedom and democracy, mobile information system also plays an important role in rural cultural services. This paper uses edge algorithm to build mobile information system, combined with rural cultural service elements, to carry out information construction for the people's needs of tourism, information, and belief culture in the development of rural China. In this paper, with the county or township service projects as the research content and 200 residents of a community as the research object, using the way of questionnaire to survey the respondents, online questionnaire feedback results received 186, the effective rate of 93%. This paper investigates the project support of mobile information system for rural cultural services and the satisfaction degree of residents' demand for various cultural resources. Research shows that the rural cultural service system based on mobile information system can improve the scope of cultural services. From the survey results, 65.53% of the people think that the cultural service system can reduce people's dependence on special cultural services, so as to obtain resources from the diversified information service system. 35.63% of the people said that the efficiency of cultural service system could be improved by more than 50% compared to that of offline cultural service. Others said that the rural cultural service system could basically meet their living needs. Therefore, whether from the perspective of cultural service or information system, the current rural cultural service mode and service process need to be constructed from the perspective of cultural service supply system reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patent information service is a newly emerging specialized in-depth information consultation service in Chinese academic libraries, developed with the implementation of the “National Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy” in China. This paper presents the embedded patent information service at Nanjing Technology University (NJTech) Library (Nanjing, China) and focuses on how it was designed and developed. Citation analysis and questionnaire survey were applied to study NJTech researchers' information behavior on patents so that the librarians could identify their unmet information needs. Based on the analysis of data collected from the citation analysis and questionnaire, the librarians found that they could assist researchers through collaboration and partnership in searching related patents, analyzing technology trends, identifying valuable patents, and tracking new emerging related patents. In the process of embedded service on patents, the role of the academic librarian at NJTech University has been extended to “Patent Specialist,” requiring close collaboration with researchers, embedding in their research units and groups, and helping them to make full use of patent information resources and become more effectively innovative in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluating the capability of smart information service and exploring the smart information service elements in scenic areas can accelerate the smart tourism industry progress to a highly effective administrative and high quality of smart tourism service. This study aims to exploring the connections of a variety of smart information service elements in scenic areas, analyzing and evaluating the capability of smart information service, mapping a positive resolution to improve the capability of information service in scenic spots. Based on a synthetic method that combining Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Analytic Network Process (ANP), explicitly using the SEM to extracting the key factors and mapping each factors' co-relations, and in further step, using the ANP to carry a fuzzy evaluation of weighing the information service capability and each element in the case of Jiangxi Province in China, the result shows that the method of "SEM-ANP" is better fit than single "SEM" or "ANP", the evaluating system for smart information service in scenic areas is significantly innovative and scientific to supply effective suggestions for policy makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]