Unpublished Research
State Legislators' Web Presence: Frequency, Content, and Design
Abstract: While the use of web sites in national political campaigns
has been researched from a variety of angles, little attention has been
paid to the use of the web at the state level. This study of web sites
for state legislators in three states (Arizona, Missouri and New Jersey)
looks at the number of legislators who have web sites other than the
brief space allotted on the state’s web site, what sort of districts
are represented and the content and design of these sites. In two of
the states roughly 10% of the state legislators had an easily located
web site. The third state had a higher ratio but the sites were more
frequently identifiable as being less frequently updated. Republicans
and women are more likely to have web sites. There is little
standardization of the type of information presented on the sites.
Selected List of Academic Libraries in Four English Speaking Countries
List of library web pages used for presentation at National Online
Meeting ("Divided by a Common Language") and a subsequent article in
Online Information Review. A slightly different version of this list
was used in earlier research on cultural differences in online search
strategy formation.
Selected List of Libraries at American PhD Granting Universities
The following is a list of American research libraries used in researching
the article "A Comparison of Research University and community College
Web Sites: Content, Functionality and Form," co-authored by Laura
Cohen and Julie Still, published in College & Research Libraries.
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