INTERNET in general and the www in particular . This is now becoming the accepted method of disseminating and sharing information resources in hypermedia . Information science research has also changed , with much research to find out , how the new technologies are being used , particularly e-mail and the web . In addition to user studies there have been attempts to extract new kinds of information from the web .
Being a global document network initially developed for scholarly use , it is now inhabited by a diversity of users , and the web constitutes an obvious research area for bibliometrics , scientometrics and informetrics .