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The aim is to report only on e\u2010mail use and management.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>For this quantitative study, productivity data were gathered from information management systems of Bar\u2010Ilan University in Israel and a survey questionnaire was distributed in order to measure e\u2010mail use. The scholarly community of Bar\u2010Ilan University was surveyed via a web\u2010form \u2013 of the 781 survey copies disseminated, 412 (52.8 per cent of the total) were received and the final usable number was 390 (49.9 per cent of the total).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>With younger biological and\/or professional age, there are correspondingly higher levels of e\u2010mail usage. 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