Journal of Documentation: Volume 59 Issue 4

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Table of contents

Red information scientist: the information career of J.D. Bernal

Dave Muddiman

John Desmond Bernal (1901‐1970) was one of the most eminent scientists of his generation; he also became, in mid‐twentieth century Britain, an important political figure – the…

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A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the Web

Mike Thelwall

A layered approach for identifying communities in the Web is presented and explored by applying the flake exact community identification algorithm to the UK academic Web. Although…

Information seeking in the context of writing: A design psychology interpretation of the “problematic situation”

Simon Attfield, Ann Blandford, John Dowell

Information seeking does not occur in a vacuum but invariably is motivated by some wider task. It is well accepted that to understand information seeking we must understand the…

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The WEB Book experiments in electronic textbook design

Ruth Wilson, Monica Landoni, Forbes Gibb

This paper describes a series of three evaluations of electronic textbooks on the Web, which focused on assessing how appearance and design can affect users’ sense of engagement…

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Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden