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Speculating and evolving in documentation
David BawdenIntroduces the first in a new series of articles under the heading “Speculations in documentation”. The initial article, on “Evolution and information”, is set in the context of…
Evolution and information
A.D. MaddenThe association between life and information is discussed. Information is considered to be “a stimulus which expands or amends the World View of the informed”. Using this…
Re‐appraising information seeking behaviour in a digital environment: Bouncers, checkers, returnees and the like
David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Peter Williams, Tom DobrowolskiCollating data from a number of log and questionnaire studies conducted largely into the use of a range of consumer health digital information platforms, Centre for Information…
Predictive ranking of computer scientists using CiteSeer data
Dror G. Feitelson, Uri YovelThe increasing availability of digital libraries with cross‐citation data on the Internet enables new studies in bibliometrics. The paper focuses on the list of 10,000 top‐cited…
Web pages of Slovenian public libraries: evaluation and guidelines
Silva Novljan, Maja ŽumerThe content and quality of 28 Slovenian public library Web pages were studied in 2001 and 2002. The research was performed by students of Department of Library and Information…
Elicitation purposes and tasks during mediated information search
Amanda Spink, Michelle SollenbergerThis paper provides an empirical characterization of elicitation purposes related to search tasks during mediated information retrieval. During retrieval, a human search…
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- Prof David Bawden