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Privilege and public provision in the intellectual welfare state
Barbara KyleThe purpose of this paper, originally published in 1956, is to examine the assumptions about people's needs for and rights to information which lie behind the establishment of…
Clear thinking on the “unity” of the information professions
Paul SturgesAs part of a series to mark the 60th anniversary of the Journal of Documentation, the aim is to review a 1956 article by Barbara Kyle.
To stem or lemmatize a highly inflectional language in a probabilistic IR environment?
Kimmo Kettunen, Tuomas Kunttu, Kalervo JärvelinTo show that stem generation compares well with lemmatization as a morphological tool for a highly inflectional language for IR purposes in a best‐match retrieval system.
Open access journal publishing: the views of some of the world's senior authors
David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Ian RowlandsThe main aims of the survey were to determine: the volume of open access (OA) publishing; what the attitudes of authors to publishing in OA journals were; and what authors felt…
Term conflation methods in information retrieval: Non‐linguistic and linguistic approaches
Carmen Galvez, Félix de Moya‐Anegón, Víctor H. SolanaTo propose a categorization of the different conflation procedures at the two basic approaches, non‐linguistic and linguistic techniques, and to justify the application of…
Information and non‐information multitasking interplay
Amanda Spink, Minsoo ParkDuring multitasking, humans handle multiple tasks through task switching or engage in multitasking information behaviors. For example, a user switches between seeking new kitchen…
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