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Practitioners and academics as authors and readers: the case of LIS journals
Christian Schlögl, Wolfgang G. StockThe aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between practitioners and academics in scholarly communication in library and information science (LIS) journals.
Credibility on the internet: shifting from authority to reliability
R. David LankesThis paper seeks to understand how users determine credibility in the internet environment from a conceptual level and the implications of these new methods of credibility…
Meaning, communication, music: towards a revised communication model
Charles Inskip, Andrew MacFarlane, Pauline RaffertyIf an information retrieval system is going to be of value to the user then it must give meaning to the information which matches the meaning given to it by the user. The meaning…
Do academic link types change over time?
Nigel Payne, Mike ThelwallThis paper seeks to address the question: do university web sites publish the same kind of information and use the same kind of hyperlinks year on year or do these change over…
Formalizing a discipline: The institutionalization of library and information science research in the Nordic countries
Fredrik ÅströmThe paper's objective is to analyze the social organization of library and information Science (LIS) using the Nordic countries as example, focusing on organizational setting…
Organs of the human brain, created by the human hand?: The social epistemology of information technology
Julian WarnerInformation science has been conceptualized as a partly unreflexive response to developments in information and computer technology, and, most powerfully, as part of the gestalt…
Who benefits from CLIR in web retrieval?
Eija AirioThe aim of the current paper is to test whether query translation is beneficial in web retrieval.
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