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Michael Gusenbauer – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Citation indices providing information on backward citation (BWC) and forward citation (FWC) links are essential for literature discovery, bibliographic analysis, and knowledge synthesis, especially when language barriers impede document identification. However, the suitability of citation indices varies. While some have been analyzed, the…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Information Retrieval, Databases, Web Sites
Burns, C. Sean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Soon after the university movement started in the late 1800s, academic libraries became the dominant providers of the tools and services required to locate and access scholarly information. However, with the advent of alternate discovery services, such as Google Scholar, in conjunction with open access scholarly content, researchers now have the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Access to Information, Documentation, Academic Libraries
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Puerta Melguizo, Mari Carmen; Vidya, Uti; van Oostendorp, Herre – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
We studied the effects of menu type, navigation path complexity and spatial ability on information retrieval performance and web disorientation or lostness. Two innovative aspects were included: (a) navigation path relevance and (b) information gathering tasks. As expected we found that, when measuring aspects directly related to navigation…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spatial Ability, Information Retrieval, Access to Information
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Wang, Ya; Howard, Pamela – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
Google Scholar is a free service that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly works and to connect patrons with the resources libraries provide. The researchers in this study analyzed Google Scholar usage data from 2006 for three library tools at San Francisco State University: SFX link resolver, Web Access Management proxy server,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Internet
Dragut, Eduard Constantin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An increasing number of Web sites expose their content via query interfaces, many of them offering the same type of products/services (e.g., flight tickets, car rental/purchasing). They constitute the so-called "Deep Web". Accessing the content on the Deep Web has been a long-standing challenge for the database community. For a user interested in…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Search Engines, Information Retrieval
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Gaffney, Michael; Rafferty, Pauline – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate users' knowledge and use of social networking sites and folksonomies to discover if social tagging and folksonomies, within the area of independent music, aid in its information retrieval and discovery. The sites examined in this project are MySpace, Lastfm, Pandora and Allmusic. In addition,…
Descriptors: Music, Program Effectiveness, Social Networks, Information Retrieval
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Pirkola, Ari – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2009
Introduction: Investigates how effectively Web search engines index new sites from different countries. The primary interest is whether new sites are indexed equally or whether search engines are biased towards certain countries. If major search engines show biased coverage it can be considered a significant economic and political problem because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Sites, Search Engines
Shen, Warren H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation studies information extraction (IE), the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured data. Example IE tasks include extracting person names from news articles, product information from e-commerce Web pages, street addresses from emails, and names of emerging music bands from blogs. IE is all increasingly…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Access to Information, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition
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Fang, Wei; Crawford, Marjorie E. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
Although there is a proliferation of information available on the Web, and law professors, students, and other users have a variety of channels to locate information and complete their research activities, the law library catalog still remains an important source for offering users access to information that has been evaluated and cataloged by…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Law Libraries, Online Catalogs, Internet
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Gammelgaard, Jens – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2010
This article explores how Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) manages knowledge retrieval by employees when they need to access documents written by colleagues in geographically distant units. CSC's establishment of virtual communities of practice facilitates the coordination of knowledge, and minimises contextual gaps between senders and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Communities of Practice, Knowledge Management
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King, Douglas – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2008
In the last issue, this journal asked a question on many librarians' minds, and it was pleased with the depth and variety of responses. As suggested by this journal editorial board member Oliver Pesch, readers were asked, "Many libraries have gone to federated searching to win users back from Google. Is it working?" Respondents approached the…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Computer Software, Synthesis
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Wajs, Hubert – Journal of Archival Organization, 2005
The fonds of Crown Chancery Public Register ("Metrica Regni") was chosen for the pilot project to introduce Encoded Archival Description (EAD) because of its historical value, typical archival structure and existing finding aids. The rights and privileges granted by Polish kings were recorded in the Register. The oldest books in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Documentation, Archives
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Todaro, Julie Beth – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2004
In this article, the author talks about e-zines, also identified as ezines. E-zines are online resources most commonly referred to as magazines or "zines" (print-world lingo for do-it-yourself publications) for short. Even though delivered over the Web, they are considered publications with small circulation and are primarily delivered over the…
Descriptors: Directories, Periodicals, Internet, Electronic Journals
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Yakel, Elizabeth – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
The article reports the results of a usability study of an EAD interface. Findings indicate that subjects had trouble understanding archival terminology and how best to search for information in finding aids. Furthermore, they were not familiar with the structure or contents of finding aids. In addition to building interfaces that minimize…
Descriptors: Archives, Standards, Coding, Metadata
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Kim, Jihyun – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
The study investigated implications of variations in EAD [Encoded Archival Description]-encoded finding aids on the Web. A content analysis methodology was used to examine five different aspects of EAD finding aids: (1) data elements; (2) labeling terminology; (3) navigation; (4) browsing; (5) searching. Seventeen EAD finding aid web sites…
Descriptors: Archives, Standards, Coding, Metadata
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