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Peer reviewedHe, Chunpei; Pao, Miranda Lee – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Discusses various strategies for assessing importance of journals for acquisition; describes a discipline-specific selection algorithm which uses journal citation data to identify journals that contribute to a discipline's research foundation as well as those used for professional practice; and reports on two studies which demonstrated the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Citation Analysis, Library Material Selection, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedSmithson, Steve – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Outlines problems involved in information retrieval evaluation and suggests a more user-centered interpretive approach. A longitudinal study that examines evaluation through the information-seeking behavior of 22 case studies of actual users is described; and relevance judgments, effectiveness ratios, and analysis of document failures are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Information Seeking
