Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Volume 47, 1996

Volume 47, Number 1, January 1996

Special Topic Issue: Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems

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  Jean Tague-Sutcliffe:
  Some Perspectives on the Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems. 1-3
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  David C. Blair:
  STAIRS Redux: Thoughts on the STAIRS Evaluation, Ten Years after. 4-22
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  David Ellis:
  The Dilemma of Measurement in Information Retrieval Research. 23-36
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  Stephen P. Harter:
  Variations in Relevance Assessments and the Measurement of Retrieval Effectiveness. 37-49
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  William R. Hersh, Jeffrey Pentecost, David H. Hickam:
  A Task-Oriented Approach to Information Retrieval Evaluation. 50-56
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  F. W. Lancaster, Jacob W. Ulvila, Susanne M. Humphrey, Linda C. Smith, Bryce Allen, Saul Herner:
  Evaluation of Interactive Knowledge-Based Systems: Overview and Design for Empirical Testing. 57-69
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  David A. Hull:
  Stemming Algorithms: A Case Study for Detailed Evaluation. 70-84
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  Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson, Edie M. Rasmussen:
  Evaluating Interactive Systems in TREC. 85-94
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  Robert M. Losee:
  Evaluating Retrieval Performance Given Database and Query Characteristics: Analytic Determination of Performance Surfaces. 95-105

Volume 47, Number 2, February 1996

In Memoriam

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  Carolyn J. Crouch, Michael McGill, Michael Lesk, Karen Sparck Jones, Edward A. Fox, Donna Harman, Donald H. Kraft:
  Gerald Salton, March 8, 1927 - August 28, 1995. 108-115

Research

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  Michael D. Gordon, Robert K. Lindsay:
  Toward Discovery Support Systems: A Replication, Re-Examination, and Extension of Swanson's Work on Literature-Based Discovery of a Connection between Raynaud's and Fish Oil. 116-128
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  Ziming Liu:
  Dissipative Structure Theory, Synergetics, and Their Implications for the Management of Information Systems. 129-135
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  William E. McGrath:
  Periodicity in Academic Library Circulation: A Spectral Analysis. 136-145
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  Eileen G. Abels, Peter Liebscher, Daniel W. Denman:
  Factors That Influence the Use of Electronic Networks by Science and Engineering Faculty at Small Institutions. Part I. Queries. 146-158
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  William Steve Lang, Mary Grigsby:
  Statistics for Measuring the Efficiency of Electronic Information Retrieval. 159-166

Brief Communications

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  Stephanie W. Haas, Jeremy Sugarman, Helen R. Tibbo:
  A Text Filter for the Automatic Identification of Empirical Articles. 167-169
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  Bernard Bayer, Frederick G. Kilgour:
  Scholarly Use of Referenced Information in Physics Journals. 170-172
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  Blaise Cronin, Kara Overfelt:
  Postscript on Program Rankings. 173-176

Book Reviews

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  Bernd Frohmann:
  In-Depth Review: The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work, by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio. 177-179
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  Peter Liebscher:
  The Myth of the Electronic Library, by William F. Birdsall. 179-181

Volume 47, Number 3, March 1996

Research

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  Juan Miguel Campanario:
  The Competition for Journal Space among Referees, Editors, and Other Authors and Its Influence on Journals' Impact Factors. 184-192
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  Elfreda A. Chatman:
  The Impoverished Life-World of Outsiders. 193-206

Perspectives on ... Costs and Pricing of Library and Information Services in Transition

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  Eileen G. Abels, Lois F. Lunin:
  Introduction and Overview. 208-209
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  Kerryn A. Brandt, Jayne M. Campbell, Willard F. Bryant Jr.:
  Reflections on Reference Services. 210-216
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  Eileen G. Abels, Paul B. Kantor, Tefko Saracevic:
  Studying the Cost and Value of Library and Information Services: Applying Functional Cost Analysis to the Library in Transition. 217-227
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  Robert M. Hayes:
  Cost of Electronic Reference Resources and LCM: The Library Costing Model. 228-234
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  Eileen G. Abels:
  Pricing of Electronic Resources: Interviews with Three Vendors. 235-246

Book Reviews

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  Bella Hass Weinberg:
  In-Depth Review: Computational Linguistics in Information Science, by Conrad F. Sabourin. 247-249
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  Susan Dunman:
  Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, by Carol Collier Kuhlthau. 249-250
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  Leah A. Lievrouw:
  The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change, by John Feather. 250-251
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  Pamela Cobbs:
  The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking, Second Edition, by Theodore Roszak. 251-252
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  Stephanie W. Haas:
  The Creative Process: A Computer Model of Storytelling and Creativity, by Scott R. Turner. 252-254
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  Sara Tompson:
  Managing Internet Information Services, by Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buus, and Adrian Nye. 254-255
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  Donald Owen Case:
  The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity, by Thomas K. Landauer. 255-256
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  Stan Hannah:
  Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, by Emerson W. Pugh. 256-257
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  Vijay V. Raghavan:
  Measurement in Information Science, by Bert R. Boyce, Charles T. Meadow, and Donald H. Kraft. 257-258
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  Debora Shaw:
  Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, by Jeffrey Rubin. 258-259

Volume 47, Number 4, April 1996

Special Topic Issue: Full-Text Retrieval

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  MaryEllen C. Sievert:
  Full-Text Information Retrieval: Introduction. 261-262
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  Claudia Pearce, Charles K. Nicholas:
  TELLTALE: Experiments in a Dynamic Hypertext Environment for Degraded and Multilingual Data. 263-275
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  Diane Nahl, Carol Tenopir:
  Affective and Cognitive Searching Behavior of Novice End-Users of a Full-Text Database. 276-286
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  David Ellis, Jonathan Furner, Peter Willett:
  On the Creation of Hypertext Links in Full-Text Documents: Measurement of Retrieval Effectiveness. 287-300

Research

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  Juan Miguel Campanario:
  Have Referees Rejected Some of the Most-Cited Articles of All Times? 302-310
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  Stephen P. Harter, Yung-Rang Cheng:
  Colinked Descriptors: Improving Vocabulary Selection for End-User Searching. 311-325

Book Reviews

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  Michael Lesk:
  The Future of Software, edited by Derek Leebaert. 326-327
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  Mary Ellen Soper:
  A Library Manager's Guide to the Physical Processing of Nonbook Materials, by Karen C. Driessen and Sheila A. Smyth. 327-328
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  Rebecca Green:
  Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introduction to Classification Techniques, by Kennet D. Bailey. 328-329
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  Herbert J. Lidstone:
  Computational Organization Theory, edited by Kathleen M. Carley and Michael J. Prietula. 329-330
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  William E. McGrath:
  Chaos and Catastrophe Theories, by Courtney Brown. 330-332

Volume 47, Number 5, May 1996

Research

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  Shoichi Taniguchi:
  A System for Analyzing Cataloging Rules: A Feasibility Study. 338-356
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  Yiming Yang, W. John Wilbur:
  Using Corpus Statistics to Remove Redundant Words in Text Categorization. 357-369
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  Kathleen M. Swigger, Ken Hartness:
  Cooperation and Online Searching via a Computer-Supported Cooperative Problem Solving Environment. 370-379
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  Gerhard Geldenhuys, Lezánne Human:
  Comparison of Two Indices for the Investigation of Cooperation Graphs. 380-384
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  C. J. van Rijsbergen, Mounia Lalmas:
  Information Calculus for Information Retrieval. 385-398

Book Reviews

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  Robin Peek:
  Detour: The Truth about the Information Superhighway, by Michael Sullivan-Trainor. 399
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  V. Marielle McFarland, Hermann L. Totten:
  Out in the Cold - Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa, by Lorraine J. Haricombe and F. W. Lancaster. 399-401
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  Tina C. Fu:
  Academic Libraries as High-Tech Gateways: A Guide to Design and Space Decisions, by Richard J. Bazillion and Connie Braun. 401-402
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  Jamshid Beheshti:
  Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, edited by Edward Barrett. 402-403
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  Charles Cole:
  Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, by Douglas Hofstadter. 403-404
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  Lynne McKechnie:
  Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction, by Diana Tixier Herald. 404-405
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  Janette R. Hill:
  Information Seeking in Electronic Environments, by Gari Marchionini. 405-406

Volume 47, Number 6, June 1996

In Memoriam

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  Robert M. Hayes:
  Joseph Becker, April 15, 1923 - July 23, 1995. 412-414

Research

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  Peter van den Besselaar, Loet Leydesdorff:
  Mapping Change in Scientific Specialties: A Scientometric Reconstruction of the Development of Artificial Intelligence. 415-436
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  Andrew Large, Jamshid Beheshti, Alain Breuleux, Andre Renaud:
  Effect of Animation in Enhancing Descriptive and Procedural Texts in a Multimedia Learning Environment. 437-448
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  John R. Conlon, Sumali J. Conlon:
  Optimal Use of an Information Retrieval System. 449-457
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  Pedro Alvarez, Antonio Pulgarín:
  The Rasch Model. Measuring the Impact of Scientific Journals: Analytical Chemistry. 458-467
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  Pedro Alvarez, Antonio Pulgarín:
  The Rasch Model. Measuring Information from Keywords: The Diabetes Field. 468-476

Book Reviews

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  Bandula W. Abeysundara:
  Video Dialtone Technology: Digital Video over ADSL, HFC, FTTC, and ATM, by Daniel Minoli. 477-478
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  Mary Ellen Litzinger:
  Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self-Supporting Products, Second Edition, by William Horton. 478
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  Alan T. Schroeder Jr.:
  Innovation the Library: The Adoption of New Ideas in Public Libraries, by Verna L. Pungitore. 479
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  Alfred T. Lee:
  Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems, edited by John M. Flach, Peter A. Hancock, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente. JASIS 47(6): 479 (1996)
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  Alfred T. Lee:
  Local Applications of the Ecological Approach to Human-Machine Systems, edited by Peter A. Hancock, John M. Flach, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente. 480
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  Darlene E. Weingand:
  Software and Intellectual Property Protection: Copyright and Patent Issues for Computer and Legal Professionals, by Bernard A. Galler. 480-482
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  Alan MacLennan:
  The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building Embodied, Situated Agents, edited by Luc Steels and Rodney Brooks. 482-483

Volume 47, Number 7, July 1996

In Memoriam

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  Robert G. Crawford:
  Ian A. Mcleod, February 15, 1943 - December 15, 1995. 487

Special Topic Issue: Current Research in Online Public Access Systems

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  Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Christine L. Borgman:
  A New Era for OPAC Research: Introduction to Special Topic Issue on Current Research in Online Public Access Systems. 491-492
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  Christine L. Borgman:
  Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use? 493-503
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  Carol A. Hert:
  User Goals on an Online Public Access Catalog. 504-518
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  Karen M. Drabenstott, Marjorie S. Weller:
  Failure Analysis of Subject Searches in a Test of a New Design for Subject Access to Online Catalogs. 519-537
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  Allyson Carlyle:
  Ordering Author and Work Records: An Evaluation of Collocation in Online Catalog Displays. 538-554
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  Ray R. Larson, Jerome McDonough, Paul O'Leary, Lucy Kuntz, Ralph Moon:
  Cheshire II: Designing a Next-Generation Online Catalog. 555-567
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  Christine L. Borgman, Sandra G. Hirsh, John Hiller:
  Rethinking Online Monitoring Methods for Information Retrieval Systems: From Search Product to Search Process. 568-583

Volume 47, Number 8, August 1996

In Memoriam

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  Anthony Debons:
  Jack Belzer, January 16, 1910 - June 22, 1995. 586-587

Research

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  Jean-Christophe Doré, Tiiu Ojasoo, Yoshiko Okubo, Thomas Durand, Gérard Dudognon, Jean-François Miquel:
  Correspondence Factor Analysis of the Publication Patterns of 48 Countries over the Period 1981-1992. 588-602
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  Amanda Spink:
  Multiple Search Sessions Model of End-User Behavior: An Exploratory Study. 603-609
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  Richard E. Quandt:
  Simulation Model for Journal Subscription by Libraries. 610-617
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  Dale Hibner, Richard Bellaver, Frank M. Groom:
  Interlinking E-Mail Systems. 618-623
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  Teresa Olwick Grose:
  Reading the Bones: Information Content, Value, and Ownership Issues Raised by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. 624-631
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  Chris D. Paice:
  Method for Evaluation of Stemming Algorithms Based on Error Counting. 632-649

Brief Communication

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  Pit Pichappan:
  Levels of Citation Relations between Papers. 650-652

Book Reviews

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  Alice Robbin:
  Telecommunications Politics: Ownership and Control of the Information Highway in Developing Countries, edited by Bella Mody, Johannes M. Bauer, and Joseph D. Staubhaar. 653-654
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  Donald R. Smith:
  The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Reference Service and Bibliographic Instruction, edited by Gary M. Pitkin. 654-655
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  Thomas A. Peters:
  Human Factors in Information Systems: Emerging Theoretical Bases, edited by Jane M. Carey. 655-656

Volume 47, Number 9, September 1996

In Memoriam

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  Madeline M. Henderson:
  Calvin N. Mooers, October 24, 1919 - December 1, 1994. 659-661

Special Topic Issue: Electronic Publishing

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  Robin Peek:
  Electronic Publishing Grows up. 665-668
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  Linda Schamber:
  What Is a Document? Rethinking the Concept in Uneasy Times. 669-671
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  Lisa Covi, Rob Kling:
  Organizational Dimensions of Effective Digital Library Use: Closed Rational and Open Natural Systems Models. 672-689
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  Fytton Rowland, Cliff McKnight, Jack Meadows, Peter Such:
  ELVYN: The Delivery of an Electronic Version of a Journal from the Publisher to Libraries. 690-700
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  Zane L. Berge, Mauri P. Collins:
  IPCT Journal Readership Survey. 701-710
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  Joseph W. Janes, Louis B. Rosenfeld:
  Networked Information Retrieval and Organization: Issues and Questions. 711-715

Book Reviews

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  Katherine W. McCain:
  Dictionary of Bibliometrics, by Virgil Diodato. 716-717
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  Peter G. Underwood:
  Critical Issues in Systems Theory and Practice, edited by Keith Ellis, Amanda Gregory, Bridget R. Mears-Young, and Gillian Ragsdell. 717-719
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor, by Richard Coyne. 719-720
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  Alison M. Keyes:
  Beyond the Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: s The Insourcing Response, by Mary Celia Lacity and Rudy Hirschheim. 720-722
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  Stephen Marvin:
  Library Patrons and the Law, by Arlene Bielefield and Lawrence Cheeseman. 722
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  Melanie J. Norton:
  Expertise and Technology, Cognition and Human-Computer Cooperation, edited by Jean-Michel Hoc, Pietro C. Cacciabue, and Erik Hollnagel. 722-725
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  Donna Zoccola Soultoukis:
  The Internet Access Cookbook: A Librarian's Commonsense Guide to Low-Cost Connections, by Karen G. Schneider. 725

Volume 47, Number 10, October 1996

Research

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  Leo Egghe:
  Source-Item Production Laws for the Case That Items Have Multiple Sources with Fractional Counting of Credits. 730-748
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  Michael Persin, Justin Zobel, Ron Sacks-Davis:
  Filtered Document Retrieval with Frequency-Sorted Indexes. 749-764
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  Dietmar Wolfram:
  Inter-Record Linkage Structure in a Hypertext Bibliographic Retrieval System. 765-774
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  Ronald Rousseau, Guido Van Hooydonk:
  Journal Production and Journal Impact Factors. 775-780

Brief Communications

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  Peter Kokol, Tatjana Kokol:
  Linguistic Laws and Computer Programs. 781-785
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  Andrew Dillon, Dille Schaap:
  Expertise and the Perception of Shape in Information. 786-788

Book Reviews

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  Charles H. Davis:
  At the Crossroads: Librarians on the Information Superhighway, by Herbert S. White. 789-790
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  Nikola K. Kasabov:
  Fril - Fuzzy and Evidential Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, by J. F. Baldwin, T. P. Martin, and B. W. Pilsworth. 790-791
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  Julian Warner:
  Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings, by Yorick A. Wilks, Brian M. Slator, and Louise M. Guthrie. 791-792
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  Doborah Hunt:
  Finding Government Information on the Internet, edited by John Maxymuk. 792-794
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  Robert M. Losee:
  Measuring Information: An Information Services Persepective, by Jean Tague-Sutcliffe. 794-795
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  Kenneth G. Madden:
  Information Management for the Intelligent Organization: The Art of Scanning the Environment, by Chun Wei Choo. 795-796
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  Julia Gelfand:
  Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, edited by Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond. 796-797
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  Robert Wittorf:
  Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online, by Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray Turoff. 797-798

Volume 47, Number 11, November 1996

Perspectives on ... Distance Independent Education

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  Howard Besser, Stacey Donahue:
  Perspectives on ... Distance Independent Education: Introduction and Overview. 801-804

Historical Perspective

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  Daniel D. Barron:
  Distance Education in North American Library and Information Science Education: Applications of Technology and Commitment. 805-810
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  Judith M. Roberts:
  The Story of Distance Education: A Practitioner's Perspective. 811-816

Discussion of Methods

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  Howard Besser:
  Issues and Challenges for the Distance Independent Environment. 817-820

Instances of Distance Learning

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  Stuart A. Sutton:
  Planning for the Twenty-First Century: The California State University. 821-825
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  Marcia C. Linn:
  Cognition and Distance Learning. 826-842
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