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
Ziming Liu: Dissipative Structure Theory, Synergetics, and Their Implications for the Management of Information Systems.129-135
William E. McGrath: Periodicity in Academic Library Circulation: A Spectral Analysis.136-145
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
Bernd Frohmann: In-Depth Review: The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work, by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio.177-179
Peter Liebscher: The Myth of the Electronic Library, by William F. Birdsall.179-181
Volume 47, Number 3, March 1996
Research
Juan Miguel Campanario: The Competition for Journal Space among Referees, Editors, and Other Authors and Its Influence on Journals' Impact Factors.184-192
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
Robert M. Hayes: Cost of Electronic Reference Resources and LCM: The Library Costing Model.228-234
Eileen G. Abels: Pricing of Electronic Resources: Interviews with Three Vendors.235-246
Book Reviews
Bella Hass Weinberg: In-Depth Review: Computational Linguistics in Information Science, by Conrad F. Sabourin.247-249
Susan Dunman: Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, by Carol Collier Kuhlthau.249-250
Leah A. Lievrouw: The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change, by John Feather.250-251
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
Stephanie W. Haas: The Creative Process: A Computer Model of Storytelling and Creativity, by Scott R. Turner.252-254
Sara Tompson: Managing Internet Information Services, by Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buus, and Adrian Nye.254-255
Donald Owen Case: The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity, by Thomas K. Landauer.255-256
Stan Hannah: Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, by Emerson W. Pugh.256-257
Vijay V. Raghavan: Measurement in Information Science, by Bert R. Boyce, Charles T. Meadow, and Donald H. Kraft.257-258
Debora Shaw: Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, by Jeffrey Rubin.258-259
Robin Peek: Detour: The Truth about the Information Superhighway, by Michael Sullivan-Trainor.399
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
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
Jamshid Beheshti: Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, edited by Edward Barrett.402-403
Charles Cole: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, by Douglas Hofstadter.403-404
Lynne McKechnie: Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction, by Diana Tixier Herald.404-405
Janette R. Hill: Information Seeking in Electronic Environments, by Gari Marchionini.405-406
Volume 47, Number 6, June 1996
In Memoriam
Robert M. Hayes: Joseph Becker, April 15, 1923 - July 23, 1995.412-414
Research
Peter van den Besselaar, Loet Leydesdorff: Mapping Change in Scientific Specialties: A Scientometric Reconstruction of the Development of Artificial Intelligence.415-436
Bandula W. Abeysundara: Video Dialtone Technology: Digital Video over ADSL, HFC, FTTC, and ATM, by Daniel Minoli.477-478
Mary Ellen Litzinger: Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self-Supporting Products, Second Edition, by William Horton.478
Alan T. Schroeder Jr.: Innovation the Library: The Adoption of New Ideas in Public Libraries, by Verna L. Pungitore.479
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.J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.47(6): 479 (1996)
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
Darlene E. Weingand: Software and Intellectual Property Protection: Copyright and Patent Issues for Computer and Legal Professionals, by Bernard A. Galler.480-482
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
Robert G. Crawford: Ian A. Mcleod, February 15, 1943 - December 15, 1995.487
Special Topic Issue:
Current Research in Online Public Access Systems
Teresa Olwick Grose: Reading the Bones: Information Content, Value, and Ownership Issues Raised by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.624-631
Chris D. Paice: Method for Evaluation of Stemming Algorithms Based on Error Counting.632-649
Brief Communication
Pit Pichappan: Levels of Citation Relations between Papers.650-652
Book Reviews
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
Donald R. Smith: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Reference Service and Bibliographic Instruction, edited by Gary M. Pitkin.654-655
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
Madeline M. Henderson: Calvin N. Mooers, October 24, 1919 - December 1, 1994.659-661
Special Topic Issue:
Electronic Publishing
Robin Peek: Electronic Publishing Grows up.665-668
Linda Schamber: What Is a Document? Rethinking the Concept in Uneasy Times.669-671
Lisa Covi, Rob Kling: Organizational Dimensions of Effective Digital Library Use: Closed Rational and Open Natural Systems Models.672-689
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
Terrence A. Brooks: Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor, by Richard Coyne.719-720
Alison M. Keyes: Beyond the Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: s The Insourcing Response, by Mary Celia Lacity and Rudy Hirschheim.720-722
Stephen Marvin: Library Patrons and the Law, by Arlene Bielefield and Lawrence Cheeseman.722
Melanie J. Norton: Expertise and Technology, Cognition and Human-Computer Cooperation, edited by Jean-Michel Hoc, Pietro C. Cacciabue, and Erik Hollnagel.722-725
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
Leo Egghe: Source-Item Production Laws for the Case That Items Have Multiple Sources with Fractional Counting of Credits.730-748
Charles H. Davis: At the Crossroads: Librarians on the Information Superhighway, by Herbert S. White.789-790
Nikola K. Kasabov: Fril - Fuzzy and Evidential Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, by J. F. Baldwin, T. P. Martin, and B. W. Pilsworth.790-791
Julian Warner: Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings, by Yorick A. Wilks, Brian M. Slator, and Louise M. Guthrie.791-792
Doborah Hunt: Finding Government Information on the Internet, edited by John Maxymuk.792-794
Robert M. Losee: Measuring Information: An Information Services Persepective, by Jean Tague-Sutcliffe.794-795
Kenneth G. Madden: Information Management for the Intelligent Organization: The Art of Scanning the Environment, by Chun Wei Choo.795-796
Julia Gelfand: Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, edited by Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond.796-797
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
Howard Besser, Stacey Donahue: Perspectives on ... Distance Independent Education: Introduction and Overview.801-804
Historical Perspective
Daniel D. Barron: Distance Education in North American Library and Information Science Education: Applications of Technology and Commitment.805-810
Judith M. Roberts: The Story of Distance Education: A Practitioner's Perspective.811-816
Discussion of Methods
Howard Besser: Issues and Challenges for the Distance Independent Environment.817-820
Instances of Distance Learning
Stuart A. Sutton: Planning for the Twenty-First Century: The California State University.821-825