This paper presents a scientometric study of articles from journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS), subject category “Information Science & Library Science”. The results confirm the Anglo-American dominance in the library and information science literature (included in WoS), which is even stronger if only research-oriented information science journals are considered. The two major exceptions a...

THEPURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO CONSTRUCT a baseline of scholarly use of Internet-based electronic resources (e-sources) by surveying a group of library and information science (LIS) scholars. Results reported here include researchers’ demographic information, frequency of use of various Internet tools and resources, ways of accessing various Internet tools and applications, strategies of locati...

Sarah Robbins is Web Services Coordinator, Debra Engel is Associate Dean of Public Services, and Christina Kulp is Sciences Librarian at University of Oklahoma Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], respectively. © Sarah Robbins, Debra Engel, and Christina Kulp Studies of information-seeking behaviors are common in the professional literature for library and informati...

This paper presents a condensed history of Library and Information Science (LIS) over the course of more than a century using a variety of bibliometric measures. It examines in detail the variable rate of knowledge production in the field, shifts in subject coverage, the dominance of particular publication genres at different times, prevailing modes of production, interactions with other discip...

Soonil Bae Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112 Haowei Hsieh School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 DoHyoung Kim Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112 Catherine C. Marshall Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA 94043...

The concept of information needs has been used in several models within library and information science, and especially in the field of information needs, seeking and use, to describe triggering factors for information seeking processes (e.g., Wilson 1981; Krikelas 1983; Leckie et al. 1996; Byström & Hansen 2005). However, it has been acknowledged that information needs as such are difficult to...

Information retrieval is a long established subfield of library and information science. Since its inception in the earlyto mid -1950s, it has grown as a result, in part, of well-regarded retrieval system evaluation exercises/campaigns, the proliferation of Web search engines, and the expansion of digital libraries. Although researchers have examined the intellectual structure and nature of the...

In Iran, the number of published articles has increased significantly in the basic and applied sciences including medicine and its subspecialties during the recent years. The present study reviewed Iranian science production in medicine, focusing on Iranian medical journals and assessing the current status of Iranian medical journals in several information databases. The study revealed that onl...

Contemporary metadata standards and interoperability approaches are mainly authoritative and hierarchical, which tend to favour an expert controlled metadata approach that is ubiquitous in current library practises, and, hence, fail to take into account the diversity of cultural, linguistic and local perspectives that abound. To overcome this, it is proposed that a social constructivist approac...