This bibliography attempts comprehensive coverage of the historical writings on the field of information science in North America. It is divided into three sections: books (including encyclopedia articles), journal articles, and unpublished papers and dissertations. (Author/LRW)

Describes a study that identified motivations for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles. Results of qualitative interviews showed 19 different motivations in three groups: scholarly, social, and technological. Empirical findings demonstrated that scholars use hyperlinks for a variety of purposes from a complex interplay of motivations.…

Describes a citation analysis that examined the 28 best articles published from 1969-1996 in JASIS ("Journal of the American Society for Information Science")(ASIS 1999 Handbook and Directory, p.25). Results highlight single-authored works that are twice as long (16.21 pages) as the average article (8.93 pages), are cited and self-cited…

Studied current policies and practices of scholarly journals on evaluating manuscripts for publication that had been previously published electronically. Discusses differences in practices among scholarly disciplines, and how the Internet and World Wide Web are affecting manuscript consideration policies of scholarly journals. (Contains 26…

This study investigated the collaborative patterns (internal, national, international, and mixed national and international) of 33 Nordic, United Kingdom, and Netherlands universities by analyzing institutionally co-authored articles from Science Citation Index (1993). Found no major difference between universities in articles with internal,…

Investigates the phenomena of concept similarity and conceptual information alteration in medical translation of article titles as information transfers between English and Chinese. Results showed the loss of conceptual information was much greater than the gain in both English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English translation, and there were two…

Provides selected article titles and descriptive material drawn from the pages of the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)" and its precursor title, "American Documentation," dating from the beginning of the journal in January 1950 until the spring of 1999. Descriptions are arranged by subject and…

In addition to "formal" reference citations in scientific journals, articles also contain further references. The main findings of an examination of non-indexed indirect-collective citedness (NIICC) are presented; two representative, elite physics journals were examined. Further research is needed to reveal the life course and nature of the ICC…

Presents results of a survey of five volumes of the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)," one for each decade of JASIS's existence. Discusses findings related to growth of JASIS and authorship, national versus international authorship, coauthoring of papers, author productivity, author gender, author…

This study used citation analysis and ordinary least squares regression to investigate the relationship between an article's citation rate and its degree of interdisciplinarity in one area of environmental science, namely forestry. Findings provide empirical evidence that interdisciplinary methods have made a measurable and positive impact on the…

Discusses the need for the design of new user interfaces for digital libraries and describes SenseMaker, a user-centered interface for information retrieval in a heterogeneous digital library. Topics include iterative bundling of articles and citations; evaluation results; increasing fluidity between browsing and searching; and filtering.…

Analyzes the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science's (JASIS's)" and its immediate predecessor, "American Documentation's," position in library and information science journal rankings published during the last half-century. Concludes that journal rankings represent a frequently overlooked tool of value to…

Describes a fully automated approach for indexing documents that is based on associating textwords in a training set of bibliographic citations with the indexing of journals. Discusses the use of journal descriptors (JDs) in the MEDLINE database that could also be used to search other journal articles, monographs, and Web documents. (Author/LRW)

Presents short profiles of seven distance education programs of varying types, a list of 11 World Wide Web sites concerning distance education, and a bibliography of 26 books and journal articles and four journals about distance learning. (Author/LRW)

Describes the authors' research behind the Historic Cancellation of Fact method, a solution to the information explosion crisis. Each existing paper is evaluated in the light of new papers published the day before, and any "old" paper which has suffered obsolescence is immediately pulled and republished in its entirety in SCRUB (Science Culling…