Aslib Proceedings: Volume 57 Issue 1

Emerald authorship data, Lotka's law and research productivity

Ian Rowlands

This paper offers a practical insight into the application of Lotka's law of author productivity to the question of how likely it is that an author will return to a particular…

Case study (part 2): A “fuzzy” approach to multi‐channel information optimisation

Andrew Boyd

To validate the use of fuzzy control systems for information channel optimisation.

International presence and impact of the UK biomedical research, 1989‐2000

Berenika M. Webster

To map UK biomedical research by analysing biomedical publications from authors with UK institutional affiliation and indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences…

An evaluation of the NHS Direct online health information e‐mail enquiry service: Quality of health information on the internet

Ruiha Webster, Peter Williams

To judge the quality of health information provided to the users of the NHS Direct online enquiry service.

Personal home pages as a resource: Evaluating the informational value of the PHP on the web

Shant Narsesian, David Nicholas

To help determine the extent to which “unique” informational content is available on personal home pages (PHP) on the world wide web (WWW).

Education and training for digital librarians: A Slovenia/UK comparison

David Bawden, Polona Vilar, Vlasta Zabukovec

To determine and compare approaches to the education and training of librarians for work in digital libraries. More precisely, to identify – in general terms, rather than…

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