Journal of Documentation: Volume 66 Issue 5

Classification in a social world: bias and trust

The purpose of this paper is to establish pluralism as the basis for bibliographic classification theory and practice and examine the possibility of establishing trustworthy…

Mental models of the bibliographic universe. Part 1: mental models of descriptions

The paper aims to present the results of the first two tasks of a user study looking into mental models of the bibliographic universe and especially their comparison to the…

Mental models of the bibliographic universe. Part 2: comparison task and conclusions

The paper aims to provide some insight into mental models of the bibliographic universe and how they compare with functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR) as a…

The h‐index: a broad review of a new bibliometric indicator

This review aims to show, broadly, how the h‐index has become a subject of widespread debate, how it has spawned many variants and diverse applications since first introduced in…

Information literacy and knowledge management at work: Conceptions of effective information use at NHS24

The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretically and empirically the concept of workplace information literacy (IL) and its connections to knowledge management (KM), and to…

Document, text and medium: concepts, theories and disciplines

The purpose of this paper is first to provide a critical conceptual discussion of different use of the notion of text, especially in the case of expressions including words as…

Engineering an image‐browsing environment: re‐purposing existing denotative descriptors

The paper provides a theory base for deriving connotative descriptors for photographs from existing denotative descriptors, and then demonstrates a model for enhancing browsing…

Alas poor ARIST: reviewing the information sciences

New national strategy for Albanian public library development in information society

Renewing Albania’s libraries