Journal of Documentation: Volume 67 Issue 1

Inter‐indexer consistency in graphic materials indexing at the National Library of Wales

This paper seeks to report a project to investigate the degree of inter‐indexer consistency in the assignment of controlled vocabulary topical subject index terms to identical…

Conceptual misfits in e‐mail‐based current‐awareness interaction

This research aims to identify some requirements for supporting user interactions with electronic current‐awareness alert systems based on data from a professional work…

Meaning, truth, and information: prolegomena to a theory

This paper aims to examine the relationships between meaning and truth as they may contribute to a constitutive definition of information. The thesis is primarily that…

An anthropological emic‐etic perspective on open access practices

The purpose of this paper is to examine open access practices using an anthropological view of emics and etics.

A framework for contextual information in digital collections

This paper sets out to investigate the meaning, role and implications of contextual information associated with digital collections.

Classification systems in the light of sociology of knowledge

Classification is an important process in making sense of the world, and has a pronounced social dimension. This paper aims to compare folksonomy, a new social classification…

The information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers: Inspiration and guidance for new practitioners

This paper aims to report an empirical study of the information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers. It also aims to add to understanding of the information…

Online retrieval history; how it all began: some personal recollections

This paper aims to discuss the history of online searching through the views of one of its pioneers.

After Epistemology

Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age (2nd ed.)

What's in a Word‐list? Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction

Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction (2nd, revised edition)

The once and future book

2010 Awards for Excellence

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Online retrieval history: how it all began – an introduction