Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Volume 50, 1999

Volume 50, Number 1, January 1999

Special Topic Issue: Youth Issues in Information Science

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  Mary K. Chelton, Nancy P. Thomas:
  Introduction: Why a Special Topic Issue on Youth Issues? 7-9
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  Ross J. Todd:
  Utilization of Herion Information by Adolescent Girls in Australia: A Cognitive Analysis. 10-23
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  Raya Fidel, Rachel K. Davies, Mary H. Douglass, Jenny K. Holder, Carla J. Hopkins, Elisabeth J. Kushner, Bryan K. Miyagishima, Christina D. Toney:
  A Visit to the Information Mall: Web Searching Behavior of High School Students. 24-37
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  Heidi E. Julien:
  Barriers to Adolescents' Information Seeking for Career Decision Making. 38-48

Research

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  David Bodoff:
  A Re-Unification of Two Competing Models for Document Retrieval. 49-64
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  Gehad Galal, Diane J. Cook, Lawrence B. Holder:
  Exploiting Parallelism in a Structural Scientific Discovery System to Improve Scalability. 65-73
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  John Agada:
  Inner-City Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Survey of Their Information Use Environment. 74-85
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  Valery I. Frants, Jacob Shapiro, Isak Taksa, Vladimir G. Voiskunskii:
  Boolean Search: Current State and Perspectives. 86-95

Volume 50, Number 2, February 1999

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  Peiling Wang, Marilyn Domas White:
  A Cognitive Model of Document Use During a Research Project. Study II. Decisions at the Reading and Citing Stages. 98-114
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  E. C. M. Noyons, Henk F. Moed, Marc Luwel:
  Combining Mapping and Citation Analysis for Evaluative Bibliometric Purposes: A Bibliometric Study. 115-132
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  Margaret Higgins:
  Meta-Information, and Time: Factors in Human Decision Making. 132-139
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  Weijing Yuan, Charles T. Meadow:
  A Study of the Use of Variables in Information Retrieval User Studies. 140-150
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  Marie-Francine Moens, Caroline Uyttendaele, Jos Dumortier:
  Abstracting of Legal Cases: The Potential of Clustering Based on the Selection of Representative Objects. 151-161
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  Wallace Koehler:
  An Analysis of Web Page and Web Site Constancy and Permanence. 162-180
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  Robert Burgin:
  The Monte Carlo Method and the Evaluation of Retrieval System Performance. 181-191

Volume 50, Number 3, March 1999

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  Jonathan D. Cohen:
  Massive Query Resolution for Rapid Selective Dissemination of Information. 195-206
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  Elfreda A. Chatman:
  A Theory of Life in the Round. 207-217
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  Kwok-Shing Cheng, Gilbert H. Young, Kam-Fai Wong:
  A Study on Word-Based and Integral-Bit Chinese Text Compression Algorithms. 218-228
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  Thomas Hapke:
  History of Scholarly Information and Communication: A Review of Selected German Literature. 229-232
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  Leo Egghe:
  On the Law of Zipf-Mandelbrot for Multi-Wort Phrases. 233-241
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  Carole L. Palmer:
  Structures and Strategies of Interdisciplinary Science. 242-253
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  Rong Tang, William M. Shaw Jr., Jack L. Vevea:
  Towards the Identification of the Optimal Number of Relevance Categories. 254-264
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  Frederick G. Kilgour, Barbara B. Moran, John R. Barden:
  Retrieval Effectiveness of Surname-Title-Word Searches for Known Items by Academic Library Users. 265-270
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  Sydney J. Pierce:
  Boundary Crossing in Research Literatures as a Means of Interdisciplinary Information Transfer. 271-279
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  Qinglan Sun, Debora Shaw, Charles H. Davis:
  A Model for Estimating the Occurrence of Same-Frequency Words and the Boundary Between High- and Low-Frequency Words in Texts. 280-286

Volume 50, Number 4, April 1, 1999

In Memoriam

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  Edie M. Rasmussen, Christine L. Borman, Donald H. Kraft, Kai A. Olsen:
  Robert R. Korfhage. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 50(4): 288-291 (1999)

Special Topic Issue: The National Information Infrastructure

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  Patricia D. Fletcher, John Carlo Bertot:
  The National Information Infrastructure - Introduction. 295-298
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  Patricia D. Fletcher, Lisa K. Westerback:
  Catching a Ride on the NII: The Federal Policy Vehicles Paving the Information Highway. 299-304
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  Jerry Mechling:
  Better Funding for Government IT: Views from the Front Line. 305-313
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  Charles R. McClure, William E. Moen, John Carlo Bertot:
  Descriptive Assessment of Information Policy Initiatives: The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) as an Example. 314-330
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  Margaret L. Hedstrom, David Wallace:
  And the Last Shall Be First: Recordkeeping Policies and the NII. 331-339
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  J. Timothy Sprehe:
  Government Information: From Inaccessibility to Your Desktop and Back Again. 340-345
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  Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo, Ann DiCaterino:
  Crossing the Threshold: Practical Foundations for Government Services on the World Wide Web. 346-353
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  Leon A. Kapelman, Jerry L. Johnson, Kathy Rosmond:
  Government's Role in Reducing "Year-2000" Risks. 354-357

Research

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  Susan Davis Herring:
  The Value of Interdisciplinarity: A Study Based on the Design of Internet Search Engines. 358-365
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  Albert Henderson:
  Information Science and Information Policy: The Use of Constant Dollars and other Indicators to Manage Research Investments. 366-379

Brief Communication

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  Maria Edith Burke, Karen Tulett:
  Impact of Information Needs an Organizational Design. 380-381

Book Reviews

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  Abby Goodrum:
  Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, by V. S. Subrahmanian. 382-383
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  Sara Tompson:
  Special Libraries: A Cataloging Guide, by Sheila S. Intner and Jean Weihs. 383-384

Volume 50, Number 5, April 15, 1999

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  John R. Carlson, Charles J. Kacmar:
  Increasing Link Marker Effectiveness for WWW and other Hypermedia Interfaces: An Examination of End-User Preferences. 386-398
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  Carol Collier Kuhlthau:
  The Role of Experience in the Information Search Process of an Early Career Information Worker: Perceptions of Uncertainty, Complexity Construction, and Sources. 399-412
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  Carol Lundquist, Ophir Frieder, David O. Holmes, David A. Grossman:
  A Parallel Relational Database Management System Approach to Relevance Feedback in Information Retrievel. 413-426
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  Ronald N. Kostoff, Henry J. Eberhart, Darrell Ray Toothman:
  Hypersonic und Supersonic Flow Roadmaps Using Bibliometrics and Database Tomography. 427-447
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  Shoichi Taniguchi:
  An Analysis of Orientedness in Cataloging Rules. 448-460
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  Julian Warner:
  Information Society or Cash Nexus? A Study of the United States as a Copyright Haven. 461-470

Brief Communication

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  Blaise Cronin, Holly Crawford:
  Do Deans Publish What They Preach? 471-474

Book Reviews

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  Birger Hjørland:
  The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the Post-Modern Library, by Francis L. Miksa. 475-477
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  William T. Fischer:
  Basic Research Methods for Librarians, by Ronald R. Powell. 477-478

Volume 50, Number 6, May 1, 1999

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  Paul E. van der Vet, Nicolaas J. I. Mars:
  Condorcet Query Engine: A Query Engine for Coordinated Index Terms. 485-492
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  Richard P. Smiraglia, Gregory H. Leazer:
  Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: The Work Relationship in a Global Bibliographic Database. 493-504
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  Hal Berghel, Daniel Berleant, Thomas Foy, Marcus McGuire:
  Cyberbrowsing: Information Customization on the Web. 505-511
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  Lawrence W. Wright, Holly K. Grossetta Nardini, Alan R. Aronson, Thomas C. Rindflesch:
  Hierarchical Concept Indexing of Full-Text Documents in the Unified Medical Language System® Information Sources Map. 512-523
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  Hani Abu-Salem, Mahmoud Al-Omari, Martha W. Evens:
  Stemming Methodologies Over Individual Query Words for an Arabic Information Retrieval System. 524-529
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  Su Hee Kim, Caroline M. Eastman:
  An Experiment on Node Size in a Hypermedia System. 530-536
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  Cheri Speier, Jonathan W. Palmer, Daniel Wren, Susan Hahn:
  Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Journals as Scholarly Communication: A Question of Prestige and Legitimacy. 537-543
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  Charles Cole:
  Activity of Understanding a Problem during Interaction with an "Enabling" Information Retrieval System: Modeling Information Flow. 544-552

Volume 50, Number 7, May 15, 1999

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  W. Boyd Rayward:
  H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Reassessment. 557-573
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  Robert K. Lindsay, Michael D. Gordon:
  Literature-Based Discovery by Lexical Statistics. 574-587
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  Misha W. Vaughan, Nancy Schwartz:
  Jumpstarting the Information Design for a Community Network. 588-597
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  Henk J. Voorbij:
  Searching Scientific Information on the Internet: A Dutch Academic User Survey. 598-615
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  Kevin L. Fox, Ophir Frieder, Margaret M. Knepper, Eric J. Snowberg:
  SENTINEL: A Multiple Engine Information Retrieval and Visualization System. 616-625

Brief Communication

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  Charles H. Davis, Geoffrey W. McKim:
  Systematic Weighting and Ranking: Cutting the Gordian Knot. 626-628

Book Reviews

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  Jeff White:
  Ink into Bits: A Web of Converging Media by Charles T. Meadow. 629-630
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  Marc Lampson:
  Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg. 631-633

Volume 50, Number 8, June, 1999

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  Mark E. Rorvig:
  Images of Similarity: A Visual Exploration of Optimal Similarity Metrics and Scaling Properties of TREC Topic-Document Sets. 639-651
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  Mark E. Rorvig:
  A Visual Exploration of the Orderliness of TREC Relevance Judgments. 652-660
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  Susanne M. Humphrey:
  Automatic Indexing of Documents from Journal Descriptors: A Preliminary Investigation. 661-674
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  V. Cano:
  Bibliometric Overview of Library and Information Science Research in Spain. 675-680
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  Brian C. O'Connor, Mary K. O'Connor, June M. Abbas:
  User Reactions as Access Mechanism: An Exploration Based on Captions for Images. 681-697
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  Karen M. O'Keefe, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Charles P. Friedman:
  Medical Students' Confidence Judgments Using a Factual Database and Personal Memory: A Comparison. 698-708
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  K. L. Kwok:
  Employing Multiple Representations for Chinese Information Retrieval. 709-723

Book Reviews

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  Mike Steckel:
  Deep Information: The Role of Information Policy in Environmental Sustainability by John Felleman. 724-725
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  Marianne Afifi:
  Electronic Databases and Publishing edited by Albert Henderson. 725
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  Chaomei Chen:
  Localist Connectionist Approaches to Human Cognition edited by Jonathan Grainger and Arthur M. Jacobs. 725-726
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  Thomas A. Peters:
  Ethics, Information and Technology: Readings edited by Richard N. Stichler and Robert Hauptman. 726-728
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  Jens-Erik Mai:
  Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice by F. W. Lancaster. 728-730
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  Ronald Day:
  Remediation: Understanding New Media by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin. 730-732

Volume 50, Number 9, July, 1999

Research

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  Henderik Alex Proper, Peter Bruza:
  What Is Information Discovery About? 737-750
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  Kin-Hong Lee, Qin Lu, Mau Kit Michael Ng:
  Text Segmentation for Chinese Spell Checking. 751-759
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  María J. Martín-Bautista, María Amparo Vila Miranda, Henrik Legind Larsen:
  A Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm Approach to an Adaptive Information Retrieval Agent. 760-771
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  Jin Zhang, Robert R. Korfhage:
  A Distance and Angle Similarity Measure Method. 772-778
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  Jin Zhang, Robert R. Korfhage:
  DARE: Distance and Angle Retrieval Environment: A Tale of the Two Measures. 779-787

Perspectives Issue on Visual Information Retrieval Interfaces

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  Mark E. Rorvig, Lois F. Lunin:
  Introduction and Overview: Visualization, Retrieval, and Knowledge. 790-793
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  Mark E. Rorvig, C. H. Turner, J. Moncada:
  The NASA Image Collection Visual Thesaurus. 794-798
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  Henry Small:
  Visualizing Science by Citation Mapping. 799-813
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  Martin Brooks, Jennifer Campbell:
  Interactive Graphical Queries for Bibliographic Search. 814-825
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  Marshall Ramsey, Hsinchun Chen, Bin Zhu, Bruce R. Schatz:
  A Collection of Visual Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of Geographic Images. 826-834
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  Mark E. Rorvig, Matthias L. Hemmje:
  Conference Notes - 1996: Foundations of Advanced Information Visualization for Visual Information (Retrieval) Systems. 835-837

Book Reviews

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  Boyd P. Holmes:
  Foundations of Library and Information Science, by Richard E. Rubin. 838-839
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  Ebrahim Afshar:
  Into the Future: The Foundation of Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era, by Michael Harris, Stan A. Hannah, and Pamela C. Harris. 839-840
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  Amy E. Sanidas:
  Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link, by Shannon E. Martin and Kathleen A. Hansen. 840-841

Volume 50, Number 10, 1999

Research

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  Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Shmuel T. Klein:
  Information Retrieval from Annotated Texts. 845-854
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  Jerome McDonough:
  Designer Selves: Construction of Technologically Mediated Identity within Graphical, Multiuser Virtual Environments. 855-869
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  H. Vernon Leighton, Jaideep Srivastava:
  First 20 Precision Among World Web Search Services (Search Engines). 870-881
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  Robert M. Losee, Lee Anne H. Paris:
  Measuring Search-Engine Quality and Query Difficulty: Ranking with Target and Freestyle. 882-889
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  Rob Kling, Geoffrey W. McKim:
  Scholarly Communication and the Continuum of Electronic Publishing. 890-906
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  Judith Weedman:
  Conversation and Community: The Potential of Electronic Conferences for Creating Intellectual Proximity in Distributed Learning Environments. 907-928
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  Cecelia M. Brown:
  Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists in the Electronic Information Age: Astronomers, Chemists, Mathematicians, and Physicists. 929-943
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  Jacques Savoy:
  A Stemming Procedure and Stopword List for General French Corpora. 944-952

Brief Communication

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  Blaise Cronin:
  The Warholian Moment and other Proto-Indicators of Scholarly Salience. 953-955

Book Review

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  P. Scott Lapinski:
  Towards the Digital Library: The British Library's Initiatives for Access Program, by Leona Carpenter, Simon Shaw, and Andrew Prescott. 956-957

Volume 50, Number 11, September, 1999

Special Topic Issue: The 50th Anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Part 1: The Journal, Its Society, and the Future of Print

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  Linda C. Smith:
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS): Past, Present, and Future. 965-969
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  Michael K. Buckland:
  The Landscape of Information Science: The American Society for Information Science at 62. 970-974
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  Marcia J. Bates:
  A Tour of Information Science through the Pages of JASIS. 975-993
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  Ben-Ami Lipetz:
  Aspects of JASIS Authorship through Five Decades. 994-1003
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  Thomas E. Nisonger:
  JASIS and Library and Information Science Journal Rankings: A Review and Analysis of the Last Half-Century. 1004-1019
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  Poul Steen Larsen:
  Books and Bytes: Preserving Documents for Posterity. 1020-1027
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  Carolyn R. Watters:
  Information Retrieval and the Virtual Document. 1028-1029
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Postmodern Information Science and its "Journal". 1030-1031
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  Jana Varlejs:
  The Continuing Professional Education Role of ASIS: Fifty Years of Learning Together, Reaching Out, Seeking Identity. 1032-1036
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  Candy Schwartz:
  The Role of SIG/CON in the Advancement of Information Science. 1037-1039
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  William Tinker, Benjamin Evers, Paul N. Chance:
  A Case History in Selective Elimination as a Solution to the Information Crises. 1040-1041

Volume 50, Number 12, October, 1999

Special Topic Issue: The 50th Anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Part 2: Paradigms, Models, and Methods of Information Science

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  Marcia J. Bates:
  The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. 1043-1050
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  Tefko Saracevic:
  Information Science. 1051
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  Howard D. White:
  Scientist-Poets Wanted. 1052-1063
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  Donald A. Windsor:
  Industrial Roots of Information Science. 1064-1065
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  Barbara J. Flood:
  Historical Note: The Start of a Stop List at Biological Abstracts. 1066
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  Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield, Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Interaction in Information Retrieval: Trends Over Time. 1067-1082
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  Paul F. Marty:
  Museum Informatics and Collaborative Technologies: The Emerging Socio-Technological Dimension of Information Science in Museum Environments. 1083-1091
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  Caroline Haythornthwaite, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Christine Jenkins, W. Boyd Rayward:
  Mapping the Dimensions of a Dynamic Field. 1092-1094
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  David Ellis, David K. Allen, Thomas D. Wilson:
  Information Science and Information Systems: Conjunct Subjects Disjunct Disciplines. 1095-1107
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  Matthew Chalmers:
  Comparing Information Access Approaches. 1108
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  Betsy Van der Veer Martens:
  Biographical Note - Robert S. Taylor. 1109-1118
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  Dagobert Soergel:
  The Rise of Ontologies or the Reinvention of Classification. 1119-1120
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  Rob Kling, Holly Crawford:
  From Retrieval to Communication: The Development, Use, and Consequences of Digital Documentary Systems. 1121-1122
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  Eliza T. Dresang:
  More Research Needed: Informal Information-Seeking Behavior of Youth on the Internet. 1123-1124
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  Julian Warner:
  An Information View of History. 1125-1126
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  Bill Crowley:
  The Control and Direction of Professional Education. 1127-1135
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  Mark A. Spasser:
  Informing Information Science: The Case for Activity Theory. 1136-1138
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  Carole L. Palmer:
  Aligning Studies of Information Seeking and Use with Domain Analysis. 1139-1140
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  Nigel Ford:
  The Growth of Understanding in Information Science: Towards a Developmental Model. 1141-1152
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  Ron Summers, Charles Oppenheim, Jack Meadows, Cliff McKnight, Margaret Kinnell:
  Information Science in 2010: A Loughborough University View. 1153-1162

Volume 50, Number 13, November, 1999

Special Topic Issue: Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards

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  Linda L. Hill, Greg Janee, Ron Dolin, James Frew, Mary Larsgaard:
  Collection Metadata Solutions for Digital Library Applications. 1169-1181
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  Stuart A. Sutton:
  Conceptual Design and Deployment of a Metadata Framework for Educational Resources on the Internet. 1182-1192
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  Marcia Lei Zeng:
  Metadata Elements for Object Description and Representation: A Case Report from a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection Project. 1193-1208
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  Kathleen Burnett, Kwong Bor Ng, Soyeon Park:
  A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development. 1209-1217
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  Edwin M. Cortez:
  Use of Metadata Vocabularies in Data Retrieval. 1218-1223

Research

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  James A. Wise:
  The Ecological Approach to Text Visualization. 1224-1233
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  James N. K. Liu, Yan Wu, Lina Zhou:
  A Hybrid Method for Abstracting Newspaper Articles. 1234-1245
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  Erik P. Bucy, Annie Lang, Robert F. Potter, Maria Elizabeth Grabe:
  Formal Features of Cyberspace: Relationships between Web Page Complexity and Site Traffic. 1246-1256

Book Reviews

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  Sue Myburgh:
  Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical Implications, by Carol A. Hert. 1257
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  Cheryl Knott Malone:
  Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age, by Kathleen L. Sputzer with Michael B. Eisenberg and Carrie A. Lowe. 1257-1258
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  Jack Andersen:
  Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Flow of Ideas Within and Among Disciplines, by Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk. 1259-1261

Volume 50, Number 14, December, 1999

Research

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  Sandra G. Hirsh:
  Children's Relevance Criteria and Information Seeking on Electronic Resources. 1265-1283
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  Endre Száva-Kováts:
  Indirect-Collective Referencing (ICR): Life Course, Nature, and Importance of a Special Kind of Scientific Referencing. 1284-1294
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  Peter Kokol, Vili Podgorelec, Milan Zorman, Tatjana Kokol, Tatjana Njivar:
  Computer and Natural Language Texts - A Comparison Based on Long-Range Correlations. 1295-1303

Perspectives on ... Copyright and Fair-Use Guidelines for Education and Libraries

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  Kenneth D. Crews:
  Introduction and Overview. 1304-1307
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  Dwayne K. Buttler:
  CONFU-sed: Security, Safe Harbors, and Fair-Use Guidelines. 1308-1312
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  Mary Levering:
  What's Right About Fair-Use Guidelines for the Academic Community? 1313-1319
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  Kenneth Frazier:
  What's Wrong With Fair-Use Guidelines for the Academic Community? 1320-1323
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  Joann Stevens:
  The Multimedia Guidelines. 1324-1327
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  Christine L. Sundt:
  Testing the Limits: The CONFU Digital-Images and Multimedia Guidelines and Their Consequences for Libraries and Educators. 1328-1336
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  Laura N. Gasaway:
  Guidelines for Distance Learning and Interlibrary Loan: Doomed and More Doomed. 1337-1341
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  Colin Day:
  The Economics of Publishing: The Consequences of Library and Research Copying. 1346-1349
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  Kenneth D. Crews, Georgia K. Harper:
  The Immunity Dilemma: Are State Colleges and Universities Still Liable for Copyright Infringements? 1350-1353
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  Noemí A. Rivera-Morales:
  Fair-Use Guidelines: A Selected Bibliography. 1353-1357