information retrieval:
Category: bibliometrics
I ran across this piece again just now after having read it when it first came out in 20056: Foster, I. (2005). Service-Oriented Science. Science, 308(5723), 814-817. doi:10.1126/science.1110411 It's a good piece and quite helpful. Google Scholar says it's been...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information policy
A brief note. Remember when I told you about free to you research databases? Remember when some other librarians told you about a certain company negotiating for exclusive access to certain popular magazines, choking out other aggregators? Well, now these...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Cross-language information retrieval is an important research area with lots of activity. There are all kinds of elaborate algorithms and ways of doing it. There's a lot of domain specificity and connotation kind of things that have been really improved...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Posts I would like to write
Is it possible or even desirable to have one search interface that serves every need? I have about 10 minutes to write this placeholder of a post. Hopefully, I'll get the opportunity to revisit this topic near and dear to...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: comps
Now that I'm not scared to look at my responses... This one doesn't look so bad, so I'm sharing. Please do keep in mind that this was written in 2 hours, by a tired person, with tired fingers! --- Christina...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 1:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Some of these are better than others. Some don't have nice controlled vocabularies and are a bit wonky in the free version. Nearly all of them you can get through another interface for a fee if you need more precision...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 3:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Previously, I had a post about finding information in books using things like Google Book Search. This post talks about finding information on a topic, or more specifically, why you should start your search with a research database and more...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Michael J. Kurtz of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics came to speak at MPOW at a gathering of librarians from across the larger institution (MPOW is a research lab affiliated with a large private institution). He's an astronomer but more...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 5:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
I've talked about this a bit at sessions I taught at my library and also at Web Search University but it's still a favorite. Plus, you asked for posts on finding information. Oh, and one of the tools just released...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:04 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
(came in late because the speaker I initially chose to see failed to show up) A speaker from Serials Solution’s Summon reviewed various pieces of research done recently both by LIS researchers and by big libraries. Summed up pretty well...
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