Journal of Documentation: Volume 52 Issue 2

STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE LIBRARY SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX: PRACTICAL QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY

N.A. JACOBS

This paper describes quantitative and qualitative research undertaken at the University of Sussex Library. The research was concerned to investigate the behaviour and motivations…

SCIENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

BLAISE CRONIN, GEOFFREY MCKIM

The potential significance of the World Wide Web for science and scholarship is analysed from informational, communication, and behavioural perspectives. Key factors to be taken…

A STEMMING ALGORITHM FOR LATIN TEXT DATABASES

ROBYN SCHINKE, MARK GREENGRASS, ALEXANDER M. ROBERTSON, PETER WILLETT

This paper describes the design of a stemming algorithm for searching databases of Latin text. The algorithm uses a simple longest‐match approach with some recoding but differs…

RESEARCH BRIEF RATES OF RETURN TO CITATION

BLAISE CRONIN

Research shows that the rates of return to citation are substantial in the context of the academic reward system. Since quantitative performance measures, notably publication and…