Journal of Documentation: Volume 69 Issue 3

Researchers' green open access practice: a cross‐disciplinary analysis

Valérie Spezi, Jenny Fry, Claire Creaser, Steve Probets, Sonya White

This paper aims to report on the findings of the second phase of the Behavioural strand of the EC‐funded PEER project (http://www.peerproject.eu/). The paper seeks to explore…

Classifications and concepts: towards an elementary theory of knowledge interaction

Richard P. Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel

This paper seeks to outline the central role of concepts in the knowledge universe, and the intertwining roles of works, instantiations, and documents. In particular the authors…

What do people study when they study Twitter? Classifying Twitter related academic papers

Shirley A. Williams, Melissa M. Terras, Claire Warwick

Since its introduction in 2006, messages posted to the microblogging system Twitter have provided a rich dataset for researchers, leading to the publication of over a thousand…

Fallout and miss in journal peer review

L. Egghe, Lutz Bornmann

The authors exploit the analogy between journal peer review and information retrieval in order to quantify some imperfections of journal peer review.

“Even in an age of wonders”: radio as an information resource in 1920s America

Christopher Crawford‐Franklin, Lyn Robinson

The paper aims to analyse the development of broadcast radio in the USA during the 1920 s, focusing on the legislative and regulatory background, considering the broadcasting…

A bibliometric study of taxonomic botany

Christopher Walton, Anne Morris

The aims of this paper are to: investigate the citation‐patterns of monograph books in taxonomic botany (looking mainly at publications and publishers, and the age of current…

Event‐aware FRBR and FRAD models: are they useful?

Shoichi Taniguchi

The purpose of this paper is to present functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR)‐based model and functional requirements for authority data (FRAD)‐based model;…

Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs and Behavior

Jannica Heinström

Introduction to Information Science

Richard Papík

Imagination, exciting mixes and the improvement of information research

David Bawden