...Sukjin You; Soohyung Joo; Marie Katsurai Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore to which extent data mining research would be associated with the library and information science (LIS) discipline. This study aims to identify data mining related subject terms and topics in representative...

...B. Niveditha; Mallinath Kumbar; B.T. Sampath Kumar Purpose The present study compares the use of web citations as references in leading scholarly journals in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Communication and Media Studies (CMS). A total of 20 journals (each 10 from LIS and CMS) were...

...Tariq Ahmad Shah; Sumeer Gul; Ramesh C Gaur Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the author self-citation behavior in the field of Library and Information Science. Various factors governing the author self-citation behavior have also been studied. Design/methodology/approach...

... Library and information science Research methods Online research Research techniques Data collection techniques Research Methods in Information includes an introduction and 25 chapters, as well as a very useful glossary, and detailed 15 page index. The Introduction gives an overview...

... an adequate, though not very exhaustive, index. It is also very reasonably priced, by today’s standards, for a hardback book of this kind. It deserves to be widely read by advanced students and researchers in the library/information sciences, and by the more reflective kind of information practitioner...

...Ángel Borrego; Francesc Garcia Purpose – This study seeks to analyse the policies of library and information science (LIS) journals regarding the publication of supplementary materials, the number of journals and articles that include this feature, the kind of supplementary materials published...