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Abstract

As part of a largerstudy concerning the scatter of library and information science (LIS) documents in bibliographic databases, this paper focuses on the publishing sources of a sample of 822 highly relevant documents. 67% were journal articles with the largest subject categories outside of LIS being medicine / health sciences, business, education, and computer science. Other journal titles ranged from popular and trade magazines to scholarly journals spanning the disciplinary map. The largest number of nonjournal items were conference reports, government reports, bibliographic resource guides, monographs, and nongovernment agency reports. These were scattered mostly between technological and medical databases. The results show that LIS is an interdisciplinary field, borrowing and supplying information to and from other disciplines. Articles written about the application of LIS concepts to other fields are often published in the journals of those other fields, not in LIS journals

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Abstract

A bibliography is traditionally characterized by the judgments, bounded by explicit selection criteria, made by a single compiler. Because these criteria concern the attributes ascribed to a work and the needs of readers, bibliographic work is largely conceptual even across technological eras and domains. Yet, the development of networked information services, made possible by WWW infrastructure, has enabled very large numbers of people to discover, organize, and publish information, including bibliographies. Indeed, bibliographies, or at least bibliography-like artifacts, are a common genre of website, often published by people without specialized skills in information organization who follow non-rigorous selection procedures. Nevertheless, even if the items from these lists are poorly selected and described, this publishing activity is fundamentally important because it structures information locally, creating a patchy network of secondary access points. In turn, these access points enable information discovery, the formation and development of communities of interest, the estimation of document relevance by search engines, and so on. In sum, this activity, and the enabling technical infrastructure, invites bibliographies to take on new interactive possibilities. The aim of this article is to extend the traditional view of bibliography to encompass collaborative possibilities for wide, or narrow, participation in the shaping of bibliographies and the selection of items. This is done by examining the nature of bibliography on the Web, by proposing a conceptual model that opens bibliography to participatory practices, and by discussing a case study where a team sought to develop a bibliography of electronic resources. This examination reveals splendid opportunities for expanding the notion of bibliography with participatory policies while remaining true to its ancient roots.

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Subject classifications and thesauri have become more important than ever in the Web environment. Efforts made to organize information into subject classifications, or taxonomies, offer users the opportunity to substantially improve the effectiveness of their search and retrieval activities. This article continues earlier research an the development of a new definition of the field of information science and the creation of a "map" of the field showing subjects central to it and their relationships to those an the periphery. A case study describes the creation of a new classification structure (taxonomy) for the Information Science Abstracts (ISA) database, aiming to reflect and accommodate the rapid and continued technological and market changes affecting the information industry today and into the future. Based an a sample of some 3,000 ISA abstracts, two validation experiments were conducted by a three-member team comprising a database editor, a reference librarian, and an abstractor-indexer, who represent three of the major communities within the information science field. In the first experiment, the sample of abstracts was classified according to the proposed new taxonomy; alter analysis of the data and revision of the taxonomy, it was revalidated and fine tuned in a second experiment. Indexer consistency measures obtained in this study were significantly higher than those found in previous studies. The taxonomy resulting from this research employs the concepts, definition, and map of information science previously developed. It presents them in an organized hierarchical view of the field and thus makes a significant contribution to information science.

Content

2. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 2.1 Thesauri, authority lists Taxonomies, ontologies, semantic networks, nomenclatures, terminologies, vocabularies 2.2 Cataloging and classification Tagging, metatags, Dublin Core, DOIs, OPACs, MARC, AACR2, topic maps, cataloging processes and theories 2.3 Abstracting, indexing, reviewing Automatic indexing and abstracting 2.4 Standards and protocols NISO, Z39.5, XML, SGML, HTML, Open Archives Initiative (OAI), Encoded Archival Description (EAD), OpenURL, portable document format (PDF) 3. THE INFORMATION PROFESSION 3.1 Information professionals Intermediaries, searchers, reference librarians, information brokers, translators, educators, librarians and librarianship, mentoring, career outlook, future of the profession, professional ethics, skills and competencies 3.2 Organizations and societies 4. SOCIETAL ISSUES 4.1 Information ethics, plagiarism, credibility 4.2 Information literacy, lifelong learning 4.3 The Information Society Universal access and accessibility, technological and socioeconomic impacts of information, technology forecasts, information flows, futures scenarios, preservation 5. THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY 5.1 Information and knowledge management Knowledge transfer in organizations, business strategies 5.2 Markets and players Vendor profiles and Interviews, trends 5.3 Economics and pricing Business models, value chain 5.4 Marketing, e-commerce 6. PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION 6.1 Print 6.2 Electronic E-journals, e-books 6.3 Secondary publishing Abstracting and indexing services, directories 6.4 Scholarly communication Peer review process, future of journals, dissertations, grey literature

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Explores the relationship between costs and pricing strategies in the publishing of print andelectronic documents, with a view to identifying the cost factors that may influence the viability of electronic documents, in the context of reference and bibliographic databases. Presents an overview of the different approaches that publishers can take to the management of the relationship between pricing, costs and value. Discusses 3 categories of costs associated with the production of electronic and print products: database costs; distribution media costs: and overhead costs. In assessing the viability of electronic publishing it is important to recognize that it is not sufficient to seek to identify whether print or electronic documents are the cheaper to produce, but to consider all costs and to view the elctronic product in its context as part of a publishing portfolio

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Though rich collections of conference proceedings are available in Indian science and technology institutions, no retrieval tool or union catalogue is available to provide access to them at regional or national level. Describes the work of INSDOC in creating a database of science and technology conference proceedings and publishing a union catalogue of them. INSDOC Regional Centre, Bangalore was entrusted with the job of covering the science and technology libraries in Bangalore, India. Notes their experiences of developing the database using the Micro-CDS/ISIS software package and publishing the first volume of the union catalogue using a desktop publishing system

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The Agence Bibliographique Nationale has as its mission the collection of French publishing production, the work of bibliographic description and the provision of this for readers of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, publishing professionals and other users. Describes the quality management introduced in the department of the Bibliographie Nationale Française since 1995 in order to better satisfy the user demands

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Imprint

New Providence, NJ : Bowker Electronic Publishing

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Technological developments are introducing both challenges and opportunities for the future production of national bibliographies. There are new complex issues which must be addressed collectively by national bibliographic agencies. As an international community, we must consider new methods and models for the on-going provision of authoritative data in national bibliographies, which continue to play an essential role in the control of and access to each country's published heritage.

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Describes the position claiming that the contemporary technological, socio-political, and socio-economic environment gives us pause to consider the core theory and practices of bibliography, combining bibliography of the work (in library and information science), bibliography of the text (in textual studies and scholarly editing), and bibliography of the artifact (in book history and now digital forensics), and calls for collaborative multidisciplinary research at the intersection of these fields to ask, is there a new bibliography?

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In Denmark the National Bibliography is produced in a nongovernmental institution, the Danish Library Centre. The task is defined precisely in a contract with the Ministry of Culture, and the cooperation with the interested parties from the library environment and the publishing environment is described. Managing the task in the Danish Library Centre is included in a quality management system, certified according to the ISO 9001 standard. Producing the National Bibliography is expected to be called for tender in the mid 1990s

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Source

Opticalinfo 89. Proceedings of the International Meeting for Optical Publishing and Storage, Amsterdam, 18-20 April 1989

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Presents extracts from the Final Report LIB-Pilot/2 (CD-ROM) Evaluation of Pilot Discs with National Bibliographic Information. Reports results of a project to evaluate the test CD-ROM data base developed by the Brtish Library, Bibliothèque Nationale and Deutsche Bibliothek as a means of publishing their national bibliographies. 64 libraries took part in the evaluation, which was funded by the Commission of European Communities.

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Abstract

The Zeitschriftendienst (ZD), a topical periodical analysis service, began publication in 1965 and now covers 200 periodicals. The Deutsche Bibliotheksinstitut has used electronic data processing for publishing since 1974. The editorial board processes and coordinates all incoming periodicals analysis. A committee advises on cataloguing problems, selects new entries and old material for discarding. In 1990 it was decided to use the Schlagwortnormdatei, a standardised subject heading system used in many libraries...The service is available in printed form on microfiche and disc. It may be possible to store ZD in in-house systems.

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Abstract

A consolidated edition of the American Library Association's reference tool for librarians and researchers, which brings together the most useful research tools from early printing to contemporaray electronic publishing

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The DanBib system is a nation-wide union catalogue offering a number of common functions and a network to all Danish libraries - public as well as academic ones. The system is managed by the Danish Library Centre Ltd - a privately organized company owned by national and local government together with the biggest Danish publishing house. The Danish way is, indeed, unique in an international context. In this article a number of basic prerequisites which had to be fulfilled to bring about the Danish solution are discussed.

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Presents a detailed evaluation of the CD-ROM data base Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), published by Library Association Publishing Ltd in partnership with SilverPlatter Information Inc. Describes the SilcerPlatter search software and gives results of test searches carried out using the CD-ROM and DIALOG on-line versions of LISA. The annual cost of subscribing to LISA on CD-ROM is 995 US dollars or 750 dollars to subscribers of other SilverPlatter data bases. LISA on CD-ROM will be of most interest to institutions which make heavy use of the on-line version and are not discouraged by the low updating frequency.

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Describes the ways in which the Russian national bibliography is being transformed as democratic reforms proceed in Russia. A new law 'On the legal deposit of documents' has been introduced which sets out the state's policy with regard to organizing deposit copies of documents on which the national bibliography is based. The range of documents subject to registration and recording is broadening and new principles for the selection of publications are being applied as decreed by the Federal law on legal deposit. The information search language has been changed from the politically subjective 'Common classification of literature for book publishing' (EKL) to UDC. These changes are helping to consolidate Russia's place in the world as a reliable producer and user of national bibliographical information, and are making possible the direct compatibility of its databases with those of other countries

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Describes a new RLG European Library Data initiative, the RLIN database, which will significantly increase the supply of catalogue records for Western European imprints and provide shared access to the holdings of major European libraries. Primary participants in this project are the national libraries of France, Spain and Switzerland. German and UK/Irish records will become available later in 1998. RLG is also previewing a new scholarly resource created in conjunction with the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL): the Hand Press Book (HPB), a record of publishing throughout Great Britain and its dependencies from the 15th through the 18th centirues