Digital Information : Order or Anarchy?
Hazel Woodward;Lorraine Estelle;Hazel Woodward;Lorraine Estelle
If the vision for the future of digital information is order, ease of access, discover...
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Digital Information : Order or Anarchy?
2010
If the vision for the future of digital information is order, ease of access, discoverable resources and sustainable business models, how might this be achieved? In an information environment shaped by an ever-growing and persistent demand for more and more digital content from every direction, it has become increasingly important that publishers, libraries and information professionals understand the challenges and opportunities of the Google environment. This book addresses these issues and carves out a strategy for the future of digital information. Put together by an international, cross-sectoral team of contributors, each authored chapter provides a snapshot of where we are now and considers how the barriers to success might be overcome and what the digital information environment might look like if these issues are - or indeed are not - addressed. They include: digital information - an overview of the landscape; scholarly communications - the view from the library; scholarly communications - the publisher's view; e-books and scholarly communication futures; digitizing the past - next steps for public sector digitization; resource discovery; and, who owns the content in the digital environment. This book is essential reading for all library and information professionals as well as for researchers and library students. The book will also be of interest to publishers wishing to reconcile their own digital strategies with those of both information consumers and providers.
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Still a Lot to Lose: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Keyword Searching.
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Cataloging Jan2015, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p1-39, 39p
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Gross, Tina;Taylor, Arlene G.;Joudrey, Daniel N.
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Cataloging Jan2015, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p1-39, 39p
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In their 2005 study, Gross and Taylor found that more than a third of records retrieve...
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Still a Lot to Lose: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Keyword Searching.
Cataloging Jan2015, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p1-39, 39p
In their 2005 study, Gross and Taylor found that more than a third of records retrieved by keyword searches would be lost without subject headings. A review of the literature since then shows that numerous studies, in various disciplines, have found that a quarter to a third of records returned in a keyword search would be lost without controlled vocabulary. Other writers, though, have continued to suggest that controlled vocabulary be discontinued. Addressing criticisms of the Gross/Taylor study, this study replicates the search process in the same online catalog, but after the addition of automated enriched metadata such as tables of contents and summaries. The proportion of results that would be lost remains high. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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