Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 2003

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 2003

Guest editorial: introduction to this special issue on the Bibliomining Process.
December 1, 2003... Libraries are under siege. Material costs continue to rise, forcing more selective collection development; funding agencies demand data-based justification for services; and the Internet is replacing the library as the primary source for...

The Bibliomining Process: data warehousing and data mining for library decision making.
December 1, 2003... Bibliomining, or data mining for libraries, is the application of data mining and bibliometric tools to data produced from library services. This article outlines the bibliomining process with emphasis on data warehousing issues. Methods for...

Mining user communities in digital libraries.
December 1, 2003... The interest in the analysis of library user behavior has been increasing rapidly since the advent of digital libraries and the Internet. In this context, the authors analyze the queries posed to a digital library and recorded into the Z39.50...

Matching subject portals with the research environment.
December 1, 2003... This article presents methods for testing the usefulness of bibliometric methods for the evaluation of information resources located at subject portals. Two subject portals for social sciences have been selected as objects for the study:...

An architecture for behavior-based library recommender systems.
December 1, 2003... Library systems are a very promising application area for behavior-based recommender services. By utilizing lending and searching log files from online public access catalogs through data mining, customer-oriented service portals in the style...

Traces in the clickstream: early work on a management information repository at the University of Pennsylvania.(Communications)
December 1, 2003... For the past three years, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) library has been building a data repository and developing computer functionality to support management information needs. This article traces the origin and evolution of Penn's...

A study of the use of the Carlos III University of Madrid Library's Online Database Service in scientific endeavor.(Communications)
December 1, 2003... The identification of variables affecting university research is one of the chief factors in the evaluation of these institutions. This paper explores the relationships between the use of the information resources available through the Carlos...

Mapping the output of topical searches in the web of knowledge and the case of Watson-Crick.(Communications)
December 1, 2003... HistCite[TM] is a system that generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collections resulting from searches of the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science (WoS) or Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and...