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Volume 50, issue 14, 1999

In this issue pp. 1263-1263

Bert R. Boyce

Children's relevance criteria and information seeking on electronic resources pp. 1265-1283

Sandra G. Hirsh

Indirect‐collective referencing (ICR): life course, nature, and importance of a special kind of scientific referencing pp. 1284-1294

Endre Száva‐Kováts

Computer and natural language texts—A comparison based on long‐range correlations pp. 1295-1301

Peter Kokol, Vili Podgorelec, Milan Zorman, Tatjana Kokol and Tatjana Njivar

Copyright and fair‐use guidelines for education and libraries pp. 1303-1303

Lois F. Lunin, Kenneth D. Crews and Dwayne K. Buttler

Introduction and overview pp. 1304-1307

Kenneth D. Crews

CONFU‐sed: security, safe harbors, and fair‐use guidelines pp. 1308-1312

Dwayne K. Buttler

What's right about fair‐use guidelines for the academic community? pp. 1313-1319

Mary Levering

What's wrong with fair‐use guidelines for the academic community? pp. 1320-1323

Kenneth Frazier

The multimedia guidelines pp. 1324-1327

Joann Stevens

Testing the limits: The CONFU digital‐images and multimedia guidelines and their consequences for libraries and educators pp. 1328-1336

Christine L. Sundt

Guidelines for distance learning and interlibrary loan: Doomed and more doomed pp. 1337-1341

Laura N. Gasaway

Electronic reserves and fair use: The outer limits of CONFU pp. 1342-1345

Kenneth D. Crews

The economics of publishing: The consequences of library and research copying pp. 1346-1349

Colin Day

The immunity dilemma: Are state colleges and universities still liable for copyright infringements? pp. 1350-1352

Kenneth D. Crews and Georgia K. Harper

Fair‐use guidelines: A selected bibliography pp. 1353-1357

Noemí A. Rivera–Morales

Volume 50, issue 13, 1999

In this issue pp. 1163-1163

Bert R. Boyce

Introduction pp. 1165-1168

Zorana Ercegovac

Collection metadata solutions for digital library applications pp. 1169-1181

Linda L. Hill, Greg Janée, Ron Dolin, James Frew and Mary Larsgaard

Conceptual design and deployment of a metadata framework for educational resources on the internet pp. 1182-1192

Stuart A. Sutton

Metadata elements for object description and representation: A case report from a digitized historical fashion collection project pp. 1193-1208

Marcia Lei Zeng

A comparison of the two traditions of metadata development pp. 1209-1217

Kathleen Burnett, Kwong Bor Ng and Soyeon Park

Use of metadata vocabularies in data retrieval pp. 1218-1223

Edwin M. Cortez

The ecological approach to text visualization pp. 1224-1233

James A. Wise

A hybrid method for abstracting newspaper articles pp. 1234-1245

James Liu, Yan Wu and Lina Zhou

Formal features of cyberspace: Relationships between Web page complexity and site traffic pp. 1246-1256

Erik P. Bucy, Annie Lang, Robert F. Potter and Maria Elizabeth Grabe

Understanding information retrieval interactions: Theoretical and practical implications pp. 1257-1257

Sue Myburgh

Information literacy: Essential skills for the information age pp. 1257-1258

Cheryl Knott Malone

Scholarly book reviewing in the social sciences and humanities. The flow of ideas within and among disciplines pp. 1259-1261

Jack Andersen

Volume 50, issue 12, 1999

The invisible substrate of information science pp. 1043-1050

Marcia J. Bates

Information science pp. 1051-1063

Tefko Saracevic

Scientist‐poets wanted pp. 1052-1053

Howard D. White

Industrial roots of information science pp. 1064-1065

Donald A. Windsor

Historical note: The Start of a Stop List at Biological Abstracts pp. 1066-1066

Barbara J. Flood

Interaction in information retrieval: Trends over time pp. 1067-1082

Pamela A. Savage‐Knepshield and Nicholas J. Belkin

Museum informatics and collaborative technologies: The emerging socio‐technological dimension of information science in museum environments pp. 1083-1091

Paul F. Marty

Mapping the dimensions of a dynamic field pp. 1092-1094

Caroline Haythornthwaite, Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Jenkins and W. Boyd Rayward

Information science and information systems: Conjunct subjects disjunct disciplines pp. 1095-1107

David Ellis, David Allen and Tom Wilson

Comparing information access approaches pp. 1108-1118

Matthew Chalmers

Biographical note—Robert S. Taylor pp. 1109-1110

Betsy Van der Veer Martens

The rise of ontologies or the reinvention of classification pp. 1119-1120

Dagobert Soergel

From retrieval to communication: The development, use, and consequences of digital documentary systems pp. 1121-1122

Rob Kling and Holly Crawford

More research needed: Informal information‐seeking behavior of youth on the Internet pp. 1123-1124

Eliza T. Dresang

An information view of history pp. 1125-1126

Julian Warner

The control and direction of professional education pp. 1127-1135

Bill Crowley

Informing information science: The case for activity theory pp. 1136-1138

Mark A. Spasser

Aligning studies of information seeking and use with domain analysis pp. 1139-1140

Carole L. Palmer

The growth of understanding in information science: Towards a developmental model pp. 1141-1152

Nigel Ford

Information science in 2010: A Loughborough University view pp. 1153-1162

Ron Summers, Charles Oppenheim, Jack Meadows, Cliff McKnight and Margaret Kinnell

Volume 50, issue 11, 1999

The 50th Anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science: Guest editor introduction pp. 960-964

Marcia J. Bates

Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS): Past, present and future pp. 965-969

Linda C. Smith

The landscape of information science: The American Society for Information Science at 62 pp. 970-974

Michael Buckland

A tour of information science through the pages of JASIS pp. 975-993

Marcia J. Bates

Aspects of JASIS authorship through five decades pp. 994-1003

Ben‐Ami Lipetz

JASIS and library and information science journal rankings: A review and analysis of the last half‐century pp. 1004-1019

Thomas E. Nisonger

Books and bytes: Preserving documents for posterity pp. 1020-1027

Poul Steen Larsen

Information retrieval and the virtual document pp. 1028-1029

Carolyn Watters

Postmodern information science and its “journal” pp. 1030-1031

Terrence A. Brooks

The continuing professional education role of ASIS: Fifty years of learning together, reaching out, seeking identity pp. 1032-1036

Jana Varlejs

The role of SIG/CON in the advancement of information science pp. 1037-1039

Candy Schwartz

A case history in selective elimination as a solution to the information crises1 pp. 1040-1041

William Tinker, Benjamin Evers and Paul N. Chance

Volume 50, issue 10, 1999

In this issue pp. 843-844

Bert R. Boyce

Information retrieval from annotated texts pp. 845-854

Aviezri S. Fraenkel and Shmuel T. Klein

Designer selves: Construction of technologically mediated identity within graphical, multiuser virtual environments pp. 855-869

Jerome P. McDonough

First 20 precision among World Wide Web search services (search engines) pp. 870-881

H. Vernon Leighton and Jaideep Srivastava

Measuring search‐engine quality and query difficulty: Ranking with target and freestyle pp. 882-889

Robert M. Losee and Lee Anne H. Paris

Scholarly communication and the continuum of electronic publishing pp. 890-906

Rob Kling and Geoffrey McKim

Conversation and community: The potential of electronic conferences for creating intellectual proximity in distributed learning environments pp. 907-928

Judith Weedman

Information seeking behavior of scientists in the electronic information age: Astronomers, chemists, mathematicians, and physicists pp. 929-943

Cecelia M. Brown

A stemming procedure and stopword list for general French corpora pp. 944-952

Jacques Savoy

The Warholian moment and other proto‐indicators of scholarly salience pp. 953-955

Blaise Cronin

Towards the Digital Library: The British Library's Initiatives for Access Program pp. 956-957

P. Scott Lapinski

Letter to the editor pp. 958-958

P. Vinkler

Volume 50, issue 9, 1999

In this issue pp. 735-735

Bert R. Boyce

What is information discovery about? pp. 737-750

H. A. Proper and P. D. Bruza

Text segmentation for Chinese spell checking pp. 751-759

Kin Hong Lee, Mau Kit Michael Ng and Qin Lu

A fuzzy genetic algorithm approach to an adaptive information retrieval agent pp. 760-771

María J. Martín‐Bautista, María‐Amparo Vila and Henrik Legind Larsen

A distance and angle similarity measure method pp. 772-778

Jin Zhang and Robert R. Korfhage

DARE: Distance and angle retrieval environment: A tale of the two measures pp. 779-787

Jin Zhang and Robert R. Korfhage

Introduction and overview: Visualization, retrieval, and knowledge pp. 790-793

Mark Rorvig and Lois F. Lunin

The NASA Image Collection Visual Thesaurus pp. 794-798

M. E. Rorvig, C. H. Turner and J. Moncada

Visualizing science by citation mapping pp. 799-813

Henry Small

Interactive graphical queries for bibliographic search pp. 814-825

Martin Brooks and Jennifer Campbell

A collection of visual thesauri for browsing large collections of geographic images pp. 826-834

Marshall C. Ramsey, Hsinchun Chen, Bin Zhu and Bruce R. Schatz

Conference Notes—1996: Foundations of Advanced Information Visualization for Visual Information (Retrieval) Systems pp. 835-837

Mark Rorvig and Matthias Hemmje

Foundations of library and information science, by Richard E. Rubin pp. 838-839

Boyd P. Holmes

Into the Future: The foundations of library and information services in the post‐industrial era, by Michael Harris, Stan A. Hannah, and Pamela C. Harris pp. 839-840

Ebrahim Afshar

Newspapers of record in a digital age: From hot type to hot link, by Shannon E. Martin and Kathleen A. Hansen pp. 840-841

Amy E. Sanidas

Volume 50, issue 8, 1999

In this issue pp. 637-638

Bert R. Boyce

Images of similarity: A visual exploration of optimal similarity metrics and scaling properties of TREC topic‐document sets pp. 639-651

Mark Rorvig

A visual exploration of the orderliness of TREC relevance judgments pp. 652-660

Mark Rorvig

Automatic indexing of documents from journal descriptors: A preliminary investigation pp. 661-674

Susanne M. Humphrey

Bibliometric overview of Library and Information Science Research in Spain pp. 675-680

V. Cano

User reactions as access mechanism: An exploration based on captions for images pp. 681-697

Brian C. O'Connor, Mary K. O'Connor and June M. Abbas

Medical students' confidence judgments using a factual database and personal memory: A comparison pp. 698-708

Karen M. O'Keefe, Barbara M. Wildemuth and Charles P. Friedman

Employing multiple representations for Chinese information retrieval pp. 709-723

K.L. Kwok

Deep information: The role of information policy in environmental sustainability, by John Felleman pp. 724-725

Mike Steckel

Electronic databases and publishing, edited by Albert Henderson pp. 725-725

Marianne Afifi

Localist connectionist approaches to human cognition, edited by Jonathan Grainger and Arthur M. Jacobs pp. 725-726

Chaomei Chen

Ethics, information and technology: Readings, edited by Richard N. Stichler and Robert Hauptman pp. 726-728

Thomas A. Peters

Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice, by F.W. Lancaster pp. 728-730

Jens‐Erik Mai

Remediation: Understanding new media pp. 730-732

Ronald Day

Special topic issue of JASIS: Information Science at the Millennium pp. 733-733

Terrence A. Brooks

Volume 50, issue 7, 1999

In this issue pp. 555-555

Bert R. Boyce

H.G. Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment pp. 557-573

W. Boyd Rayward

Literature‐based discovery by lexical statistics pp. 574-587

Robert K. Lindsay and Michael D. Gordon

Jumpstarting the information design for a community network pp. 588-597

Misha W. Vaughan and Nancy Schwartz

Searching scientific information on the Internet: A Dutch academic user survey pp. 598-615

Henk J. Voorbij

SENTINEL: A multiple engine information retrieval and visualization system pp. 616-625

Kevin L. Fox, Ophir Frieder, Margaret M. Knepper and Eric J. Snowberg

Systematic weighting and ranking: Cutting the Gordian knot pp. 626-628

Charles H. Davis and Geoffrey W. McKim

Ink into bits: A web of converging media, by Charles T. Meadow pp. 629-630

Jeff White

Technology and privacy: The new landscape, edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg pp. 631-633

Marc Lampson

Active members as a proportion of total membership pp. 634-634

Barbara J. Flood

Volume 50, issue 6, 1999

In this issue pp. 481-482

Bert R. Boyce

JASIS standards pp. 483-483

Donald H. Kraft

Condorcet query engine: A query engine for coordinated index terms pp. 485-492

Paul E. van der Vet and Nicolaas J.I. Mars

Derivative bibliographic relationships: The work relationship in a global bibliographic database pp. 493-504

Richard P. Smiraglia and Gregory H. Leazer

Cyberbrowsing: Information customization on the Web pp. 505-513

Hal Berghel, Daniel Berleant, Thomas Foy and Marcus McGuire

Hierarchical concept indexing of full‐text documents in the Unified Medical Language System® Information Sources Map pp. 514-523

Lawrence W. Wright, Holly K. Grossetta Nardini, Alan R. Aronson and Thomas C. Rindflesch

Stemming methodologies over individual query words for an Arabic Information Retrieval System pp. 524-529

Hani Abu‐Salem, Mahmoud Al‐Omari and Martha W. Evens

An experiment on node size in a hypermedia system pp. 530-536

Su Hee Kim and Caroline M. Eastman

Faculty perceptions of electronic journals as scholarly communication: A question of prestige and legitimacy pp. 537-543

Cheri Speier, Jonathan Palmer, Daniel Wren and Susan Hahn

Activity of understanding a problem during interaction with an “enabling” information retrieval system: Modeling information flow pp. 544-552

Charles Cole

Volume 50, issue 5, 1999

In this issue pp. 385-385

Bert R. Boyce

Increasing link marker effectiveness for WWW and other hypermedia interfaces: An examination of end‐user preferences pp. 386-398

John R. Carlson and Charles J. Kacmar

The role of experience in the information search process of an early career information worker: Perceptions of uncertainty, complexity, construction, and sources pp. 399-412

Carol Collier Kuhlthau

A parallel relational database management system approach to relevance feedback in information retrieval pp. 413-426

Carol Lundquist, Ophir Frieder, David O. Holmes and David Grossman

Hypersonic and supersonic flow roadmaps using bibliometrics and database tomography pp. 427-447

R. N. Kostoff, Henry J. Eberhart and Darrell Ray Toothman

An analysis of orientedness in cataloging rules pp. 448-460

Shoichi Taniguchi

Information society or cash nexus? A study of the United States as a copyright haven pp. 461-470

Julian Warner

Do Deans publish what they preach? pp. 471-474

Blaise Cronin and Holly Crawford

The DDC, the universe of knowledge, and the post‐modern library pp. 475-477

Birger Hjørland

Basic research methods for librarians pp. 477-478

William T. Fischer

Volume 50, issue 4, 1999

In this issue pp. 287-287

Bert R. Boyce

In memoriam Robert R. Korfhage pp. 288-288

Edie Rasmussen

Robert R. Korfhage: A personal remembrance from the 1970s pp. 289-290

Christine L. Borgman

A brief commentary on Bob Korfhage pp. 290-290

Donald Kraft

An international perspective pp. 290-291

Kai A. Olsen

Introduction pp. 295-298

Patricia D. Fletcher and John Carlo Bertot

Catching a ride on the NII: The Federal policy vehicles paving the information highway pp. 299-304

Patricia D. Fletcher and Lisa K. Westerback

Better funding for government IT: Views from the front line pp. 305-313

Jerry Mechling

Descriptive assessment of information policy initiatives: The government information locator service (GILS) as an example pp. 314-330

Charles R. McClure, William E. Moen and John Carlo Bertot

And the last shall be first: Recordkeeping policies and the NII pp. 331-339

Margaret Hedstrom and David Wallace

Government information: From inaccessibility to your desktop and back again pp. 340-345

J. Timothy Sprehe

Crossing the threshold: Practical foundations for government services on the World Wide Web pp. 346-353

Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo and Ann DiCaterino

Government's role in reducing “Year‐2000” risks pp. 354-357

Leon A. Kappelman, Jerry L. Johnson and Kathy Rosmond

The value of interdisciplinarity: A study based on the design of internet search engines pp. 358-365

Susan Davis Herring

Information science and information policy: The use of constant dollars and other indicators to manage research investments pp. 366-379

Albert Henderson

Impact of information needs an organizational design pp. 380-381

M. E. Burke and Karen Tulett

Principles of multimedia database systems pp. 382-383

Abby A. Goodrum

Special libraries: A cataloging guide pp. 383-384

Sara R. Tompson

Volume 50, issue 3, 1999

In this issue pp. 193-193

Bert R. Boyce

Massive query resolution for rapid selective dissemination of information pp. 195-206

Jonathan D. Cohen

A theory of life in the round pp. 207-217

Elfreda A. Chatman

A study on word‐based and integral‐bit Chinese text compression algorithms pp. 218-228

Kwok‐Shing Cheng, Gilbert H. Young and Kam‐Fai Wong

History of scholarly information and communication: A review of selected German literature pp. 229-232

Thomas Hapke

On the law of Zipf‐Mandelbrot for multi‐word phrases pp. 233-241

L. Egghe

Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science pp. 242-253

Carole L. Palmer

Towards the identification of the optimal number of relevance categories pp. 254-264

Rong Tang, William M. Shaw, and Jack L. Vevea

Retrieval effectiveness of surname‐title‐word searches for known items by Academic Library users pp. 265-270

Frederick G. Kilgour, Barbara B. Moran and John R. Barden

Boundary crossing in research literatures as a means of interdisciplinary information transfer pp. 271-279

Sydney J. Pierce

A model for estimating the occurrence of same‐frequency words and the boundary between high‐ and low‐frequency words in texts pp. 280-286

Qinglan Sun, Debora Shaw and Charles H. Davis

Volume 50, issue 2, 1999

In this issue pp. 97-97

Bert R. Boyce

A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study II. Decisions at the reading and citing stages pp. 98-114

Peiling Wang and Marilyn Domas White

Combining mapping and citation analysis for evaluative bibliometric purposes: A bibliometric study pp. 115-131

E.C.M. Noyons, H.F. Moed and M. Luwel

Meta‐information, and time: Factors in human decision making pp. 132-139

Margaret Higgins

A study of the use of variables in information retrieval user studies pp. 140-150

Weijing Yuan and Charles T. Meadow

Abstracting of legal cases: The potential of clustering based on the selection of representative objects pp. 151-161

Marie‐Francine Moens, Caroline Uyttendaele and Jos Dumortier

An analysis of web page and web site constancy and permanence pp. 162-180

Wallace Koehler

The Monte Carlo method and the evaluation of retrieval system performance pp. 181-191

Robert Burgin

Volume 50, issue 1, 1999

The coming of the millenium and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) pp. 1-3

Donald H. Kraft

In this issue pp. 4-4

Bert R. Boyce

Introduction: Why a special topic issue on youth issues? pp. 7-9

Mary K. Chelton and Nancy P. Thomas

Utilization of heroin information by adolescent girls in Australia: A cognitive analysis pp. 10-23

Ross J. Todd

A visit to the information mall: Web searching behavior of high school students pp. 24-37

Raya Fidel, Rachel K. Davies, Mary H. Douglass, Jenny K. Holder, Carla J. Hopkins, Elisabeth J. Kushner, Bryan K. Miyagishima and Christina D. Toney

Barriers to adolescents' information seeking for career decision making pp. 38-48

Heidi E. Julien

A re‐unification of two competing models for document retrieval pp. 49-64

David Bodoff

Exploiting parallelism in a structural scientific discovery system to improve scalability pp. 65-73

Gehad M. Galal, Diane J. Cook and Lawrence B. Holder

Inner‐city gatekeepers: An exploratory survey of their information use environment pp. 74-85

John Agada

Boolean search: Current state and perspectives pp. 86-95

Valery I. Frants, Jacob Shapiro, Isak Taksa and Vladimir G. Voiskunskii