Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Volume 38, 1987

Volume 38, Number 1, January 1987

Research

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  E. Gelman, H. S. Sichel:
  Library book circulation and the beta-binomial distribution. 4-12
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  Roy Goetschel, William Voxman:
  Optimal clustering in graphs with weighted edges: A unified approach to the threshold problem. 13-20

European Research Letters

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  Alan F. Smeaton:
  Information retrieval research and ESPRIT. 21-22

Brief Communications

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  Ronald R. Yager:
  A note on weighted queries in information retrieval systems. 23-24

Perspectives on ... The Federal Government and Health Information: Patterns, Impact, Expectations

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  Lois F. Lunin, Joseph P. Caponio:
  Introduction and overview. 25-29
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  J. Timothy Sprehe:
  Section I. National policy for health information services. Policy on management of Federal Information Resources. 30-33
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  Donald A. B. Lindberg:
  Section II. Health sciences libraries. National Library of Medicine: The view at 150 years. 34-39
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  Raymond A. Palmer:
  Effect of federal programs on health sciences libraries. 40-47
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  Jean A. Westler:
  Section III. Health information analysis centers, clearinghouses, and other special projects. Federal health information clearinghouses. 48-51
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  Alfred Weissberg, Joseph F. Caponio, Lois F. Lunin:
  The Neurological Information Network. 52-59
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  Daniel R. Masys, Susan Molloy Hubbard:
  Technical information programs of the National Cancer Institute. 60-64
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  Darcia D. Bracken:
  Section IV. NTIS - GPO: Federal information disseminators. The National Technical Information Service: A federal resource for health information and services. 65-67
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  Ralph E. Kennickell Jr.:
  The U.S. Government Printing Office - Marketing and publishing. 68-70
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  Molly A. Wolfe:
  Section V. Public/private information providers. Evolution of contractor-supported health information activities. 71-75

Volume 38, Number 2, March 1987

Editorial

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  Donald H. Kraft:
  The peer review process for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS). 81-82

Research

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  Gautam Biswas, James C. Bezdek, Marisol Marques, Viswanath Subramanian:
  Knowledge-assisted document retrieval: I. The natural-language interface. 83-96
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  Gautam Biswas, James C. Bezdek, Viswanath Subramanian, Marisol Marques:
  Knowledge-assisted document retrieval: II. The retrieval process. 97-110
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  Richard A. Aló, André de Korvin, Robert M. Kleyle:
  Emergence of a dominant course of action in a general feedback loop when goal uncertainty is present. 111-117
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  Henri Prade, Claudette Testemale:
  Fuzzy relational databases: Representational issues and reduction using similarity measures. 118-126
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  Robert N. Broadus:
  Early approaches to bibliometrics. 127-129

Opinion Papers

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  Diana Woodward:
  Commentary on F.W. Horton's "An Information Bill of Rights". 130-132

Brief Communications

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  Nadia H. Hegazi, Nabil Ali, Ehsan Abed:
  Information content in textual data: Revisited for Arabic text. 133-137
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  Pankaj Goyal:
  Implications of program properties for efficient storage and compilation. 138-141

Letters to the Editor

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  Allan Wittman:
  Regarding erratum. 142

Volume 38, Number 3, May 1987

Editorial

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  Donald H. Kraft:
  Historical notes. 145-146

Historical Notes

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  Allen Kent:
  Perspectives. 147-151
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  Allen Kent:
  Cyril Cleverdon. 152-155

Research

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  Roy Goetschel Jr.:
  Clustering analysis for graphs with multiweighted edges: A unified approach to the threshold problem. 156-161
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  Ian A. Macleod, A. R. Reuber:
  The Array Model: A conceptual modeling approach to document retrieval. 162-170
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  Fazli Can, Esen A. Ozkarahan:
  Computation of term/document discrimination values by use of the cover coefficient concept. 171-183
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  Susanne M. Humphrey, Nancy E. Miller:
  Knowledge-based indexing of the medical literature: The Indexing Aid Project. 184-196
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  Edward T. O'Neill, Martin Dillon, Diane Vizine-Goetz:
  Class dispersion between the Library of Congress Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification. 197-205

Opinion Papers

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  Manfred Kochen:
  Ethics and information science. 206-210

Brief Communications

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  Paul B. Kantor:
  A model for the stopping behavior of users of online systems. 211-214

Letters to the Editor

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  Nahum Goldmann:
  Information science research: Where is the meat? 215-216
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  Gerard Salton:
  Rejoinder to Nahum Goldmann's letter. 216
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  Hans H. Wellisch:
  Toward expert systems. 216-217
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  Raya Fidel:
  Rejoinder to Hans H. Wellisch's letter. 217

Book Reviews

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  Tillie Krieger:
  Encyclopedia of information systems and services: 1985-86. 6th ed. International volume. 218
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  Katharine Phenix, Jorg R. Jemelka:
  Computer graphics glossary. 218-219
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  F. W. Lancaster:
  Electronic publishing plus: Media for a technological future. 219
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  Arie Zvieli:
  Languages for automation. 219-220
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  Audrey N. Grosch:
  Micrographics, 2nd ed. 220
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  Kathleen M. Heim:
  Continuing education for the library information professions. 220-221
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  James E. Rush:
  Technical standards: An introduction for librarians. 221-222
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  Richard W. Boss:
  Financing information services. 222-223

Volume 38, Number 4, July 1987

Editorial

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  Danny P. Wallace:
  Some thoughts on book reviewing. 227

Research

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  Don R. Swanson:
  Two medical literatures that are logically but not bibliographically connected. 228-233
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  N. Chandrasekharan, R. Sridhar, S. S. Iyengar:
  On the minimum vocabulary problem. 234-238
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  Robert M. Losee:
  Probabilistic retrieval and coordination level matching. 239-244
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  Padmini Das-Gupta:
  Boolean interpretation of conjunctions for document retrieval. 245-254
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  Elizabeth D. Liddy, Susan Bonzi, Jeffrey Katzer, Elizabeth Oddy:
  A study of discourse anaphora in scientific abstracts. 255-261
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  Elisabeth Logan, William M. Shaw Jr.:
  An investigation of the coauthor graph. 262-268
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  Natasha Vleduts-Stokolov:
  Concept recognition in an automatic text-processing system for the life sciences. 269-287
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  Leo Egghe:
  Pratt's measure for some bibliometric distributions and its relation with the 80/20 rule. 288-297

Opinion Papers

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  Anthony Olden:
  Sub-Saharan Africa and the paperless society. 298-304

Brief Communications

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  Michael H. MacRoberts, Barbara R. MacRoberts:
  Another test of the normative theory of citing. 305-306

Letters to the Editor

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  Barbara Miller:
  Online information retrieval reading list. 307
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  Donald T. Hawkins:
  Online retrieval. 307
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  Maurice B. Line:
  Relationship between productivity & obsolescence. 307-308
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  Susan Dingle:
  Author-date style of referencing. 308-309
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  Charles T. Meadow:
  History of databases. 309
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  Ralph Dumain:
  Information processes. I. Hierarchical information systems. 310
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  Dennis Hollenberg:
  Rejoinder to Ralph Dumain's letter. 310

Book Reviews

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  Lawrence W. S. Auld:
  Careers in other fields for librarians: Successful strategies for finding the job. 312-313
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  Richard A. V. Diener:
  Technologies of freedom. 313
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  Debra C. Rollins:
  The story behind the word. 313
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  James L. Divilbiss:
  Advances in human-computer interaction. 314
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  F. W. Lancaster:
  New directions in library and information science education. 314
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  Bert R. Boyce:
  Vocabulary control for information retrieval. 315
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  Candy Schwartz:
  Subject and information analysis. 315-316
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  Bert R. Boyce:
  Online information retrieval concepts, principles, and techniques. 316
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  Glynn Harmon:
  Information specialist as team player in the research process. 316-317

Volume 38, Number 5, September 1987

Editorial

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  Donald H. Kraft:
  Happy anniversary to the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). 319-320

Historical Note

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  Harold Wooster:
  Shining Palaces, Shifting Sands: National information systems. 321-335
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  Herbert S. White:
  Random ruminations from the groves of academe. 336-337
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  Cloyd Dake Gull:
  Information science and technology: From coordinate indexing to the global brain. 338-366
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  Gerard Salton:
  The past thirty years in information retrieval. 375-380
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  Frederick G. Kilgour:
  A personalized prehistory of OCLC. 381-384
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  A. W. Elias:
  Fifty years of ASIS - Thirty-eight years of JASIS (American Documentation). 385-386

Letters to the Editor

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  Ronald E. Wyllys:
  Historical perspective articles. 387
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  Harold Borko:
  Editorial on historical notes. 387

Volume 38, Number 6, November 1987

Research

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  W. Bruce Croft, R. H. Thompson:
  I³R: A new approach to the design of document retrieval systems. 389-404
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  Marshall C. Yovits, André de Korvin, Robert M. Kleyle, M. Mascarenhas:
  External documentation and its quantitative relationship to the internal information state of a decision maker: The information profile. 405-419
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  William Paul Jones, George W. Furnas:
  Pictures of relevance: A geometric analysis of similarity measures. 420-442

Brief Communications

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  Paul Travis Nicholls:
  Estimation of Zipf parameters. 443-445

Book Reviews

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  Norman Howden:
  A micro handbook for small libraries and media centers, 2nd ed. 446
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  James Rice:
  Universities, information technology, and academic libraries: The next twenty years. 446-447