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Google Scholar and Its Competitors: Accessing Scholarly Resources on the WebGoogle Scholar and Its Competitors: Accessing Scholarly Resources on the Web by Ingrid Hsieh-Yee
Buy new: £47.00
A much-awaited book.
Search Engine SocietySearch Engine Society by Alexander Halavais
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £9.72
From the left-wing Polity Press.
The Google Generation: Are ICT Innovations Changing Information Seeking Behaviour?: Information Search Behaviour Developments and the Future LearnerThe Google Generation: Are ICT Innovations Changing Information Seeking Behaviour?: Information Search Behaviour Developments and the Future Learner by David Nicholas
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Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Interactive Technologies)Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Interactive Technologies) by William Jones
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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital DisorderEverything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
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A useful journalistic overview for students, but many information specialists will already be familiar with the facts and gist of the arguments.
Search User InterfacesSearch User Interfaces by Marti A. Hearst
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Also freely available in full-text form, online.
Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organization Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management)Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organization Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management) by Patrick Lambe
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Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We BecomeAmbient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
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Search Query Ambiguity: When lists are not enoughSearch Query Ambiguity: When lists are not enough by Ph.D., David N. Aurelio
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Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (Library and Information Science)Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (Library and Information Science) by Donald O. Case
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Social Life of Information, TheSocial Life of Information, The by John Seely Brown
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Glut: The Deep History of Information Science: Mastering Information Through the AgesGlut: The Deep History of Information Science: Mastering Information Through the Ages by Alex Wright
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Transmitting Culture (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)Transmitting Culture (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by R Debray
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How is culture effectively transmitted in the long-term, over thousands of years?
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern WestWorlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by A Grafton
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The last chapter is about the future of the book in a Googlized world
Google Scholar and More: New Google Applications and Tools for Libraries and Library UsersGoogle Scholar and More: New Google Applications and Tools for Libraries and Library Users
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No reviews online, sadly.
Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of ScholarshipEnemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship by L Waters
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Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) by Cathy N. Davidson
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Also available free online at the MIT Press website.
E-Journals Access and Management (Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science)E-Journals Access and Management (Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science)
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E-books in Academic LibrariesE-books in Academic Libraries by Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic
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Forthcoming
Envisioning Future Academic Library Services: Initiatives, Ideas and ChallengesEnvisioning Future Academic Library Services: Initiatives, Ideas and Challenges
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Forthcoming
Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research: Towards a Semantic WebConnecting Knowledge in Academic Research: Towards a Semantic Web by Bill Cope
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Forthcoming
The Ecology of Academic JournalsThe Ecology of Academic Journals by Bozena Mierzejewska
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Forthcoming
Clustering and Ranking for Web Information Retrieval: Methodologies for Searching the WebClustering and Ranking for Web Information Retrieval: Methodologies for Searching the Web by Antonio Gulli
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Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Information Science and Knowledge Management)Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Information Science and Knowledge Management) by Amanda Spink
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Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively (Premier Reference Source)Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively (Premier Reference Source) by Dion Goh
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