Terms used in the Information Research subject index


abstracting
academic heads of departments
academic libraries
academics
access to information
action learning
action research
adaptive information systems
agricultural extension workers
bibliometrics
bioinformatics
blind & sight-impaired persons
book history
bookselling
Brazil
business
business analysts
business environment
business performance
business process re-engineering
Canada
cataloguing
cattle farmers
censorship
chemical databases
chemical information processing
chemistry
citation analysis
citation systems
classification
clinical decision-making
clustering
co-citation analysis
cognitive framework
cognitive work analysis
communities of practice
community information access
competitive intelligence
   use environmental scanning
computer assisted abstracting
computer mediated communication
computer scientists
constructivism
content analysis
continuing professional development
controlled vocabulary
   consider classification
copyright
critical realism
critical success factors
critical theory
cross-lingual information retrieval
curriculum development
database design
databases
data mining
decision-making
development studies
digital divide
   use information society
digital libraries
digital ranch
discourse analysis
discussion lists
   use online communities
dissemination of information
   use information dissemination
distance education
document architecture
document clustering
economists
education
   consider distance education, higher education
electronic forums
   use online communities
electronic information
electronic journals
electronic publishing
   consider electronic texts; publishing
electronic texts
engineering students
environmental scanning
Estonia
ethnomethodology
European Union
everyday life
Excite search engine
experiential learning
   consider virtual learning environments
expert systems
family history
   use genealogy
farm workers
Finland
France
GPs (General Practitioners)
gender
genealogy
genetic algorithms
Germany
Ghana
Google News search engine
grounded theory
health information
hermeneutics
high-performing companies
higher education
historical bibliography
historical documents
human-computer interaction
human relations
hyperlinks
hypermedia
indexing
individual differences
information activity analysis
information behaviour
   consider information needs, information seeking behaviour, information use
information culture
information dissemination
information inequality
   use information society
information literacy
   use information skills
information management
information needs
information overload
information policy
information products
information processing
information provision strategy
information requirements
   use information needs
information retrieval
information science
information searching
information seeking behaviour
information services specialists
information skills
information society
information strategy
information studies - education
information systems
   consider adaptive information systems; Internet information systems; knowledge-based systems; mobile information systems
information systems strategy
information technology
information use
information work
insurance industry
intellectual capital
intellectual property rights
interactive information retrieval
   use information retrieval, information retrieval evaluation
interdisciplinary research
Internet
Internet information gateways
Internet information systems
intranets
Iran
Israel
journalists
knowledge-based systems
knowledge management
   use communities of practice; environmental scanning; information management; intranets; organizational change; or organizational learning; etc.
knowledge representation
labour theory
Latin language
Latvia
law students
learning
learning styles
less-favoured regions
library education
library legislation
library use
Lithuania
mailing lists
   use online communities
management
management information needs
management information systems
mass media
medical information
   use health information
metaphor
migrants
mobile information systems
molecular diversity
morphological variants
multimedia
music scholars
N-gram matching
name equivalences
National Health Service
national information infrastructure
networks
newsgroups
newspapers
news search engines
   use search engines
New Zealand
non-hierarchic document clustering
nursing
observation
Old French
on-line catalogues
on-line communities
ontology
   use classification
open access publishing
organization theory
organizational change
organizational communication
organizational learning
paranormal information
personality traits
phenomenography
police officers
politics
pornography
portals
problem solving
protein structures
protocol analysis
public health
public libraries
public sector information system
publishing
   consider electronic publishing
qualitative research methods
   consider ethnomethodology
records management
re-engineering
reference group theory
relevance
Research Assessment Exercise
research career
research methods
risk behaviour
rural development
scholarly communication
   consider publishing
scholarly publishing
   use publishing
Schools Library Services
science policy
scorecard models
search engines
semantic web
sense-making
Sheffield City Libraries
Singapore
SMIL
social capital
social care
social network theory
social science information
social work
   use social care
SOSIG
software
South Africa
special libraries
stemming
strikes (labour disputes)
Sweden
systems modelling
tacit knowledge
taxonomy
   use classification
teaching methods
teenagers
telecentres
term conflation
processing
theses thinking aloud
   use verbal protocol
total quality management
TRAIN-ISS
training
transaction log analysis
Turkish language
uncertainty
university libraries
   use academic libraries
university students
user satisfaction
user studies
   use information needs, information-seeking behaviour
verbal protocol
vignettes
virtual communities
   use on-line communities
virtual learning environments
   consider experiential learning
virtual reference service
web page design
word variant identification
World Wide Web
   consider search engines;
semantic web
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Revised 4 June, 2005