Relevance is a fundamental, though not completely understood, concept for documentation,
information science, and information retrieval. This article presents the history of relevance …

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor-tion of health
care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in …

This article proposes a model of document selection by real users of a bibliographic retrieval
system. It reports on Part 1 of a longitudinal study of decision making on document use by …

This article reports on the follow‐up study of a two‐part project designed to study the
decision‐making process underlying how academic researchers select documents retrieved …

This study investigates the use of criteria to assess relevant, partially relevant, and not‐
relevant documents. Study participants identified passages within 20 document …

A large number of digital images are available and accessible due to recent advances in
technology. Since image retrieval systems are designed to meet user information needs, it …

This qualitative study of the citing motivations of twelve agricultural economists (faculty and
doctoral students) identifies several factors they considered in making citing decisions: the …

This research examines the use of Internet‐based electronic resources (e‐sources) by a
group of library and information science (LIS) scholars. It focuses particularly on how …

Synthesizing and building on many ideas from the literature, this article presents an
improved conceptual framework that clarifies the notion of relevance with its many elements …

This is the first in a two‐part series on topical relevance relationships. Part I presents
conceptual background; Part II reports on a related empirical study. Since topicality is a …