Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval: 3rd International BIR Workshop

Titel: Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval: 3rd International BIR Workshop
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Veröffentlicht: Mannheim : SSOAR, 2016
Umfang: Online-Ressource, 4 S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Proceedings of 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016
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Bemerkung: Preprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Proceedings of 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016. 2016. S. 4
Zusammenfassung: Abstract: The BIR workshop brings together experts of Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval. While sometimes perceived as rather loosely related, they share various interests and face similar challenges. Our motivation as organizers of the BIR workshop stemmed from a twofold observation. First, both communities are only partly overlapping albeit sharing various interests. Second, knowledge transfer would be profitable for both sides to tackle some of the emerging problems scholars face nowadays when they have to deal with identifying relevant and high quality literature among the very fast growing number of electronic publications available worldwide. Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries, although they offer value-added effects for users. Information professionals working in libraries and archives, however, are increasingly confronted with applying bibliometric techniques in their services. The first workshop in 2014 set the re