"The full gamut of information is covered The text will be of great use to information practitioners to review their IR knowledge, and bring it up-to-date in many areas."
-- Australian Academic & Research Libraries"Chowdhury provides a good understanding of where much of our current systems have come from this book would be a good resource for a basic information retrieval course."
-- College & Research Libraries"For this third edition of a text for undergraduate and graduate students of library and information science, Chowdhury ... incorporates changes in the field since 2004 and provides a new chapter on citation indexing. The book is written from a relatively non-technical perspective, covering the spectrum of information storage and retrieval in a way that's relevant to an international readership."
-- SciTech Book NewsProfessor Gobinda Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University he was a Professor and Director of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. For over 25 years he has worked as an academic and researcher in information science in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. For the past few years he has been actively involved in the iSchools activities. Professor Chowdhury has written or edited 15 books and over 150 research papers.
1. Basic concepts of information retrieval systems
2. Database technology
3. Bibliographic formats
4. Cataloguing and metadata
5. Subject analysis and representation
6. Automatic indexing and file organization
7. Vocabulary control
8. Abstracts and abstracting
9. Searching and retrieval
10. Users of information retrieval
11. User-centred models of information retrieval
12. User interfaces
13. Evaluation of information retrieval systems
14. Evaluation experiments
15. Online and CD-ROM information retrieval
16. Multimedia information retrieval
17. Hypertext and markup languages
18. Web information retrieval
19. Natural language processing and information retrieval
20. Natural language processing applications in information retrieval
21. Citation analysis and information retrieval
22. Information retrieval in digital libraries
23. Trends in information retrieval