Faces in the mirror: Five decades of research and comment on the book trade 1931–2001     

Peter W. Adams 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2001,17(1):43-50

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Measuring Search Engine Quality   总被引：12，自引：3，他引：9  

David Hawking  Nick Craswell  Peter Bailey  Kathleen Griffihs 《Information Retrieval》2001,4(1):33-59

The effectiveness of twenty public search engines is evaluated using TREC-inspired methods and a set of 54 queries taken from real Web search logs. The World Wide Web is taken as the test collection and a combination of crawler and text retrieval system is evaluated. The engines are compared on a range of measures derivable from binary relevance judgments of the first seven live results returned. Statistical testing reveals a significant difference between engines and high intercorrelations between measures. Surprisingly, given the dynamic nature of the Web and the time elapsed, there is also a high correlation between results of this study and a previous study by Gordon and Pathak. For nearly all engines, there is a gradual decline in precision at increasing cutoff after some initial fluctuation. Performance of the engines as a group is found to be inferior to the group of participants in the TREC-8 Large Web task, although the best engines approach the median of those systems. Shortcomings of current Web search evaluation methodology are identified and recommendations are made for future improvements. In particular, the present study and its predecessors deal with queries which are assumed to derive from a need to find a selection of documents relevant to a topic. By contrast, real Web search reflects a range of other information need types which require different judging and different measures.  相似文献   

A Tribute to Steve Balch     

Peter Wood 《Academic Questions》2009,22(2):226-233

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Book Reviews     

Peter Morgan 《Health information and libraries journal》2001,18(2):133-133

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Reprographic rights in Singapore: the story of CLASS     

Peter Davison 《Learned Publishing》2003,16(4):243-247

The Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore was established in 1999. It is now profitable and commercially significant, perhaps uniquely so in Asia. Critical factors in its growth have included a statutory (non‐voluntary) photocopying licence provision for educational institutions in the Copyright Act; and widespread support from the local and international communities of rightsholders. Tentative consensus has been established with educators over a fair level of remuneration for copying. Further work needs to be done to extend or amend the current model for electronic copying, for the private sector and for other countries in the region.  相似文献   

OPINION RESEARCH, LIBERALISM AND THE FRENCH RIGHT     

Fysh  Peter 《Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research》1992,4(2):109-125

During the rewriting of its program in the early 1980s, theRassemblement pour la République (RPR) carried out anumber of opinion surveys. The person in charge of this wasnot a member of the inner leadership circle; he warned the partyleader, Jacques Chirac, that themes forming a coherent ‘liberal’program for the transformation of the relationship between citizens,state, and the economy, were not popular with public opinion,which remained attached to progressive taxation and a comprehensivesocial welfare system. The party leadership ignored these warnings.Rather than attempting to align their policies with voter aspirations,their principal use of political communications techniques aimedat improving their leader's image. The person in charge of thiswork was a stranger to politics whose understanding of the waycultural or political attitudes are changed led him to interpretvery fatalistically the chances of influencing election outcomesby communications techniques. His methods were treated withfrank skepticism by party communications colleagues, his client'spersonality was particularly unamenable to his efforts, andhis one successful initiative—the rejuvenation of theexecutive committee—was operated at the cost of a rowin the party. In the case of the RPR, opinion research seemsto have played no role at all in an important party policy review,the causes of which should be sought elsewhere.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Thomas L. Bonn  Richard W. Eiger  Peter W. Adams  Estelle Jobson 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2002,18(1):66-71

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Shared Reading within an Apprenticeship Approach to Reading     

Robin Campbell 《Educational studies》1992,18(2):173-183

Williamson & Carrington argued, in a recent edition of Educational Studies, the need for a major investigation of the effectiveness of an apprenticeship approach to reading. This paper considers some of the problems associated with such investigations. It also seeks to clarify some of the terminology in the whole language repertoire before looking in detail at shared reading as an important part of such approaches. The article concludes by suggesting that ethnographic studies are the means by which issues in the teaching and learning of reading may best be clarified, and teachers and children assisted.  相似文献   

A New Feature: Research Agendas     

Peter Hernon  Candy Schwartz  Editors 《Library & information science research》2008,30(4):371

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新兴的数字化革命:打造图书馆员的领导力     

Peter Sidorko  罗立 《高校图书馆工作》2008,28(1):3-4,13

香港大学图书馆领导研修班是为现任和未来图书馆领导而设的密集式培训班,预计参加者主要为现任或未来的馆长或助理馆长.研修班将采用英语作为主要讲授语言另辅以部分中文翻译,采取让学员透过一系列主题讲学、个案研究、小组活动及互动讨论的方式向其它馆员和资讯业专家学习.  相似文献