A note about information science research
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Society for Information Science
- Vol. 36 (4) , 268-271
- https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630360407
Abstract
This note deals with the relationship between information science research and practice. The impression that the field is moribund and that the research output is uniformly inferior is not supported by an examination of the information retrieval literature.Keywords
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