Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Bottle, R.T. and Efthimiadis, E.N. "The literature of library and information science: authorship and growth patterns." Journal of Information Science, 9(3), 1984, 107-116. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. "The growth of the OPAC literature." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41(5), 1990, 342-347. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  3. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Online public access catalogues: characteristics of the literature." Journal of Information Science, 16(2), 1990, 107-112. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  4. Efthimiadis, E.N. Progress in Documentation: "Online searching aids: A review of front-ends, gateways and other interfaces." Journal of Documentation, 46(3), 1990, 218-262. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  5. Fidel, R. and Efthimiadis, E.N. "Terminological knowledge structure for intermediary expert systems." Information Processing and Management, 31(1), 15-2 7, 1995. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  6. Efthimiadis, E.N. "User choices: A new yardstick for the evaluation of ranking algorithms for interactive query expansion." Information Processing and Management, 31(4), 605-620, 1995. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  7. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Afifi, M. "Population Groups: an investigation of ethnically related health care issues, their indexing, coverage and retrieval effectiveness in the health sciences databases." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 84 (3), pp 386-396, 1996. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  8. Djulbegovic, B., Loughran, T.P., Kloecker, G., Efthimiadis, E.N., Englert, J., and Goldsmith, G.H."A Status of the Quality of Medical Evidence in Hematology-Oncology." The American Journal of Medicine, 106 (2), 198-205, 1999. [Refereed journal] [Abstract]

  9. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Interactive Query Expansion: a user-based evaluation in a relevance feedback environment." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (11), 989-1003, 2000. [Refereed journal]

Book Chapters

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Robertson, S.E. "Feedback and interaction in information retrieval." In: Perspectives in Information Management. Oppenheim, C., editor. London: Butterworths, 257-272, 1989. [Book chapters] [Introduction]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Query Expansion." In: Williams, Martha E., ed. Annual Review of Information Systems and Technology, v31, pp 121-187, 1996. [Book chapters] [Introduction]

  3. Beeman, D.; Bower, J.M.; De Schutter, E.; Efthimiadis, E.N.; Goddard, N.; Leigh, J. "The GENESIS Simulator-based Neuronal Database." In: S. Koslow and M. Huerta, series editors. Progress in Neuroinformatics: An overview of the Human Brain Project, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 57-82, 1997. [Book chapters] [Introduction]

Edited Works

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Carlyle, A. (editors) Special issue on: Organizing Internet Resources: Metadata and the Web. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. October 1997. [Guest editors—journal] [Introduction] [ASIS Bulletin 24.1]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. (editor) Advances in Classification Research, volume 8. Information Today: Medford, NJ. 1998. [Preface]

Research Reports

  1. Mitev, N.N. and Efthimiadis, E.N. "A classified bibliography on online public access catalogues." British Library Research Paper 23. London: British Library, January 1987, 171p. [Research report] [Introduction]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Making the most of JANET." Inform, no.93, April 1987, 6. [Research reports]

  3. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Making the most of the Joint Academic Network." UKOLUG Newsletter, no.48, March 1987, 6. [Research report]

  4. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Workshop on intelligent front-end software." A report to the British Library on a one day workshop on intelligent front-ends organised by the UK Online User Group, 12 January 1989, ASLIB, London. 1989, 4p. [Research report]

  5. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Neilson, C. "A classified bibliography on online public access catalogues, second edition." British Library Information Guide 10. London, UK: British Library; 1989, 162p. [Research report] [Abstract]

  6. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Online searching aids: a subject bibliography on front-ends, gateways..." British Library Information Guide 11. London, UK: British Library; 1989, 72p. [Research report] [Abstract]

  7. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Report and proposal to the British Library following a study visit to Athens. (Re: Plan of Action for Libraries in the European Communities.)" British Library Research & Development Department, project no. RDD/V/125, 1989, 29p. [Research report]

  8. Efthimiadis, E.N. "A review of online searching aids." British Library Research Paper 86. London, UK: British Library; 1990, 68p. [Research report] [Overview]

  9. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Serafetinidis, G.A. "Part IV: The integrated labor market information system." pp40-74. In: A study for the design of an integrated labor market information system. Dedoussopoulos, A. and G.A. Serafetinidis, eds. Panteion University, Regional Development Institute. Athens: Manpower Employment Organization (OAED), (in Greek), January 1991, 96p. [Research report]

  10. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Final report to the British Library following a study visit to Luxembourg, Brussels and Athens. (Re: Plan of Action for Libraries in the European Communities.)" British Library Research & Development Department, project no. RDD/V/140, February 1991, iv.,24p. [Research report]

  11. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Approaches to search formulation and query expansion in information systems: document retrieval systems, DBMS and expert systems." British Library, Research & Development Department. BLRD Report 6084, 1992, 105p. [Research report] [Introduction]

  12. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Serafetinidis, G.A. Chapter 3. In: An Information Analysis Center for the Employment and Unemployment of Women. Athens: Panteion University, General Secretariat for Equality (GSE) and European Structural Fund (ESF), 200pp, January 1992; pp. 49-110 (in Greek). [Research report]

  13. Borgman, C.L., Bates, M.J., Cloonan, M.V., Efthimiadis, E.N., Gilliland-Swetland, A.J., Kafai, Y.B., Leazer, G.H., Maddox, A.B. Social Aspects Of Digital Libraries: Final Report to the National Science Foundation. Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, November, 1996. http://www-lis.gseis.ucla.edu/DL/UCLA_DL_Report.html [Research report] [Abstract] [Full Text]

Conference Proceedings

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. "A user-centred evaluation of ranking algorithms for interactive query expansion." In: Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Association of Computing Machinery, Specialist Interest Group in Information Retrieval, Pittsburgh, PA, June 27 - July 1, 1993. Korfhage, R. Rasmussen, E. and Willett, P., eds. pp146-159. [Conference paper, peer reviewed] [Abstract]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Biron, P.V. "UCLA-Okapi at TREC-2: Query expansion experiments." In: The Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2). Harman, D.K., ed. Proceedings of the Second Text Retrieval Conference, 31 August – 2 September, 1993, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. NIST-SP 500-215, March 1994, pp 279-290. [Conference paper] [Introduction] [Full Text]

  3. Efthimiadis, E.N. "A study of end-user behavior in searching CD-ROM bibliographic databases." In: Proceedings of the 15th National Online Meeting, New York, USA, May 10-12, 1994. Martha E. Williams, ed. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc. 1994, pp 113-120. [Conference paper] [Abstract]

  4. Efthimiadis, E.N. "End-user's understanding of thesaural knowledge structures in interactive query expansion." In: Knowledge Organization and Quality Management. Proceedings of the Third International ISKO Conference, Copenhagen Denmark, June 20-24, 1994. Hanne Albrechtsen and Susanne Oernager, eds. Frankfurt am Main: Indeks Verlag, 1994, pp 295-303. [Conference paper] [View paper in PDF format]

  5. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Afifi, M. "Access to Information on Medical Research and Health Care Issues Relating to Diverse Population Groups: A study of Embase, Medline and Psycinfo." In: Lacroix, Eve-Marie, ed. Health Information for the Global Village. Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, Washington, DC, USA, May 10-12, 1995. Washington, D.C.: Local Organizing Committee, 7th ICML, 1995, pp 311-317. [Conference paper] [Introduction]

  6. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Bruce, H. "A Study of the Impact of Statewide Database Licensing on Information Provision in the State of Washington." In: Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, vol. 37, 2000. [Conference paper] [View Paper in PDF format]

Abstracts, Posters, Demonstrations

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Query Expansion in Document Retrieval Systems." In: Bonzi, S., ed. ASIS'93, Proceedings of the 56th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting (ASIS), October 24-28, 1993, Columbus, OH, USA. New Jersey: Learned Information. vol. 30, 1993, p292. [Abstract] [Abstract]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Data/Document Fusion in Information Retrieval." In: Maxian, B., ed. ASIS'94, Proceedings of the 57th American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting, October 17-20, 1994, Alexandria, VA. New Jersey: Learned Information, vol.31, 1994, p98. [Abstract] [Abstract]

  3. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Parodi, R. "BRUIN: Browsing and Retrieval of text and mUltimedia resources for Information retrieval educatioN." In: Fox, E.A., Ingwersen, P. and Fidel, R. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval, Seattle, WA, USA, July 9-13, 1995. pp.359-368; 360. [Abstract & demonstration] [Abstract]

  4. Efthimiadis, E.N. "BRUIN: Browsing and Retrieval of text and mUltimedia resources for Information retrieval educatioN." In: American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting, October 9-12, 1995, Chicago, Il., USA. [Demonstration]

  5. Efthimiadis, E.N. "End-User Understanding and Use of Knowledge Structures in Database Searching." In: Kinney, T. ed. ASIS'95: Proceedings of the 58th ASIS Annual Meeting, October 9-12, 1995, Chicago, Il. New Jersey: Information Today, v32, pp234. [Abstract] [Abstract]

  6. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Social Impacts of Digital Libraries." In: Proceedings of the 59th American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting, October 19-24, 1996, Baltimore, MD, USA. v33, pp 268-270, 1996. [Abstract]

  7. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Searching behavior in the Giraffe ranked retrieval system." In: SIGIR '97: 20th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Philadelphia, PA, USA: July 27-July 31, 1997. [Abstract] [Abstract]

  8. Pasic, J. and Efthimiadis, E.N. "Assessment of Evidence-based Guidelines in Psychiatry." In: Proceedings of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 1-3, 1998. Abstract NR-125. [Abstract & poster]

  9. Pasic, J., Borson, S. and Efthimiadis, E.N. "Quality of Evidence in APA Practice Guideline for Alzheimer's disease." In: Proceedings of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 15-19, 1999. Abstract NR-?. [Abstract & poster]

Book Reviews

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Document Retrieval Systems. Peter Willett, ed. The foundations of information science series, vol. 3. London: Taylor Graham and the Institute of Information Scientists, 1988." Appeared in: Library and Information Science Research, 13(49), 1990, 33-34. [Book review]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Keyguide to information sources in online and CD-ROM database searching. John Cox. London and New York, Mansell, 1991." Appeared in: Program, 26(2), 1992, 209-210. [Book review]

Unpublished Works

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Electronic mail: an introduction." Unpublished MSc Report, The City University, London, June 1984.

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. "A Bibliometric Study of the Literature of Library and Information Science." Unpublished MSc Thesis, The City University, London, September 1984.

  3. Efthimiadis, E.N. "Interactive Query Expansion and Relevance Feedback for Document Retrieval Systems." Ph.D. thesis, City University, London, U.K., July 1992. [Abstract] [Part I] [Part II] [Part III] [Appendices] [References] [Entire Dissertation]

  1. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Serafetinidis, G.A. Part 1. In: Interim Report on the Establishment of a Labor Market Institute in the Region of Central Macedonia, Athens: Panteion University, Prefecture of Central Macedonia (PKM) and European Structural Fund (ESF), 120pp, September 1993; (in Greek, unpublished). [Research report]

  2. Efthimiadis, E.N. and Serafetinidis, G.A. Part 1. In: Interim Report on the Establishment of a Labor Market Observatory in the Region of Central Macedonia. Athens: Panteion University, Prefecture of Central Macedonia (PKM) and European Structural Fund (ESF). 100pp, September 1993; (in Greek, unpublished). [Research report]

  3. Fidel, R. and Efthimiadis, E.N. (1998) Content Organization and Retrieval Project: Phase I—Work-centered Examination of Web Searching Behavior of Boeing Engineers. Final Report, The Boeing Company, June 1998. [Research report] [Executive Summary]

  4. Fidel, R. and Efthimiadis, E.N. (1998) Content Organization and Retrieval Project: Phase II: A Knowledge Structure for a Directory of Expertise. A preliminary report, The Boeing Company, December 1998. [Research report]