RAYA FIDEL: A PUBLICATION LIST                                                                            

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Books

 

Fidel, R. (2012). Human information interaction: An ecological approach to information behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Fidel, R., Crandall, M. (1999). Users’ Choice of Filtering Methods for Electronic Text. Washington, DC: Special Libraries Association.

Fidel, R. (1987). Database Design for Information Retrieval:  A Conceptual Approach. New York: Wiley.

 

Fidel, R. (1976). The Use of Stable Isotopes in Hydrology: A Bibliography. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

Fidel, R. (2008). Are we there yet? Mixed methods research in library and information science. Library & Information Science Research, 30(4), 265-272.

 

Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A.M., Cleal, B., & Bruce, H. (2004). A multidimensional approach to the study of human-information interaction: A case study of collaborative information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 55(11),939-953.

 

Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A.M. (2004). From Information Behavior Research to the Design of Information Systems: the Cognitive Work Analysis Framework. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 10(1).

 

Fidel, R. & Green, M. (2004). The many faces of accessibility: engineers’ perception of information sources. Information Processing and Management, 40, 563–581.

 

Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A. M, Dumais, S., Grudin, J., Poltrock, S. (2003).  A comparison of the collaborative information retrieval behaviour of two design teams. New Review of Information Behaviour Research: Studies of Information Seeking in Context, 4(1), 139 -153. 

 

Poltrock, S., Grudin, J., Dumais, S., Fidel, R., Bruce, H. & Pejtersen, A.M.  (2003). Information Seeking and Sharing in Design Teams. In M. Pendergast, K. Schmidt, C. Simone, & M. Tremaine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work. Sanibel Island, Florida. (pp.239-247). New York: ACM.

 

Fidel, R., Bruce, H., Pejtersen, A. M, Dumais, S., Grudin, J., Poltrock, S. (2000). Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR). New Review of Information Behaviour Research: Studies of Information Seeking in Context, 1(1), 235-247.    

 

Fidel, R., Davies, R. K., Douglass, M. H., Holder, J. K., Hopkins, C. J., Kushner, E. J., Miyagishima, B. K., Toney, C. D. (1999).  A visit to the information mall: Web searching behavior of high school students.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50, 24-37.

 

Fidel, R. (1997). The image retrieval task: implications for the design and evaluation of image databases. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 3, 181-199.

 

Fidel, R. Efthimiadis, E. (1995). Terminological knowledge structure for intermediary expert systems. Information Processing & Management, 31(1), 15-27.

 

Fidel, R. (1993). Qualitative methods in information retrieval research.  Library and Information Science Research, 15(3), 219-247. **

 

Fidel, R. (1992). Who needs controlled vocabulary? Special Libraries, 83(1), 1-9.

 

Fidel, R. (1991).  Searchers' selection of search keys:  I. The Selection Routine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(7), 490-500.

        (Received the Best JASIS Paper Award,1991).

 

Fidel, R. (1991). Searchers' selection of search keys: II. Controlled vocabulary or free-text searching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(7), 501-514.

(Received the Best JASIS Paper Award, 1991).

 

Fidel, R. (1991). Searchers' selection of search keys:  III.  Searching styles. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(7), 515-527.

(Received the Best JASIS Paper Award, 1991)

 

Fidel, R., & Crandall, M. (1989). Fitting reality into a database mold: Rules for data collection. Information Systems, 14(2), 141-149.

 

Fidel, R., & Crandall, M. (1988). The AACR2 as a design schema for bibliographic databases.  The Library Quarterly, 58(2), 123-142.

 

Fidel, R.  (1987). What is missing in research about online searching behaviour? Canadian Journal of Information Science, 12(3/4), 54-61.

(Reprinted in: Auster, E. (1990)(Ed.). The Online Searcher. New York: Neal-Schuman.).

 

Fidel, R. (1987). Librarianship and human-computer interaction. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 27(4), 297-298.

 

Fidel, R. (1986). The possible effect of abstracting guidelines on retrieval performance. Information Processing and Management, 22(4), 309-316.

 

Fidel, R. (1986). Writing abstracts for free-text searching. Journal of Documentation (March 1986), 42(1),11-21. 

(Major recommendations incorporated into NISO Standard Z39.14 Writing Abstract, 1995; Summary table reprinted in: (1) Rowley, J. E. (1988). Abstracting and Indexing. 2nd ed. London: Clive Bingley.; (2) Lancaster, F.W. (1991). Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice. London: The Library Association. (Also in 2nd edition, 1998)).

 

Fidel, R. (1986).  Toward expert systems for the selection of search keys.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 37(1), 37-44.

 

Fidel, R. (1985).  Moves in online searching. Online Review, 9(1), 61-74.

 

Fidel, R. (1984).  The case study method: A case study.  Library and Information Science Research, 6(3), 273-288.

(Reprinted in: Glazier, J. D., & Powell R. R., (1990) (Eds.) Qualitative Research in Information Management. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited.)

 

Fidel, R. (1984).  Online searching styles: A case-study-based model of searching behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 35(4), 211-221.

(Received the Best JASIS Paper Award, 1985; translated into Japanese and published in December 1988 issue of Joho Kanri, 31(9), 757-771.)

 

Fidel, R., & Soergel, D. (1983). Factors affecting online bibliographic retrieval: A conceptual framework for research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 34(3), 163-180.

 

Journal Articles Not Refereed

 

Fidel, R. User-centered indexing.  (1994). Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(8), 572-576. **

 

Fidel, R. (1977). A selected bibliography of recent Israeli writings on various aspects of water problems. Kidma: Israel Journal of Development, 3(2), 35-36.

 

Collections Edited

 

Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Ingwersen, P., & Vakkari, P. (Eds.), (2002). Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the fourth International conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4). Seattle, WA.

 

Fidel, R., & Smeaton, A. (Eds.), (2000). Special Focus Articles on Information Retrieval from Visual Media [Special Issue]. Information Retrieval, 1(4).

 

Fidel, R., Beghtol, C. , Kwasnik, B., & Smith, P. (Eds.), (1995). Advances in Classification Research: Proceedings of the 5th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop Held at the 57th Asis Annual Meeting. Alexandria, VA.

 

Fidel, R., Fox, E., & Ingwersen, P. (Eds.). (1995). "Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Seattle, WA.

 

Smith, P, Beghtol, C. , Fidel, R., , & Kwasnik, B.  (Eds.), (1994). Advances in Classification Research: Proceedings of the 4th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop Held at the 56th Asis Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH.*

 

Lunin, L., & Fidel, R. (Eds.), (1994). Perspectives on Indexing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(8), 569-636.

 

Fidel, R., Hahn, T. B., Rasmussen, E. & Smith, P. (Eds.), (1994) Challenges in Indexing Electronic Images and Text. Medford, NJ:  Learned Information.

 

Fidel, R., Kwasnik, B., & Smith, P. (Eds.), (1994). Advances in Classification Research: Proceedings of the 3rd  ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop Held at the 55th  Asis Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA.*

 

Kwasnik, B., & Fidel, R. (Eds.), (1992). Advances in Classification Research: Proceedings of the 2nd ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop Held at the 54th  Asis Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.*  

 

 

Book Chapters

Fidel, R. (In press). Approaches to investigating information interaction and behaviour. In I., Ruthven & Kelly, D. (Ed.). Interactive information seeking and retrieval. London: Facet.

 

Fidel, R., Pettigrew, K. & Bruce, H. (2001). Conceptual frameworks in information behavior. In M. Williams (Ed.). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) (pp. 43-78). Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. 

 

Fidel, R., & Pejtersen, A.M. (2005). Cognitive Work Analysis.  In K.E. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & E. F. McKechnie (Eds.). Theories of information behavior: A researcher's guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Fidel, R., Pettigrew, K. & Bruce, H. (2001). Conceptual frameworks in information behavior. In M. Williams (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) (pp. 43-78). Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. 

 

Fidel, R. (2000).  The user-centered approach: How we got here.  In W. J. Wheeler (Ed.), Saving the time of the library user through subject access innovation : papers in honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane (pp. 78-98). Urbana-Champaign, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.

 

Fidel, R., & Crandall, M. (1998). The role of subject access in information filtering. In P.A. Cochrane & E. Johnson (Eds.), Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century. (pp. 16-27).  Urbana-Champaign, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.

 

Fidel, R. (1991). Research on Information Access.  In N. Lane & M. Chisholm (Eds.), Information Technology: Design and Applications. (pp. 245-266). Boston, MA: G.K. Hall.

 

Fidel, R. (1990). The selection of search keys. In R. Aluri & D. E. Riggs (Eds.),  Expert Systems in Libraries. (pp. 155-169). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Fidel, R. (1988). Organizing, indexing, and retrieving of information. In A. J. Mathews (Ed.), Rethinking the Library in the Information Age—Issues in Library Research: Proposals for the 1990s (Vol. II). (pp. 135-156). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education.

(Excerpts reprinted in: 1.) School Library Media Quarterly, 17(4,) 206-209. (1989);  2.) Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, 8(4), 314-316. (August 1989, in Chinese)).

 

Fidel, R., & Travis, I. L. (1982). Subject analysis. In M. E. Williams (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Vol. 17). (pp. 123-157). White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.

 

Technical Reports

 

Fidel, R. & Green, M. (2000). Sources and Networks, Formal and Informal, that Boeing Engineers Use to Obtain Information. The Boeing Company, December 2000. 

 

Fidel, R. & Efthimiadis, E. (1998). Content Organization and Retrieval Project: Phase II -- A Knowledge Structure for a Directory of Expertise. Preliminary report, The Boeing Company, December 1998. 

 

Fidel, R., & Crandall, M. (1998). Users’ Choice of Filtering Methods for Electronic Text. Final report, Special Libraries Association (Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Fund), July 1998.

 

Fidel, R. & Efthimiadis, E. (1998). Content Organization and Retrieval Project: Phase I -- A Work-Centered Examination of Web Searching Behavior of Boeing Engineers.  Final report, The Boeing Company, June 1998. 

 

Pejtersen, A. M. , & Fidel, R. (1998). A Framework for Work-Centered Evaluation and Design: A Case Study of IR on the Web. Report for MIRA, Grenoble, France, March, 1998. 

 

Fidel, R. (1988). Extracting Knowledge for Intermediary Expert Systems: The Selection of Search Keys. (Final report, National Science Foundation Grant Number IST 85-09719.) Syracuse, NY: ERIC, (ED 314-059).

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings

 

Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A.M. & Dunlop, M.D. (1999). A Use Centered Framework for Evaluation of the Web. In M. Agosti, & M. Melucci (Eds.), Proceedings of SIGIR 1999 Workshop on Evaluation of Web Document Retrieval (Berkeley, CA, August 1999.)

(Web address: http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/research/publications/99pejtersendulopfidel.pdf )

 

Fidel, R., & Crandall, M. (1997). Users’ perception of the performance of a filtering system. In N.J. Belkin (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (Philadelphia, PA, July 27-31, 1997). (pp.198-205). New York: ACM Press.

 

Fidel, R. (1992). Thesaurus requirements for an intermediary expert system. In N.J. Williamson, & M. Hudon (Eds.), Classification Research for Knowledge Representation and Organization: Proceedings of the 5th International Study Conference on Classification Research. (Toronto, ON, June 24-28, 1991). (pp. 209-213). New York: Elsevier. (FID Publication 698)

 

Fidel, R. (1990). Online searching styles. In D. Henderson (Ed.), ASIS '90: Proceedings of the 53rd ASIS Annual Meeting, v. 27. (Toronto, ON. November 4-8, 1990). (pp. 98-103). Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

 

Fidel, R. (1988). Factors affecting the selection of search keys. In C. L. Borgman, & E. Y. H. Pai, (Eds.), ASIS '88: Proceedings of the 51st ASIS Annual Meeting, v. 25. (Atlanta, GA. October 23-27, 1988). (pp. 76-79). Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

 

Fidel, R. (1988). New directions for research in online public access catalogs. In  Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Techniques and Applications in Libraries. (Xi'an, People's Republic of China, September 8-11, 1988). (pp. 189-196.) Xi'an: Jiaotang University Press.

 

Fidel, R. (1987). Controlled vocabulary and free-text searching: searchers' selection of search keys. In C. Chen (Ed.), ASIS '87: Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting, V. 24. (Boston, MA, October 4-8, 1987). (pp. 71-73). Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

 

Fidel, R. (1985). Individual variability in online searching behavior. In C. A. Parkhurst (Ed.), ASIS '85: Proceedings of the 48th ASIS Annual Meeting, v. 22. (Las Vegas, NV, October 20-24, 1985). (pp. 69-72). White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.

 

Fidel, R. (1984). Request-related criteria for the selection of search keys. In B. Flood, Et Al. (Eds.), 1984: Challenges to an Information Society :  Proceedings of the 47th ASIS Annual Meeting, v. 21. (Philadelphia, PA, October 21-25, 1984). (pp. 141-143). White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.

 

Fidel, R. (1983). Do user charges affect online searching behavior? In R. F. Von Dran, Et Al. (Eds.), Productivity in the Information Age: Proceedings of the 46th ASIS Annual Meeting, v. 20. (Washington, D.C., October 2-6, 1983). (pp. 132-134). White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.

 

Fidel, R. (1981). Operationalist and conceptualist searchers: A case-study-based model of online searching styles. In L.F. Lunin, M. Henderson, H. Wooster (Eds.), The Information Community--An Alliance for Progress: Proceedings of the 44th ASIS Annual Meeting, v. 18. (Washington, D.C., October 25-30, 1981). (pp. 68-70). White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.

 

 Refereed Posters

 

Fidel, R., & Efthimiadis, E. (2000). The effect of query type on subject searching behavior of image databases: An exploratory study.  Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Athens, Greece, July 2000.

 

Web searching behavior of aerospace engineers. Proceedings of the 22rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Berkeley, CA, August 1999..

* Received the Best SIG Publication-of-the-Year Award.

** Invited article (Not refereed).

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