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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A Major/Major New Book !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for
the Social Sciences / Michael Thelwall<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>¯</span>
/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers / 2009 / 116 pp. /
doi:10.2200/S00176ED1V01Y200903ICR004 / ISBN-10: 159829993X ; ISBN-13:
978-1598299939<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Abstract<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web:
web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web
search engine results. The importance of the web itself as a communication
medium and for hosting an increasingly wide array of documents, from journal
articles to holiday brochures, needs no introduction. Given this huge and
easily accessible source of information, there are limitless possibilities for
measuring or counting on a huge scale (e.g., the number of web sites, the
number of web pages, the number of blogs) or on a smaller scale (e.g., the
number of web sites in Ireland, the number of web pages in the CNN web site, the
number of blogs mentioning Barack Obama before the 2008 presidential campaign).
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This book argues that it can be useful for social scientists
to measure aspects of the web and explains how this can be achieved on both a small
and large scale. The book is intended for social scientists with research
topics that are wholly or partly online (e.g., social networks, news, political
communication) and social scientists with offline research topics with an
online reflection, even if this is not a core component (e.g., diaspora
communities, consumer culture, linguistic change). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The book is also intended for library and information
science students in the belief that the knowledge and techniques described will
be useful for them to guide and aid other social scientists in their research.
In addition, the techniques and issues are all directly relevant to library and
information science research problems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>General Of Table of Contents <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Introduction / Web Impact Assessment / Link Analysis / Blog
Searching / Automatic Search Engine Searches: LexiURL Searcher / Web Crawling:
SocSciBot / Search Engines and Data Reliability / Tracking User Actions Online
/ Advanced Techniques / Summary and Future Directions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sample Table Of Contents<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2. Web Impact Assessment<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.1 Web Impact Assessment Via Web Mentions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.2 Bespoke Web Citation Indexes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.3 Content Analysis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.3.1 Category Choices<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.3.2 Sampling Methods<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.3.3 Example<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.3.4 Validity<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.4 URL Analysis of the Spread of Results<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.5 Web Impact Reports<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.6 Web Citation Analysis—An Information Science Application<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.7 Advanced Web Impact Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Access To Detailed Table of Contents and Links To Publisher
Site And Open Access Versions Available At <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kv5rq7">http://tinyurl.com/kv5rq7</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Enjoy !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gerry McKiernan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Science and Technology Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa State University Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ames IA 50011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>gerrymck@iastate.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has
Come / Victor Hugo <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind
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