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Indiana University Bloomington
Shaw

Debora Shaw, Ph.D.

Professor of Library and Information Science
Bloomington campus
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Research Interests

Research interests include information seeking and use by humanities scholars and other specialized user groups; and design and impact of electronic information sources.

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1983

Courses Taught at SLIS

Publications

Pierce, J. B., & Shaw, D. (2005). Looking for love in all the wrong places: Accessing sexual and reproductive health information via the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Library & Information Science Research, 27(4), 467-484.

Vaughan, L., & Shaw, D. (2005). Web citation data for impact assessment: A comparison of four science disciplines. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(10), 1075-1087.

Cronin, B., Shaw, D., & La Barre, K. (2003). A cast of thousands: Co-authorship and sub-authorship in the twentieth century as manifested in the scholarly journal literature of psychology and philosophy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54, 855-871.

Cronin, B. & Shaw, D. (2001). Identity-creators and image-makers: Using citation analysis and thick description to put authors in their place. Scientometrics, 54, 31-49.

Shaw, D. (2001). Playing the links: interactivity and stickiness in .com and "not.com" web sites. FirstMonday, 6 (3). Available at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/shaw/index.html

Cronin, B. & Shaw, D. (1999). Citation, funding acknowledgment and author nationality relationships in four information science journals. Journal of Documentation, 55, 402-408.

Shaw, D. & Davis, C.H. (1996). The Modern Language Association: electronic and paper surveys of computer-based tool use. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 932-940.

Shaw, D. (1996). Undergraduate use of CD-ROM databases: observations of human-computer interaction and relevance judgments. Library & Information Science Research, 18, 261-274.

Shaw, D. (1995). Bibliographic database searching by graduate students in language and literature: search strategies, system interfaces, and relevance judgments. Library & Information Science Research, 17, 327-345.

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