Purpose – Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the similarity between the text of scientific abstracts and the body of articles, using sentences as the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is first to provide a critical conceptual discussion of different use of the notion of text, especially in the case of expressions including words as well as images, second to consider the notion of document as an alternative to the notion of text, and...

Purpose – Google Scholar (GS) has shed the beta label on the fifth anniversary of launching its service. This paper aims to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – As good as GS is – through its keyword search option – to find information about tens of millions of documents,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the global text project (GTP) case. The unique developments of the case provide insight of the many challenges and opportunities created within the open source movement. Design/methodology/approach – A case study was used to illustrate some...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of relevance in full‐text patent document searches from the viewpoint of end‐users in science and technology. It aims to present three cases of patent document analysis for relevance, with an additional case of improved search...

Purpose – Automated sentence‐level relevance and novelty detection would be of direct benefit to many information retrieval systems. However, the low level of agreement between human judges performing the task is an issue of concern. In previous approaches, annotators were asked to identify...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how some companies are scanning books to make the text fully searchable. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses several cases of scanning books and fully searchable text. Findings – By making so much forgotten text searchable, accessible...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the theoretical/conceptual development and application of weblog‐textmining to fashion forecasting in general and street fashion trending in particular. Design/methodology/approach – The current methods of forecasting cannot keep pace with...

Purpose – This study aims to present the digital library Galician virtual library (BVG, for “Biblioteca Virtual Galega”) in Galician. Design/methodology/approach – The paper shows the objectives pursued by the BVG, its development, putting special emphasis on the main technological...

Purpose – Scholarly monographs are a major information resource in the humanities. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases and library catalogues (OPACs) for subject retrieval of these monographs. Design/methodology/approach – A...