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Overview
The third edition of this book will reach across disciplines and address the needs of not only those who study, evaluate, and purchase health information, but also computer and library/information scientists, information technology developers building databases, search engines, Web sites, and other systems for universities and hospitals who enthusiastically read the first two editions. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Concepts, State of the Art and Research Directories.
Major changes to the this edition will include a new chapter in the State of the Art section on Digital Libraries and a new focus on areas related to information retrieval systems covering such topics as electronic publishing of journals and other scientific materials, emerging standards, open access publishing issues, digital preservation, that summarize and categorize documents to handle the vast amount of information that is now available. Web updates, which include keeping track of new systems, technologies, studies, are folded into the third edition to show the advancement from 1996 to present time.
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Reviewer: Mary J. Jarvis, B.A., M.L.S., M(West Texas A & M University)Description: The author traces the background of information retrieval in the health sciences, the most effective methods of retrieval, and research in the field. The first edition of this book, with a slightly different title (Information Retrieval: A Health Care Perspective), was published in 1996, while the second edition was published in 2003.
Purpose: This book provides "an understanding of the theory, implementation, and evaluation of information retrieval systems in health and biomedicine." Each of the nine chapters provides an overview of such topics as indexing, retrieval, digital libraries, and system and user research. The emphasis is on the usefulness of retrieval systems in the health sciences.
Audience: The book has two audiences, information specialists and practitioners, and shows both the most effective ways of doing research. The author, professor and chair of the department of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at Oregon Health Sciences University since 1990, has made significant contributions to the fields of biomedical and health informatics. His publications in the field are numerous and he has participated in the Text Retrieval Conferences.
Features: "This book looks at the broad field of health sciences information - literature, online journals, clinical trial information, images, aggregations, and other similar areas — and gives excellent suggestions for getting to the best information available. Topics include indexing, retrieval techniques, digital libraries, evidence-based medicine, sources of information, and areas for research and evaluation. Tables and screenshots of web pages are extremely useful. "
Assessment: Because of the advances in online information retrieval since the second edition, this is a needed update, to bring both information specialists and researchers the latest in the best research techniques. It will be kept up to date with the website http://www.irbook.info.
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William Hersh, M.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He also has academic appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Hersh is a professor and chief of the division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research and has developed a course built around the first edition. He has contributed to Shortliffe's Biomedical Informatics in with a chapter on information retrieval.
Table of Contents
I. Basic Concepts. 1. Terms, Models and Resources. 2. Health and Biomedical Information. 3. System Evaluation. II. State of the Art. 4. Content. 5. Indexing. 6. Retrieval. 7. Digital Libraries. 8. Evaluation. III. Research Directions. 9. System-oriented Research. 10. User–oriented Research. 11. Beyond Retrieval: Categorization, Summarization, Extraction and Mining.