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Subject: [Web4lib] New Open Access Book: _Introduction to Webometrics:
Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences_ 

Colleagues/

 

A Major/Major New Book !

 

/Gerry

 

Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social
Sciences / Michael Thelwall‌ / Morgan & Claypool Publishers / 2009 / 116 pp.
/ doi:10.2200/S00176ED1V01Y200903ICR004 / ISBN-10: 159829993X ; ISBN-13:
978-1598299939

 

Abstract

 

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). 

 

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). 

 

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.

 

General Of Table of Contents 

 

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

 

Sample Table Of Contents

 

2. Web Impact Assessment

2.1 Web Impact Assessment Via Web Mentions

2.2 Bespoke Web Citation Indexes

2.3 Content Analysis

2.3.1 Category Choices

2.3.2 Sampling Methods

2.3.3 Example

2.3.4 Validity

2.4 URL Analysis of the Spread of Results

2.5 Web Impact Reports

2.6 Web Citation Analysis—An Information Science Application

2.7 Advanced Web Impact Studies

 

Access To Detailed Table of Contents and Links To Publisher Site And Open
Access Versions Available At 

 

[ http://tinyurl.com/kv5rq7 ]

 

Enjoy !

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

 

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