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Alastair Smith

Senior Lecturer,
School of Information Management

Phone: 04 463 5785
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Street Address: Room 426, Rutherford House 23 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
Nearest Fax: 04 463 5446

Alastair Smith

Currently Teaching

INFO 523 - Information Resources and Client Services
Course Coordinator

Introduction

Alastair teaches in the areas of information technology, information retrieval, and digital libraries. His research interests are in the application of computers and networks to information retrieval of document-based information, in particular expert systems, resource discovery on the World Wide Web, evaluation of information resources, digital libraries, webometrics (the application of bibliometric techniques to the World Wide Web), and online teaching. Before joining Victoria University, Alastair worked on the development of online information services at the National Library and the Building Research Association of New Zealand, and in scientific and technical information work.

Qualifications

BSc, Auckland; MA, DipTchg, DipNZLS, Wellington; FLIANZA

Administrative Responsibilities

Current Research

Investigating the types of links made between websites, and reasons for linking, in order to have better understanding of Web link counts as a measure of importance of websites.

Selected Publications

Smith A. (2011). Wikipedia and institutional repositories: an academic symbiosis? In Ed Noyons, Patrick Ngulube and Jacqueline Leta (Eds), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics (pp. 794-800). Kwadlangezwa, South Africa.

Chambers, G. K., Gardner, J. P. A. & Smith, A. G. (2010). Publish and perish: A new look at bibliometric statistics in the PBRF age. New Zealand Science Review, 67(4), 106-113.

Smith, A. G. (2009). Institutional repositories: for scholars, or for the rest of us? Presentation to the National Digital Forum 2009 Wellington, 23-24 November 2009.

Smith, A. G. (2008). Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment exercise. Scientometrics, 74(2), 309-316.

Elgort, I., Smith, A., Toland, J. (2008). Is wiki an effective platform for group course work? Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 24(2), 195-210.

Smith, A. G. (2007). Information sources. In S. Ferguson (Ed.), Libraries in the Twenty-first Century: Charting New Directions in Information Services (pp. 107-121). Wagga Wagga, NSW: Centre for Information Studies.

Smith, A. (2007). Issues in 'blogmetrics' - case studies using BlogPulse to observe trends in weblogs. In Daniel Torres-Salinas and Henk F. Moed (Eds.), Proceedings of 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and
Informetrics (pp. 726-730). Madrid, Centre for Scientific Information and Documentation.

Smith, A. G. (2005). Citations and links as a measure of effectiveness of online LIS journals. IFLA Journal, 31(1), 76-84.

Smith, A. G. (2004). Searching for NZ information in the virtual library. Electronic Library, 22(6), 492-497.

Smith, A. G. (2003). "Think local, search global? Comparing search engines for searching geographically specific information." Online Information Review, 27(2): 102-109.

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