Terrence Brooks, University of Washington.   The Semantic Distance Model of Relevance Assessment.

Yin Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   Accessibility to Internetbased Electronic Resources: Dimensions and its Implications for Electronic Scholarship.

R. David Lankes, Syracuse University.    The Virtual Reference Desk: Building Human Expertise into Information Systems.

Bob Travica, Indiana University.   The Business Web in the Central and Eastern Europe: Usability for the Western User.

Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University.   Web-based Community Networks: a Study of Information Organization and Access.

Kwong B. Ng, Rutgers University.   Using Scheme Dissimilarity to Improve Data Fusion for Information Retrieval In Global Libraries.

Steven L. MacCall and William B. Edgar, both University of Alabama.  Patterns of Professional Practice in Digital Library Collections.

Ann P. Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.    Digital Libraries and the Disaggregation of Knowledge: an Investigation of the Use of Journal Article Components by Researchers.

Judy Bateman, University of North Texas.  Relevance Criteria Uses and Importance: Development of a Measurement Scale.

Tula Giannini, Catholic University.  Information Receiving: a Primary Mode of the Information Process.

Wei Ding and Gary Marchionini, both University of Maryland.   Overviews and Previews for Multimedia Instructional Resources.

Marilyn White, University of Maryland.   The Elimination Decision Rule in Relevance Judgments.

Louise T. Su and Hsinliang Chen, both University of Pittsburgh.  Evaluation of Webbased Search Engines from the Endusers Perspectives: A Pilot Study.

Alicia Abramson, American University.  Monitoring and Evaluating Use of the World Wide Web in an Academic Library  an Exploratory Study.

Migual Ruiz and Padmini Srinivasan, both University of Iowa.  Experiments with Crosslanguage Information Retrieval.

Paul B. Kantor, Rutgers University.  A Novel Approach to Evaluating the Efficiency of Research Libraries.

Min Song, Indiana University.  Can Visualizing Document Space Improve Users' Information Foraging?

Carol A. Hert, Indiana University, and Gary Machionini, University of Maryland.  Information Seeking Behavior on Statistical Websites: Theoretical and Design Implications.

Misha Vaughan, Indiana University.  The Role of Genre in Shaping Our Comprehension of Digital Documents.

Peiling Wang, Carol Tenopir, Elizabeth Layman, David Penniman, and Shawn Collins, all University of Tennessee, Knoxville.   An Exploratory Study of Userweb Interaction: a Holistic Approach.

James M. Turner, Universite de Montreal.  Some Characteristics of Audio Description and the Corresponding Moving Image.

Stuart A. Sutton, David Lankes, Ruth Small and Michael Eisenberg, all Syracuse University.  Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval for Educational Materials on the Internet: Metadata Development, Deployment, and Evolution.

Paul B. Kantor, Kyunghye Kim and Gary Golden, all Rutgers University.  Adaptive Pricing of Information Services in Networked Environments: Simulation Models and Empirical Results.

Paul B. Kantor and Wonsik Shim, both Rutgers University.  Circulation as Interaction: The Square Root Law and its Interpretation.

Thomas E. Nisonger, Indiana University.  Journal Self-citation in Library and Information Science and Genetics Journal Rankings.

Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull, all University of Toronto.  A Behavioral Model of Information Seeking on the Web  Preliminary Results of a Study of How Mangers and it Specialist Use the Web.

Brian Detlor, University of Toronto.  Facilitating Organizational Information Access in Global Network Environments: Towards a New Framework for Intranet Design.

Amanda Spink, University of North Texas.  A Study Investigating the Region of Relevance.

Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe.  Problems and Approaches to Cross Language Information Retrieval.

Gregory B. Newby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  An Information Access Model with a Unified Approach to Data Type, Retrieval Mechanism and Information Need.

David B. Robins, Louisiana State University.  Dynamics of Information Retrieval Interaction: Implications of Shifts of Focus for Theory and Practice.

Abby Goodrum, Drexel University.  Representing Moving Images: Implications for Developers of Digital Video Collections.

David B. Robins, Louisiana State University.  Libraries as Open Systems for Information Access in the Global Economy: Implications for LIS Education and the Future of Libraries

Jose A. Pino, University of Chile.  Information Access for a Deep Democracy.

Laura Neumann and Emily Ignacio, both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Trial and Error as a Strategy for Learning Systems.

P. Bryon Heidorn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Prototypes and Idealizations in Natural Language Shape Descriptions.

Shaojun Lu, University of California, Los Angeles. The Transition to the Virtual World in Formal Scholarly Communication: A Comparative Study of the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences.

Kim Gregson, Indiana University. Conversation & Community or Sequential Monologues: an Analysis of Politically Oriented Newsgroups.

Stephanie W. Haas and Erika Grams, both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  A Link Taxonomy for Web Pages.

Herbert Snyder and Howard Rosenbaum, both Indiana University.  How Public Is the Web? Robots, Access, and Scholarly Communication.

Steven L. MacCall, University of Alabama. Relevance Reliability in Cyberspace: Toward Measurement Theory for Internet Information Retrieval.

Soo Young Rieh and Nicholas J. Belkin, both Rutgers University. Understanding Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the WWW.

Dennis Ward, University of Alberta.  A Shelf Browsing Search Systems for Marginalized User Groups.

Sandra G. Hirsh,  University of Arizona.  Relevance Determinations in Children's Use of Electronic Library Catalogs.

Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh.  Global Access and its Implications: the Use of Mailing List by Librarians.