Allen Foster & Pauline Rafferty 
Innovations in Information Retrieval [PDF ebook] 
Perspectives for Theory and Practice

Foreword – Ina Fourie
Introduction – Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty
1. Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments – David Bawden
2. Classification revisited: a web of knowledge – Aida Slavic
3. Approaches to fiction retrieval research: from theory to practice? – Anat Vernitski and Pauline Rafferty 4. Music information retrieval research – Charlie Inskip
5. Folksonomies, social tagging and information retrieval – Isabella Peters
6. Digital information interaction as semantic navigation – Richard Kopak, Luanne Freund and Heather L. O’Brien
7. Assessing web search engines: a webometric approach – Mike Thelwall

Dr Allen Foster BA MSc is Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University. He holds a Ph D in information behaviour from the University of Sheffield, where he was also involved in research projects for a numbers of years. Dr Pauline Rafferty MA (Hons) MSc MCLIP is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning at the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University. She previously taught at the Department of Information Science, City University London, and in the School of Information Studies