While the preprint texts here are in or close to their the final form as published, you may need to refer to the original publication for pagination information.
Nicholson, S. (2007). The Role of Gaming in Libraries: Taking the Pulse. White paper published July 23, 2007 at http://boardgameswithscott.com/pulse2007.pdf
Nicholson, S. & Smith, C.A. (2007). Using lessons from health care to protect the privacy of library users: Guidelines for the de-identification of library data based on HIPAA. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8), 1198-1206. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2006). Approaching librarianship from the data: Using Bibliomining for evidence-based librarianship. Library Hi-Tech 24(3). 369-375. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2006). The Basis for Bibliomining: Frameworks for Bringing Together Usage-Based Data Mining and Bibliometrics through Data Warehousing in Digital Library Services. Information Processing and Management 42(3), 785-804.HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2006, January 15). Proof is in the Pattern. Library Journal netConnect, Supplement to Library Journal, Winter 2006. 2-6. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2003). Avoiding the Great Data-Wipe of Ought-Three. American Libraries, 34(9), p. 36. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2003) The Bibliomining process: Data warehousing and data mining for library decision-making. Information Technology and Libraries 22 (4). 4-9. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. & Stanton, J. (2003). Gaining strategic advantage through bibliomining: Data mining for management decisions in corporate, special, digital, and traditional libraries. In Nemati, H. & Barko, C. (Eds.). Organizational data mining: Leveraging enterprise data resources for optimal performance. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. 247-262. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2003). Bibliomining for automated collection development in a digital library setting: Using data mining to discover Web-based scholarly research works. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54(12). 1081-1090. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2005). Digital library archeology: A conceptual framework for understanding library use through artifact-based evaluation. The Library Quarterly 75(4), 496-520. HTML PDF
Short and generalized version of the above: Nicholson, S. (2005). A framework for Internet archeology: Discovering use patterns in digital library and Web–based information resources. First Monday 10(2). Available online at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/nicholson/index.html. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2004). A
conceptual framework for the holistic measurement and cumulative evaluation
of library services. Journal
of Documentation 60(2). 164-182
Kaarst-Brown, M., Nicholson, S., von Dran, G. & Stanton, J. (2004). Organizational cultures of libraries as a strategic resource. Library Trends 53(1), 33–53. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S., Sierra, T., Eseryel, U., Park, J., Barkow, P., Pozo, E., and Ward, J. (2006). How much of it is real? Analysis of paid placement in Web search engine results. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 57(4). 448-461. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2000). Raising reliability of Web search tool research through replication and chaos theory. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(8), 724-729. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2000). A proposal for categorization and nomenclature for Web search tools. Internet Searching and Indexing: The Subject Approach, ed. Thomas, A. and Shearer, J. 9-28. (also published in Journal of Internet Cataloging, 2(3/4), 9-28, 2000). HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (1997). Indexing and abstracting on the World Wide Web: An examination of six Web databases. Information Technology and Libraries 16(2). 73-81. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (1997). Using the Internet for fast facts. Internet Trend Watch for Libraries (defunct e-journal) 2(8). HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R. D. (2007). The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project: Creating the infrastructure for digital reference research through a multi-disciplinary knowledge base. Reference and User Services Quarterly 46 (3) 45-59. .HTML PDF
Lavender, K., Nicholson, S., & Pomerantz, J. (2005, March). Building bridges for collaborative digital reference between libraries and museums through an examination of reference in special collections.Journal of Academic Librarianship 31(2), 106-118. HTML PDF
Pomerantz, J., Nicholson, S., Belanger, Y., & Lankes, R. D. (2004). The current state of digital reference: Validation of a general digital reference model through a survey of digital reference services. Information Processing & Management. 40(2), 347-363. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2003). Exploring the Future of Digital Reference through Scenario Planning. In Lankes, R.D., Nicholson, S., & Goodrum, A. (Eds.). The Digital Reference Research Agenda, Publications in Librarianship no. 55. HTML PDF
Pomerantz, J., Nicholson, S., & Lankes, R. D. (2003). Digital reference triage: An investigation using the Delphi method into the factors influencing question routing and assignment. The Library Quarterly 73(2). 103-120. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (2005). Understanding the foundation: The state of generalist search education in library schools as related to the needs of expert searchers in medical libraries. Journal of the Medical Library Association 93(1). 58-65. HTML PDF
- Note: A portion of the above work was used for a presentation at the 2005 ALISE conference called Seeking a Core Literature: The Current State of Search Education in Top LIS Schools (Handout in PDF)
Nicholson, S. (2002). Socialization in the "virtual hallway": Instant messaging in the asynchronous Web-based distance education classroom. The Internet and Higher Education 5(4). 363-372. HTML PDF
Lankes, R.D., Silverstein, J., and Nicholson, S. (forthcoming 2008). Participatory Networks: The library as conversation. Information Technology and Libraries.
Nicholson, S. (2006). Writing your First Scholarly
Article: A Guide for Budding Authors in Librarianship. Information
Technology and Libraries 25(2)
108-111. HTML PDF
Nicholson, S. (1998). GIF versus JPEG: Choosing a graphics
compression format
for Web publications. Information Technology and Libraries 17(2). 109-110.
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