Key publications

This is a selection of my publications, representing my five main areas of interest. Most are recent, but I have included some older ones that still seem relevant. My full publication list is here.

Foundations of information science

  • D Bawden, Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science, Journal of Information Science, 2008, 34(4), 415-426, self-archived version here
  • L Robinson and D Bawden, Information (and library) science at City Universty London: fifty years of educational development, Journal of Information Science, 2010, 36(5), 618-630, a self-archived version is here
  • D Bawden, Organised complexity, meaning and understanding: an approach to a unified view of information for information science, Aslib Proceedings, 2007, 59(4/5), 307-327, self-archived version here
  • D Bawden, Information as self-organised complexity: a unifying viewpoint, Information Research, 2007, 12(4), paper colis31, available online here
  • D Bawden, Information seeking and information retrieval: the core of the information curriculum ?, Journal of Education for Library and information Science, 2007, 48(2), 125-138, self-archived version here
  • Information-related behaviour

  • D. Bawden, Brookes equation: the basis for a qualitative characterisation of information behaviours, Journal of Information Science, 2011, 37(1), 101-108, self-archived version here
  • D Bawden, Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments, in A Foster and P Rafferty (eds.), Innovations in IR: Perspectives for theory and practice, London: Facet Publishing, 2011, pages 1-22, self-archived version here
  • D Bawden and L Robinson, Individual differences in information-related behaviour: what do we know about information styles?, in A Spink and J Heinström (eds), New Directions in Information Behaviour, Bingley: Emerald, 2011, pages 127-158 pre-publication version here
  • D Bawden and L Robinson, The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies, Journal of Information Science, 2009, 35(2), 180-191 [this paper was the most downloaded from JIS during 2010], self-archived version here
  • D Bawden, Information systems and the stimulation of creativity, Journal of Information Science, 1986, 12(5), 203-216 [reprinted in Knowledge Management Tools, RL Ruggles (ed.), Butterworth-Heinnemann, Boston, 1997, pp 79-101], an online version is here
  • Subject specific information and knowledge organisation

  • D Bawden and L Robinson, Pharmaceutical information; a 30-year perspective on the literature, Annual Reviews of Information Science and Technology, 2010, 45, 63-119, self-archive pre-print is here
  • D Bawden, Classification of chemical reactions: potential, possibilities,and continuing relevance, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 1991, 31(2), 212-216, a self-archived version is here
  • D Bawden, The three worlds of health information, Journal of Information Science, 2002, 28(1), 51-62, the online version is here
  • D Bawden, Molecular dissimilarity in chemical information systems, in Chemical Structures 2, WA Warr (ed.), Springer Verlag, 1993, pages 383-388
  • Information history

  • T Weller and D Bawden, The social and technological origins of the information society: an analysis of the crisis of control in England, 1830-1890, Journal of Documentation, 2005, 61(6), 777-802, self-archived version here
  • D Bawden and L Robinson, A distant mirror ?; the Internet and the printing press, Aslib Proceedings, 2000, 52(2), 51-57, self-archived version here
  • T Weller and D Bawden, Individual perceptions: a new chapter on Victorian information history, Library History, 2006, 22(July 2006), 137-156, self-archived version here
  • D Bawden, The nature of prediction and the information future: Arthur C Clarke’s Odyssey vision, Aslib Proceedings, 1997, 49(3), 57-60, self-archived version here
  • Conceptual analysis

  • D Bawden, Origins and concepts of digital literacy, in Digital literacies: concepts, policies and paradoxes, C Lankshear and M Knobel (eds.), New York: Peter Lang, 2008, pages 17-32, self-archived version here
  • J Haider and D Bawden, Conceptions of ‘information poverty’ in library and information science: a discourse analysis, Journal of Documentation, 2007, 63(4), 534-557, self-archive version here
  • D Bawden, The shifting terminologies of information, Aslib Proceedings, 2001, 53(3), 93-98, self-archived version here
  • D Bawden, Information and digital literacies; a review of concepts, Journal of Documentation, 2001, 57(2), 218-259, self-archived version here
  • L Robinson and D Bawden, Libraries and open society: Popper, Soros and digital information, Aslib Proceedings, 2001, 53(5), 167-178, self-archived version here
  • ED Sheppard and D Bawden, More news, less knowledge ? An information content analysis of television and newspaper coverage of the Gulf War, International Journal of Information Management, 1997, 17(3), 211-228, self-archived version here
  • I Rowlands and D Bawden, Digital Libraries: a conceptual framework, Libri, 1999, 49(4), 192-202, self-archived version here

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