Peter Jacso

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Education

Doctorate in Political Science and Jurisprudence, 1979, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Systems Analysis, 1984, International Computer Educational & Information Center, Budapest

MLIS, 1994, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Hawaii

Professional Background

Director of the Computer Science Library & Information Center, International Computer Education and Information Center, Budapest

Fields of Interest

Citation Indexing & Analysis
Digital Librarianship
Database Design and Evaluation
Online Information Systems
Database Publishing
Digital Copyright

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Current Research Interests

Citation-enhanced databases
Database content evaluation using bibliometric methods
Search engines and user interfaces
Database publishing

Recent Courses Taught

LIS 663 Basic Database Searching
LIS 675 Database Content Evaluation
LIS 671 Digital Librarianship
LIS 664 Abstracting & Indexing for Information Services
LIS 674 Database Design & Creation
LIS 667 Advanced Database Searching
LIS 694 Special Topics in Information Technology: Multimedia Databases
LIS 694 Database Publishing

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Awards and Honors

Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence - Outstanding Service Award 2007
SMARTer Kids Educational Grant from NEC, 2002
American Society for Information Science & Technology and Institute for Scientific Information: Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, 1999
Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa, 1999
Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award for excellence in the reviewing of databases for the library community, ALA, 1998
ALISE Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award in Library and Information Studies, ALISE, 1998
Knight-Ridder DIALOG Essay Competition, Second Prize, 1997
ISA Research Grant, 1995 Excellence in Writing Award, UMI, 1993
Electronic Library Best Paper of the Year Award, Learned Information Ltd. and GEAC, 1990

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Selected Publications  see complete list here

Trends in Professional and Academic Online Information Services. Keynote Address at INFORUM 13th Conference on Professional Information Resources, 22-24 May, 2007. Prague, Czech Republic.

Clustering Search Results - The Synergy of Metasearching and Clustering. Online Information Review 31(3) 2007, p. 376-382.

CSA Illustrata, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Cambridge Journals Online. Online, Peter's Picks and Pans, 31(3), 2007, p. 53-56.

Web of Science GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, Jan, 2007.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, Oct, 2006.

Open Access Scholarly Databases - A Bird's Eye View of the Landscape. [Keynote Address at Asia & Oceania Section] IFLANET, World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea.

Scopus revisited GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, June, 2006.

Open Access to Scholarly Full Text Documents. Online Information Review 30(5) 2006, p. 587-594.

Windows Live Academic GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf. May, 2006.

Evaluation of citation enhanced scholarly databases. Journal of Information Processing and Management, 48(2), March 2006. Japan Science and Technology Agency, p. 763-774. (in Japanese)

Deflated, Inflated and Phantom Citation Counts. Online Information Review 30(3) 2006, p. 297-309.

Dubious Hit Counts and Cuckoo's Eggs. Online Information Review 30(2) 2006, p. 188-193.

Comparison and Analysis of the Citedness Scores in Web of Science and Google Scholar. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL.  Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 360-369.

Amazon GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, Dec, 2005.

As We May Search - Comparison of Major Features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar Citation-based and Citation-enhanced Databases. Current Science 89(9), 2005, p. 1537-1547.

Google Scholar (Redux) GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, June, 2005.

Relevance in the Eye of the Search Software. Online Information Review 29(6) 2005, p. 676-682.

HighWire Press Archive (preview version) GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, June, 2005.

New York Times Book Review Archives GaleNet - Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, May, 2005.

Google Scholar: the Pros and the Cons. Online Information Review 29(2) 2005, p. 208-214.

Citedness Scores for Filtering Information & Ranking Search Result. Online Information Review 28(5) 2004, p. 371-376.

Proxy Searching of Non-searchable and Poorly Searchable Open Access Archives of Digital Scholarly Journals.. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL. Kuala Lumpur, December 8-12, 2003. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. p. 552-555.

Digital Copyright and “CopyWrong”. Computers in Libraries 22(5) May, 2002, p. 35-38.

Content Evaluation of Textual CD-ROM and Web Databases. Englewood: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.

A Deficiency in the Algorithm for Calculating the Impact Factor of Scholarly Journals: The Journal Impact Factor. Cortex 37(4), 2001, p. 590-594.

Treatment of Digital Journals in Library and Information Science Databases. Online 25(4) July/August, 2001, p. 46-49, 51.

Build Your Own Database. [co-authored with F. Wilfrid Lancaster] Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.

Analyzing the Journal Coverage of Abstracting/Indexing Databases at Variable Aggregate and Analytical Levels. Library & Information Science Research 20(2) 1998, p. 133-151.

Content Evaluation of Databases. In Annual Review of Information Science Technology. Silver Spring: American Society for Information Science. Vol. 32, Chapter 5. 1997, p. 231-267.

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