- IDEALS Home
- →
- School of Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
The School of Information Sciences at Illinois is recognized as a premier institution, consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top library and information science schools. For more than 120 years, the iSchool has prepared students for careers as leaders in information professions and research. As one of the oldest LIS schools in the country, the School was instrumental in developing the methods used in library and information science today. Our faculty, staff, and students are leaders in the field, recognized for their expertise and the impact of their scholarly contributions. Drawing on the resources of the University as well as on collaborations with scholars around the world and corporate sector partners, our researchers conduct research in a variety of areas including data science, information retrieval, librarianship, and much more, using multidisciplinary approaches to address key global challenges found at the intersection of people, information, and technology.
Browse Sub-communities
-
Research and publications from the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
-
Publications and Research from the Community Informatics Research Lab
-
Lightning talks and posters from the iSchool at Illinois' annual master's student showcase
-
Presentations and lectures sponsored by the School
-
Publications of the iSchool Publications Office
-
A new digital scholarly publishing initiative from the University of Illinois.
-
Publications and research, including dissertations and theses, of iSchool students
Browse Collections of Items
-
Presentations, publications, and curriculum material for the DCEP at the iSchool
-
Articles, papers, and other research and scholarship from iSchool faculty and staff
Browse by
Recent Additions
-
(ceur-ws.org, 2020-01-06)With the significant development of mobile commerce, the integration of physical, social, and cyber worlds is increasingly common. The term Cyber Physical Social Systems is used to capture technology’s human-centric role. ...
application/pdf
PDF (3MB)
-
(2018-04-17)Understanding the reasoning of papers can help assess their quality, and could make it easier to translate or reuse scientific research. We analyzed the reasoning of the paper “Propagation of Tau Pathology in a Model of ...
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(2019-06-11)Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) use free or low-fee short courses to increase access to education both in the United States and internationally. Since the University of Illinois partnered with the MOOC provider Coursera ...
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(2019-07-09)This dissertation makes three contributions in the area of controlled vocabulary prediction of Medical Subject Headings. The first contribution is a new partial matching measure based on distributional semantics. The second ...
application/pdf
PDF (4MB)
-
(2019-06-28)This dissertation focuses on standards for digital video - the social aspects of their design and the sociotechnical forces that drive their development and adoption. This work is a history and analysis of how the MXF, ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)