David Bawden (academic)

David Bawden is a British information science scholar. He is a professor in the department of Library and Information Science at City, University of London.[1] He is editor of the Journal of Documentation and has written or coauthored several books.

Education and career

Bawden received a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry from the University of Liverpool and a master's degree and PhD in information science from the University of Sheffield.[1][2] His doctoral thesis, completed in 1978, was titled Substructural analysis techniques for structure–property correlation within computerised chemical information systems.[3] He worked in industry as an information scientist for Pfizer before taking a position at City, University of London in 1990.[2][4] In 2002 he became editor of the Journal of Documentation.[5]

Selected publications

Books

  • Bawden, David (1990). User-Oriented Evaluation of Information Systems and Services. Aldershot: Gower. ISBN 978-0-566-05209-5.
  • Aitchison, Jean; Bawden, David; Gilchrist, Alan (1997). Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual (3rd ed.). London: ASLIB IMI. ISBN 978-0-85142-390-6.[6]
  • Bawden, David; Robinson, Lyn (2015). Introduction to Information Science. Facet Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85604-810-1.[7]
  • Pinfield, Stephen; Wakeling, Simon; Bawden, David; Robinson, Lyn (2020). Open Access in Theory and Practice: The Theory-Practice Relationship and Openness. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429276842. hdl:20.500.12657/39922. ISBN 978-0-429-27684-2. S2CID 218965825.[8]

Chapters and articles

References

  1. "Professor David Bawden". www.city.ac.uk. City, University of London. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  2. Bawden, David (7 April 2010). "Portrait of the Author as a Young Information Scientist". The Occasional Informationist. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  3. Bawden, David (1978). Substructural analysis techniques for structure–property correlation within computerised chemical information systems (PhD thesis). University of Sheffield.
  4. "Meet the editor of... Journal of Documentation". Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  5. "New Editorial Team". Journal of Documentation. 58 (4). August 2002. doi:10.1108/jd.2002.27858daa.001. ISSN 0022-0418.
  6. Reviews of Thesaurus Construction and Use, 3rd ed.: Reviews of the fourth edition:
  7. Reviews of Introduction to Information Science: Reviews of the second edition:
  8. Reviews of Open Access in Theory and Practice:
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