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pertinence: a standalone construct

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pertinence1 CONSTRUCTPertinenceKEMP · LIBRARY AND INFORMATION

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Library and information science

the relation between a document and a user's own information need at a given time, distinguished from relevance to the stated request.

In library and information science, pertinence refers to the relation between a document and a user's own information need at a given time, distinguished from relevance to the stated request. This meaning comes from Kemp (1974) in Information Storage and Retrieval.[1]

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document1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone constructinformation need1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructinformation4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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  1. Kemp, D. A. (1974). Relevance, pertinence and information system development. Information Storage and Retrieval, 10(2), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0271(74)90002-3

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