Julian Warner is a graduate of the universities of Newcastle, Oxford, and Sheffield. He has been a faculty member in information science at the Queen's University of Belfast since 1984. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Library and Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
His research interests are linked to economics by a current project developing an information view of history, which includes understandings of information technology, assimilates a previous, and continuing, research theme, semiotics, writing, and computing, and draws on historical studies of copyright. Other research interests include;
Information Retrieval, Diffusion Studies, and Research evaluation represent linked interests.
Labour in Information Systems.
Information Sources.
Doctoral supervision is available in all these areas.

Recent Publications

• So mechanical or routine: the not original in Feist. (PDF 832 KB)
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. (2009)
• Human Information Retrieval. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, November 2009. (PDF 541 KB)
  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. (2009)
• A labor theoretic approach to information retrieval. (DOC 156 KB)
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 59, 5, 2008, pp.731-741. (2008)
• Organs of the human brain, created by the human hand? The social epistemology of information technology.
  Journal of Documentation. 64,5, 2008, pp.738-359. (2008)
• Analogies between linguistics and information theory.
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58, 3, 2007, pp.309-321. (2007)
• Description and search labor for information retrieval. (DOC 103 KB)
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58, 12, 2007, pp.1783-1790. (2007)
• Selection power and selection labor for information retrieval. (DOC 179 KB)
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58, 7, 2007, pp.915-923. (2007)
• Linguistics and information theory: analytic advantages.
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58, 2, 2007, pp.275-285. (2006)
• Labor in information systems.
  Annual review of information science and technology. 39, 2005, pp.551-573. (2005)
• Humanizing Information Technology.
  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. (2004)
• Information, Knowledge, Text
  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. (2001)
• A critical review of the application of citation studies to the Research Assessment Exercises.
  Journal of Information Science. 26, 6, 2000, pp.453-460. (2000)
• The public reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996.
  Aslib Proceedings. 49, 10, 1997, pp.263-276. (1997)
• From Writing to Computers. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
  London and New York: Routledge, 1994.xi, 159p. ISBN 0-415-09612-X. (1994)
• Writing and literary work in copyright: a binational and historical analysis.
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 44, 6, 1993, pp.307-321. (1993)

Working Papers

• The Absence of Creativity in Feist and the Computational Process

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