Alastair G. Smith: Publications 

• Monographs
• Monograph Chapters
• Journal Articles (refereed)
• Journal Articles (non-refereed)
• Conference Papers (refereed)
• Presentations/ non-refereed conference papers
• Columns

Monographs

• Smith, Alastair G. (1980). Bibliography for Westland National Park. Wellington: Department of Lands and Survey.
• Smith, Alastair G. (1990). A tutorial introduction to CDS/ISIS. Wellington: VUW Dept of Library and Information Studies.
• Smith, Alastair; Pattie, Gale; Mosley, Isobel (eds) (1996). Libraries on the Net: NZ progress and challenges. Wellington: NZLIA.

Monograph Chapters

• Davies, Roy; Smith, Alastair G.; Morris, Anne (1992). Expert systems in reference work. In: Morris, Anne, ed. The application of expert systems. London: Bowker-Saur. p.91-132.
• Smith, A. G. (2002). Evaluation of digital collections. In G. E. Gorman (Ed.), The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services: International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2002-2003 (pp. 261-281). London: Facet.
• Smith, A. G. (2007). Information sources. In S. Ferguson (Ed.), Libraries in the twenty-first century: charting new directions in information services (pp. 107-121). Wagga Wagga, NSW: Centre for Information Studies.

Journal Articles (refereed)

• Smith, Alastair G. (1997) Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8, no. 3 http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html
• Smith, Alastair G. (1999) A tale of two web spaces: comparing sites using web impact factors. Journal of Documentation 55 (5):577-592
• Smith, Alastair G. (2000) Search features of digital libraries. Information Research 5(3) http://informationr.net/ir/5-3/paper73.html
• Smith, Alastair G. (2001). Applying evaluation criteria to New Zealand government websites. International Journal of Information Management 21(2): 137-149.
• Smith, Alastair; Thelwall, Mike (2002) Web Impact Factors for Australasian Universities. Scientometrics 54(1/2): 363-380. [see the ISI "Hot Papers" listing for this article]
• Thelwall, M., & Smith, A. (2002). Interlinking between Asia-Pacific University Web sites. Scientometrics, 55(3), 363-376.
• Smith, A. G. (2003). Think local, search global? Comparing search engines for searching geographically specific information. Online Information Review, 27(2): 102-109.
• Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L., Cothey, V., Li, X., & Smith, A. G. (2003). Which academic subjects have most online impact? A pilot study and a new classification process. Online Information Review, 27(5), 333-343.
• Smith, A.G. (2004). Online learning for Digital Librarians. Education for Information 22(1): 23-30
• Smith, A. G. (2004). Web links as analogues of citations. Information Research, 9(4). http://informationr.net/ir/9-4/paper188.html
• Smith, A. G. (2004). Searching for NZ information in the virtual library. Electronic Library, 22(6), 492 - 497.
• Smith, A. G. (2005). Citations and Links as a Measure of Effectiveness of Online LIS Journals. IFLA Journal, 31(1), 76-84. [Most downloaded paper, 2006]
• Smith, A. G. (2008). Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment exercise. Scientometrics, 74(2), 309-316.
• Elgort, I., Smith, A. G., & Toland, J. (2008). Is wiki an effective platform for group course work? Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 24(2), 195-210. http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet24/ajet24.html
  
• Chambers, G. K., Gardner, J. P. A., & Smith, A. G. (2010). Publish and perish: A new look at bibliometric statistics in the PBRF age.New Zealand Science Review, 67(4), 106-113.

Journal Articles (non-refereed)

• Smith, Alastair G. (1985). Development of the BRANZ Library Database. New Zealand Libraries 44(12), p.237-238.
• Smith, Alastair G. (July/August 1991). Kiwinet Advisor: a knowledge base for the selection of online databases. LASIE 22(1):4-17.
• Smith, Alastair G. (1994). Librarians and the web: a report on a study tour. LASIE July/August - September/October 1994 25(1/2):4-15.
• Smith, Alastair G. (1994) South Seas BUBL: an information service for the New Zealand library and information community. New Zealand Libraries 47(11):210-212
• Smith, Alastair G. (1995). The Internet and law librarians: will the Internet be the electronic library of the future? New Zealand Law Librarian 1(2):65-68.
• Smith, Alastair G.; Sullivan, Robert (1996). Maori Electronic information: issues and resources. New Zealand Libraries 48(6): 111-118.

Conference Papers (refereed)

• Fowkes, A.H.R.; Dechapunya, A.H.; Smith, A.G. (1986). The development of the BRANZ computerised information service. In: Advancing Building Technology. CIB 86: Proceedings of the Triennial Congress of the International Council for Building Research, Studies and Documentation (10th:1986:Washington DC).
• Smith, Alastair G. (1992). Expert systems in reference work:robot at the reference desk, or electronic Walford?. In: Libraries: the heart of the Matter. Proceedings of the Australian Library and Information Association 2nd Biennial Conference, Albury-Wodonga, NSW-Vic, 27 Sept- 2 Oct 1992. p.337-340.
• Smith, Alastair G. (1992). NZRef: a rule-based reference advisory system. In: Intelligent library systems: papers from the Intelligent Library Systems Conference, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 25-27 Sept 1992. p.39-51.
• Smith, Alastair G. (1994) South Seas BUBL: a WWW information service for Library and Information Studies In: Electronic proceedings of the second international WWW Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago IL, 17-20 October 1994 URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/IT94Info.html
• Smith, Alastair G. (1994). World-Wide Web: using distributed hypertext to create a scientific virtual library. In: Proceedings of the Conference of the Association of Scientific and Technical Communicators, Wellington 7-8 July 1994.
• Smith, Alastair (1997). Fishing with new nets: Maori Internet information resources and implications of the Internet for indigenous peoples. Paper presented at INET'97, Kuala Lumpur, 24-27 June 1997. http://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_1.HTM.
• Smith, Alastair G. (1998) Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Resources in a Digital Library Environment. In: Proceedings of the First Asia Digital Library Workshop, Hong Kong, 6 - 7 August 1998.
• Smith, Alastair (1999). ANZAC webometrics: exploring Australasian Web structures. In Proceedings of Information Online and On Disc 99: Strategies for the next millennium. Sydney, Australia, 19-21 January 1999[Sydney]:ALIA, 1999. Pp 159-181. Also available at http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online99/proceedings99/203b.htm.
• Smith, Alastair G.(1999)The Impact of Web sites: a comparison between Australasia and Latin America. In Proceedings of INFO'99, Congreso Internacional de Informacion, Havana, 4-8 October 1999. Also available at  http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/publns/austlat/
• Smith, Alastair G.(1999) Discovery Downunder: Choosing Search Engines for Australasian Topics . In Proceedings of Auckland '99 LIANZA Conference Nov 9 -12 1999. Also available at http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/conf99/smith.htm
• Smith, Alastair G.(2000) Managing Gigabytes and Cellulose: New Directions in Library and Information Education. In Proceedings of LIANZA 2000, Christchurch, 15-18 October 2000. Also available at http://www.conference.co.nz/LIANZA2000/papers/AlastairSmith.pdf
• Smith, A.G. (2001). Evaluating Search Engine Performance for Australasian Information. In Proceedings of Information Online 2001, Sydney, 16-18 January 2001 p.269-278
• Smith, A.G.; Thelwall, M. (2001). Web Impact Factors and University Research Links. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Sydney, 16-20 July 2001. pp 657-664.
• Smith, Alastair (2002). What can e-libraries learn from e-business? In: Proceedings of VALA 2002: E-volving Information Futures, Melbourne, 6-8 February 2002. pp169-187. Also available at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/12Smith.pdf
• Smith, A. G. (2002). Digital Professional Education for Digital Librarians. In: Proceedings of CPERT 5th World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the library and information professions, 14-16 August 2002, Scotland, UK.
• Smith, A. G. (2002). Does metadata count? A Webometric investigation, Proceedings of DC-2002, Florence, 14-17 October 2002. pp. 133-138. http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/paper15.pdf. [Powerpoint]
• Smith, A.G. (2003). Classifying links for substantive Web Impact Factors. Proceedings of ISSI 2003, Beijing, 25-29 August 2003. pp 305-311. [Powerpoint presentation]
• Smith, A.G. (2003). Searching For NZ Information In The Virtual Library. Proceedings of LIANZA Annual Conference 7-10 October 2003, Napier. http://www.lianza.org.nz/conference/conference03/papers/smith.pdf [PowerPoint presentation]
• Smith, A. G. (2003). Interactivity and synchronicity in online learning. Paper presented at the E-Learn 2003, 7-11 November 2003, Phoenix AZ. pp 1185-1188. [PowerPoint presentation]
• Smith, A. G. (2004). Citations and links as a measure of effectiveness of online LIS journals. Paper presented at IFLA 2004, 22-29 August 2004, Buenos Aires. [PowerPoint presentation] [PDF file]
• Smith, A. G.; Thelwall, M. (2005). Web links as an indicator of research output: a comparison of NZ Tertiary Institution links with the Performance Based Research Funding assessment. Proceedings of ISSI 2005, 24-27 July, Stockholm. pp 205-211. [Powerpoint Presentation]
• Smith, A.G. (2006). Google Scholar as a cybermetric tool: a comparison with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Leuven, Belgium, 7-9 Sept, 2006. [PPT]
• Smith, A.G. (2007). Issues in "blogmetrics": case studies using BlogPulse to observe trends in weblogs. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Madrid, 25-27 June 2007. p 726-730[PPT]
• Smith, A.G. (2009) Linking to Institutional Repositories from the general Web. Proceedings of ISSI 2009, Rio de Janeiro, 14-17 July 2009. [PPT]
• Smith, AG (2009) Institutional repositories: for scholars, or for the rest of us? Presentation to the National Digital Forum 2009 Wellington, 23-24 November 2009.
• Smith, A. G. (2011). Wikipedia and institutional repositories: An academic symbiosis? Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 Conference, Durban, South Africa, 4-7 July 2011.
• Smith, A. G. (2011). New Zealand information on the internet: The power to find the knowledge. Paper presented at LIANZA 2011, 30 October - 2 November 2011, Wellington, NZ.

Presentations/ non-refereed conference papers

• LIANZA/ITSIG: Cataloguing the Internet seminar, 30 October 1999 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/catint/
• LIANZA Aoraki region: "Nailing Jelly to a Wall" - Cataloguing the Internet seminar, 2 May 2000 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/catint/chch.htm
• Smith, A. G. (2000, 27 November). What makes a good Government Website. Paper presented at the Government Online New Zealand Conference, Wellington.
• Auckland Law Librarian's Group/ SLISS: "Seeking and structuring on the Internet" - Seminar 26 January 2001http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/allg/

Columns

• Technophile