Publications
Dr. Gordon Avishag
Phd. 2004 - The Status of Terrorism in the Academy: The Comparative Aspects and the Role
of Periodicals.URL: http://lib.haifa.ac.il/theses/hai/1275407.pdf
Refereed Publications
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Ronald G. Hicks and Avishag Gordon, “Foreign News Content in Israel and U.S.
Newspapers”, Journalism Quarterly, (Winter 1974), pp. 639-644.
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Larry L. Williams and Avishag Gordon, “Letters to the Editor in Two Elite Newspapers: A
Cross-National Study of Social Control”, Paper was presented at the 1975 Annual
Conference of the Southwestern Sociological Association (U.S.A.), Sociological
Abstracts, Vol. XXIII, Suppl. 49 (1975), pp. 33-34.
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A. Gordon, “The Middle East October 1973 War As Reported by the American
Networks”, International Problems, Vol. XIV, 3 4 (28), (Fall 1975), pp. 76-85.
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A. Gordon, “The Press and Terrorism: Who Influences Who?” International Problems
Society & Politics, The J. of the Israel Assoc. of Graduates in the Soc. Sci. and
Humanities, Vol. XXVII, 1 2 (50), (1988), pp. 79-86.
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Terry L. Weech and Avishag Gordon, “Intellectual Property Rights from an International
Perspective”, International Journal of Information and Library Research, (U.K.), Vol. 3
No. 1, (1991), pp. 57-65.
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A. Gordon, refereed C.A.S. Report: “Centralization versus Decentralization in
Academic Libraries: A CAS Report”. Final Thesis towards the degree C.A.S. (Certificate
of Advanced Studies) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A., (July 1991), 80 pages.
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A. Gordon, “Computerized Databases and Terrorism: An Examination of
Multidisciplinary Coverage”, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 7, No. 4, (1995), pp.
171-177.
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Avishag Gordon, “Terrorism and the Science Technology and Medicine Databases: New
Concepts and Terminology”, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 8, No. 1, (1996), pp.
167-173.
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A. Gordon, "Terrorism on the Internet: Discovering the Unsought", Terrorism and
Political Violence, Vol. 9, No. 4, (Winter 1997), pp. 159-165.
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Avishag Gordon, “The Spread of Terrorism Publications: A Data Base Analysis”,
Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1998, pp. 192-196.
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Avishag Gordon, “Terrorism Dissertations and the Evolution of a Specialty: An Analysis
of Meta-Information”, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1999, pp. 141150.
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Avishag Gordon,”Terrorism and the Scholarly Communication System,“ Terrorism and
Political Violence, 13/4, (2001), pp. 116-124.
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Avishag Gordon, “Terrorism and Knowledge Growth: A Database and Internet Analysis”,
a chapter in a book entitled “Terrorism Research Trends, Achievements and Failures”
(Dr. Silke ed.) London: Frank Cass 2004. 104-118
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Avishag Gordon , “The Effect of Database and Website Inconstancy on the Terrorism
Field’s Delineation” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 27 No. 2. 2004 79-88
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Avishag Gordon, “The Peripheral Terrorism Literature: Bringing it Closer to the Core”,
Scientometrics. 62 (3) (2005) 403-414.
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Avishag Gordon, “The Academia and the 9/11 Aftermath: Searching the Internet
Reveals A Stockholm syndrome Trend”. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, , 28 (1)
(2005), 45-59.
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Avishag Gordon, “Homeland Security Literature in Relation to terrorism Publications:
The Source and the Response,”Scientometrics, 65 (1) (Oct. 2005)
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Avishag Gordon,” Purity of Arms’, “preemptive war”, and “Selective Targeting”:
General, conceptual and Legal Analyses. will appear in Studies in Conflict and
Terrorism Vol 29, No.5, (2006), pp.493-508
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Avishag Gordon, "Continuant and Transient Authors in a Research Field: The Case of
Terrorism. Scientometrics, Vol. 72 No.2 (2007) (To appear).
Publications in Professional Journals
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Avishag Gordon, "The Image of the Librarian in an Academic Environment", Bulletin
Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centers (ISLIC), Vol. 19, No. 1,
(1992), pp. 15 18, (in Hebrew).
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Avishag Gordon, "Reorganizing the Status of the Librarian in Israel and the U.S.A. - an
Observation", Information & Librarianship, Israel Society of Special Libraries and
Information Centers (ISLIC), Vol. 20, No.1, (December 1993), pp. 27-28, (in Hebrew).
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Avishag Gordon, "Integrating CD-ROM in Libraries: Aspects of the Overlap Problem",
Information and Librarianship, Vol. 29, No. 1, (March 1995), (in Hebrew).
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Avishag Gordon, "Copyrights: Online Information, Libraries and the Academic Journal-A
State of the Art", Information and Librarianship, Vol. 31, (1997), (in Hebrew).
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Avishag Gordon and Shelly Shen-Aridor, “Collection/Curriculum Relatedness as a Way of
Evaluation Periodical Collection in an Academic Library”, Yad Lakoreh, Vol. 32, (Dec.
1999) pp. 66-73.
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Avishag Gordon, “ 9/11 was not a Guerilla Warfare”, Comments on “Efficiency of
Guerilla/terrorist Warfare,” by Chester L. Smith, IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine, Vol. 22 pp/5-5, 27, 2004.
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Avishag Gordon, Perception of National Security in Public Libraries: Israel and the U.S.A
Compared, Information and Librarianship ( Neidaanut Vesafranut, ), Vol.29, No. 1 Dec.
2006 pp. 14-18.