Selected Publications (since 2010)
- A complete list of my publications is available from Google Scholar.
- ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-5699
- Note that my family name changed from Freund to Sinnamon in 2020
Huvila, I. & Sinnamon, L. (2024) When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Sharing research by sharing data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (accepted).
Li, A & Sinnamon, L. Generative AI search engines as arbiters of public knowledge: an audit of bias and authority. (2024) Proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Calgary, AB. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.14034
Sinnamon, L., Dodson, S., Li, A. and Batool, S.H. Search education: a critical information literacy approach. (2024) Annual Meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE 2024), Portland, OR.
Chen, C., dos Santos, R., Gaspar, A., Liu, Y., Mertick, B. Nathan L. Sinnamon, L. & Strader, A. (2024) Sensemaking theory for community-based climate action: making space for difference. Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS-ACSI) Annual Meeting, Online.
Dodson, S., Sinnamon, L. & Kopak, R. (2024) Mapping the relationship between genres and tasks: a study of undergraduate engineers, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24897.
Sinnamon, L., Tamim, L., Dodson, S. & O’Brien, H.L. (2021) Rethinking interest in studies of interactive information retrieval. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021). Open access https://doi.org/10.1145/3406522.3446031
Sinnamon, L., Dodson, S., & Kopak, R. (2021) Reading measures for searching as learning applications. Made to Measure: Workshop on Human-Centred Metrics for Information Seeking at the CHIIR 2021 Conference.
Zhu, Julia & Freund, L. (2020) Exploring open data initiatives in higher education, iConference 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 22-27, 2020.
Barnes, L., Freund, L., Giustini, D. (2020) The information needs of Canadian midwives and their evidence informed practices. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 15(2) 3-23. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29616.
Paige, B. & Freund, L. (2019) A case study of New England open data portals. JeDEM – eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 11(1), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v11i1.541.
Dodson, S., Freund, L. & Kopak, R. (2018) The role of pre-existing highlights in reader-text interactions and outcomes. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL, 2018), Fort Worth, TX, June 3-7, 2018.
Dodson, S., Freund, L. & Kopak, R. (2017) Do highlights affect comprehension? Lessons from a user study. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR, 2017), Oslo, Norway.
Freund, L., Kopak, R. & O’Brien, H.L. (2016) The effects of textual environment on reading comprehension: implications for searching as learning. The Journal of Information Science, 42(1), 79-93.
Freund, L., Dodson, S. & Kopak, R. (2016). On measuring learning in search: a position paper. Search as Learning Workshop, 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2016), Pisa, Italy.
O’Brien, H.L., Freund, L. & Kopak, R. (2016). Investigating the role of user engagement in digital reading environments. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2016), New York, N.Y. ACM.
Swamiraj, M. & Freund, L. (2015) Facilitating the discovery of open government datasets through an exploratory data search interface. Open Data Research Symposium, Ottawa, May 27, 2015. www.opendataresearch.org/dl/symposium2015/odrs2015-paper23.pdf
Steichen, B. & Freund, L. (2015) Supporting the modern polyglot: a comparison of multilingual search interfaces CHI ’15 – Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 3483-3492.
Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2015) Interacting with archival finding aids. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 67(4), 994-1008.
Freund, L. (2014) Contextualizing the Information Seeking Behaviour of Software Engineers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 66(8), 1594-1605.
Wildemuth, B.W., Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2014) Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies. Journal of Documentation . 70(6), 1118 – 1140.
O’Brien, H.L., Freund, L., Jantzi, L. & Sinanan, S. (2014) Investigating a peer-to-peer community service learning model for LIS Education. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 55(4), 322-335.
O’Brien, H.L., Freund, L. & Westman, S. (2014) What motivates the online news browser? News item selection in a social information seeking scenario. Information Research . 19(3). http://informationr.net/ir/19-3/paper634.html
Freund, L. (2013). A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness. Information Processing and Management.49(5), 1108-1121.
Cherry, J., Freund, L. & Duff, W. (2013). Student Perceptions of Information Programs in Canada. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science . 54(3),174-190.
Wildemuth, B.M., Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2013). Designing known-item and fact-finding search tasks for studies of interactive information retrieval. ASIST European Workshop, 131-162.
Wildemuth, B.M. & Freund, L. (2012). Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors. Human Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 2012.
Cherry, J.M., Duff, W.M., Singh, N., & Freund, L. (2011). Student perceptions of their master’s program in information studies and the information professions: A longitudinal study. Library & Information Science Research , 33(2), 120-131.
Kopak, R., Freund, L. & O’Brien, H.L. (2011). Digital Information Interaction as Semantic Navigation in Innovations in IR: Perspectives for Theory and Practice , eds. Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty. Facet Publishing.
Freund, L. (2010). Genre searching: a pragmatic approach to information retrieval in The Janus Faced Scholar, a Festschrift in Honour of Peter Ingwersen. Special volume of the e-zine of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, 6, 35-42.
Freund, L. & Berzowska, J. (2010). The Goldilocks effect: task-centred assessments of e-government information. 72 nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Pittsburgh, PA.
Westman, S. & Freund, L. (2010). Information interaction in 140 characters or less: genres on Twitter. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), New Brunswick, NJ, August 18-22.
Freund, L. (2008). Exploiting task-document relations in support of information retrieval in the workplace (Doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.