A short list of the IR terms that you will encounter during the course. Do worry if you do not understand them now. As the course proceeds you will be surprised how well you will be able to converse in "IR-speak."
A quick-reference table and definitions of important IR performance measures. Make sure you understand these as we will be referring to them often.
A first-rate website developed for a class similar to ours:
American Association for Information Science:
Good overview at John Hopkins:
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~weiss/ir.html
Check out the glossary:
Two more strong overview sitesfrom Scotland:
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
A large-scale IR project: HIBROWSE for Bibliographic Databases: