Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. C.J. Van Rijsbergen. London: Butterworths; 1979: 208 pp. Price: $32.50. - David C. Blair (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1979)

Searching biases in large interactive document retrieval systems. - David C. Blair (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1980)

The Data-Document Distinction in Information Retrieval. - David C. Blair (Commun. ACM, 1984)

An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System. - David C. Blair; Melvin Earl Maron (Commun. ACM, 1985)

Indeterminacy in the subject access to documents. - David C. Blair (Inf. Process. Manag., 1986)

An extended relational document retrieval model. - David C. Blair (Inf. Process. Manag., 1988)

Manfred Kochen 1928-1989: Remembrances of a scholar and a gentle man. - Michael D. Gordon; David C. Blair; Robert K. Lindsay (JASIS, 1989)

Full-text information retrieval: Further analysis and clarification. - David C. Blair; Melvin Earl Maron (Inf. Process. Manag., 1990)

The management and control of written information: Growing concern amid the failure of traditional methods. - David C. Blair; Michael D. Gordon (Inf. Manag., 1991)

Information Retrieval and the Philosophy of Language. - David C. Blair (Comput. J., 1992)

STAIRS Redux: Thoughts on the STAIRS Evaluation, Ten Years after. - David C. Blair (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1996)

The challenge of commercial document retrieval, Part I: Major issues, and a framework based on search exhaustivity, determinacy of representation and document collection size. - David C. Blair (Inf. Process. Manag., 2002)

The challenge of commercial document retrieval, Part II: a strategy for document searching based on identifiable document partitions. - David C. Blair (Inf. Process. Manag., 2002)

Some thoughts on the reported results of TREC. - David C. Blair (Inf. Process. Manag., 2002)

Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design. - David C. Blair; Steven O. Kimbrough (Inf. Process. Manag., 2002)

Knowledge management: Hype, hope, or help? - David C. Blair (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2002)

Wittgenstein, Language and Information: "Back to the Rough Ground!". - David C. Blair (CoLIS, 2005)

The data-document distinction revisited. - David C. Blair (Data Base, 2006)