Παρακάτω αναγράφονται μερικά αντιπροσωπευτικά βιβλία του χώρου:
- Manning, C.D. and Raghavan, P. and Schutze, H., "An Introduction to Information Retrieval", Cambridge University Press", 2007.
- Baeza-Yates, R. and Ribeiro-Neto, B., "Modern Information Retrieval", Addison Wesley, 1999.
- Witten, I.H and Moffat, A. and Bell, T.C., "Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images", Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
- Korfhage, R., "Information Storage and Retrieval", John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
- Frakes, W.B. and Baeza-Yates (eds), "Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992.
- van Rijsbergen, C.J., "Information Retrieval", Butterworths, 1979.