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The customers for document supply in pharmacology: a case study from INIST in France (Part 3)

Pascal Bador, Chérifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri, Thierry Lafouge, Hélène Prost, Joachim Schöpfel

Interlending & Document Supply

ISSN: 0264-1615

Article publication date: 21 August 2007

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Abstract

Purpose

The article aims to investigate the customers for the document supply of print serials.

Design/methodology/approach

The study is based on data from INIST‐CNRS for document supply requests in pharmacology. Data were collected from 1998 to 2005 (10,000+ customer accounts with 4.6m orders).

Findings

The article provides information about the distribution of orders per customer type, about the geographical origin of customers, about the ordering trends among pharmaceutical customers and of pharmaceutical journals.

Originality/value

This is the last of three articles on a longitudinal study over 13 years on different aspects of the relationship between document supply and impact factor (citations) in pharmacology, a scientific domain with a high use of scientific information.

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Citation

Bador, P., Boukacem‐Zeghmouri, C., Lafouge, T., Prost, H. and Schöpfel, J. (2007), "The customers for document supply in pharmacology: a case study from INIST in France (Part 3)", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 35 No. 3, pp. 138-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/02641610710780809

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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