Journal of Documentation: Volume 26 Issue 4

THE GROWTH, UTILITY, AND OBSOLESCENCE OF SCIENTIFIC PERIODICAL LITERATURE

B.C. BROOKES

Line's recently proposed technique for correcting the ‘apparent’ half‐life to allow for the rate of growth of the literature and Vickery's critical analysis of the proposal are…

UDC USER PROFILES AS DEVELOPED FOR A COMPUTER‐BASED SDI SERVICE IN THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

W.H. MCCASH, J.J. CARMICHAEL

Extension of the Selective Dissemination of Information system required the adoption of computer‐based techniques. The indexing language adopted is UDC and it was necessary to…

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A SCHEME FOR RECONCILING THESAURI COVERING A COMMON SUBJECT

H.H. NEVILLE

The feasibility is examined of devising a scheme for operating a joint keyword system in a given subject area using several independently compiled thesauri. It is suggested that…

ANALYSES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON BIOCONTROL

H.R. SIMON

In 1967, Martyn published his interesting results on tests of abstract journals. He quoted the handbook of Debach (editor) as a source for a large bibliography on biocontrol. It…

‘Informatics’

D.J. FOSKETT

The term ‘informatics’ was first advanced formally by the Director of VINITI, A. I. Mikhailov, and his colleagues A. I. Chernyi and R. S. Gilyarevskii, in their paper…