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FREE TEXT WORD RETRIEVAL AND SCIENTIST INDEXING: PERFORMANCE PROFILES AND COSTS
D.F. HERSEY, W.R. FOSTER, E.W. STALDER, W.T. CARLSONComparative performance profiles were determined, by two independent scientific information centres, for on‐line retrieval by means of (a) tree text words and (b) subject indexing…
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THE USE OF OLDER LITERATURE AND ITS OBSOLESCENCE
A. SANDISONTerminology and parameters for describing the relation between figures for the use of library literature and for its age are discussed. Unless a correction for growth is applied…
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PERSONAL PATTERNS OF INFORMATION USE IN AN INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY
L.J.B. MOTEIn his thesis entitled ‘Managing the Flow of Scientific and Technological Information’ Professor T.J. Allen of MIT was able to show that patterns of information usage could be…
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PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION: British University Library Statistics
H.J. HEANEYFifty years ago the first official statistics for British university libraries were published by the then newly‐established University Grants Committee. Our present purpose is not…
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0022-0418e-ISSN:
1758-7379ISSN-L:
0022-0418Online date, start – end:
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- Prof David Bawden