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INDICES OF LITERATURE DISPERSION BASED ON QUALITATIVE ATTRIBUTES
M.H. HEINEThe dispersion or ‘scatter’ of documents over some set of values of a document attribute is usually described by means of a frequency distribution. When the attribute is…
AN EVALUATION OF FEEDBACK IN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL USING CO‐OCCURRENCE DATA
D.J. HARPER, C.J. VAN RIJSBERGENThis paper reports experiments with a term weighting model incorporating relevance information in which it is assumed that index terms are distributed dependently. Initially this…
RECENT CHANGES IN PATENT LAW AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INFORMATION SERVICES AND INFORMATION SCIENTISTS
CHARLES OPPENHEIMFour major changes in patent law—the British Patents Act, European Patent Convention, Community Patent Convention and the Patent Co‐operation Treaty are described. Comments are…
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN DOCUMENTATION: THE NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY—A HISTORICAL REVIEW
D.J. URQUHARTThe NCL—the National Central Library—came into existence in 1930 and the main part was merged with the NLLST—The National Lending Library for Science and Technology—in 1973 to…
DOCUMENTATION NOTE: STATISTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY—A HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE
GLENN R. WITTIGNearly ten years ago Alan Pritchard, in a ‘Documentation Note’ in this journal, reviewed the use of the term statistical bibliography, and, being dissatisfied with it, proposed…
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