BLL Review: Volume 2 Issue 3

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

RM Bunn

The history of the lending operations at Boston Spa may perhaps be best summed up by such statements as ‘from nothing to a million requests in fifteen years’. With the retirement…

PROGRESS REPORT 1973/74

DJ Urquhart

During 1973 the British Library came into being when the National Central Library (NCL) and the National Lending Library (NLL) merged to form the Lending Division of the British…

DOES PHYSICS LITERATURE OBSOLESCE? A STUDY OF VARIATION OF CITATION FREQUENCY WITH TIME FOR INDIVIDUAL JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PHYSICS

Maurice B Line

It is of potential interest for a number of reasons to study the way the use made of scientific literature changes over time, and in particular whether its use declines and if so…

STATISTICS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE PERIODICALS

DN Wood, J Ferguson

Many papers have appeared during the last 40 years which show how usage of, and citations to, scientific and technical literature is concentrated on a few journals (the so‐called…