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A questionnaire was sent to publishers asking them for their objectives in sending out catalogues. They were asked whom they consider to be the target audience for catalogues and also for information sheets and handbills. They were asked for their policy on the inclusion of prices and forthcoming titles in their catalogues.

A questionnaire was sent to medical and nursing librarians in 5 Regional Health Authorities. There were 97 replies. The questionnaire asked about which selection aids the librarians rated as being important and which were seldom used. Librarians were asked for their opinions about the content and format of publishers' catalogues. The catalogues were examined to see whether respondents' criticisms were justified.

The nursing journals titles needed to support Project 2000 were considered. In order to reflect the structure of nursing literature as a whole, a citation count from the Citation index for 1990 was undertaken. In order to rank journals in each of the 4 branches of Project 2000, an analysis of the citations in a leading journal representing each branch was undertaken. To reflect student usage a survey of photocopier use and citation in student bibliographies was undertaken. In order to reflect what titles the library ought to have, a questionnaire survey of tutors was undertaken. The ranking of titles in the Citation index was tested for correlation with the ranks obtained from student use and tutor recommendation and the correlation between student use and tutor recommendation was drawn. Finally, a scheme for combining the rankings of journal titles obtained by the methods above was devised in order to produce an overall ranking of the principal titles.