REPORT LITERATURE USED BY AERODYNAMICISTS

Abstract

Particularly since the 1939–45 war a number of studies of user‐habits and of the literatures of science and technology have been made, such as those by Fussier, Stevens and Shaw. Most of these studies are American and most of them have been concerned with periodicals, and to a lesser degree with books or monographs. Only a comparatively few subject areas have been examined, and none has been restricted solely to the research report. Discussions about report literature have generally been concerned largely with the pressing problems of identification, acquisition, handling, cataloguing and dissemination, and statistics given have been in broad terms which are not very helpful in particular situations. In view of the phenomenal growth of the report as a vehicle for communication of scientific information it is clearly of value to the R.A.E. library services to know in more detail the extent to which it is used and the pattern which that usage takes.

Citation

WILSON, C.W.J. (1958), "REPORT LITERATURE USED BY AERODYNAMICISTS", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 10 No. 8, pp. 194-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049667