Journal of Documentation: Volume 23 Issue 2

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CONTROL OF LINGUISTIC SCHOLARSHIP

LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON

This article is a survey of the broad field of bibliographical control of linguistic scholarship in the Indo‐European languages, although some titles described here are also…

ESTIMATES OF THE NUMBER OF CURRENTLY AVAILABLE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PERIODICALS

K.P. BARR

Published estimates of the number of scientific and technical periodicals currently being published are analysed. A new estimate is put forward based on the experience of the NLL…

THE FOREIGN‐LANGUAGE PROBLEM FACING SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM—REPORT OF A RECENT SURVEY

D.N. WOOD

The foreign‐language barrier facing British scientists is a function of a, the amount and value of foreign scientific literature produced; b, the linguistic ability of the people…

USE MADE OF PUBLIC REFERENCE LIBRARIES: A SURVEY OF PERSONAL USERS AND TELEPHONE, TELEX, AND POSTAL INQUIRIES

D.W.G. CLEMENTS

An account is given of a survey carried out by OSTI in May‐June 1966 on the use made of thirty‐three public reference libraries in England, Scotland, and Wales, covering both…

DOCUMENTATION NOTES: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NON‐USER RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS

In many information systems, intervening relevance assessments are an accepted operational practice; i.e. documents identified by the system as responses to a question are…

DOCUMENTATION SURVEY

This book is an edited version of the proceedings of the hearing of the case in which the Net Book Agreement was successfully defended against an attack made under the Restrictive…

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ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden