Journal of Documentation: Volume 25 Issue 2

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THE PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION OF RETRIEVAL TESTS: PART II: OVERALL MEASURES

S.E. ROBERTSON

Two general requirements for overall measures of retrieval effectiveness are proposed, namely that the measure should be as far as possible independent of generality (this is…

THE USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE PERIODICAL LITERATURE

D.N. WOOD, C.A. BOWER

The paper presents the results of a survey of the use of social science periodicals carried out at the National Lending Library during a period of four weeks in 1968…

SOCIAL SCIENCE LITERATURE USE IN THE UK AS INDICATED BY CITATIONS

PENELOPE EARLE, BRIAN VICKERY

A sample of citations made in 1965 United Kingdom social science literature has been analysed according to subject, bibliographic form, country of origin, language, and date, and…

The Automatic Generation of Index Languages

C.D. BATTY

‘To me there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, resemblance, contiguity in time or place, and cause or effect.’

Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden