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SELF‐CITATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE
RENATA TAGLIACOZZOThe purpose of the present investigation was to determine to what extent authors of scientific articles cite their previous publications and what are the principal distinguishing…
ON THE PROCESSING OF PRINTED SUBJECT INDEX ENTRIES DURING SEARCHING
E. MICHAEL KEENReports a laboratory experiment in which verbalized tape‐recorded searches on five printed subject indexes reveal something of the linguistic processing that took place. Some 20…
INFORMATION NEEDS IN LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS: AN INTERIM REPORT ON PROJECT INISS
T.D. WILSON, D.R. STREATFIELDProject INISS is the first major investigation of the information needs of social services staff in this country. This paper describes the origins of the project, the method…
THE PROBABILITY RANKING PRINCIPLE IN IR
S.E. ROBERTSONThe principle that, for optimal retrieval, documents should be ranked in order of the probability of relevance or usefulness has been brought into question by Cooper. It is shown…
A THEORETICAL NOTE CONCERNING THE ADAPTIVITY OF DEMAND FOR LIBRARY DOCUMENTS
ANTHONY HINDLEA number of Management Science applications in libraries have been concerned with increasing the ‘immediate availability’ of documents held by the library. It has been found that…
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