Journal of Documentation: Volume 37 Issue 1

Subjects:

Table of contents

ON USER STUDIES AND INFORMATION NEEDS

T.D. WILSON

Apart from information retrieval there is virtually no other area of information science that has occasioned as much research effort and writing as ‘user studies’. Within user…

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THE NEED FOR A THEORY OF CITING

BLAISE CRONIN

Metaphorically speaking, citations are frozen footprints in the landscape of scholarly achievement; footprints which bear witness to the passage of ideas. From footprints it is…

TEXT PASSAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON COLON CLASSIFICATION: RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE

MICHAEL A. SHEPHERD

A set of experiments was conducted to determine the suitability of the Colon Classification as a foundation for the automated analysis, representation and retrieval of primary…

WHY ARE NEW JOURNALS FOUNDED?

J.F.B. ROWLAND

Since 1978, the Scientific Information Committee of The Royal Society has been conducting a study of the scientific information system of the UK. While this study has drawn on the…

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