Journal of Documentation: Volume 50 Issue 1

Subjects:

Table of contents

A STATE SECRET — DISSERTATIONS IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

LOTHAR MERTENS

Since the early 1970s the communist regime in the German Democratic Republic classified thousands of doctoral dissertations as confidential, thus blocking the dissemination of…

INFORMATION NEEDS OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS: A SURVEY OF SATISFACTION LEVELS IN A LARGE CITY HOSPITAL

PAULINE CAMERON, KATE CORBETT, CLARE DUNCAN, KAREN HEGYI, HELEN MAXWELL, PAUL F. BURTON

The study presents the principal results of a survey into patient information needs and satisfaction levels in a large general hospital as part of a feasibility study on the…

SOURCES FOR THE BUILDING CONSERVATOR AND HISTORIAN

D.T. YEOMANS

The sources of printed information used by building designers are largely ephemeral and the survival of this material has been rather haphazard. This presents problems for both…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE DESIGN TO THE STRUCTURE OF INFORMATION: A CASE STUDY IN EDUCATION

KEITH PICKENS

Bibliographical databases employing a controlled vocabulary and a Boolean logic approach to retrieval remain the norm. The record structures for databases of this kind need to be…

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