Aslib Proceedings: Volume 33 Issue 4
Table of contents
The plant kingdom
V.H. HeywoodOne of the major roles of plant taxonomy (in common with other branches of biological taxonomy) is the production of a classification so as to allow the diversity of nature to be…
Cultivated plants
R.D. MeikleArticle 28.1 of the current (1978) edition of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature states: ‘Plants brought from the wild into cultivation retain the names that are…
Zoological nomenclature and taxonomy
I.W.B. NyeSystematics is often used, or rather misused, as a synonym of taxonomy, to mean classification. Systematics is, however, a much more general term covering the study of the…
Classification of viruses for information retrieval
Susan J. FidlerA computer file, which may be consulted and updated online, has been compiled of all plant and animal viruses at present recognized. The data is arranged according to type of…
Impact of Changes in Biological Classification on Biological Abstracts
Elizabeth M. ZipfBiosciences Information Service, or BIOSIS, is the world's largest English language abstracting and indexing service for biological and biomedical research; and since 1926 it has…
Problems of standardization in the CAB database: Biological nomenclature with special reference to entomology
A.H. ParkerThe Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB) is an organization comprising 14 Institutes and Bureaux, all but one of which are based in the UK. It includes the Commonwealth…
MeSH—the subject heading approach
C. NorrisShould one use natural language or a controlled vocabulary to handle the names of organisms appearing in the scientific literature? At first sight the use of natural language…
Names of living organisms in a thesaurus on animal health and hygiene
Sylvia, FitzGeraldThe Library of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at Tolworth serves the needs of the State Veterinary Service Headquarters & Field staff, and of the Animal Health…
The classification of biological literature
J. MillsTaxonomy in biology is concerned with the definition of classes or organisms in the furtherance of our knowledge of these (whatever the ultimate purpose served by this knowledge)…
The UDC and a botanical collection with special reference to the Botanical Library, British Museum (Natural History)
P.I. EdwardsThe choice of a classification scheme is never entirely objective. One's past acquaintance with one or more of the major schemes, while training as a librarian, and/or in a work…
A classification for medical and veterinary libraries by C. C. Barnard
V.J. GlanvilleThis classification was published as a second edition in 1955 by H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. The first edition (1936) was based on the library of the London School of Hygiene and…
Taxonomy and the Science Reference Library Classification
Elizabeth M. DronThe Science Reference Library Classification was developed during the middle of the 1960s as a scheme to arrange books on the shelves of a large open‐access library integrating…