Journal of Documentation
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THE ANALYSIS OF REFERENCE QUESTION RECORDS AS A GUIDE TO THE INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS OF SCIENTISTS
Tập 14 Số 4 - Trang 197-207
With each year that passes the world output of technical literature increases, making it ever more difficult to locate all significant information on any given subject. The continuance of this trend will lead to greater demands upon information services and plans must, therefore, be prepared for their future expansion. To be both realistic and effective, such plans must be based upon extensive fun......
THE NEED FOR A THEORY OF CITING
Tập 37 Số 1 - Trang 16-24
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 possible to deduce direction; from the configuration and depth of the imprint it should be possible to construct a picture of those who have passed by, whilst the distribution and variety furnish clues as to whether the adv......
SCHOLARLY FORAGING AND NETWORK DISCOVERY TOOLS
Tập 51 Số 4 - Trang 388-403
Parallels between subsistence foraging and scholarly information seeking are described in the context of the World‐Wide Web. It is suggested that the prevailing information retrieval paradigm lacks requisite variety to capture the complex of behaviours and stimuli that drives scholars' quests for new ideas and insights. The authors outline a variety of research questions suggested by extended use ......
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Tập 22 Số 4 - Trang 291-300
The qualifications needed for senior posts in academic libraries are 1. academic subject knowledge, to first degree level, but increasingly to higher degree level; 2. administrative and executive ability and experience; 3. knowledge of languages; 4. professional qualification in library techniques and bibliography. It is impossible to recruit staff with all these qualifications, particularly if hi......
The Wired World: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Information Society
Tập 59 Số 2 - Trang 218-220
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE NATURE OF THE RELATION BETWEEN TERMS IN THESAURI
Tập 31 Số 3 - Trang 158-184
The nature of the affinitive relationships expressed through thesaural related terms has been studied in ten thesauri, of which eight were examined in detail. The relationships have been analyzed in terms of Farradane's relational indexing ‘operators’ and the four fundamental categories of concepts derived by the Classification Research Group in England. The results are tabulated to show the numbe......