Journal article
Patterns of Journal Use in a Departmental Library: A Citation Analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.32(4)
01 Jul 1981
Abstract
Faced with the problem of cost, budgets, and space, librarians have tried to determine collection development policies that will make optimum use of available money and space. One approach to this problem has been citation analysis. The analysis involves the distribution of citations in each user group and a ranking of combined sources. It takes the form of a Bradford distribution and assigns slope and x-axis values to each ranking. Use of citation analysis has helped the Biology Library at Temple University, in Philadelphia, to identify a number of less productive journal titles for possible cancellation. In addition, the results provide data for immediate collection, maintenance, and development decisions.
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- Title
- Patterns of Journal Use in a Departmental Library: A Citation Analysis
- Creators
- Katherine McCainJames Bobick
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.32(4)
- Publisher
- Wiley Periodicals Inc
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]; College of Computing and Informatics
- Identifiers
- 991020785762004721