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Peer reviewedGarfield, Eugene – Library Quarterly, 1980
Contrasts the nature of citation practices in the sciences and in the humanities, and details the workings of the Institute for Scientific Information's new Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Fifteen references are cited. (FM)
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Fine Arts, Humanities, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedSweetland, James H. – Library Quarterly, 1989
Summarizes studies examining citation errors and illustrates errors resulting from a lack of standardization, misunderstanding of foreign languages, failure to examine the document cited, and general lack of training in citation norms. It is argued that the failure to detect and correct citation errors is due to diffusion of responsibility in the…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Error Patterns, Publishing Industry
Peer reviewedCullars, John – Library Quarterly, 1989
Describes a study that examined the citation patterns of 579 randomly selected citations from 167 French and German monographs published in 1984, and compared the findings with those of earlier studies of American and British humanities monographic and journal literatures. The implications for library collection development are discussed. (24…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Foreign Countries, Library Collection Development
