Information Use Value: A Test on the Perception of Utility and Validity.

Oberhofer, Cecilia M. A.

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ERIC Number: EJ471185

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Publication Date: 1993

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Information Use Value: A Test on the Perception of Utility and Validity.

Oberhofer, Cecilia M. A.

Information Processing and Management, v29 n5 p587-600 Sep-Oct 1993

Discussion of the use of scientific information disseminated in primary subject literature focuses on a study that developed a methodology for hypothesis testing that measured document obsolescence by means of citation analysis and content obsolescence by expert opinions and then compared the results. Information validity and information utility are examined. (Contains 20 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization, Scientific and Technical Information, Tables (Data), Validity

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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