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The Half-Life of the Chemical Literature.
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Brown, Pauline – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1980
The average citation per article in chemistry by age of citation is related to the Poisson frequency distribution. This provides a formula for calculation of a half-life for chemistry which depends on the structure of the research front exhibited in the literature. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Citations (References), Mathematical Models, Scholarly Journals
Information Aspects of New Organizational Designs: Exploring the Non-Traditional Organization.
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Travica, Bob – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discussion of changes in organizational environments focuses on nonbureaucratic, or nontraditional, organizations, and the role of information technology. A model of a nontraditional organizational design is described and results of a pilot study of the role of information technology in nontraditional organizations are presented. Contains 114…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Models, Organizational Change, Organizational Climate
((Cartoons as a Teaching Technique)).
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Rouse, William B.; Smith, J. MacGregor – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Activities within a library are combined with the library's floor plan to develop a model of the library as a network of queues. This model can be used to predict average patron processing times and costs as they are affected by demand characteristics and floor plan variations. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Diagrams, Facility Guidelines, Interior Space
Two Models for Predicting Subject Circulation: A Contribution to the Allocation Problem.
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McGrath, William E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Two methods are presented by which the librarian can forecast book circulation by subject. The shelflist model treats the number of library books as a control variable, while the other defines the dependent variable as the proportion of the shelflist circulated. (FM)
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Research, Methods