Citation analyses of articles appearing in "College and Research Libraries" (C&RL) and "Journal of Academic Librarianship" (JAL) for 1981 reveal that academic librarians use more periodical articles than monographs in research, C&RL and JAL reference themselves, majority of references in periodical and monograph form…

Indicates that Bradford's law may be applied with a relatively high degree of confidence to citations in library science periodicals. The study tests verbal and graphical formulations of the law using 5,628 citations to journal literature referenced in College and Research Libraries and Special Libraries between 1940 and 1974. (RAA)

Discusses general findings reported in the literature of use and citation studies on the use of citation counts as found in "Journal Citation Reports" for identification of periodical titles for cancellation in a university library. Principal reasons for retention of little-cited journals are noted. Twenty-one references are cited. (EJS)

This study explored the use of the monographic literature in British and American literary studies and compared its findings with those of studies of humanities journals. It was found that book references were the predominant tool for humanities scholarship and that manuscripts were cited almost as often as journal articles. (EJS)

This study examined how researchers use literature constituting literary scholarship by analyzing three creative writers and three literary movements. Results support contention that humanistic scholarship and methods by which its characteristics are studied are distinct from methods used for analysis of information transfer in social sciences.…

Analyzes the citations in 187 articles on bibliographic instruction published in library science journals to determine the extent to which authors cited sources from library and information science as compared to sources from traditional subject disciplines. The results suggest an insularity, not only from other subject disciplines, but from the…

Describes a study that examined the necessity for prerequest bibliographic verification for interlibrary loans by identifying request error patterns and critical bibliographic elements. The discussion analyzes the effectiveness of a modified verification process, in which the interlibrary loan technician decides which requests to verify, in terms…

Examines trends in authorship, reference practices, and quantitative techniques in "College and Research Libraries" from 1939 through 1988. Specific characteristics discussed include: percentages of unreferenced articles; average number of references per article; sex and institution of source authors; extent of collaborative authorship;…

Discussion of accurate citations for referenced works in scholarly writing focuses on issues involved in maintaining authorship links in hypermedia. Current hypermedia systems are described; citation problems in print media are examined; citation problems in hypermedia systems are described, including authorship and copyright issues; and possible…

Describes Riesman's theory of the stages of character development in the social order, and uses his model of three types of personal characteristics to examine the ways in which the concept and function of bibliographic citations in scholarly discourse change over time. (53 notes/references) (CLB)

Reports on focus group interviews with Association of Research Libraries (ARL) librarians, which revealed that many academic librarians rely on convenient, easily understood source material for references. Discussion covers accuracy of referencing, knowledge of research methods and statistics, search thoroughness, scholarship, and the relative…

Reports the results of a survey of historians in different fields which identified the formats from which they obtain information, where they find relevant references, and how they use materials in foreign languages. These findings are compared with those of other surveys and citation studies. Twenty-eight references are cited. (RAA)

Establishes theoretical framework for solution of problem confronting academic libraries--growth in number of journals and surge in prices--by showing how concentration of usage is function of sociobibliometric laws based on cumulative advantage principle. Use of citation indexes in academic evaluation and library collection development is…

Describes a study that investigated the methods which scientists use for the access and retrieval of journal articles, specifically how they first became aware of a certain article which they cited and how they obtained it. Implications for the role of academic libraries are discussed. (Contains 18 references.) (LRW)

This study examined the nature and chronological spread of references used by English-speaking scholars writing monographs on foreign literary topics, and compared the findings to an earlier study of the monographic literature of English and American literature and the humanities journal literature. Implications for research library collections…