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Peer reviewedAbrams, Fred – RQ, 1971
A market survey was conducted to determine the cost effectiveness of translating any foreign-language biomedical periodical on a regular cover-to-cover basis. The results of the survey suggest the continued translation of individual articles on a demand basis instead. (MM)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Feasibility Studies, Foreign Language Periodicals, Periodicals
Peer reviewedPalais, Elliot S. – RQ, 1974
In a sample of 25 political science journals, indexing information given by Ulrich's was found to be inadequate. (PF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Indexing, Periodicals
Peer reviewedClasquin, Frank F. – RQ, 1971
The viewpoint of the library magazine subscription agency is emphasized in this article on the libraries' acquisition of periodicals. (MM)
Descriptors: Library Acquisition, Library Expenditures, Periodicals
Peer reviewedSmith, Adeline M. – RQ, 1971
A brief article on periodicals issued by companies and other organizations which are available to libraries on a complimentary basis. (MM)
Descriptors: Indexes, Information Retrieval, Library Collections, Periodicals
Peer reviewedPope, Michael – RQ, 1975
Recommends the use of a single list of subject headings for all the Wilson periodical indexes. (PF)
Descriptors: Indexes, Periodicals, Reference Materials, Subject Index Terms
Peer reviewedDiener, Ronald E. – RQ, 1971
The bibliographic access available for periodicals in the field of theology and religion is evaluated. (MM)
Descriptors: Indexes, Indexing, Library Collections, Periodicals
Peer reviewedEberhart, George M. – RQ, 1980
Discusses the differences between the serious ufologist and the interested novice, reviews essential reference works and journals dealing with UFOs, and addresses problems that libraries have in collecting UFO literature. (FM)
Descriptors: Library Material Selection, Literature, Periodicals, Reference Materials
Peer reviewedBoyce, Bert R.; Banning, Carolyn Sue – RQ, 1979
Four hundred eighty-seven citations of the 1976 issues of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and the Personnel and Guidance Journal were checked for accuracy: total error was 13.6 percent and 10.7 percent, respectively. Error categories included incorrect author name, article/book title, journal title; wrong entry; and…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Data Analysis, Library Research, Periodicals
Peer reviewedSchorr, Alan Edward – RQ, 1974
Lotka's law is found to be invalid for papers published in library science. (PF)
Descriptors: Authors, Library Research, Library Science, Periodicals
Peer reviewedTurtle, Mary R.; Robinson, William C. – RQ, 1974
The two abstracting and indexing services are compared in regard to difference in time lag by place of publication for papers published in periodicals. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Geographic Location, Indexing
Peer reviewedShores, Louis – RQ, 1972
The proliferation of library literature is advocated as a means of insuring intellectual freedom (NH)
Descriptors: Censorship, Libraries, Mass Media, News Media
Peer reviewedVesenyi, Paul E. – RQ, 1971
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Eighteenth Century Literature, Periodicals, Seventeenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedPasler, Margaret; Pasler, Rudolph – RQ, 1971
In the field of United States history, the influence of abstracting and indexing services upon the use of serial literature, because of the highly inadequate retrospective and util recently, current access they afford to it, can only be regarded as a negative use. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Library Technical Processes
Peer reviewedWyndham, Diana – RQ, 1980
Ulrich's performance in listing references to indexes was tested by comparing its statement of where a journal is indexed with the list of the indexed journals in the indexing/abstracting services themselves. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation, Indexes
Peer reviewedGibson, Mary Jane, Comp. – RQ, 1974
Information is supplied on new editions and on annuals which began or ceased publication during 1973. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, National Organizations
