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Wagner, A. Ben – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Various normalization techniques to transform journal impact factors (JIFs) into a standard scale or range of values have been reported a number of times in the literature, but have seldom been part of collection development librarians' tool kits. In this paper, JIFs as reported in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database are converted to…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Journal Articles, Selection Tools, Reference Materials
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Bishop, Kay; Wilson, Margo – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1999
Identifies 10 criteria for reviewing children's books: content description; definition of audience; information on scope, tone, and style, point of view; comparison with author's other works or similar works; appropriateness of art to text; personal opinion; strengths/weaknesses; uses of the work; brevity; and judgment of literary quality.…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Books, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis