TESTS ON ABSTRACTS JOURNALS

Abstract

The amount of scientific and technical information published annually in the form of journal articles, conference papers, reports, theses, patents, and books now greatly exceeds, in every field of interest, the amount which may be scanned by a scientist wishing to keep himself completely up to date in his own subject. For a scientist wishing to inform himself of new developments in neighbouring subject‐fields the problem is even greater. Consequently, either the scientist reconciles himself to the knowledge that he is not aware of all relevant information in his field or he places increasingly more reliance on such bibliographic tools as are available to guide him towards the relevant literature.

Citation

MARTYN, J. and SLATER, M. (1964), "TESTS ON ABSTRACTS JOURNALS", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 212-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026351