Journal of Documentation: Volume 24 Issue 4

THE DERIVATION AND APPLICATION OF THE BRADFORD‐ZIPF DISTRIBUTION

B.C. BROOKES

Any statistical regularities found in documentation should be fully exploited to produce estimates or predictions and to save documentalists work. But present formulations of the…

AUTHOR VERSUS TITLE: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY OF THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION WHICH THE USER BRINGS TO THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

F.H. AYRES, JANICE GERMAN, N. LOUKES, R.H. SEARLE

Details are given of a survey carried out in a large scientific special library on the comparative accuracy of the author and title information which the user brings to the…

CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH GROUP: BULLETIN NO. 9

In the money under review the meetings of the Group have been lively and well attended, with over twenty members present at many meetings. The following visitors and overseas…

DOCUMENTATION NOTES

If I understand Mr Gomperts correctly, he is referring, in the ‘law of constant citation’, to citing articles, and to the number of references (citations) contained therein.

DOCUMENTATION SURVEY

This is the first annual cumulation of a new indexing service attempting world coverage in geography for periodicals, serials, conference proceedings, and reports. The Institut in…