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A SINGLE COMPUTER‐BASED SYSTEM FOR BOTH CURRENT AWARENESS AND RETROSPECTIVE SEARCH: OPERATING EXPERIENCE WITH ASSASSIN
C.R. CLOUGH, K.M. BRAMWELLASSASSIN as designed and operated by ICI Agricultural Division, provides from, a single paper tape input a current awareness service by SDI and a retrospective search both by a…
A PROBABILISTIC SEARCH STRATEGY FORMEDLARS
WILLIAM L. MILLEROne technique for searching a Co‐ordinate Index is to compare each reference with a Boolean expression of index terms. This divides the file into retrieved and not‐retrieved…
THE STRUCTURE OF THE EURATOM‐THESAURUS
EUGENIU TOMAAn analysis of the rank‐frequency distribution of the EURATOM‐thesaurus was carried out. Zipf's law (a hyperbolic function) was not found to be suitable for this distribution, and…
MEASURING READERS' FAILURE AT THE SHELF
JOHN A. URQUHART, J.L. SCHOFIELDThis paper is concerned with the availability of books known to be held by the Library. It outlines a simple survey method whereby readers record the non‐availability of books…
THE USE OF CITATION COUNTING TO IDENTIFY RESEARCH TRENDS
HARRY ROTHMAN, MICHAEL WOODHEADThe paper describes the analysis and application of manpower statistics to identify some long‐term international research trends in economic entomology and pest control. Movements…
PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION: MICROGRAPHICS
BERNARD J.S. WILLIAMSWhen some future reviewer looks back over the history of microform systems and techniques (henceforth the emergent term ‘micrographics’ will be used in place of this ponderous…

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