Journal of Documentation: Volume 39 Issue 3

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FULLY AUTOMATIC BOOK INDEXING

MARTIN DILLON, LAURA K. MCDONALD

The Fully Automatic Syntactically‐based Indexing of Text (FASIT) system represents the contents of a document without a full parse or semantic analysis of the text…

DELAYS IN THE LITERATURE OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY: BEFORE AND AFTER PUBLICATION

J. CARSON, H.V. WYATT

Authors often accuse journal editors of excessive delays in publishing articles. The interval between acceptance and publication of an article is an average of five months in…

METHODOLOGICAL RIGOUR AND REVIEW CITATION FREQUENCY IN PATIENT COMPLIANCE LITERATURE

JOHN T. PH.D. BRUER

Review articles play a special role in the scientific literature by analysing and synthesizing recent work on a given topic. It is assumed that authors of review articles…

ASSESSING THE IMPACT AND BENEFITS OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY RESEARCH

JOHN MARTYN, BLAISE CRONIN

A study was commissioned by the British Library Research & Development Department (BLRDD) to consider ways in which research effectiveness could be assessed. A number of possible…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION

Russell Sweeney

The 19th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification was published in 1979 and will be the last edition to appear under the editorship of Benjamin A. Custer, the editor since the…

Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden