Journal of Documentation: Volume 43 Issue 3

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THE DILEMMA OF THE SUBJECTIVE IN INFORMATION ORGANISATION AND RETRIEVAL

S.D. NEILL

A discussion of the nature of information is undertaken by bringing together the views of Brenda Dervin and Karl Popper on subjectivity and objectivity as these relate to…

THE MARKOV AND THE MIXED‐POISSON MODELS OF LIBRARY CIRCULATION COMPARED

JEAN TAGUE, ISOLA AJIFERUKE

Two dynamic models of library circulation, the Markov model originally proposed by Morse and the mixed Poisson model proposed by Burrell and Cane, are applied to a large…

NON‐PRICE COMPETITION AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ONLINE INFORMATION INDUSTRY: Q‐ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL DATABASES AND HOSTS

ROY DAVIES

Competition will affect the structure of an industry and the structure will, in turn, affect the behaviour of the firms involved. Two of the most important characteristics of the…

READABILITY FORMULAS: AN OVERVIEW

CHAFFAI TEKFI

The aim of this paper is to review some of the findings in the field of readability research. First, the differences in meaning between the terms ‘readability’ and ‘legibility’…

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ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden