Abstract:Purpose To analyze information use in agricultural science PhD theses submitted between 1986 and 2002 in the Faculty of Agronomy, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Design/methodology/approach The source of information was the UCV Faculty of Agronomy, Library's database, ''Tesis''. The unidimensional production and use indicators analyzed included: scientific production, reference density, self citations, document contemporaneousness and type of documents cited, reference scattering and accessibility of th… Show more
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