“…Their overall use of indexing systems may be lower than that of scientists. These findings have been corroborated by smaller studies conducted by Wood and Bower (1969), Styvendaele (1977), Stenstrom andMcBride (1979, 1982), and Stieg (1981). More recently, Folster (1989) studied faculty in four social science departments finding once again that reading journals in their own field, tracing references, consulting personal collections, consulting colleagues, scanning journals in other fields, and attending conferences all ranked above use of abstracts or indexes as techniques of information gathering.…”