The Coverage of Library/Information Science Periodicals from Develop ing Countries by the Major Abstracting and Indexing Services

Buckley, Barbara Jo.

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“…It was not intended to be comprehensive, which would have required a wider set of resources and search techniques. It is likely to be biased towards English language material, and materials from the developed world, because of the coverage of the secondary services, recognised as a potential problem over several decades (see, for example, Buckley, 1982; Wagner and Wong, 2012). It does not include de facto national libraries which are not so called, nor does it include other national collection institutions such as archives or museums.…”

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The literature of national libraries

Robinson

2016

Alexandria

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This article reports a study of the literature of national libraries, as evidenced by the content of three bibliographic databases – Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library and Information Science and Technology Abstracts and Web of Science – for 2014–2015. The results, which are neither comprehensive nor systematic, give an indication of the size of the literature, the sources, languages of publication, authorship pattern and content. The aim is to gain an overview of what is happening, currently, within publications from, and about, national libraries. The study suggests that the national library literature comprises about 100 items annually; the smallest body of literature for any of the main sectors of librarianship. This literature shows a Bradford scatter, with 94 journals and a few book and proceedings sources identified in this study. The main language of publication is English, although a variety of European languages are represented. National libraries worldwide are covered, with a focus on reports from Europe, North America and Australasia. Content is concentrated on general descriptions of libraries and their services, on collections and documents and on technology issues. Digital curation is a major part of 20% of the set. Issues of dataset curation per se have no almost presence in this set of national library literature.

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Section: Identification Of Itemsmentioning

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The literature of national libraries

Robinson

2016

Alexandria

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Library and information science literature: authorship and growth patterns

Bottle

Efthimiadis

1984

Journal of Information Science

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The characteristics of library and information science litera ture were investigated by sampling issues of LISA, ISA, RZI. BS and CCA for the year 1983. Single author documents predominate with 69% of the total. English (71%) and Journals (71%) are the dominant language and format. Currency has detenorated since earlier studies but literature coverage has increased. 1391 distinet journal titles were identi fied in the coverage of LISA, ISA, RZI and BS, but the overlap is very low with only 39 titles common to all four services. Most of the literature originated from North America (38%) and Western Europe (34%). 1545 journals were identified from Ulrich's Guides. The number of these 'surviving' journals exhibited exponential growth for the past 150 years. From this and other data the corpus of knowledge of library and information science is estimated as 5 x 105 documents.

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The Activities of the IFLA Division on Education and Research during the Years 1979-1983

Bowden

Kaegbein

1984

IFLA Journal

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The Coverage of Library/Information Science Periodicals from Develop ing Countries by the Major Abstracting and Indexing Services

Cited by 4 publications

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The literature of national libraries

The literature of national libraries

Library and information science literature: authorship and growth patterns

The Activities of the IFLA Division on Education and Research during the Years 1979-1983

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