The origins of information science   Edited by A.J. Meadows     ISBN 0 947568 13 1 1987 £25.00/US$46.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   THE GROWTH OF THE LITERATURE   The growth of American research libraries Fremont Rider   Statistical bibliography in relation to the growth of modern civilisation E.W. Hulme   Fad as a factor in botanical publication N.E. Stevens     CITATIONS AND THEIR USE   College libraries and chemical education P.L.K. Gross and E.M. Gross   Choosing physiology journals Estelle Brodman   Characteristics of the research literature used by chemists and physicists in the United States Herman H. Fussler     STATISTICAL REGULARITIES IN COMMUNICATION   The frequency distribution of scientific productivity Alfred J. Lotka   The numbers of publications written by biologists C.B. Williams   The form and behaviour of words G.K. Zipf   The documentary chaos S.C. Bradford   Bradford's law of scattering B.C. Vickery     PUBLISHERS, LIBRARIES AND READERS   Scientific communication J.D. Bernal   Biological research strategy and publication policy P. Weiss   Preliminary analysis of pilot questionnaire on the use of scientific literature J.D. Bernal   The organization of the distribution of scientific and technical information D.J. Urquhart   Information service as an essential in the progress of science J.D. Bernal     LOOKING FORWARD   As we may think Vannevar Bush