Assessing collection usefulness: An investigation of library ownership of the resources graduate students use

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 344-355

  Smith, Erin T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 10144237593     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.64.5.344     Document Type: Article

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2. Linda Smith, "Citation Analysis," Library Trends 30 (summer 1981): 83-106.
3. Herbert S. White, "Strategies and Alternatives in Dealing with the Serials Management Budget," in Serials Collection Development: Choices and Strategies (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1981), 31-32.
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8. Devin and Kellogg, "The Serial/Monograph Ratio in Research Libraries," 50-51.
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10. Rosalind Walcott, "Local Citation Studies: A Shortcut to Local Knowledge," Science & Technology Libraries 14 (1994): 1-14.
11. See Cecelia M. Brown, "Information-seeking Behavior of Scientists in the Electronic Information Age: Astronomers, Chemists, Mathematicians, and Physicists," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (Aug. 1999): 929-43; Sally A. Rogers, "Electronic Journal Usage at Ohio State University," College & Research Libraries 62 (Jan. 2001): 25-34; Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King, "The Use and Value of Scientific Journals: Past, Present, and Future," Serials 14 (July 2001): 113-20.
12. Philip M. Davis and Suzanne A. Cohen, "The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior 1996-1999," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52 (Feb. 2001): 309-14.
13. Ibid.
14. Walcott, "Local Citation Studies," 2.
15. Sherri Edwards, "Citation Analysis as a Collection Development Tool: A Bibliometric Study of Polymer Science Theses and Dissertations," Serials Review 25 (1999): 11-21.
16. Louise S. Zipp, "Thesis and Dissertation Citations as Indicators of Faculty Research Use of University Journal Collections," Library Resources & Technical Services 40 (Oct. 1996): 335-42.
17. Theses and dissertations held in the University of Georgia ETD Library are currently only available in full text to users on campus.
18. A periodical is "a serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular or stated intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings. Newspapers disseminate general news, and the proceedings, papers, or other publications of corporate bodies primarily related to their meetings are not included in this term." Heartsill Young, ed., ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science (Chicago: ALA, 1983), 166.
19. UGA Libraries Electronic Journal Locator (http://www.libs.uga.edu/ ejournals/).
20. Items categorized as "other" included ERIC documents, lecture notes, "in press" articles, and so on.
21. Martha Kyrillidou and Mark Young, eds., ARL Statistics 2000-01: A Compilation of Statistics from the One Hundred and Twenty-Four Members of the Association of Research Libraries (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2002), 10.