Revisiting 'obsolescence' and journal article 'decay' through usage data: An analysis of digital journal use by year of publication

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1441-1461

  Nicholas, David ^a   Huntington, Paul ^a   Dobrowolski, Tom ^a   Rowlands, Ian ^b   Jamali M , Hamid R ^a   Polydoratou, Panayiota ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARIES;

DECAY RATE; JOURNAL USAGE; SCIENTIFIC CONTENT; USAGE DATA;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 22944471103     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.014     Document Type: Article

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