Bradford's law of scattering: Ambiguities in the concept of "subject"

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3507, Issue , 2005, Pages 96-106

  Hjørland, Birger ^a   Nicolaisen, Jeppe ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LIBRARIES; SCATTERING; SEMANTICS; WORD PROCESSING;

BRADFORD'S LAW; INFORMATION SOURCES; SEMANTIC SCATTERING; SUBJECT SCATTERING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 24944502184     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11495222_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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