Transition to electronic resources in undergraduate social science research: A study of honors theses bibliographies, 1999-2005

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 268-283

  Kriebel, Leslie ^a   Lapham, Leslie ^b  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Serials Solutions ^*

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EID: 45949093850     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.69.3.268     Document Type: Article

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30. This is based on the average number of citations per bibliography without each year's outliers. Calculations that exclude the outlier cases bring the average in each year closer to the median.
31. In 2005, the total number of periodical citations (journals, newspapers) across all bibliographies was at an all-time high (n=660), reflecting a 69% increase over 2003 (n=391), 2001 (n=317) and 1999 (n=289).
32. Bibliographies written in 2001 consistently had low book and high periodical use, which we attribute to rapid expansion of the World Wide Web in that year, and possibly the introduction of a number of full-text databases at the college between 2000 and 2001. By 2005, book to periodical ratios resembled those in 1999 and 2003, further reflecting the aberration of 2001 data.
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