Understanding Information Use in a Multidisciplinary Field: A Local Citation Analysis of Neuroscience Research
Abstract
Assessing the information needs of a multidisciplinary academic community presents challenges to librarians managing journal collections. This case study analyzed the literature used by the neuroscience community at the University of Maryland to determine the following about the publications they cited: their type, their discipline, and how recent they were relative to the citing publication. The authors searched the ISI Science Citation Index...
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Title
Understanding Information Use in a Multidisciplinary Field: A Local Citation Analysis of Neuroscience Research
Published Date
May 1, 2005
Journal
Volume
66
Issue
3
Pages
198 - 211
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