Journal of the American Society for Information Science

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Volume 29, issue 6, 1978

Coping with catastrophe: Implications to information systems design pp. 271-277

Bruce Gilchrist

Building better SDI profiles for users of large, multidisciplinary data bases pp. 278-282

Robert J. Sprague and L. Ben Freudenreich

Assessing the benefits and promise of an international information program (AGRIS) pp. 283-288

F. W. Lancaster and John Martyn

The application of multiple‐criteria utility theory to the evaluation of information systems pp. 289-296

Saul Herner and Kurt J. Snapper

Designing a multilingual terminology bank for united states translators pp. 297-303

Sara E. Morton

On the nature of fuzz: A diatribe pp. 304-307

Stephen E. Robertson

Can retrieval of information from citation indexes be simplified? Multiple mention of a reference as a characteristic of the link between cited and citing article pp. 308-310

Gertrud Herlach

Academic librarians' jobtype and contact with information sources pp. 311-312

Charles R. McClure

A comparison of the readability of synopses and original articles for engineering synopses pp. 312-313

Paul B. Mayes

The importance of recall pp. 314-315

Richard S. Marcus

Cliqueing and patent classification pp. 314-314

Peter Glickert

Bibliographic services throughout the world 1970‐74. Marcelle Beaudiquez, ed. Paris: Unesco; 1977. 419 p pp. 317-317

Hans H. Wellisch

Data structures and management. 2nd ed. Ivan Flores. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall; 1977. 390 p pp. 317-318

Wayne D. Dominick

Directory Information Service. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co.; 1977: over 300 pages per year. Three issues per year. Price: $36.00/yr pp. 318-319

Albert C. Vara

The subject approach to information. 3rd ed. A.C. Foskett. Hamden, CT: Linnet Books; 1977: 476 pp. ISBN: 0‐208‐01546‐9. Price: $12.00 pp. 319-320

F. W. Lancaster

Volume 29, issue 5, 1978

Information science and world politics pp. 218-218

Charles T. Meadow

Opinion paper: Science, shcharansky, and the soviets pp. 219-224

Jack Minker

Highly cited old papers and the reasons why they continue to be cited pp. 225-231

Charles Oppenheim and Susan P. Renn

Estimating the demand for library service: Theory and practice pp. 232-237

Cheryl A. Casper

An empirical examination of Bradford's law and the scattering of scientific literature pp. 238-246

M. Carl Drott and Belver C. Griffith

Cross‐national information flows in basic research: Examples taken from physics pp. 247-252

J. Davidson Frame and John J. Baum

On optimal storage of books by size pp. 253-254

T. Radhakrishnan and K. Venkatesh

Evidence of OCLC's potential for special libraries and technical information centers pp. 255-256

Charles H. Davis and Susan Dingle‐Cliff

The application of function descriptors to the development of an information system typology pp. 256-256

E. Burton Swanson

Interlibrary loans: Impact of the new copyright law pp. 259-260

M. Carl Drott and Belver C. Griffith

Writing quality and peer review pp. 260-260

Manfred Kochen and Charles T. Meadow

The JASIS KWOC index pp. 260-261

Hans H. Wellisch and Gharles T. Meadow

Evaluation and scientific management of libraries and information centers. Lancaster, F.W.; Cleverdon, C.W., Ed. Leyden, Netherlands: Noordhoff International Publishing; 1977: 184pp. (NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, Series E: Applied Science‐No. 18) pp. 263-264

Rowena Weiss Swanson

SPSS as a library research tool. Marchant, Maurice P.; Smith, Nathan M.; Stirling, Keigh H. (Occasional Research Paper, No. 1.) Provo, UT: School of Library and Information Sciences; 9177: 44p. Price: $1.50 pp. 263-263

Stephen P. Harter

Data structures and programming techniques. Maurer, Herman A. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall; 1977: 228pp. Price: $13.50 pp. 264-264

L. Struminger

Perspectives in information science. Debons, Anthony; Cameron, William J., Eds. Leyden, The Netherlands: Noordhoff International Publishers; 1975: 797pp., illustrations, index. Price: $65. (NATO Advanced Study Institute Series. Series E: Applied Sceince‐No. 10.) pp. 264-266

Laurence B. Heilprin

Volume 29, issue 4, 1978

Call for papers pp. 170-170

Charles T. Meadow

Discipline impact factors: A method for determining core journal lists pp. 171-172

Graeme Hirst

Design and implementation of an on‐line chemical dictionary (CHEMLINE) pp. 173-179

Robert J. Schultheisz, Donald F. Walker and Kay L. Kannan

The effect of parameter uncertainties on the predictions of a library network model pp. 180-186

William B. Rouse and Sandra H. Rouse

Redesigning library jobs pp. 187-190

Thomas W. Shaughnessy

Opinion paper: Design criteria for documentation retrieval languages pp. 191-199

Friedrich Gebhardt and Imant Stellmacher

Relation of title length to number of authors in journal articles pp. 200-202

T. D. C. Kuch

A note on cumulative advantage distributions pp. 202-204

Paul B. Kantor

Cumulative advantage urn games explained: A reply to kantor pp. 204-206

Derek de Solla Price

OR NOT: The unused operator pp. 207-208

Clara Martiner and Irving Zarember

On JASIS refereeing pp. 209-210

Tefko Saracevic and Charles T. Meadow

Unconventional uses of on‐line retrieval systems pp. 209-209

Christine Dimsdale and Donald T. Hawkins

Information science and the phenomenon of information pp. 210-211

Paul A. Studer

Trends in governance of libraries (library trends, Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall, 1977). Summers, William F. (Issue Editor). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Library School; 1977: 298pp. LC 54‐62638; ISSN 0024‐2394. Quarterly subscription price $15.00/year. Individual issues $4.00 pp. 213-214

Dorothy B. Lilley

The abstract journal, 1790‐1920: Origin, Development and Diffusion. Manzer, Bruce M. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press; 1977: 321 pp. Price $12.50 pp. 213-213

John F. Harvey

Volume 29, issue 3, 1978

Indexing documents by gedanken experimentation pp. 107-119

William S. Cooper

Automatic text analysis based on transition phenomena of word occurrences pp. 121-124

Miranda Lee Pao

Cliqueing‐a technique for producing maximally connected clusters pp. 125-129

Gordon M. Gerson

Ad hoc and selective translations of scientific and technical journal articles: Their characteristics and possible predictability pp. 130-135

James D. Anderson

Some stylistic variations in scientific writing pp. 136-140

Renata Tagliacozzo

Variation of the nature of citation measures with journals and scientific specialties pp. 141-147

Poovanalingam Murugesan and Michael J. Moravcsik

Education for information science as a profession pp. 148-155

Rowena Weiss Swanson

On the perils of merging boolean and weighted retrieval systems pp. 156-158

A. Bookstein

The anti‐verb list pp. 158-158

Sharon Jeroski and Donna Dartnell

A relationship between two forms of Bradford's law pp. 159-161

John J. Hubert

Using the collection‐control model pp. 161-163

Bani K. Sinha and Richard C. Clelland

When is a changed state not a changed state? When a theory of mechanics persists in the face of a theory of relativity pp. 163-164

Stephen S. Baratz

Library association membership pp. 165-166

Norman Horrocks

Data bases‐history of developments and trends pp. 165-165

Edward J. Brunenkant

Public knowledge, private ignorance: Toward a library and information policy. Wilson, Patrick. (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science. No. 10.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press; 1977. Price: $13.50. ISBN: 0‐8371‐9485‐7 pp. 167-168

Bruce A. Shuman

The random house encyclopedia. Mitchell, James. Editor‐in‐Chief. New York: Random House; 1977. Price: $70. [Published in the United Kingdom under the title: The Joy of Knowledge Encyclopedia] pp. 167-167

M. Carl Drott

Volume 29, issue 2, 1978

Bradford's distribution: A new formulation pp. 51-55

Peter Praunlich and Michael Kroll

Cost‐effectiveness comparison of manual and on‐line retrospective bibliographic searching pp. 56-66

Dennis R. Elchesen

Growth dynamics of information search services pp. 67-76

Mats G. Lindquist

A threshold rule applied to the retrieval decision model pp. 77-80

Donald H. Kraft

Automatic indexing of pathology data pp. 81-90

George S. Dunham, Milos G. Pacak and Arnold W. Pratt

Publication ratings versus peer ratings of universities pp. 91-103

Richard C. Anderson, Francis Narin and Paul McAllister

Volume 29, issue 1, 1978

Frequency‐rank distributions pp. 5-13

Bertram C. Brookes and Jose M. Griffiths

Catalog information and text as indicators of relevance pp. 15-30

Richard S. Marcus, Peter Kugel and Alan R. Benenfeld

Evaluation of information retrieval systems: A decision theory approach pp. 31-40

Donald H. Kraft and Abraham Bookstein

Evaluating scientific journals with Journal Citation Reports — a case study in acoustics pp. 41-46

A. E. Cawkell

Current Contents' “weekly subject index” as a post‐coordinate index pp. 47-47

Roberto Guerra

A work study of the review production process pp. 48-48

Audrey N. Grosch