Modeling scholarly book literature |
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| Authors: | Charles A Schwartz |
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| Institution: | (1) Fondren Library, Rice University, 77251-1892 Houston, TX |
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| Abstract: | Recent technology provides the means to gauge the declining ability of the nation's research libraries to maintain fairly
comprehensive book collections in the face of the extraordinary growth and price inflation of scholarly publishing since the
1970s. An application of this technology is presented here in the form of a model of total book publication output and the
aggregate holdings of 71 research libraries in a selected field, general sociology, for the period 1979–88. The usefulness
of such modeling is discussed in terms of generating knowledge that, while low on precision, has broad reliability and relevance. |
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