Keywords
Social Scientist Social Science Information Behavior Government Information Government Publication
E-mail: [email protected]
Hernon 1979
1960
1960
[1] [2]
Brittain 1960 10
The American Psychological Association Project
University of Bath 1967
1971
[3]1943 1970
[4]
Hernon Library Literature 1960 1973
477 145
[5]
Tobin Lazinger 1974 1984
[6]
1970
Under-use 1965 Bonn
[7]
1977 Fry
[1] Mary B. Folster, "Information Seeking Patterns: Social Science," The Reference Librarian 49/50(1995), pp.83-84.
[2] Abdelmajid Bouazza, "Information User Studies," in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences v.44 supplement 9 (New York: Marcel Dekker, c1989), p.144.
[3] J. Michael Brittain, "Relevance of Social Science Output Worldwide," International Social Science Journal 37: 2 (1985), p.267.
[4] Peter Hernon, Use of Government Publications by Social Scientists (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub., c1979), p.2.
[5] Dawn McCaghy and Gray R. Purcell, "Faculty Use of Government Publications," College and Research Libraries 33 (1972), p. 8
[6] -
36(2001.2) 72
[7] Wen-Hua Ren, "U.S. Government Information Need. Awareness and Searching: a Study of Small Business Executives," Journal of Government Information 26 5 (1999), p. 454.
[8]
1978 Weech
36% 33% 17.5%
[9]
1979 Hernon 86.1%
[10]
Duverger
[11] Encyclopedia ofSocial Science
[12]
[13]
[8] 7
[9] Harold B. Shill and Lisa R. Stimatz, "Government Information in Academic Libraries: New Options for the Electronic Age," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 25:2(March 1999), p. 95.
[10] 9
[11] Maurice Duverger, translated by Malcolm Anderson, in An Introduction to the Social Sciences (New York Frederick A. Praeger, 1964) P.11. (First published in France in 1961 under the title Methods Des Sciences Sociales by Presses Universitaires de France.)
[12] Encyclopedia of Social Science (New York Macmillian, 1937), p.1865.
[13] 1995 7
[14]
[15]
1936 Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Seligman
What are the Social Sciences? 1
Social Sciences
2 Semi-Social Sciences
3 the Sciences with Social Implications
[16]
Seligman
The Social Science Encyclopedia
[17]
Humanities
[14] 13 8
[15] 128 (1990.5) 4
[16] Edwin R. A. Seligman, "What are the Social Sciences?" in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, v. 1 ed.
Edwin R. A. Seligman and Alvin Johnson (New York: Macmillan, 1930-1935), pp.3-7.
[17] The Social Science Encyclopedia, ed. by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 1996), pp.800-801.
[18]
Dervin
[19]
Line
[20]1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
[18] Maurice B. Line, "Information Requirements in the Social Sciences: Some Preliminary Considerations,"
Journal of Library 1:1 (January 1969), p.2.
[19] Brenda Dervin, "Strategies for Dealing with Human Information Needs: Information or Communication?"
Journal of Broadcasting 20 (Summer 1976), pp. 324-333.
[20] 18 pp.5-6.
1960
1960 1960
[21]
Line
[22]1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
[21] 18 pp.1-3.
[22] 3
Brittain
[23]
INFROSS
Investigation into Information Require- ments of the Social Sciences INFROSS
INFROSS 1960
INFROSS
INFROSS
[24]INFROSS
[25]
1968 1971 University of Bath Line Brittain The Office for Scientific and Technical Information
[26][23] Mary B. Folster, " A Study of the Use of Information Sources by Social Science Researchers" Journal of Academic Librarianship 15 (March 1989), p.7.
[24] M. B. Line, "The Information Uses and Needs of Social Scientists: An Overview of INFROSS," Aslib Proceedings 23:8(1971), p.412.
[25] Investigation into Information Requirement of the Social Sciences (Research Report no.1) v.1 Text (Bath, U. K.: Bath University Library, 1971), p.1.
[26] 25
2602 1089 1
2 3
125
1969 1 University of Bath
University of Bath Bristol University
[27]
[28]
39%
90%
1945
Line INFROSS "hard" "soft"
[29]
[30]
1.
2.
3.
[27] 24 p.413-414.
[28] 24 p.416-431.
[29] 24 p.430.
[30] 25 p.201.
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3 7
13 32 *
21 28 *
29 11 *
36 16 *
23 34 *
74 3 *
63 10 *
93 1 --
76 2 *
85 4
97 1 --
62 21 *
78 1 --
41 8 *
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M. B. Line, "The Information Uses and Needs of Social Scientists: An Overview of INFROSS," Aslib Proceedings 23:8 (Aug.1971), p.417
*
INFROSS
[31]
1
2
[32]
[31] 25 p.201.
[32] 24 p.431.
1981 Baughman Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University5
88%
94% 74%
[33]
1983 Subrahmanyam Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
Topic Selection 69%
1 2 3
4 5
[34]Baughman Subrahmanyam
Baughman Personal Collection
Self-reliance
[35]INFROSS
[36]
Bouazza
Invisible College
[33] Susan Baughman, "Social Science Sponsored Researchers: Their Use of Academic Libraries," Collection management 5:3/4 (Fall/winter, 1983), pp.53-68.
[34] T.Subrahmanyam, "A Study of Information Seeking Behavior of Doctoral Candidates in Social Sciences,"
Hearld of Library Science 22:3-4 (July-Oct,1983) pp.200-204.
[35] 33
[36] 24 pp.416-433.
[37]
Line INFROSS
[38]
American Psychological Association
[39]
Subrahmanyam Folster
[40]
INFROSS
National Lending Library 1968 300
1960
1963 1967 ,
,
40 Harvard Business Review 62
[41]
1971
94% 87%
[42]
[37] 2 pp.150-153.
[38] 2 p.152.
[39] 2 p.152
[40] 1. 34 pp.200-204.
2. 23 pp.7-11.
[41] D. N. Wood and C. A. Bower, " The Use of Social Science Periodicals Literature," Journal of Documentation 25:2 (June, 1969), pp.108-122.
[42] Aleksandr L. Goldberg, "Information Needs of Social Scientists and Ways of Meeting Them,"
International Social Science Journal 23: 2 (1971), pp.273-284.
1979 Stenstrom McBride University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign13 1
2
320 226
93% 7%
[43]
1981 Baughman
[44]
INFROSS
Standard Sources
[45][46]
80
[47]1970 Hernon
[43] 1 pp.90-91.
[44] 33
[45] 1. 17
2. David L. Sills (ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences v.1 (New York: Macmillan &
the Free Press, 1968)
3. William H. Webb, Sources of Information in the Social Sciences: A Guide to the Literature 3rd ed.
(Chicago, Il.: American Library Association, 1989)
[46] 1. Investigation into Information Requirements of the Social Sciences (INFROSS), Information Requirements of Researchers in the Social sciences (Research report no.1), 2 Vols. (Bath, U.K.: Bath University Library, 1971)
2. Maurice Line, The Structure of social Science Literature as Shown by Citations, Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences (DISISS) (Research Report A no. 3) (Bath, U.K.: Bath University Library, 1979)
[47] 1. Michael Brittain ed., The Social Sciences: The Supply of and Demand for Documentation and Data.
A Report to UNESCO (London: Rossendale, 1982)
[48]
Hernon
Nilsen INFROSS "Typology of Use of
Statistics and Government Publications"
[49]
1960 1990
INFROSS
[50]
1979 Stenstrom McBride
[51]
1980
Subrahmanyam Folster Folster
Citation Tracking
[52]2. Margaret Slater, Information Needs of Social Scientists (British Library Research Paper 60) (Boston Spa, U.K.: British Library Research and Development Department, 1989)
[48] 1. Peter Hernon, and Clayton A. Shepherd, "Government Publications Represented in the Social Sciences Citation Index: An Exploratory Study," Government Publications Review 10 (1983), pp.227-244.
2. Peter Hernon and Gray R. Purcell, "Document Use Patterns of Academic Economists," in their Developing Collections of U. S. Government Publications (Greenwich, C.T.: JAI Press, 1982), pp. 85- 114.
3. Charles R. McClure, Peter Hernon and Harold C. Relyea (eds.) United States Government Information Policies: Views and Perspectives (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1989)
[49] Kirsti Nilsen, "Social Science Research in Canada and Government Information Policy: The Statistics Canada Example," Library & Information Science Research 20:3 (1998) , pp. 211-234.
[50] 24 pp.412-433.
[51] Patricia Stenstrom and Ruth B. McBride, "Serial Use by Social Science Faculty: A Survey," College &
Research libraries 40:5 (Sep. 1979), pp.426-431.
[52] 1 p.90.
Seldom or Never
Sometimes or Often
Self-collect Primarily
Kirsti Nilsen , "Social Science Research in Canada and Government Information Policy: The Statistics Canada Example," Library & Information Science Research 20:3 (1998), p. 230
Bouazza 1
2 3
[53]
National Lending Library
10%
[54]Prasad Tripathi
[55]
1971 Goldberg
80%
91%
[56]
[53] 2 p.152.
[54] 41
[55] H. N. Prasad and Manorama Tripathi, "Information Seeking Behavior of Physical Scientists and Social Scientists: A Report," Annuals of Library Science and Documentation 45:2 (1998), pp.41-48.
[56] 42 pp.273-284.
INFROSS
[57]Stieg
[58]
[59]
1981 Baughman Boston College 67%
15
[60]
American Council of Learned Societies 1985 11
1980
[61]
Skelton 1973 INFROSS
[62]
Debout Davis Gehlerts 1975 Skelton
Prasad Tripathi Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
[57] 24 pp.412-433.
[58] 2 p.151.
[59] 1 p.91.
[60] 2 pp.53-68.
[61] 1 p.88.
[62] Barbara Skelton, " Scientists and Social Scientists as Information Users: A Comparison of Results of Science User Studies with the Investigation into Information Requirement of the Social Scientists,"
Journal of Librarianship 5:2 (April 1973), p.147.
: Lois Debout, J. R. Donald Davis and Donald Gehlerts, "User Studies in the Humanities: A Survey and a Proposal," R.Q.15 Fall 1975 , p.13.In Abdelmajid Bouassa, Use of Information Sources by Physical Scientists, Social Scientists, and Humanities Scholars at Carnegie-Mellon University (Ph. D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1986), p.41.
[63]
[63] 55
[64] [65]
UMI
,
[66]
[67]
1950 1960 1960
[68]
Use
Study Library Survey Citation Studies
User Survey
Librarian Survey
[69]
1960
[64] 2 pp.150-153.
[65] 2 p.151
[66] 51
[67] M.B. Line,"The Investigation and Needs of Social Scientists: An Overview of INFROSS," Journal of Documentation 23 (Aug. 1971), pp. 412-434.
[68] Terry L. Weech, "The Use of Government Publications: A Selected Review of the Literature,"
Government Publications Review 5:2 (1978), p.177.
[69] 61
University of Connecticut Government Publications Department 1974
[70]
1974-75 Hernon Williams University of Nebraska at Omaha
[71]
1986 Hubbard Burks University of North Texas 11%
18% 71%
[72]1987
Fraser Fisher UCLA
Hernon
[73]Parker 1994 East Carolina University
84.8%
13.6% 1.7%
[74]Weech 1950 1960
7
10% 36%
[70] B. McIlvain," University of Connecticut Faculty Use of Government Documents," Connecticut libraries 17 (1975), pp.49-51.
[71] Peter Hernon and Sara Lou Williams, " University Faculty and Federal Documents: Use Patterns,"
Government Publications Review 3 (1976), pp.93-108.
[72] Rebecca L. Hubbard and Freda A. Burks, "Use of Government Publications by Students in an Academic Depository Institution," Current Studies in Librarianship12( 1988 ), pp.47-63.
[73] Emily Jean Fraser and William H. Fisher, "Use of Federal Government Documents by Science and Engineering Faculty," Government Publications Review 14 (1987), pp. 33-44.
[74] Thomas Reed Caswill, "Studies on Government Publications' Use, 1990-1996," Government Information Quarterly 14:4 (1997), p.368.
Livesay 36.0
Martin 33.0
Mark 23.7
Quinn 17.5
Intrama 15.0
McAnally 12.7
Meier 10.0
Terry L. Weech, "The Use of Government Publications: A Selected Review of the Literature,"
Government Publications Review 5:2 1978 , p.179.
1978 Hernon
Hernon 17 Illinois Indiana Michigan
Ohio
Hernon
918 683 74% Hernon
Hernon 43%
Hernon
8.4%
70%
[75]
1981 Hernon 1978
214
The Economic Report of the President The Survey of Current Business
[76]1982 Hernon 16 216
19.2% 17%
[77]
Hernon
1984 Sears Moody Miami University Library Hernon
90%
Census of Population and Housing Statutes at Large The Bureau of Census
Bureau of Labor Statistics Hernon
[78]
1985 Chen 20
604
[75] Peter Hernon, Use and Non-use of Governm5ent Publications by Social Scientists in Selected Academic Institutions (Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1978)
[76] Beth Postema and Terry L. Weech, "The Use of Government Publications: A Twelve -Year Perspective,"
Government Publications Review 18 (1991), p.228.
[77] Peter Hernon, "Use of Microformatted Government Publications," Microform Review 11(Fall 1982), pp.237-252.
[78] Jean L. Sears and Marilyn K. Moody, " Government Documents Use by Superintendent of Documents Number Areas," Government Publications Review 11(1984), pp.101-112.
377
[79]7
1984
1940
1986 Nolan Claremont College
Index to U.S.
[79] Robert Pin-Chuan Chen, "The Acquisition, Organization, and Utilization of Chinese Government Publications in Libraries in Taiwan," Government Publications Review14: 2 (1987), pp.169-186.
Government Periodicals CIS Index PAIS
[80]Hubbard Burks University of North Texas
American Statistics Index 51%
[81]Guss General Accounting Office
GAO Social Sciences
Citation Index 1973 1983 500
GAO
[82]
1970 1980
Postema Weech 1991 1978
27 1991
1996 9 Caswell
[83]
1990 Reeling Rutgers University
87%
[84]
1994 Walker
359
[80] Christopher W. Nolan, "Undergraduate Use of Government Documents in the Social Sciences,"
Government Publications Review13: 4 (1986), pp.415-430.
[81] 72
[82] 76 p.227.
[83] 74 p.369.
[84]
74 p.367.
100 82
2
[85]Walker
1996 Mooko Aina University of Botswana 101
97.3% 65.4%
89% 86% 60%
[86]
2001
1996-1999 13
109 2
2
[87]
1995 104 Internet
[85] 74 p.367.
[86] 74 p.367.
[87] 6 71-85
1998 Laskowski
GOVDOC-L
[88]University of Illinois Document Library
89.3%
[89]1
[90]25%
24.7%
37.5%
65.6%
[88] GOVDOC-L
Pennsylvania State University
GOVDOC-L User Guide, Retrieved May 20, 2004, from http://docs.lib.duke.edu/federal/govdoc- 1/what.html
[89] Mary Schneider Laskowski, "The Impact of Electronic Access to Government Information: What Users and Documents Specialists Think," Journal of Government Information 27(2000), pp.173-185.
[90] 89 pp.177-179.
33.3%
97%
29.2%
2
[91]/
58.9%
41.1% 60.7% 29.3%
89.3%
41%
41.1% 28.6% 10.7%
12% 40%
48%
[91] 89 pp.179-181.
1 2 3 4 5 6
5 8 12 6 4 1
2 4 5 10 12 3
21 7 6 4 2 0
14 8 4 3 2 5
4 11 6 7 10 0
0 0 3 3 3 11
Mary Schneider Laskowski, "The Impact of Electronic Access to Government Information:
What Users and Documents Specialists Think," Journal of Government Information 27 (2000), p.180.
[92]
[93]
1999 Knapp
Pennsylvania State University Temple University University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh 609
112 20%
Internet 1
[92] 89 p. 188.
[93] Amy E. Knapp, An Examination of the Use of U. S. Government Documents on the World Wide Web by Social Science Faculty at Selected ARL Institutions (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1999)
53%
19% Internet
28.5%
Hernon
Historical Statistics of the United States Ames, Poores 1990 Census of Population and Housing
Knapp Hernon
Knapp Hernon Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Index to U.S. Government Periodicals
U.S. Bureau of the Census
11
The Census of Population and Housing 29 The U. S.
Census Bureau The U. S. Census Bureau
Economic Census Country and City Data Book Census of Manufacturing
Statistical Abstracts
3.76 3.61
PAIS
International 20
Knapp
Federal Depository Library ManualThe
Federal Depository Library Program Basic Collection 23
The Census Catalog and Guide5
Basic Collection Knapp
54 22 44 4 9 23 37
Amy E. Knapp, An Examination of the Use of U. S. Government Documents on the World Wide Web by Social Science Faculty at Selected ARL Institutions (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1999), p. 116.
2
15%
38% 33%
Knapp
Knapp 1
2
2002-2003
32
[94]
[94]
2003
1.
INFROSS
2. 1 9 8 3
Subrahmanyam 1995 Folster
[95]
2003
3. Hernon 1979
[96]
Postema Weech 1978
1991 1960
[97]
4. 1968 INFROSS
[95] 1. 1
2. 34
[96] Peter Hernon, Use of Government Publications by Social Scientists (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub., c 1979), p.2.
[97] 1. Beth Postema and Terry L. Weech, "The Use of Government Publications: A Twelve-Year Perspective,"
Government Publications Review 18(1991), p.236.
2. Terry L. Weech, "The Use of Government Publications: A Selected Review of the Literature,"
Government Publications Review 5 : 2 (1978), p. 183.
[98]
1978 1982 Hernon
[99]1981 Baughman
[100]1984 Sears Moody
[101]1996 Mooko
[102]1998 Laskowski
[103]1999 Knapp
[104]1985 Chen
[105]2003
[106]
Nilsen 1998 INFROSS
[107]
5. Knapp
[108]
6.
Knapp --
[98] 24 pp.416-431.
[99] 1. 75
2. 79
[100]
33
[101]
78
[102]
86
[103]
89
[104]
93
[105]
79
[106]
94
[107]
49
[108]
101 163
Aldrich
[109]
McConnell
[110]
Stierholz
Stierholz
[111]
[109]
Duncan M. Aldrich, "Depository Libraries, and the 21st Century?" Journal of Government Information 23: 4 (1996), pp.381-91.
[110]
Bruce W. McConnell, "New Wine in Old Wineskins: U. S. Government Information in a Networked World," Journal of Government Information 23:3 (1996), pp. 217-225.
[111]
Katrina Stierholz, "U.S. Government Documents in the Electronic Era: Problems and Promise,"
Collection Management 21: 1(1996), pp. 41-56.
Keywords Social Scientist Social Science Information Behavior Government Information Government Publication
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