Can Local Citation Analysis of Master's and Doctoral Theses help Decision-Making about the Management of the Collection of Periodicals? A Case Study in Psychology and Education Sciences

This study analyzed reference lists in a large number of master's and doctoral theses in a university library of psychology and education sciences. It compared citation counts to other indicators of the use of periodicals. The usefulness and limitations of these statistics are discussed in rela...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of academic librarianship 2009-11, Vol.35 (6), p.514-522
Hauptverfasser:	Feyereisen, Pierre, Spoiden, Anne
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Academic Libraries Acquisition and access: development policy, licenses, censorship Acquisition. Collection development policy Bibliometrics Bibliometrics. Scientometrics Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation Citation Analysis Collection management Decision making Doctoral Dissertations Exact sciences and technology Information and communication sciences Information science. Documentation Information service management Library and documentation centre management Library and information science. General aspects Management Masters Theses Periodicals Psychology Research Libraries Schools of Education Sciences Sciences and techniques of general use Subscriptions Teacher Education Theses University libraries
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Zusammenfassung:	This study analyzed reference lists in a large number of master's and doctoral theses in a university library of psychology and education sciences. It compared citation counts to other indicators of the use of periodicals. The usefulness and limitations of these statistics are discussed in relation to decision-making in subscriptions' management.
ISSN:	0099-1333 1879-1999
DOI:	10.1016/j.acalib.2009.08.018