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Dwight Gray and Bentley Glass have made questionnaire surveys in the fields of physics and biology respectively in order to determine how abstracting services are used, the degree of satisfaction with present services, and the express desires of scientists for improved services. As a part ofthe recent survey of the physiological sciences, the Survey Research Center ofthe University of Michigan included in a widely distributed questionnaire questions concerning the use ofjournals and bibliographical publications and the extent to which physiologists believe they are able to keep up with developments in their fields of specialization.
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J Urquhart, prior to the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, in which the users of periodicals and books circulated by a science library were asked to fib out a briefquestionnaire explaining where they had learned of the publication, whether it contained the desired information, and for what the information was needed.
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. have little idea of the extent of the gaps and omissions in the abstracting of the periodicals supposed to be covered, or of the vast majority of scientific periodicals with biological material that are not covered at all." Numerous suggestions have been made for other types of studies that might add to our understanding of information problems and point the way toward improvements most urgently needed, such as: Case studies of actual research projects to determine the role of scientific literature in research, the time given to it, the way it is used, etc.
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As the volume of the scientific literature continues to increase and as bibliographic and search processes are made more efficient and comprehensive, the quantity of relevant literature on any one topic wiD become larger. The sheer time required even to scan large numbers of publications identified in a literature search suggests that it is becoming more and more important to find means of reducing to manageable proportions the large quantities of information scattered in many different sources.
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3 Results obtained through the provision of highly skilled literature scientists as participants in research and deductions concerning information needs. METHODOLOGY Interviews and surveys to determine information practices and attitudes.
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