The Characteristics of the Literature Used by Historians

Jones, Clyve; Chapman, Michael; Woods, Pamela Carr

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“…There are at least two citation studies of history, one of American history 8 and one of English history. 9 I 549…”

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“…Perhaps the fact that academics often distrust the ability of the librarians to provide the service they require is an unconscious recognition that they are not receiving the service they need from today's libraries. " 27 Once the librarian decides to change these conditions, it becomes necessary to consider ways and means. Here, academic librarians can learn from their colleagues in other types of libraries.…”

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The Information Needs of Historians

Stieg¹

1981

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“…There are at least two citation studies of history, one of American history 8 and one of English history. 9 I 549…”

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The Information Needs of Historians

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“…Jones, et. al., on the other hand, found 12.6 percent citations to unpublished materials in their study of history, 8 a social science held by some scholars to be more closely related to the humanities than any other. In musicology, Baker found 12.6 percent citations to unpublished materials, but most of these were to otherwise unavailable musical manuscripts written before 1800.…”

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Characteristics of the Monographic Literature of British and American Literary Studies

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1985

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shows an mcreasmg recent m-, ~~~~ terest in the patterns of citation and reference for the humanities literature. Though most of these studies follow the lead of earlier work in the sciences and social sciences, there were isolated studies of humanities citation patterns in the literature as early as 1959 and 1960. Librarians have sought to understand which sources are most used by researchers so as to be able to supply those items in times of budgetary crisis when cuts in acquisitions have been inevitable; scholars over the past fifteen years have adopted or adapted such techniques from the sciences and social sciences as citation studies to gain a clearer, less subjective view of what materials function as core collections for the various disciplines.These studies, while using the methodology developed in the sciences and social sciences, have found significant differences between the use of the journal literature in the sciences and social sciences and that of the humanities. The collection and evaluation of data determining which books, journal articles, manuscripts, and dissertations have been cited by scholars in their work and the currency of these materials have been used for both theoretical and more controversially practical ends. As well as providing a means to augment the researcher's knowledge of the , shape of a discipline's literature, administrators have used this data in promotion and tenure decisions, and librarians have used it in the development of collection development guidelines.Citation studies can be performed by a single individual in a relatively short time

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“…There have been suggestions that the importance of articles has been increasing and, if importance is defined as frequency of use, the citation data provide support for this perception. 20 As shown in Although the extent of this shift in balance should not be overstated, a trend does appear to be emerging. One factor that favors the production of articles is an increased importance of currency in historical research.…”

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Historians and Their Information Sources

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This article reports on a survey of historians and a citation analysis undertaken to revisit the questions treated in Margaret F. Stieg’s 1981 article published in College & Research Libraries. It examines which materials historians consider to be the most important and how they discover them. Their attitudes toward and use of electronic materials were also studied. Many characteristics of historians’ information needs and use have not changed in a generation: informal means of discovery like book reviews and browsing remain important, as does the need for comprehensive searches. Print continues to be the principal format. What has changed is that the advent of electronic resources has increased historians’ use of catalogs and indexes in their efforts to identify appropriate primary and secondary sources of information.

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The Characteristics of the Literature Used by Historians

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