Urquhart's Law: Probability and the Management of Scientific and Technical Journal Collections Part 1. The Law's Initial Formulation and Statistical Bases

作者: Stephen J. Bensman

DOI: 10.1300/J122V26N01_04

关键词: SociologyStock managementLawInterlibrary loanProbability distributionProbabilistic logicStatistical graphicsScientific literatureLibrary sciencePoisson processService (economics)

摘要: The topic of this paper is a law formulated by Donald J. Urquhart on the use scientific and technical (sci/tech) journals through interlibrary loan central document delivery. will be pub- lished in three parts. Part 1 discusses genesis probabilistic theory which it based. A primary aim part to teach librarians about probability distributions underlying li- brary how identify these simple mathe- matical graphical techniques. (Article copies available for fee from Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Website: © 2005 Press, Inc. All rights reserved.)

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