http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/27792 2026-10-11T15:01:48Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/28033 Title: Compilation of retrospective bibliography by citation mapping Authors: Reddy, K Meghanatha Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">The technique of compiling retrospective bibliographies by citation mapping is a process of constructing relational maps by linking citations from the current publications to the archival contributions. The recall and precisian of the bibliography is contended to be satisfactory and could be improved by rational choice of base articles and link articles. The technique is demonstrated by compiling a bibliography on 'Bradford's law of scatter'. The author believes that the technique should be useful in compiling bibliographies on micro subjects.</span> Page(s): 138-142 1982-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/28032 Title: Press clipping service and its importance in agricultural research library Authors: Prodhani, M A Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Describes the importance of Press Cutting Service in an agricultural research library. Also deals with the procedure of selecting news release from six leading newspapers of India and their systematic arrangement as per Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme. Suggests for introducing the service in all special libraries.</span> Page(s): 135-137 1982-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/28031 Title: Journal literature of food science and technology: A bibliometric study Authors: Maheswarappa, B S; Rao, K Surya Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Analyses the references appended to three primary journals, one each from U.S.A., U.K., and India in the field of Food Science and Technology. Gives the main bibliographic forms used, a list of 62 core journals, their country of origin and the obsolescence. Bradford’s law is applied to the literature of Food Science.</span> Page(s): 126-134 1982-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/28030 Title: Computer-based information retrieval system in medicinal and aromatic plants using a minicomputer HP-1000 system Authors: Murty, D S R; Shekhar, Chander; Luthra, S K Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">An experimental information storage and retrieval system in the field of medicinal and aromatic plants, based on the database of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts (MAPA) service of the Publications and Information Directorate is reported. The machine readable, database created from the first three 1982 issues of MAPA is designed for searches by keywords, first author, journal, language, and by subject groupings as followed in the printed version of MAPA. The search can be either single aspect of any of the above or in combination of different searchable elements with Boolean logic. The programs have been developed in FORTRAN IV on a HP-1000 minicomputer system.</span> Page(s): 118-125 1982-09-01T00:00:00Z