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Title: Maintenance of periodicals collection: A statistical case study
Authors: Gupta, R C
Jayaraman, N
Krishanlal
Ravindran, C C
Issue Date: Mar-1978
Publisher: NISCAIR-CSIR, India
Abstract: Results of a study carried out to ascertain the active life of periodicals in structural engineering after taking into consideration the aging factor obsolescence factor, half life, mean life and utility factor on the basis of citations in periodicals are presented in this paper. The periodical. ‘Journal of the Structural Division' of the American Society of Civil Engineers. New York, 1974 has been taken for the study. The paper concludes that the periodicals in structural engineering lose their utility value after 8 years (approx.) of their publication.
Page(s): 101-105
ISSN: 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
Appears in Collections:ALIS Vol.25(1-4) [March-December 1978]

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