Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Volume 30

Volume 30, Number 1, January 1979

Articles

• 
  Everett H. Brenner:
  Opinion Paper: Euronet and its Effects on the U.S. Information Market. 5-8
• 
  Robert T. Dattola:
  FIRST: Flexible Information Retrieval System for Text. 9-14
• 
  Susan Artandi:
  Man, Information, and Society: New Patterns of Interaction. 15-18
• 
  Charles H. Davis, Debora Shaw:
  Collection Overlap as a Function of Library Size: A Comparison of American and Canadian Public Libraries. 19-24
• 
  Pasquale Sullo, William A. Wallace, Thomas Triscari, Cathy A. Chazen, James F. Davis:
  A Reliability Theoretic Construct for Assessing Information Flow in Networks. 25-32
• 
  Stephen B. Lawton, Ethel Auster, David To:
  A Systems Evaluation of the Educational Information System for Ontario. 33-40
• 
  Donald H. Kraft, James W. Liesener:
  Planning and Budgeting for School Media Programs at the Building, District, and Regional Levels: O.R. in the Little Red Schoolhouse. 41-50
• 
  T. Radhakrishnan, R. Kernizan:
  Lotka's Law and Computer Science Literature. 51-54

Brief Communications

• 
  Ted Brandhorst:
  ANSI 239 Romanization Standards and "Reversibility": A Dialog to Arrive at a Policy. 55-59

Letters To The Editor

• 
  David Davison:
  Letters to the Editor. 60

Book Reviews

• 
  Edward John Kazlauskas:
  Education and Large Information Systems. R.A. Buckingham, Amsterdam: North-Holland; 1977: 197 p. Price: $26.75. 61
• 
  Charles H. Davis:
  Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume I: Software Specification and Design. Raymond T. Yeh, ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1977: 275 p. ISBN: 0-13-195701-5 (v1). 61-62

Articles

• 
  Marilyn Fishman:
  Job Control Language (Wiley Self-teaching Guide). Ruth Ashley and Judi N. Fernandes, with Gary Deward Brown. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1978: 157 p. Price: $4.95. ISBN: 0-471-03205-0. 62
• 
  Edmond Mignon:
  On-Line Information Retrieval Sourcebook. J.L. Hall. London: ASLIB; 1977: 267 p. Price $43.50. ISBN: 0-85142-106-7. 63

Volume 30, Number 2, March 1979

Articles

• 
  H. Curtis Wright:
  The wrong way to go. 67-76
• 
  Sue A. Dodd:
  Bibliographic references for numeric social science data files: Suggested guidelines. 77-82
• 
  Richard W. Trueswell, Stephen J. Turner:
  Simulating circulation-use characteristic curves using circulation data. 83-87
• 
  Charles B. Wenger, Christine B. Sweet, Helen J. Stiles:
  Monograph evaluation for acquisitions in a large research library. 88-92
• 
  Michael R. W. Bommer, Ronald W. Chorba, Walter Grattidge:
  Performance assessment model for academic libraries. 93-99
• 
  Don M. Avedon, Ann M. Devilliers:
  Microfilm permanence and archival quality. 100-102

Brief Communications

• 
  Johanna C. Ross:
  Searching the chemical literature via three on-line vendors: A comparison. 103-106
• 
  Luciana Marulli, Michael E. D. Koenig:
  Bradford distribution of data elements. 107-108
• 
  Mark P. Carpenter:
  Similarity of Pratt's measure of class concentration to the Gini index. 108-110

Meeting Reviews

• 
  Fritz Machlup:
  An economist's reflections on an institute for the advanced study of information science. 111-113

Letter to the Editors

• 
  Gerard Salton:
  Science, shcharansky, and the soviets. 114
• 
  Richard A. V. Diener:
  Transnational information flow as assessed by citation analysis. 114-115
• 
  Harold B. Thompson:
  Indexing. 115
• 
  A. Sandison:
  Using the collection control model. 115
• 
  Gerard Salton:
  Automatic text analysis. 116

Book Reviews

• 
  Gordon M. Gerson:
  Generalized Data Management Systems and Scientific Information. Report of the Specialist Study on Computer Software. The Use of Generalized Data Management Systems for Handling Scientific Information. Oecd Nuclear Energy Agency; 1978: Paris, France: 346 p. $12.50 hard copy, $3.00 microfiche (CONF 771030). 119
• 
  Stephen P. Harter:
  Evaluating Information: A Guide for Users of Social Science Research. Jeffry Katzer, Kenneth H. Cook, and Wayne W. Crouch. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley; 1978: 191 p. 119

Volume 30, Number 3, May 1979

Editor's Notes

• 
  Charles T. Meadow:
  Editor's note. 122

Articles

• 
  Katherine H. Packer, Dagobert Soergel:
  The importance of SDI for current awareness in fields with severe scatter of information. 125-135
• 
  Harold E. Bamford Jr.:
  Assessing the effect of computer augmentation on staff productivity. 136-142
• 
  Michael K. Buckland:
  On types of search and the allocation of library resources. 143-147
• 
  Michael E. D. Koenig:
  On-line serials collection analysis. 148-153
• 
  Joseph J. Talavage:
  Financial aspects of industrial information centers: A survey. 154-160
• 
  Gabriel Pinski, Francis Narin:
  Structure of the psychological literature. 161-168

Brief Communications

• 
  Patrick Wilson:
  Utility-theoretic indexing. 169-170
• 
  William S. Cooper:
  Utility-theoretic indexing: A note on Wilson's note. 170-172

Letter to the Editors

• 
  Isai Goldstein:
  Science, Shcharansky, and the Soviets. 173-175
• 
  Harold Borko, Matthew Koll:
  Relation of title length to number of authors. 175-176

Volume 30, Number 4, July 1979

Editor's Note

• 
  Charles T. Meadow:
  Scope and administration of Jasis. 178-179

Articles

• 
  William B. Rouse:
  Tutorial: Mathematical modeling of library systems. 181-192
• 
  J. Davidson Frame, John J. Baum, Michael Card:
  An information approach to examining developments in an energy technology: Coal gasification. 193-201
• 
  Joseph C. Donohue:
  The library of congress: A proposed role in a national information and referral network. 202-204
• 
  Marcia J. Bates:
  Information search tactics. 205-214

Symposium

• 
  Patricia McLaughlin:
  Symposium on alternative methods of disseminating information. 214

Articles

• 
  Donald F. Swift, Viola A. Winn, Dawn A. Bramer:
  A sociological approach to the design of information systems. 215-223
• 
  M. E. Maron:
  Depth of indexing. 224-228

Brief Communication

• 
  Nancy L. Geller:
  A test of significance for the whitworth distribution. 229-231

Letters to the Editor

• 
  Avital Shcharansky:
  Science, Shcharansky, and the Soviets. 233
• 
  B. C. Brookes:
  The Bradford law: A new calculus for the social sciences? 233-234
• 
  A. Sandison:
  Fluctuations in ranked orders of periodicals. 234
• 
  Eugene Garfield:
  Highly cited old papers. 234-235

Book Reviews

• 
  Manfred Kochen:
  Information Systems and Networks. K. Samuelson, H. Borko, and G. X. Amey. New York: Elsevier North-Holland; 1977. 238
• 
  Hans H. Weilisch:
  Library Lit 8 - The Best of 1977. Bill Katz, Ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press; 1978: 333p. ISBN: 0-8108-1125-1. Price: $12.00. 238-239
• 
  Donald H. Kraft:
  The CODASYL Approach to Data Base Management. T. William Olle. Chichester, England: Wiley-Interscience; 1978: 287p. Price: $21.50. 239-240
• 
  Judith A. Tessier:
  On-Line Information Retrieval Systems: An Introductory-Manual to Principles and Practice. Bernard Houghton anD John Convey. London: Clive Bingley; 1977. 240

Volume 30, Number 5, September 1979

Articles

• 
  Ian A. Macleod:
  SEQUEL as a Language for Document Retrieval. 243-249
• 
  J. MacGregor Smith, Nilliam B. Rouse:
  Application of Queueing Network Models to Optimization of Resource Allocation within Libraries. 250-263
• 
  William E. McGrath:
  Two Models for Predicting Subject Circulation: A Contribution to the Allocation Problem. 264-268
• 
  Abraham Baokstein:
  Relevance. 269-273
• 
  Joseph Z. Nitecki:
  National Network of Information in Poland. 274-279
• 
  Marcia J. Bates:
  Idea Tactics. 280-289
• 
  Ana Divino Cleveland, Donald B. Cleveland:
  A Test of Buck's Prime Number Coding Scheme. 290-295
• 
  Aurel Avramescu:
  Actuality and Obsolescence of Scientific Literature. 296-303
• 
  Cheryl A. Casper:
  Pricing Policy for Library Services. 304-309

Brief Communications

• 
  Stanley Ozog:
  On the Value of Information. 310-315

Articles

• 
  Peter Halpin, John E. Knight:
  Air Pollution Technical Information Network: A Revised Approach. 315-316

Letters To The Editor

• 
  Allan D. Pratt, Donald Leatherdale, Charles T. Meadow, Charles H. Davis, Debora Shaw:
  Letters to the Editor. 317-319

Volume 30, Number 6, November 1979

Editor's Notes

• 
  Charles T. Meadow:
  A new JASIS department. 323
• 
  Charles T. Meadow:
  Homage to JASIS referees. 324

Articles

• 
  Edward S. Warner, Anita L. Anker:
  Utilizing library constituents' perceived needs in allocating journal costs. 325-329
• 
  Susan Long, David Rawnsley:
  The role of a linking agent in an information center network. 330-333
• 
  Colin L. M. Bell, Kevin P. Jones:
  Towards everyday language information retrieval systems via minicomputers. 334-339
• 
  Michael D. Gordon:
  Deficiencies of scientific information access and output in less developed countries. 340-342
• 
  A. Berthelot, Peter Clague, Samuel Schiminovich, Wolfgang Zwirner:
  The ICSU AB International classification system for physics: Its history and future. 343-352

Brief Communications

• 
  Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner:
  To protest or to ignore? a scientist's alternatives in reacting to the persecution of his colleagues. 353-355

Articles

• 
  Barbara A. Cerny:
  A reply to robertson's diatribe on the nature of Fuzz. 356-357
• 
  Stephen E. Robertson:
  On Fuzzy sets: Reply to Cerny. 357-358
• 
  W. Bruce Croft:
  Using boolean queries with a clustered file organization. 358-360
• 
  A. A. Bondi:
  On the economics and timing of data evaluation and estimation in an industrial setting. 360-363
• 
  Stanley Ozog:
  The logics and boundary concepts of information acquisition. 364-367
• 
  Charles T. Meadow, Mary Ann Zaborowski:
  Some statistical aspects of JASIS publications. 368-371

Letter to the Editors

• 
  Larry Auld:
  The wrong way to go. 372
• 
  Dana Lincoln Roth:
  Searching the chemical literature. 372
• 
  Colin H. Davidson:
  Microfiches. 372

Book Reviews

• 
  M. L. Tsuffis:
  Current Research on Scientific and Technical Information Transfer. New York: Jeffrey Norton Publishers, Inc.; 32p., Microfiche 7p. Price: $12.95. 373
• 
  Edward S. Warner:
  Development of a Responsive Library Acquisitions Formula. Glyn T. Evans, Mary H. Beilby, and Roger Gifford. Albany, New York: Suny Central Administration, Office of Library Services; December 1978: 95 pp. (Final Report on Usoe Grant No. g007702305). Price: Not Given. 373-374
• 
  David C. Blair:
  Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. C.J. Van Rijsbergen. London: Butterworths; 1979: 208 pp. Price: $32.50. 374-375