{"title":"Science, technology, language and information: Implications for language and language-in-education planning","authors":"W. Grabe , R.B. Kaplan","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90041-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90041-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is an important relationship between scientific information and language. Scientific information is cumulative, storable and retrievable. In the past 40 years, English has become the dominant language of science information because the USA was the only major industrialized nation to come out of World War II with its industrial and educational infrastructures intact, because a great deal of scientific research was undertaken in the English-speaking world, because undertaking research requires access to information, and because all of these phenomena coincide with the historical point at which computer use became established in information storage. It is observable that the greatest users of information are also the greatest contributors to the pool of information and that those who most frequently use the information pool come to control the information systems. International accords have established the concept that information in the global networks must be written in or abstracted in English, French, German or Russian; it is clear that the dominant language is English. Access to information is central to national development and modernization; consequently, the science information/language relationship has important implications for Human Resource Development Planning and modernization. The actions of the Japanese government in the period since the end of World War II are examined as a case study. The situation in the People's Republic of China is also examined in order to suggest what China must do to achieve modernization with respect to information development, information storage, and information management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 99-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90041-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53405863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concepts, structures and retrieval in the social sciences up to c. 1970","authors":"N. Roberts","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90015-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90015-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social scientists have long expressed an intensive interest in the conceptual bases of their disciplines. Compilers of subject heading lists and thesauri also have emphasized the significance of concepts for documentary retrieval purposes. How were these different approaches reconciled and presented in retrieval aids produced for social sciences? To answer this question a comparative analysis of subject heading lists and thesauri, based upon a 10 per cent page sample of each work, was undertaken to collect data relating to word/concept relationships and concept structuring; 18 subject heading lists and 20 thesauri were examined. Analysis revealed that retrievalists, despite the known distinctiveness of the social sciences, produced subject heading lists and thesauri with distinguishing characteristics little different from those found in similar ‘tools’ in the sciences and technologies. The reasons for these unexpected similarities are explored.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 55-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90015-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53404135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The survey method in the social sciences: Achievements, failures and prospects","authors":"C. Harris","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90020-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90020-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 91-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90020-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53404589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staff/user interaction in public libraries: A non-participation observation study","authors":"M. Barnes","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90016-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90016-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes the development of a method to study the interpersonal and professional aspects of responses to users' enquiries in public libraries. It was decided that an observational methodology was needed: the design of the schedule used to record observations and the practical problems associated with observation in a natural setting are described. The issue of possible observer bias and the necessity for describing behaviour without inferring meaning at the time of observation are considered. The paper also describes the type of analysis carried out on the observation data. It concludes with a consideration of the usefulness of this method and of possible ways of increasing the sophistication of recording and analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 69-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90016-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53404332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catalogue of British official publications not published by HMSO","authors":"A.J. Allan","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90023-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90023-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 94-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90023-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53404701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some differences in citation between articles based on thesis work and those written by established researchers: Human geography in the UK 1974–1984","authors":"A. Hay","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90017-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90017-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper reports an investigation of citation (as recorded by <em>SSCI</em> in the five years after publication) for 209 articles in human geography published by British authors between 1974 and 1978.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 81-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90017-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53404425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directory of British official publications: A guide to sources","authors":"A.J. Allan","doi":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90022-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-6236(85)90022-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85535,"journal":{"name":"Social science information studies : SSIS","volume":"5 2","pages":"Page 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-6236(85)90022-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53404673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}