{"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}