Thursday 24 July 2008

Research Publications Online: Too Much of A Good Thing?

Apologies to those who read this at Stephen Abram's blog, but I thought it was worth sharing.

According to an article in Science, as a result of increasing electronic availability "scholars are actually citing fewer papers in their own work, and the papers they do cite tend to be more recent publications"

Read the story here

(http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111928&org=NSF)

What do you think this mean for Librarians?