The CIRCULATION OF PERIODICALS I AN INQUIRY INTO JOURNAL CIRCULATION

During the past fifteen years the major surveys undertaken and published by Bradford, Urquhart, Bernal, Gray, Herner and others have provided a great deal of valuable factual data about the publication, distribution and use of periodical literature, particularly scientific literature; but there are still gaps in our knowledge. This inquiry is an attempt to fill one of these gaps—to find out how, and to what extent, current periodicals are circulated within an organization.