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Volume 22, Issue 2
1 February 1966
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Review Article| February 01 1966

THE DIVERSITY OF TEXT‐LENGTH AMONGST SYSTEMS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS Available to Purchase

J.B. REED
J.B. REED
Formerly of Department of Education and Science (OSTI)
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7379
Print ISSN: 0022-0418
© MCB UP Limited
1966
Journal of Documentation (1966) 22 (2): 136–143.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026395

Fifty systems of scientific and technological abstracts in English were examined for variation in length of unit texts, both between them (in respect to average value) and within them (by way of internal variation). Approximate methods only were used. Information content of the texts was not considered.

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