THE LITERATURE CITED IN NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES AND ITS AVAILABILITY IN CENTRES FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN NIGERIA
THE LITERATURE CITED IN NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES AND ITS AVAILABILITY IN CENTRES FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN NIGERIA
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1997-12
Authors
QUADIR, ROMOKE OPEYEMI
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Abstract
This study examines the literature cited by social scientists in Nigerian Journal o f .
Economic and Social Studies to identify core literature different. Journal cited, formats,
languages and subjects of citations and to find out if there were differences in the pattern
of citations. The study determined if materials identified as core from the study were
available in two centres ; Centre for Social and Economic Research of Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria and Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Reseach of University
of Ibadan, Ibadan.
Six volumes of the Journal were used for the study at three years interval and the
citations in the volumes were analaysed individually to arrive at the findings. Bradford's
law was used in analysing the data to arrive at the core of journals cited. The journals
arrived at as the core were checked against the holdings of the libraries of Centres for
Social and Economic Research in Nigeria. Books (monograph) were the most cited format
of publications with 1143 (46.53%) citations followed by journals with 887 (36.11%)
citations. Two journals titles were identified as core and these two journals titles were
available in the libraries.
When the cited literature were checked against the collection of the libraries, Centre
for Social and Economic Research library of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria did not have
books within her collections. While 50 (45.45 %) out of the 110 cited books were available
in the library of Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic Research, Ibadan. Economics
was identified as the most cited subject with 1176 (57.73%), thereby stressing that the
field of Social Sciences is subject centered. English language was most cited language
with 2,463 (99.83%) citations.
Social Scientists rely heavily on fairly old materials for their information
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, IN PARTIAL
FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF
LIBRARY SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA.
DECEMBER, 1997
Keywords
LITERATURE,, CITED,, NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC,, SOCIAL STUDIES,, ECONOMIC RESEARCH