Evaluation of the National Library of Medicine's Programs in the Medical Behavior Sciences. Coverage, Overlaps, and Gaps in Bibliographic Databases Dealing with the Medical Behavioral Sciences (MBS) Literature. Study 1

摘要

The present study was one of two studies designed to gather data on MEDLARS performance in selecting the medical behavioral sciences (MBS) literature for indexing and, indirectly, for general accessibility to the medical and auxiliary professions. The overall rationale of both studies was to test coverage of large samples of relevant literature which, while broadly representative of the major MBS fields, oversampled smaller disciplines. The present study generated the sample and considers the coverage of documents identified as serials.