Investigation into the Literature Used by the Water Resources Research Community

摘要

The availability and use of water resources literature produced by federallysponsored research in general and by the Water Resources Research Institutes in particular was determined. By identifying where the research literature is published, and sponsored it, what publication types are used to record research findings, and to which subject fields within water resources it belongs, the literature used by the water resources community can be characterized. How and from whom authors of journal articles citing technical reports, including open-file reports and water investigations, learn of and obtain copies of those reports was determined in Pase 2 of the study. In addition, how researchers use these reports was ascertained.