Abstract

Accounts in both the popular media and scientific literature attest to the increasingly interdisciplinary character of scientific research. The twentieth century has seen the emergence of problem-centered and mission-oriented research in which discorveries and developments in one discipline are synthesized into the research of a very different field, often with dramatic and life-altering results. This paper uses techniques of citation analysis to examine information use by scientists in a university chemistry department and offers a measure of the interdisciplinarity of the research they publish. THis study willl consider implications for university libraries attempting to provide information services to scientists engaged in interdisciplinary research

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