Abstract
The paper reports on the characteristics of the OPAC literature as reflected by the two editions of A Classified Bibliography on Online Public Access Catalogues [2.3] which covered 769 and 1226 unique references respectively. Data was collected on the number of authors and of author productivity, language of publication, format and year of publication, and the countries of origin of the references, as well as on Journal productivity. Whenever possible the data was compared with that of other similar studies of library and information science literature. There is a 24% of multiple authorship as opposed to 70.3% of single authors. English (93.9%) is the predominant language and 72.8% of all publications originated in the USA. The most popular form of publication is Journals (58.3%). The names of the most prolific authors and of Journal titles are also given.
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