Information about scientific reviews : results of an experiment carried out in psychology

The CDSH (information center for humanities) has published the Catalogue thématique des revues de psychologie et disciplines connexes, created from the databank on periodicals (PSYSIS), Both have been elaborated in order to provide searchers, students and doctors with a relevant information about scientific periodicals. The choices made in the setting-up of this product are studied regarding the coverage (international and multisubject), the description elements, the methodology of the processing used to describe the content, and the limits of the software. The author presents some applications of PSYSIS : assessment of the national and international production in the subject, evaluation of the bibliographic databanks and of the existing resources in scientific periodicals. The author suggests some guidelines for a study of retrieval behaviors, relatively unexplored, as well as an analysis of the written products features, which should improve the uses of such a tool.
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