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Searching the Museum Studies Journal Literature
Author(s) -
East John W.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2008.tb00314.x
Subject(s) - search engine indexing , quality (philosophy) , library science , control (management) , information retrieval , bibliographic database , data science , history , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence
This article surveys the coverage of major museological journals in three standard databases. It evaluates the quality and timeliness of the indexing in those databases. It concludes that bibliographic control of the journal literature in museum studies is inadequate and argues that this is a hindrance to the development of the profession.